Vaccine created to protect Ebola-ravaged chimps
PARIS: Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against Ebola, which has…
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Netherlands urges support for Syria war crimes database
THE HAGUE: Dutch officials on Thursday urged nations to boost efforts to create a database of alleged war crimes in…
Putin urges Netanyahu to focus on present Iran ties
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Israel Thursday to focus on today’s “different world” after premier Benjamin Netanyahu evoked age-old…
Anita Sarawak, Rahimah to be inducted into Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame
SINGAPORE: The 1970s pop divas Anita Sarawak and Rahimah Rahim will be the first popular singers inducted into the Singapore…
Stuck between gangs and Trump, migrants halt in Mexico
MEXICO CITY: When a gang threatened to kill Rocio, her husband and their two small children, they fled their native Honduras,…
US rebuffs China over N.Korea talks
The United States on Wednesday rebuffed China’s appeal for talks with North Korea, saying leader Kim Jong-Un was behaving irrationally…
CIA blasts WikiLeaks for publishing secret documents
WASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering the fight against terror threats…
Bird-slaying snakes ravage island forests too
PARIS: A non-native snake species that has already wiped out most of Guam’s tree-dwelling birds is also decimating the Pacific…