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SARS claims 4 more
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Pulitzer for sex abuse
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SARS claims 4 more lives Singapore, April 8 Meanwhile, a staff nurse at Changi General Hospital has been identified as a suspected SARS case, Channel News Asia said. The hospital is now contacting patients who had been admitted to Ward 28 of Changi General Hospital as they could have come into contact with the nurse there. BEIJING: Hong Kong, the worst affected city in China by the mystery flu-like killer disease has shown no signs of waning with two more deaths and 45 new cases reported during the past 24 hours. “An additional 45 patients with symptoms of atypical pneumonia were admitted to public hospitals,” the Health Department of Hong Kong said in a press note. Hong Kong’s over-stretched hospitals had 790 cases of SARS out of which 116 patients are receiving treatment in the intensive care unit. Two male patients died in hospitals on Monday night, bringing to 25 the total number of deaths related to SARS since March 12. The two patients, aged 81 and 74, died in Prince of Wales Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital respectively. GUANGZHOU: A top health official in China’s Guangdong province said on Tuesday that the mysterious SARS virus could be stopped and treated, citing data from his province. The average daily new cases reported in Guangdong have dropped from 17.43 in the first week of March to 7.57 cases in the first week of April, said Huang Qingdao, director of Guangdong’s Health Department. “New cases are steadily decreasing ... Our measures are effective in preventing its spread and a majority of the patients can be treated,” he said at a press conference for foreign journalists, the first since the disease surfaced in Guangdong in November. NEW YORK: The answer to the SARS virus sweeping the world may be a simple necktie, according to a college professor in Cleveland, Ohio. John Haaga designed the 40-dollar tie and similar scarves for women with silk on the outside and a special filter inside for use in a medical scare or terror attack. Haaga, Professor of Radiology at University Hospitals of Cleveland, said he got the idea when he saw images on television of a man covering his face with a tie after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Sales of the ties and scarves have risen to about 50 a day on the manufacturer’s website (http://www.fbsclothing.com/) because of the outbreak of SARS.
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Pentagon sends in successor to Saddam London, April 8 Chalabi, a Shiite exile, was said to be at the head of a 600-strong force called the Free Iraqi Fighters under the command of Gen Tommy Franks, US Commander in the Persian Gulf. KUWAIT: The British army said on Tuesday it had appointed a tribal chief to provide civilian leadership of Iraq’s southern Basra province now that forces loyal to President Saddam Hussein had been ousted by UK troops. Army spokesman Col Chris Vernon said at a news conference in neighbouring Kuwait that Britain wanted to hand authority on law and order to whatever remained of the police once UK troops completely stabilised the security situation in and around Basra city.
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Protest follows Bush to Belfast Belfast, April 8 Banging drums, waving banners and chanting anti-Bush slogans, the protesters — who came from both sides of the Irish border — marched towards the village of Hillsborough where the summit will be held. A massive security operation around Hillsborough kept the protesters on the outskirts of the village. Many of the demonstrators staged a sit-down protest in front of a line of police in riot gear. The Dublin-based Irish Anti-War Movement has joined forces with the Northern Irish Stop the War Coalition for the protests. SYDNEY: Peace activists today held up an Australian navy frigate that was leaving Sydney to join coalition forces in the Gulf. Two Greenpeace protesters attached themselves to the bow and stern of HMAS Sydney while others in inflatable boats cast a mooring rope across the path of the guided missile frigate. The action brought the ship to an immediate halt, but within 15 minutes the Sydney Water Police arrested 13 people. Prime Minister John Howard urged the police to press charges against the protesters he described as “clowns”.
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Pulitzer for sex abuse
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New York, April 8 The Pulitzer for international reporting went to the Washington Post’s Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, a married couple who wrote about Mexico’s criminal justice system. The newspaper’s Colbert King won the prize for commentary. Los Angeles Times reporters Alan Miller and Kevin Sack won the prize for national reporting for exposing an aircraft industry that caused the deaths of 45 pilots. The newspaper also won the prize for feature writing, which went to Sonia Nazario, who traced the journey of a boy searching for his mother. A feature photographer for the LA Times, Don Barletti, won a prize for his documentary pictures of undocumented youths who travelled from Central America to the USA. Clifford Levy of The New York Times won the prize for investigative reporting on the mentally ill in New York state-run programmes. The Wall Street Journal won for explanatory reporting on corporate scandals in the USA. The prize for biography went to Robert Caro for “Master of the Senate,” which was his third book on former President Lyndon Johnson. The book last year won the National Book Award. In the drama category, Yale University Professor Nilo Cruz won for “Anna in the Tropics.” The story was set in Florida in the 1930s in a family of cigar-makers during the Depression era. The prize for fiction went to Jeffrey Eugenides who wrote “Middlesex”, describing an American living in Berlin with his wife and daughter. The general non-fiction prize went to Samantha Power, author of “A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide.” The prize for music was given to John Adams, who composed “On the transgression of souls’’ to pay tribute to victims and heroes of the September 11 attacks.
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India to attend Lanka peace meet Washington, April 8 “Representatives of the governments of Germany, India, Japan, Norway and the UK have already confirmed their participation” in the meeting to be held in Washington on April 14, the Sri Lankan Embassy said in a statement here today.
PTI
Fresh US operation against Taliban Kandahar, April 8 Dad Mohammad Khan told Reuters nearly two dozen helicopter gunships and about 70 military and non-military vehicles were involved in the operation which began after dawn in Sangin district, north of Lashkar Gah, provincial capital of Helmand. Khan said US forces launched the operation after receiving information that Mullah Dadullah, a top military leader of the ousted Taliban, was hiding in Sangin near where two US military personnel were killed and two others wounded when the convoy they were travelling in was ambushed at the end of last month. Khan said Dadullah was not in Sangin, but the brother of Mullah Akhtar Usmani, who served as a key Taliban commander in neighbouring Kandahar province, was hiding in the rugged area.
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Hong Kong health officials
say cockroaches may have carried the deadly flu-like virus through a
Hong Kong block. (
