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Thailand’s king shows improvement following treatment for infection: palace
Thailand's 88-year-old king, the world's longest reigning monarch, has shown signs of improvement following treatment for a blood infection, the palace said in a statement on Sunday. King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been treated for various ailments during a year-long hospitalization in the Thai capital. The king's fever has subsided and the severity of his blood…
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Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process
(Story repeats, adding reference to Sunday's canonization.) By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta marked the culmination of a process – sometimes called “the saint-making machine” – that is long, complex, expensive, opaque and often contentious. The Catholic Church posthumously confers sainthood on people considered so holy during…
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Singapore confirms 27 more locally transmitted Zika cases
Twenty-five new cases were linked to the initial outbreak area, one was linked to a potential new cluster and the remaining new case had no known links to any existing cluster, the Ministry of Health and National Environment Agency said in a joint statement. “There is a potential new cluster involving one previously reported case…