Philippines mulls pullout of Syria peacekeepers The Philippine foreign secretary says he is recommending to President Benigno Aquino III to pull out all Filipino U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights following the abduction of four by Syrian rebels. More
8 die in clothing factory fire in Bangladesh as Rana Plaza toll passes 900 Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900. More
S&P cuts Egypt's credit ratings Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has pushed Egypt's sovereign credit ratings deeper into junk status, citing "continued pressure" on foreign reserves. More
CSHL’s Josh Homer produces chemical compounds with potential Homer found that eight of the microtubule targeting agents were more potent than colchicine against HCT-15. This cancer cell line, he explained, is known to have upregulated efflux, which is a major ... 04/22/2024 - 4:51 am | View Link
New cases every day as deadly TB makes 'worrying' resurgence New cases of Tuberculosis (TB) are being identified every day amid rising concern over one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases. BirminghamLive previously reported how the West Midlands was ... 04/22/2024 - 2:34 am | View Link
51 per cent with pre-XDR TB, 15.5 per cent with MDR-TB cases :HaystackAnalytics report Mumbai: A recent collaboration between HaystackAnalytics and Dr DY Patil Medical College, Pune, has illuminated critical insights into the tuberculosis (TB) landscape in India. This study, ... 04/22/2024 - 1:44 am | View Link
Stockouts and setbacks: TB patients face the consequences Several states, including Maharashtra, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Karnataka have reported acute shortages in anti-tuberculosis medication, putting the health and welfare of about 28.2 lakh ... 04/20/2024 - 8:50 am | View Link
We neglect ancient killers like tuberculosis at our peril Treating TB might not be big business, but it still kills more than one million people every year — more than any other infectious disease on earth. 04/17/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But with the Craft Brewers Conference underway there, the results of the event’s hallmark competition, the World Beer Cup, were bound to get out.
On Wednesday night, beermakers from around the globe celebrated their accolades in what’s billed as the industry’s largest and most prestigious competition.
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Against the global backdrop of violent conflicts, withering financial conditions and increasingly extreme weather events, leaders of major institutions have needed to adapt and pursue meaning beyond creating profit, as top officers of four companies discussed Wednesday on the TIME100 Summit stage.
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Tory Burch, Executive Chairman of Tory Burch and creator of the Tory Burch Foundation and member of this year’s TIME100, said when she considers leading her company for the past 20 years she “can’t believe she’s still standing.”
“Being an entrepreneur today is, as I mentioned, whiplash.
(WASHINGTON) — Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday.
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Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine nearly double the striking distance — up to 300 kilometers (190 miles) — that it had with the mid-range version of the weapon that it received from the U.
Hamas released a video on Wednesday appearing to show that Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is alive, providing the first significant evidence that he survived severe injuries sustained during his capture on October 7, 2023.
The short video, which is undated, shows Goldberg-Polin sitting in a chair, part of his left arm missing after it was reportedly blown off during last year’s attack that ignited the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.