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Indian company says working on two possible Zika vaccines 03 Feb 2016 - 05:59 pm

A municipal health worker shows off a test tube with larvae of Zika virus vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, as part of the...

South America in Zika crisis talks as transmission feared 03 Feb 2016 - 05:55 pm

Montevideo: South American health ministers launched emergency talks Wednesday on the fast-spreading Zika outbreak after a US case of sexual transmission of the...

Burundi prosecution appeals coup sentences 03 Feb 2016 - 05:52 pm

Nairobi: Prosecution lawyers in Burundi have appealed the verdicts in the trial of leaders of a failed coup, demanding all should face life...

Justice eludes India's medical negligence victims 03 Feb 2016 - 05:47 pm

Cap62-year-old Indian woman Suresh Rani, given an overdose of sodium by doctors at a hospital which resulted in a permanent brain damage, is...

Turkey’s Tupras says fire erupts in Kocaeli refinery, output unaffected 03 Feb 2016 - 05:42 pm

ISTANBUL: A fire broke out at Turkish oil refiner Tupras’ refinery in the northwestern province of Kocaeli, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday,...

EU lawmakers back diesel test loopholes despite VW scandal 03 Feb 2016 - 05:39 pm

Strasbourg: EU lawmakers on Wednesday waved through plans to allow diesel car makers to exceed pollution limits, in a big victory for the...

France bans Pegida's anti-refugee march in Calais 03 Feb 2016 - 05:36 pm

Lille, France: France on Wednesday banned protests in the refugee hotspot of Calais ahead of a planned march by anti-Islamic organisation Pegida. Interior...

Syria opposition chief Hijab arrives for Geneva talks 03 Feb 2016 - 05:18 pm

Geneva: Syrian opposition chief Riad Hijab arrived in Switzerland on Wednesday afternoon, his grouping said, in a move that could rekindle troubled UN-brokered...

Pope Francis under fire over China 'Realpolitik' 03 Feb 2016 - 05:15 pm

Vatican City: Pope Francis came under fire Wednesday after lavishing praise on China in a move widely seen as oiling the wheels of...

Zika: profile of an enigmatic virus 03 Feb 2016 - 05:11 pm

Paris: The world's latest health scare is Zika: a tropical, mosquito-borne virus that holds little danger for most people, but could completely derail...

Clinton clear on Trump: ‘We were not friends’: People magazine 03 Feb 2016 - 05:08 pm

WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to set the record straight on Donald Trump: “We were not friends.” “We knew each other,...

Suu Kyi urges patience over Myanmar presidency decision 03 Feb 2016 - 05:01 pm

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends Amyothar Hluttaw (upper house parliament) as an observer during the first day of upper house...

Body of mystic monk in crystal coffin goes on the road for Holy Year 03 Feb 2016 - 05:00 pm

By Gabriele Pileri SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy: The body of one of the most popular Roman Catholic saints, the mystic monk Padre Piobegan,...

Iraq building security wall around Baghdad: military commander 03 Feb 2016 - 04:52 pm

An Iraqi woman rides on a donkey as another follows close by, as they skirt a huge concrete blast wall protecting an Iraqi...

Nigeria president warns of Libya 'time bomb' 03 Feb 2016 - 04:50 pm

Strasbourg: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urged the international community on Wednesday to help end the turmoil in Libya, warning that it was creating...

Pilot fears blast on Somalia airliner was bomb 03 Feb 2016 - 04:47 pm

Mogadishu: A blast that ripped a hole in a commercial airliner shortly after take-off from Somalia's capital was probably caused by a bomb,...

Syrian government says unclear how long peace talk preparations will take 03 Feb 2016 - 04:43 pm

A woman walks past election posters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad along a street in Damascus June 2, 2014. Reuters/Khaled al-Hariri/Files Government negotiator...