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 Fort Hood, Texas (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 
US President Barack Obama led a tearful memorial service Tuesday for victims of the Fort Hood massacre, saying "no faith" could justify the "murderous and craven" shootings. Obama's allusion to religion was the strongest official indication to date that the shooter's Muslim faith could have been the motivating factor for suspected gunman Major Nidal Hasan, who is alive in hospital and under ... read more 
Riyadh (AFP) Nov 11, 2009Nine people out of more than half a million who have arrived for the annual hajj pilgrimage have been diagnosed with swine flu, Saudi Health Minister Dr Abdullah al-Rabeeah said on Wednesday. "The situation from the point of health, we are very happy. Out of the 600,000 arriving so far, we have only seen nine suspected cases of A(H1N1), and only two of those are in the hospital," Rabeeah ... more
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Washington (AFP) Nov 11, 2009US authorities on Wednesday defended their role in tracking the suspected gunman in the Fort Hood shooting amid fresh concerns that agencies may have botched the case and missed worrying signs. A defense official said the Pentagon was never told by intelligence or law enforcement agencies that the army doctor accused of mowing down his comrades last week had sent emails to a hardline imam ... more 
Kiev (AFP) Nov 10, 2009Ukraine's epidemic of flu and acute respiratory disorders has now affected more than a million people, the country's deputy health minister said on Tuesday. Vasyl Lazoryshynets said the death toll from the epidemic had risen to 174, as President Viktor Yushchenko warned the country must brace itself for a second wave of infections. Nearly 53,000 Ukrainians have now been hospitalised ... more  
Davis CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2009California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montanez. The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the central Sierra Nevada, was published in the journal Earth and Planetary ... more |
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Tehran (AFP) Nov 4, 2009A 4.9-scale earthquake struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas early Wednesday injuring at least 209 people, according to the official news agency Irna. The quake struck at 2:56 am (2326 GMT Tuesday) and also rocked the adjoining Qeshm highland. "As of 6:00 am today, we have 209 people wounded in the earthquake said Farshid Abedi, the head of the main medical university in ... more  
Golestan, Afghanistan (AFP) Nov 2, 2009Military interpreter "Rocky" has the combat record and desert camouflage gear of a US Marine, having already survived eight bomb attacks while on patrol in rural southwest Afghanistan. The last explosion threw him from an armoured vehicle and wounded his leg, putting him in a military hospital for two weeks. But for the 24-year-old whose real name is Salim Jawed Stanikzai, there is no qu ... more 
Kiev (AFP) Oct 31, 2009Ukrainians emptied pharmacies of masks and flu medicines on Saturday after the government ordered a three-week closure of schools and cinemas to combat swine flu. In Lviv in the western region, some pharmacies ran out of flu medicines and masks after worried customers made bulk purchases. Residents complained pharmacies were profiting from the panic caused by the announcement on Friday ... more |
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