Archive For: The Crunch
July 31, 2015 The University of Cape Town’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D, has announced that tests on a potential single-dose cure for malaria have shown encouraging results and are attracting several international interests and funding. The new compound, MMV048, has proved potent and highly successful in curing malaria in its preclinical studies. The ... Read More
July 31, 2015 And to round out the week that was, we share some more bits you might have missed from President Obama’s visit to the continent. In Addis Ababa, the US president arrived at the African Union headquarters to meet the commission’s chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for discussions on trade and regional security. Also on ... Read More
July 31, 2015 According to China’s Third Military Medical University, the People Republic of China is set to celebrate yet another innovative milestone as its first ever superbug vaccine enters the clinical test stage. The vaccine was developed by a scientific team headed by Zou Quanming, director of the National Engineering Research Center for Immunological ... Read More
July 31, 2015 U.N. human rights experts recently urged the Canadian government to address the issue of the increasing violence against indigenous girls and women According to a report released by Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2014, Canadian women are disproportionately subject to murders and abduction. While speaking to journalists in Geneva about this, U.N. ... Read More
July 31, 2015 Ahead of the 2020 Summer Games open in Tokyo, hundreds gathered in a downtown Tokyo plaza to witness the official unveiling of the tournament. The officials of the Olympic committee promised to do all in their power to overcome every foreseeable challenge and make the Games a resounding success. Despite the enthusiastic ... Read More
July 31, 2015 Mexico’s football federation has fired its manager Miguel Herrera for allegedly attacking a reporter at the team’s Gold Cup win. According to the president of the Mexican football federation, Decio de Maria, Miguel Herrera allegedly punched a sports journalist for Mexico’s TV Azteca, Christian Martinoli. “I have rationalised and heard and taken ... Read More
July 30, 2015 Still on President Obama’s visit to Kenya, let’s give you a little behind the scenes gist on all the security preparations that went into the visit of the President of the United State on his first official visit to Kenya, since his election as president. The city of Nairobi was put on ... Read More
July 30, 2015 Burundi’s electoral commission has announced incumbent President, Pierre Nkurunziza as winner of the nation’s presidential election. Despite widespread criticism, Nkurunziza ran for a third five-year term as the leader of the African nation. Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, head of the electoral commission, speaking to newsmen said: “And so we are here at the ... Read More
July 30, 2015 Kyrgyzstan has renounced its bilateral agreement with the United State of America, an agreement which allowed U.S. aid material to Kyrgyzstan to be brought in and out of the country without taxes, customs duties or any other payment. Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Emil Kaykiyev who issued an official statement for the government ... Read More
July 30, 2015 Following a dramatic heat wave, The Vaud department in Switzerland resorted to military measures to help thirsty cows on the Jura Mountains The Swiss army used three “Super Puma” helicopters to fill eight water reservoirs in the Jura Mountains and then airlifted it, to provide drinking water for about 20,000 cows. Talking ... Read More
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