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China: Belgian journalists reporting on HIV epidemic were not attacked
BEIJING (AP) _ Local Chinese officials on Wednesday denied allegations by a Belgian television crew that they had been attacked while trying to report on the HIV epidemic in a hard-hit rural village, state media said. The alleged Nov. 27 attack in China'...Tags: AIDS, Vehicles, Diseases
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World briefs: China to aid in anti-terrorism
China will send additional police officers to liaison with security forces in countries facing major terror threats, in a bid to boost cooperation and head off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said today. An announcement on the ministry's Web site...Tags: Heads of State, Defense, Robert Mugabe, Armed Forces, Crimes
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Zimbabwe police charge into crowd of doctors, nurses protesting health crisis
Associated Press WriterHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) _ Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe's deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said Wednesday as deaths rose sharply from a cholera epidemic blamed on collapsing infrastructure. The...Tags: Riots, Heads of State, Robert Mugabe, Prosecution, United Nations
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Zimbabwe villagers face starvation
The child's name is Godknows, and his mother smiles softly when she explains the choice: Only God knows whether he will live or die.
"I'm leaving everything in God's hands because the child is always ill," she whispers.
Godknows is 2 but looks like a...Tags: Heads of State, Justice and Rights, Jimmy Carter, Robert Mugabe, United Nations
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South Africa's Shame
A recent Harvard study verified what has long been understood about former South African President Thabo Mbeki's response to AIDS: His belief that HIV was not the cause of the disease had lethal effects. The study concluded that Mr. Mbeki's refusal to...Tags: Nelson Mandela, Retroviruses, Death and Dying, Government, AIDS
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Hillary Clinton accepts secretary of state nomination
tom.brune@newsday.comHillary Rodham Clinton said she's ready to leave New York and the Senate to return to the world stage after President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday he would nominate his former political rival as his secretary of state. If confirmed by the Senate,...Tags: Regional Authority, Petroleum Industry, Elmhurst (Queens, New York), Huntington (Hungtington, New York), Jerrold Nadler
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AIDS diverting cash from more deadly ills, some experts say
Of The Associated PressAs World AIDS Day is marked today, some experts are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs. They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread has...Tags: Viral Diseases, Death and Dying, Charity, Communicable Diseases, AIDS
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Is gay the new black? Gay marriage ban spurs debate over comparison to civil rights movement
AP National WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all. Gay marriage is not a civil right, opponents counter, insisting that minority status comes from...Tags: Justice and Rights, Malcolm X, Newspaper and Magazine, Referenda, Exit Polls, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
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As secretary of state, Clinton faces tough juggling act
tom.brune@newsday.comWASHINGTON - When Hillary Rodham Clinton steps up next to President-elect Barack Obama in Chicago today to accept the nomination as secretary of state, she will be taking on a portfolio whose importance was underlined dramatically by the recent deadly...Tags: Regional Authority, Petroleum Industry, Elmhurst (Queens, New York), Huntington (Hungtington, New York), Jerrold Nadler
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Waiting for another chance
247-7470— Alvin Sykes is waiting for his fourth gift of life. He was 19 in 1994 when his mother gave him the gift of life for the second time — a kidney transplant that would free him from spending hours every week hooked up to a dialysis machine....Tags: Tennessee, Obesity, Health Treatments, Diabetes, Hospitals and Clinics
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Battered Hong Kong set up for bigger role
Tribune NewspapersHONG KONG—The jetliners serving this financial hub arrive with more empty seats these days, and it's easier to get a table at Harlan's oyster bar in the International Finance Center. Across the bay in Kowloon, a sales clerk at Italy Fur &...Tags: Newport Beach, Financial Markets, Unemployment, Environmental Pollution
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AIDS hogs health funding, critics say
The Associated PressAs World AIDS Day is marked today, some officials are growing more outspoken in complaining that AIDS is eating up funding at the expense of more pressing health needs. They argue that the world has entered a post-AIDS era in which the disease's spread...Tags: Viral Diseases, Death and Dying, Charity, Communicable Diseases, AIDS
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