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| Colombians vote in referendum on peace deal, 'yes' win likely | |  By Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombians look set to back a peace accord with Marxist rebels in a referendum on Sunday, the final hurdle for a deal that would end 52 years of war and allows FARC fighters to re-enter society and form a political party. The plebiscite asks for a simple "yes" or "no" on whether Colombians support the accord signed on Monday by President Juan Manuel Santos, who has staked his legacy on peace, and the rebel commander known as Timochenko. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, whose numbers halved to about 7,000 in recent years due to a U.S.-backed military offensive, have agreed to turn in weapons and fight for power at the ballot box instead of with bullets.
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| Philippines' Duterte apologises to Jewish community after Nazi remarks | |  Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte apologised "profoundly and deeply" to the Jewish community on Sunday, and said his references to the Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were to hit back at critics who had likened him to Adolf Hitler. Duterte said he recognised the comments made in the early hours of Friday had caused outrage among Jewish communities around the world, but he insisted his mention of the Nazi leader was to show how opponents had sought to portray him. "The reference to me was, I was supposedly Hitler, who killed many people." He added: "I apologise profoundly and deeply to the Jewish community ... it was never my intention, but the problem was I was criticised, using Hitler comparing to me." More than 3,100 people have been killed since Duterte took office three months ago and launched a promised drugs war that was the bedrock of his campaign for elections, which he won by a large margin.
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| Ethiopians killed in stampede after police fire warning shots during protest | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Police in Ethiopia's Oromiya region fired teargas and warning shots on Sunday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival, triggering a stampede that the opposition party said killed at least 50 people. When police fired teargas and guns into the air, crowds fled and created a stampede, some of them plunging into a deep ditch, witnesses said. |
| Three police cars set ablaze in Dresden ahead of German Unity Day | | | Unknown perpetrators set fire to three police cars on Saturday night in the eastern city of Dresden, where security has been tightened for three days of events to mark 26 years since German reunification, police said on Sunday. Two improvised bombs exploded in the city last week, one at a mosque and one at an international conference centre, and around 2,600 police officers are on duty to safeguard events. Dresden was the cradle of the anti-Islam PEGIDA grassroots movement, whose weekly rallies attracted around 20,000 supporters at their height at the start of 2015. |
| Police fire teargas, warning shots at Ethiopia protest | | | By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Police in Ethiopia's Oromiya region fired teargas and warning shots on Sunday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival, triggering a stampede that caused several casualties, witnesses said. Sporadic protests have erupted in Oromiya in the last two years, initially sparked by a land row and increasingly turning more broadly against the government. Since late 2015, scores of protesters have been killed in clashes with police. |
| UK will want to keep some EU laws post-Brexit - minister | | | Britain will want to keep some European Union laws, including on workers' rights and the environment, once it has left the bloc, transport minister and leading Brexit campaigner Chris Grayling said on Sunday. The government has said it will next year repeal the act that took Britain into what is now the EU. "There's some things we'll want to keep: in the area of the environment, for example, in the area of workers' rights. |
| Big Pharma vs Big Pharma in court battles over biosimilar drugs | |  By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - The line dividing makers of brand-name drugs and copycat medicines is blurring as companies known for innovative treatments queue up to peddle copies of rivals' complex biological medicines. These drugmakers are now increasingly straddling both sides of the courtroom, too, protecting their high-price products from biosimilars - biopharmaceutical drugs with the treatment properties of medicines they seek to mimic - while simultaneously challenging rivals' patent claims. Biologics, manufactured in living cells, then extracted and purified, are more complex than traditional medicines and cannot be copied with precision, and so their knock-off versions are called biosimilars instead of generics. The allure of biosimilars is clear, with insurers and other payers counting on the steep discounts.
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