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"Higgins Outraged When Sinn Fein Leader Stopped By Terrorist Watch List"
WKBW ^ | Mar 18th 2006 | Not stated
Posted on 03/18/2006 10:14:19 AM PST by Irish_Thatcherite
Higgins Outraged When Sinn Fein Leader Stopped By Terrorist Watch List
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mar 18, 2006 - A St. Patricks day crowd in South Buffalo didn’t get to hear the star attraction…he was detained in Washington after turning up on a terrorist watch list.
Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein was detained at Reagan National Airport. Sinn Fein is the political arm of the Irish Republican Army."
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"Egypt reports first human bird flu death"
Reuters AlertNet ^ | March 18th, 2006 | Mohammed Abbas
Posted on 03/18/2006 10:33:06 AM PST by Termite_Commander
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CAIRO, March 18 (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, the country's first human victim of the virus, Egypt's health ministry said on Saturday.
It said a 30-year-old woman from Qaloubiyah province, about 40 kms (25 miles) north of Cairo, was taken ill on Wednesday.
"They (doctors) took samples for analysis at the ministry of health laboratories ... They confirmed she was infected with bird flu. She died on Friday morning," a health ministry statement said, adding the woman had been given Tamiflu, a drug used to treat suspected cases of bird flu.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed that Egypt had reported its first human case of bird flu."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The highly pathogenic H5N1 strain has been found in birds in 18 of the country's 26 governorates."