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AFP – Southeast Asian health ministers will meet next Friday to discuss a common regional approach to the swine flu threat, Thailand’s public health ministry said.
Read More: SEAsia ministers to meet on swine flu next Friday
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AP – Anil Ambani does not wait in traffic.
Read More: Helicopter sabotage targets Indian billionaire
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AP – President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his government will not tolerate incursions by Colombian rebels into Venezuelan territory.
Read More: Chavez says Colombia rebels unwelcome in Venezuela
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AP – Fiji’s military ruler defied international pressure to announce elections by Friday, confirming that he would not hold them for at least five years and setting the stage for his country’s ouster from a South Pacific bloc.
Read More: Fiji military leader says no elections for 5 years
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AP – An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child marriage a “clear and unacceptable” violation of human rights.
Read More: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
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AP – A jetliner struggled to liftoff and only took flight after slamming its tail into the runway in March because someone entered the wrong weight for the plane into the flight’s computer, Australian investigators said Thursday.
Read More: Jet takeoff in Australia marred by bad weight data
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AP – Mexican health authorities said Thursday they confirmed 300 swine flu cases and 12 deaths due to the virus among a total of 679 people tested so far.
Read More: Mexico: 300 confirmed swine flu cases, 12 dead
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AP – North Korea said Friday it is intensifying its investigation into a South Korean worker detained on suspicion of denouncing the communist nation’s government, indicating it had no intention of releasing him any time soon.
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Reuters – The Disney Channel is grooming “Wizards of Waverly Place” as its next blockbuster tween franchise in the mold of “High School Musical” and “Hannah Montana.”
Read More: Disney conjures up more "Wizards"
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Reuters – Jim Carrey has emerged as a leading candidate to star in “The Beaver,” an offbeat comedy-drama that centers on the relationship between a man and a beaver puppet he wears on his arm.
Read More: Carrey eyed for lead in "Beaver"
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AP – A Georgia man who told police he and Tyra Banks “had a thing together” was convicted Thursday of stalking the supermodel-turned-TV host.
Read More: US man convicted in NYC of stalking Tyra Banks
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E! Online – Given the bomb that was the Jonas Brothers’ 3-D movie, it’s understandable that the Disney dudes get a little nervous before they drop their new album.
Read More: Jonas Brothers Ready to Get "Paranoid," Channel Johnny Depp
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AP – Prosecutors have decided not to charge a Japanese pop star who was arrested for allegedly getting naked while drunk in a Tokyo park, media reports said Friday.
Read More: Report: Case dropped against Japan pop star
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Reuters – “Accent on Youth” is a 75-year-old play, and with its new Broadway revival it looks every bit its age.
Read More: Vintage drawing-room comedy showing its age
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AP – Elizabeth Edwards writes in a new memoir to be published in May that news of her husband’s affair made her vomit in a bathroom.
Read More: Elizabeth Edwards: John's affair made me throw up
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Reuters – After failing to stop recent gay marriage approvals in several states, opponents have found an attractive, telegenic poster woman in Miss California, a move reminiscent of beauty queen Anita Bryant’s 1970s crusade against gay rights.
Read More: Miss California appears in anti-gay marriage ad
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AP – Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets and trombones would be used to carry on New Orleans’ vibrant musical tradition.
Read More: Tony Bennett donates instruments during jazz fest
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AFP – Australia ordered an investigation into a nursing home where elderly and bed-ridden residents were gnawed by a swarming plague of mice.
Read More: Australia orders probe into mouse plague
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AP – No matter what you call it, leading experts say the virus that is scaring the world is pretty much all pig. So while the U.S. government and now the World Health Organization are taking the swine out of “swine flu,” the experts who track the genetic heritage of the virus say this: If it is genetically mostly porcine and its parents are pig viruses, it smells like swine flu to them.
Read More: Swine flu name change? Flu genes spell pig
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HealthDay – THURSDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) — Almost 12 percent of
children in the United States live with a parent who has a substance abuse
problem, says a federal government study released this week.
Read More: Millions of Kids Live With Substance-Abusing Parents
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