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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Study Says Drug Samples May Endanger Children
A new study suggests that free drug samples, an effective marketing tool for the drug industry, do little to help the poor and may put children’s health at risk.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Tainted Chocolates Found in Hong Kong
A sign at a Chinese supermarket says “no melamine.” In a blow to China, Iran banned imports of all Chinese dairy products. (Color China Photo, via Associated Press)BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong said Sunday that its health inspectors had found two Cadbury chocolate products containing considerably more of the industrial chemical melamine than the city’s legal limit, in the growing scandal over tainted food made in China.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Earthquake Kills 58 in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) — An earthquake on Sunday killed 58 people in Kyrgyzstan and destroyed dozens of houses in the rural south of the Central Asian nation, the emergencies ministry said on Monday.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Chechen Avenue Is Named for Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) — A central avenue in Grozny, the capital of the Chechnya region of Russia, was named after Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Sunday, honoring the man who had sent in troops to crush a separatist rebellion there.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Reversal in Palin Case
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Seven Alaska state employees have reversed course and agreed to testify in an abuse-of-power investigation against Gov. Sarah Palin.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Right Thing to Wear at the Wrong End of a Gun
Jackets at the Mexico City outlet of Miguel Caballero, a Colombian retailer who specializes in bulletproof clothing. The company’s customers include politicians, royalty and movie stars. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times)MEXICO CITY — Exclusive clothing boutiques line Avenida Presidente Masarik here. A Burberry coat? A Corneliani suit? A Gucci scarf? Have enough pesos, and they are yours.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Kazakhstan Seeks to Balance East and West
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that America was not playing a “zero-sum game” with the Kremlin to pry resource-rich former Communist states from Russia’s influence.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Police Detain Protest Leader in Thailand
BANGKOK — Thailand’s longstanding political crisis took an uncertain turn on Sunday when the police arrested the leader of the antigovernment protesters occupying the grounds of the prime minister’s office here.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Venezuela Plans Tighter Budget
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Bureaucrats in oil-rich Venezuela can look forward to fewer expensive S.U.V.’s, top-of-the-line cellphones and whiskey-fueled parties next year.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Post-Apartheid South Africa Enters Anxious Era
Squatters’ shacks smoldered at a makeshift settlement near Johannesburg. (Joao Silva for The New York Times)DIEPSLOOT, South Africa — A dusty maze of concrete, sheet metal and scrap wood, Diepsloot is like so many of the enormous settlements around Johannesburg, mile after mile of feebly assembled shacks, the impromptu patchwork of the poor, the extremely poor and the hopelessly poor.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
A Gloomy Picture for Hedge Funds; Bailout Planners Fight Exhaustion
A Gloomy Picture for Hedge Funds
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Persecuted in Africa, Finding Refuge in New York
“There’s security, there’s independence, there’s peace,” Pape Mbaye said of his new country. (Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times)Pape Mbaye gets a lot of attention. Even in jaded New York, people watch the way he walks (his style defines the word sashay) and scrutinize his outfits, which on a recent afternoon featured white, low-slung capris, a black purse, eyeliner and diamond-studded jewelry.
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Monday, October 06, 2008, 1:10 am
Mistrial Is Sought Again in Senator’s Case
WASHINGTON — Defense lawyers for Senator Ted Stevens said Sunday night that they had discovered new evidence of what they said was prosecutorial misconduct and renewed their call for a federal judge to declare a mistrial or dismiss the case.
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Sunday, October 05, 2008, 5:10 pm
Russian Forces Begin to Shut Georgia Checkpoints
MOSCOW — Russian peacekeeping forces dismantled one checkpoint and were at work removing several others on Sunday, five days ahead of a deadline for Russian troops to withdraw from buffer zones outside the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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Sunday, October 05, 2008, 5:10 pm
Germany Moves to Shore Up Confidence in Economy
FRANKFURT — The German government said on Sunday that it would guarantee all private savings accounts in the country in an effort to reinforce increasingly shaky confidence in the financial system. The announcement came as the leaders of largest European economies met over the weekend searching for a systemwide answer to a credit crisis that has required them to rescue several banks in just the past week.
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