Bird flu 'an epidemic' in Indonesia
 

JAKARTA, Wednesday (Reuters) Indonesia described an outbreak of bird flu in its teeming capital as an epidemic on Wednesday after a five-year-old girl suspected of having the virus died.

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At least 1,300 missing after South Asia storm
 

HYDERABAD, India, Wednesday (Reuters) At least 1,000 people were missing in southern India on Wednesday and hundreds of fishermen were unaccounted for in Bangladesh after a severe storm in the Bay of Bengal killed 50 people, officials said.

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