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Researchers: AIDS Cure May Have Two Paths

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 2:15 pm (UTC-5)
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Researchers are looking into two main paths toward a cure for AIDS, based on stories from people who overcame the disease. An AIDS researcher in Spain, Javier Martinez-Picado, says scientists envision a cure either by eradicating the virus from a person’s body or by coaxing the body to control the virus on its own. He […]

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Ghanaian President John Atta Mills Dies at 68

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
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Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, who died Tuesday, oversaw a generally peaceful and prosperous time for his country during his one term in office. Mr. Mills became the country’s third democratically-elected president in 2009 after defeating ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in a run-off election. In July 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama visited Ghana and […]

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France: Architect Who Flew to China for Questioning is OK

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
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France says a French architect who flew to China for questioning in connection with a major political scandal is in regular contact with French authorities. A spokesman for the French embassy in Beijing told VOA two diplomats met with Patrick Devillers last week after he arrived in China from Cambodia, where police had detained him […]

Ghana President John Atta Mills Dead

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC-5)
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Ghana’s President John Atta Mills has died at the age of 68. The Ghanaian minister of information, Fritz Baffour, confirmed the president’s death in a phone interview with VOA. The official Ghana News Agency, quoting a statement from the office of the presidency, reports that Mr. Atta Mills died Tuesday at a military hospital in […]

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Ghana’s President John Atta Mills Dead

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC-5)
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News reports from Ghana say President John Atta Mills has died. The Ghanian president’s office says the 68-year-old president died a “sudden and untimely death” Tuesday, a few hours after falling ill. Ghanian news reports say he died at a military hospital in the capital, Accra. There was no immediate word on what caused his […]

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Greek PM Samaras Predicts Economic Growth by 2014

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 12:55 pm (UTC-5)
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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is pledging that the economy in his recession-plagued country can start to grow again by early 2014. Auditors for Greece’s international creditors are in Athens to check on the government’s progress in imposing unpopular austerity measures to cut its deficit and the country is mired in the fifth year of […]

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Four Killed in Ethnic Violence in Northeast India

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC-5)
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Indian security forces shot and killed four rioters in northeastern Assam state Tuesday as authorities struggle to control ethnic fighting that has left 26 people dead and forced thousands to flee the area. Police say the rioters were killed as they tried to commit acts of arson. Indian troops deployed to quell the unrest between […]

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India’s Top Court Bans Tourism in Tiger Reserves

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC-5)
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India’s Supreme Court has banned tourism in tiger reserves throughout the country, in a bid to protect the endangered animal. The court Tuesday also announced penalties against six states for failure to comply with an earlier order to create buffer zones around tiger habitats. Wasim Kadri, a lawyer with the National Tiger Conservation Authority, told […]

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Chinese Woman Accuses Local Authorities of Forcible Sterilization

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC-5)
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A 46-year-old woman from Jiangxi, China is protesting that local officials forced her to be sterilized, allegedly out of revenge for petitioning authorities. Mao Yuanchun had petitioned the local government earlier this year about the death of her daughter. Mao says the daughter died in a fight with her boyfriend, who was later ordered to […]

Britain Charges 8 in Tabloid Phone Hacking Scandal

Posted July 24th, 2012 at 12:25 pm (UTC-5)
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British prosecutors have charged a former aide to Prime Minister David Cameron and a former editor of the News of the World tabloid, in connection with a phone hacking scandal that forced the newspaper to shut down. Prosecutors on Tuesday charged former Cameron spokesman Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, who was a senior editor at […]

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