 A 16-year-old boy in Thailand has died of bird flu, local officials have said. The teenager, from the northern province of Pichit, is the 15th person to die of the virus in the country and the first fatality this year. Officials in Pichit recently confirmed Thailand's first outbreak of the virus among poultry for eight months. Globally, more than 130 people have died of bird flu since late 2003. Most have been in East Asia, but the virus has also spread to Europe and Africa. Millions of birds across the world have died or been culled because of the disease. At the moment, the virus is essentially confined to birds and remains hard for people to catch. ...
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 World's oldest open caves near Sydney: scientists |
A series of limestone caves west of Sydney, best known as a popular family tourist attraction, are in fact the world's oldest open caves, dating back 340 million years, Australian scientists say.The Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney were thought to be only a few thousand years old but actually predate dinosaurs, said Armstrong Osborne, a member of a Sydney University scientific team which recently dated the caves. "We've shown that these caves are hundreds of millions of years older than any reported date for an open cave anywhere in the world," Osborne said in a statement. "No one imagined they would be more than 300 million years old from the Carboniferous period," ...
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| US House to vote on nuclear deal |
The United States House of Representatives is due to vote on a landmark nuclear deal to share civilian nuclear technology with India. The deal offers US nuclear technology to India in exchange for inspectors' access to Indian civilian reactors. The accord has been hailed as historic by some, but critics say it will damage non-proliferation efforts. US Senate and House of Representatives committees have already backed the controversial plan. The BBC's Shahzeb Jillani in Washington says the landmark deal allowing the US to sell civilian nuclear technology to India - for the first time in three decades - is expected to be ratified by the US Congress. ...
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| Bomb hits Kabul taxi, killing 2 Afghans; U.S. soldier killed |
A bomb exploded near a taxi on a busy Kabul road Tuesday, killing two Afghans, and a U.S. soldier and seven militants died in fighting in the east — the latest wave of violence threatening Western attempts to rebuild Afghanistan.Afghan authorities were also investigating the death of a Canadian man who was found in a house in northern Afghanistan. Four men were detained for questioning, officials said.Meanwhile, the U.S.-led coalition announced it had killed more than 600 Taliban rebels in the past six weeks during an operation with Afghan forces to crush insurgents in the south. And the Afghan government launched an urgent appeal for more that $75 million to tackle an "imminent food crisis" caused by prolonged drought, particularly in the north and northwest....
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| Israeli Tanks Move Back Into Northern Gaza; 5 Palestinians Killed in Airstrikes |
About 50 Israeli tanks moved back into northern Gaza early Wednesday and five Palestinians were killed in airstrikes as Israel pressed ahead with its nearly month-long Gaza offensive. Israeli aircraft carried out at least three airstrikes as the troops moved in, killing five people and wounding 15, hospital officials said. Two of the five dead were militants, but the other three were not immediately identified, they said. The Israeli military said forces were operating in northern Gaza as part of a campaign to stop terrorism and rocket barrages at Israel. The military said aircraft targeted three groups of militants who were approaching the troops. Exchanges of fire between the two sides were reported through the night. ...
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| Israel kills seven Palestinians in Gaza - medics |
Israel killed seven Palestinians including a three-year-old girl in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday in two separate attacks.Palestinian medics had earlier said an Israeli tank shell killed the seven, but later said the death toll included an earlier air strike that killed two militants, including one from the ruling Islamist Hamas group.The Israeli army confirmed the air strike, but said the latest attack in the town of Jabalya was an additional air strike, not a tank shell, launched against a group of militants who had fired an anti-tank missile at them.Palestinian witnesses said the army targeted a crowd of Palestinians that had gathered to watch Israeli forces in the area....
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