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South Korea says it will double its stockpile of the antiviral drug Tamiflu as bird flu spreads among poultry across the country.
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China’s two stock exchanges suspended trading Tuesday in 66 companies based in the region hit by a major earthquake in an effort to minimize potential disruptions...
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AP, Chengdu
Chinese state media is reporting that another 1,000 students and teachers are dead or missing after a massive earthquake crushed a high school.
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AP, Chengdu
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants climbed to nearly 10,000 in the worst-hit province Tuesday, while untold...
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AP, Chengdu
A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of...
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AP, Yangon
A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but the U.N. chief criticized...
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AP, Chongqing
Chinese state media says more than 8,500 have died in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake.
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AP, Chongqing
Chinese state media says more than 7,600 people have died in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake.
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AP, Tokyo
Home electronics suppliers Victor Co. of Japan and Kenwood Corp. said Monday they have agreed to combine operations under a holding company that will focus on car and...
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AP, Beijing
Five more children have died of hand, foot and mouth disease in China, bringing the death toll to 39 since late March, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
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AP, Yangon
Myanmar’s state television says the death toll in this month’s cyclone has gone up to 31,938.
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AP, Chongqing
Chinese state media say 3,000 to 5,000 people have died in one county in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake.
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AP, Islamabad
Ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that his party is withdrawing from Pakistan’s federal Cabinet but will not join the parliamentary opposition.
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AP, Beijing
A powerful earthquake trapped nearly 900 students in central China on Monday after their school collapsed and at least 107 people were killed across several provinces,...
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AP, Beijing
China’s inflation rebounded in April to near decade-high levels, according to data released Monday, increasing pressure on Beijing to cool rapidly ascending...
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AP, Beijing
State media report a strong earthquake that buried 900 students in central China has killed at least 107 people.
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AP, Tokyo
Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu on Monday reported nearly a 40 percent plunge in profit for the January-March quarter, largely on costs to restructure its computer...
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AP, Kabul
Two armored Humvees were missing from a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, a military spokesman said Monday.
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AP, Shanghai
A blood thinner manufactured in China and linked to dozens of deaths in the United States is now safe because of tighter testing and controls, a top American health...
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AP, Beijing
A strong earthquake that struck China on Monday has buried nearly 900 students in Sichuan province, state media reported.
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State media report that a powerful earthquake has buried nearly 900 students in China’s Sichuan province.
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AP, Seoul
South Korean officials said Monday they have killed all poultry in Seoul, the capital, to curb the spread of bird flu following a new outbreak of the disease in the...
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AP, Atlanta
Flu vaccine manufacturers expect to make a record number of doses for next flu season despite concerns that demand may drop because this year’s vaccine was...
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The fans of Avril Lavigne would be very disappointed to know the cancellation of her the tour scheduled in San Diego and Phoenix. The Canadian pop singer is suffering...
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AP, Bali
Indonesia launched a major bird flu drill Friday that will test the ability of the nation hardest hit by the virus to respond to a possible pandemic. Thousands were...
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AP, Jakarta
Indonesia does not want money for its samples of a deadly bird flu virus, a health official said Wednesday after the U.S. criticized his country for refusing to share...
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AP, Atlanta
This year’s flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn’t work well against the viruses that made most people...
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AP, Atlanta
This year’s flu season has shaped up to be the worst in three years, partly because the vaccine didn’t work well against the viruses that made most people...
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AP, Washington
Scientists have pinpointed the cradle-to-grave path that flu takes as it sweeps the globe every year _ starting with the birth of new strains in Asia and ending when...
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AP, Washington
Asia is the world’s cradle for new flu strains. South America is where each year’s epidemic goes to die.
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AP, Seoul
South Korea dispatched 200 soldiers to chicken farms Wednesday to slaughter poultry infected with bird flu, as the government confirmed another outbreak of the...
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AP, Hanoi
The world is less safe because Indonesia is withholding samples of the bird flu virus from the international community, the top U.S. health official said Wednesday,...
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AP, Seoul
South Korea’s government confirmed a fourth outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus in the country’s southwest Sunday, as the tally of birds slaughtered to...
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AP, London
Chinese health officials have confirmed that a father caught bird flu from his son last December, according to a report released Tuesday.
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AP, Seoul
Quarantine workers have destroyed more than 100,000 chickens in South Korea following the first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in the country in more than a...
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AP, Tawfiqiya
Chickens used to roam every dusty street in every village across Egypt, and many of its city alleys too.
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AP, Washington
Intensive rice farming and large duck populations _ not the number of chickens raised _ may be the best predictors of where bird flu might develop in Southeast Asia,...
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AP, Jakarta
Efforts to contain bird flu are failing in Indonesia, increasing the possibility that the virus may mutate into a deadlier form, the leading U.N. veterinary health body...
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AP, Hong Kong
Chinese officials have confirmed that bird flu was to blame for killing chickens in poultry markets in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, Hong Kong’s health...
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AP, Hong Kong
Hong Kong ordered more than half a million primary and kindergarten students Wednesday to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak in one of the world’s...
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