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Israeli soldier thought captured is declared dead

Courier Newsroom - August 3, 2014

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday that an Israeli soldier it previously believed had been captured by Hamas fighters in a Gaza...

Toward a Cure for HIV: The Promise of the ‘Mississippi Baby’

Courier Newsroom - July 31, 2014

MELBOURNE, Australia – Is the glass half empty – or half full? That was the framework for thinking about the so-called Mississippi baby case...

Activists want gay rights on Africa summit agenda

Courier Newsroom - July 29, 2014

Human rights and gay rights activists on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to ensure that the issue of anti-gay discrimination in Africa is on...

HIV-positive for 20-plus years and ‘one of the lucky ones’

Courier Newsroom - July 29, 2014

MELBOURNE, Australia – Steven Watiti was diagnosed with HIV in 1993. His wife was pregnant with their second child when she died of the...

A kiss, a prayer: The last hours of MH17's victims

Courier Newsroom - July 23, 2014

In a bedroom in a townhouse near Amsterdam, Miguel Panduwinata reached out for his mother. "Mama, may I hug you?" Samira Calehr wrapped her arms...

Unfair distribution of resources fueled abduction of girls in Nigeria

Courier Newsroom - July 22, 2014

LOS ANGELES – Three months after 276 young girls were stolen from the “safety” of the private Chibok School in Northern Nigeria by armed...

Israel violence moves production of FX's 'Tyrant'

Courier Newsroom - July 22, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Production of FX's series "Tyrant" recently relocated from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, showrunner Howard Gordon told a TV Critics'...

South Africa: film profiles last apartheid leader

Courier Newsroom - July 18, 2014

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — He was South Africa's last White president, overshadowed by Nelson Mandela when they plotted the historic transition to a multi-racial democracy...

South Africans remember Mandela on his birthday

Courier Newsroom - July 18, 2014

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans marked Nelson Mandela's birthday on Friday with charitable acts in honor of the former president, whose death in December...

Both sides in Ukraine deny shooting down plane

Courier Newsroom - July 17, 2014

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country...

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