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GENEVA (Reuters) - Post-election violence in Kenya and unrest in Gaza showed how political turmoil can threaten public health, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.
Margaret Chan, in an address to the United Nations agency's...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Northern Rock will issue government-guaranteed bonds to repay the tens of billions in emergency loans from the Bank of England, Britain's Treasury said yesterday in a statement to the London Stock Exchange.
The move significantly reduce...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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The choice of Kim Swan as new United Bermuda Party leader has staved off a threatened defection of MPs — for now.
Before the party's crisis summit at the weekend seven MPs were discussing leaving because the party could not break its dubious image am...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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A 26-year-old man broke down into tears in Magistrates' Court after admitting he was carrying two knives when Police arrested him.
Lico Smith covered his face, when his grandmother explained how he helped her with rent and was a good boy. Smith had b...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Zoom Airlines is to operate a weekly flight from Toronto to Bermuda, it was revealed today.
Pending final approval from UK aviation authorities, Zoom will fly between Toronto and Bermuda beginning in May.
It was also revealed today that the airline w...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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LOS ANGELES — Suzanne Pleshette, best known for her role as Bob Newhart's wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, just days before a ceremony honouring her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Pleshette, who underwen...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - British insurance company Heritage Underwriting Agency said yesterday it had received other approaches since Bermuda-based Ironshore Inc said on January 18 it was no longer interested in making an offer.
Lloyd's of London insurer H...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Watching the numbers on scales may not be enough to understand risk factors for obesity-linked disease.
Instead, Tony Ward, a clinical dietician at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, said trimming the tummy and calculating your Body Mass Index (B...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil slid by $2 to a six-week low below $89 a barrel yesterday as stock markets fell and concern mounted over an economic slow-down led by top consumer the United States.
Stock markets across the world took a battering as anxiety sp...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Newly-designed Bermuda dollar bank notes are set to hit the streets early next year and will represent the first complete redesign of the currency since it was launched in 1970.
The new banknotes will be the same size as the current ones, with a flor...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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