GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS | Saturday

France, the European Union's largest poultry producer, confirms the EU's first outbreak of the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu in commercial poultry.
A 27-year-old woman dies from bird flu in Jakarta, Indonesia, becoming that Southeast Asian nation's 20th human fatality from the deadly virus.
China reports two new cases of H5N1 in a 9-year-old girl and a 26-year-old woman, raising its number of reported human infections since October to 14.
Authorities in the former Soviet republic of Georgia order the killing of domestic birds in an area where they fear wild swans died of H5N1.
Two wild birds test positive for H5N1 in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, the first cases in that part of Germany.
Five dead chickens at two farms in India's western Gujarat state were found infected with H5N1, the government says, confirming the country's second known outbreak.
Malaysia reports a sharp drop in poultry sales after a bird flu outbreak last week.
A dead magpie found in urban Hong Kong is suspected of having a strain of bird flu, the government says.
Source: Associated Press