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‘National Nursing Week’ shines light on nurses’ responsibilities

Published May 6, 2008
Caring for the elderly and lopsided patient-to-nurse ratios are two important issues facing nurses.

Saddam feared disease in prison, according to his ‘diary’

Published May 6, 2008

>CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings. The...

3 dead infants found in freezer in Germany, mother arrested

Published May 6, 2008

>OLPE, Germany (AP) - A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing three of her babies after their bodies were discovered in the family freezer by her grown children looking for pizza, police...

Cyclone kills at least 351 in Myanmar, state-run TV reports

Published May 5, 2008

>YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people and destroyed thousands of homes, state-run media said Sunday. Some dissident groups worried that the military junta running Myanmar...

Rice pushes for peace progress; Israel denies hidden agenda

Published May 5, 2008

.JERUSALEM (AP) - Facing mounting Palestinian frustration at the pace of peace talks, the United States leaned on Israel on Sunday to lift restrictions that chafe West Bank residents and stifle an already...

Milosevic loyalists could return to power in Serbia

Published May 5, 2008

.BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Two years after Slobodan Milosevic died in prison while on trial for genocide, his Serbian loyalists may score a parliamentary election victory May 11 that would return them to...

Boat carrying 110 people sinks in Brazilian Amazon; at least 12 dead

Published May 5, 2008

>SÃO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A boat with 110 people aboard sank in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and leaving dozens missing, authorities said. The Comandante Sales capsized...

Israelis stand silently as sirens wail for Holocaust victims

Published May 2, 2008

;BEIT MEIR, Israel (AP) - Sixty-three years and five days after he stumbled sick and starving from a Nazi transport train and was freed by Russian cavalrymen, Raul Teitelbaum stood motionless Thursday...

Austria case revives European debate on light prison terms

Published May 1, 2008

>VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Police say Josef Fritzl left a lot of human wreckage in his wake: the daughter he imprisoned and raped for 24 years, the seven children he fathered with her and the wife whose...

Barack Obama closing in on superdelegate gap

Published May 1, 2008
Obama trails Clinton by 21 superdelegates, after picking up seven this week.

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