Novartis begins shipment of swine flu vaccine to US
Geneva - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Tuesday it has started shipping vaccines against the A(H1N1) virus, better known as swine flu, to the United States. The company began sending doses last week from a production seed strain provided by the World ...
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Pelosi: No quick end to US travel ban to Cuba
Washington - Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, said Thursday she expected no quick action on ending the United States' decades-long travel ban with Cuba. House Speaker Pelosi said it was one of a long list of legislat...
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Kim Jong Il wants US meeting before nuclear talks
Beijing - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has said his nation is willing to resume talks on ending its nuclear programme only after bilateral talks with the United States, China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic...
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US Fed survey notes uneasy economic recovery
Washington - The United States is recovering slowly from a deep recession and many sectors of the economy have yet to show clear signs of improvement, according to a regional survey by the Federal Reserve Wednesday. Most parts of the country said the...
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Clinton: No normal ties with nuclear armed North Korea
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday that the United States will never establish normalized relations with North Korea as long as the Stalinist state has nuclear weapons. Current sanctions will not be relaxed unt...
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Bangladesh appoints first envoy to Iraq in six years
Dhaka - The Bangladeshi government on Wednesday named its first ambassador to Iraq since the United States invaded the country in 2003. Career diplomat Muhammad Kamaluddin is to take up his position at Bangladesh's embassy in Baghdad, which closed in...
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US announces reforms of immigration detention centres
Washington - The United States announced new measures Tuesday in its detention policies for immigrants that would involve converting hotels and other residential facilities into secure housing. The initiative is aimed at saving money while ensuring t...
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US prepared to move with sanctions on Iran
Washington - The United States is preparing to push forward with international sanctions if negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme fail, US officials said Tuesday. Deputy Secretary of States James Steinberg told a Senate committee that the...
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Massachusetts man arrested on terrorism charges - Summary
Washington - A US citizen has been arrested on terrorism charges that include a plot to attack shopping centres in the United States, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, was arrested Wednesday morning ...
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Aid agency calls for more funding to tackle tuberculosis
Stockholm - Main European countries were Wednesday said to be lagging far behind the United States in funding efforts to develop new tests and treatment of tuberculosis. The disease is estimated to claim 1.7 million lives each year, the medical hum...
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US inflation rate 0.2 per cent in September - Summary
Washington - US consumer prices edged up for a second straight month amid indications that the United States has pulled out of recession, the US Labour Department reported Thursday. The inflation rate was 0.2 per cent on the month, after a 0.4-per- c...
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Russia praises arms reduction talks with US
Moscow - Russia praised Thursday the constructive atmosphere in nuclear disarmament talks with the United States. The progress achieved meant there could be a successor agreement in place when the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expires on ...
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US Senate panel set for critical vote on health reform
Washington - A key Senate committee was to vote Tuesday on legislation that would dramatically overhaul health care coverage in the United States, paving the way for the entire Senate to begin considering the reform plans. The Senate Finance Committe...
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US demands immediate release of Iranian-American scholar
Washington - The United States Tuesday called for the immediate release of an Iranian-American citizen who was sentenced to a 12-year prison term in Iran, declaring the charges against him are groundless. Given the groundless nature of charges agai...
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EXTRA: Iran nuclear talks to continue Wednesday
Vienna - Iran's talks with Russia, France and the United States on enriching nuclear fuel abroad are set to continue for another day in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced Tuesday. Formal negotiations were held up until th...
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Adecco to acquire US rival for 1.3bn dollars
Geneva - Swiss staffing company Adecco announced Tuesday it plans to buy the rival MPS Group in order to expand its presence in the United States, Canada and Britain. If stockholders agree, the purchase would be for 13.80 dollars per share, a 24 perc...
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United States set to exit recession
Washington - All signs point to the United States exiting its worst recession in decades as the government prepared to report growth figures for the third quarter on Thursday. Economists are predicting an annualized growth rate of 3.2 per cent over t...
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