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Syria’s ailing water network could spark epidemics: Red Cross

September 2, 2015 publisher africa, conflict, director-kahn, divided-cities, fill-containers, icrc, mtv, speaks-as-swift, threat, water-supplies

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria's water network, heavily damaged by bombs and shelling, is at risk of collapse as its civil war drags on, increasing the threat of deadly typhoid or cholera outbreaks, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Millions of people in Aleppo and Damascus are cut off from water supplies for days at a time, a tactic used by all warring sides to exert control in divided cities, the ICRC said. ICRC aid workers have helped water boards and engineers to maintain and repair aging pumping stations throughout Syria since the conflict began in March 2011

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U.S. lawmakers urge action on cyber bill after latest hacking

June 5, 2015 creative characters, checks-dating, cyber-networks, cyber-threat, lynne-dalton, officials-said, senate-intelligence, threat

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers urged Congress on Friday to pass legislation permitting sharing of cyber threat information between companies and the government, after one of the largest known cyber attacks on federal networks. “It’s impossible to overstate this threat ..