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The findings could eventually play a role in combating E. coli and other growing threats to public health.

"It is reasonable to assume that most nations would find it in their national interest to prevent conflict from extending into space."

A border post separating South Africa and Mozambique was closed Friday after a group of Mozambicans barricaded the area.

The mother and father of Martin Richard, 8, wrote an editorial calling for the Boston Marathon murderer to get life in prison.

Thousands of doctors have left Venezuela since 2003 — and most of those vacancies have gone unfilled. The shortage is now hurtling toward a critical point.

Lawmakers are split on a crucial part of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership that would permit corporations to crack down on freedom of speech and the right to privacy online.

The law would repeal a despised, decade-old formula for how to pay doctors through the federal healthcare program.

At least 14 people in a community in Ondo state have died from the strange disease in the last 10 days. The World Health Organization and others are investigating.

Russia, which is trying to boost its defense capabilities in the Arctic, will hold at least 4,000 military drills in 2015.

An appeals court in New Orleans will hear the case that temporarily halted the president's executive actions on immigration.

The crime scene was altered by government officials participating in a cover-up, a human rights commission said.

Argentina still claims the islands, which it calls Las Malvinas, as part of its territory.

U.S. paratroopers arrived in Ukraine earlier this week to train the country's newly created national guard.

Two people, one reportedly a traffic policeman, were injured after a man armed with a knife attacked passers-by in Shanghai.

If the pontiff visits the island nation, he would be the third head of the Roman Catholic Church to travel to the country.

The northern city of Tripoli has seen ongoing skirmishes between army troops and militants after a spate of deadly clashes in October.

The airstrip in the Spratly Islands is expected to be capable of handling military planes.

Conservatives suggested that the Sandy Hook charity was pushing for gun control, and criticized country music stars for their involvement.

Bjorn Lomborg has made a career out of arguing that mainstream solutions to climate change are ineffective.

A vote on Lynch's confirmation as attorney general has been stalled for months.

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud traveled to Syria to join a militant group, and is accused of plotting a terrorist attack on American soil.

Gao Yu has been accused of leaking an official document detailing plans for a crackdown on civil society.

The country's finance minister pledged to "compromise, but not be compromised," but investors are betting on a default.

Outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday that the Nigerian army has recaptured most of the territory seized by Boko Haram in the northeast.

Syria will celebrate 69 years of independence from foreign rule on Thursday, but the Arab country is still besieged by a civil war.

The 12 were targeted for their religion on a craft carrying 105 people from Libya to the Italian coast.

The Ebola-stricken nations are asking international donors to cancel their debts and give them $5-6 billion over two years to rebuild their economies, devastated by the deadly disease, Sierra Leone's president said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Yemen, the first time he has made such an appeal since Saudi-led air strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels began three weeks ago.

Rep. Paul Ryan helped introduce a bill Thursday that would augment trade and economic growth in developing countries.