Mistrust Provokes Attack on Red Cross Volunteers in Ebola-Affected Community in DR Congo

The The World Health Organization reports that 3,382 cases of Ebola, including 2,232 deaths, have occurred in Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces since the start of the outbreak in August 2018. The epidemic is unfolding in an area affected by a two decades-long conflict that has claimed countless lives.Capobianco says this unstable, dangerous situation…

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Ukraine Announces Probe Into Possible Surveillance of Ex-US Ambassador

Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has opened two criminal investigations into possible surveillance of former U.S. ambassador to Kyiv Marie Yovanovitch.  Details are still coming in.The news comes as an associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s person lawyer said the president was aware of a campaign to pressure the Ukrainian government to carry out investigations that would…

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Intellectual Property Theft a Growing Threat

The new U.S.-China trade agreement includes provisions that are aimed at curbing forced technology transfers, in which companies hand over technical know-how to foreign partners. For many high-tech businesses, the intellectual property behind their products represents the bulk of their companies’ value.  To learn more about the risks of IP theft, Elizabeth Lee recently visited the Consumer Electronics Show in…

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US House Approves Managers for Trump Impeachment Trial and Sends Impeachment Articles to Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve the House members who Speaker Nancy Pelosi selected to prosecute the case against President Donald Trump and to send two articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial.The Democratic-led House approved the resolution by a vote that was largely along party lines.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam…

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Pelosi Names Schiff, Nadler as Prosecutors for Impeachment Trial

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday named two House chairmen who led President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry as prosecutors for Trump’s Senate trial. Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who led the probe, and Judiciary Chair Rep. Jerrold Nadler, whose committee approved the impeachment articles, as among the managers of the prosecution. “Today is an important day,”…

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