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Doctors Without Borders has challenged Pfizer’s application for an Indian patent for its pneumonia vaccine so cheaper versions can be available to children in poor countries and to humanitarian organizations. The
Just before the New Year holiday in Japan, ads for a smartphone game called Granblue Fantasy began appearing on television and in magazines. Granblue was already huge in Japan with
The human Go champion said he was left “speechless” after his second straight loss to Google’s Go-playing machine yesterday in a highly-anticipated human versus machine face-off. Lee Sedol, one of the
People gazed at the sky in wonder and cheered while others knelt in prayer as a total eclipse of the sun unfolded over Indonesia yesterday, briefly plunging cities into darkness
North Korea caused a new stir yesterday by publicizing a purported mock-up of a key part of a nuclear warhead, with leader Kim Jong Un saying his country has developed miniaturized atomic bombs
A court issued an unprecedented order yesterday for a nuclear reactor near Kyoto to stop operating and ordered a second one to stay offline. The Otsu District Court, which issued the
China’s foreign minister took a hard line yesterday on the country’s claims to virtually all the South China Sea, saying Beijing won’t permit other nations to infringe on what it
The U.S. Air Force will continue to fly daily missions over the South China Sea despite a buildup of Chinese surface-to-air missiles and fighter jets in the contested region, with
An Iranian couple who resettled in Cambodia under an expensive program funded by Australia to keep asylum-seekers from its soil returned to their homeland, Cambodian and Australian officials said yesterday. Gen.
Since the 2011 meltdowns ended their future as prized black “wagyu” beef, a rancher near the Fukushima nuclear power plant has given his cattle a new mission: They’ve become protesters. Defying
The Philippine Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Sen. Grace Poe is eligible to run for president in May 9 elections, overturning an elections commission decision to disqualify her and removing
A Tokyo zoo said it will work on improving the living conditions for its 69-year-old elephant after an animal welfare expert recommended simple additions such as infrared heaters and new
The rare and awe-inspiring spectacle of a total solar eclipse will unfold over parts of Indonesia and the Indian and Pacific Oceans today, weather permitting. The full eclipse may be
One person was killed and two others injured in a shooting at a business in western Sydney, police said yesterday. New South Wales police said that they found three people suffering
North Korea yesterday issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction to the start of huge
The head of a Philippine Muslim rebel group warned yesterday that the Islamic State group could gain from frustrations in the country’s south following the failure of the Philippine Congress
Indonesia’s president yesterday urged a summit of Muslim nations to be part of the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than part of the problem. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, who heads
With most opposition leaders in jail or exile, public protests tightly controlled and courts rendering verdicts decried for lack of due process, the Maldives has nearly slid back to where it was
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani said yesterday that the Islamic State group has been defeated in the eastern parts of the country, where it had taken over some remote districts. Speaking at the
North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast yesterday, South Korean officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on
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