Hello on this Wednesday, May
30, 2007. I'm Kristin Volk
with a UPI Headline Update.
U.S. authorities are searching
for people who may have been
exposed to a potentially fatal
form of tuberculosis on a
plane. An infected passenger
took two trans-Atlantic
flights this month and could
have passed the rare,
drug-resistant form of
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Hello on this Wednesday, May
30, 2007. I'm Kristin Volk
with a UPI Headline Update.
U.S. authorities are searching
for people who may have been
exposed to a potentially fatal
form of tuberculosis on a
plane. An infected passenger
took two trans-Atlantic
flights this month and could
have passed the rare,
drug-resistant form of the
disease onto others around
him. The man departed Atlanta,
Georgia on May 12 aboard Air
France flight 385 and arrived
in Paris the next day. He
returned to North America last
Thursday on Czech Air Flight
0104 from Prague to Montreal.
Five terror suspects are being
detained in Baghdad's Sadr
City. All are believed to be
members of a cell involved in
weapons trafficking. The U.S.
military says the cell leader
was targeted for transporting
weapons and bringing militants
from Iran to Iraq for
terrorist training. Iran has
denied U.S. allegations that
it's providing weapons or
training to Iraqi insurgents.
The U.S. military has turned
over three northern Iraq
provinces to Iraqis. The
provinces, which are
predominately Kurdish, are
relatively peaceful compared
to the sectarian violence
further south. There are now
seven of Iraq's 18 provinces
under domestic control,
although U.S. forces have not
entirely withdrawn from any of
them. The U.S. military says
the goal is to have all
provinces under Iraqi control
by this fall.The
pharmaceutical company Pfizer
is facing criminal charges in
Nigeria. Eleven years ago,
authorities say the company
gave a non-approved antibiotic
to children during a
meningitis epidemic without
parents' consent. They say the
company's actions left some
children dead and others
disabled. Pfizer claims it did
nothing wrong and that
Nigerian officials knew about
the clinical trial. Thanks for
watching today's top news
headline. For more on these
stories and all of the day's
news, check out upi.com.

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