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JOHANNESBURG (AP) Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward limiting one of history’s deadliest pandemics. Then the email arrived. Stop...
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PANNONHALMA (AP): Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history. The 1,000-year-old...
UNITED NATIONS (AP): Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment, the UN World Meteorological Organization says. “About two billion tons of...
TEHRAN (AP): Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that his country would accept a resumption of nuclear talks with the US, if there were assurances of no more attacks against it, state media reported. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a...
BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey (AP): President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting August 1, a move that could cause massive upheaval between the United States and two of its...
NEW DELHI (AP): Fuel control switches for the engines of an Air India flight that crashed last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, starving both engines of fuel, a preliminary investigation report said...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP): Four months after his release, South Korea’s disgraced former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sent back to a detention center after a Seoul court issued a warrant for his arrest last Thursday. Yoon’s brief, ill-fated imposition...
CONCORD, New Hampshire (AP): The legal fight over President Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship is advancing on a path toward the United States Supreme Court. A New Hampshire federal judge last Thursday issued a ruling prohibiting...
WASHINGTON (AP): The United States is selling weapons to its NATO allies in Europe so they can provide them to Ukraine as it struggles to fend off a recent escalation in Russia’s drone and missile attacks, President Donald Trump and his chief...
NASSAU, Bahamas (CMC): The Bahamas government says a new study has found that one in five Bahamian students between the ages of 13 and 18 have attempted suicide. Prime Minister Phillip Davis, speaking at the signing ceremony of a multi-million...
NEW YORK, (CMC): A leading Haitian-American legislator Friday welcomed a United States federal district court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order terminating birthright citizenship from becoming effective anywhere in the...
DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP): A Pennsylvania man who posted a video of his father’s severed head on YouTube was convicted of murder Friday and sentenced to life without parole. Bucks County Judge Stephen A. Corr found Justin D. Mohn, 33, guilty in...
WASHINGTON (AP): Just months after President Donald Trump returned to office amid a wave of anti-immigration sentiment, the share of US adults saying immigration is a “good thing” for the country has jumped substantially, including among...
WASHINGTON (AP): A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks...
LONDON (AP): Years of American-led investment into AIDS programmes has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest levels seen in more than three decades, and provided life-saving medicines for some of the world’s most...
PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): The founding chairman of CrimeStoppers Trinidad...
