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EU approves tougher toy-safety laws
Brussels - European Union states on Monday expanded the list of substances they would not...
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Pharmaceutical firm Roche's first quarter sales increase
Basel - Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, said it was confident it would meet full year...
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US reviewing trade barriers, existing free-trade deals
Washington - The United States is reviewing existing free- trade deals and will take other...
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EU pledges more funds to financial bailout systems
Brussels - European Union leaders Friday pledged to provide some 100 billion dollars in extra loans...
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EU leaders cautious over boosting bail-out funds
Brussels - European Union leaders were set to keep a cautious stance Friday on the question of...
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US, EU trade officials pledge cooperation after EU warning
Washington - A day after his Senate confirmation, newly minted US Trade Representative Ron Kirk...
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Swiss economy expected to shrink by 2.2 per cent in 2009
Bern - Revised government figures for 2009 released Tuesday showed that Switzerland's economy would...
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FDA Approves First Drug Made From Genetically Engineered Animals
The Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of the first drug made from a genetically...
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EU Takes Legal Action against Microsoft
Friday, the European Commission informed that it had begun legal action against Microsoft...
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EU confirms raids on smart-card chip makers
Brussels - The European Union has carried out raids on companies which make the microchips for...
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Yahoo To Held Users' Personal Data Only 90 Days
Yahoo! Inc., owner of the eponymous search engine, will
reduce the time it retains personal data...
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Microsoft Willing to Reduce Search Data Retention
Monday, Microsoft
announced they would be willing to grant a European privacy panel’s
request to...
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No VAT cuts for France, Germany, say Sarkozy, Merkel
Paris - France and Germany agree that lowering the Value Added Tax (VAT) is not an effective...
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Porsche downplays plans for four-cylinder Boxter
Stuttgart - Porsche is said to be downplaying plans to build a special economical four-cylinder...
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EU businesses expect 1 million job losses in 2009
Brussels - European Union businesses called Monday for a cut in interest rates amid predictions...
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Euro hits three-year low as economic gloom deepens
Frankfurt - The euro plunged to a three-year low Friday, slipping below 1.26 dollars, amid...
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EU approves rescue package as Brown inspires EU summit
Brussels - The European Union approved its own financial rescue package at a summit that saw...
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EU Commissioner: Car Industry Might Need Government Aid
Berlin - European industry might seek government aid similar to that offered this week to banks, a...
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Eurozone governments propose massive bank rescue
Paris - To ease the global credit crunch and restore confidence in Europe's banking system, leaders...
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Report: Britain Is Already in Recession
London - A survey of 5,000 companies by the British Chambers of
Commerce (BCC) revealed on Tuesday...
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Yahoo, Google Forced To Postpone Advertising Deal
The advertising deal between Yahoo and Google had to be put on hold until the Justice Department...
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European carmakers to seek multibillion loan for greener vehicles
London - Europe's carmakers are to ask the European Commission to lend the industry up to 40...
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EU Leaders to Meet as Finance Crisis Exposes Deep Divisions
Paris - As leaders from the four EU members of the G8 group of leading industrial nations prepared...
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UK Increases Guarantees of Bank Deposits
London - Britain increased the upper limit of guarantees offered to savers on deposits to 50,000...
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European Commission proposes caps on SMS roaming price
Brussels - The European Commission on Tuesday proposed a price cap of 0.11 euros (0.16 dollars) on...
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Financial Crisis Can't Stop Africa Aid, Leaders Warn
New York - African leaders warned Monday that the financial crisis enveloping advanced economies...
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Yahoo And Google Await Decision From The European Union
The European Union announced yesterday that it will be
reviewing the advertising partnership...
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Germany, UK, Spain Risk Recession as EU Cuts GDP Estimates
Brussels - The European Commission cut its 2008 growth estimates for the European economy to 1.4...
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EU roaming charges to come down further
Brussels - European Union consumers will as from Saturday find it cheaper to make or receive calls...
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Europe "on Edge of Recession" as World Economy Slumps
Berlin - The European economy shrank during the second quarter, data released Thursday showed, amid...
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U.S.
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Indian counterterrorism measures lacking, US says
Washington - India is incapable of adequately responding to the threat of terrorism because...
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US braces for worse from swine flu
Washington - The United States braced for worse from the swine flu outbreak Tuesday as officials...
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Climate envoys slightly more optimistic after top emitters meeting
Washington - Top climate officials declared themselves slightly more hopeful of reaching a global...
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US captain rescued from pirates arrives in Kenya
Washington/Nairobi - Richard Phillips, the American captain dramatically rescued from pirates...
