New cancer drug can mean ‘Lazarus effect’ recovery for some stage IV melanoma cases

Raw Story By DAVID FERGUSON The Minnesota-based Mayo Clinicannounced Thursday that a first-of-its-kind cancer drug has proven remarkably effective in treating some people with advanced melanoma, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. According to the Clinic’s In the Loop blog, oncologist Richard Joseph said that the new drug, pembrolizumab — sold under the brand name

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Ethiopian Airlines Graduates 121 Aviation Technicians and Marketing Professionals

Press Release Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopian Aviation Academy, the largest aviation academy in Africa and an IATA authorized global training center, is pleased to announce that it has graduated 96 aviation technicians and 25 marketing professionals at a ceremony held at Ethiopian Headquarters on 25 September 2014. At the graduation ceremony, Ethiopian Chief Executive Officer Ato Tewolde Gebremariam gave

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MESERET HAILU AND FLOMENA CHEYECH THE 2014 AMSTERDAM MARATHON WOMEN’S RACE FAVOURITES

IAAF The battle for the women’s race at this year’s TCS Amsterdam Marathon on Sunday 19 October could be fought out between Meseret Hailu and Flomena Cheyech after organisers for the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced their top women on Friday (26). Ethiopia’s Hailu is the course record holder in Amsterdam, with a time of 2:21:09

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ISIS in America: Woman beheaded at Oklahoma workplace

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A man fired from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official, police said Friday. Moore Police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis says police are waiting until the 30-year-old man is conscious to

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Saladin Said will not play for Ethiopia squad for Mali game

Ahram Online By Mahmoud Elassal Ahly’s new signing striker, Ethiopian Saladin Said, has excused his absence from his national team camp for the game against Mali in the 2015 African Cup of Nations as he still suffers from a serious tear in his calf, Ahly football director Wael Gomaa announced Thursday. “We received a formal

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Ethiopia federation questions CAF Guinea decision

AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The president of the Ethiopian federation questions the impromptu decision by the Confederation of African Football to award Guinea hosting rights for the 2023 African Cup, seemingly without a proper bidding process. Junedin Basha told The Associated Press on Friday there was nothing on CAF’s agenda for its executive

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Obama: Ethiopian Peacekeeping Tactics ‘Most Effective’

Storyful The footage was uploaded to the official YouTube account for The White House. In a meeting with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Desalegn on September 25, US President Obama commended the African nation on becoming “one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.” He noted that despite once being a country that “had great difficulty feeding

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Official: El-Sisi agrees to visit Ethiopia, date undecided

Ahram Online Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as they arrive to attend the 23rd African Union Summit (AUS) in Malabo June 26, 2014. (Photo: Reuters) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told the Ethiopian PM in New York that he plans to visit Ethiopia, said presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef on

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Dr Rachel Nega’s story demonstrates how the Israeli-Ethiopian community is overcoming significant hurdles

The Jewish Week Wearing a white coat, name badge and stethoscope, Dr. Rachel Nega strides through the halls of New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital. To patients and visitors, she looks like any other doctor on duty — slightly preoccupied, with a deliberate air to her step. Yet her dark skin and almond eyes hint at

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Habtom Merhay Guilty of smuggling undocumented immigrants from Eritrea and Ethiopia into the United States          

Department of Justice A national of Eritrea and citizen of the United Kingdom pleaded guilty today to smuggling undocumented immigrants from Eritrea and Ethiopia into the United States.           Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. of the District of Columbia and Special Agent in

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