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  • **FILE** A SARS patient receives treatment behind double-layer glass windows and strict quarantine measures at the Beijing Ditan Hospital in Beijing on April 13, 2003. (Associated Press)

    France confirms 2nd case of SARS-related virus

    A second case of a deadly new virus related to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been reported in France, the Health Ministry confirmed Sunday.

  • Fans rampage in Cairo after soccer riot verdict

    An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences against 21 people for taking part in a deadly soccer riot but acquitted seven police officials for their alleged role in the violence. Suspected fans enraged by the verdict torched the soccer federation headquarters and a police club in Cairo in protest.

  • Egyptian protesters take cover as they clash with riot police, not seen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Two years after Egypt's revolution began, the country's schism was on display Friday as the mainly liberal and secular opposition held rallies saying the goals of the pro-democracy uprising have not been met and denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

    Angry protests leave 7 dead on Egypt anniversary

    Violence erupted across Egypt on Friday as tens of thousands took to the streets to deliver an angry backlash against President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, demanding regime change on the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak. At least seven people were killed.

  • Bird flu kills 4-year-old boy in Indonesia

    A 4-year-old Indonesian boy has died from bird flu, bringing the death toll to 160 in the country hardest-hit by the deadly virus, a health official said Tuesday.

  • Bird flu kills 4-year-old boy in Indonesia

    A 4-year-old Indonesian boy has died from bird flu, bringing the death toll to 160 in the world's hardest-hit country.

  • A cleric from Al-Azhar, Egypt's most respected Islamic institution, addresses protesters in front of the presidential palace during a demonstration in Cairo on Dec. 11, 2012. Thousands of opponents and supporters of Egypt's Islamist president staged rival rallies in the nation's capital, four days ahead a nationwide referendum on a contentious draft constitution. (Associated Press)

    Egypt judges say most will boycott referendum

    Egypt's judges Tuesday said that most of them would not oversee a nationwide referendum on a contentious draft constitution, as tens of thousands of opponents and supporters of the country's Islamist president staged rival rallies in Cairo, four days ahead of the vote.

  • Morsi's backers, foes clash in Cairo

    Clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president erupted Wednesday outside his palace, where they attacked one another with clubs and firebombs in violence that pointed up the growing political division in the Arab world's most populous country.

  • China bans hospitals from refusing AIDS patients

    China's Health Ministry has banned hospitals from turning away patients infected with HIV-AIDS.

  • Child disease cases up in Vietnam, fatalities down

    Vietnam has recorded more cases of hand, foot and mouth disease this year than in 2011, but the fatality rate has decreased sharply.

  • Saudi Arabia confirms 2nd case of SARS-like virus

    Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry has confirmed that a second person in the kingdom has contracted a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to three the number of those sickened by it in the Gulf region in recent weeks.

  • Biases on beauty draw Thais to illegal surgery

    Her dream was to look less Thai and more like Jennifer Lopez, so the 25-year-old street food vendor went to the Internet and typed in "cheap Botox."

  • Egypt: At least 21 troops killed in Sinai accident

    A troop carrier overturned on a mountain road in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula early Monday, killing at least 21 members of the security forces stationed on the border with Israel, officials said.

  • Peru villagers allege neglect after toxic spill

    More than a month after toxic slurry from a major copper mine sickened scores of people in one of Peru's highland communities, villagers complain that the mining company and the government have done little to help and have even failed to tell some parents that tests showed their children had been poisoned.

  • Brazil expands its anti-AIDS program

    Brazil's anti-AIDS program will be expanded to include at least 35,000 more people, a Health Ministry official said Wednesday.

  • Cuba campaign takes on 'free' health care

    Cuba's system of free medical care, long considered a birthright by its citizens and trumpeted as one of the communist government's great successes, is not immune to cutbacks under Raul Castro's drive for efficiency.

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