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'Revolutionary' DNA test can detect thousands of rare diseases in kids

Patients in England become the first to be routinely offered the cutting edge treatment.

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Technique pioneered to tackle disease threatening half the world

Scientists are trying to infect the mosquitoes that spread the virus by injecting them with a bacteria that blocks its dispersal.

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Australia fires: tens of thousands stranded while attempting to flee

Tens of thousands of people remained stranded on Thursday evening while attempting to flee bushfire-ravaged areas of the south-east Australian coast – having earlier be

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Australia fires: Race to flee 'leave zone' as fresh threat looms

Thousands of people are fleeing a vast "tourist leave zone" in Australia amid forecasts of ferocious bushfire conditions in coming days.Since September, Australia's bus

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Australia orders mass evacuation of fire-ravaged towns before heatwave

Cars drive down a freeway as smoke shrouds Canberra, January 1, 2020. /AP Photo Thousands of tourists have been given less than 48 hours to evacuate fire-ravaged coastal communities as Austral

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Violent chaos, autocratic order, and democracy

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 30, 2019. /Reuters Photo Editor's note: Guy Burton is a visiting fellow at theMiddleEast Center, the London School of Econ

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Violent chaos, autocratic order, and democracy

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 30, 2019. /Reuters Photo Editor's note: Guy Burton is a visiting fellow at theMiddleEast Center, the London School of Econ

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Putin says Moscow ready to cooperate with any U.S. president who respects Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow is willing to cooperate with any new U.S. president who would respect Russia.