Five British embassy hostages kidnapped in Ethiopia have been released, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has revealed. She said they were all in "good health" after being released in neighbouring …
L.A. hospital confirms women poisoned by thallium
A Los Angeles hospital confirmed on Friday that two U.S. women who became ill during a trip to their native Russia, prompting investigations by both countries, were suffering from thallium poisoning. …
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Twenty wounded in West Bank barrier demos
Twenty people were lightly hurt on Friday when Israeli troops dispersed protests against the Jewish state's controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank, medics said. Fourteen …
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Bush intervenes in army scandal
President Bush has intervened in a scandal over the way wounded American soldiers were treated after they returned home from Iraq or Afghanistan. In a radio address on Saturday, Mr Bush will say he is …
Chad: PM’s Death and its Impact
Chad’s Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died at Val de Grace military hospital in Paris, France, of a brain hemorrhage on February 23 after suffering a heart attack. There have been no reports of …
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Fracturing Country
Zimbabwe’s opposition, which split in 2005, is launching a reunification campaign—called the Save Zimbabwe Campaign--to prevent President Robert Mugabe from extending his rule to 2010 and to stop the …
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani Falls Ill
President Jalal Talabani is ill and has flown to neighboring Jordan for medical treatment, his office said Sunday, adding there was "no cause for worry." The brief statement said only that the …
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Bomb explodes near Iranian embassy in Baghdad
A minibus packed with explosives blew up on a street in front of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad on Sunday amid rising tensions over Tehran's relations with its war-torn neighbour. Elsewhere in the …
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Panama officials exhume 12 bodies
Medical examiners took tissue samples from the corpses after relatives voiced suspicions that their loved ones were killed last year by tainted cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion or …
Turkish lab tests three villagers for bird flu
Three people will be tested for bird flu after they reported feverish symptoms in a south eastern Turkish village where there has been an outbreak of the deadly virus, a state-run laboratory said on …
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