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World
19 Mar 2019
Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft are grounded across the world following the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, casting a harsh spotlight on the plane's safety certification and the close relationship between Boeing and American authorities.
Boeing 737 MAX airplanes are seen at the company's factory in Renton, Washington
World
19 Mar 2019
North Korea should take "actual action" towards giving up its nuclear weapons to break the deadlock in talks with Washington, a top security adviser to the South's president said, suggesting Seoul's patience with Pyongyang may be wearing thin.
Moon Chung-in, special adviser on national security to South Korea's president, says a launch of any kind by Pyongyang would be a 'disaster'
World
19 Mar 2019
Widows of the Srebrenica massacre hope he will die in prison, while Bosnian Serbs have honoured Radovan Karadzic with a university dorm in his name. Ahead of his final verdict in a UN court, the former Bosnian Serb leader continues to divide the country he helped drive to war.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic faces a Hague appeal ruling on whether the 40-year sentence he was handed in 2016 should be upheld
World
19 Mar 2019
Snake antivenoms have been around for 125 years, are effective and can be produced cheaply at scale. Yet Africa, with its abundance of deadly snakes, has an alarming shortage of the life-saving medicine.
A key challenge, especially in poor, remote areas of the world where most snakebites occur, is that most antivenoms need to be refrigerated
World
19 Mar 2019
On June 15, 2015, four-year-old Chepchirchir Kiplagat's life changed forever. Bitten by a snake as she slept, she permanently lost the use of the right side of her body.
Every year, snakes bite about 5.4 million people worldwide but the figure is likely a vast underestimation, given underreporting and patchy recordkeeping, officials say