Signs of HIV have returned in two American men who appeared to have briefly eradicated the virus after bone marrow transplants for cancer, US doctors said Friday. Experts said the discovery is a disappointment to efforts to find a cure for the human…
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Former US president Bill Clinton, who was in office when Nelson Mandela took power in South Africa, on Thursday mourned the death of a “champion for human dignity and freedom”. “Today the world has lost one of its most important leaders and one of its…
President Obama addressed the nation on the death of Nelson Mandela.
A ship, two portable treatment plants and less than 90 days: that’s the plan the Pentagon unveiled Thursday to destroy “hundreds of tons” of Syria’s most dangerous chemical weapons. After Albania refused to destroy the lethal “priority 1” chemical agents…
Ho/Framingham Police Department/AFPThis undated booking photo courtesy of the Framingham, Massachussetts Police Department shows Onyango Obama. The uncle of US President Barack Obama was arrested last week near Boston on a charge of drunk driving, police…
America’s first black president Barack Obama Thursday mourned Nelson Mandela as a “profoundly good” man who “took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.” Obama — who met the former South African president briefly…
Great news for innovation: the United States House of Representatives has approved a bill to curb the abusive actions of patent trolls. According to Reuters, the bill had no trouble passing at 325 votes to 91, and the Senate will look into the issue…
The United States has charged 49 current and former Russian diplomats and their wives over a $1.5 million fraud, accusing them of stealing medical benefits for a decade, prosecutors said Thursday. The alleged scam took place between 2004 and August…
Broad US sanctions aimed at keeping certain technologies out of the hands of repressive regimes can often backfire by hurting democracy movements, a think tank report said Thursday. The New America Foundation study said US sanctions policies “remain…