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Friday, August 15, 2008 Volume: 6, Issue: 33
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No racial attacks against Obama by McCain: Bobby Jindal |
WASHINGTON: Indian-American Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal has denied that the campaign of Republican presidential nominee John McCain is resorting to racist attacks against Democratic rival Barack Obama. "I see the Republican Party and Senator McCain going after Obama for trying to raise our taxes, for not doing enough to lower energy prices, on tapping the strategic petroleum reserve, on offshore drilling," Jindal said. "I think there are plenty of substantive differences that this campaign will be decided on."
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3 killed, several injured in Mississippi bus crash |
JACKSON (Mississippi): Three people were killed and several injured when a casino bus carrying a group of tourists in northwestern Mississippi overturned on its way to the airport, officials said. The bus belonged to Harrah's Tunica and was carrying 43 people when it flipped over in a median at an intersection in Tunica, Tunica County spokesman Larry Liddell said. Tourists on the bus were traveling to the airport for a flight to South Carolina, where many were from, officials said. The bus was the only vehicle involved in the accident, which was still under investigation, Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. Leslie White said.
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Russia orders halt to military operations in Georgia |
MOSCOW/TBILISI: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military operations in Georgia, after five days of fighting and just before French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to hold peace talks in Moscow. A Kremlin spokesman confirmed Russian news agency reports that Medvedev had issued instructions to the Defence Ministry to "stop the operation to force the Georgian authorities to peace". The news came just before Sarkozy was due to meet Medvedev at the Kremlin to discuss an international peace plan to halt the fighting, which has rattled world oil markets and unnerved the West. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier Moscow could not agree to the plan if it included Georgian troops in a future peacekeeping force because they had attacked Russian colleagues during Tbilisi's push to recapture breakaway South Ossetia. "We can hardly agree with this because it would assume the presence of people described as Georgian peacekeepers," he told a news conference. "They can no longer remain. They brought shame upon themselves as peacekeepers. They committed crimes." In Georgia, Russian warplanes bombed the town of Gori on Tuesday, killing at least five people, a correspondent said. There were isolated skirmishes along the front line but no major offensives by either side overnight. Close US ally Georgia entered a conflict with Russia last week after launching an offensive to retake the pro-Russian region of South Ossetia, which broke away from Georgian rule in 1992. Moscow responded with a huge counter-offensive.
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No power-sharing deal yet, talks to continue: Mugabe |
HARARE: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said that talks with opposition leaders on a power-sharing deal had ended inconclusively, but that they would resume. Asked by reporters after emerging from a marathon session of over 14 hours of negotiations if there had been progress, Mugabe said: "Not yet. We are not through but we will continue tomorrow". Mugabe appeared to be in a jovial mood when he left the talks in a Harare hotel. The talks, mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki, started before noon with Mugabe meeting Movement for Democratic Change opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC breakaway faction leader Arthur Mutambara. Tsvangirai declined to comment when he emerged, saying he expected Mbeki to release a statement on the negotiations.
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HIV drug for mother may affect baby |
MEXICO CITY: India's most common treatment for HIV positive mothers, to ensure the virus isn't transmitted to their unborn child, could actually be putting both of them at risk of developing drug resistance. Results from a largescale study announced at the International AIDS conference here found that the drug Nevirapine — widely used in developing countries including India — persists in the breast milk and blood of mothers increasing the risk that they and their children will develop drug-resistant strains of HIV. At present 12,000 of the 18,000 HIV pregnant mothers in India's national AIDS control programme are being administered Nevirapine. Principal investigator Dr David Katzenstein, a professor of infectious diseases at Stanford, said, "In the short term, Nevirapine is good. But in the long term, I'm concerned about conferring resistance and could jeopardise future treatment for mothers and infants." Nevirapine and another drug Zidovudine (AZT) are the two drugs of choice to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV globally. Worldwide, the drugs have been used as preventive tools in nearly 900,000 women and infants.
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