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Guinea crisis talks must go ahead: PMConakry (AFP) Dec 11, 2009 Talks this weekend to break the political deadlock in Guinea must go ahead, Prime Minister Kabine Komara said Friday, even as junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara recovers from an attempt on his life. Speaking to journalists, Komara effectively overturned an earlier announcement that the junta would keep out of the talks until Camara -- shot in the head on December 3 -- returns from hospital in ... read more |
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Stanford, Calif. (UPI) Dec 9, 2009 U.S. scientists say they have combined ordinary paper dipped into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires to create an instant battery. Stanford University post doctoral students led by Assistant Professor Yi Cui said the paper batteries are ultra-lightweight and bendable. "Society really needs a low-cost, high-performance energy storage device, such as batteries a ... more  
Erlangen, Germany (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 German researchers say they've developed intelligent radio nodes that can perform many tasks that radio frequency identification systems cannot. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the Fraunhofer Working Group and colleagues at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and other facilities developed the radio nodes mainly for hospital uses. For example ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2009The H1N1 flu outbreak appears to be less severe than earlier feared, according to a new study by US health experts who found fewer than expected hospitalizations or severe complications from the virus. The British and US-funded study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), which appears online in the journal PLoS Medicine, said the swine flu pandemic appears far "milder ... more |
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  Guinea junta chief improving, to return soon: spokesman   Snowflake Chemistry Could Give Clues About Ozone Depletion  Guinea foreign minister denounces military 'insubordination' |
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Lima (AFP) Dec 1, 2009The Candoshi people in Peru's northern Amazon jungle are close to extinction from a hepatitis B infection that has gone unchecked since 2000, tribal leaders and health officials said Tuesday. "My people are suffering, we're in real danger of extinction," said Candoshi chief Venancio Ucama Simon. Standing next to a Candoshi woman suffering from hepatitis-induced cirrhosis who doctors said ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 30, 2009Japan plans to send hundreds of military personnel to Sudan next year to join UN peace-keepers overseeing an agreement that ended a 21-year north-south civil war, a report said Monday. The government plans to send hundreds of army personnel to the UN Mission in Sudan to help build roads, transport goods and personnel by helicopter and provide medical aid, the Yomiuri Shimbun said without ... more  
Karbala, Iraq (AFP) Nov 25, 2009Two bombs within minutes of each other exploded at a restaurant early Wednesday in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, wounding at least 26 people, police and medical officials said. The first bomb targeted diners inside the restaurant in the heart of the city, located 110 kilometres (69 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, around 9:00 am (0600 GMT), causing several injuries, police said. ... more |
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