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Gun attack at Kabul ‘CIA compound’, 2 hurt
KABUL: A compound in Kabul used by the US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came under attack Sunday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults in the Afghan capital. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui said police had heard “a couple of minutes” of gunfire from inside the Ariana Hotel compound at around 9.15pm…
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Putting sleeping sickness on the radar
It is the start of an invasion. There are no gunfire or explosions, just the mundane tickle of a fly landing on your skin. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this moment can be just as deadly as bombs and guns if that tickle is a blood-sucking tsetse fly. As the fly bites, the tiny protozoan parasites that…