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/ 9 December 2003
Nasa plans to dispatch a hulking nuclear-powered spacecraft to determine whether three of Jupiter’s icy, planet-sized moons have the potential to harbour life. The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, or Jimo, will circle three of the planet’s moons, which are believed to have vast oceans tucked beneath thick covers of ice.
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/ 28 November 2003
Conservative blacks in the United States are objecting to recent comparisons between gay marriages and the 1960s civil rights movement, which fought segregation against blacks, arguing that sexual orientation is a choice. A Massachusetts court ruled last week that gay couples have the right to marry in that state.
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/ 22 November 2003
President George Bush returned from a state visit to Britain insisting on the importance of the ”special relationship” between the two countries despite public hostility to the United States-led occupation of Iraq. The three days of pomp and splendour were marked by a huge demonstration against the president in London.
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/ 19 November 2003
Trade negotiators worked at hammering out a draft outlining the creation of the world’s largest free-trade region, with Canada, Mexico, Chile and several Caribbean nations advocating a compromise agreement that attempts to skirt the thorny issue of agriculture.
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/ 10 November 2003
Top Democrats have stepped up their attacks on United States President George Bush’s administration for its handling of the Iraq war and the fight against terrorism, which they say has threatened US civil liberties. Former vice-president Al Gore accused the Bush administration of exploiting Americans’ fear of terrorism for political gain.
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/ 6 November 2003
A new Californian law could mark the first step toward increasing access to medication that many Aids experts believe can prevent HIV infection.
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/ 30 October 2003
The United Nations will pull some staff out of Iraq after deadly bombings at both of its offices in Baghdad, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The UN joins the International Committee of the Red Cross in leaving the Iraqi capital in the wake of anti-foreign violence.
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/ 27 October 2003
Wildfires fed by hot Santa Ana winds have flared into gigantic waves of flame that devoured entire neighbourhoods, choked skies over southern California with ash and killed 13 people in the state’s deadliest wildfire tragedy in a half-century.
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/ 25 October 2003
Thousands of residents were evacuated from their homes as a raging wildfire threatened hundreds of homes east of the United States city of Los Angeles on Friday. About 1 400 firefighters were battling to bring the fire under control as it menaced homes and forced the closure of two major freeways.
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/ 23 October 2003
A 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to The New York Times should be revoked, according to a historian hired by the newspaper to review the winning work, which has been questioned for years. A subcommittee of the Pulitzer Board has been reviewing the prize won by writer Walter Duranty for his series on Russia.
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/ 23 October 2003
A flexible new anti-Aids drug, Lexiva, has been approved by the United States’s Food and Drug Administration.
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/ 16 October 2003
Uncircumcised men have an eight-fold higher risk of becoming infected with HIV than circumcised men, according to a study.
A tiger has attacked magician Roy Horn of famous showbusiness duo Siegfried and Roy, grabbing him by his throat during a Friday-night performance at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Horn was taken to hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
Both President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell contend that a vial of botulinum bacteria found in Iraq is evidence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons intent. But the chief United States weapons inspector offered no evidence it had been used in a weapons programme during the last decade.
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/ 25 September 2003
A controversial Pentagon Big Brother programme in the United States that calls for monitoring computer databases containing data on millions of Americans for signs of terrorist activity has been hit with the delete key. The programme has been in the crosshairs of numerous civil liberties groups for months.
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/ 25 September 2003
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has argued that a sexual discrimination lawsuit seeking to represent 1,6-million current and former women workers should be dismantled into separate class actions against each of its 3 473 stores across the United States. If Wal-Mart faces a single class-action, the trial could last 13 years.
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/ 24 September 2003
Four leading United States newspapers were divided on the results of US President George Bush’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly requesting help in rebuilding Iraq. The <i>Washington Post</i> and <i>New York Times</i> said Bush did not inspire UN members with his unwillingness to relinquish control in Iraq.
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People with HIV living in poorer areas of San Francisco are more likely to progress to Aids than those living in wealthier districts.
Scientists in California have provided the first detailed look at how human antibodies may drive HIV to mutate.
Iraq’s weapons are more of a threat to lives than the war, writes the former president of the United States. If Iraq i sleft with chemical and biological weapons, there is a considerable risk that one day these weapons will fall into the wrong hands and put many more lives at risk than will be lost in overthrowing Saddam.
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/ 22 January 2003
A study of syphilis among homosexual men in New York City has found high rates of HIV infection, unprotected sex and recreational drug use.
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/ 15 January 2003
Hispanic women in Pennsylvania suffer twice the national rate of HIV infection.
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/ 21 November 2002
The risk of a gay man acquiring HIV from oral sex is very low, according to a United States study.
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/ 14 November 2002
A new diagnostic device that can detect HIV in as little as 20 minutes has received government approval in the United States.
United States researchers have made progress in developing an Aids vaccine that would be effective against a range of strains of HIV.
Hundreds of residents living near an Illinois nuclear power plant took advantage of a weekend giveaway of pills that help block radiation.
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/ 19 January 2001
He may be bidding farewell to the White House this weekend, but as a force on the global stage, Bill Clinton is here to stay.