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Japan confirms its first case of new superbug gene
Posted: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 1:36 am Japan has confirmed the nation's first case of a new gene in bacteria that allows the microorganisms to become drug-resistant superbugs, detected in a man who had medical treatment in India, a health ministry official said Tuesday. » read moreKeywords: world news medical treatment superbugs detected resistant superbugs Date: 09-07-2010
Iran says it has the right to bar UN inspectors
By GEORGE JAHN | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 11:30 pm Iran's nuclear chief says Tehran has the right to bar some U. » read moreKeywords: world news nuclear nuclear program disputed nuclear nuclear chief Date: 09-07-2010
Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand
By ROB GRIFFITH | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 10:22 pm A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the region in coming days. » read moreKeywords: world news earthquake another powerful powerful temblor temblor might Date: 09-07-2010
Pakistanis suspect landowners of diverting floods
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT and ASHRAF KHAN | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 9:21 pm As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumors that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property and inundate the villages and fields of millions of poor Pakistanis. » read moreKeywords: world news their influence divert water their property powerful officials Date: 09-07-2010
Soldiers fire on family's car in Mexico, killing 2
By OLGA R. » read moreKeywords: world news father authorities mexico killing northern mexico military checkpoint Date: 09-07-2010
3 suspects in Mexico migrant massacre found dead
By MARK STEVENSON | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 8:05 pm The bodies of three men suspected of participating in the massacre of 72 migrants last month were found by the side of a road in northern Mexico after an anonymous caller told authorities where to find the cadavers, federal officials said Monday. » read moreKeywords: world news authorities where anonymous caller mexico after northern mexico Date: 09-07-2010
Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides
By LUIS ANGEL SAS | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 7:47 pm Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. » read moreKeywords: world news people trying deaths raised landslides buried highway where Date: 09-07-2010
Suriname leader: Drug conviction 'almost a joke'
By BERT WILKINSON | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 5:35 pm Former Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse shrugged off questions about his past during his first overseas trip as elected president, saying Monday that he will not interfere in his ongoing murder trial and dismissing a 1999 drug conviction as "almost a joke. » read moreKeywords: world news president saying saying monday ongoing murder murder trial Date: 09-07-2010
Egyptian opposition leader urges election boycott
By SARAH EL DEEB | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 4:20 pm Egypt's leading democracy advocate made a forceful call Monday for the nation to boycott November's parliamentary election, saying they were certain to be rigged and urging his young supporters to be patient and plan for a lengthy struggle. » read moreKeywords: world news election saying young supporters parliamentary election boycott november Date: 09-07-2010
Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case
By JUAN MCCARTNEY | Posted: Monday, September 6, 2010 3:44 pm A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain. » read moreKeywords: world news travolta after actor decided longer wanted extort money Date: 09-07-2010
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 3:28 am Sales of passenger cars in China _ the world's biggest market _ rose 18 percent in August from a year earlier, a report said Tuesday, as government subsidies and price cuts by dealers helped spur demand. » read moreKeywords: dealers helped government subsidies biggest market Date: 09-07-2010
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