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September 20, 2018

Cruise ship moors in Rotterdam with dozens of ill passengers

Dozens of cruise ship passengers who fell ill during their voyage were temporarily held on board Thursday after the liner ...

September 19, 2018

Rumors, conflict challenge Ebola response in eastern Congo

The latest Ebola outbreak in Congo presents complex challenges as the virus spreads for the first time in an area where ...

Discourse on the transformation of the French healthcare system in Paris

September 18, 2018

Macron announces changes to France's health care system

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday unveiled plans to make France's health care system, considered one of the best ...

September 18, 2018

Italy confirms Legionnaires' outbreak from cooling towers

Officials in northern Italy say they have confirmed that commercial water cooling towers were the source of a Legionnaires' ...

September 17, 2018

Roads shut after 2 fall ill in UK city where ex-spy poisoned

Police closed roads and called a hazardous response team Sunday night after two people became ill at a restaurant in the ...

September 16, 2018

Pussy Riot member treated in Berlin for suspected poisoning

A member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot is being treated in Berlin after falling severely ill, with fellow activists ...

September 15, 2018

Reporters: Number in suspect's file reached Russian military

Two journalists say the passport file of one of the suspects in the poisoning of a Russian former double agent and his ...

September 14, 2018

Dutch ousted Russians for alleged attempt to hack Swiss lab

Dutch authorities arrested and expelled two suspected Russian spies months ago for allegedly trying to hack a Swiss ...

September 14, 2018

Pussy Riot member said to regain consciousness in hospital

A member of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group says a fellow activist who was hospitalized for possible poisoning has regained ...

September 14, 2018

Exec pushes back against drug hike 'moral requirement' quote

The head of a small Kansas City pharmaceutical company is defending himself after a financial publication reported that he ...

September 14, 2018

Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians, including boy, in Gaza

Three Palestinians, one of them a 12-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli fire Friday as thousands of protesters gathered ...

September 14, 2018

Boss revenge, self-colonoscopy studies win 2018 Ig Nobels

Anyone who's ever been so furious with their boss that they feel like exacting revenge really needs to listen to Lindie Liang

September 14, 2018

Russian suspects in poisoning: We were in UK as tourists

The two Russian men spun an unlikely tale of hapless tourists defeated by grim British weather: They traveled more than 1,000 ...

September 13, 2018

Swedish regulator ends investigation of birth control app

Swedish regulators have closed their investigation of a birth control app after finding that the rate of unwanted ...

September 13, 2018

The Latest: UK repeats assertion that Russia is lying

The Latest on the nerve agent poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in Britain (all times local): 2:45 p.m. The British government ...

September 13, 2018

Romania seeks EU funds to deal with African swine fever

Romania's prime minister has requested financial help from the European Union to deal with the financial effects of a serious ...

September 13, 2018

Talking gloves, tactile windows: new tech helps the disabled

Hadeel Ayoub slips a black glove onto her hand before beginning the swish of sign language that is meaningless to the ...

September 12, 2018

Accused abroad, Russians become celebrities at home

The last time Britain accused two Russians of an assassination, one of them ended up in the Russian parliament. The case of ...

September 12, 2018

UN cancer agency: 18 million new cancer cases this year

The World Health Organization's cancer research arm estimated in a report released Wednesday that there will be about 18 ...