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Obama hails captain, calls for anti-piracy action
Nairobi/Washington - US President Barack Obama on Monday praised the rescue of a US captain from...
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Alabama crew hails rescued captain, calls for anti-piracy action
Nairobi - Crew members of the Maersk Alabama, whose captain Richard Phillips was freed from the...
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US captain's rescue may mean trouble for other hostages
Nairobi - Three shots from US Navy snipers, and the drama was over. Three Somali pirates lay dead...
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US captain kidnapped by pirates is freed
Washington - US Navy snipers shot dead three Somali pirates who were holding the captain of a...
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US Navy catches sight of US hostage amid stalled talks
Nairobi - The US Navy on Sunday caught sight of the American captain being held hostage on a...
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Somali pirates rush to help comrades in US Navy face-off
Nairobi/Washington - Somali pirates were on Saturday rushing to the aid of their...
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Standoff continues as Somali pirates foil escape attempt
Nairobi/Washington - Somali pirates recaptured the captain of a US-operated ship after he jumped...
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Report: Somali pirates foil US captain's escape attempt
Nairobi/Washington - Somali pirates recaptured the captain of a US-operated ship after he jumped...
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US Navy increases pressure on Somali pirates in hostage standoff
Nairobi/Washington - Further US Navy ships were steaming Friday to the coast of...
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Pirates still hold ship captain, but running out of fuel
Nairobi/Washington - Somali pirates were Thursday holding the captain of a US-operated vessel...
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Somali pirates seize ship, 21 American crew members
Nairobi - Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a Danish-owned container ship with 21 American crew...
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Obama Europe trip hailed "great success"
Ankara - US President Barack Obama left Turkey on Tuesday at the end of his first major foreign...
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Obama wraps up Turkey trip with call to youth
Ankara - US President Barack Obama wrapped up a two-day visit to Muslim Turkey on Tuesday by...
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Obama praises Turkey and seeks to end rift with Muslim world
Ankara - US President Barack Obama on Monday moved to heal rifts between the United States...
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Obama gives Prague vision of a non-nuclear world
Prague - US President Barack Obama laid out an ambitious plan to rid the world of atomic weapons in...
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Czechs await Obama amid changing relations
Prague - The notorious Czech provocateur of an artist, David Cerny, had the privilege last summer...
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US President Obama set to make debut on world political stage
London - US President Barack Obama marks his debut on the world stage Wednesday, in a series of...
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ANALYSIS: Obama could unlock impasse on global warming
Poznan, Poland - With talks on global warming stalled, the world's eyes are on Barack Obama to...
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Government Report: U.S. Dominance Will Decline by 2025
A recent report from the United States intelligence concluded that the U.S. dominance in the fields...
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US automakers plead for bail-out with skeptical Congress
Washington - Chiefs of the three US automakers went before Congress on Tuesday seeking an emergency...
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George W Bush leaves world stage with a "goodbye"
Washington - It was a farewell without fanfares, tears or dollops of praise. Instead, US President...
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Obama to continue to work together on economic issues, aides say
Washington - Representatives of US president-elect Barack Obama said Saturday after meeting with...
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World embraces Obama, but expectations are high
Governments and leaders around the globe were overwhelmingly positive Wednesday to the election of...
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ANALYSIS: Can Obama lead team US-EU to global victory?
Brussels - If current US-European relations were a football (erm ... soccer) team, they would be...
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Egyptian Activist to Meet New US President in December
Cairo - Egyptian Human Rights activist and long-term democracy advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim said he...
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Specials
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Microsoft May Allow Turning Off of IE 8 in Windows 7
After a long-lasting battle with the European Union over antitrust issues regarding its media...
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Social Networking Sites Sign Pact with EU
Tuesday, social networking websites Facebook and MySpace, along with Google, signed a pact...
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Spain's Traffic has Improved Significantly
Madrid - According to the Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the deaths related to traffic...
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Yahoo Limits Personal Data Retention To 90 Days
Yahoo! Inc., owner of the eponymous search engine, will reduce the time it retains personal data it...
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EU to spend 55 million euros to make web safer for children
Brussels - The European Union is to spend 55 million euros (70 million dollars) over the next five...
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Money makes you happy - but it's not the only factor, says EU survey
Brussels - Money breeds contentment. But greater wealth does not automatically make people happier,...
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Space Tourist Safely Returns To Earth
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying video games tycoon
Richard Garriott along with a Russian...
