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Associated Selenian Press (ASP) is the semi-independent news agency of the Federal Republic of Selenon. It provides up-to-date coverage of all the breaking news stories around the world, for the citizens of Selenon and the wider world. ASP is neutral and well-balanced, as proved by its reports.

ASP is state-run though maintains its semi-independence in order to provide the best headlines and news stories for the world's residents. ASP is headed by Chairman Jonathen Howell, a former Culture & Sports Minister in the Selenian government during the Farthlington Cabinet of the early 1990s.

ASP operates a news network, ASP News, which is the prime source of news on Selenian television. ASP also controls a vareity of newspapers, such as The F.D. Times and The New Alexandria Tribune. ASP also has its own radio station in the form of ASP Radio, which broadcasts a good mix of news and music popular in Selenon, mostly classical and power metal.

Disease outbreak in breakaway Orpalm identified as anthrax


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Anthrax spores as found in Orpalm by military scientists.

The recent outbreak of a previously unknown disease in the breakaway Christian Kingdom of Orpalm has been identified as anthrax, a disease which has a history of outbreaks in Orpalm and its neighbours, along with Mad Cow Disease.

The disease was identified following military scientists recieving samples from a dead infected body, believed to be a male near the Orpalm/Vivean Border, which, after several tests, was finally confirmed to be anthrax.

The first outbreak of anthrax in Orpalm occured in the late 1990s, which was contained well in North-Eastern Orpalm only, though the second outbreak in 2001-2003 spread to the State of Vivean, and was barely contained in the two states following draconian measures undertaken by the federal government.

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Farm in eastern Farth closed due to mini-outbreak of Mad Cow Disease

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Mad Cow Disease as found in one of the infected cows.

A farm in eastern Farth, one of the states which shares a border with Orpalm, has been closed following orders from the local government after a mini-outbreak of Mad Cow Disease infected most of the cows in the farm. The mini-outbreak has already killed five sixths of the cows in the farm, in a small farming village, and the majority of the remaining sixth remain infected.

"We have taken the required measures needed to quarantine the infection," said Governor Timonthy Harchester at a press conference earlier today. "We are confident that the disease will not leave that farm."

The infected cows are being destroyed following orders from the Governor, and the village the farm resides in has been quarantined until further notice. This comes just after news that an outbreak of anthrax has crippled the breakaway state of Orpalm.

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