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Ecuador: Official Misrepresents Human Rights Watch Position

An interview with Ecuador’s communications minister, Fernando Alvarado, in the March 4, 2012 edition of the official newspaper El Ciudadano flagrantly distorted what happened during a recent meeting he had in Washington, D...

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Kenyan Officials Blame al-Shabab for Deadly Attack

Kenyan officials say al-Shabab militants are responsible for a grenade attack at a busy bus station in the capital, Nairobi, killing at least six people and wounding scores of others.

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NIH study links childhood cancer to delays in developmental milestones

Infants and toddlers who have been treated for cancer tend to reach certain developmental milestones later than do their healthy peers, say researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Italy.

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UN boosts assistance to victims of avalanche in northern Afghanistan

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The United Nations is stepping up its efforts to provide health, food aid and temp...

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