Purged Chinese leader in hospital
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The Chinese government says detained former Party leader Zhao Ziyang is ill but stable in hospital.
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Hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby smelter, state media and local officials said Wednesday.
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Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party leader who was deposed after the 1989 pro-democracy protests, is in a deep coma and may be close to death, a human rights activist said Saturday.
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The wife of Taiwan's embattled president Chen Shui-bian has collapsed and was taken to hospital for checks just after the start of her high-profile trial on corruption and forgery charges.
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BEIJING -- One by one, the mourners pinned on white flowers and stepped into the Beijing courtyard home where China's purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest for almost 16 years.
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Australian opposition leader Mark Latham is in hospital with an inflamed pancreas, his office said.
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Former Indonesian president Suharto, rushed to hospital in critical condition on Friday, is showing some signs of improvement but requires constant monitoring, hospital and medical officials said on Sunday.
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The condition of hospitalised Indonesian ex-leader Suharto is getting worse, his doctors say.
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US Vice-President Dick Cheney is taken to hospital after experiencing shortness of breath.
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Deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang has undergone medical treatment and is "stable" in hospital, the foreign ministry said, but denied reports he was dead.
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John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, has been moved to a high dependency unit in hospital.
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has spent the day in hospital with a suspected chest infection.
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The health of former Indonesian dictator Suharto deteriorated Wednesday, with a potentially lethal infection spreading through his body
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev was discharged Wednesday from a German hospital where he underwent surgery for a blocked artery in the neck, his aide said.
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The Chinese regulator who was executed Tuesday was ultimately corrupted by the system he sought to change.
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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been admitted to hospital, his spokesman has told the BBC.
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The top Communist Party leader in Shanghai is dismissed for corruption, Chinese state media reports.