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...

BARCELONA TO PAY LEO MESSI TRIBUTE AT OFFICIAL SPOTIFY CAMP NOU INAUGURATION. (PHOTO).


 Barcelona to pay Leo Messi tribute at official Spotify Camp Nou inauguration


FC Barcelona will play their Joan Gamper Cup game at their renovated Spotify Camp Nou stadium on August 10 with a reduced capacity of approximately 30,000 fans against a yet to be confirmed opponent.


As the 2025-26 season progresses, the Catalan club anticipates expanding their stadium capacity but claim that the first game full capacity (104,000 spectators) will also serve as a tribute to Leo Messi, who left the club in August 2021 without receiving the send off his 18 years as a Barça player warranted.


No other player in the club’s history has pulled on the azulgrana shirt and Messi is arguably the most important player in the club’s illustrious history.


The planned date for the full opening of the Spotify Camp Nou is the summer of 2026.


Both sides still need to iron out the finer details with current relationships between Messi and Joan Laporta still frosty after the club president turned down a return request in the spring of 2023, with the Rosario born striker ultimately moving to Inter Miami.

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