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Ex-death-row inmate joins calls to halt Japan's executions
Frail and pale, Kenjiro Ishii sits tucked into a wheelchair at a senior citizens home in Tamana, a...
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Everyday Reality Reflected Artistically at 2008 Prix Europa
Berlin - TV and radio producers, directors and commissioning editors have begun flooding into...
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Romanian Labour Minister Dismissed over Corruption Suspicions
Labour Minister Paul Pacuraru
was dismissed on Tuesday by President Traian Basescu after the...
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Confusion Around Gilead’s Drugs Viread And Hepsera
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
approved Viread – an antiretroviral drug which has been...
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Christian Bale Was Defending Wife from Mother’s Criticism
Finally, some more information is surfacing in the
surprising arrest of Christian Bale and it all...
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Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well
Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to
ban use of anti-smoking drug Chantix...
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Dutch Anti-Islam Film Receives Full-Blown Criticism
The anti-Islam film posted by a Dutch politician on the Internet has been met with heavy criticism...
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The Whole World Mourns Pavarotti’s Death (Update)
Today, the Italian media ran special sections about
Pavarotti and his life. The newspaper La...
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European Countries Help Fire-Ravaged Greece
With Greece facing a nationwide state of emergency after the deadly fires that have killed 51...
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Technology
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Estonia announces EU cyber-wargame plan
Tallinn - The European Union will soon stage a simulated cyber-attack to test its online defences,...
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Time Stops As Microsoft Gives Users The Possibility To Turn Off IE
Hell temperatures have probably dropped dramatically this week, after Microsoft confirmed that...
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Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 Option To Turn Off Internet Explorer
After reports of new Internet Explorer removal option surfaced earlier this week, Microsoft decided...
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Windows 7 Build 7084 To Offer Option To Remove IE8
The Windows – Internet Explorer bundle has been around for ages, but users may be in for some...
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Merkel and Schwarzenegger open CeBIT trade fair
Hanover, Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and California Governor Arnold...
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Google Offers Support In EU’s Windows-IE Bundle Investigation
Microsoft is under tight scrutiny by the European Commission, and it looks like the European...
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Microsoft to Cope Again With E.U. Regulators
After it paid a striking $1.35 billion fine to E.U., the largest in its history, Microsoft...
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Yahoo’s New Privacy Policy Is Acclaimed
Following this week’s announcement that Yahoo will shorten the...
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Music Industry Drops Lawsuits
The Recording Industry Association of America has revealed its new strategy in fighting against...
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Yahoo Limits User Activity Logs To 3 Months
On December 17, Yahoo announced that they will shorten the time during which the servers keep...
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Yahoo Limits Data Retention to Three Months
Yahoo! Inc., owner of the eponymous search engine, will
reduce the time it retains personal data...
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Amazon’s EC2 Cloud Platform Available in Europe Too
Amazon is known as an online bookstore. But the Web site now wants to extend its Elastic Compute...
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Update1: Yahoo, Google Forced To Put Deal On Hold For DOJ Investigation
The advertising deal between Yahoo and Google had to be put on hold until the Justice Department...
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Google Defends Its Partnership with Yahoo against Criticism
Following the announcement Google and Yahoo made back in
June that they signed a non-exclusive...
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Google-Yahoo Ad Deal under EU Investigation
The potential deal between giants Google Inc and Yahoo Inc is under tight investigation from the...
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Apple Boots Brilliant "I Am Rich" Application from AppStore
Somewhat expectedly, Apple kicked out the "I am Rich" application developed by Armin...
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Update: Viacom-YouTube Ruling Triggers Far-Reaching Privacy Concerns
The ruling which demands Google to hand over the YouTube access logs, which are to show the actual...
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Google Maps Dismissed By A Comunity From Minnesota
Google Maps Street View, Google’s popular panoramic street-viewing feature, received several...
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New Trade Row with European Union over Electronics Tariffs
The United States complained to the World Trade Organization about the European Union's tariffs on...
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The European Union Plans To Boost Its Internet Security Features
European Union officials have expressed their deep concerns
about the wave of internet attacks set...
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Greenpeace Not Happy with Gaming Consoles Materials
Greenpeace has released another study about the threats that
electronic devices found in our...
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EU Shows Concerns over Google’s Street View Service
Google Maps’ Street View has drawn some attention from the
European Union, which has shown...
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European Union Approves Mobile Phones on Planes
The European Union's regulator, the European Commission, has announced that mobile phones can be...
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Eight European Countries Have Higher Penetration Rates Than US
The European Commission’s 13th
Report on the Implementation of the Telecommunications Regulatory...
