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Haiti quake relief gains pace: aid agenciesGeneva (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 Aid agencies said a huge international relief operation nearly a week after Haiti's devastating earthquake was gaining pace on Monday, but one warned that survivors were growing increasingly desperate. UN agencies and the Red Cross said field hospitals and food distribution had multiplied in and around the capital Port-au-Prince, where the magnitude 7.0 quake wrought huge destruction, leavin ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2010A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in Haiti Friday, poised to deploy an arsenal of resources to aid the Haiti relief effort, amid rising anger that international help has been slow to arrive. The chief of US naval operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, said the massive USS Carl Vinson, equipped with 19 helicopters, a water-purification plant and carrying tons of medicines, was "in the ... more 
Washington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010President 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. ... more  
Vienna (AFP) Jan 14, 2010Animal rights groups on Thursday condemned as "bizarre" and "macabre" an experiment in Austria in which 29 live pigs were to be buried under masses of snow to study human survival chances in avalanches. Several organisations threatened legal action against the Innsbruck Medical University, western Austria, and the emergency medicine centre in Bolzano, northern Italy, which organised the expe ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010The swine flu epidemic in mainland France that has killed hundreds has ended, a monitoring group of doctors said on Wednesday. "It's the end of the epidemic," Thierry Blanchon, one of the doctors of the Sentinelles flu monitoring network, told AFP. The number of cases of the fever reported to doctors has "fallen below the epidemic level for the past two weeks," he said. "The virus is cer ... more  
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 |
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