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Harvard morgue manager charged with selling stolen body parts
AFP, Published on 15/06/2023
» NEW YORK - The morgue manager at America's prestigious Harvard Medical School allegedly took dead body parts from his workplace without permission and then sold them, US prosecutors said Wednesday.
Defenders of Ukraine's Mariupol defiant, call for security guarantees
AFP, Published on 21/04/2022
» ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine: Ukraine's last defenders in devastated Mariupol are refusing to surrender, but have appealed for security guarantees with Russian forces on the brink of taking complete control of the strategically vital city.
Ukraine calls for talks in teetering Mariupol as Moscow holds ICBM test
AFP, Published on 21/04/2022
» ZAPORIZHZHIA (UKRAINE) - Ukraine called Wednesday for urgent negotiations with Russia in Mariupol, which appeared close to falling after weeks of siege, as Vladimir Putin flexed his military muscle with the test launch of a new, nuclear capable ICBM.
Americans brace for a rare and creepy billion-bug invasion
AFP, Published on 15/03/2021
» WASHINGTON - They have spent close to two decades buried underground, waiting for the right moment to emerge -- before pouring forth by the billions, filling the air with an ear-piercing racket and covering walls and floors from the US east coast to the Midwest.
Grim start to 2021 for Brazil with 200,000 Covid deaths
AFP, Published on 08/01/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Covid-19 death toll passed 200,000 Thursday amid a surging second wave, dousing optimism that 2021 will bring respite anytime soon for a country whose government's erratic handling of the pandemic has drawn scathing criticism.
Europe's Christmas ski season threatened by virus as cases pass 60 mn
AFP, Published on 26/11/2020
» BERLIN - Germany announced Wednesday that it will push for Europe to ban ski holidays in a bid to curb coronavirus infections, while cases of Covid-19 reached a new peak of more than 60 million globally.
Europe's Christmas ski season threatened by virus as cases pass 60 mn
AFP, Published on 26/11/2020
» BERLIN - Germany announced Wednesday that it will push for Europe to ban ski holidays in a bid to curb coronavirus infections, while cases of Covid-19 reached a new peak of more than 60 million globally.
Denmark's culled minks rise from mass grave
AFP, Published on 25/11/2020
» COPENHAGEN - A rushed cull of Denmark's minks over concerns about a coronavirus mutation has left the country facing a new horror, as cadavers of the animals re-emerge from the earth.
'PigeonBot' brings aircraft closer to feathered-flight
AFP, Published on 17/01/2020
» WASHINGTON - Since the dawn of the aviation era, inventors have strived to build aircraft that fly as nimbly as birds, whose morphable wings allow for faster, tighter turns and more efficient gliding.