Jamaica Gleaner International
Published: Monday Wednesday | November 4, 2009
KENYA - New vaccine offers hope in Africa's malaria battle
SIAYA, Kenya (AP): A MOTHER watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube into her baby's head. streamed into the anaemic four-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year... Read More...
JORDAN - Gov't grants refuge to Saddam aide's family
AMMAN, Jordan (AP):Jordan's Cabinet has granted citizenship to the wife and son of a top aide of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.Violet and Saddam Aziz, the wife and youngest son of former Iraqi Foreign... Read More...
UNITED STATES - Pueblo puts stop on pot dispensaries
PUEBLO, Colorado (AP): The Pueblo City Council has approved a 90-day moratorium on licensing medical marijuana dispensaries while city officials determine how to regulate them.Council members heard from the public... Read More...
NORTH KOREA - Regime threatens to expand nuke arsenal
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): North Korea issued a veiled threat to increase its nuclear arsenal if United States officials do not quickly agree to the one-on-one talks that the communist regime is demanding.... Read More...