The WHO says two experimental vaccines could lead to trials being done in West Africa in January, while another flu drug is being tested as well.
Russia’s desire to keep its last remaining ally in the Middle East collided head-long with the United States’ desire to remove President Bashar Assad.
Some 15 million to 60 million jobs
Bill Gates has rescued a beleaguered health fund by pledging $750-million to fight three of world’s killer diseases — Aids, malaria and TB.
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/ 1 February 2011
A 54-year-old man has admitted sexually abusing more than 100 mentally disabled children and adults in care homes in Switzerland and Germany.
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/ 23 October 2010
Tension arising from the UN Security Council’s reliance on African nations to supply peacekeepers came into sharper focus on Friday.
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/ 11 September 2009
An informal band of nations and organisations fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia have agreed to set up two new international funds.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ended a mission to Burma on Saturday saying he was ”deeply disappointed”.
The world’s largest UN peacekeeping effort risks unraveling in the the DRC, hampered by the potential loss of more than a quarter of its troops
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/ 19 February 2009
UN chief Ban Ki-moon will embark on an African tour next week in a bid to shore up DRC’s peacekeeping mission and press for climate-change progress.