Three international health and food safety organizations warn that the birg flu outbreak in Asia is a serious threat to human health that requires international resolution.
A senior Lao agriculture official announces laboratory tests, carried out in Hanoi, have confirmed that an outbreak of bird flu killed hundreds of chickens in Laos.
U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan says he will send a team to Iraq to explore the possibility of holding elections in the next few months, if he receives adequate security assurances.
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