Plane birth ends with baby’s likely discharge this week
A Malaysian woman delivered aboard a AirAsia flight at 27 weeks with a doctor aiding the birth. Doctors expect her premature son to be released from a hospital near Kuala Lumpur by Monday or Tuesday. the airline offers the mother and child free flights for life. The baby weighs about 7 pounds.
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Malaysia
Liew Siaw Hsia
AirAsia
Liew
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Pakistani forces seize Kotkai in South Waziristan
Pakistani troops captured Kotkai, birthplace of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, as part of a weeklong ground offensive in South Waziristan. The operation, backed by the United States, aims to erode the core of Pakistan's extremist network. Soldiers say the town is now under complete control.
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Afghanistan
al-Qaida
Kotkai
Hakimullah Mehsud
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Qari Hussain
Mili
Tary
Athar Abbas
Abbas
Obama declares swine flu national emergency
President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency empowering health officials to open offsite treatment sites and speed care. The move follows a public health emergency and aims to bypass rules to expand vaccine and treatment access as cases rise and vaccine production lags.
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Barack Obama
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Health and Human Services
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U.S
CDC
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Eldorado to hear first polygamist sect trial in a decade
In Eldorado Texas Raymond Jessop 38 faces sexual assault of a child and bigamy charges as the first Yearning For Zion Ranch member to be tried locally. Up to 14 jurors will be drawn from a 2800 person county to avoid community knowledge of the case. The raid that followed the 2008 Colorado-initiated abuse claim led to 439 children removed from YFZ Ranch and state custody.
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Texas
Eldorado
Schleicher
Raymond Jessop
Zion Ranch
Colorado
Texas Rangers
Jessop
Barbara Walther
YFZ
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
West
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Central Missouri
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Cole County
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