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GENEVA (news agencies) — Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives — nearly all in Africa — each year. Swissmedic gave a green light Tuesday for the medicine from Basel-based pharmaceutical company Novartis for treatment of babies with body weights between 2 and 5 kilograms (nearly 4½ to 11 pounds), which could pave the way for hard-hit African nations to follow suit in coming months.The agency said that the decision is significant in part because it’s…
LOS ANGELES (news agencies) — Raphael Saadiq has always admired the boldness of stand-up icons like Dave Chappelle and Eddie Murphy who commanded the stage alone with only their stories.Now, the three-time Grammy winner is taking a similar leap, stepping into the spotlight solo for his own one-man show tour, announced Tuesday. The intimate No Bandwidth tour will pull back the curtain on Saadiq’s life and music, weaving never-before-told stories with performances spanning Tony! Toni! Toné!, Lucy Pearl and his solo catalog.The tour kicks off in Sacramento on Sept. 7 that’s expected to run into mid-October. It’ll mark a return…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (news agencies) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls since seizing power nearly four years ago.The warrants also accuse the leaders of persecuting “other persons non-conforming with the Taliban’s policy on gender, gender identity or expression; and on political grounds against persons perceived as ‘allies of girls and women.’”The warrants were issued against Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhunzada and the head of the Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim Haqqani.The warrants came just hours after the United Nations…
US President Donald Trump and his Middle East envoy both claimed the talks could happen next week, following the Iranian president’s comments on being open to dialogue.Iran says it has not requested talks with the United States over its nuclear programme, as claimed by US President Donald Trump. “No request for a meeting has been made on our side to the American side,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Tuesday in comments carried by the country’s Tasnim news agency. The clarification came a day after Trump, during a dinner in the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
BARCELONA, Spain (news agencies) — Spanish police believe Liverpool player Diogo Jota was driving over the speed limit when he and his brother died in a car crash last week.Spain’s Civil Guard said on Tuesday that while their investigation into the cause of the crash last Thursday continues, they believe Jota was driving too fast when the Lamborghini veered off course after a tire burst.Previously, the police had not said if Jota or his brother André Silva were driving. On Tuesday they said that it appeared Jota was.The siblings died in the car when it burst into flames on an…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. news agencies’s earlier story follows below.Wall Street was mixed in quiet trading early Tuesday as markets appeared to shrug off new tariff deadlines for U.S. trading partners.Futures for the S&P 500 added 0.1% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.1%. Nasdaq futures rose 0.2%.Markets tumbled Monday after President Donald Trump set a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea and new tariff rates on a dozen other nations scheduled to go into effect on Aug. 1.The S&P slid 0.8% on…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — Oprah Winfrey has chosen a novel with a timely theme for her latest book club pick. Bruce Holsinger’s “Culpability” is a family drama that probes the morals and ethics of AI.“I appreciated the prescience of this story,” Winfrey said in a statement Tuesday, the day of the novel’s publication. “It’s where we are right now in our appreciation and dilemmas surrounding Artificial Intelligence, centered around an American family we can relate to. I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!”Holsinger, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of four…
MOSCOW (news agencies) — The apparent suicide of Russia’s transportation minister brought expressions of shock and sorrow Tuesday from the Kremlin but no new clues as to why Roman Starovoit might have taken his own life amid media speculation that he potentially was facing corruption charges.Starovoit, who served in his post for little over a year, was found dead from a gunshot wound — news that broke hours after a decree was issued Monday by President Vladimir Putin that dismissed the 53-year-old Cabinet member.Starovoit’s body was found in the Odintsovo district just west of the capital that is home to…
U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump on Monday that he recommended him for the prestigious award, handing the American leader the letter he said he sent the Nobel committee.Trump has been nominated several times by people within the U.S. as well as politicians abroad — but that’s only one small step in the secretive process.Trump’s nominators have included a group of U.S. House Republicans and two Norwegian lawmakers. The groups separately nominated him in 2018 for his work to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea. One…
President Donald Trump sent letters to 14 countries Monday outlining higher tariffs they’ll face if they don’t make trade deals with the U.S. by Aug. 1.In the letters, which were posted on Truth Social, Trump warned countries that they would face even higher tariffs if they retaliated by increasing their own import taxes.Here’s a look at the countries that got tariff letters Monday:Tariff rate: 40%Key exports to the U.S.: Clothing, leather goods, seafoodTariff rate: 40%Key exports to the U.S.: Shoes with textile uppers, wood furniture, electronic components, optical fiberTariff rate: 36%Key exports to the U.S.: Textiles, clothing, shoes, bicyclesTariff rate:…