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Researchers identify a protein that viruses use as gateway into cells 0

Researchers identify a protein that viruses use as gateway into cells

Enlarge / An electron micrograph of multiple copies of the chikungunya virus. The word “chikungunya” (chik-en-gun-ye) comes from Kimakonde, the language spoken by the Makonde people in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique. It means “to become contorted,” because that’s what happens to people who get infected. The contortion is a result of severe and debilitating…

Lebanon’s Saad Hariri designated as next high minister 0

Lebanon’s Saad Hariri designated as next high minister

Lebanese President Michel Aoun asked Saad Hariri to form a new government, designating him the country’s next prime minister. Hariri was put forward for the job by 111 of 128 members of Lebanon’s parliament in consultations with Aoun held on Thursday. It will be the third term for Hariri, who has held the position since…

Hamas below strain to carry improvements in Gaza 0

Hamas below strain to carry improvements in Gaza

Rafah Crossing, Gaza, Occupied Palestine – Omsyat Owaja is clutching a dusty, battered small sports bag. Inside are the few possessions this 21-year-old Palestinian will take with her if she manages to cross from the Gaza Strip to Egypt in the next couple of days. It has taken two and a half years to get…

Trump pulls out of summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un 0

Trump pulls out of summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

US President Donald Trump has announced he will not attend a planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, raising concerns tensions between the two nations will escalate again with the threat of war. In a letter sent to Kim on Thursday, Trump said the summit – which had been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore…

Trump cancels summit with Kim 0

Trump cancels summit with Kim

Summary Donald Trump says the meeting set for next month will not take place It would have been the first time a sitting US president met North Korea’s leader In a statement President Trump blamed recent « hostility » from North Korea Earlier, North Korea appeared to blow up tunnels at its only nuclear test site « ],area:[1, »…