Month: June 2013

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency is talking to Germany about temporarily resettling up to 5,000 Syrian refugees, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said on Tuesday. Edwards said UNHCR was also working with other European governments to find ways to help the 1.6 million Syrians who have fled the country, a number the United Nations expects to reach 3.45 million by the end of 2013. (This story corrects figure to 5,000 instead of 10,000 after UNHCR official clarification) (Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Janet Lawrence and Michael Roddy)

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Despite past diet drug failures, two new diet drugs were approved by the FDA.        

(Reuters) – Forest Laboratories Inc said on Tuesday it will add a representative of Carl Icahn as an independent member to its board, averting a new proxy battle with the billionaire investor. The specialty drugmaker said the appointment of Vincent Intrieri, 56, would expand the board's size to eleven from ten directors. Intrieri has worked for various Icahn-related entities since 1998 and sits on a number of boards, including Chesapeake Energy Corp , Forest said. Icahn is Forest's second largest shareholder, owning about 11.5 percent of the drugmaker's outstanding shares. …

LONDON (Reuters) – British folk-rockers Mumford & Sons have canceled three sell-out concerts in the United States this week after announcing on Tuesday that bassist Ted Dwane needed emergency surgery for a blood clot on the brain. The band, which won Album of the Year for "Babel" at the Grammy awards in February and the British Group award at the BRIT awards, said Dwane had felt unwell for a few days and was taken to hospital on Monday for emergency treatment. "The scans revealed a blood clot on the surface of his brain that requires an operation," the band said in a statement on its website. …

By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) – Four years after Iranians took to the streets to demonstrate against the results of a presidential election, the authorities are taking no chances this time, keeping opposition leaders confined under house arrest with doors and windows welded shut. When Iran elects a new president on Friday, authorities are determined to prevent a repeat of the street unrest that posed the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic's ruling system since its birth in the 1979 revolution. …

Despite past diet drug failures, two new diet drugs were approved by the FDA.        

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