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Chilean turkey virus identical to pandemic A(H1N1) - 08/23/2009

SANTIAGO - Chilean health officials on Saturday confirmed that a flu outbreak detected on two turkey farms was identical to the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus and was transmitted by humans. The...

French president to visit Bolivia in September - 08/23/2009

VILLA TUNARI - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Bolivia in September for the launch of a public administration school during a regional tour, his Bolivian counterpart said Saturday....

Obama says Afghan elections 'important step forward' - 08/22/2009

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama hailed Friday Afghanistan's presidential elections as an "important step forward" for the war-torn country and pledged US support to the new government. "This...

End of civil war opens up Angolan 'Jurassic Park' - 08/22/2009

LUANDA, Louise Redvers- Angola is best known for oil and diamonds, but dinosaur hunters say the country holds a "museum in the ground" of rare fossils -- some actually jutting from the earth --...

Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! to oppose Google book project - 08/22/2009

WASHINGTON, Chris Lefkow - Google's ambitious book scanning project, already facing anti-trust scrutiny, a court review and privacy concerns, has run into another hurdle. Amazon, Microsoft and...

Mexican president cuts his pay amid recession - 08/22/2009

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday signed a decree to cut his own pay and that of top government officials by 10 percent. The move came as Mexico's economy, the second...

Twitter to show whereabouts of tweeters - 08/21/2009

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter is adding location to its globally popular microblogging service in a move that will let people see where "tweets" are coming from. "We're gearing up to launch a new...

Politician shot dead, three heads found in southern Mexico - 08/21/2009

MEXICO CITY - The leader of congress of Mexico's southern state of Guerrero was shot dead in his car, while three human heads showed up in ice coolers elsewhere in the state, officials said...

US families outraged at release of Lockerbie bomber - 08/21/2009

WASHINGTON - Relatives of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing expressed outrage Thursday at the release of the only man convicted of the crime as he returned to Libya to a hero's welcome....

'Alive' plane crash survivors call for organ donors - 08/20/2009

MONTEVIDEO - Survivors of a 1972 plane crash who resorted to cannibalism to stay alive are urging fellow Uruguayans to sign up for a government-run organ donation program. The 16 crash survivors,...
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