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Host                    Принимать гостей
Link                     Связь
Mediterranean seaside resort     Средиземноморский курорт
Own                     Владеть, иметь
Real estate           Недвижимость
Ring                     Банда, объединение
Rumors                Сплетни, слухи
Settle                   Решать, улаживать
Split                     Разделять
Suspect                Подозревать
True                      Верный
Widow                  Вдова
Wrongdoing         Преступление

Stampede Kills 145 In India

COMBINED REPORTS

CHANDIGARH, India – At least 123 people, mostly women and children, were crushed to death in a stampede at a temple in northern India on Sunday, police said.

Iron railings around the Hindu temple in the state of Himachal Pradesh broke, causing panic, with people trampling over falling women and children, they said.

«As of now we have 123 people dead, including more than 40 children,» Daljit Singh Manilas, a police officer said.

«The injured have been taken to two places, and the toll could be more as we are awaiting news from other hospitals,» Manhas added. He said at least 45 women were among the dead.

Children were among the first to fall to the ground and were trampled by pilgrims running to safety as their parents tried to save them, police officers said.

Thousands of worshippers had gathered at the temple in Bilaspur district to pray to a Hindu goddess during an annual festival.

More than 3,000 people were trying to get into the temple at the same time when part of the iron railing broke, officials said. Most of the worshippers were from the neighboring state of Punjab, they said. Television pictures showed people being carried on stretchers to a hospital, many writhing in pain. Stampedes at temples are not uncommon in India where thousands of people gather to pray during festivals.[5 - «The Moscow Times» 2008 год]

Annual                Ежегодный
Break (broke, broken)       Ломаться
Cause                  Быть причиной
Crush                   Давить
Fall (fell, fallen)  Падать
Goddess              Богиня
Iron railing          Металлические перила
Pain                     Боль
Stampede            Паническое бегство
Stretcher             Носилки
Temple                Храм
The injured         Раненые
Toll                      Потери
Trample               Растаптывать
Uncommon          Редкий
Worshipper          Верующий
Writhe                  Корчиться от боли

Bulgaria Gives Fuel to Russia

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON – Bulgaria has sent its remaining highly enriched uranium to Russia for safeguarding from terrorist or other potential misuse.

More than 6 kilograms of the spent fuel were received Thursday at a Russian nuclear facility, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced. A first shipment of 16.92 kilograms of fresh uranium fuel was sent to Russia in December 2003.

«With this shipment there is no more highly enriched uranium in Bulgaria,» said Brian Wilkes, a spokesman for the U.S. agency, which was established in 2001. «Bulgaria now joins Latvia in clearing out all Soviet-era dangerous nuclear fuel.»

Remaining in Bulgaria, he said, are small quantities of low-enriched uranium, on which most civilian reactors run.

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union sent shipments of enriched uranium to Bulgaria, which was then part of the Soviet bloc. The returned shipment was transported under guard in casks to the Danube River, loaded on a barge and shipped to Ukraine, and then shipped by rail to the secure Russir facility near Chelyabinsk, in the Urals region.

Spent and fresh uranium fuel has also been returned to Russia from Serbia, Romania, Libya, Uzbekistan, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Vietnam. At the same time, all highly enriched uranium spent fuel was returned to the United States by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Thailand.[6 - «The Moscow Times» 2008 год]

By rail                По железной дороге
Cask                   Бочка
Enriched            Обогащенный
Establish            Создавать, учреждать
Fuel                   Топливо
Join                    Присоединяться
Misuse               Неправильное использование
Nuclear facility     Ядерная установка
Remain              Оставаться
Return                Возвращать
Run (ran, run)     Работать, функционировать
Safeguard           Защищать, охранять
Ship (v)               Перевозить грузы
Shipment           Груз, партия товара
Spent fuel          Отработанное ядерное топливо

3 Killed in Evraz Coal MiniNG Accident

COMBINED REPORTS

Three miners died Sunday in an accident at a Siberian coal mine owned by Evraz Group, the country’s largest steelmaker by domestic volume, the company and the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

The accident occurred at around 8:45 a.m. local time at Mine No. 12 in Kiselyovsk, in the Kemerovo region, the ministry said. An investigation is under way to establish the cause.

Officials could not say whether production would be affected.

«There was an accident. Three people died,» a ministry spokesman said. «Over 70 people were inside the mine at the time of the accident. All the rest have been moved out to the surface.»

The ministry official said there had been «a breach of the technological process with methane involved,» but he did not confirm an explosion.

«An investigation is being carried out to find out the reasons.»

A spokesman for Evraz confirmed that three miners had died in an accident at the mine.