ced5a5f5e9 (Reuters Africa) (BBC) President of Venezuela Hugo Chvez finishes a two-day visit to Iran, signing agreements on oil, energy and commerce. (BBC) In the United Kingdom, Chancellor George Osborne outlines a Comprehensive Spending Review which will see the biggest spending cuts in decades, totalling 81bn, with welfare, local government and police particularly affected. cannot. (Xinhua) (India Vision) 18 people die in Brazil after contracting hospital "superbug" bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae; which produces the enzyme carbapenemase (KPC), which renders most modern antibiotics ineffective. (Xinhua) (Jakarta Post) (CNR) (Global Times) The water level of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest water control and utilization project, reaches its designed full capacity mark. (Reuters) The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka announces that Commonwealth gold medal winning boxer Manju Wanniarachchi has failed a drugs test taken during the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
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