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Death Toll Rises From Deadly European Bacteria

Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 9:25 am (UTC-5)
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The World Health Organization says a deadly outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has now killed 18 Europeans is a new strain that has never been seen before. The latest victim died overnight in Germany. The United Nations agency said Thursday that preliminary genetic tests suggest the strain is a mutant of two different E. […]

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World Health Organization Says Deadly European Bacteria Is New Strain

Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 6:45 am (UTC-5)
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The World Health Organization says that a deadly outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has killed 17 Europeans is a new strain that has never been seen before. The U.N. agency said Thursday that preliminary genetic tests suggest that the strain is a mutant of two different E. coli bacteria with lethal genes. A food […]

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British Lawmakers Say Asylum Seekers Have Gotten ‘Amnesty’

Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 4:45 am (UTC-5)
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A British parliamentary investigation has concluded that so many asylum seekers have been allowed to stay in the country that it amounted to an “amnesty” for them. In a scathing assessment Thursday of Britain’s immigration agency, the lawmakers found that “a very large number” of asylum seekers remain in the country “who either have no […]

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Russia Bans Vegetable Imports from EU

Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 3:10 am (UTC-5)
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Russia has banned the import of all fresh vegetables from the European Union as authorities try to determine the source of an E. coli outbreak that has killed 17 people, mostly in Germany. Russia said Thursday that vegetables already imported from EU countries would be seized. The chief of Russia’s consumer protection agency, Gennady Onishchenko, […]

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Austrian Court Convicts 3 in Chechen’s Murder

Posted June 1st, 2011 at 9:30 pm (UTC-5)
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An Austrian court has convicted three Chechen-born men for their role in the 2009 murder of a former bodyguard, critical of Chechnya’s president Ramzan Kadyrov. The court in Vienna on Wednesday handed Otto Kaltenbrunner a life sentence in the shooting death of Umar Israilov, an ethnic Chechen. Suleyman Dadayev received a 19-year sentence and Turpal […]

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US Vice President Praises Italy as ‘Important’ US Ally

Posted June 1st, 2011 at 8:25 pm (UTC-5)
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has praised Italy as an important ally and partner of the United States during a visit to Rome for the 150th anniversary of the country’s unification Thursday. Mr. Biden met with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome Wednesday for talks on the situation in North Africa and the Middle East, […]

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Moody Downgrades Greece’s Rating

Posted June 1st, 2011 at 7:45 pm (UTC-5)
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Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Greece’s local and foreign currency bond ratings again, putting the country’s chances of default over the next five years at 50 percent. The agency announced Wednesday that it has cut the country’s credit rating by three more notches , to push the rating deeper into junk status. A lower credit […]

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US Vice President Praises Italy as ‘Important’ US Ally

Posted June 1st, 2011 at 7:35 pm (UTC-5)
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has praised Italy as an important ally and partner of the United States during a visit to Rome for the 150th anniversary of the country’s unification Thursday. Mr. Biden met with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome Wednesday for talks on the situation in North Africa and the Middle East […]

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US Vice President Praises Italy as ‘Important’ US Ally

Posted June 1st, 2011 at 6:55 pm (UTC-5)
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has praised Italy as an important ally and partner of the United States during talks with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome. Mr. Biden met with President Napolitano Wednesday to discuss the situation in North Africa and the Middle East, including the conflict in Libya. At a joint news conference […]

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Mladic to Face War Crimes Charges in UN Court

Posted June 1st, 2011 at 5:20 pm (UTC-5)
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Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic will make his first appearance before a war crimes tribunal Friday, following his capture after 16 years on the run. The United Nations tribunal in The Hague will ask the former general to identify himself and enter a plea to 11 counts of the indictment for war crimes […]

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