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December 10, 2008 Wednesday
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HONG KONG - THREE dead chickens tested positive for bird flu in Hong Kong, prompting the city to suspend poultry imports for 21 days and begin slaughtering 80,000 birds, an official said on Tuesday.

'We feel that Hong Kong is facing a new alert for bird flu,' said York Chow, secretary for food and health.

 
Crackdown intensifies

ISLAMABAD - PAKISTAN has intensified its crackdown on a militant group suspected in the Mumbai terror attacks by arresting 20 more people but will not hand any of its citizens over to India, officials said on Tuesday.

The United States is pressing Pakistan to help catch those behind the attack, which killed 171 people in India's business capital last month, and avert a crisis between the nuclear-armed neighbors that would harm efforts against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

Names of gunmen released

MUMBAI - INDIA police released the names on Tuesday of nine suspected Islamic militants killed during their attack on Mumbai, bolstering India's charges that all of them came from Pakistan.

At a briefing on Tuesday, chief police investigator Rakesh Maria gave the names and the aliases used by the gunmen in the attacks. He also showed photographs of eight of the men - some taken from identity cards, while others were gruesome shots of the dead attackers.

20 killed in Indian bus fire

LUCKNOW (India) - POLICE say a speeding bus has caught fire in northern India, killing at least 20 Hindu pilgrims traveling on the vehicle.

Brij Lal, a senior police officer in the state of Uttar Pradesh, says about 55 people were on the bus and the death toll is expected to rise.

   
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