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Jakarta dog meat ban sparks debate
AFP, Published on 27/11/2025
» JAKARTA - Sitting at an empty stall in Jakarta, Alfindo Hutagaol gobbles down some rice, green sambal and grilled dog meat — a meal that is now banned in the Indonesian capital.
Shortages leave bankrupt Sri Lanka's hospitals empty
AFP, Published on 26/07/2022
» COLOMBO - Entire wards are dark and nearly empty in Sri Lanka's largest hospital, its few remaining patients leaving untreated and still in pain, and doctors prevented from even arriving for their shifts.
Flamingo massacre: Fox kills dozens of birds at US National Zoo
AFP, Published on 04/05/2022
» WASHINGTON - A wild fox that breached an enclosure at Washington's National Zoo killed 25 flamingos and one duck before escaping, the facility said Tuesday, one month after a rabid fox went on a biting spree near the Capitol.
Dangerous stray dogs pose culling dilemma in N.Africa
AFP, Published on 07/04/2022
» ARIANA (TUNISIA) - Packs of stray dogs, a common sight in North African cities, are in the crosshairs after the deaths of two schoolchildren, but animal rights groups urge more humane solutions than mass culling.
Fox caught at US Capitol had rabies: city health authority
AFP, Published on 07/04/2022
» WASHINGTON - A fox that was put down after biting at least nine people including a congressman at the US Capitol has tested positive for rabies, public health officials said Wednesday.
The vaccine revolution comes inside tiny bubbles of fat
Tim Loh of Bloomberg News, Published on 04/03/2021
» NEW YORK: If messenger-RNA vaccines are the breakout medicine of the pandemic, then the tiny lipid spheres that bring them into people’s cells are the unsung heroes.
UK pet owners have bone to pick with post-Brexit travel rules
AFP, Published on 30/12/2020
» LONDON: Vets, pet owners and others in Britain are bracing for new and potentially costly bureaucracy from Friday, when the UK ends participation in the EU passport scheme for cats and dogs.
China's vaccine race: shortage of monkeys and working weekends
AFP, Published on 19/06/2020
» SHENYANG, China: Inside one of the Chinese labs racing to create a coronavirus vaccine, researchers work weekends, lab monkeys are in short supply and plans are being made for human trials abroad.
Humans to blame for spread of coronavirus and other 'zoonoses'
AFP, Published on 21/04/2020
» PARIS: Whether it came from a bat or a pangolin is not certain, but one thing is: the coronavirus outbreak that has killed tens of thousands and turned the world upside down comes from the animal world.
Newborn mauled to death by dogs at India hospital
AFP, Published on 14/01/2020
» NEW DELHI - Indian police have sealed a private hospital and charged staff for manslaughter after a newborn baby was mauled to death by dogs inside an operating theatre, an investigator said Tuesday.