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• S. African minister issues appeal on AIDS shot
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - South Africa’s new health minister asked scientists on Monday to intensify their efforts to find an AIDS vaccine amid widespread gloom over recent research setbacks . Health Minister Barbara Hogan said government policies ...
• Mystery S. Africa disease may be rodent borne
JOHANNESBURG - A disease that has killed three people in South Africa and forced others into isolation wards may be rodent borne, a health official said Sunday, SAPA news agency reported. All three have died from external and internal bleeding. The ...
• South Africa will sell ivory to Japan, China
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The South African government said Thursday that it will press ahead with plans to sell just over 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on the trade. The Convention on ...
• Crew's kin urges Ukraine to pay pirates' ransom
Pirates have seized more than two dozen ships this year off the Horn of Africa, but the Faina has drawn intense interest because of its military cargo. U.S. warships have surrounded it since the beginning, to prevent the pirates from unloading the ...
• Asteroid reportedly streaks over Africa
Click through the highlights from September’s outer-space imagery, including glittering galaxies as well as Earth’s hurricanes viewed from on high. The space rock , designated asteroid 2008 TC3, was thought to be 3 to 15 feet (1 to 5 meters) in ...