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LONDON (Reuters) - Zurich is the city with the highest quality of life in 2006, while Baghdad, for the third year running, has the lowest, a survey published Monday shows. Geneva and Vancouver made the top three in the list compiled by human resource company Mercer while Bangui in the Central African Republic and Brazzaville, the capital of Congo Republic, joined Baghdad in the bottom three. The top three cities in the list are all unchanged from last year. Chicago is one of the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Zurich is the city with the highest quality of life in 2006, while Baghdad, for the third year running, has the lowest, a survey published on Monday shows. Geneva and Vancouver made the top three in the list compiled by human resource company Mercer while Bangui in the Central African Republic and Brazzaville, the capital of Congo Republic, joined Baghdad in the bottom three. The top three cities in the list are all unchanged from last year. Chicago is one of the...

By Christian Tsoumou BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - African states will present to international donors next week an action plan to reduce the risk of a bird flu outbreak on the world's poorest continent, experts said on Friday. The plan, drafted at a two-day meeting in the Congolese capital Brazzaville, will seek financing from international organizations and donors to strengthen medical testing facilities in Africa to provide early warning of the virus. The disease, which has jumped from...

By Christian TsoumouBRAZZAVILLE -- With Africa stretched fighting AIDS and tuberculosis, a bird flu pandemic could ravage communities which live side by side with poultry but lack the means to detect the virus, experts said on Thursday.Delegates to a World Health Organization (WHO) conference in Brazzaville warned a shortage of money and scientific know-how could leave Africa struggling to detect and combat bird flu, as United Nations officials say the risk of a pandemic is growing."We...

By Christian TsoumouBRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - With Africa stretched fighting AIDS and tuberculosis, a bird flu pandemic could ravage communities which live side by side with poultry but lack the means to detect the virus, experts said on Thursday.Delegates to a World Health Organization (WHO) conference in Brazzaville warned a shortage of money and scientific know-how could leave Africa struggling to detect and combat bird flu, as United Nations officials say the risk of a pandemic is...

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Police in Congo Republic seized 253 kg (557 lb) of elephant tusks that poachers were trying to smuggle out of the country by air, police said on Saturday. Police discovered the haul consisting of 66 pieces of ivory at the Maya-Maya international airport in the capital Brazzaville on Friday, saying it was probably destined to be smuggled out of West Africa via Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan. "We have caught the forwarding agent, and the investigation in...