Global doping agency suspends Rio lab weeks before Olympics

A journalist walks in front of a screen with olympics logos during the medal launching ceremony in Rio de JaneiroBy Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the credentials of a testing laboratory in Rio de Janeiro for failing to comply with international standards, just over a month before the city hosts the Olympic Games. Although the suspension adds to embarrassments for Brazil in the runup to the Olympics, it is unlikely to affect the Games since the agency has arranged testing elsewhere, as it did when the same Rio lab lost its credentials before the 2014 World Cup. The lab at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro said on Friday that its operations should return to normal in July after a technical visit from WADA, ahead of the start of the Games on Aug. 5.

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Good Morning America: Britain just voted out of the EU … What’s that mean for America?

People gather around a television in The Churchill Tavern as the BBC announces that Britain has voted to leave the European Union, in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S.Britons have voted to leave the European Union, an outcome that has shocked global financial markets, sending stocks plunging and sovereign bonds and the U.S. dollar sharply higher. On balance, about half of most Americans&; retirement funds are invested in stocks, and they are expected to take a beating on the worry that the British decision to leave the EU will destabilize the global economy and torpedo corporate profits.

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WHO to launch emergency yellow fever vaccination in Angola, Congo

Handout of staff of the Teaching Hospital receiving the first vaccination treatment for yellow fever in El Geneina, West DarfurBy Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it will launch emergency yellow fever vaccination campaigns along the border between Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo and in the Congolese capital Kinshasa next month. The worst yellow fever outbreak in decades has killed about 345 people in Angola, while Congo declared an epidemic in Kinshasa and two other provinces on Monday after reporting 67 confirmed cases and more than 1,000 other suspected cases. There is currently almost no vaccine left in Congo and a new stock of more than 1 million doses may take weeks to arrive.

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