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Residents are cleaning up the damage caused by a 6.5-magnitude quake that struck Saturday off the coast of Eureka, California.
At the height of quake-related outages, nearly 28,000 customers, most of them in Humboldt County, were without power, said David Eisenhower, spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
As of 11:30 p.m. (2:30 a.m. ET), power had [...]

The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.
Last May, the Inspector General’s office rescinded and repudiated a prior internal investigation’s report on the retired military analyst program, which had been issued by the [...]

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is infected with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, his spokesman told CNN en Espanol on Sunday.

Uribe is in stable condition and under medical supervision at the presidential palace in Bogota, spokesman Cesar Mauricio Velasquez said.

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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is infected with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, his spokesman told CNN en Espanol on Sunday.

Uribe is in stable condition and under medical supervision at the presidential palace in Bogota, spokesman Cesar Mauricio Velasquez said.

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THE Federal Government’s plan to immunise the population against swine flu is in chaos because insurers may not cover doctors who administer the jab.

Inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections means there is too high a risk patients will sue, the insurers say.

Despite weeks of crisis talks, the Government has refused to underwrite [...]

THE Federal Government’s plan to immunise the population against swine flu is in chaos because insurers may not cover doctors who administer the jab.

Inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections means there is too high a risk patients will sue, the insurers say.

Despite weeks of crisis talks, the Government has refused to underwrite [...]

The president of the troubled Russian republic of Ingushetia was wounded in an assassination attempt Monday when a blast hit his convoy.
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov suffered a severe brain concussion, fractured ribs and a ruptured liver, his spokesman said.
The president underwent surgery and his life was not in danger, spokesman Kaloi Akhigov said.
Yevkurov’s motorcade was headed to [...]

The New York Stock Exchange said on Friday it had restored connectivity that halted trades in about 240 companies, including Dow components General Electric, Exxon Mobil Corp, Bank of America and Merck.
Ray Pellecchia, spokesman for NYSE Euronext , the world’s top exchange operator, said the exchange was not planning on canceling trades in the affected [...]

At least 74 schools have closed across the country because of confirmed or probable cases of swine flu and 30 more have closed as a precautionary measure, the Department of Education said Wednesday.
The elementary, junior high and high schools have closed because of the H1N1 virus, Department of Education spokesman Massie Ritsch said.
The closures of [...]

Seven children and seven adults died in a plane crash Sunday in Butte, Montana, according to the FAA.
The single-engine Pilatus PC 12 was headed to Bozeman, Montana, but was rerouted to Butte instead, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus.
The plane crashed 500 feet short of the runway at Bert Mooney Airport.
The National Transportation Safety [...]

Seven children and seven adults died in a plane crash Sunday in Butte, Montana, according to the FAA.
The single-engine Pilatus PC 12 was headed to Bozeman, Montana, but was rerouted to Butte instead, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus.
The plane crashed 500 feet short of the runway at Bert Mooney Airport.
The National Transportation Safety [...]

Source: AFP
Panasonic Corp. has ordered Japanese employees in some foreign countries to send their families home to Japan in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Family members of Japanese employees in parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, former Soviet states and Latin America will fly back to Japan [...]

Source: CNN.com
ranian authorities said Tuesday they arrested four citizens who were paid by the U.S. government to bring about a regime change.
Alireza Jamshidi, a spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, told reporters that the four were trying to recruit others in their plot, but he did not disclose any additional details of what the suspects were conspiring [...]

Source: Bloomberg.com
OAO Gazprom, Russia’s state gas exporter, called for a resumption of talks on a dispute with Ukraine that led to a cutoff of Russian supplies of the fuel today to the country, the second interruption in three years.
Price was not the main issue in negotiations broken off yesterday, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told [...]

Source: Reuters
Repairing the giant particle collider built to simulate the “Big Bang” could cost up to 35 million Swiss francs ($29 million), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday.
Announcing a further delay to the Large Hadron Collider’s resumption, now expected in summer, CERN spokesman James Gillies said repairs will cost 15 million [...]