Archive for May, 2007

Goals and risks questioned in polio eradication fight - International Herald Tribune

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

In both 2000 and 2005, the World Health Organization set deadlines to eradicate polio, the crippling and sometimes fatal virus that caused widespread panic in much of the world more than a half-century ago.

Twice it failed to meet the deadlines.

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China Post - Asia Pacific News,亞洲新聞,太平洋新聞

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

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Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam told a court on Tuesday he never saw intelligence that Indonesia would invade East Timor in 1975 or that Jakarta ordered the killing of five journalists at the time.

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