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...

UK AIRPORTS DISRUPTED BY AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL RADAR FAULT. (PHOTO).


UK airports disrupted by air traffic control radar fault

A radar-related technical fault in Britain’s air traffic control system caused significant flight disruptions for more than four hours on Wednesday at major airports across London and other parts of the country. The problem was eventually resolved, and departures began to resume as normal.

NATS, the national air traffic control provider, confirmed in a statement on X that their systems were now fully operational and capacity was returning to normal. They apologized to those affected and said they were working closely with airlines and airports to safely clear the backlog of delayed flights. The outage impacted Heathrow, the UK’s largest airport and Europe’s busiest, as well as Gatwick, Edinburgh, and London City airports. Ryanair, whose flights were delayed and diverted during the disruption, called the incident "utterly unacceptable" and demanded the resignation of NATS CEO Martin Rolfe, criticizing the repeated failures after a similar outage in August 2023. That earlier incident had cost airlines over £100 million in refunds and compensation, and had led to calls for improved contingency planning by Britain’s aviation regulator.

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