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WHO says swine flu pandemic is imminent (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:35 PM PDT AP - Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared to stabilize at its epicenter. A toddler who succumbed in Texas became the first death outside Mexico.

World takes drastic steps to contain swine flu (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT AP - From Egypt's order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic — and some say debatable — measures to combat swine flu.

Swine flu an epidemic of losses for Mexico economy (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:44 PM PDT AP - The music of James Brown plays to an empty Starbucks. A woman has virtually an entire airliner to herself as she flies into Mexico City. Beach chairs go begging on Cancun's sugary sand.

Car bombs kill at least 41 in Baghdad Shiite area (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 01:13 PM PDT AP - Twin car bombs ravaged a popular shopping area in Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Wednesday, killing at least 41 people in another powerful strike by suspected Sunni insurgents seeking a return to sectarian chaos.

Huge ice chunks break away from Antarctic shelf (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:06 PM PDT AP - Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice — an area larger than Rhode Island — was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks.

French lawmakers reconsider Internet piracy bill (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:18 PM PDT AP - French legislators reconsidered a bill Wednesday that would punish people who illegally download music and films by cutting off their Internet connections.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,278 (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:13 PM PDT AP - As of Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at least 4,278 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Rights group: Mexico fails to punish army abuse (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:43 PM PDT AP - Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that the Mexican army is failing to hold soldiers to account for possible human rights abuses including killings, torture and rape.

Canadian woman kidnapped still being held (AP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:47 PM PDT AP - Security forces in Nigeria arrested a man for taking a Canadian woman hostage this month, but other kidnappers were still believed to be holding her, police said Wednesday.

Bomb kills 9 in Turkey, police detain 2 suicide bombers (Reuters) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:29 PM PDT Reuters - Nine soldiers were killed in southeast Turkey in the worst attack in months and police detained two suspected suicide bombers in the capital on Wednesday in an escalation of tensions.

Australia intercepts two new refugee boats: govt (AFP) Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:51 AM PDT AFP - Two boats carrying almost 80 people were intercepted Wednesday off Australia's northern coast as the conservative political opposition called for an independent inquiry into refugee policy.

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