WHO officials visit Beijing SARS monitoring hospitals
WHO officials visited two secretive Beijing military hospitals to check for unreported SARS cases and met with a third facility, a team spokesman said. The visits, part of assessing Beijing’s handling of the virus, were described as cooperative with details withheld.
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World Health Organization
James Palmer
Jiang Yanyong
China
Health Ministry
China News Service
WHO
Asia
United States
Palmer
Zhang Wenkang
Beijing Health Bureau
Guangdong
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta
Heath
Mark Denison
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville
Tenn
CDC
Julie Gerberding
Xinhua
Asia-Pacific
Association of Asia Pacific Airlines
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
U.N. Economic and Social Commission For Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok
Thailand
Iraq
Chirac and Bush speak to mend Iraq rift
French President Jacques Chirac and U S President George W Bush spoke by phone for the first time in over two months to ease strains over Iraq. Chirac signaled a pragmatic postwar approach and urged UN involvement as soon as possible while maintaining his earlier war stance.
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Chirac
Paris
Jacques Chirac
United Nations
Iraq
France
Catherine Colonna
Colonna
Washington
United States
U.N
North Korea marks founder birthday vows stronger military
North Korea celebrated Kim Il Sung’s birthday pledging to strengthen its military while avoiding typical anti US rhetoric. KCNA reported visits to Pyongyang’s Kumsusan Memorial Palace where Kim lies in state as Seoul floated potential multilateral talks over nuclear issues.
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Peoples Palace of Culture
Pyongyang
North Korea
Kims
Kim Jong Il
Seoul
South Korea
Kim Il Sung
Kumsusan Memorial Palace
Kim
KCNA
Korean Peninsula
United States
Roh Moo-hyun
Rohyung
Presi
George H.W. Bush
Russia
Alexander Losyukov
Washington
Itar-Tass
Kim Jong II
Rodong Sinmun
North
UN staff return to Iraq as aid convoys begin
UN foreign staff start returning to northern Iraq to assess needs while UNICEF launches first water convoy into the south. About 30 staff to establish a permanent presence, with goals to restore services, clear mines, and aid displaced people. WFP begins contact with 44,000 former food agents.
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Geneva
United Nations
Iraq
U.N. Children’s Fund
Elizabeth Burs
U.N. Office For the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Byrs
U.N
Unicef
Iran
Damien Personnaz
Faw
Personndz
Umm Qasr
Christiane Berthiaume
World Food Program
Mexico plane crash kills four near Chetumal
Four people died when a twin engine Grumman Albatross amphibious plane crashed into jungle near Chetumal south of Cancun. The craft owned by Rob Carlson of East Walpole Massachusetts carried two Americans and two others, with one U.S. woman unnamed, all identified by Quintana Roo officials and Hoffy Carlson's assistant. Authorities say a mechanical fault or fuel issue may have caused the accident as bodies were recovered and taken for autopsies.
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Caribbean
Chetumal
Cancun
Rob Carlson
East Walpole
Mass
Frank Hoffy Carlson
Tulum
Victoriano Robles
Walpole
Hoff
Carlson
Belize
Robles
U.S. Navy
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