U.S. Offers Protection to People Who Fled War in Cameroon
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U.S. Offers Protection to People Who Fled War in Cameroon

The strife has displaced some two million people in Anglophone regions and has resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and widespread food insecurity. As of December, 4.4 million people in Cameroon required humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. The State Department has cataloged serious human rights violations perpetrated by…

Opinion | Bill Gates: We Must Develop Drugs Much Faster in the Next Pandemic
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Opinion | Bill Gates: We Must Develop Drugs Much Faster in the Next Pandemic

Treating disease is nothing new to humans. The practice of using roots, herbs and other natural ingredients as healing agents dates to ancient times. Some 9,000 years ago, Stone Age dentists in modern-day Pakistan drilled into their patients’ teeth with pieces of flint. The ancient Egyptian architect and physician Imhotep…

Military Memo Adds to Possible Interstellar Meteor Mystery
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Military Memo Adds to Possible Interstellar Meteor Mystery

While many — including the two Harvard astronomers — have interpreted Space Command’s statement to NASA as confirmation that the meteor is interstellar, some astronomers believe more data is needed to back up the claim. The available measurements, they say, lack error bars that indicate how precise or uncertain they…

Tanzania’s First Female President Wants to Bring Her Nation in From the Cold
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Tanzania’s First Female President Wants to Bring Her Nation in From the Cold

DODOMA, Tanzania — Shortly before midnight on a spring night last year, Samia Suluhu Hassan, then Tanzania’s first female vice president, appeared on television to announce to a shocked nation that the president was dead. President John Magufuli, an autocrat known as “The Bulldozer,” had denied that coronavirus existed in…

Live Updates: Israeli-Palestinian Violence Erupts at Jerusalem Holy Site
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Live Updates: Israeli-Palestinian Violence Erupts at Jerusalem Holy Site

Palestinians and the Israeli police clashing at the Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday.Credit…Mahmoud Illean/Associated Press JERUSALEM — Clashes between Israeli riot police and Palestinians erupted at one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem early on Friday, the first day of a rare convergence of Ramadan, Passover and Easter,…