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US health agency to end medical testing on chimps

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it will no longer fund chimpanzee medical

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Ben Carson Compares Syrian Refugees To Rabid Dogs

Ben Carson seems to enjoy following in Donald Trump’s footsteps. Just days after Raw Story reported that Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, refused to rule out requiring Muslims in the U.S. to wear or carry special ID’s identifying their religion, Ben Carson compared Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs” while discussing the hot-button issue in

Hillary Clinton offers more hawkish approach on ISIS than Barack Obama

New York: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today urged a more aggressive approach to fighting Islamic State militants than President Barack Obama has pursued, saying an intensified air campaign is needed combined with ground forces. In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the former secretary of state offered her most expansive view to date

Putin's Russia sends mixed signals on Stalin-era crimes

Russia plans to unveil a bronze "Wall of Grief" in Moscow next year in its first tangible condemnation of Stalin-era crimes but critics accuse the government of playing a double game. The national memorial, backed by President Vladimir Putin, comes as authorities play down the horrors of Stalin's purges and revive some of the Soviet Union's ideology and

White House, the executive mansion of the President of the United States, 26 May 2006

New Islamic State video threatens to blow up White House

WASHINGTON: Islamic State militants released a video on Thursday threatening the White House with suicide bombings and car blasts and vowing to conduct more attacks

File - President Barack Obama is greeted by children upon arrival for a G-20 Summit at Antalya International Airport in Antalya, Turkey, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015.

Army deployed in Malaysia ahead of Obama's arrival for summit

By Praveen Menon KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia deployed soldiers in its capital city on Friday, taking extra security precautions amid unconfirmed reports of an "imminent terrorist threat" ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's arrival for a regional summit. "There have been reports of imminent terrorist threats in Malaysia," Malaysia's police

Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006. Due to the close proximity to Mexico, California has become a popular destination for Mexican immigrants.

More Mexican immigrants are leaving the US than entering, Pew Research Centre reports

More Mexicans are leaving the United States than entering it at a time when some Republicans, including presidential candidate Donald Trump, have taken a hard line on immigration from south of the border. Most Mexicans leaving the United States are doing so voluntarily to reunite with their family or to start one, the report by the Pew Research Centre, released on

A Syrian APC moves raising dust in Harasta, northeast of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.

Syria peace deal elusive as ever in wake of Islamic State attacks

United Nations: Hundreds of innocent people have been killed in horrific attacks claimed by Islamic State militants from Syria, but diplomats say major powers are no closer to a peace deal to end nearly five years of bloodshed and chaos there. Meeting in Vienna the day after Friday night's Paris attacks, Russia, the United States and powers from Europe and the Middle East

These are the alternative flag designs that New Zealand will rank in the first binding referendum in November 2015.

New Zealand voting starts on new national flag

WELLINGTON: New Zealanders began voting on Friday to select a potential new flag, as the South Pacific country considers dropping Britain's Union Jack from its national banner. Voters are being asked to choose between five flag options in a postal referendum that will continue

File - An onboard camera captures separation of the three 13 by 14-foot Orion service module fairings following lift off the Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, 5 December, 2014.

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NASA booster for deeper space mission including Mars

In a bid to bolster its effort to prepare humans for deeper space missions, NASA engineers have refined the key thermal protection system of Orion — new exploration spacecraft designed to ferry astronauts to asteroid and Mars. The team has been improving the spacecraft’s heat shield design and manufacturing process since the vehicle successfully travelled to space

File - François Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the UN, addresses the Security Council, United Nations, New York, 29 July, 2015.

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Paris attacks: France launches UN push for unified declaration of war on Isis

Security council resolution would endorse member states taking ‘all necessary measures’ to defeat Islamic State in wake of Paris attacks

File - Al Bangura, a Sierra Leone footballer, playing for Forest Green Rovers during 2012/13 season.

