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The knee-on-neck: An everyday occurence in Palestine
Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation have long dealt with the kind of brutality being enacted by some US police…
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Why do some protests turn violent?
Curfews have been imposed in multiple cities in the US, after unrest and protests have spread across the country over…
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COVID-19: From ‘We’ve shut it down’ to 100,000 Americans dead
It’s an uncanny and almost tragically perfect piece of symmetry. The number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea,…
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Ilhan Omar: Saudi Arabia, Israel have too much influence on US foreign policy
United States Representative Ilhan Omar has said that the country’s foreign policy has been highly and disproportionately influenced by foreign…
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COVID-19: WHO stops Hydroxychloroquine trial amid safety fears
The World Health Organization has said it will temporarily drop hydroxychloroquine — the malaria drug Donald Trump said he is…
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COVID-19: China puts Shulan under Wuhan-style lockdown after fresh cases
Chinese authorities have sealed off the north-eastern city of Shulan, home to about 700,000 people, after an outbreak of coronavirus,…
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Coronavirus: What makes it so deadly. Why COVID-19 kills.
This virus particle – just 50 millionths of a millimetre across – is responsible for bringing the world to its…
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Viral sovereignty: Who owns a virus?
When a deadly disease breaks out and threatens the world, countries are obliged to share laboratory samples and other information…
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How are rats infecting humans with hepatitis?
In 2018, infectious disease experts at the University of Hong Kong came across an unusual patient. The 56-year-old man, who…
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Mother’s Day: Anna Jarvis, the woman who created it, regrets it.
The woman responsible for the creation of Mother’s Day, marked in many countries on the second Sunday in May, would…
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