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• Kenya: 10 million risk hunger after harvests fail
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ten million people risk going hungry in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought, the government said Friday. The government declared a national emergency and will lift the import duty on corn until the next major harvest ...
• Don't vaccinate? Doctors paying to hear views
One of the basic tenets of my decision-making is mistrust of the government, a mistrust of the pharmaceutical companies, and mistrust of the big blanket thing that says this is what everybody has to do," says Tracy Harding, an organic farming ...
• Head of India's Satyam firm arrested
HYDERABAD, India - Police arrested the head of Satyam Computer Services on Friday on charges of cheating and forgery. The government dissolved its board in moves to limit the fallout from India's biggest corporate scandal in memory. Chairman ...
• Frank: House to put conditions on bailout
Barney Frank, who heads the House Financial Services Committee, issued an outline of his proposal to attach strings to spending of the money by either the Bush administration or the incoming Obama government. The new conditions would include ...
• Price of oil drops below $40 on weak demand
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Oil prices fell below $40 per barrel Friday for the first time this year as the government reported the nation’s worst annual job losses since World War II. People are traveling less, manufacturers are slashing production and there ...