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What The US Vaccination Debate Looks Like To The Rest Of The World

“Our thoughts are also with the measles-ravaged country America. I hope we are screening them before they come to Africa.”

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By Allison Jackson

Dr Felicity Hartnell, who is a clinical research fellow at Oxford University, holds a vial of an experimental vaccine against Ebola in Oxford, England  Wednesday Sept. 17, 2014. There are now 102 confirmed cases of measles throughout the United States and health authorities expect that figure to rise. What started as an outbreak at the

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The Appalling Human Rights Record Of The US Coalition Bombing Syria

The rap sheet for these countries includes arbitrary detentions, torture and beheading. Sound familiar?

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By Allison Jackson
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The United States has joined forces with five Arab nations — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates and Jordan — to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. US President Barack Obama said Monday the United States was “proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder” with its Arab allies in the bombing campaign. Proud?

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These People Spent Decades In Jail For Crimes They Didn’t Commit

Thanks to the work of the Innocence Network all over the world, they were finally freed.

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By Allison Jackson
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The recent death of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the American middleweight boxer who spent almost 20 years in jail for three murders he did not commit, has turned the spotlight on the issue of wrongful convictions. Carter’s incarceration from 1966 to 1985 caused an international outcry, turning him into a symbol of racial injustice and inspiring

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Mexicans Squeezed By Soaring Lime Prices

The citrus fruit has become such a precious commodity that gangs of thieves are even stealing ‘green gold’ by the ton.

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By Allison Jackson

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Limes are to Mexican cuisine what olive oil is to Italian food and cheese is to French … you get the idea. Here they squeeze the tangy green fruit over pretty much everything, from tacos and potato chips to fresh mango and coconut. So it’s understandable that a sudden increase in lime prices would leave many Mexicans

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100,000 bats dead after heatwave in Australia

Tens of thousands of bats fell dead from the sky as temperatures soared over the weekend.

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By Allison Jackson

While satellites, computers and measuring stations are now used to forecast the weather, many farmers around the world used to rely on Mother Nature’s signs. Some still do. In Australia, for example, ants building nests on top of fence posts or turtles leaving rivers en masse were considered signs that the heavens were about to open. A bright

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Chinese-language websites of Reuters, WSJ unblocked in China

The websites had been blocked for months in apparent retaliation for reporting on Chinese leaders and their wealth.

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By Allison Jackson
In this photo taken a Chinese man uses a computer at an internet cafe in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Are Chinese leaders going soft on the foreign media? The Communist Party has been playing hardball in recent months, refusing to issue visas to journalists from Bloomberg and the New York Times, and blocking access to various foreign media websites. All of this was believed to be in retaliation for reports on Chinese leaders and their

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Boston Bombing Suspect Walking Again, Tells Mother He Is Innocent

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has reportedly spoken to his mother for the first time since he was taken into custody over the deadly bombing attack.

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By Allison Jackson

The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect has recovered enough from his injuries to start walking again and is protesting his innocence, his mother told the Associated Press. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev walked without the assistance of a wheelchair to speak by phone to his mother Zubeidat Tsarnaev, who is living in the Russian republic of Dagestan,

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