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US military called in to fight swine flu

By Clare Swinney ⋅ April 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
Tag Tags: , ,     Posted in: Health, News

The US military is ordered to place the contagion of swine flu under close observation with the disease having reportedly afflicted 40 people in the country.
“The US military is monitoring the situation closely,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman was quoted by AFP as saying on Monday.
The Defense Department was “monitoring the health of the force to [...]

U.S. military Concedes Afghan Civilian Casualties

By Clare Swinney ⋅ April 11, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments
Tag Tags: , ,     Posted in: Middle East, News

By Kamal Sadat
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) – The U.S. military has conceded that a raid this week by troops under its command in Afghanistan killed a group of civilians who were defending their home, not militants as it had earlier reported.
The killing of civilians by foreign forces is the biggest source of tension between the Afghan [...]

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