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By Mirwais Harooni and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) – Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and NATO forces before a suspected U.S. air strike killed at least 19 people in a battle to oust the Islamist insurgents from an Afghan city. Fighting raged around the northern provincial capital of Kunduz for a seventh day as government forces backed by
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The United States and Australia have reached a compromise on the length of monopoly protection allowed for new biotech drugs in a development that could clear the way for a sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal, Japanese media reported on Sunday. The amount of time allowed for pharmaceutical companies to have exclusive rights to the clinical data for biological drugs has been the last major sticking point in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said it expects to complete a preliminary multi-national investigation in days to determine whether an air strike it conducted hit a hospital and killed at least 19 people. The results of that investigation should be known in a “matter of days,” NATO said in a statement. (Reporting By Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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KABUL (Reuters) – Aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said U.S.-led forces most likely bombed its hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday. “All indications currently point to the bombing being carried out by international Coalition forces,” MSF said in a statement. “MSF demands a full and transparent account from the Coalition regarding its aerial bombing activities over Kunduz on Saturday morning.” (Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Aerial bombing killed at least 19 people at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, the aid group said.At least 12 MSF staff, four adult patients and three children died, the group said on Twitter, raising an earlier estimate of the death toll. (Reporting By Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the United States still was trying to determine how an airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday. “A full investigation into the tragic incident is under way in coordination with the Afghan government,” Carter said in a statement.
An airstrike that killed at least 16 people in hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday was “utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal,” the U.N. human rights chief said.
By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) – U.S. states need better policies for transporting high-risk pregnant women and newborns to the specialized care they need – and then back to their local hospitals for continuing care, researchers say. Focusing on transportation policies as a measure of how easily women and infants can reach the right care centers and receive ongoing care, they found that where state and territorial policies exist at
