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168 fall ill in third poisoning in four months
By Times Wires
Published October 28, 2007
AMMAN, Jordan At least 168 people from Sakeb, a town of 20,000 people in northern Jordan, were hospitalized on Saturday for poisoning, which health officials attributed to either bad food or water. It was the third such case in four months. Despite being economically well off due to arrangements that allow the duty-free export of products to the United States, the north suffers from lax health inspection standards, health officials say. LONDON Portrait valued at $3,000 gets $4.5M A museum in the Netherlands said the portrait was not by Rembrandt, and the provincial auction house in Cirencester, England, was only advertising it as a work by one of his followers. But when 15 minutes of bidding on the painting valued at $3,078 ended Friday, it had sold for $4.5-million. The unidentified winning bidder may have concluded that The Young Rembrandt as Democrates the Laughing Philosopher was a self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn, despite expert opinion. NEW DELHI Communist rebels kill 18 at festival About 25 Maoist guerrillas opened fire Saturday at a festival in the remote eastern state of Jharkhand, killing a politician's son and 17 others, police said. The politician was thought to be on the rebel's hit list after leading a crackdown against them, local police chief Arun Kumar Singh said.
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