A lesbian couple filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Tuesday claiming cancer treatments damaged their sexual relationship. Their attorneys say it is the first lawsuit of its kind under Connecticut's civil unions law. Margaret Mueller and Charlotte Stacey are suing two doctors, accusing them of treating Mueller for ovarian cancer when she actually had cancer of the appendix. They contend Mueller underwent years of devastating chemotherapy treatments while the real cancer spread."I think it's any patient's worst fear that everything they're doing to treat themselves is for naught," said Joshua Koskoff, an attorney for the couple....
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 South Korea rains leave 50 dead, missing |
Monsoon rains that pounded South Korea for a fifth straight day Tuesday have left 19 people dead and 31 missing, the country's disaster agency announced in the latest death toll.Most victims came from the eastern mountainous province of Gangwon where 17 were killed in landslides or flash floods, said the National Emergency Management Agency.More than 22 inches of rain have fallen there since Friday.The agency warned there could be more flood victims with casualty reports still coming. Relief continued as more than 3,700 people remained homeless as of early Tuesday, it added.Heavy rain was expected to last another few days.The downpour has flooded homes, swept away roads and inundated farmland and villages. Tens of thousands of residents were also left without power....
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Editor - 11:09:00 07-18-06
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| Lebanon fighting 'could last weeks' |
An Israeli general warned today that an invasion of Lebanon remained a possibility as the army mobilised reserves to reinforce its northern border.Moshe Kaplinsky, the deputy chief of staff, said he expected fighting in Lebanon to continue for a few weeks until Israel had achieved "very clear goals".The death toll among Lebanese civilians and soldiers continued to rise. Agencies in Beirut reported that Israeli airstrikes had killed 13 civilians and 11 soldiers of the Lebanese army who are not in conflict with Israel. The dead included a family of nine in Aitaroun whose home was hit by an Israeli missile. Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 200 civilians in Lebanon.Several governments are attempting to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon using aircraft and ships. Around 10,000 British residents have been warned that they could be evacuated at any moment by HMS Illustrious and HMS Bulwark, which are approaching Beirut....
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| Gunmen kill 50 in attack on market south of Baghdad; car bombing in Kufa kills 26 |
Gunmen sprayed grenades and automatic weapons fire in a market south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 50 people, mostly Shiites. The sectarian attack drew an angry protest from lawmakers who accused Iraqi forces of standing idly by during the rampage.Women and children were among the dead and wounded in the assault in Mahmoudiya, hospital officials said. Late Monday, police said they found 12 bodies in different parts of town _ possible victims of reprisal killings.On Tuesday, a car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in southern Iraq, killing 26 people and injuring 25 others, police and witnesses said.The bomb went off at 7:30 a.m. across the street from the gold-domed Kufa mosque, police Capt. Nafie Mohammed said.Kufa, a twin city of Najaf, is about 100 miles south of Baghdad....
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| U.S. Warship in S.Korea Amid Missile Issue |
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise arrived in South Korea Tuesday for a routine port call, officials said, amid heightened tensions in the region over North Korea's missile launches. The Carrier Strike Group 12 led by the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier arrived at the southern port of Busan, the U.S. Navy in South Korea said in a statement. The vessel's visit "has been previously scheduled and it is not in response to any specific event," the statement said. The communist North fired seven missiles earlier this month, including one believed capable of reaching the U.S. ...
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| Yuan Falls as China's Government Rules Out Currency Revaluation |
The yuan fell for a third day after China said it wouldn't revalue its currency and that investors betting on faster gains would ``not succeed.'' The comments doused speculation China would reset the yuan's value this week, the one-year anniversary of a decision to abandon a link to the dollar. There will be no ``surprises,'' said Zheng Jingping, spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics. ``You won't make money by being long the yuan,'' said Adrian Foster, director of foreign-exchange sales at Dresdner Kleinwort in Singapore. ``What we've seen over the last 12 months is consistent.'' A long position is one that bets on a currency rising. The yuan declined 0.07 percent to 8.0025 per dollar as of 2 p.m. in Shanghai. The central bank lets the yuan move by up to 0.3 percent against the dollar either side of a reference rate it announces every day. The currency is weaker than what forward contracts showed a year ago as China resisted calls from the U.S. for ...
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