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Guinea's junta celebrates first year in powerConakry (AFP) Dec 23, 2009 Guinea's junta celebrated its first year in power on Wednesday, but in the absence of its leader who is in Morocco for medical care after his aide de camp shot and wounded him. The regime is also under mounting international pressure for alleged crimes against humanity after soldiers in September massacred at least 156 protesters in a Conakry stadium, according to UN investigators. Hundr ... read more |
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Seoul (AFP) Dec 14, 2009South 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 ... more  
Conakry (AFP) Dec 11, 2009Talks 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 ... more
Ankara (AFP) Dec 10, 2009Swine flu claimed 112 more lives in Turkey in the past week, bringing the national toll to 353, the health ministry said Thursday. A total of 306 people remained in hospital, including 98 in intensive care, the ministry said in a statement on its website. Turkey began a nationwide vaccination campaign in November, but there are still widespread public concerns over the vaccine's safety d ... more |
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Conakry (AFP) Dec 9, 2009 Talks 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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