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Posted on Thu, Jul. 3, 2008

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Salmonella hits hard in Denmark

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danish health officials fear that more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking everything from refrigerators to credit-card receipts to find the source of what may be the worst outbreak in 15 years.

Kare Moelbak of the Ministry of Health said that 330 cases have been confirmed and that about a quarter of those people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.

Moelbak said officials suspect that the source is some sort of Danish food product distributed only in Denmark, since neighboring countries have not reported an outbreak. They believe it probably is meat, but they do not know which product.

- AP

Poland undecided on U.S. base plan

WARSAW, Poland - The United States and Poland have completed talks on a missile-defense installation, but Polish leaders have yet to decide whether to accept a base, the country's chief negotiator said yesterday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said that he and John Rood, the U.S. undersecretary for arms control, had ended their negotiations on Washington's proposal to place 10 missile interceptors in Poland after almost 18 months of meetings.

Talks have been difficult, with Poland demanding billions in U.S. military aid and Russia staunchly opposing the idea, calling the missile plan a threat.

- AP

Mongolia on alert after deadly riots

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Rifle-toting soldiers and armored vehicles guarded Mongolia's capital yesterday, one day after at least five people died in rioting sparked by allegations of fraud in parliamentary elections.

President Nambaryn Enkhbayar declared a state of emergency after thousands of rock-throwing protesters clashed with police Tuesday while they mobbed the headquarters of the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and set it aflame.

Enkhbayar acknowledged the fraud allegations yesterday but appealed for calm. Police imposed a curfew, and downtown streets were nearly deserted last night. Mongolia is struggling to modernize its agriculture-based economy. The government says per capita income is just $1,500 a year. - AP

Elsewhere:

Six species of rare animals, including eight black rhinos, will be sold at auction to boost conservation efforts in Namibia. The government has held the auctions every two years to raise funds for protected areas.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa was hospitalized in Paris, after medical treatment in Egypt for what hospital officials said was a brain hemorrhage. His condition was reportedly stable.

Authorities imposed a curfew in a city in Indian-controlled Kashmir to prevent further protests by Hindu nationalists angered that the government revoked a land transfer to a revered Hindu shrine. Jammu-Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, has been rocked by violent protests for two weeks.

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