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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.
MOSCOW
MOSCOW
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
President Vladimir Putin urged the government Monday to speed up development of Russia's planned satellite navigation system, as the European Union prepared to launch the first satellite in its own system.
Kim Willsher
The Guardian
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has discovered that calling people louts and rabble and threatening to "clean them off the streets" has won him few friends in celebrity circles.
Mr Sarkozy, whose injudicious use of language was partly blamed for exacerbating the recent urban riots, is now being abandoned by his friends in high places. Worse still, many of them are lining up to publicly put the boot into the man who hopes to be president in 2007.
rian.ru
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
MOSCOW - Russia will take Syria's side if charges against Syrian officials with involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri cause a conflict between the United States and Syria, two Russian parliamentary members said Tuesday.
"If Russia is to choose between its two strategic allies, it will undoubtedly take Syria's side," said Shamil Sultanov, a coordinator of an inter-faction association, Russia and the Islamic World: A Strategic Dialogue.
Agence France-Presse
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
France's controversial Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday that he had fought the most for the rights of the country's estimated five million Muslims and that recent riots had nothing to do with Islam.
He was speaking during an interview with the Arab channel al-Jazeera about the three weeks of rioting that swept poor sections of French cities in late October during which thousands of cars and public buildings were set ablaze and thousands of people arrested.
He also defended France's newly approved anti-terror measures.
By John Pilger
Information Clearing House
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge." The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the World Wide Web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power. The great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several senior broadcasters have confessed that had they challenged and exposed the lies told about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.
Such honesty has yet to cross the Atlantic. Since it was founded in 1922, the BBC has served to protect every British establishment during war and civil unrest. "We" never traduce and never commit great crimes. So the omission of shocking events in Iraq - the destruction of cities, the slaughter of innocent people, and the farce of a puppet government - is routinely applied. A study by the Cardiff School of Journalism found that 90 per cent of the BBC's references to Saddam Hussein's WMD suggested he possessed them and that "spin from the British and U.S. governments was successful in framing the coverage." The same "spin" has ensured, until now, that the use of banned weapons by the Americans and British in Iraq has been suppressed as news.
Alexandre Adler - Translated By Mike Goeden
Le Figaro
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
French intellectual and iconoclast Alexandre Adler offers this ironic view of modern (especially French) progressivism, which, he argues, largely diabolizes the United States. He does not espouse this view, although the reader may not realize this until the end of the column. His particular view of what he terms "neo-progressivism" allows him to apply an up-to-now exclusively American label that its Left-leaning proponents are unlikely to be comfortable with ...
Agence France-Presse
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
French authorities deliberately suppressed information about the spread of radioactive fallout from the May 1986 Chernobyl disaster over France, according to details of an experts' report leaked Thursday.
Reuters
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Sofia - Bulgaria has begun withdrawing its 334-strong light infantry battalion from Iraq following the war-torn country's parliamentary elections this week, Bulgaria's Defence Ministry said on Friday.
Bulgaria's parliament approved the move in May due to strong public opposition to the war. The withdrawal also coincides with a similar pullout by Ukraine, one of the largest contributors to the U.S.-led operations in Iraq.
"Today we are starting to prepare to withdraw our troops," said Defence Ministry spokesman Vladislav Prelezov. "All of the troops will be back in Bulgaria by Dec. 31."
He refused to elaborate on the exact plans for the pullout, saying it could compromise the troops' safety.
Comment: Comment: So, bit by bit, the "Coalition of the Bought and Paid For" is crumbling... No wonder Bush is on the run.
Agence France-Presse
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Clichy-Sous-Bois, France - A teenager who survived an electrocution that killed two friends and set off the three weeks of rioting that shook France recently accused police Thursday of creating the situation.
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