MyClipping: October 2005

VOA News - Thousands Line Up to Pay Respects to Rosa Parks: "Tens of thousands of Americans are standing in line in Washington, D.C., waiting to pay respects to civil rights icon Rosa Parks whose body is lying in honor in the rotunda of the U.S. capitol."

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Vietnam has two new suspected bird flu deaths - doctor - Yahoo! News
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam, where the bird flu virus has killed more than 40 people, has two new suspected human deaths from the disease, a hospital official said on Saturday.

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Miers Withdraws Nomination for Supreme Court - New York Times: "WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - Harriet E. Miers withdrew her nomination for the Supreme Court this morning after weeks of increasingly heated debate over the depth of her conservative beliefs and her qualifications to fill the seat to be vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor."

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VOA News - UNICEF Launches Global Children's AIDS Campaign: "The United Nations Children's Fund kicked off a new campaign by calling on East Asian countries to take stronger action to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among children and adolescents. UNCEF says AIDS is increasingly affecting Asia's youth."

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3 Bombers Strike at Baghdad Hotels Used by Foreigners - New York Times
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 24 - A suicide bomber on Monday drove a cement mixer packed with explosives into the front courtyard of two prominent Baghdad hotels popular with foreigners, but failed to destroy his apparent targets when the vehicle became snagged in barbed wire as it headed for the main entrances.

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Hurricane Wilma pounds Mexican resorts, killing three - 23 Oct 2005 - World News: "Hurricane Wilma pounds Mexican resorts, killing three

23.10.05 2.45pm
By Noel Randewich

CANCUN, Mexico - Hurricane Wilma blasted through Mexico's Caribbean resorts, smashing homes and killing three people in a slow-moving rampage that put it on course to hit Florida next. "

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More bird flu cases found in Russia - Yahoo! News
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian vets have found bird flu in a village in the southern Urals where 31 birds died, an Emergencies Ministry official said on Saturday.

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Top News Article | Reuters.co.uk
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Wilma, an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm pounding Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts with ferocious winds and rains, was projected to strike Florida on Monday, according to all of the major weather models.

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VOA News - Hurricane Wilma Nears Mexican Resort Towns: "Weather forecasters say the core of Hurricane Wilma is expected to hit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula within hours, as powerful winds and rain trap thousands of tourists inside emergency shelters."

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VOA News - Japanese PM Visits Controversial War Shrine: "Japanese PM Visits Controversial War Shrine
By VOA News
17 October 2005
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has paid another visit to a Tokyo war shrine seen by critics as a symbol of Japan's past militarism."

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Xinhua - English
BANGKOK, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the H5N1 bird flu strain is mutating into a new subtype which could be transmitted among humans, the Thai News Agency reported Saturday.

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VOA News - Earthquake Casualty Count Soars in Pakistan: "The official death toll in Pakistan from last week's massive South Asia earthquake has risen to 38,000, with thousands more injured and millions homeless. Aftershocks and bad weather continue to hamper relief efforts."

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EU devises strategy to halt spread of bird flu - World - Times Online: "BRUSSELS ordered European poultry farmers to move their flocks indoors last night, as part of an emergency package of measures to prevent the potentially lethal bird flu virus spreading across the continent."

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U.S. says bird flu in Europe a "troubling sign" - Yahoo! News: "HANOI (Reuters) - The spread of Asia's deadly bird flu to Europe is a 'troubling sign' and migratory birds will inevitably carry the virus farther, U.S. Health Secretary Mike Leavitt said on Friday."

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Oldest noodles unearthed in China: "The remains of the world's oldest noodles have been unearthed in China."

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Official Google Blog: Bird flu basics
As flu season approaches, there's been a lot of talk about bird flu. I thought I'd try to clarify some of the issues and misconceptions around this illness. I keep up with news on this and other emerging diseases in a number of ways, including Pro-MED, which is produced by the Federation of American Scientists, and the World Health Organization site. You can also read lots more at the CDC site, especially here.

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VOA News - More Than 70 Die in Fighting in Southern Russian City
Fierce fighting raged for hours in a city in southern Russia after gunmen launched attacks against government buildings and police stations. Russian news reports say more than 70 people, including 50 militants were killed by the fighting in a region near Chechnya, where Russian troops have been battling separatist rebels for more than a decade.

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VOA News - Dangerous Bird Flu Strain Reaches Turkey
The European Union's health chief says the type of bird flu discovered in Turkey during the past week may be fatal in humans. The announcement follows the mass slaughter of birds thought to pose a risk after the disease surfaced earlier this week in Balikesir Province.

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VOA News - Race Against Time in Pakistan's Mountain Villages
U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland says it might be too late to save thousands of earthquake victims in Pakistan's remote mountain villages. Aid is reaching many of the devastated villages, but delays still plague the massive emergency response.

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CNN.com - Turkey bird flu 'is deadly strain' - Oct 13, 2005: "Turkey bird flu 'is deadly strain'"BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in Turkish poultry and is likely present in Romania, the European Commission has said.

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CNN.com - Alaska volcanoes show signs of unrest - Oct 12, 2005
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -- Anchorage residents could see a cloud of steam over the weekend from a volcano 75 miles away -- one of three Alaska volcanoes showing signs of unrest.

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Romania culls birds in flu scare
Romania is culling thousands of farmyard birds in the Danube delta amid fears of an avian flu outbreak.

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Guatemalans Dig for Bodies Buried in Mud - New York Times: "GUATEMALA CITY, Oct. 9 - Hundreds of men in the Guatemalan Indian village of Panab�j hacked with hoes and shovels on Saturday at the river of mud about a half mile wide and as deep as 20 feet that hit their town last week."

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Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say - New York Times
Two teams of federal and university scientists announced today that they had resurrected the 1918 influenza virus, the cause of one of history's most deadly epidemics, and had found that unlike the viruses that caused more recent flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968, the 1918 virus was actually a bird flu that jumped directly to humans.

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Independent Online Edition > Asia : app2: "The suicide bombers who brought terror to Bali for the second time in three years were probably recruited by a British-educated Islamic militant, according to one of the ringleaders of the 2002 nightclub attacks."

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Independent Online Edition > UK Environment : app4: "The sun will appear to be turned into a crescent this morning as a partial solar eclipse affects the British Isles."

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Reuters AlertNet - El Salvador fears killer volcano could erupt again
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A volcano in western El Salvador that killed two people and forced thousands to flee when it erupted for the first time in a century on Saturday, could roar to life again, authorities warned on Sunday.

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