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Obama vows US help for Haiti, aid operation buildsWashington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010 President Barack Obama promised Haitians Thursday they would not be forgotten, offering 100 million dollars in immediate earthquake aid and the backing of every element of US power. A large-scale US military and civilian aid operation gained momentum with Washington sending rescue teams, ships, helicopters, planes, a floating hospital, emergency supplies and more than 5,000 ground troops. ... read more |
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London (AFP) Jan 12, 2010Tony Blair's former chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell fiercely denied Tuesday "sexing up" a dossier which claimed Iraq could launch chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes ahead of the 2003 war. In a defiant appearance before a public inquiry on the conflict, Campbell said that while the highly controversial document could have been "clearer", he still defended "every single word" ... more 
London (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 George W. Bush did not have to talk Tony Blair into sending troops to take part in the Iraq war, Blair's former spokesman said Tuesday, just as a Dutch inquiry concluded the war had no legal basis. Alastair Campbell, Blair's former spin doctor, told a British inquiry probing the controversial military campaign that Blair's position on Iraq was not shifted by Bush at a summit at his ranc ... more  
Las Cruces NM (SPX) Jan 12, 2010New Mexico State University's fledgling, but rapidly growing aerospace engineering program, gained approval in December to begin offering master's and doctoral degrees. The graduate program will accept its first students in fall 2010. On Dec. 15, the New Mexico State Board of Finance awarded final approval for the program to move ahead, successfully closing a three-year approval process. ... more |
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London (AFP) Jan 8, 2010Europe was faced with grounded planes and axed trains Friday amid bitter winter weather and hard-hit Britain was forced to curb industrial gas usage to save dwindling supplies. Significant snowfalls in France caused major delays to train services and electricity cuts, while Germans were urged to stock up on food and medicines as they braced for up to 20 centimetres (eight inches) of snowfall ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 7, 2010China's drug detention centres are rife with human rights violations including forced labour and other abusive treatment despite a new law meant to fix the system, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The New York-based rights group said in a report that the 2008 Anti-Drug Law actually made addicts' suffering even worse by failing to ensure that adequate treatment -- or even basic medical care ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A new kind of brain scan seems to be better at detecting early signs of change related to the onset of Alzheimer's disease, new research published Wednesday in the online issue of Neurology found. The scan, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), could prove important to earlier detection and in turn better treatment. "As better medicines for Alzheimer's disease become available, it will ... more |
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