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Typhoid vaccine breakthrough

Cases of the bacterial disease fell by more than 80% in trials.

A new typhoid vaccine works "fantastically well" and is being used to help stop an almost untreatable strain of the infection, doctors say.

Nearly half a million people have been internally displaced in Burkina Faso, due to armed violence.

Senate Republicans have confirmed Sarah Pitlyk, a strong anti-abortion advocate as a federal district judge in Missouri.

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