Mass immigration is damaging Britain, says Cameron’s interior minister

Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May speaks on the third day of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester northern BritainBy William James MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Mass immigration is damaging British society, Conservative interior minister Theresa May said on Tuesday, promising a tough approach on an issue that will influence Britons&; choice of whether or not to leave the European Union. "When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it&039;s impossible to build a cohesive society," May, seen as a possible future leader, told a party conference in the northern city of Manchester. Mass immigration strained public services like schools and hospitals, depressed wages and pushed people out of work, she said, describing the economic benefits as "close to zero".

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Chinese herbal expert among Nobel medicine prize winners

The portraits of the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize 2015 (L-R) Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura of Japan and China's Youyou Tu are displayed on a screen during a press conference of the Nobel CommitteeA trio of scientists earned the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for unlocking revolutionary treatments for malaria and roundworm, helping to roll back two parasitic diseases that blight millions of lives. Tu Youyou of China won half of the award for her work in artemisinin, a drug based on ancient Chinese herbal medicine, the Nobel jury announced. Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan shared the other half for an anti-roundworm treatment dubbed avermectin, derived from soil-dwelling bacteria.

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NATO says investigation into Afghan air strike may be finished in days

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said it expects to complete a preliminary multi-national investigation in days to determine whether an air strike it conducted hit a hospital and killed at least 19 people. The results of that investigation should be known in a “matter of days,” NATO said in a statement. (Reporting By Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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