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Family matters: Thaksin's party down, maybe not out
AFP, Published on 09/02/2026
» Thailand's most successful party of the 21st century just had its worst election result ever, raising questions about the future of the political machine built by jailed ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
US axes mRNA vaccine contracts, casting safety doubts
AFP, Published on 06/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced it would terminate 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, questioning the safety of a technology credited with helping end the Covid pandemic and saving millions of lives.
'Turn tragedy into change': Italy mourns femicide victim
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» PADUA (ITALY) - Thousands of Italians paid their last respects Tuesday to a university student killed by her ex-boyfriend, a case that has triggered nationwide grief and rage at violence against women.
Syria blamed for 2018 chlorine attack
AFP, Published on 27/01/2023
» THE HAGUE: The global chemical weapons watchdog blamed Syria on Friday for a 2018 chlorine attack that killed 43 people, in a long-awaited report on a case that sparked tensions between Damascus and the West.
China's ex-Covid patients live under 'dark shadow' of stigma
AFP, Published on 11/08/2022
» BEIJING - When Zuo tested positive for Covid-19 while working as a cleaner in one of Shanghai's largest quarantine centres, she hoped it wouldn't be long before she could pick up the mop and start earning again.
Horseshoe crabs: 'Living fossils' vital for vaccine safety
AFP, Published on 01/07/2022
» DOVER (UNITED STATES) - On a bright moonlit night, a team of scientists and volunteers head out to a protected beach along the Delaware Bay to survey horseshoe crabs that spawn in their millions along the US East Coast from late spring to early summer.
China's mass testing mantra is building a waste mountain
AFP, Published on 20/06/2022
» BEIJING: Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy.
After life of trauma, Liberian lab chimps settle into retirement
AFP, Published on 21/04/2022
» MARSHALL CITY (LIBERIA) - Floating on a river boat near a Liberian island, vet Richard Ssuna watches intently as animal carers wade towards the shore hurling fruits and imitating chimpanzee calls as they go.
Heaven can wait: How the super-centenarians live
AFP, Published on 10/02/2022
» TOULON (FRANCE) - Her 118th birthday wish is "to die soon". But in the meantime, Lucile Randon, better-known as "Sister Andre", always keeps her door open for any visitor who might want to say hello.
Mother of invention: Study highlights gender gap in health innovations
AFP, Published on 18/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - Harvard business professor Rem Koning studies how bias hurts innovation. But three years ago, his research hit too close to home when his wife, suffering from a rare post childbirth condition, couldn't find treatments designed with new moms in mind.