French parliament readies new end-of-life legislation

French President Hollande delivers a speech during the Social Good Week event at the Elysee Palace in ParisPARIS (Reuters) – French parliament will debate from January a draft law that would move a step closer to euthanasia by allowing a right to "deep and ongoing sedation" until death for terminally ill patients who request it, President Francois Hollande said. Apart from Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, few countries in the world explicitly permit euthanasia or assisted suicide, sometimes called mercy killings. …

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UN names veteran humanitarian official as new head of Ebola mission

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech during the High Level Segment of the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 20 in LimaACCRA (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed veteran humanitarian official Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania on Thursday as the new head of its mission to fight an outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Ahmed, who has 28 years of U.N. experience in humanitarian and development affairs, will replace Anthony Banbury as leader of the U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission (UNMEER) in January, a U.N. statement said. …

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