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With the death of another person, the 42nd due to the human bird flu virus, Indonesia has recorded more deaths this year than any other nation due to this disease. This has brought it on a par with Vietnam as the worst affected by the disease, though...
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A federal judge has turned down the request of the Director of Intelligence John Negroponte and other government officials that he dismiss the case against AT&T, which alleges that the firm illegally allowed the government to monitor phone...
Amnesty International has held Microsoft Corp, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. of having breached the Universal Declaration on Human Rights by bowing to Chinese pressure to censor the internet. They have breached Article 19, which embodies freedom of...
Coalition and Afghan forces have ousted the Taleban from Garmser and Naway-i-Barakazayi in the southern Helmand province. The Taleban had seized the towns earlier this week. According to reports, many people have fled the towns.
The coalition forces...
While cancer is the biggest cause of death for middle-aged people in the European Union, transport accidents and suicide top the list for young adults. However, circulatory disease remains the biggest cause of death for all age groups taken together,...
The member countries of the EU will unveil a plan to deal with the immigration crises in Brussels today. It envisages teams of rapid reaction border guards called Frontex and comes in the wake of proposals by member states for the creation of teams of...
Arab diplomats are of the view that the Middle East crisis can be resolved only either when Israel is satisfied that it has crippled Hezbollah or if US President George Walker Bush pressures Israel to stop the offensive. They do not think a diplomatic...
A petrol bomb blast at a church service in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, has injured about 20 people, two of them seriously. The assailant reportedly escaped after triggering off the blast.
The Catholic Church is the largest single religious...
Both U.S. President, Mr. George Bush and Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin in a show of unity expressed concern that Iran had not responded to an incentives offer made by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. The two...
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame and husband Joe Wilson filed a sweeping federal civil lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and other top Administration officials for what they claimed was a conspiracy to reveal her identity, following Mr....
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