2012-07-17
July 16, 2012 could be another major turning point in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a supplemental new drug application for the previously approved...
2012-07-17
BILL CORCORAN in Cape Town THE DISTRIBUTION and use of 4.5 million HIV testing kits in South Africa has been halted by the government after it emerged the medical equipment was recently blacklisted by...
2012-07-17
JERUSALEM — Wrapping up a whirlwind trip to Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that the U.S. and Israel are "on the same page at this moment"...
2012-07-16
Six Cypriot officials, including two ex-ministers, pleaded not guilty on Monday to manslaughter charges in connection with a deadly munitions blast last year. Former foreign minister Marcos Kyprianou...
2012-07-16
The president of Libya's Olympic committee, Nabil Elalem, is reported to have been abducted in Tripoli. According to eyewitness accounts, Mr Elalem was in his car with a colleague when two...
2012-07-16
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was elected on Sunday to become the first female head of the African Union (AU) Commission, ending a bruising...
2012-07-15
Christine Lagarde and Nicolas Sarkozy were embroiled in a new corruption inquiry on Sunday over the awarding of Legion d'Honneur for political favours. Christine Lagarde and Nicolas...
2012-07-15
LONDON — The Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan (July 8) ended by adopting a declaration that echoed Indian concerns when it adopted a declaration recognizing that "the main threat to Afghanistan's...
2012-07-15
Senior managers at Barclays have warned staff in an internal memo that the Libor scandal will envelop other banks. The memo circulated on Friday said that revelations about its rivals would "put...
2012-07-15
Madonna performs with her dancers during the concert at Le Stade De France in Paris on Saturday. Photograph: David Wolff/Getty Images France's far-right Front National (FN) is to sue Madonna for using...
2012-07-15
FRENCH President Francois Hollande has told those close to him to keep their private lives private and to resolve their conflicts away from the news media. Mr Hollande, who...
2012-07-15
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2012-07-14
If all goes well next month, Curiosity, NASA's latest mission to Mars, will land in the Gale crater, a 3.5-billion-year-old, 96-mile-wide depression near the planet's equator. Out will roll a car-size...
2012-07-14
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot police are questioning a 24-year-old man arrested last week who may have been plotting an attack on Israeli tourists visiting the Mediterranean island, media reported on...
2012-07-14
The general leading the suspended United Nations monitoring mission in Syria has said there had been persistent fighting around the town of Tremseh, where both sides accused the other of massacring...
2012-07-14
Tweet Geneva, July 14 (ANI): The United Nations' decision to make Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir a member of its Human Rights Council after accusing him of genocide has outraged many rights...
2012-07-14
Tweet United Nations, July 13 (Xinhua-ANI): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is concerned over the future of Afghanistan as ongoing conflict and natural...
2012-07-14
There are many pairs of wringing hands at the United Nations Security Council in New York, but those hands are tied....
2012-07-14
related articles World condemns Syrian regime over massacre By Reuters | Jul.14,2012 | 10:30 AM...
2012-07-14
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Nearly $25 million has already been spent to prepare for the immediate aftermath of this year's wildfires, putting the U.S. Forest Service on track for another possible record year...
2012-07-14
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 22 people including a prominent politician, and wounding 40 others. Afghan MP Ahmad Khan...
2012-07-14
A solar storm is racing toward Earth this weekend, but scientists say not to worry. The blast of charged solar particles was due to arrive on Saturday morning and last through Sunday as it slams into...
2012-07-14
Related topics LibyaLibyan civil warQadaffiArab spring Advertisement With 60% voter turnout wartime opposition leader Mahmoud Jibril's National Forces Alliance has now officially won the first free...
2012-07-14
Kabul -- Just days after President Hamid Karzai assured the United States and international donors that he was serious about fighting corruption, seven top members of the agency that promotes...