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Amnesty says Gen Mohammed was “in command of operations when the military executed more than 640 detainees following a Boko Haram attack on the detention centre in Giwa barracks on 14 March 2014”. Officials say, per the Times, that Boko Haram is resorting to such...

Marcelo Castro, Brazil’s health minister, said the epidemic was worse than believed because in 80 per cent of the cases the infected people had no symptoms.

In the United States, a total of 31 cases of Zika have been documented since past year, all involving people who were infected while they were out of the country. The most common symptoms of Zika virus disease are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes). There have...

Ezubao offered investors annual returns of between nine percent and 14.6 percent on various projects, the official Xinhua news agency reported – far more than now offered by Chinese banks’ wealth management products.

The stabbings, vehicle rammings and other attacks by Palestinians targeting Israeli civilians are reprehensible. The NGO Al Shabaka reported in December that 599,901 Israeli settlers use six times more water than almost three million Palestinians living in the West Bank.

Bertolini also backed the timeline for an expected closing in the second half of 2016 of its acquisition of Humana for US$31 billion, based on Monday’s share price.

The Bank of Japan said it’s imposing a 0.1 percent fee on some deposits left with the central bank, effectively a negative interest rate.

The Silicon Valley giant admitted that sales of its iPhones had missed expectations after it sold 74.8 million iPhones in the quarter, falling short of the 75.46 million target.

Public health officials say they have not had any reported cases of the Zika virus in Arizona, but officials with the state Department of Health say the disease is rampant in Latin America, and there’s concern the virus could quickly spread north.

High profile Apple analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray went as far as panning the idea, saying a hypothetical iPhone “6C” wouldn’t change Apple’s profits. Currently, the Apple Watch can charge “wirelessly” off an inductive coil inside the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lumber Liquidators will pay more than $13 million for illegally importing hardwood flooring.

On the Democratic side, both Clinton and Sanders went around Iowa to make their final pitch to voters in a race that Iowa polls show is too close to call.

$2 million for Flint water system needs.

Alere CEO and President Namal Nawana said, “Our leading platforms and global presence in point-of-care diagnostics, combined with Abbott’s broad portfolio of market-leading products, will accelerate our shared goal of improving patient care”. Medtronic, the...

“Bishop Trotter along with other leaders will be calling for a federal investigation into the practices of the governor, his office and even the local officials just to get to the root of the problem”, said church spokesperson Sean Howard.