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Tripping victims at homeopathy conference may have been sect members

German and Swiss media are reporting that the 29 people who fell ill with hallucinations and cramps at a Homeopathy conference in Germany at the

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CEO attacked for demanding excessive price for HIV drugs Daraprim

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UNICEF says the level of acute malnutrition among displaced children in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Hama and Deir-ez-Zor is now “serious”. The

France

Monsanto guilty of chemically poisoning French farmer

A court in Lyon, France has upheld a 2012 ruling finding US biotech company Monsanto guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer. Grain grower

Ukraine

Polio: first outbreak in Europe for five years

The World Health Organisation says two young children have been paralysed in the first polio outbreak in Europe for five years. Both cases are in

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St John of God religious order wins Princess of Asturias Concord Award

The 2015 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord has gone to the Catholic religious order the Brothers Hospitallers of St John of God. The

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Tributes pour in for horror filmmaker Wes Craven

Tributes have been paid to the US horror filmmaker Wes Craven, who’s died in Los Angeles at the age of 76. Twitter has been flooded with comments in

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Serbia

War criminal Nikola Sainovic back in Serbia after 18 years in prison

The former deputy prime minister of Yugoslavia Nikola Sainovic has returned to Serbia after serving two-thirds of his prison sentence. He had been

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Carter: former US President has brain cancer

Former US President Jimmy Carter has told reporters he has been diagnosed with brain cancer and will undergo radiation treatment. It comes barely a

United Kingdom

UK body back e-cigarettes

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