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• B.C. politicians to sit through weekend to pass strike legislation The Canadian Press - Fri Nov 6, 8:27 PM

  VICTORIA, B.C. - The union representing long-striking B.C. paramedics is hurling some of its anger at provincial moves to legislate them back to work at Olympic organizers.

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  Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: study AFP - Fri Nov 6, 5:17 PM

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday.

• Deadly tropical disease hits south Sudan AFP - Fri Nov 6, 12:53 PM

  MALAKAL, Sudan (AFP) - Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) warned on Friday.

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  Human Rights Watch slams Uganda AIDS bill AFP - Fri Nov 6, 12:05 PM

  KAMPALA (AFP) - Human Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda's HIV/AIDS bill, some of whose clauses call for mandatory testing of pregnant women, sex offenders and victims, and disclosure of HIV status.

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  Global swine flu toll passes 6,000 mark: WHO AFP - Fri Nov 6, 11:53 AM

  GENEVA (AFP) - The number of swine flu deaths has grown by more than 370 over a week to pass 6,000, as the pandemic spread into more than 199 countries and territories, World Health Organisation data showed Friday.

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