Some 2,000 Egyptian riot police stormed a camp of Sudanese refugees on Friday, sparking clashes that left at least 20 Sudanese dead and more than 100 police and others injured, officials and witnesses said. Witnesses said police beat those in the camp with truncheons after officials had failed to persuade them to board buses to move them from an affluent part of Cairo to another site. The Interior Ministry said the Sudanese died in a stampede at the camp, where 3,500 Sudanese live in squalid conditions. It said 75 police officers were injured. Pools of blood were visible on the pavement as men in the camp fought back with sticks and hurled bottles at the police, who fired water cannon to try to disperse them, witnesses said. ...
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 China confirms new bird flu death |
China has confirmed its latest bird flu fatality following tests carried out on a factory worker, state media reported. Xinhua news agency said the 41-year-old woman from the southern Fujian province had contracted the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus. It raises to seven the number of human bird flu cases in the country, which include three fatalities. China has so far escaped lightly from the virus which has killed more than 70 people throughout Asia since 2003. Results of the tests on the woman, who died on 21 December, were released by the Chinese Health Ministry. No further details about the circumstances surrounding her death were provided. The country is about halfway through the vaccination of its all domestic poultry - some 14 billion chickens and ducks. ...
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| Refinery Shutdown Causes Gas Lines in Iraq |
Long lines formed at gas stations in Baghdad on Friday as word spread that Iraq's largest oil refinery had shut down in the face of threats against truck drivers, and fears grew of a gas shortage. Also in the capital, a suicide car bomber and a mortar killed six people and injured 23 people in separate attacks Friday, police said. The car bomber blew himself up next to a police patrol in a commercial area, killing three Iraqi civilians, and the mortar landed in a market, killing three Iraqi civilians and injuring 21. The market was closed because of the Friday holiday.An international team, meanwhile, agreed on Thursday to assess Iraq's parliamentary elections, a decision lauded by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite groups who have staged repeated protests around Iraq complaining of widespread fraud and intimidation....
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| Pack of Angry Chihuahuas Attack Police Officer After Escaping Their California Home |
A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was escorting a teenager home following a traffic stop, authorities said. The officer suffered minor injuries including bites to his ankle on Thursday when the five Chihuahuas escaped the 17-year-old boy's home and rushed the officer in the doorway, said Fremont detective Bill Veteran. The teenager had been detained after the traffic incident, Veteran said. The officer was treated at a local hospital and returned to work less than two hours later, Veteran said. It was the third time this month a Fremont officer was bitten by a dog while on duty. Neither of the other officers were seriously injured. ...
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| Eyewitness: 'I was standing on bodies' |
Sudanese asylum seeker Napoleon Roberts told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme how Egyptian riot police forcibly moved him, along with some 3,000 others, from the park in Cairo where they have been living in protest for the past three months. We have been kept here, in a military barracks, since this morning. I would say that right now there are about 1,700 of us here. There's no water for drinking and no bathrooms. People are staying still, suffering from their wounds on their bodies. It's very discomforting. We don't know what is happening - no-one from the government has spoken to us, to tell us why we have been moved here. They dragged us from the park where we had been living in protest to here. They sprayed us with water canons and then beat us with sticks. Some people have been killed. ...
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| Chad rebels join to overthrow president Eight groups vow to 'free Chad of the dictatorship of Idriss Deby' |
Chad rebel groups opposed to President Idriss Deby said on Friday they had formed a military alliance to try to overthrow him, increasing pressure on the Chadian leader who accuses Sudan of backing the insurgents.Eight anti-Deby groups, including one formed by Chadian army deserters and another which attacked an eastern border town in Chad this month, agreed in a joint communique to pool manpower and weapons to "free Chad of the dictatorship of Idriss Deby.""Each of our groups had their own forces, men and equipment. Now, we'll be joining them together," Abdullahi Abdel Karim, spokesman for the Rally for Democracy and Liberty (RDL), one of the rebel groups, told Reuters by satellite phone....
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