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The United States approves the release of Saifullah Paracha, a 73-year-old Pakistani man who is currently the oldest prisoner held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He is expected to be formally released in the next few months.
2021-05-17

A team of physicists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, assisted by colleagues in Switzerland and the United States, successfully returns the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past.
2019-03-13

Kellogg's issues a voluntary recall of Honey Smacks amid fears of salmonella contamination, with affected areas including the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, and some parts of French Polynesia.
2018-06-15

Rose Acre Farms recalls around 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina after 22 people fell ill with suspected "Salmonella braenderup". It is the largest recall of eggs in the United States since 2010.
2018-04-15

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office confirms German Federal Intelligence Service President Gerhard Schindler will be replaced by Bruno Kahl. Schindler has been widely criticized following the disclosure his agency spied for the U.S. National Security Agency.
2016-04-27

Health authorities in the United States say that 53 people in nine states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak. California is the worst affected state with 31 cases with the other states with cases include Arizona, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
2015-05-21

China says it will open disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea to tourism before the May Day holiday, a move to which Vietnam is strongly opposed, as the United States expresses concern.
2013-04-7

A United States judge dismisses an injunction from Apple Inc. against Motorola for patent infringement.
2012-06-23

The United States is hit by a salmonella scare, with hundreds of people now thought to be ill across the country due to bad eggs; poisoning is expected to increase in the coming weeks.
2010-08-21

British confectionery maker Cadbury is to be purchased by American company Kraft Foods for £11.5 billion (850 pence per share).
2010-01-19