The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported Tuesday it was concerned by the recent success of parties with anti- immigration platforms in the elections for European parliament. It stated the gains made by such party were raising questions about the 27-nation bloc's policy on protection for asylum seekers.  Read more »

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The US space agency NASA took a giant step toward bringing humans back to the moon Tuesday as a new satellite went into lunar orbit to search for water. The LRO will send back data to help scientists find the best location for a manned landing. The question of whether there is water on the moon, in the form of ice deep inside lunar craters, is key to the mission.

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The emergency services in a north-western German town were placed on high alert after two six-year-olds built a toy atomic reactor complete with radioactivity warning signs, the police said on Tuesday.  Read more »

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Taiwan's May export orders fell by 20 per cent as global financial crisis continued to crimp demand, the Economics Ministry said Tuesday. But the pace of decline in export orders eased during the month, partly fueling hopes of recovery expected by the government in the fourth quarter, the ministry said.  Read more »

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The chief international prosecutor at Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal announced his resignation Tuesday, saying "personal and family reasons" were behind his decision. Robert Petit, a Canadian national, said in a statement that he had notified UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the tribunal's administration that he would quit his post on September 1.  Read more »

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A dissenting militant leader who openly challenged Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was killed Tuesday by an "infiltrator" in north-western Pakistan, his aides and police said. Elsewhere in the region, Pakistani jets and a suspected US missile strike hit Taliban targets, killing at least 13 militants.  Read more »

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A US aid worker was shot dead Tuesday in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, local media reported. Witnesses said two young men tried to kidnap the victim, who resisted the attempt. They then shot him in the face and head. The victim was identified as Christopher Lenget, director of a school located in a low-income neighbourhood.  Read more »

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A reporter for a US newspaper was arrested Tuesday in Tehran amid the ongoing Iranian crackdown on foreign media. The Fars news agency said that the arrested man is a correspondent for the Washington Times newspaper. Further details were not immediately available.

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Bosnia-Herzegovina may lose a crucial standby credit it negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after backtracking on a promise to cut spending, local media reported Tuesday.  Read more »

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A new US study shows that a $20,000 total knee replacement procedure proves cost-effective in older adults, suffering from advanced osteoarthritis, with a knee ravaged by arthritis, a bill paid by the federal Medicare programme.  Read more »

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Merck KGaA's Stimuvax, an experimental cancer vaccine for use against breast cancer, is in its third and last phase of testing required for obtaining regulatory approval.  Read more »

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Probably the result of strong campaigning against smoking and bad cholesterol, according to a study, between 1994 and 2004, there has been a 30% drop in deaths due to heart disease in Canada.  Read more »

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Offering a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U. S., a new Internet data map finds infection rates tend to be highest in the South, with the highest numbers of HIV cases in population centers like New York and California.  Read more »

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A Mayo Clinic report that two prostate cancer patients after being treated with experimental drug, ipilimumab, in combination with hormone treatment and radiation therapy, became cancer free, drug manufacturer Medarex Inc. saw a 22% rise in its shares.  Read more »

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According to the findings of a new study, often patients visiting their primary care physicians for routine blood tests or screenings fail to be informed of the results.  Read more »

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According to a Swedish study, obese women who have bariatric surgery to lose weight, could be lowering their risk of cancer by doing so. Many types of cancer are directly linked to obesity and a high body mass index (BMI), with 14% of cancer deaths in men and 20% in women caused by obesity. This makes obesity the second most preventable cause of cancer, next to smoking.  Read more »

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While, a government analysis of toxic air pollutants finds the average national cancer risk has declined since the last time it was done, a study by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reveals that nationwide, New York, Oregon and California residents are at the highest risk of developing cancer from toxic chemicals breathe-in.  Read more »

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Myanmar court authorities Wednesday postponed the next hearing in the controversial trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who had been scheduled to appear in court Friday.  Read more »

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An Indonesian freighter captain and one crew member drowned when a small boat capsized while ferrying them to shore in Vietnam, local police confirmed Wednesday. Police found the men's bodies 700 metres from the freighter's anchor site, the Thanh Nien newspaper said.  Read more »

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The benchmark Hang Seng index rose 2.2 per cent Wednesday to largely recover losses from a day earlier. The blue-chip index climbed by 353.78 points or 2.02 per cent to end the day at 17,892.15. Turnover was 56.7 billion Hong Kong dollars (7.3 billion US dollars).  Read more »

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Torture and other forms of ill-treatment carried out by Indonesian police remain rampant despite the government's efforts to reform the police force, human rights group Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday.  Read more »

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A US clinic confirmed that Steve Jobs, the head of Apple Inc, has undergone a liver transplant. The Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee said in a statement released Tuesday with the patient's approval, that Jobs was "now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis."  Read more »

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Bulgarian prosecutors requested a 3-day detention for Kosovo's former premier Agim Ceku, arrested on a Serbian Interpol warrant, the interior ministry in Sofia confirmed Wednesday.  Read more »

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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will not attend the G8 meeting in Rome this week which is to deal with the situation in Afghanistan, ISNA news agency reported Wednesday. "I have no plan to go," Mottaki said at the end of a cabinet meeting in Tehran.  Read more »

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Health checks and other preventive measures to combat the H1N1 virus will remain in force for "some time" even though the swine flu virus is emerging as a seasonal disease, the territory's health minister said Wednesday.  Read more »

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School fees, furniture, trips to the theatre and plane tickets for his wife were just some of the items a senior civil servant charged to his corporate credit card, Australia's anti-corruption watchdog heard Wednesday.  Read more »

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Federal agents dismantling a Miami-based Medicare fraud ring reveal, a chain of clinics stretching from South Florida to four other states, scheming to defraud Medicare of $100-million, filed bogus claims for obsolete HIV therapy, with two of the suspects posing as clinic owners having fled to Cuba.  Read more »

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Protein Sciences Corp. that began making a vaccine for protecting against the H1N1 influenza virus last week, has been forced into bankruptcy by creditors, who filed a petition asking it to be liquidated to satisfy their claims.  Read more »

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Matrixx Initiatives Inc. said Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission had asked it to provide documents and information pertaining to the government's warning regarding the safety of its popular Zicam nasal cold and allergy remedies.  Read more »

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According to a closely watched preliminary study, early intervention with cardiac re-synchronization therapy, an implantable device from Boston Scientific Corp., is able to slow the progression of heart failure.  Read more »

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