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Bitter pill: Taliban government shakes up Afghan medicine market
AFP, Published on 16/02/2026
» KABUL — Afghanistan's decision to overhaul its medicine market was meant to improve quality and boost domestic production, but industry specialists say the swift changes have led to a litany of problems.
Trump spotlight divides S.Africa's Afrikaners
AFP, Published on 14/04/2025
» PRETORIA - Country music and the aroma of pancakes enveloped the "Boeremark", or farmer's market, outside South Africa's capital Pretoria where thousands of Afrikaners browsed on a Saturday morning.
Pope Francis, 88, hospitalised with bronchitis
AFP, Published on 15/02/2025
» ROME - Pope Francis was admitted to hospital on Friday for tests and treatment for bronchitis, the latest in a series of health problems for the 88-year-old pontiff.
First-of-its-kind HIV cure case among scientific highlights at AIDS 2024
Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 19/07/2024
» MUNICH - A unique HIV cure case will be among the scientific highlights of AIDS 2024, the 25th International AIDS Conference, which will take place in Munich, Germany, and virtually from July 22-26.
Life of pain for toxic syrup survivors
Reuters Special Report by Stanley Widianto, Willy Kurniawan, Kate Lamb and Jennifer Rigby, Published on 23/12/2023
» JAKARTA - Devouring books from a young age, Sheena Almaera Maryam had been excited about her first day of kindergarten near Jakarta.
I'm alive, says pope after flu scuppers COP 28 plans
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis joked on Thursday that he was still alive, after cancelling a trip to United Nations climate talks in Dubai due to the flu, saying doctors were worried about the heat there.
Breathless pope delegates reading as flu persists
AFP, Published on 29/11/2023
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis presided over his weekly audience Wednesday despite the flu that caused him to scrap a trip to Dubai, but asked an aide to deliver his reading for him.
Pope to undergo hernia operation
Published on 07/06/2023
» ROME: Pope Francis will undergo an operation for an abdominal hernia at a Rome hospital, where he is expected to stay for “several days”, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
LGBTQ groups seek legal ban on Swiss conversion therapy
AFP, Published on 02/12/2022
» GENEVA - LGBTQ organisations in Switzerland are concerned that without swift action, the country could become a haven for conversion therapy, which is banned in neighbouring France and Germany.
Bangladeshi mystic fights demons with psychiatry
AFP, Published on 15/09/2022
» MAIZBHANDAR (BANGLADESH) - Evil spirits bedevil the families that seek blessings from an elderly Bangladeshi mystic -- but he knows his prayers alone are not enough to soothe their troubled minds.