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Paris (AFP) - Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world's biggest social media application, launched 20 years ago. University beginnings - In 2003, 19-year-old computer whiz Mark Zuckerberg begins working out of his Harvard dormitory room on an online network aimed at connecting the prestigious US university's students. On February 4, 2004, he launches thefacebook.com with three friends. Membership is opened up to other colleges around North America. Zuckerberg leaves Harvard and moves to California's Silicon Valley. The new company receives its first major outside investment of $500,...
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Washington (AFP) - Mifepristone, a drug widely used in the United States to induce abortion in women pregnant for 10 weeks or less, has become a target of the country's anti-abortion movement. On Friday the US Supreme Court temporarily preserved broad access to the medication, freezing restrictions imposed on the drug by an appeals court, which had ruled in favor of a group challenging the decades-old authorization of mifepristone by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Here it is a timeline of drug's history and the recent US legal fight likely to end up in the Supreme Court: Developmen...
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Washington (AFP) - Mifepristone, a drug widely used in the United States to induce abortion in women pregnant for 10 weeks or less, has become a target of the country's anti-abortion movement. On April 7, a federal judge in Texas ruled in favor of a group challenging the decades-old authorization of mifepristone by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Here it is a timeline of drug's history and the recent US legal fight likely to end up in the Supreme Court: Development and distribution1980: Mifepristone is developed by French researchers, initially dubbed RU-486 based on its chemical co...
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Washington (AFP) - Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world's biggest social media application, which marks the tenth anniversary Wednesday of its stock market debut. In the beginning - In 2003, 19-year-old Harvard computer whiz Mark Zuckerberg begins working out of his dormitory room on an online network aimed initially at connecting Harvard students. The following year he launched thefacebook.com with three Harvard roommates and classmates: Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz. As membership is opened up to other colleges around North America Zuckerberg quits his stud...
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New York (AFP) - Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States that left nearly 3,000 people dead. The Al-Qaeda plane hijackings of September 11, 2001 were the first foreign attack on the US mainland in nearly two centuries. It ruptured America's sense of safety and plunged the West into war in Afghanistan -- a military operation that has only just finished, with the Taliban back in power. The Islamist extremists smashed two jetliners into New York's World Trade Center, killing 2,753 people. A third commercial jet hit the Pentagon, killing 184, and 40 more died...
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New York (AFP) - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States that left nearly 3,000 people dead. The Al-Qaeda plane hijackings of September 11, 2001 were the first foreign attack on the US mainland in nearly two centuries. It ruptured America's sense of safety and plunged the West into war in Afghanistan -- a military operation that is only now just concluding. The Islamist extremists smashed two planes into New York's World Trade Center, killing 2,753 people. A third commercial jet hit the Pentagon, killing 184, and 40 more died after a fourth plane crashed ...
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Washington (AFP) - Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS. It would go on to claim millions of lives across the world. Here is a look at the discovery and the fight against the deadly condition. 1981: First alertIn June 1981 US epidemiologists report five cases of a rare form of pneumonia in gay men from California, some of whom have died. Unusual versions of skin cancer are identified in others. It is the first alert about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), still unknown and unnamed. Doctors i...
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Washington (AFP) - Unfathomable just one year ago, the United States on Monday passed the horrific marker of 500,000 dead from Covid-19. Here is a look at the past 12 months and how the coronavirus came to exact such a devastating toll on America. Early casesOn January 22, 2020, then-president Donald Trump describes the presence of the coronavirus in the US as "just one person coming in from China" and says his administration has the new disease "totally under control." Comments like these soon characterize Trump's dismissive view of the mounting crisis. The first US death is announced Februar...
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Washington (AFP) - Former US president Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday in his second impeachment trial by a Senate vote of 57 to 43, surviving charges that he incited the deadly January 6 assault on the US Capitol by supporters bent on preventing Congress from transferring power to Joe Biden. Here is a timeline of events leading up to the trial and acquittal: Election defeatDespite the risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country, record numbers of Americans turn out to vote in the November 3 election. Trump had spent the preceding months warning of election fraud and tryi...
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Washington (AFP) - Former US president Donald Trump has doggedly denied he lost the November election, and faces a second impeachment trial next week on charges he incited a mob to attack the Capitol and overturn his defeat. Here is a timeline of events leading up to the trial: Election defeatDespite the risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country, record numbers of Americans turn out to vote in the November 3 election. Trump had spent the preceding months warning of election fraud and trying to block mail-in voting, which he feared would massively favor his Democratic oppone...
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