SYDNEY: Australia began human trials for a swine flu vaccine on
Wednesday, lending new urgency to global efforts to curb the
pandemic after the death toll worldwide leapt past 700.
As the trials started, Thailand’s death toll
reached 44 to overtake Australia’s as the biggest in the
Asia-Pacific region. In Latin America, Chile’s toll jumped from 40
to 68.
TEGUCIGALPA: Caracas has angrily rejected what it called an
“absurd” demand from Honduras’s de facto government that gave
Venezuelan diplomats until Friday to leave the country.
VARANASI, India: The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century
plunged millions across Asia into temporary darkness on Wednesday,
triggering scenes of religious fervor, fear and excitement in India
and China.
WASHINGTON, D.C.: US President Barack Obama holds a primetime news
conference to push the health care reform he promised during his
campaign for the White House, as new polls reveal his popularity is
waning.
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