UN Chief Condemns Suicide Attacks in Chad
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has denounced the five simultaneous suicide attacks in Baga Sola sous-prefecture in Chad Sunday, which left scores of civilians dead or injured. In a statement released by…
Clinical Trial of Ebola Vaccine Regimen in Sierra Leone
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) announced Friday the start of a safety and immunogenicity clinical trial in Sierra Leone of a preventive Ebola vaccine regimen in development at its Janssen…
Tunisian Quartet Gets Nobel Peace Prize for 2015
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its decisive contribution to the building…
Nobel Prize in Literature for Svetlana Alexievich
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 has been awarded to Svetlana Alexievich “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. In literature, polyphony is supposed…
UN Welcomes U.S. Decision to Release 6,000 Prisoners
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed Wednesday the decision by the United States Government to release 6,000 inmates from federal penitentiaries. It is an effort to ease overcrowding in prisons…