JAMEY KEATEN

October 20, 2021 at 12:31 am

Credit Suisse faces penalties over Mozambique loan deals

Credit Suisse has announced settlements totaling nearly $700 million with British, Swiss and U.S. authorities over lending to Mozambique state-owned companies that Swiss regulators say...

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October 14, 2021 at 8:33 am

US reaffirms support for easing WTO rules on COVID vaccines

A top U.S. trade official says the Biden administration remains committed to an easing of rules that protect the technology behind coronavirus vaccines so that...

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Henrietta Lacks shortly after her move with husband David Lacks from Clover, Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland in the early 1940s. The World Health Organization chief on Thursday honored the late Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman who died of cervical cancer 70 years ago and whose cells that were taken without her knowledge spurred vast scientific breakthroughs and life-saving innovations such as for vaccines for polio and human papillomavirus, and even in research about the coronavirus. (The Lacks Family via AP) LLT821 LLT821

October 13, 2021 at 10:15 am

WHO honors Henrietta Lacks, woman whose cells served science

The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells ended up providing the foundation for...

October 8, 2021 at 1:29 am

Swiss-backed project aims to avert new ‘Cold War’ in science

Switzerland’s foreign minister says concerns about a “new Cold War” over science and technology are a major reason behind the creation of a new think...

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October 6, 2021 at 8:28 am

Biden, China’s Xi expected to meet virtually by year’s end VIEW

President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to hold a virtual meeting before year’s end amid rising tensions

October 5, 2021 at 6:18 am

WHO still reviewing Sputnik V vaccine, as Russia presses bid

The World Health Organization says it’s still reviewing data about Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine as part of hopes that it can be approved for emergency...

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October 4, 2021 at 4:40 am

Credit Suisse faces penalties over Mozambique loan deals

US reaffirms support for easing WTO rules on COVID vaccines

WHO honors Henrietta Lacks, woman whose cells served science

Swiss-backed project aims to avert new ‘Cold War’ in science

Biden, China’s Xi expected to meet virtually by year’s end VIEW

WHO still reviewing Sputnik V vaccine, as Russia presses bid

UN experts decry possible crimes against humanity in Libya

Pakistan: Changes needed on EU plan on rights in Afghanistan

US, Russia to push ahead on arms control, strategic talks

France urges WHO chief to keep pledge on fighting sex abuse