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Following a 13% success rate pilot campaign in Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi, the African nation of Cameroon started the official rollout of the "RTS,S" malaria vaccine on Monday. It will be free for all children up to the age of six months old and occur alongside other routine vaccines to make it easier for parents. BBC News (LR: 3...

Researchers at the US biotech firm Novelna have created a blood protein test that can identify 18 early-stage cancers. While blood tests have been used previously for monitoring and early detection, experts say this test could potentially be a "game changer," with 93% accuracy in males and 84% accuracy in females. Guardian (LR:...

Former Prime Minister and National Coalition Party leader Alexander Stubb won the Finnish presidential election runoff on Sunday, securing 51.6% of the votes against Green Party rival Pekka Haavisto's 48.4%. Reuters (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

Nathan Wade, who Fulton County District Attorney General Fani Willis appointed as special prosecutor in Trump's election interference case in Georgia, paid for trips with Willis to Miami, Aruba, and Napa Valley in 2022 and 2023, according to a court motion filed on Friday on behalf of Joycelyn Wade in her divorce case against...

Vince McMahon on Friday resigned as executive chairman of TKO, the parent company of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), a day after a former employee filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and trafficking. Reuters (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

Farmers in Spain hit the streets on Tuesday to protest high costs, regulations, and competition from other countries by blocking roads across the country with their tractors. The protesters blocked traffic from Seville and Granda in the south to Girona near the French border. Reuters.com...

Heavy snow and ice, bitter winds, and biting cold have been blamed for at least 90 deaths across the US in recent days. BBC News (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

The House of Lords, the UK’s upper chamber of Parliament, on Monday voted against ratifying Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Treaty, a key part of the legislation in an attempted government policy to deport asylum seekers to the Central African country. Guardian (LR: 2 CP: 5)...

A dozen Israeli cabinet ministers — alongside 15 Members of the Knesset from the coalition government — on Sunday attended a convention in Jerusalem which pledged to re-establish Jewish settlements in Gaza. The Times of Israel (a)...

A three-judge court on Wednesday suspended Argentinian Pres. Javier Milei's labor reforms, announced last month with the intention of reviving the nation's failing economy, stating they must first be discussed and approved by Congress. Associated Press (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld Martin Shkreli's lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry, ruling the former CEO of Vyera Pharmaceuticals had been rightly punished for antitrust violations. ABC News...

US Pres. Joe Biden announced Friday that he would commute the sentences of 11 people serving decades-long sentences for non-violent drug charges as well as pardon a larger group of people convicted of federal marijuana possession charges. MSN...

Two writers, the National Review columnist Mark Steyn and former member of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Rand Simberg, have been ordered to pay compensatory and punitive damages to climate scientist Michael Mann after they were convicted of defaming him. Forbes (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) stated that several American personnel stationed in Iraq are undergoing traumatic brain injury evaluations following an attack targeting the al-Asad air base on Saturday that reportedly wounded an Iraqi service member, adding that damages were still being assessed. Business Insider (LR: 3 CP: 4)...

Russian hackers compromised Ukraine's biggest telecommunications provider from as far back as May 2023, Ukraine's top cybersecurity official told Reuters in an interview published Thursday. Reuters (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

Iranian state-run media reported on Sunday that journalists Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi — who were sentenced in October 2022 for covering Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini's death in custody — have been temporarily released on bail. Reuters (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

US Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) faces additional allegations of bribery after a federal grand jury on Tuesday filed a second superseding indictment accusing him of accepting items of value from Qatar in exchange for making positive statements about the Islamic nation. NBC (LR: 2 CP: 4)...

Leaders within the US House and Senate on Sunday agreed on a bipartisan short-term spending bill intended to extend federal funding of various agencies and prevent a partial government shutdown this Friday. NPR Online News (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

At least ten people have been killed and thousands left without power after severe thunderstorms battered the Australian states of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland on Christmas and Boxing Day. XM...

During an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, OpenAI Vice President of Global Affairs Anna Makanju revealed that the company has removed a "blanket prohibition" on military collaboration. Bloomberg (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

According to French health officials, Airbus Atlantic's Christmas dinner for its employees in western France has left over 700 staff members suffering from vomiting and diarrhea. However, the aerospace group has claimed only "around 100" had taken ill. BBC News...

Japan's uncrewed lunar lander completed a successful touchdown on the moon's surface at 10:20 a.m. ET Friday (12:20 a.m. Saturday local time), making the country only the fifth to soft-land on Earth's natural satellite, after the US, the Soviet Union, China, and India. CNN (LR: 2 CP: 5)...

On Thursday, China introduced a ban on the export of key technologies used to process rare earth elements — a group of 17 metals that are used to manufacture the magnets that are found in many high-technology devices. Moneycontrol...

UK cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt has told the official COVID inquiry that a series of WhatsApp messages between her and former prime minister Boris Johnson disappeared from her phone. Independent (LR: 2 CP: 3)...

Existing US home sales sank in 2023 to their lowest since 1995 amid high mortgage rates, soaring prices, and tight inventory, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported on Friday. At 4.09 million, they declined 18.7% from 2022. Associated Press (LR: 3 CP: 5)...