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Albania’s writer Ismail Kadare awarded Neustadt Prize
TIRANA, Albania - The U.S Embassy in Tirana on Monday said that Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has been awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The announcement posted on the embassy...
Oct 05, 2020
WHO: 10% of world's people may have been infected with virus
GENEVA - The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization says its "best estimates" indicate that roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus. Dr. Michael Ryan, ...
Oct 05, 2020
Microsoft plans $1 billion data centre venture in Greece
ATHENS, Greece - Microsoft has announced plans to build three data centre sites in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to $1 billion to the Greek economy which has been hammered ...
Oct 05, 2020
U of A researcher shares Nobel prize for hepatitis C virus discovery
STOCKHOLM - British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Mon...
Oct 05, 2020
U of A researcher shares Nobel prize for hepatitis C virus discovery
STOCKHOLM - British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Mon...
Oct 05, 2020
EU top official self-isolating after contact with virus case
BRUSSELS - European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and one of her EU Commissioners have placed themselves in isolation after being in contact with people infected with the coronavirus. In a...
Oct 05, 2020
3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus
STOCKHOLM - Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a...
Oct 05, 2020
Mali releases 180 jihadists in likely prisoner exchange
BAMAKO, Mali - Malian authorities have released 180 Islamic extremists from a prison in the capital and flown them to the country's north, an official confirmed late Sunday, fueling speculation that a...
Oct 04, 2020
Toomey won't run for Senate again, or governor, source says
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a fiercely anti-tax and anti-regulation lawmaker who never entirely warmed to President Donald Trump, will not seek re-election in 20...
Oct 04, 2020
8 migrants drown, 12 missing while trying to reach Djibouti
JOHANNESBURG - The International Organization for Migration says at least eight migrants have drowned and 12 are missing after smugglers forced them off a boat near the Horn of Africa nation of Djibou...
Oct 04, 2020
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