N-theft charge wily US design: China
China has dismissed as ``extremely irresponsible and unfounded'' a US report alleging that Beijing had used advanced nuclear information stolen from the United States to build and test nuclear bombs.

Clinton acted on N-theft report: White House
White House officials have said that US President Bill Clinton ordered tightened security at US nuclear laboratories in 1997 after receiving reports that China may have stolen nuclear secrets in the 1980s.

French ex-ministers await verdict in AIDS blood trial
Three French former ministers will know on Tuesday the verdict of a special court which tried them last month on manslaughter charges relating to the transfusion of AIDS-tainted blood in the 1980s.

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