Swine flu ‘could infect up to half the population’

Primary care trusts are to set up anti-viral drug distribution centres and swine flu testing clinics amid fears that the infection could spread out of control.

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USGS Earthquake report

Today I received two earthquake reports. One a 4.4 in central California and another in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia a 5.6m.

The California earthquake was reported as weak to light shaking. The Indonesia quake was in the weak to moderate range.

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Protest at Iran’s ‘evil UK’ claim

The UK has told an Iranian diplomat that Ayatollah Khamenei’s description of the British government as "evil" is unacceptable.

UK officials had summoned Iran’s ambassador, Rasul Movaheddian, to the Foreign Office to lodge a protest.

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EU and US Congress condemn threats to Iranian demonstrators

EU and US leaders, as well as Amnesty International, on Friday condemned Iran’s threat of crackdown on reformist protesters.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he hoped Iran’s leaders "don’t do anything irreversible" that could further endanger the country’s stability. "We support the Iranian people, and today the Iranian people are on the street," […]

China Continues House Church Raids; Website Closed

BEIJING, CHINA (Worthy News)– At least six Christians from China’s Henan province were behind bars Thursday, June 18, after security forces stormed their house church following a similar raid on a house church in Sichuan province, Christian rights investigators said.

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Christianity is dwindling in Australia and America

There is a general understanding and even you must have heard about it; it’s about the way religion is viewed in Australia and America, it’s a popular belief that ‘USA is a very Christian country, whereas Australia is very secular’; ‘Americans flash their religion openly, whereas Australians have a natural aversion to public displays of […]

Brazilian President Time for New World Order

The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday.

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Jobless man steals just for free prison lunch

TAIPEI (Reuters) – A jobless Taiwan man released from prison stole a box of cotton swabs just to get arrested again because he "could not forget the police department boxed lunches," officers and local media said Tuesday.

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Freak Beijing storm turns day into night

China correspondent Stephen McDonell and ABC cameraman Rob Hill saw day turn into night as a freak storm swept across the capital Beijing today.

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Christian Man Raped, Murdered for Refusing to Convert to Islam

A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it, the victim’s brother and minister told FOXNews.com.

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