 Iraqi police stepped up the search for kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll, even conducting some raids, but reported no new developments Sunday — the deadline set by her captors for the United States to meet their demands to save Carroll's life. The 28-year-old freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor was kidnapped Jan. 7 in Baghdad and last seen in a videotape broadcast Feb. 9 by the private Kuwaiti television station Al-Rai.Station owner Jassem Boudai said then that the kidnappers had set Feb. 26 as the deadline for U.S. and Iraqi authorities to meet their demands or they would kill her. He didn't say whether they specified a time for the deadline Sunday or meant by the end of the day....
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 Bird flu hits second Indian state |
Bird flu has spread to a second western Indian state, health officials say. Tests on poultry confirmed the deadly H5NI strain of the virus in Gujarat, a week after it was first discovered in neighbouring Maharashtra state. Two farms in Surat near the Maharashtra border have been sealed off and thousands of birds are being destroyed. On Friday, Indian health officials said all 95 samples collected from people with flu-like symptoms had tested negative for bird flu. The farms affected in Gujarat are only a few kilometres from Navapur, where bird flu was found in poultry last Saturday. Senior Gujarat state health official DK Rao told the BBC that 38 villages were in the exclusion zone. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4751426.stm
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Editor - 11:26:00 02-26-06
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| Guantanamo tribunals ready as court ruling looms |
Two alleged al Qaeda bomb makers make their first appearances before a U.S. military tribunal at the Guantanamo navy base this week, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide whether the tribunals are legitimate. A Yemeni said to have been a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden is also scheduled to appear in hearings that begin on Wednesday at the remote and controversial U.S. base in southeast Cuba.The trio are among only 10 prisoners charged with crimes at the camp, which holds nearly 500 foreign captives and which UN human rights investigators have urged Washington to shut.Guantanamo has long been a focal point of criticism of the United States, with accusations that the mostly Muslim detainees have been tortured and humiliated -- charges military officers at the base deny....
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Editor - 11:19:00 02-26-06
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| Mobile tracking devices on trial |
Your mobile phone is a beacon - a radio transmitter in a box. Therefore it is possible to trace the signal and work out where it is. There are now several web companies which will track your friends' and family's phones for you, so you always know where they are. But just how safe is it to make location details available online? There are several reasons why you may want to track someone. You may be a company wanting to keep tabs on employees during work hours, or a parent wanting to check up on a child's whereabouts. These sorts of tracking services, now available in the UK, get information from the network about which cell your phone is currently in, and, for a small fee, display the location on an online map. As well as checking where a certain phone is right now, you can run scheduled lookups, or snail trails, to record the phone's movements throughout the day, and produce a report for you to peruse at your leisure. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4747142.stm
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Editor - 11:14:00 02-26-06
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| Switzerland Finds First Case of Bird Flu, in Geneva |
Switzerland identified its first case of bird flu, in a wild duck in Geneva, with tests ongoing to clarify if it's the lethal H5N1 strain that can kill humans. ``It is bird flu,'' said Cathy Maret, spokeswoman for the Federal Veterinary Office in Bern. ``It is an H5 virus and we're still confirming that it's N1. That will become clear in coming days,'' she said in a telephone interview. Lethal bird flu reached the European Union this month with cases in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovenia. Over half the people known to have H5N1 since late 2003 have died, World Health Organization data shows. Switzerland stepped up surveillance of birds after France two days ago discovered bird flu at a turkey farm about one hour's drive from Geneva. ...
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Editor - 11:10:00 02-26-06
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| Fears over a 'new Saddam' as Iraq battles to avert civil war |
HUNKERED down in the heavily guarded green zone of central Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, the American ambassador, was already at his desk in the early morning when news came through that one of Iraq’s holiest Shi’ite shrines had been bombed. It was not only the golden-domed mosque in Samarra that lay in ruins. His strategy of building a broad-based government of national unity in Iraq was suddenly threatened by the prospect of civil war. Since the bombing last Wednesday up to 200 Iraqis have lost their lives in an outpouring of sectarian revenge. The ambassador has barely slept. “It’s been a marathon of intensive meetings with every leader of every group, literally since the moment it happened,” an American official said. ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2058790,00.html
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