Monthly Archives: June 2011

FDA Panel Rejects Avastin for Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - Health News

WEDNESDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) — The blockbuster cancer drug Avastin got soundly rejected late Wednesday as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer by a U.S. health advisory panel that found the medication was not effective and causes dangerous side … Continue reading →

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Thailand fights cancer-causing parasitic worms (Reuters)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - Health News

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Health authorities in northeast Thailand plan to screen people for fluke worms to detect early signs of bile duct cancer, a deadly disease linked to eating uncooked freshwater fish. Rivers in northeast Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, … Continue reading →

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Clinton: Jobs push will help tornado-ravaged city

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - Job News

CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton had some good jobs news Wednesday for Joplin, as the southwest Missouri city works to recover from a devastating tornado. During a Clinton Global Initiative conference in Chicago, the Democrat announced that the … Continue reading →

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Zimbabwe editor jailed, accused of defaming police (AP)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - World News

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Attorneys say a Zimbabwean editor is in jail after his independent weekly newspaper published a story about a minister being detained. Nevanji Madanhire, editor of The Standard, was taken away by detectives Wednesday. Attorney Linda Cook said … Continue reading →

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Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti (AP)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Evidence “strongly suggests” that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says. The study is the strongest argument … Continue reading →

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Syrian forces take mountainous province; 11 killed (AP)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - World News

BEIRUT, Lebanon – A Syrian activist says the death toll has risen to 11 as army forces spread through a mountainous area near the Turkish border. Syria-based human rights activist Mustafa Osso says the government appears to have consolidated its … Continue reading →

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Clinton urges world democracies to stand together (AP)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - World News

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for solidarity with pro-democracy activists in Belarus as the wave of protest that has spread through the Arab world extends to Europe’s last autocratic stronghold. On the first leg … Continue reading →

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Day of the Dead (Time.com)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - World News

This is how Mexican investigators believe gangsters murdered business student Juan Francisco Sicilia: Two of his friends had been assaulted in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, by a pair of policemen moonlighting as muggers for the PacÍfico Sur drug cartel. … Continue reading →

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Hariri tribunal delegation meets Lebanon prosecutor (Reuters)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - World News

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Members of the U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri met Lebanon’s state prosecutor on Thursday for talks which officials said were linked to pending indictments. Neither state prosecutor Saeed Mirza nor … Continue reading →

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Newsmaker: South Sudan president steers nation to independence (Reuters)

Written on June 30, 2011 by Editor - World News

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Salva Kiir’s reputation as the quiet man of Sudanese politics, with an eccentric taste in cowboy hats, masks a wily operator who is about to steer his impoverished region into full statehood on July 9. The president … Continue reading →

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