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South African-led health organisations rally Washington, D.C. to reauthorise the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and end HIV as a public health threat by 2030
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South African-led health organisations rally Washington, D.C. to reauthorise the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and end HIV as a public health threat by 2030

The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest and most successful commitment by any nation to address a single disease in history, must be allowed to continue to empower local partners in Africa, and especially South Africa as the global epicenter of HIV if the epidemic is to be finally stopped by 2030.    This was the consensus among top opinion leaders, civil society groups and politicians from different continents and sides of the aisle, at a gathering hosted by BroadReach Group (https://BroadReachCorporation.com/) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. earlier this week (September 12th) to celebrate PEPFAR’s achievements over the past 20 years and to advocate for its reauthorisation – so that the job of saving millions of African lives and ending ...
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U.S. President Reagan’s shooter John Hinckley fully released after 41 years
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U.S. President Reagan’s shooter John Hinckley fully released after 41 years

John Hinckley, who wounded then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others in a 1981 assassination attempt, was released without conditions on Wednesday in compliance with a federal judge's order. He had received a full-time conditional release in 2016 after 30 years in a psychiatric hospital in Washington and had lived with his mother in Virginia until her death last year. A jury had found him not guilty by reason of insanity in his 1982 trial, prompting Congress and some states to pass laws restricting the use of insanity as a defense. Advertisement · Scroll to continue "After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!" Hinckley, 67, wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday afternoon. Last September, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled that John Hinckley was...
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Biden Chooses Antony Blinken, Defender of Global Alliances, as Secretary of State
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Biden Chooses Antony Blinken, Defender of Global Alliances, as Secretary of State

WASHINGTON — Antony J. Blinken, a defender of global alliances and one of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s closest foreign policy advisers, is expected to be nominated for secretary of state, a job in which he will attempt to coalesce skeptical international partners into a new competition with China, according to people close to the process. Mr. Blinken, 58, a former deputy secretary of state under President Barack Obama and a guitar aficionado, began his career at the State Department during the Clinton administration. His extensive foreign policy credentials are expected to help calm American diplomats and global leaders alike after four years of the Trump administration’s ricocheting strategies and nationalist swaggering. He has been at Mr. Biden’s side f...
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Oracle Is Said to Win Deal for TikTok’s U.S. Operations
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Oracle Is Said to Win Deal for TikTok’s U.S. Operations

(Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. is the winning bidder for a deal with TikTok’s U.S. operations, people familiar with the talks said, after main rival Microsoft Corp. said its offer for the video app was rejected. ByteDance Ltd., TikTok’s parent, turned down Microsoft’s previous bid to buy TikTok’s U.S. assets. A deal with Oracle is narrower, appearing more like a corporate restructuring than an outright sale, one of the people said. Early offers from both parties valued the U.S. business at about $25 billion, but that was before Chinese officials weighed in with new rules imposing limits on technology exports, according to people, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public. Microsoft, which was working with Walmart Inc., had been seen as the more likely winner, but it...
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Donald Trump’s niece says he should resign as US President
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Donald Trump’s niece says he should resign as US President

Mary Trump, 55, will reportedly disclose previously unknown information about her uncle Donald in an explosive new book, including that he suffered from emotional abuse as a child. The book, entitled Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man, was published on Tuesday, just a few months ahead of the 2020 presidential election In her first interview since the publication of the book, ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Ms Trump: "If you're in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?" "Resign," she replied She said her family's deep-seated "issues" meant her uncle was destined to become a man "utterly incapable of leading this country, and it’s dangerous to allow him to do so". "I saw firsthand what focusing on the wr...
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Trump calls world health body ‘puppet of China’
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Trump calls world health body ‘puppet of China’

President Donald Trump attacked the United Nations health body as a Chinese "puppet" on Monday and confirmed he is considering slashing or canceling US support. "They're a puppet of China, they're China-centric to put it nicer," he said at the White House. Trump said the United States pays around $450 million annually to the World Health Organization, the largest contribution of any country. Plans are being crafted to slash this because "we're not treated right." "They gave us a lot of bad advice," he said of the WHO. Trump spoke as the WHO held its first annual assembly since the pandemic swept the world after originating in China, causing massive economic disruption and killing 316,000 people -- close to a third of them in the United States. Trump said China only pays abou...
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