Separatist Bodo rebels to sign ceasefire in India
 

NEW DELHI, Wednesday (Reuters) Separatist rebels from India's troubled state of Assam are to sign a ceasefire with the government for the first time in two decades, the Indian news agency PTI reported , quoting unidentified sources.

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Mass poultry vaccination as Chinese urged not to panic over bird flu
 

BEIJING, Wednesday (AFP) China urged people not to panic as it scrambled to vaccinate three million birds in response to the first confirmed outbreak of avian flu in nearly a year.

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