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The World Health Organization (WHO) denied on Tuesday that it was unduly influenced by drugs companies to exaggerate the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus. Pharmaceutical firms picked up multi-million dollar vaccination contracts when the United Nations health agency declared the flu a pandemic last June. Although many millions around …

ROSTOV-ON-DOV, Russia – An instructor and four novice climbers have been killed in an avalanche in Russia’s southern Caucasus mountain range. An emergency official says four other climbers in the party survived the snow slide, which struck as they were ascending a more than 12,000-foot peak by the easiest route. …

NEW YORK – Jasmina Anema, a 6-year-old girl who fought a valiant battle against a rare form of leukemia and got her wish to meet President Barack Obama, has died. Jasmina Anema died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital, surrounded by her mother, Thea, and her mother’s close friends, said her …