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Russia’s foreign minister called Saturday for an end to a decade of failure in global disarmament talks, seeking to build on an upbeat meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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At the U.N. agency spearheading the fight against swine flu, key decisions are based on more than just health issues _ politics plays a big role, too.
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Bern’s Bear Pit, for centuries a tourist attraction and a symbol of the city, has lost its last resident to euthanasia and will be closed for good.
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World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan has earned a reputation for ruthlessness when it comes to battling viruses.
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The World Health Organization says it will would stop using the term “swine flu” to avoid confusion over the danger posed by pigs.
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The World Health Organization has increased its tally of confirmed swine flu cases around the world to 236 from 148.
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The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level, meaning that it believes a global outbreak of the disease is...
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The World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak is moving closer to becoming a pandemic.
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The World Health Organization is calling a third emergency meeting of its flu experts in response to a spike in swine flu cases.
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The World Health Organization was holding an emergency “scientific review” Wednesday of the swine flu outbreak to determine exactly what is known about how...
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Cuba suspended flights to and from Mexico on Tuesday, becoming the first country to impose a travel ban, as the fast-moving swine flu strain extended its reach overseas...
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The World Health Organization says it suspects U.S. swine flu patients may have transmitted the virus to others in the United States.
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The World Health Organization says there are now 40 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States and that it “very concerned” about the disease’s...
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Canada became the third country to confirm human cases of swine flu Sunday as global health officials considered whether to raise the global pandemic alert level.
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The World Health Organization warned countries around the world Saturday to be on alert for any unusual flu outbreaks after a unique new swine flu virus was implicated...
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The World Health Organization has declared the swine flu outbreak in North America a “public health emergency of international concern.”
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A swine flu outbreak that appears to have caused fatalities in humans in Mexico and nonfatal cases in the United States prompted the World Health Organization this...
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The World Health Organization warned countries around the world on Saturday to be on alert for any unusual flu outbreaks after a unique new swine flu virus implicated...
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The head of the World Health Organization says the swine flu outbreak in Mexico and the United States could develop into a pandemic.
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The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting of experts Saturday to consider declaring an international public health emergency over the swine flu...
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The head of the World Health Organization arrived in Geneva on Saturday to oversee the agency’s handling of the swine flu outbreak that is believed to have killed...
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President Barack Obama’s pledge to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons won praise Monday from China and key developing countries, and spurred hope...
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Russia’s foreign minister, fresh from an upbeat meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said Saturday the time has come to end a decade of...
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France’s president has presented an ambitious European plan to the United Nations to revive global nuclear disarmament efforts.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the nuclear powers to start negotiations on eliminating atomic weapons and begin talks to assure non-nuclear nations that...
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China and Russia challenged the United States at a disarmament debate Tuesday by formally presenting a plan to ban weapons in space _ a proposal that Washington has...
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Hundreds of government soldiers withdrew Saturday from a vast buffer zone dividing Ivory Coast, the first stage of a long-delayed nationwide disarmament program.Rebels...
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The circus called 6-nation talks on Nuclear Disarmament of N Korea continues to do the trapeze act. The latest session of six-way talks on North Korea’s nuclear...
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