First lady Laura Bush announced Wednesday that Nigeria will receive $163 million in U.S. assistance to fight AIDS as she heard a young woman at a small AIDS clinic tell how medications helped her avoid death from the disease.Mrs. Bush, standing next to four cartons of anti-retroviral drugs, visited with health workers and AIDS patients at St. Mary’s Hospital on the dusty outskirts of the capital. The four boxes — enough to treat 500 people — is the first U.S.-backed shipment of the drugs St. Mary’s has received through President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.Mrs. Bush sat under shade tree to hear the stories of clinic workers and patients, including Toyin Yomi, 26, whose frail body was clad in a colorful navy dress and shawl. She tested positive for HIV in 1999 and started her first round of drug treatment in 2003....
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 British troops may face suicide bombers in Afghan deployment |
Thousands of British troops will be exposed to fresh dangers, including a growing threat from suicide bombers, when they are deployed in southern Afghanistan over the coming months, Ministry of Defence officials said yesterday. The admissions came in evidence to the Commons defence committee as MPs expressed serious doubts about the deployment, which, they said, could be bedevilled by conflicts over rules of engagement and rows between the US and its European allies over tactics. The MPs were also angry that the MoD failed to give an assurance that detainees captured by British forces in Afghanistan would not end up in Guantánamo Bay or taken to secret interrogation centres. In what is seen as a big test of Nato's credibility, Britain is preparing to take over the leadership of Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force, Isaf. A British general, Sir David Richards, will command the force based in Kabul and about 3,000 British troops will be deployed in Helmand province ...
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| Missile brought down US chopper in Iraq |
A Russian-made surface-to-air missile launched by anti-American insurgents brought down a US military helicopter that crashed in Iraq on Monday, US television reported, citing unnamed Pentagon officials. The ABC News network said the shootdown represented "a troubling new development" because there are hundreds and possibly thousands of SA-7 missiles that remain unaccounted for in Iraq. The AH-64 Apache went down north of Baghdad, killing its two crew members and becoming the third US helicopter to be shot down in 10 days. According to the report, the weapons had been part of Saddam Hussein's arsenal, much of which was looted after the invasion. But until now, insurgents had never successfully used them against an American aircraft. "It could be just a lucky shot," General John Keane, the Army's acting chief of staff. "Or it could be that they have invested in a training program and they now have some qualified operators and that'll be more of a threat than it has been in the past."...
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| US helicopters in Iraq face menace of 'aerial bombs' |
American helicopters in Iraq are facing a new threat from so-called aerial bombs, which are fired into the air from the ground and explode close to passing aircraft.The new home-made weapons, known to the Americans as "aerial improvised explosive devices" have been used on numerous occasions. "The enemy is adaptive. They makes changes in the way they fight, they respond to new flying tactics," Brig Edward Sinclair, a US army aviation commander, told Defense News, which first revealed the new threat.He refused to say whether they had brought aircraft down. The aerial devices are placed along known flight paths and are triggered when insurgents see a low-flying helicopter approaching....
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| World can't afford to lose Iran's oil: US EIA |
A disruption in Iran's crude oil exports because of a dispute over that country's nuclear program would further crimp the already tight global oil market and lead to higher petroleum prices, the head of the U.S. Energy Information Administration warned on Tuesday. "The market is so tightly balanced, clearly, we can't afford to lose a large supply of crude to the market," EIA chief Guy Caruso told Reuters in an interview.Even though the United States does not directly import Iranian crude, Caruso said a cutoff of Iran's oil would affect the U.S. market because other countries that buy Iranian crude would compete with America to find new supplies."It's a fungible world oil market, and any disruption in supply affects everyone, because the price would go up for everyone," he said.U.S. crude oil prices shot above $66 a barrel to a 3-1/2 month high on Tuesday, as the market fretted about the dispute with Iran and problems in Nigeria....
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| Tokyo trade halted as shares dive |
Tokyo's stock exchange closed early for the first time ever on Wednesday, as market bosses moved to prevent a feared shutdown of the trading system. The decision was sparked by heavy selling in shares following allegations of fraud at internet firm Livedoor. The exchange suspended trading in all shares at 1420 local time (0520 GMT), 20 minutes ahead of the usual close. Toyko's Nikkei 225 index closed down 464.77 points, or 2.94%, at 15,341.18 after a frantic day of trading. "The recent spike in orders is extraordinary," said Taizo Nishimuro, the head of the stock exchange. ...
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