As the world celebrates a brand new year and a bevy of medical breakthroughs in 2016, the international scientific community could be one step closer toward discovering a cure for HIV and AIDs — in part thanks to billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder has been steadily backing medical research for years with his […]
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International, Science, Medicine, & EducationFour months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, SpaceX said Monday that the cause was a failed composite overwrapped pressure vessel used to store liquid helium. In the final update to its investigation, the space company said one of three such tanks in the rocket’s larger, second-stage liquid oxygen tank
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USAThe thick, colorful book titled, “Europa: An Illustrated Introduction to Europe for Migrants and Refugees,” aims to broaden the perspectives of Europe’s newest immigrants, with plenty of historical photos, maps and individual accounts and factual information. That’s according to Alia Malek, a Syrian-American journalist who was one of the book’s editors. Overall, the guidebook tries
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalBanjul (dpa) – Gambia’s president-elect Adama Barrow vowed Monday to take office on January 19 despite the refusal of outgoing President Yahya Jammeh to give up power. A court petition filed by Jammeh to challenge the results of the December 1 election did not prevent the winner of the poll from assuming office as mandated
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InternationalThe most difficult fact for any nation to accept, is the fact that it may be totally outmatched, in some critical field, by some foreign agency or organization. Under the administration of Harry Truman, “Operation Paperclip” was instituted. This controversial program—designed to bring thousands of Nazi scientists into the U.S. after World War II—was the
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International, USARiot police have clashed with protesters in Poland amid anti-foreigner sentiment in a northeastern town, after a young local man was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve following a row at a kebab restaurant. A Tunisian national – said to have worked as a cook at the restaurant in Elk – has been charged
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InternationalHouse Democrats lobbed a preemptive salvo Monday against Republicans itching to kick-start their Obamacare repeal effort once the new Congress gavels in, calling the effort an “act of cowardice” and reckless “assault” on health care for millions and conservative orthodoxy alike, since repeal is projected to raise the deficit. They also said Republicans would pay
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABerlin (dpa) – German police have detained a 38-year-old Syrian asylum seeker for allegedly asking the extremist Islamic State for 180,000 euros (189,000 dollars) to help finance a potentially spectacular terrorist attack. The accused had used a middle man to ask for the money to buy, according to the daily Bild, eight vehicles stuffed with
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International, Middle EastWashington (dpa) – Twins usually have a lot in common, including the day and year of their birth. But in the United States over the New Year’s holiday weekend, at least four sets of twins were born on different days and different years, according to media reports Monday. The births were recorded in the states
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USAAround 60 people have been killed in a prison riot in Brazil. The fighting was sparked by a war between rival drug gangs in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus. Officials say the death toll could rise as authorities get a clearer idea of the scale of the rebellion. BRAZIL PRISON – Dozens reported killed
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InternationalMore than 250 small earthquakes have struck since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border, causing unease among residents and attention from scientists. The strongest earthquake in the sequence was magnitude 3.9, directly underneath Brawley, about 170 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The earthquakes struck in the southern end of the Brawley Seismic Zone, a
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International, The World We Share, USAIstanbul (dpa) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim denies reports that the attacker of an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Eve was wearing a Santa costume. Such reports are false, he says on Sunday in Istanbul. “We know of an armed terrorist,” he says. The authorities are working non-stop to uncover the identity of the
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Middle EastCairo (dpa) – Several convicted terrorists escaped a prison in Bahrain on Sunday after an armed attack in which one policeman was killed, the Interior Ministry said. The attack, carried out by unknown gunmen, targeted Bahrain’s Jau Prison, the ministry said on Twitter. “Security agencies are intensifying search and investigation in order to arrest the
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Middle EastJewish Home leader says plan to extend Israeli sovereignty to Jerusalem-area settlement to be presented in Knesset after Trump inauguration By Tamar Pileggi and Times of Israel staff Education Minister and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett delivers a statement to the press in response to the UN vote against Israeli settlements, at the Western
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