TURKEY: Efforts to control flu stepped up
ANKARA (Reuters): TURKEY STEPPED up efforts yesterday to halt an outbreak of deadly bird flu as a United Nations body warned that the virus risked becoming firmly established there and posed a serious threat to neighbouring countries.
COLOMBIA: MALES OVER 14 THREATENED - Carry a condom or pay a fine! fupayine!
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters): A WESTERN Colombian town has angered the influential Catholic church with a novel scheme to cut AIDS infections, threatening males over age 14 with fines if they fail to carry a condom.
UKRAINE: President says Parliament destabilising country
KIEV/ASTANA (Reuters): PRESIDENT VIKTOR Yush-chenko accused Ukraine's parliament yesterday of destabilising the country by sacking his Government, a move that sent the local currency tumbling to its lowest in nine months.
UNITED STATES: Democrats say Alito answers inconsistent
WASHINGTON (AP): DEMOCRATS ON the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday they were troubled by inconsistencies in Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's answers on issues ranging from voting rights to ethics to his membership in a conservative...
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