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Bird-Flu Alarm Bells Ring

Asian countries should intensify their war on a deadly bird flu that shows no signs of receding with fresh outbreaks in China and which threatens to evolve into a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars)-like epidemic, health experts said yesterday. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said authorities were rushing to declare the disease ravaging their.. More

57607 20/02/2004
Malaysia Protests US Nuke Claim

Malaysia summoned the US charge d'affaires to lodge a formal protest over remarks by President George Bush linking a company owned by the prime minister's son to a nuclear weapons black market. Envoy Robert Pollard was called to the foreign ministry on Wednesday and handed a letter in which Malaysia said it was "offended that it has been unfairly.. More

57570 19/02/2004
Two More Americans Killed in Iraq

A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi west of Baghdad on Thursday in the latest of a series of resistance attacks that have made February the bloodiest month in Iraq since the war. In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was set to announce that he opposed holding early elections in Iraq. Iraqi resistance attacks have raised.. More

57569 19/02/2004
Howard Dean Quits US Presidential Race

Former Vermont governor Howard Dean has ended his outsider bid for the White House. This brought to an end a storied political campaign that saw him lose his front-runner status after failing to win any of the early election contests for the Democratic nomination. "I am no longer actively pursuing the presidency," Dean told a crowd of supporters.. More

57540 19/02/2004
Red Cross Condemns 'Illegal' Israeli Wall

The International Red Cross has said the security barrier that Israel is building in the West Bank is contrary to humanitarian law, and should not be built. "The ICRC's opinion is that the West Bank Barrier, in as far as its route deviates from the 'Green Line' into occupied territory, is contrary to IHL (International humanitarian law)," the International.. More

57537 19/02/2004
Pakistan Rejects Nuclear Checks

Pakistan would never allow foreign inspectors to monitor its nuclear facilities and has no intention of freezing its nuclear or missile programmes, President Pervez Musharraf said. Musharraf said Pakistan's investigation of the smuggling ring centred around scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan so far indicated that only designs for centrifuges to enrich uranium.. More

57536 19/02/2004
Attack on Polish Military Camp South of Baghdad Kills 11 Iraqis

At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 44 other Iraqis and 58 occupation troops were injured in a double car bombing attack on a Polish camp in Iraq, a Polish military spokesman was quoted as saying by the public radio. Two of the dead were apparently the drivers of explosives-laden vehicles which drove towards the camp, while the injured were Polish.. More

57469 18/02/2004
More Than 200 Killed in Iran Train Blast

More than 200 people were killed when petrol wagons exploded on a train in northeast Iran, the state IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Fifty-one runaway train wagons, set loose by earth tremors, were filled with petrol, fertilizer and sulphur products. They exploded 13 miles from the city of Nishapur, shattering windows within a radius of more.. More

57468 18/02/2004
Radical Dutch Parliament Approves Expulsion of Thousands of Asylum Seekers

The Dutch parliament approved a controversial bill calling for the forcible expulsion of 26,000 asylum seekers, many of whom have lived in the country for years, despite strong opposition from the public and human rights groups. Lawmakers adopted only minor amendments to the bill presented by Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk. Under the legislation,.. More

57448 18/02/2004
Qurie Denies Bid to Quit in Reforms Row

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied yesterday he was thinking about resigning following a heated argument with President Yasser Arafat over reforms. A senior Palestinian official said earlier that Qurie, who first threatened to quit late last year in a power-sharing dispute with Arafat over the formation of a government, told cabinet ministers.. More

57447 18/02/2004
US Soldier Killed near Mosul as Iraqi Official Assassinated

A US soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack in northern Iraq, a US military spokesman said. In Tall Afar, located west of the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the roadside bomb exploded, killing the soldier and injuring another. According to a statement issued Tuesday by the US military's Task Force Olympia, the soldiers were traveling in.. More

57446 18/02/2004
Egypt: NGOs Reject State Human Rights Group

Fifteen Egyptian groups have pledged not to work with the government's new council to protect human rights. The non-government organisations "are not ready to work with the National Human Rights Council as long as the conditions exist that rob it of credibility," they said in a statement on Tuesday. They would only cooperate if the government lifted.. More

57445 18/02/2004
Gaza Strip: Three Palestinians Killed

A Palestinian died Monday in a Gaza house blast that witnesses initially said was caused by Israeli rockets but which Palestinian security sources later conveyed to Reuters was not a result of a raid. The Israeli army said it had carried out no military operations in the area. Palestinian medics said a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed in the explosion.. More

57389 17/02/2004
Haitian Rebels Seized Another Town, Police Chief Killed

Armed Haitian rebels seized a central town and killed the district police chief as an uprising against embattled President Jean Bertrand Aristide spread to new areas of the country. The Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, announced meanwhile that it was closing the border because of the worsening rebellion.. More

57370 17/02/2004
Khatami Urges Iranians to Vote in 'Unfair' Election

President Mohammad Khatami on Monday urged Iranians to use their votes in parliamentary elections this week to prevent hard-liners from seizing control of the assembly through a low turnout. Reformist allies of the president accuse the unelected Shiite Guardian Council of rigging Friday's poll by banning more than 2,500 mostly reformist candidates.. More

57368 17/02/2004

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