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It is reported in the media that UK Health authorities have written to UK neurologists to be on the watch, once the programme of vaccination against swine flu begins, for cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, which is a deadly brain disease. One effect is to cause paralysis.
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It has just been reported by Pakistani news channels that Hakimullah Mehsud, a senior Pakistan Taliban commander, had been killed in a shooting at a shura,( council meeting,) held to decide the succession because of the killing of the previous leader Baitullah Mehsud.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said “The infighting was [...]
August 8, 2009 | Posted in
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It is reported in Radio Free Asia that two Chinese Web sites, 163.com and Sina which had articles linking President Hu Jintao’s son to news of a corruption probe in Namibia had large sections of their websites shut down .
The websites were later fully reopened with the articles missing.Readers searching for the [...]
August 8, 2009 | Posted in
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It is reported that armed police are now starting to ease the quarantine blockade around Ziketan,( a remote hillside town of 10000 inhabitants sealed off a week ago) in China’s Western Qinghai province.
It is believed that businesses are now starting to reopen after the deaths of at least three Tibetan nomads [...]
August 8, 2009 | Posted in
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It is reported from Indonesia that this morning in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, 08 Aug 2009 Noordin Mohammad Top. a a Malaysian native, and the most wanted man in Indonesia for the past six years, has been killed during a raid
The dead man has been linked to terror attacks in Indonesia [...]
August 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Typhoon Morakot has passed over the island of Taiwan leaving at least six people dead or missing .
It is now surging towards the eastern coast of China.
It is reported by Voice of America that already, more than 20,000 have been evacuated from coastal areas in China and nine fishermen have gone [...]
August 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Today, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in South Africa from Nairobi
She had a brief meeting with President Zuma in Durban, where African issues including Zimbabwe and Somalia were discussed,followed by a meeting with South Africa’s international relations and cooperation minister.
She said that they had both been instructed by [...]
August 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Since 2006, when he became President, Chavez has announced takeovers in the electricity, cement, telecommunications and food production industries. Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips have pulled out of Venezuela and are now seeking international arbitration.
Now Cavaz has closed 32 radio stations and 2 television stations, described by a media executive as “an example [...]
August 4, 2009 | Posted in
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Former US president Bill Clinton arrived at Pyongyang airport in North Korea at 8.48am this morning
It has been reported by the Local media that he has already met North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
It is believed the purpose of his visit is to attempt to obtain the release of the two [...]
August 4, 2009 | Posted in
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It has been reported that a third man has died (and nine others are suffering) from pneumonic plague in Ziketan, a remote hillside farming town of 10000 people in Xinghai County in the northwestern province of Qinghai
Ziketan itself has been sealed off from the world. Chinese health workers are monitoring the situation [...]
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