Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
ATHENS: More than 10,000 people marched past burned out and looted shops in central Athens, heading toward Parliament after four nights of rioting sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager.The demonstration is part of a previously scheduled nationwide general strike, but is developing into a protest at the government's handling of the crisis.Labor unions rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to cancel Wednesday rallies, saying Greeks have a right to protest economic hardship.Emergency services are on alert across the city. The fears of renewed rioting during the rallies and the general strike are adding pressure on Greece's increasingly beleaguered conservative government.
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