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Venezuela
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a warm reception Wednesday from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, wrapping up a three-nation visit to Latin America to shore up support against the United States. Ahmadinejad arrived Tuesday night on a flight from Bolivia, where he spent a few hours meeting with President Evo Morales. The Iranian leader met Monday [...]
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Canada
Pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccines in case they trigger life-threatening allergies. White said the batch at issue, which has been distributed across Canada, contains 172,000 doses of the vaccine. She declined to say how many doses had been [...]
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Chile
Chile has requested an estimated $665 million in arms and radar systems from the United States. Chile has had longstanding political and economic ties with the United States. As the country’s strongest trade partner, the United States has boosted bilateral trade ties by 154 percent in the last three years. The contracts will include Sentinel [...]
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Shock! New types of influenza found in Ukraine. 85 cases of swine influenza
MIGnews.com.ua
Besides swine influenza, AN3N2, AN2N2 and group B have been found in the territory of Ukraine. In particular, at present at least 8 different viruses are circulating in the territory of Bukovyna. Such conclusions are made by experts of regional sanitary epidemiological stations following the results of almost 6,000 studies on the identification of acute [...]
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Palestine
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will accept the recommendation of independent election experts on Thursday to postpone the vote he had scheduled for January, senior officials said. The Central Election Commission said it had advised Abbas to put off the election since the rival Hamas Islamist group ruling some 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip [...]
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Canada and Afghanistan
Amid speculation over a future role for Canadian forces in Kandahar, Canada’s top commander Gen. Walt Natynczyk says he will withdraw all of the country’s soldiers from the region by 2011. CBC News had previously reported that Natynczyk ordered his commanders to start preparing military plans to pull out of Afghanistan and return [...]
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Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine Sites
Huffington Post
If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That’s the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine.
Shortly after the Pentagon announced that all Armed Services personnel would soon be facing a mandatory H1N1 vaccination program, I started receiving email from soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors [...]
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Iran and IAEA
U.N. inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining possible compromises to unblock a draft nuclear cooperation [...]
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Virulent Bird-Human Flu Hybrid Made in Lab