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High radioactivity recorded in Israel
Wednesday 14 July 2004, 13:29 Makka Time, 10:29 GMT
The Dimona nuclear plant is situated in the Negev desert
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Worringly high levels of radioactivity have been discovered in southern Israel's underground water table.
According to scientific research published on Wednesday, the soaring radioactivity levels measured in the Negev Desert and in the Arava valley are caused by natural radioactive elements such as uranium and radon gas.
But Professor Avner Vengosh, who co-authored the study by Ben Gurion University, dismissed any relation between the abnormal findings and the nearby nuclear plant of Dimona, also in southern Israel.
Contaminated water?
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AE4FB40C-5F1C-4AED-B02C-2EEAB498AA6B.htmRussia to sell planes to Cuba
Moscow, Russia, Jul. 14 (UPI) -- The Cuban government has agreed to pay $100 million for two passenger planes from the Russian manufacturer Ilyushin.
Cubana Aviation and Ilyushin Finans Co. signed an agreement for delivery next spring of two large planes that can transport at least 200 passengers, according to the news agency Novosti.
The planes are used widely by the Russian airlines Aeroflot and Domodedovo Airlines. One of the planes also has functions like the Russian version of the American presidential plane, Air Force One. It has transported the Russian president Vladmir Putin, and is named "Putinavia."
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040714-025848-8449r.htm