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Employees at the Bay Pines VA medical center dropped off a veteran’s dead body in a shower and let it sit there for nine hours, before trying to cover up that they had done anything wrong. According to a 24-page April investigation by the hospital in Florida, staff broke VA regulations by “failing to provide appropriate post mortem care” back in February when the incident took place, Tampa Bay Times reports.

Lettre ouverte à Kofi Annan H.E. Kofi Annan Secretary General of the United Nations United Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017 Fax: 212 963-1921 Dear Secretary General, I am writing to you as an American of Ivorian origin to express my deep concern, and indeed the deep concern of many in the Ivorian community in the US, over the violent attacks of France on Côte d’Ivoire and its civilian population, and the seeming acquiescence of the world body you run in the French action. France claims that it destroyed the Ivorian Airforce, Government buildings and other structures, and fired on...