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Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab, which last month ordered the closure of Mogadishu's main airport, said Thursday it may allow air traffic to once again land.
"Our decision to close the airport is not Holy Koran verse; we can change our decision to close the airport if the people come to negotiate," Sheikh...
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 The Great Lakes
are under the threat of global warming and Congress needs to enact a
comprehensive plan to restore the health of the lakes.
Warming over the next century could lower
lakes and expose toxic sediment that has been buried and cause heavy rains that
could lead to more sewer overflows, threatening water quality, a new...
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Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...
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 Chinese media reports almost 100 people have turned
themselves in to the police, following anti-China riots in the capital of Lhasa. Xinhua news agency
claims those who surrendered were “directly involved in the beating, smashing,
looting and arson last Friday.”
According to the activists, police officers in Lhasa have been...
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 Researchers have discovered that the vaccine against MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) doesn’t work for autism too. So the vaccine doesn’t raise the risk for the bipolar disease of autism. Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University College of Physicians and...
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 Influenza is affecting the whole globe, because the flu
vaccine only protects against about 40 percent of the flu viruses, officials at
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, according to
the Associated Press.
"After relatively low levels of influenza activity in
the early part of the season, since...
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 Members of the Food and Drug Administration’s panel of
outside experts voted on Thursday against attaching black-box warnings, the
organization’s strongest cautions, on the labels of epilepsy drugs, saying that
studies did not prove a sufficiently high risk of suicidal behavior as to apply
such tough warnings.
The Food and Drug...
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 The US Food and Drug Administration warned physicians
that certain types of antipsychotic drugs can boost the risk of death in
elderly people who have dementia. FDA also announced that they will now require
stronger warnings on antipsychotic drugs. Manufacturers of older antipsychotic
drugs, such as Haldol and Thorazine, are required...
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 Anti-tobacco campaigns registered some significant gains in
2007, with more states banning smoking in public places.
But there's still too little federal and state funding for
smoking-prevention and cessation programs and many states haven't increased
their cigarette taxes.
That's the conclusion of the American Lung...
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 According to two new U.S. studies of gay and bisexual men
who know they are infected with HIV, amore than one-third have recently had
unprotected intercourse.
In many cases, these men are engaging in unprotected sex
with other HIV-infected men -- a practice called "serosorting," where
partners with a similar,...
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 NASA operators wasted no time in their efforts to repair the Hubble telescope, which photographed once again another stunning cosmic scene. The photo shows an odd pair of galaxies called Arp 147 and it was released on Thursday. Mission officials said that the image is a perfect “10,” proving that the telescope’s Wide Field Planetary...
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 Radiocarbon dating was used in the analysis of some of the cremated bodies that were excavated from the famous Stonehenge in the 1950s. British archaeologists came to the conclusion that the site used to be a burial ground; this function was kept from 3000 B.C. until 2500 B.C., when the monuments are thought to have been erected. It is...
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 Scientists working at NASA may have found one of the clearest evidence yet that there was water on Mars, thanks to the advanced technique onboard the Spirit rover.A simple rock collected by Spirit from the Martian soil is so rich in silica that scientists are almost 100% certain that water was involved in its creation.The rover's robotic...
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