Tag: country
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Thai king’s medical condition has ‘overall not yet stabilized’: palace
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) – The health of Thailand's 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning monarch, has “overall not yet stabilized”, the palace said on Wednesday. The statement from the palace follows one on Sunday saying the king was in an unstable condition after receiving haemodialysis treatment, which…
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Dying for a pee: Cape Town’s slum residents battle for sanitation
By Paola Totaro CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Siphesihle Mbango was just six years old when her friend, Asenathi, begged her to go with her to the toilet then ran outside alone – and was never seen again. “We were at the crèche and she wanted me to go with her,” but I told…
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Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew’s wake
By Makini Brice and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT SALUT, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to repair treatment centers and reach the epicenter of one…
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Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew’s wake
By Makini Brice and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT SALUT, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to repair treatment centers and reach the epicenter of one…
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Far from Hurricane Matthew, a Haitian crisis flares in Tijuana
By Lizbeth Diaz TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – The havoc wreaked by Hurricane Matthew has strengthened the resolve of thousands of Haitians stuck on the U.S.-Mexico border to make it to the United States even though new rules mean they will likely be deported to their shattered homeland. A surge in the number of Haitians seeking…
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Far from Hurricane Matthew, a Haitian crisis flares in Tijuana
By Lizbeth Diaz TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – The havoc wreaked by Hurricane Matthew has strengthened the resolve of thousands of Haitians stuck on the U.S.-Mexico border to make it to the United States even though new rules mean they will likely be deported to their shattered homeland. A surge in the number of Haitians seeking…
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Tribal leaders meet with feds in push against opioid abuse
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico — an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction — met with the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans.
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Egyptian court hands nine policemen jail terms for assaulting doctors
An Egyptian court sentenced nine policemen to three years in prison on Tuesday for physically and verbally assaulting two doctors at a Cairo hospital in January, an incident that prompted strikes and a protest demanding justice. The policemen are not in jail. Momin Abdelazim, one of the two doctors allegedly involved, told Reuters at the…
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Allergan to buy Tobira in push for fatty liver disease drugs
Just hours later on Tuesday, Allergan announced it would also pay $50 million upfront and make future milestone payments for Akarna Therapeutics Ltd, a privately held company that is planning early-stage studies of a treatment for NASH. There are no approved treatments for the disease affecting more than 15 million Americans, which involves accumulation of…
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Alstom and French government clash over future of Belfort plant
Alstom will go ahead with plans to shut down manufacturing at its Belfort plant in eastern France, its CEO told staff on Tuesday, setting up a confrontation with the French government which vowed “everything will be done” to prevent that. The French engineering firm, which makes the country's TGV high-speed trains and is 20 percent…