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Israeli security services are stepping up protection of public officials after death threats against cabinet ministers by Jews opposed to a planned pullout from the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Dutch researchers have developed revolutionary vision equipment that makes video imaging at night time as clear and as in the day.

According to the British weekly New Scientist on Wednesday, the system was devised for the Dutch military and uses a computer to impose colour on an image.

The technology replaces the fuzzy grey or green monochrome images of conventional night-vision goggles, it reports in next Saturday's issue.
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Bush held talks with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger in Washington on Monday, the Geneva-based agency revealed in a statement.

It was the first meeting between a US president and the head of the humanitarian agency since the first Gulf war in 1999.
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[Lebanese newspaper editor Michael] Young said Damascus may be blamed for the killing [of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri] and that this would have an effect on Syria's already tense relations with the US.

"It becomes a question of how much the US and France want to escalate against Syria. The Americans will hold Syria directly responsible. They will not seek conciliation over Resolution 1559. UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen was seeking a delay in its implementation, but now I think there will be no delay," he said.
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AIDS viruses isolated from two people are being studied to determine whether either might be the source of a rare and potentially more aggressive form of H.I.V. detected in a New York City man.
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A day after New York health officials issued an alert over the discovery of a fast-developing Aids case, experts are saying there is no real cause to panic.
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