 Poland and the Czech Republic are now taking the full force of a storm that has swept northern Europe leaving at least 39 people dead. At least six people were reported killed in Poland as winds of more than 200km/h (124mph) were recorded. Germany, the UK, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands were picking themselves up on Friday after the storm passed. Some services were returning to normal, but thousands of travellers were still stranded and homes left without power. Roads, rail lines and electricity pylons were taken out of action by falling trees, collapsing walls and flying wreckage. ...
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 Virginia Hotel Closes After 120 Sick With Norovirus |
The Hilton hotel near Dulles International Airport has been closed for a top-to-bottom scrubbing after more than 100 guests were sickened by the highly contagious norovirus, a hotel spokesman said Friday.A total of 120 people, including 105 guests and 15 employees, have fallen ill, said Jim Cree, the hotel's director of sales and marketing. Outbreaks of norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhea, are common on cruise ships and in places like hotels, prisons and nursing homes....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244943,00.html
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| Merkel, Putin to meet as tensions deepen |
Moscow's increasingly tense energy relations with the European Union will be in focus when German Chancellor Angela Merkel flies to a Black Sea resort on Sunday for a one-day meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin. At the same time, analysts say Merkel's visit to Sochi in southern Russia, her second major foreign visit since taking over the rotating presidency of the European Union this month, will send a message to Putin that she has not given up on Russia. "Chancellor Merkel wants to demonstrate with this visit that Russia still matters for Germany's EU presidency," Alexander Rahr at the German Council on Foreign Relations said. "But energy issues will be discussed in a very tough way." Relations between the 27-nation EU and Russia have worsened over the last year, mostly due to Russia's decision to interrupt delivery of its vast energy resources to neighbors....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/19/german.russia.talks.reut/index.html?eref=rss_world
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Editor - 09:23:00 01-19-07
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| House to provide better protection for pages. Ok they get protected from our Congressmen, but who protects the rest of the citizens from these Congressmen? |
The House voted Friday to overhaul the board that supervises its congressional page program, seeking to close the book on a sordid e-mail and sex scandal that sullied its reputation and became a Campaign 2006 issue. Specifically, lawmakers voted 416-0 to provide that both parties have equal say in overseeing the program, as old as the institution itself. The purpose of the resolution the members approved Friday was to ensure that teen-age pages no longer are vulnerable to the kinds of electronic-message come-ons associated with now-resigned Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. The bipartisan resolution resulted from the failure of the House Page Board's past Republican chairman, Illinois Republican John Shimkus, to notify other board members that Foley had sent questionable e-mails to a former page. Pages are high school students who learn about Congress while running errands and attending a congressionally-run school...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16708584/
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Editor - 09:19:00 01-19-07
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| Ethiopia 'set for Somali pullout' |
Ethiopian forces are to start leaving Somalia "in the next few days", Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has told the BBC. Ethiopia helped Somalia's interim government oust Islamists from the capital but has always said it does not want to stay long. Mr Meles said the first phase of the withdrawal could start now that several key warlords had disarmed. The African Union (AU) is meeting to discuss sending a peacekeeping force to Somalia to replace the Ethiopians. The AU is considering a plan to send nine battalions of troops - some 8,000 men - with maritime, coastal and air support. The plan envisages that three battalions would be deployed as soon as possible, with the rest within six months. The plan warns that if the African peacekeepers are not deployed before the Ethiopian troops withdraw there is "a very high probability" of an Islamist resurgence....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6279091.stm
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Editor - 09:08:00 01-19-07
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| Concern grows over satellite-killing missile test |
Beijing insisted on Friday it was opposed to an arms race in space after Japan and Britain joined a chorus of concern over a satellite-killing missile test by China — the first known experiment of its type in more than 20 years. The United States says China used a ground-based ballistic missile to shoot apart an aging weather satellite on January 11, scattering dangerous debris that could damage other satellites and raising risks of escalating military rivalry in outer space. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman refused to confirm or deny the incident, but said Beijing wanted no arms race in space. "I can't say anything about the reports. I really don't know; I've only seen the foreign reports," Liu Jianchao told Reuters. "What I can say is that, as a matter of principle, China advocates the peaceful use of space and opposes the weaponization of space, and also opposes any form of arms race," he said....
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2807963
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Editor - 09:03:00 01-19-07
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