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Bird flu death is reported
By wire services
Published December 14, 2005
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia confirmed its ninth human death from bird flu Tuesday, and Japan said it will kill 90,000 more chickens after an outbreak at a farm north of Tokyo.
Tests from a laboratory in Hong Kong showed that a 35-year-old Indonesian man who died last month in the capital, Jakarta, had the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, said Hariadi Wibisono, a senior Health Ministry official.
The H5N1 virus has ravaged poultry stocks across Asia since 2003 and has fatally infected at least 70 people, most of them in Vietnam and Thailand.
Judge in Spain charges three Algerians
MADRID - A Spanish judge filed charges against three men suspected of financing and providing logistical support for an Algerian Islamic extremist group with suspected links to al-Qaida, court officials said Tuesday.
The three Algerians, among seven people arrested last week in Spain's Costa del Sol region, were charged with collaborating with an armed group and ordered jailed, the court said.
Prisoner wins bid to change his status
LONDON - An Australian held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay won a court battle Tuesday to be registered as a British citizen - a step he hopes will secure his release.
David Hicks, a former kangaroo skinner and Muslim convert from the city of Adelaide, was caught in Afghanistan in December 2001, allegedly fighting with the Taliban. His mother was born in Britain.
Peru's "miracle baby' greets her public
LIMA, Peru - Giggling and blowing kisses to photographers, Peru's 19-month-old "miracle baby" was presented to the public Tuesday by doctors six months after surgery to separate her fused legs.
Milagros Cerron, whose name means "miracles" in Spanish, was born with a rare congenital defect known as sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome." Dr. Luis Rubio, head of a team of surgeons who operated on in June, said he was pleased with the progress Milagros had made, but cautioned that she still needed 10 to 15 years of rehabilitation and more operations.
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