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AP – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said.
Read More: Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51
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AP – Preparations have begun for a crucial campaign to assert Afghan government control over Kandahar, spiritual home of the Taliban, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said Monday.
Read More: Gates meeting with military, political leaders
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Reuters – AbitibiBowater Inc has reached a tentative labor deal affecting about 4,000 workers, bringing the newsprint maker closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection, the company and union said on Sunday.
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AP – The South African president’s office has announced the nomination of its tourism minister for the United Nations’ top climate post.
Read More: South African minister is nominated for UN post
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AP – Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties predict a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will take the lead in the parliamentary race.
Read More: Iraqi PM's coalition seen leading vote
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AFP – An elephant calf has died during days of labour at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, where its mother was a part of a programme to breed endangered Asian elephants, officials said Monday.
Read More: Elephant calf dies during labour at Sydney's zoo
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AP – Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday appealed a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight a claim that it was complicit in their abuse.
Read More: UK justices hear detainees' torture appeal
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McClatchy Newspapers – ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials Sunday said they’d arrested the American face of al Qaida, a key militant propagandist, which if it’s confirmed would be the first high-profile capture of a leader of the terrorist group since Pakistan’s civilian government was elected in February 2008.
Read More: Pakistanis say they arrested al Qaida's American mouthpiece
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AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that an action plan to reintegrate low- to mid-level insurgent fighters into society and negotiate with the Taliban’s top echelon will be crafted at a springtime peace conference aimed at ending the war.
Read More: Afghan president to host April peace conference
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AFP – Within five years the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said Monday.
Read More: World could soon shield "all newborns from HIV"
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — New American Cancer Society
guidelines on prostate cancer screening mean that many men will be faced
with a cascade of decisions, with a growing responsibility for those
decisions falling on their shoulders.
Read More: New Prostate Cancer Guidelines Aim to Empower the Patient
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AP – The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned.
Read More: UN says mother-child HIV can be eliminated by 2015
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Reuters – Disgust. Pity. Contempt.
Read More: Modern Etiquette: Do the obese really deserve contempt?
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HealthDay – SUNDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) — Medications can reduce the
level of the AIDS virus in the blood to zero, but HIV doesn’t disappear
and often roars back when patients stop taking their pills. Now, research
is giving scientists new insight into how the virus manages to hide and
avoid the killing powers of medicine.
Read More: HIV Hides Out in Bone Marrow Cells
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HealthDay – FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) –Increasing consumption of
sugary soft drinks contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000
new cases of heart disease and 50,000 more life-years burdened with heart
disease in the last decade, a new U.S. study finds.
Read More: Increasing Soda Consumption Fuels Rise in Diabetes, Heart
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AP – The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.
Read More: Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
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AP – A new online database promises to crack some of the nation’s 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.
Read More: Database can crack missing person cases if used
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Suicide Blast Rocks Lahore
Voice of America A powerful suicide car bomb attack in eastern Pakistan has left at least 12 people dead and more than 60 wounded. Women and children are among the victims. Authorities blamed the attack on al-Qaida-linked Taliban militants. Local police say the bomb … Pakistani Taliban Claim Responsibility For Lahore Attack – Spokesman Pak Minister sees RAW hand in Lahore attack Eleven killed in Pakistan's Lahore city blast |
Read More: Suicide Blast Rocks Lahore – Voice of America
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Nigeria violence in Jos: Q&A
BBC News Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in Nigeria's Plateau State in clashes between Muslims and Christians. The latest violence is apparently revenge for similar clashes in January. More than 2000 people have been killed in communal … Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religious violence Ethnic Violence in Nigeria Killed 500, Officials Say Hundreds dead as more religious violence hits Nigeria |
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Pakistan: American al-Qaida suspect nabbed
The Associated Press ISLAMABAD — An American member of al-Qaida was picked up in a raid in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network's US-born spokesman. … Arrested Al Qaeda operative isn't Riverside man Suspect arrested in Pakistan not Gadahn: officials Pakistan holds US 'Al-Qaeda suspect': officials |
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