Month: September 2013

GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday they hoped that talks on Syria's chemical weapons would help revive an international plan for a "Geneva 2" conference to end the war in Syria. Kerry, who said the ongoing talks on chemical weapons were "constructive", told a news conference in Geneva that he and Lavrov planned to meet in New York later this month and hoped to agree a date for the Geneva 2 conference then. …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital on Friday killed 37 people, the top investigative agency in the province where the blaze occurred said. The bodies of 10 of the 37 victims were recovered from the ruins of the building that burned down in a pre-dawn fire, the Novgorod regional branch of Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement, without giving details on the other 27 victims. (Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Thomas Grove)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Childhood death rates around the world have halved since 1990 but an estimated 6.6 million children under the age of 5 still died last year, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday.

US first lady Michelle Obama, who has for years been suggesting "Let's Move," Thursday added a new directive in her campaign against obesity: "Drink up."

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MOSCOW (AP) — A fire swept through a Russian psychiatric hospital, killing at least six people and leaving more than 30 others missing, officials said Friday. Authorities had long warned that the mostly wooden building was unsafe.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government forces have deliberately targeted hospitals, attacked field hospitals with fighter jets and prevented the sick and wounded from receiving medical care, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Friday. In a special report, they said that the forces of President Bashar al-Assad had waged a campaign using “the denial of medical care as a weapon of war”, especially against people living in opposition-controlled areas. …

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