Non-Aligned Movement meeting ends in Cuba
Havana, Apr 30 (Prensa Latina) The ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Coordination Bureau is to conclude Thursday in this capital with the approval of a Final Declaration.
As swine flu hits Europe, officials set to 'halt spread'
European Union officials say that a Europe-wide travel advisory for Mexico and unified prevention and treatment measures for swine flu will top the agenda at an emergency meeting of EU health ministers on Thursday.
Politics of pandemic: Budget cuts and hog farms linked to swine flu outbreak
WASHINGTON—As President Barack Obama received praise here for his quick response in declaring an “emergency” in the deadly swine flu outbreak, the politics of the pandemic began to emerge.
Man 'eats finger in wages protest'
A union official in Serbia has cut off his own finger and eaten it as part of an ongoing protest against unpaid wages Zoran Bulatovic, who leads the union at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar, told Reuters that he used a hacksaw to chop off most of the little finger on his left hand last Friday.
Swine flus ground zero may be down wind from hog farm
LA GLORIA, Mexico — Residents in this community of 3,000 believe their town is ground zero for the swine flu epidemic, even if health officials aren't saying so.
China's earliest carving discovered in Henan
Reporters learned from Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that a miniature bird carving that had been carved from a deer antler about 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. Other carvings and semi-finished artworks were also discovered in the 'Xuchangren' ruins in Lingjing Town, Henan Province, in March this year. The bird carving is the earliest one-piece solid carving that has been discovered in China. It embodies a more exquisite craftsmanship compared to other solid sculpture works unearthed in ruins of the late Paleolithic Period in Western countries.
SW China's Sichuan says 12 of 623 quake orphans adopted
Only 12 of Sichuan's 623 quake orphans have been legally adopted, with the others in the care of welfare homes, an official of the southwest Chinese province's government said Tuesday.
Haiti Senate election founders, U.S. meddles
They called an election in Haiti and almost nobody came. Turnout April 19 to vote for 12 open Senate seats was variously estimated at 3 to 10 percent. U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson was not discouraged: “Off-year elections in the United States as well as in other countries tend not be as well-attended as presidential elections.”
Death Row story of resilience, faith, hope, Miren Gutierrez interviews Luis R Albert, filmmaker
ROME, Apr 28 (IPS) - Puerto Rican Juan Melendez spent more than 17 years on death row in a Florida prison for a 1983 murder to which another man had repeatedly confessed - evidence prosecutors withheld. He was only released in 2002. Now a documentary by Luis Rosario Albert tells Melendez's story, the multifaceted circumstances that surrounded it and the human rights struggle in Puerto Rico that followed.
China's Health Ministry issues notice on swine flu prevention
In light of an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, China's Ministry of Health issued a notice Sunday about disease prevention and detection, warning citizens to be careful.
