A minor earthquake struck east Jamaica at 4:29 this morning.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 4.2 on the richter scale, reported the United States Geographical Survey (USGS).
The epicentre was 26 kilometres (16 miles) from Kingston and had a depth of 20.3 km (12.6 miles).
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United Nations (CNN) — The cholera outbreak that killed more than 4,500 people in Haiti last year was linked to peacekeepers from Nepal, a new report says, a conclusion previously resisted by at least some United Nations officials.
The report, released late Wednesday by a United Nations-appointed independent panel of experts, says that the cholera strain did not originate in Haiti. Instead, it was “very similar” to strains of cholera currently circulating in South Asia.
The report does not directly blame the peacekeepers, ...
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