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Spanish researchers allow others to make their COVID test

GENEVA (AP) — Spanish government researchers have agreed to allow other manufacturers to produce their coronavirus antibody test, a move that could significantly boost testing in poor countries with limited COVID-19 surveillance. In a statement on Tuesday, the World Health Organization and the U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool said the Spanish National Research Council had signed

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Language barrier: Immigrant parents tell tales of exclusion

By CLAUDIA LAUER and VANESSA A. ALVAREZ The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Immigrant parents from across Philadelphia are telling stories of students being used as translators, incorrect telephone translations or poor communication when their children were being bullied. They say they’ve long been excluded from parts of their children’s education because of language barriers,

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EU border agency: ‘Illegal border crossings’ on the rise

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s border and coast guard agency says that the number of people trying to enter Europe without authorization has risen significantly this year. Frontex says the numbers exceed migrant border crossing figures from 2019 before restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited travel. Frontex said Tuesday that 160,000

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AstraZeneca opens research center as UK builds science hub

LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles is praising Cambridge as a center of scientific collaboration as the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca opened a 1 billion-pound ($1.34 billion) research center there on Tuesday. AstraZeneca hopes the facility will build on work in developing one of the first COVID-19 vaccines. The 19,000 square-meter (more than 200,000 square-foot) complex near

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