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Indonesian dies of bird flu |
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JAKARTA: An 8-year-old Indonesian girl has died of
bird flu, raising the country’s death toll from the disease to 63
since 2005.
The girl from Magelang in Central
Java died on January 19, I Nyoman Kandun, the director general of
communicable diseases, said.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Proximity to highways bad for children’s lungs—‘Lancet’
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PARIS: What many suspected, a new study shows, is
true: children living near major motorways run a greater risk of
growing up with damaged lungs.
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Emerging nations seek clean-fuel technology at Davos forum
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DAVOS, Switzerland: Booming emerging economies like
China and India need help to obtain cleaner technologies because
attempts to tackle climate change are being outstripped by the pace
of their economic development, officials said at the World Economic
Forum.
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America to announce major aid package for Afghanistan at NATO
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BRUSSELS: As NATO foreign ministers are meeting, the
United States is to announce a major package for insurgency-wracked
Afghanistan amid fears of a surge in Taliban-led fighting as the
weather warms.
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South Korea denies
report saying Kim Jong II arrested
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SEOUL: South Korean officials denied a Japanese media
report that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is absent from Pyongyang
and might be under house arrest.
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INBRIEF
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KUALA LUMPUR: The
Malaysian government has denied ordering ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad
to back off from his role as negotiator in the Muslim insurgency in
Thailand.
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