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Antitrust Oversight of Microsoft Extended Through 2009
The Federal District Court in Washington decided that Microsoft, the world’s largest software...
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Google Contradicts EU In Terms Of Privacy Regulations
Do search engines, such as
Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, break privacy policies? The new issue was...
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Microsoft Hit with New Antitrust Probes
Microsoft, the world’s largest
software maker, faces two new antitrust cases. This time it is the...
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Intel Responded to the European Commission’s Antitrust Charges
Intel announced on Monday that it
had responded to the European Commission’s antitrust charges and...
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Samba to get access to proprietary code from Microsoft
In a landmark ruling against Microsoft’s anti-trust policy, the European Union forced Microsoft in...
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Google Purchase of DoubleClick Approved by Regulators
The Federal Trade Commission, in a 4-to-1 vote, allowed Google's purchase of DoubleClick to go...
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Health
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Novartis’ Afinitor Gets FDA Clearance for Advanced Kidney Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Novartis AG’s Afinitor for advanced...
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Resistance to Popular Tamiflu Growing
Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu appears inefficient in some people suffering from flu viruses...
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FDA: Three Deaths from PML Tied to Genentech Psoriasis Drug Raptiva
Three patients taking Genentech’s psoriasis drug Raptiva are thought to have died of...
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FDA Clears First Drug from Genetically Engineered Animals
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cleared the first medicine made from...
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Epix’s Contrast Agent Vasovist Approved by FDA for Use with MRA
Epix Pharmaceutical Inc.’s intravascular contrast agent Vasovist was approved by US...
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Research Panel Calls for EPA Assessment of Phthalates
A panel from the independent National Research Council urged the U.S. Environmental Protection...
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Tainted Blood Thinner Seized by US Marshals in Ohio
The scandal around tainted heparin is again in the
spotlight, as federal officials said...
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Anti-Obesity Drug Pulled From European Markets
On
Thursday, the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis halted the
sales of their...
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Erbitux Less Effective For Colon Cancer Patients With Second Gene Mutation
Treatment with cetuximab (Erbitux) was less
effective for patients with advanced colorectal cancer...
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Biological Drugs Raise Concerns about Their Safety
A group of
Dutch researchers have reported that about one fourth of the biological drugs
that had...
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The Safety of Biological Products Questioned
A new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association
suggests that...
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EU Warns Youth against Loud Music on MP3 Players
A study commissioned by the European Union shows that
listening to MP3 players on high volumes for...
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British smokers confronted with graphic picture warnings
London - Graphic images highlighting the dangers of smoking are appearing for the first time this...
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Thailand Initiates Product Tests In Melamine Scandal
The Asian country is taking every measure of protection against the melamine spread in a number of...
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The FDA Said OK - Viread To Be Used For Chronic Hepatitis B Treatment
On Monday, Gilead Sciences Inc. announced The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved...
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Lawmakers Reach Consumer Safety Agreement
Congressional negotiators came to an agreement on Monday
regarding a ban on a family of toxins...
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Cervarix Approval By The FDA Might Be Delayed
GlaxoSmithKline, the second biggest pharmaceutical company in the world, has announced that it will...
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FDA Approves GlaxoSmithKline Combination Vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a four-in-one vaccine by GlaxoSmithKline. The...
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FAA: Pilots, Air Controllers No Longer Allowed to Use Chantix
Pilots and air traffic controllers are no longer allowed to
use popular anti-smoking drug Chantix...
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Glaxo’s Bird Flu Vaccine Prepandrix Gets EU Clearance
GlaxoSmithKline Plc. has received the European Union
approval for the world’s first wide-spectrum...
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Pfizer to Buy Encysive and Its Thelin Lung-Disorder Drug
Drug manufacturer Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that it would
buy biopharmaceutical company Encysive...
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FDA Seeks For Stronger Warning About Chantix
In a new advisory released yesterday, the US Food and Drug
Administration alerted health care...
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Pfizer Updates Chantix Label
Pfizer updated the Chantix label in US by including a new
warning that says the patients who are...
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Novartis’ Menveo against Meningitis Has Positive Results in Infants
British and Canadian researchers discovered a new type of
meningitis vaccine, which boosted the...
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EU Says New Warnings Are Needed for Pfizer’s Champix
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) said Pfizer’s Champix,
a drug used for smoking cessation in...
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GlaxoSmithKline's Tykerb Marketed in EU as Tyverb
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has granted GlaxoSmithKline conditional approval to sell their...
