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Key Reads   U.S. military helicopter crashes off northwest Florida; human remains found Greg Botelho / CNN Seven Marines and four Army aircrew were presumed dead Wednesday, according to a U.S. Defense official, after their Black Hawk helicopter crashed into waters off...

The 0.1% of Bacteria

Last week, the UCLA-Ronald Reagan Medical Center reported two patients had died after contracting a “superbug.” As investigations continue into how and what caused these deaths and the possible exposure of 175 people, connecting stories to the cases at UCLA are...

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International News Coverage     Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism   ISIS bulldozes ruins of ancient Assyrian city of Minrud, Iraqi ministry says Michael Martinez and Mohammaed Tawfeeq / CNN ISIS has again destroyed cultural treasures, this time bulldozing...

The Long Final Leap Against Polio in Pakistan

On February 23, 2015, in Quetta, Pakistan over 400 teams of healthcare workers began an eight day campaign to inoculate of 478,000 children against polio. The men and women bring with them paperwork, information handouts, coolers containing the vaccines, and an...

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ASP: In Case You Missed It… 25 February 2015   International News Coverage   Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism   Activist: ISIS holds 150 Christian hostages, will threaten to kill them Laura Smith-Spark and John Vause / CNN ISIS is holding many more Assyrian...