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Filipino Auteur Brillante Mendoza To Receive Tribute At Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is set to pay tribute to Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, who won the director prize at Cannes with his ultra-violent “The Execution of P...

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Health

New Single-Dose Drug May Treat Malaria

A new drug may treat malaria in a single dose and prevent infection being transmitted by mosquito bites to other people, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have fo...

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Gender

Ireland Passes Law Allowing Trans People To Choose Their Legal Gender

Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status after a law was passed allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state interven...

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Sustainable Development

How Bioengineered Bacteria Could Give Robots A Living Brain

Imagine a future where robots with organic brains could be controlled through their microbiome. That might become reality, if researchers at Virginia Tech can transfer thei...

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Sustainable Development

Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions Of Lives

In December 2014, Yem Chrin, an unlicensed Cambodian doctor, was charged with murder. By reusing the same syringe, he had infected over 270 people in a remote community in ...

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Gender

Over 70,000 Transgenders In Rural India: Survey

Rural India has over 70,000 transgenders, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list with nearly 13,000, and West Bengal home to around 10,000, reveals the Socio Economic and Cast...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Stars Sandip Soparrkar, Onir And Monica Dogra Support Transgender, The Hijra Community.

The “3rd National Transgender Hijra Habba” took place at the Eros International hotel in the capital of India, Delhi. This event was an attempt to create a broa...

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Hollywood

Bradley Cooper Appeals To His Fans To Be Bone Marrow Donors.

The American Sniper actor urged his fans to become bone marrow donors after being moved by the plight of a cancer patient. The 40-year-old actor was introduced to cancer pa...

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Health

Cuba Wipes Out Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission by Emphasizing Maternal Health and Universal Health Coverage, Says WHO

After a flurry of reports surfaced earlier this year that Cuba was the host of a particularly aggressive strain of HIV, the Caribbean island is now being lauded by the Worl...

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Gender

EU Commends Uganda On Gender Equality

THE EU head of delegation H.E Ambassador Kristian Schmidt has hailed Uganda government for the effort it has put in place to enhance gender equality and the empowerment of ...

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