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US accused of pressuring Latin America to cut ties with Cuban doctors program | Cuba

US accused of pressuring Latin America to cut ties with Cuban doctors program | Cuba

Cuba’s foreign minister has accused the United States of “extorting” Latin American countries by putting pressure on them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors. Bruno Rodríguez said the United States was trying to “strangle” the economy of the communist island, which earns billions from its foreign medical missions, after several…

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Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups | Primatology

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups | Primatology

On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in front of him began to display nervous behaviour. They…

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Remembering Devoted IEEE Volunteer Gus Gaynor

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor, a long-serving IEEE volunteer and former engineering director at 3M, died on 9 March. The IEEE Life Fellow was 104. Readers of The Institute might remember Gus from his 2022 profile: “From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M.” Just last year, he and I coauthored twoarticles. One discusses how…

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