The bodies of two U.S. Marines missing after a helicopter crashed in western Iraq over the weekend have been recovered, the military said Tuesday. The U.S. Marine Corps AH-1 Cobra helicopter from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing was on a maintenance test flight when it went down Saturday in the volatile western region of Anbar. The military said hostile fire was not suspected as the cause, but the crash was under investigation. ...
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 HIV infections 'may have peaked' |
The rate at which people are infected with HIV may have peaked in the late 1990s, according to a UNAIDS report. It found the incidence of new HIV infections appears to have stabilised for the first time in 25 years. UNAIDS said improved funding and access to drugs appears to be producing results - but said HIV remains "an exceptional threat". It warned the infection rate is still rising in some countries, and record numbers now live with the virus. Click here to see map of worldwide HIV infection rates The agency, which surveyed 126 countries, estimated 38.6 million people are living with HIV worldwide. ...
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| Israeli body-snatching case fuels religious divide |
Israeli police said on Tuesday they had given up searching for the corpse of a baby girl snatched by ultra-Orthodox Jews who opposed her autopsy on the grounds that it was a desecration of the dead.Authorities said they believed that the tiny corpse had been secretly buried after it was removed from a morgue in the coastal city of Ashkelon on Sunday during a clash between stone-throwing ultra-Orthodox protesters and police. Police wanted an autopsy of the baby, who is believed to have died after her ultra-Orthodox parents gave her herbal remedies to cure an illness rather than prescribed antibiotics, to determine whether the death was due to negligence. ...
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| EU: US access to flight data unlawful |
The EU's highest court today ruled that it was unlawful to order European airlines to hand over information about transatlantic air passengers to the US government.The European court of justice ruling said the US did not provide adequate protection for air passengers' privacy.Under the Passenger Name Records agreement, reached in May 2004, EU airlines have been obliged to give Washington 34 items of information about passengers flying to the US. The details include names, addresses, all forms of payment and contact telephone numbers. The ruling, which gives the European commission and member states four months to find a solution, maintains the legality of the agreement until September 30 "for reasons of legal certainty"....
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| The truth uncovered Grieving parents persuaded the Canadian PM to allow the arrival of coffins from Afghanistan to be filmed |
The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, has backed down from an American-style policy that forbade the media from covering the return of the coffins of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. It didn't seem to bother Mr Harper when his critics in the House of Commons accused him of copying the US president, George Bush, in keeping footage of coffins returning to Canada off the nightly news, or when news organisations assailed him for restricting their access. But grieving parents who criticised the government during their children's funerals appear to have had an impact. Parents like Tim Goddard, whose 26-year-old daughter Captain Nichola Goddard died during heavy fighting with Taliban guerrillas. During a eulogy at her funeral on Thursday, Mr Goddard said he was troubled by the Conservative government's decision not to allow the press to cover the repatriation ceremony marking the return of her coffin to Canada. Ms Goddard was the 16th Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan since 2002 ...
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| SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH IRAN'S PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD "We Are Determined" |
In an interview with SPIEGEL, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discusses the Holocaust, the future of the state of Israel, mistakes made by the United States in Iraq and Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West. SPIEGEL: Mr. President, you are a soccer fan and you like to play soccer. Will you be sitting in the stadium in Nuremberg on June 11, when the Iranian national team plays against Mexico in Germany?Ahmadinejad: It depends. Naturally, I'll be watching the game in any case. I don't know yet whether I'll be at home in front of the television set or somewhere else. My decision depends upon a number of things.SPIEGEL: For example?Ahmadinejad: How much time I have, how the state of various relationships are going, whether I feel like it and a number of other things....
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