Will GSF breed to more violence? Locals complain foreigners come with preconceived plan that isolates Haitians as key partners in intervention

Will GSF breed to more violence? Locals complain foreigners come with preconceived plan that isolates Haitians as key partners in intervention

According to the latest BINUH – the UN’s office in Haiti – report, more than 60 per cent of gang-related casualties between June and September came during security operations.

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Haiti mission impossible: ‘Those who say they’ve come to help don’t like us; they make things worse and exploit us as they’ve done from colonial times’

Haiti mission impossible: ‘Those who say they’ve come to help don’t like us; they make things worse and exploit us as they’ve done from colonial times’

The United States, which refused to send security personnel when the MSS was deployed, has expressed no intention to change its position. According to some experts, this is also deterring others from pitching in.

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Revealed: Children under age 12 who cellphones are at higher risk of obesity, hallucination, depression and poor sleep

Revealed: Children under age 12 who cellphones are at higher risk of obesity, hallucination, depression and poor sleep

The study authors conducted statistical analyses of data on more than 10,000 US 12-year-olds in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, described as the “largest long-term look at children’s brain development in the United States to date.”

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Threat of cheetah extinction prods zoologist in Namibia to start sperm bank to protect the species

Threat of cheetah extinction prods zoologist in Namibia to start sperm bank to protect the species

Conservationists mark World Cheetah Day on Thursday with less than 7,000 of them left in the wild, similar numbers to the critically endangered black rhino.

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Scandal of ‘lab-grown meat’ rocks US food company after admission it uses ‘bioengineered food ingredients’

Scandal of ‘lab-grown meat’ rocks US food company after admission it uses ‘bioengineered food ingredients’

Cultivated meat uses techniques developed in the biopharma industry. Producers take cells from live animals or from a cell bank – which creates “immortalized” cells from cultured stem cells – and grow them in large steel tanks called cultivators or bioreactors.

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After decades of wild denials, US Centres for Disease Control now admits vaccines actually cause autism

After decades of wild denials, US Centres for Disease Control now admits vaccines actually cause autism

The CDC webpage has previously stated there is no link between vaccines and autism. It now says, “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”

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A walk in the night-2: How US ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Kenya, forced Kibaki to share power with Raila   

A walk in the night-2: How US ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Kenya, forced Kibaki to share power with Raila   

Raila Odinga’s immense popularity and his wide regional alliances from across all the regions except central were driving the campaign for electoral justice and winning growing support and international diplomatic backing. But I finally realised that my friends were right, my media interviews, diplomatic briefings and ODM statements had an impact and created the high-level threats and real danger.

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A walk in the night: Day Kenya’s Secret Service chief Michal Gichangi asked me tell Raila to accept 2013 election loss

A walk in the night: Day Kenya’s Secret Service chief Michal Gichangi asked me tell Raila to accept 2013 election loss

“I did not believe I had played an important role in Kibaki being forced to share power with Raila, until Raila told me Cabinet Secretary Muthaura had given government appointments to all his officers including their nemesis Miguna. But Salim will never get one.”

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How rare earth metal heats up and cools down tensions in corridors of US, China’s aerospace industry

How rare earth metal heats up and cools down tensions in corridors of US, China’s aerospace industry

Although a late-October meeting in South Korea between Chinese president Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump raised hopes for a détente, the Chinese export restrictions introduced last April remain substantially in place.

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Muslim woman in conservative coastal Kenya breaks religious and cultural ceilings to soar to the top of technical education

Muslim woman in conservative coastal Kenya breaks religious and cultural ceilings to soar to the top of technical education

Latifa Mohammed, the third-born in a family of nine, says her interest in refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) began long before she joined college. She liked observing cooling systems in homes and offices and wanted to understand how they worked.

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