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By Michael Martina and Maxim Duncan LUSHAN, China (Reuters) – Rescuers struggled to reach a remote corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country’s worst earthquake in three years climbed to 203 with more than 11,000 injured. The 6. 6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya’an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7. 9 temblor hit in May 2008 killing some 70,000. . . .

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BOSTON (AP) ? A doctor involved in treating the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died in a gunbattle with police says he had injuries head to toe and all limbs intact when he arrived at the hospital.

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Jane Roper was supposed to head to Boston Children?s Hospital Friday morning so that her 6-year-old daughter, Clio, could receive a round of chemotherapy to treat her leukemia.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China reported another death and four new infections from a new strain of bird flu on Saturday, raising the death toll to 18, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The H7N9 virus has been found in 95 people, mostly in eastern China. The latest victim is a 69-year old man surnamed Xu from Zhejiang province who passed away Friday night after emergency treatment failed, Xinhua said. Zhejiang province reported three new infection cases with all three patients in critical condition. The eastern costal province of Jiangsu also reported another bird flu infection. . . .

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MBTA Police Officer Richard Donohue was wounded in a gunfire exchange with Boston Marathon suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

MBTA Police Officer Richard Donohue was wounded in a gunfire exchange with Boston Marathon suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

DUBLIN (AP) ? A miscarrying Indian woman who died from blood poisoning in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion perished because staff bungled her diagnosis and didn’t give her prompt treatment, a jury unanimously ruled Friday in a case that has divided Ireland.

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As law enforcement officials comb the streets of Boston in search Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings Monday,

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s annual inflation rate in March slowed to 1. 0 percent from 1. 2 percent in February, further underlining how little pressure there is on the Bank of Canada to raise rates any time soon. The main reason for the drop in the annual rate was lower gas prices, Statistics Canada said on Friday. The March rate was slightly less than the 1. 1 percent predicted by economists. . . .

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BEIJING (AP) ? There’s no evidence a new bird flu strain is spreading easily among people in China even though there may be sporadic cases of the virus spreading to people who have close contacts with patients, the World Health Organization said Friday.

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