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China paves way to charge ally of former security tsar in graft crackdown Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 08:00 PM PST | Top |
Group offers plan to meet new EPA power plant emission rules Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 04:16 PM PST By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swapping power generated from the dirtiest coal plants with that from under-used natural gas plants would help U.S. states meet new regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, according to a plan released by an environmental group on Thursday. The proposal by the Boston-based Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is the latest to be presented as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepares new emissions standards for existing power plants, due for release on June 1. President Barack Obama last June directed the EPA to propose the national standards to lower carbon emissions that states could meet through their own tailored plans. Full Story | Top |
U.S. Navy eyes greater presence in Arctic from 2025 Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 03:36 PM PST | Top |
Groups urge FDA to halt launch of Zohydro pain drug Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 02:24 PM PST By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of addiction experts, physicians and others is urging U.S. health officials to reverse course and block the launch of a powerful painkiller called Zohydro, expected to hit the market next month. The opioid drug, manufactured by Zogenix Inc, contains a potent amount of an active ingredient that could be lethal to new patients and children and is not safer than other current pain drugs, the groups told the Food and Drug Administration. A single capsule could be fatal if swallowed by a child," they wrote in a petition to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, dated Wednesday. In December, attorneys general from 28 states also urged the FDA to reconsider its approval of the drug. Full Story | Top |
GDF ditches monopoly past, invests in growth markets Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 01:55 PM PST | Top |
TSX gains as Valeant, CIBC jump on results Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 01:50 PM PST | Top |
Bright prospects? China's rooftop solar goal looks too ambitious Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 01:21 PM PST | Top |
Global warming slowdown likely to be brief: U.S., UK science bodies Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 12:58 PM PST | Top |
Actelion diarrhea treatment gets fast-track from U.S. FDA Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 09:28 AM PST ZURICH (Reuters) - Actelion Ltd, Europe's biggest biotech company, said on Thursday that the U.S. health regulator has granted fast-track status to its antibiotic treatment for diarrhea. A fast track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) speeds up regulatory review of drugs that aim to treat serious diseases and fill unmet medical needs. Actelion said the FDA was also designating Cadazolid as a treatment for infectious diseases, which means the drug would get a nine-month priority review if it completes current late-stage trials successfully. ... Full Story | Top |
Britain sets out plans for first '3-parent' IVF babies Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 08:58 AM PST By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Britain proposed new regulations on Thursday that would make it the first country in the world to offer "three-parent" fertility treatments to families who want to avoid passing on incurable diseases to their children. The technique is known as three-parent in vitro fertilisation (IVF) because the offspring would have genes from a mother, a father and from a female donor. The treatment, only at the research stage in laboratories in Britain and the United States, would for the first time involve implanting genetically modified embryos into women. The process involves intervening in the fertilisation process to remove faulty mitochondrial DNA, which can cause inherited conditions such as fatal heart problems, liver failure, brain disorders, blindness and muscular dystrophy. Full Story | Top |
Omani CEO jailed for 23 years in graft case: court Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 08:30 AM PST A court sentenced the CEO of state-owned Oman Oil Company to a total of 23 years in jail on Thursday for accepting bribes, abuse of office and money laundering, the most severe punishment meted out in a series of corruption trials that began last year. The judge at the Court of First Instance in Muscat also convicted Adel al-Raisi, a former aide to the minister of the now-dissolved economy ministry, of organizing a bribe made by a senior official at a South Korea-based firm to Oman Oil Company CEO, Ahmad al-Wahaibi, and sentenced him to 10 years in jail. The court found the vice CEO of the Korean-based LGI, named in court as Myung Jao Yoo, guilty of paying $8 million to a Caribbean-registered company owned by Wahaibi after winning a billion rial petrochemical project in Sohar Port in Oman. Oman's Sultan Qaboos has waged an anti-graft campaign to defuse mass protests in several Omani cities in 2011 that were mainly directed against graft and to demand jobs, issues that fuelled uprisings around the Arab world in the same year. Full Story | Top |
Zimbabwe hit by power cuts after fault at major plant Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 07:49 AM PST Zimbabwe has been hit by severe electricity outages following a breakdown at a power plant that accounts for about half its national production, state utility ZESA said on Thursday. "There will be an increase in load-shedding until the situation returns to normal," ZESA said in a statement. Hwange thermal power station in the northwest of the country, which produces 500-600 MW of power, had halted production due to a "fault that caused a malfunction," it added. Zimbabwe produces 1,200 MW of electricity, most of it from Hwange and a hydropower station on the Kariba dam. Full Story | Top |
Twelve dead in Qatar restaurant gas explosion: news agency Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 07:47 AM PST | Top |
Morocco opens final tender on wind farms worth $1.7 bln Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 07:21 AM PST | Top |
U.S. calls on Russia to be transparent, avoid risky Ukraine steps Thursday, Feb 27, 2014 06:40 AM PST Russia must be transparent about military exercises along Ukraine's border and not take any steps that could be misinterpreted or "lead to miscalculation during a delicate time," U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 150,000 troops to be ready for war games near Ukraine on Wednesday, and on Thursday, Russia put fighter jets on combat alert. Hagel, following NATO talks on Ukraine, said the United States expected other nations to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and avoid provocative actions. Full Story | Top |
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