Nigeria’s Kano State and US drugs firm Pfizer have agreed to settle a multi-million dollar lawsuit out of court, lawyers for both sides say.
Pfizer has been accused of killing 11 children and injuring 181 others when an antibiotic was tested on them during a meningitis epidemic in 1996. read more
LONDON (Reuters) – The active ingredient in marijuana appears to reduce tumour growth, according to a Spanish study published on Wednesday.
The researchers showed giving THC to mice with cancer decreased tumour growth and killed cells off in a process called autophagy.
“Our findings support that safe, therapeutically efficacious doses of THC may be reached in cancer patients,” Guillermo Velasco of Complutense University in Madrid and colleagues reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.read more
This illustration of Viking Varangian troops near Moscow is from the chronicle of Skylitzis, he was a Greek historian, dead c. 1100
A Description of the Black Vikings of Europe By Renowned European Writers – Compiled By- Invasion2012
“blá-maðr, m. A BLACK MAN, NEGRO, i.e. AN ETHIOPIAN, Al. 51, Orkn. 364 (referring to A.D. 1152), distinguished from the Saracens and Arabians; three ‘blámenn’ were sent as a present to the German emperor Frederic the Second, Fms. x. 3: in romances blámenn are mentioned as A KIND OF ‘BERSERKERS,’” q.v., Finnb. ch. 16, Kjalnes. S. ch. 15; cp. Scott’s Ivanhoe, note B.See AN ICELANDIC-ENGLISH DICTIONARY by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson(1874)read more
Now that Muammar Gaddafi has assumed the chairmanship of the African Union despite manipulations and whispering campaigns of Western interests [twice, Western interference has thwarted Gaddafi’s access to the AU chair] the usual arguments are being trotted out in the Western press to ridicule and diminish the goals of African unity. He is being excoriated by the usual suspects as ‘erratic’ and ‘impractical’ with unnamed African ‘leaders’ thrown in the mix expressing ‘distrust’ of Gaddafi’s ‘agenda.’ read more
Caucasian Men Sleeping with Weird Hairy Yeti Women
A Report from Pravda:
A sensational incident took place in the Chegemsky Gorge of the Northern Caucasus. Researchers found evidence to prove the existence of Bigfoot in the area. Local residents say that Yeti females – people refer to these weird creatures as the Almasty – come into contact with humans and even attempted to have a sexual intercourse with local men. read more
allAfrica.com
INTERVIEW
Posted to the web April 19, 2002
Charles Cobb Jr.
Washington, DC
In a television documentary scheduled for airing on the Discovery Channel this Sunday, humankind is said to share a common genetic link that can be traced to one woman who lived in Africa more than 150,000 years ago. Using a unique part of human DNA called mitochondrial DNA” which is passed from mother to daughter, “The Real Eve”, narrated by actor Danny Glover, tracks the movement of humanity from this common ancestor across geography and millennia. AllAfrica’s Charles Cobb Jr. spoke with the film’s producer, Paul Ashton. Excerpts: read more
The Black Iraqis, the Black Iranians – Afro-Arabian Mesopotamia
By
Jide Uwechia
For thousands of years they have lived and prospered in Basra as rulers, administrators, musicians, and scholars. They are the black Arabs of Basra.read more
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