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Possible Leak of Foot and Mouth Virus in UK Lab
British officials said on Thursday that the foot and mouth virus may have leaked at the same...
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Gilead HIV Viread Bettered Gilead HBV Hepsera In Curing HBV
This Friday, Gilead, a Foster City,
California
based company, announced its results from two...
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Bird Flu Strain in Canada; Not H5N1
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Thursday that a bird flu strain has been found at a...
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Foot-and-Mouth Fears Continue in Britain
British health officials are on the alert after a new case of foot-and-mouth disease surfaced in...
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World
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Margot Wallstrom "Sweden's best EU proponent"
Stockholm - Outgoing Swedish EU Commissioner Margot Wallstrom is regarded as her country's best...
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No spheres of influence in Europe, EU's Barroso vows
Prague - Neither the European Union nor Russia has the right to build a sphere of influence in the...
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Two ETA bombs at Spanish booster stations - no injuries
Castro Urdiales, Spain - Two bombs on Wednesday targeted two booster stations near Spain's Basque...
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US and EU reach temporary deal in long-running beef dispute
Washington - The United States and European Union on Wednesday struck a provisional deal to end...
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Sweden welcomes Czech vote on Lisbon Treaty
Stockholm - Sweden on Wednesday welcomed the Czech senate's approval of the European Union's Lisbon...
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Italy and Malta in new spat over stranded migrants
Rome/Valletta - An Italian tanker was heading Wednesday to rescue two stranded vessels...
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Moscow worried over Eastern Partnership
Moscow - Russia Wednesday criticized the impending formation of the Eastern Partnership, an...
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Swine flu cases rise to over 50 in EU
Stockholm/Geneva - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union went beyond 50...
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No EU travel ban to Mexico, diplomats say
Luxembourg - The European Union is not going to ban travel to Mexico because of the outbreak...
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NATO, Russia launch war of words over spying and Georgia
Brussels - NATO and Russia launched a war of words on Thursday as the alliance expelled two...
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Italian royal "heir" to run in European elections
Rome - Prince Emmanuel Filiberto of Savoy, a descendant of Italy's erstwhile royal family,...
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Clinton seeks "meaningful" steps against climate change
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for the...
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EU calls emergency talks as Spain confirms swine flu case
Luxembourg/Brussels - The European Union called an emergency meeting of health ministers and...
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EU hits back at Russian "nonsense" over Eastern initiative
Luxembourg - Top European Union diplomats on Monday dismissed as "nonsense" a claim by...
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Enlargement gives EU a Russian headache
Moscow/Brussels - According to the world's most famous Australian soap opera, everybody needs good...
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Europol: Terrorist attacks in Europe down in 2008
The Hague - The number of terrorist attacks carried out in the European Union fell in 2008 compared...
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EU seeks to promote "modern" image of North Africa
Brussels - The European Union is sponsoring television programmes designed to promote North African...
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Undaunted Somali pirates seize four more boats
Nairobi - Undaunted Somali pirates have seized a total of four ships - among them two cargo ships -...
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Somali pirates seize another tanker after hostage drama
Nairobi- Somali pirates have seized another tanker just days after US and French forces killed five...
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Somali pirates demand ransom as US Navy sends more ships
Nairobi/Washington - Somali pirates, holding a US ship captain in a lifeboat and surrounded by two...
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Ahmadinejad ready to join talks with US, but insists on rights
Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday said he was ready to join nuclear talks...
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Arrest warrants requested for Somali pirates in German ship attack
Berlin - German prosecutors applied Tuesday for arrest warrants for seven Somali pirates who attack...
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Obama, EU plan new era to meet global challenges
Prague - US President Barak Obama and the European Union (EU) leaders wound up a summit in Prague...
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Pope recalls drowned migrants, urges global landmine ban
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI in his Palm Sunday address recalled the deaths of scores of...
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North Korea launches rocket, draws international ire
Seoul/Tokyo/Washington - North Korea launched a rocket early Sunday and claimed to have put a...
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Brown comes out smiling from "crunch summit"
London- Under the unwritten rules of summit politics, everyone is a winner and failure is not an...
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China, EU in diplomatic bind over satellite-navigation systems
Beijing - China and the European Union are at loggerheads over their...
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China, EU to establish renewable energy institute
Beijing - China and the European Union on Monday signed an agreement to expand...
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EU greets US proposal for climate change forum in April
Beijing - The European Union on Monday welcomed US President Barack Obama's...
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EU grants budget deficit reprieve to five member states
Brussels - Acknowledging the extraordinarily adverse impact of the economic downturn on European...
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