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Former Premier League footballer 'was trafficked for sex'

A former footballer who was brought to the UK as a child and forced into male prostitution, is now working with the Premier League to raise awareness of the growing number of teenage players being tricked into leaving Africa for Europe. Al Bangura, 27, who played in the Premier League for Watford, was 14 when his parents told him to become the leader of the secret society his

In this Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 photo, armed Chinese paramilitary policemen stand watch on a booth at a crowded railway station in Beijing, China

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China: 28 'terrorists' killed in Xinjiang operation

Chinese security forces in the far western region of Xinjiang killed 28 "terrorists" from a group that carried out a deadly attack at a coal mine in September. The news carried on Friday by the government-run Xinjiang Daily was the first official mention of the September 18 attack at the Sogan colliery in Aksu, in

In this photo provided by the Unification Ministry, South Korea's Chief Delegate Lee Deok-haeng, second from right, shakes hands with North Korean Delegate Pak Yong Il, second from left, before the Inter-Korean Red Cross Working Level meeting at the border village of the Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. North and South Korea started talks at a border village Monday on resuming the reunions of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, Seoul officials said. (The Unification Ministry via AP)

Seoul, Pyongyang to hold working-level contact

Seoul, Nov 20 (IANS) The two Koreas on Friday agreed on a working-level contact next week to discuss the timing, venue and agenda for inter-governmental talks that the two sides had agreed in late August to hold. Seoul's unification ministry said in a statement that it accepted Pyongyang's offer to hold working-level contact on November 26 at the Tongil House, an

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Volkswagen says 120,00 U.S. diesel owners will get gift cards, repairs

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Volkswagen of America said on Wednesday that 120,000 owners of diesel cars that have violated U.S. emission standards will receive $500 gift cards and $500 toward vehicle...

File - Scanning electron micrograph of a human neutrophil ingesting MRSA National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Scientists recently discovered bacteria resistant to drugs used when other treatments have failed.

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Antibiotic resistance: World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era'

The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed. Their report, in the Lancet, identifies bacteria able to shrug off colistin in patients and livestock in China. They said that resistance would spread around the world and raised the spectre of untreatable infections.

President Barack Obama talks on a conference call with U.S. negotiators in Geneva, and Deputy National Security Advisors Tony Blinken and Ben Rhodes in the Oval Office, to discuss negotiations with Iran, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.

US offers $5 mn reward for IS foreign fighter smuggler

The United States issued a $5 million reward Wednesday for information leading to the capture of a Saudi-born jihadist accused of smuggling foreign fighters into Syria. The State Department said that Tirad

A wide view of the Security Council meeting as Members observe a moment of silence for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Beirut on 12 November and in various locations in Paris on 13 November; 16 November, 2015, United Nations, New York.

Russia, France push UN resolutions on fighting IS

Russia submitted a revised draft UN resolution Wednesday on fighting the Islamic State group that France said could be partially included in its own Security Council measure following the Paris attacks. Agreement from the 15-member council on a single draft resolution that lays out the international approach to defeating IS extremists would mark a significant step after months

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, accompanied by, from left, Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La., Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., chair of the Republican Conference, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., finishes a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, following a GOP strategy session. Calling this a "moment where it's better to be safe than to be sorry," Speaker Ryan says there should be a "pause" in Syrian refugees coming to the U.S. in the wake of the Paris attacks

U.S. Republicans, defying Obama, propose tightening Syrian refugee screening

By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Republican lawmakers defied President Barack Obama on Wednesday and laid out plans to tighten screening of Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, in a political fight that challenges the U.S. view of itself as a refuge for downtrodden immigrants. Concerned about possible strikes against the United States

First Minister of Scotland and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon

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Nicola Sturgeon's first year as FM

Media captionNicola Sturgeon is marking one year as leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland It is a year since Nicola Sturgeon was elected as Scotland's first female first minister after a vote by MSPs at Holyrood. Ms Sturgeon, who had previously acted as deputy to Alex Salmond, took over as her Scottish National Party was still trying to come to terms with the

UN approves resolution urging action against Islamic State

Cameron hails UN backing for action against Islamic State

E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle expands to 6 states

U.S. airstrikes targeting ISIS killed civilians

Special forces storm Mali hotel, 27 dead as siege ends

Obama asks Supreme Court to save his immigration plan

Mali Hotel Attack: Dangote Denies Being Held Hostage

Al Qaeda "a poisonous tree," ISIS just a branch