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Reuters
Reuters
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:00 EST

BEIJING - A Chinese woman infected with bird flu, the country's 10th human bird flu victim, has died, the World Health Organization confirmed on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old woman surnamed Cao, who ran a shop in a farm goods market in Jinhua town in the southwestern province of Sichuan, died on Monday, Roy Wadia, a WHO spokesman in Beijing, said.

18/01/2006 - 16:29:05
18/01/2006 - 16:29:05
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:00 EST

The pituitary glands of hundreds of dead children were removed without their parents consent for manufacturing human growth hormones during the seventies and eighties, the Madden Report found today.

Between 1976 and 1988, almost 14,000 glands were removed around 10% of which were from children by staff at 26 hospitals in Ireland.

The report by Dr Deidre Madden into organ retention said hospitals were paid a nominal amount to remove the glands which were used by two international pharmaceutical companies.

Comment: Comment: Is this evidence enough of the psychopathic nature of those that inhabit the worlds of big business and big government?

Agence France-Presse
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:00 EST

Marseille, France - French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy gave details Monday of a new railway police force to deter violent incidents such as the ordeal suffered by passengers on a regional train along the Mediterranean coast on New Year's Day.

Travelling on the same Nice-Lyon service, Sarkozy said that the force would comprise 2,540 officers of whom 700 would be newly recruited into the police and gendarmerie.

Belgium bird flu tests negative

BBC News
BBC News
Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:00 EST

Preliminary tests on a man suspected of having the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus in Belgium show he is not infected with the disease, health officials say.

The man - an unnamed TV journalist - developed flu-like symptoms after he returned from a visit to Turkey.

Doctors at St Pierre hospital in Brussels said the tests excluded H5N1 100% - the patient had a seasonal cold.

Agence France Presse
Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:00 EST

PARIS - A Frenchman held in detention since being returned to France after his release from the US base in Guantanamo 18 months ago was freed this week, officials said.

Nizar Sassi was freed on Monday following a request lodged this month by his lawyers and a decision by France's top anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, that Sassi's incarceration was no longer necessary, they said.

By Karin Strohecker
Reuters
Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:00 EST

BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in an interview published days before her first visit to the United States, said Washington should close its Guantanamo Bay prison camp and find other ways of dealing with terror suspects.

"An institution like Guantanamo can and should not exist in the longer term," Merkel said in an interview with the weekly magazine Der Spiegel published on Saturday. "Different ways and means must be found for dealing with these prisoners."

French to Create Police Force for Rails

Associated Press
Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:00 EST

Paris - France will create a special police force to ensure security for railway passengers after a band of marauding youths robbed and sexually assaulted train travelers in southeast France, the interior minister said Wednesday.

Comment: Isn't it amazing how the "racaille" keep playing right into Sarkozy's hand?

The Podcast Shaking Up French Politics

Carol Matlack
Business Week
Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Interior Minister -- and would-be President -- Nicolas Sarkozy has created a sensation in cyberspace. Expect more pols to follow

Nicolas Sarkozy, the law-and-order Interior Minister who wants to be France's next President, rarely passes up a chance to speak before an audience. So when Loïc Le Meur, one of the country's most widely read bloggers, proposed doing a podcast interview with Sarkozy, the answer was mais, oui.

Kremlin reasserts control of oil, gas

By Fred Weir
By Fred Weir
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

MOSCOW Call it PetroKremlin. A vast state-run energy conglomerate has been assembled over the past year, some experts say, to fuel Russia's bid to revive Soviet-style great power status.

Comment: Comment: Well, looks like the neocons have gone and done it: Detente is over, the Power race is on again.

Sinodaily
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:00 EST

Chinese scientists say they have created a drug to treat humans infected with bird flu that is superior to the existing and widely stockpiled drug Tamiflu, state media said Tuesday.

Like Tamiflu, which is made by Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche, the new medicine is a neuraminidase inhibitor that prevents the virus from spreading to other cells, but costs about a third of the price, China Daily said.

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