World Briefs Touch on Oil Robberies and Sanctions
A concise wrap notes that a country cites its information minister on chemical and biological materials for nuclear arms, while a UN panel approves a pricing formula for Traqi oil enabling Iraq to sell $2 billion of oil over six months to fund food and medicine.
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Dhaka Zoo detains 10 staff after tiger cub illness deaths
Alek Chand among ten Dhaka Zoo employees detained after tigers, including a 3 month old cub, fell ill during the incident. Three cubs that also fell ill recovered. The zoo had 16 endangered Royal Bengal tigers before the deaths.
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Alek Chand
Dhaka Zoo
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Okinawans Fear Sellout Over U S Base Plan
Okinawa debates a 2470 acre U S military heliport proposal off its coast costing 2.2 billion dollars with hangars excluded. The plan aims to reduce U S troop intrusion by returning land including Futenma Air Station while promising replacements. Okinawans worry about economic and social costs as corporations eye lucrative contracts amid the security rethink after a 1995 rape case.
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Tadahiko Okumura
Okinawa
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U.S. Defense
William Perry
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Japan
Futenma Air Station
Canadian case probes legality of fetus shooting by mother
Brenda Drummond, 28, fired a pellet into her womb to end a pregnancy near Ottawa. Prosecutors argue an attempted murder charge applies under a prebirth homicide law, while her lawyer says there is no precedent for charging a woman who delivers a survived baby. The infant survived brain surgery after the pellet was found.
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Brenda Drummond
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Ontario
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Lawrence Greenspon
Greenspon
Inger Hansen
John Waugh
Johnathan
Waugh
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