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Seoul to spend 15 million dollars on flu aid to N.KoreaSeoul (AFP) Dec 14, 2009 South Korea is preparing to ship medical supplies worth more than 15 million dollars to help North Korea fight an outbreak of swine flu, officials said Monday. The unification ministry, which handles cross-border ties, said the shipment would include antiviral drugs for 500,000 patients -- Tamiflu for 400,000 and Relenza for 100,000 -- and sanitation supplies. The aid will cost an ... read more |
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Conakry (AFP) Dec 9, 2009Talks between Guinea's junta and the opposition are stalled after the military leadership said it would pull out until its leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara recovers from an assassination bid. The junta announced late Tuesday that it was suspending talks in Ouagadougou with mediator Blaise Compaore, Burkina Faso's president, until Camara returns to work. He is in Morocco for medical ... more  
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 |
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Rabat (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 Guinea's foreign minister on Monday denounced "insubordination and indiscipline" in the armed forces as he kept a hospital vigil for his country's military ruler who survived an assassination attempt. One African rights group meanwhile warned of a bloodbath if the military regime could not be made to moved towards civilian rule. Foreign Minister Alexandre Cece Loua said Captain Moussa ... more  
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 |
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