 Preliminary tests have found that bird flu killed two more siblings in Indonesia, officials said Friday, as the country grapples with a separate outbreak involving the largest family cluster ever reported. Local tests found that a brother and sister from West Java who died earlier this week were infected by the H5N1 virus, said Nyoman Kandun, head of the Health Ministry's office of communicable disease control. The tests will be sent to a World Health Organization laboratory for further confirmation. WHO officials so far have confirmed 33 human deaths from bird flu in Indonesia, out of 124 worldwide. The latest victims, an 18-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister, died Tuesday in the state-run Hasan Sidikin hospital in Bandung, the capital city of West Java, said Achmad, an official at the ministry's special task force post for bird flu, who uses only one name. They died within hours of each other less than a day after arriving at the hospital, he said. ...
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 Lebanon Bomb Kills Islamic Jihad Leader; Group Blames Israel |
A leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in Lebanon died from wounds sustained in a bombing today in the southern port city of Sidon that also killed his brother, the group's head said. Mahmoud al-Majzub and his brother Nidal died when a parked car exploded as they passed by it, Abu Imad Rifai, head of Islamic Jihad in Lebanon, said in a telephone interview. This was the second attempt at killing al-Majzub, he said. Abu-Majzub died one hour after arriving at a hospital from bleeding and shrapnel wounds in the abdomen and other frontal body parts, the surgeon who operated on him in Sidon's Hammoud hospital said in a telephone interview. Nidal was dead on arrival, said the surgeon, who asked not to be identified. Rifai of Islamic Jihad, which opposes peace with Israel, blamed the Jewish state for the attack. The U.S. says Islamic Jihad is a terrorist organization. ...
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| Boston cardinal launches abuse repentance |
On the altar of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Cardinal Sean O'Malley prostrated himself alongside two dozen bishops and priests, praying that God would forgive the damage done by the Roman Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal.The start of the multiday pilgrimage Thursday through nine parishes in the Boston Archdiocese was supposed to be about hope and repentance, and apologizing to the victims in the abuse scandal.But as news spread that Dr. Robert Haddad, president and CEO of the archdiocese's health care system, resigned early Thursday amid allegations he harassed more than a dozen female employees with unwanted hugs and kisses, some questioned if church leaders are still responding too slowly, too secretly, to abuse claims."There are extraordinary and painful parallels," said David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests....
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| Pope hails mentor at Warsaw Mass |
Pope Benedict XVI has celebrated open Mass in the centre of Warsaw, with more than 200,000 people in attendance. The pontiff arrived in Pilsudski Square in driving rain, to the cheers of sodden but resolute crowds waving the flags of Poland and the Vatican. In his sermon the German-born Pope paid tribute to his Polish mentor, John Paul II and the fruits of his papacy. On Sunday he will visit the Auschwitz death camp to pray for reconciliation between nations and faiths. Despite Friday's wet weather, police estimated that 220,000 people were crammed into the square, with tens of thousands more in side streets and parks. Many had slept in the square overnight, to be sure of obtaining a good position. Church bells pealed as the Pope, accompanied by 120 priests and bishops who celebrated the mass with him, ascended a metal, three-tiered platform for the ceremony. ...
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| In War, Americans Have Troops In Mind. Memorial Day During Prolonged Conflict Links Civilians, Soldiers |
Americans will still fire up their barbecues, watch parades, and go camping this weekend. But for the first time in a generation, Memorial Days are coming during prolonged armed conflict. That has strengthened ties between civilians and soldiers, bringing a marked change in the way people will observe the holiday this year. Politicians of all persuasions are pushing for better veterans' services, including healthcare for the living and survivors' benefits for those who've lost loved ones. Many states are now providing free tuition at public colleges and universities for the children of those killed in war zones. Since terrorists attacked the United States in 2001, communities around the country have begun to bring back traditional Memorial Day ceremonies, many of them featuring Iraq war vets. We love the Soldiers during war, in peace time most treat them much different. ...
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| Group Disputes Toll in U.S. Afghan Strike Group says 34 civilians died, not 16, in U.S. airstrike; 10 militants killed in new violence |
An Afghan human rights group said Friday that an estimated 34 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike on a southern village this week far higher than the official toll.Meanwhile, suspected Taliban rebels ambushed a police patrol in central Afghanistan, and an ensuing gunbattle left 10 militants and a policeman dead. The officer was killed in the initial ambush, while the 10 militants were killed in a police counterattack, said provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang.Abdul Qadar Noorzai, the director of the Kandahar office of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said Afghans who had fled their small village of Azizi told him that about 25 family members were killed in 1 mud-brick home and that 9 were killed in the village's religious school, or madrassa, during the U.S. airstrike late Sunday and early Monday. About 11 civilians were wounded in total, he said, and villagers reported burying about 35 "unknown people" meaning militants from outside their area...
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