Sleeping sickness spreads in Sudan and Africa, warns WHO
Health workers warn that African sleeping sickness is rising across equatorial Africa and has appeared in southwestern Sudan. CARE field supervisor Dennis Walto notes deaths in new villages as WHO reports hundreds of thousands infected regionally. The disease is fatal without treatment, with parasites worsening over months to years, causing fever weakness and brain damage.
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Dennis Walto
CARE
Geneva
World Health Organization
Equatorial
Africa
Angola
Chad
Congo
Uganda
Ranariddh agrees to halt Cambodian resistance amid Thai talks
Thailand mediated talks in Bangkok with three Southeast Asian foreign ministers as Prince Norodom Ranariddh concedes his forces cannot match Hun Sen's army and agrees to cease resistance. Proposals aim to avert civil war and push toward a political solution in Cambodia after Hun Sen ousted Ranariddh in July.
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Norodom Ranariddh
Cambodia
Ranariddh
Hun Sen
Bangkok
Phnom Penh
Infertility breakthrough uses younger egg fluid for baby
Researchers at Saint Barnabas Medical Center report a woman gave birth after injecting ooplasm from a younger egg donor into her own egg. The Lancet published advance copies noting the method produced embryonic development and a full-term birth with the couple's genetic makeup.
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Institute For Reproductive Medicine and Science
Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Livingston
N.J
the Lancet
Floods Reach Germany After Eastern Europe Toll
Flooding that submerged hundreds of villages across Poland and the Czech Republic spread to Germany, flooding Frankfurt an der Oder. The Oder River overflowed into the city center threatening more, with 84 deaths reported regionally. Poland declared a national day of mourning. Evacuations were urged in Slubice across the border while aid teams arrived from Germany.
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Germany
Poland
Czech Republic
Europe
Oder
Berlin
Frank Powalke
Slubice
Red Cross
Peruvian president faces scandals and protests across cities
Protesters marched in Lima and cities like Trujillo and Cuzco on a second day of demonstrations against President Alberto Fujimori. The unrest follows allegations of government espionage and the stripping of Channel 2 owner Baruch Ivcher’s citizenship, triggering Cabinet resignations and a stock drop.
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Peru
Alberto Fujimori
Fujimori
Trujillo
Cuzco
Carlos Zegarra
Channel 2
Baruch Ivcher
Israel
Leonor la Rosa
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