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Eight mobilized Russian soldiers fled the front lines in Ukraine and ordered a cab to take them 300 miles back home, are now facing desertion charges. The men, who were conscripted in Russia's Kaliningrad region under President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilization order, face up to 15 years in jail after being charged with "armed desertion in wartime." The serviceman who organized their escape in December is Junior Sergeant Yevgeny Kravchenko, who has been arrested by a garrison military court, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant. The others who fled with him from a training camp in Ukraine's Luhansk region are...

All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say. "We know that many HIV infected people seek health care and they don't get tested. And many people are not diagnosed until late in the course of their illness, when they're already sick with HIV-related conditions," said Dr. Timothy Mastro, acting director of the CDC's division of HIV/AIDS prevention. "By identifying people earlier through a screening program, we'll allow them to access life-extending therapy, and also...