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| Experts question ethics of placebo drug trials in case of Ebola | |  By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A group of influential health experts has argued the standard practice of using placebos in drug trials would be unethical in the case of experimental medicines for Ebola, given that the world is in the middle of a deadly epidemic. Faced with a disease with a death rate of between 40 and 90 percent, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) -- where patients are assigned to get either the drug or a dummy pill -- would be unfair and ethically unacceptable, according to the disease specialists from Europe, Africa and the United States. ...
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| China court sentences 12 to death for Xinjiang attacks | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in the unruly far western Chinese region of Xinjiang sentenced 12 people to death and handed out dozens of other heavy sentences on Monday for attacks in July in which almost 100 people died. The Xinjiang government said 59 "terrorists" were gunned down by security forces in Yarkant county in Xinjiang's far south, while 37 civilians were killed in the July 28 attacks. Authorities said people had been killed when knife-wielding attackers had staged assaults in two towns. ... |
| U.S. warships stay in Philippines amid transgender murder probe | | | MANILA (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. Pacific Command has stopped two of its warships from leaving the Philippines after a U.S. Marine was named as a suspect in the murder of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar, a Philippine official said on Monday. Admiral Samuel Locklear had ordered the USS Peleliu and another warship to stay in the former U.S. base of Subic Bay until after the murder investigation is over, executive director of the Visiting Forces Agreement Commission, Eduardo Oban, said. U.S. troops have been taking part in a 10-day military exercise with the Philippines. A U.S. ... |
| Why Britain is still losing its fight against radicalisation | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalisation programme he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops. "I'd go there, I'd sign my name, play pool with some other radicals that I was in prison with, and I'd go home," said Rahman, arrested again last month on suspicion of terrorism offences. He denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. ...
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| Bomb hits Somali police car day after deadly cafe attack | |  MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A bomb tore through a senior policeman's car in Somalia's capital on Monday, a day after suspected Islamist militants shelled an area where the president was due to speak and attacked a city centre cafe, witnesses and officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the assaults which officials said wounded two mechanics working on the car on Monday and killed 13 people at Mogadishu's Oromo Cafe on Sunday. ...
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| China detains scholar, bans books in crackdown on moderate voices | | | By Sui-Lee Wee and Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING (Reuters) - China has detained a prominent scholar who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the United States two years ago and has banned books by eight writers in an escalating crackdown on dissent. Guo Yushan, a founder of the Transition Institute, a think-tank that researches business regulations, reform and civil society, was detained on Thursday, his wife, Pan Haixia, said. More than 10 police officers took him away along with his laptop, wireless router, mobile phone and iPad, she said. ... |
| China says arrested assistant for German paper working illegally | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday that a Chinese woman who helped with the German weekly Die Zeit's coverage of the protests in Hong Kong was working for the newspaper without permission and has been arrested on suspicion of "causing a disturbance". Germany expressed concern about the arrest of Zhang Miao last week, saying it was "worrying news for the German government". ... |
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