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HONG KONG, JAPAN, CANADA, DENMARK REPORTED EARLIER
INCIDENTS
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Cases of
drug-resistant deadly flu hit US
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Health officials said Monday they had found cases
of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu along the US border with Mexico, as
India and South Africa announced their first deaths from the A(H1N1)
virus.
“We have found resistance to Tamiflu on the
border. We have observed some cases, few to be sure, in El Paso and
close to McAllen, Texas,” said Maria Teresa Cerqueira, head of the
Pan-American Health Organization office in La Jolla, California.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Al-Qaeda compares Obama to Bush
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DUBAI: Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri took aim
at US President Barack Obama in a new video, accusing him of
continuing to spill the blood of Muslims and saying Israel was a
“crime” that must be wiped out, according to a US monitoring
group.
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Poverty saps local interest in Suu Kyi trial
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YANGON: While the international community condemns the prison trial
of Aung San Suu Kyi, many people in military-ruled Myanmar have more
pressing concerns as they struggle to make ends meet.
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Bill Clinton in Pyongyang to seek journalists’ freedom
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SEOUL: Former US president Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea
Tuesday on a surprise mission to free two jailed American
journalists, the highest-profile visit by an American to Pyongyang
for nearly a decade.
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FEATURE
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Afghans confuse democracy with fornication
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KABUL: Fornication, bare flesh and a descent into Western decadence
— these are Afghan definitions of democracy that expose how little
the foreign concept has permeated the national psyche as elections
near.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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KHARTOUM, Sudan: Armed tribesmen from the Murle ethnic group raided
a village in southern Sudan over the weekend, killing over 180
people and injuring some 31 others, the Sudan Tribune reported at
its website on Tuesday.
-- Xinhua
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