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... Recent studies conducted in West Africa have demonstrated that 95% of confirmed cases have an incubation period in the range of 1 to 21 days; 98% have an incubation period that falls within the 1 to 42 day interval. ...

Salina Police are looking for the owner of a gun that was found, and fired, by a child. According to Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield, a 9-year-old boy found a handgun outside in the 3200 block of Foxboro Drive. In the backyard of 3215 Foxboro, the boy and a friend pulled the trigger of the gun. A bullet discharged, hitting a fence.

DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources add: FDI reporting has a reputation for credibility. ... For Israel, the timing is getting tight in view of its general election on March 28. Acting prime minister Ehud Olmert must take into account that a ruling party which allows an Iranian nuclear explosion to take place six days before the poll would draw painful punishment from the voter.

Brian Morse, 54, was declared dead at the scene, at a home in the 2300 block of Fountain Drive, after his glove became stuck in the wood chipper and pulled him in. The Larimer County Coroner's Office identified Morse, owner of Brian's Tree Trimming & Removal Service, using fingerprints. The cause of death was listed as "total morselization." The gloves protected Morse's hands, leaving the fingerprints intact.

BERLIN - A German aid worker and archaeologist kidnapped in Iraq with her driver has been freed after three weeks in captivity, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced Sunday night. ADVERTISEMENT He did not disclose any details about Susanne Osthoff's release.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (search) was not among the Iraqi detainees who cast ballots Thursday on the proposed Iraqi constitution, as U.S. and Iraqi forces stepped up security across the country to impede insurgent attacks aimed at derailing Saturday's referendum.Non-convicted detainees, including Saddam, whose trial is set to begin Oct. 19, were allowed to cast votes Thursday but the former leader was not among those voting, Judge Nadham Farhan of the Iraqi Special Tribunal told FOX News. The reason for his abstaining was not immediately known.The rest of Iraq was scheduled to vote on Saturday, ...

The rear of the aircraft yawned open, and at the prompt of "five, four, three, two, one, green light," the loadmasters released the restraints and a 65-foot rocket slid out the back of the aircraft beginning its descent to the desert floor. The rocket drop was a test mission -- the first of a series dubbed the Falcon Small Launch Vehicle program. The program is a joint venture between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force. It is designed to develop a new method of putting a 1,000-pound payload into low-Earth orbit. This first test was the...

Russ Gilbert has been named vice president of Interactive for Air America Radio, including the network and its flagship station WLIB AM New York. The announcement was made by Air America President Gary Krantz. .... “I'm looking forward to working with the incredible talent at Air America to take www.airamericaradio.com to the next level,” said Gilbert.

Laboratory tests had shown some cases previously thought to be Marburg were not, bringing the total number of known cases down to 264 from 266 on Thursday, he said.

As of 19 April, the Ministry of Health in Angola has reported 266 cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Of these cases, 239 were fatal. In Uige Province, which remains the epicentre of the outbreak, 250 cases, of which 228 were fatal, were reported as of 20 April. ...

An outbreak of the killer Marburg virus beyond northern Angola is being successfully controlled thanks to a combination of frontline assistance by international health agencies and "social mobilization," says Angola's top health official. ... ... the disease has been mainly confined to the northern province of Uige, where 277 people have died, ...

MILFORD, Kan. - Geary County Sheriff Jim Jensen is again concerned after a deputy discovered a pair of smoke-grenade launchers in the same area near Milford Lake where five military machine guns turned up two weeks ago. ... "These weapons may appear unserviceable, but if a proper gunsmith gets a hold of them or if somebody else wants to they could probably put them back to working condition," Jensen said.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Unidentified drone crashes at Arak nuclear site in central Iran, according to sources close to Iranian Revolutionary Guards ex-commander Rezai. Evidence in wreckage of intelligence-gathering at presumed uranium enrichment site. Last week, Iranian air force commander said mystery aircraft reported by witnesses over sensitive sites would be shot down.

Nov 3 (Reuters) - The United States asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to explain why he cleared U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers of sexual harassment charges after a U.N. probe found the complaint valid. ... U.S. delegate Tom Repasch told the General Assembly's administrative and budgetary committee that Annan had "decided that the complaints could not be substantiated by the evidence and therefore closed the matter." "The United States would appreciate an explanation from the secretariat on this apparent contradiction," Repasch said.

On 22nd November 2003, a DHL A300 B4 had been airborne from Baghdad Airport for just over 3 minutes when the calm in the cockpit was shattered by the sound of a loud bang. At about 8,000ft an explosion was heard, followed by a cacophony of aural warnings and visual displays showing a master warning on all flight controls. Unbeknown to the crew at that time, the aircraft had been struck by a missile.

A global map of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere has revealed the most precise view yet of pollution hotspots around the world.

Subject: Will you be turned away on November 2nd? This {proposed email} is unfortunately not a hoax or urban legend. Share it with any voters you care about. This is particularly important if you live in a "battleground" state. Register in person Unless you registered to vote in person at an official location, you may not be registered, or you may have a defective registration. You need to verify your voter registration status in person with your local elections office.   Verify it There is some chance that even if you were properly registered, and even voted in the...

These tiny injuries are not consistent with B-40 rocket shrapnel. THEY ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE EFFECTS FROM M-79 GRENADE LAUNCHERS. ... He probably then grabbed the M-79 grenade launcher -- shooting a round into a reportedly monsoon rain. The round would have detonated prematurely due to the wall of rain that was coming down and thus blown back to wound Thorson and Kerry, as well as Fred Short it appears.

"If we had gotten back from the White House any kind of red flag, raised eyebrow, anything that said, 'Are you sure about this stuff?' we would have gone back to square one," Josh Howard, the program's executive producer, told the Los Angeles Times in an interview Friday. "The White House said they were authentic, and that carried a lot of weight with us."

126th National Guard Association of the United States General ConferenceFor Immediate Release Las Vegas, NV - I’m honored to be here today at your 126th Convention.  I can’t tell you how proud I am to stand before you – and how grateful I am to have the opportunity to talk with you today. I came out here because I wanted to look you in the eye and say thank you.  Thank you for your service; thank you for caring; thank you for the sacrifices you and your families make for our country. I come from a state with a great...