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...
Sunday, August 30, 2009 AMMAN: Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal took part in his father's funeral in Amman on Saturday. Meshaal joined hundreds of citizens and key figures of Islamic Hamas movement at the University of Jordan's Mosque in performing prayer for his father, who died Friday at the age of 91. The Hamas leader arrived in Jordan earlier Saturday from Syria along with several Hamas members after King Abdullah II of Jordan instructed the government Friday to allow his entry. Official sources in Jordan said allowing Hamas leader to enter the kingdom was purely for humanitarian reasons and there are no political reasons behind. This is the first time for Meshaal to be allowed back into Jordan since Jordan expelled the Hamas leader and later shut down offices of the Islamic movement in Jordan in 1999. Relations between Hamas and Jordan soured further in 2006 after Amman alleged that members of the group smuggled missiles and other weapons into the kingdom.
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