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16.07.2009, 12:40
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The number of confirmed cases of swine flu has topped over a hundred thousand, with the World Health Organization calling the pandemic 'unstoppable', and suggesting mass vaccination.
25.01.2010, 15:26
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Swine flu is under scrutiny once again as pharmaceutical companies are being accused of hyping up a “false pandemic”. The Council of Europe has put the virus on its winter agenda, which starts on Monday.
20.07.2009, 16:19
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Two Ukrainian female students from different universities in Kiev dissected a dog in a kitchen and posted shocking pictures and video on the Internet. They claim it was homework.
30.05.2009, 08:53
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Proposing a solution to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Swaziland, which has the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world, has sparked public outrage and threatens to cost a government official his job.
25.06.2009, 13:41
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An American investigative journalist, who claims that swine flu strains have been engineered in two universities in the US and Canada, says they've been deliberately designed to resist vaccines.
14.09.2010, 16:55
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he may enforce a partial freeze on settlement construction in the contested lands of the West Bank, but Palestinians say that is not enough.
02.07.2009, 18:02
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In Akwa Ibom, a Nigerian state with an alleged concentration of child witches, life’s misfortunes are often diagnosed as sorcery. As a result, children suffer abuse, abandonment or worse.
22.12.2009, 20:33
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Eight Indian tigers and an African lioness have died while being carried by a truck to a circus in Yakutsk, East Siberia. Police said the animals were poisoned by the vehicle’s exhaust.
29.01.2010, 09:24
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The Council of Europe is set to decide whether the World Health Organization colluded with drug companies to exaggerate the threat from swine flu.
10.02.2010, 09:59
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A rare tamed Russian leopard is about to lose its home. Not only should it not be kept as a pet, environmentalists say, but the houses in the village where the leopard lives are claimed to have been built illegally.
Published: 01 July, 2009, 12:30
After the first case of swine flu was recorded in Egypt, the government ordered the immediate cull of all pigs in the country. However, it has since been revealed that the disease spreads through humans, not animals.
Simply an example where religion over comes common sense. I wonder if a cull would have taken place if it was called "Lamb Flu" after the life stock that the majority are allowed to eat