Preventive cholera vaccination programs will restart globally after they were halted for nearly four years due to a vaccine shortage, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In a joint statement, WHO, vaccine alliance GAVI and the United Nations Children’s Fund said stocks of oral cholera vaccines in the global stockpile they manage had improved to...
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Son Of Late Dictator Gadhafi Is Killed In Libya
Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, was killed in the northern African country, Libyan officials said Tuesday. The 53-year-old was killed in the town Zintan, 136 kilometers (85 miles) southwest of the capital, Tripoli, according to Libyan’s chief prosecutor’s office. The office said in a statement...
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Several Toronto Officers Arrested As Police Plan To Discuss Results Of Corruption Investigation
Several Toronto police officers have been arrested and a neighboring police force said it will announce details of an investigation into organized crime and corruption on Thursday. Clayton Campbell, president of Toronto’s police union, said Wednesday he is aware of “several of its members who were arrested” but declined to provide further details. York Regional...
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Poland To Investigate Epstein Files For Potential Polish Victims
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Polish authorities would analyze the recently published Jeffrey Epstein documents to seek any potential Polish victims. “We cannot allow that any of the cases involving abuse of Polish children by the network of pedophiles and the organizer of this satanic circle, Mr. Epstein, be treated lightly,” Tusk said, referring...
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Chinese National Who Exposed Rights Abuses Is Freed From US Detention After Being Granted Asylum
Guan Heng, a Chinese national who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland, has been released from federal detention more than five months after being swept up in the Trump administration’s mass immigration enforcement operation. Guan was released and reunited with his mother on Tuesday, nearly a week after being granted asylum by an immigration...
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China Will Ban Hidden Door Handles On Cars Starting In 2027
China will ban hidden door handles on cars, commonly used on Tesla’s electric vehicles and many other EV models, starting next year. All car doors must include a mechanical release function for handles, except for the tailgate, according to details released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday. Officials said the policy...
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Body Found On Cyprus Beach Identified As Missing Russian Businessman Once Detained In Belarus
Authorities in Cyprus said Wednesday a body discovered last month on a beach along the country’s southern coastline has been identified as the former chief executive of Russia’s largest potash company who had been detained in Belarus in 2013 on charges of harming the Belarusian economy. Police on a British military base in Cyprus said...
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Argentina Requests Extradition Of Maduro From The US On Crimes Against Humanity Charges
An Argentine judge on Wednesday requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in New York. The inquest from Argentina, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases...
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American-Born Aaliyah Farmer Left Mexico’s Top Soccer League Because Of Harassment, Coach Says
American-born Aaliyah Farmer asked to be released from her team in Mexico’s top women’s soccer league after just one year because she was subject to harassment in the country, UANL Tigres coach Pedro Losa said Wednesday. Losa did not provide details about the type of harassment Farmer said she faced. The 22-year-old was born in...
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Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City Future In Doubt
Pep Guardiola is facing growing uncertainty over his future at Manchester City, with doubts emerging about whether he will remain at the club through the final year of his current contract, which runs until June 30, 2027. Guardiola officially joined Manchester City as manager on July 1, 2016, and since then, he has led the...