Month: May 2015

By Denis Dumo JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudanese rebels killed “many” government soldiers in three days of fighting in Malakal, the capital of oil-producing Upper Nile State, a rebel military spokesman said on Monday. The rebel forces brought down a government helicopter gunship that had been sent to attack rebel positions in the town on Sunday, Lony Ngundeng told Reuters. “The government forces have lost many soldiers,” he said. The world’s newest state, which declared independence from Sudan in 2011, was plunged into conflict nearly 18 months ago between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebels allied with his former deputy, Riek Machar.
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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday the World Health Organization must streamline its management to respond quickly to crises like West Africa's "Ebola catastrophe" that has killed more than 11,000 people. The WHO and its director-general Margaret Chan have come under heavy fire for their slow response to the Ebola epidemic, which began in Guinea in December 2013 but was not declared an international public health emergency until August 2014. This is why it is so important to render its structures more efficient." Merkel said Germany would contribute 200 million euros to help developing countries boost their defenses against infectious diseases, including 70 million euros for West Africa. Guinea has seen a spate of new Ebola cases due to transmissions at funerals, a worrying sign as it seeks to stamp out the epidemic, a health official said on Friday.

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U.S. military personnel who are sexually assaulted and report the crime often face retaliation, but little is done to hold wrongdoers accountable even though various disciplinary responses are available, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The rights group, in a 113-page report based on interviews with sexual assault victims, said the military’s response to retaliation was often seen as ineffective, hamstrung by jurisdictional limitations or too tied to the command structure. One of the most powerful tools, the Military Whistleblower Protection Act, would enable victims to complain directly to the Pentagon inspector general, but “we have been unable to find cases in which a survivor who experienced retaliation was helped by that law,” the report said. “The U.S. military’s progress in getting people to report sexual assaults isn’t going to continue as long as retaliation for making a report goes unpunished,” said Sara Darehshori, a counsel at Human Rights Watch who helped write the report.
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AstraZeneca is investing $285 million to expand biotech drug manufacturing in Sweden as the company bets on the future of high-tech medicine for future growth. The new facility for biological medicines in Sodertalje will supply medicines for clinical trial programs from the end of 2018 and will deliver finished products for commercial use once fully operational by 2019. The planned investment will, subject to relevant approvals by the local authorities, create between 150 and 250 highly skilled new roles at AstraZeneca by 2019, the Anglo-Swedish company said in a statement on Monday. Sodertalje is already AstraZeneca’s biggest global manufacturing facility for traditional tablets and capsules.

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