Tuesday, June 16, 2009 LONDON: The UK's foreign secretary says Britain tries to ensure foreign partners don't use torture but cannot guarantee that some allies don't abuse suspected terrorists.David Miliband says Britain has abandoned some operations because the risk a detainee would be mistreated overseas was deemed too high.Miliband said Tuesday that "it is not always possible to eradicate the risk of mistreatment" of detainees held by overseas governments.British officials are facing allegations they may have colluded in the torture of detainees held in Pakistan and elsewhere.
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...
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