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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says evidence is mounting of the link between the Zika virus and abnormally small heads in some newborn children. WHO assistant director-general for health systems and innovation Marie-Paule Kieny also says large-scale trials of any sort of vaccine are at least 18 months away.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A loophole in an 85-year-old tariff law that has failed to keep products of forced and child labor out of America is about to slam shut. It's part of a bill headed for President Barack Obama's expected signature. The measure includes a provision that would ban U.S. imports of fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh. The Associated Press last year found Thai companies shipping slave-produced seafood.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korea are looking to begin talks next week on a sophisticated missile defense system in an effort to take a tougher stance after North Korea's recent nuclear test and rocket launch. South Korea has already shut down an inter-Korean factory park that had been the rival Koreas' last major symbol of cooperation.
MUNICH (AP) — Efforts to secure a lasting cease-fire in Syria haven't borne the expected fruit but diplomats say it hasn't been for nothing. Diplomats agreed today to work toward a temporary "cessation of hostilities" within a week. The deal appeared to be the result of a compromise between the United States, which wanted an immediate cease-fire, and Russia, which proposed a March 1 start.
CORDELE, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says gunshots were fired at the end of a chase that left a suspect dead, and two officers injured, potentially by another officer's bullets. Special Agent Terry Howard says the suspect vehicle eventually stopped on Interstate 75 in Crisp County. Howard says an Ashburn police officer and a Turner County deputy were injured by gunfire apparently from another officer. The suspect apparently shot himself. A female passenger was injured.
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