GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).

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 Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...

SOUTH KOREA ARRESTS 6 AMERICANS FOR ATTEMPTING TO SEND BIBLES, RICE TO NORTH KOREA. (PHOTO).


 South Korea Arrests 6 Americans for Attempting to Send Bibles, Rice to North Korea


South Korean police have arrested six American nationals caught trying to send bottles filled with rice, one-dollar bills, and Bibles to North Korea from Ganghwa Island. The group, aged between their 20s and 50s, was detained early Friday for violating safety laws. 


Authorities say the area, just 10km from the North, was declared a danger zone due to past propaganda tensions. President Lee Jae-myung, who recently took office, has adopted a more conciliatory stance, halting loudspeaker broadcasts as North Korea also ceased its own provocative transmissions.

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