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| Delhi High Court grants Pfizer stay on ban of Corex cough syrup | |  By Zeba Siddiqui and Aditya Kalra MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Delhi High Court granted U.S. pharmaceuticals firm Pfizer Inc's Indian unit a stay order on Monday, pending a further hearing, on a government ban on its popular cough syrup Corex, two lawyers representing the drugmaker told Reuters. The health ministry banned the combination of chlorpheniramine maleate and codeine syrup, which Pfizer sells as the cough syrup Corex, in a notice over the weekend saying it could pose a risk to humans. The court granted Pfizer a stay, saying the government had not issued the company a "show cause notice" before banning the medicine, the lawyers said, declining to be named.
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| Ivory Coast soldiers patrol deserted beaches after al Qaeda attack | |  By Joe Bavier GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivory Coast soldiers armed with assault rifles patrolled the deserted beaches of a resort town on Monday, a day after gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch killed 16 people. The raid was the third high-profile attack by Islamist militants in West Africa since November, but the first on Ivory Coast, the economic powerhouse of the French-speaking region. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was responsible for storming the beach hotels in Grand Bassam, a weekend retreat popular with Ivorians and westerners about 40 km (25 miles) east of the commercial capital Abidjan.
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| Bangladesh arrests Islamist militants over bomb plot, seizes explosives | | | Officials of Bangladesh's anti-terrorism unit on Monday detained five suspected members of a banned Islamist militant group for planning attacks during celebrations of the Bengali New Year next month, a spokesman said. Muslim-majority Bangladesh has experienced a surge in Islamist violence, targeting liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups. The five members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh were arrested in an overnight raid on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka, said Mizanur Rahman Bhuiya, spokesman of the country's Rapid Action Battalion, drawn from its police and military. |
| Don't mention the "s" word: EU tries to hold firm on Russia sanctions | |  By Robin Emmott and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Supporters of the European Union's economic sanctions against Russia insisted on Monday they were still needed for the bloc's security amid signs of fraying unity in the 28-nation bloc over how to deal with Moscow. The EU imposed the sanctions two years ago over Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and its support for armed separatists battling Kiev's forces in mainly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine. Lithuania's foreign minister, whose country was part of the Soviet Union and controlled by Moscow until 1990, said the need to engage with Russia over Syria did not mean the EU should compromise in its support for Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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| Coal India to get anti-theft technology in place by end April | |  Coal India's measures to prevent theft by electronically "fencing" mining areas and fitting trucks with a GPS-based tracking system will be finished by the end of April, a government official said. Coal India's modernisation plan, first reported by Reuters in January, includes tracking trucks and using Google maps to "fence" mines, which will alert managers if a truck diverts from its route. India's Coal Secretary Anil Swarup said on Monday that reducing the amount of coal stolen and improving the quality of coal sold were his top priorities.
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| Three former South African officials banned over 2010 matches | |  By Brian Homewood LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Three more former South African Football Association (SAFA) officials have been banned from the sport in connection with international friendlies played by the national side in 2010, soccer's governing body FIFA said on Monday. Leslie Sedibe, a former chief executive of the South African Football Association (SAFA), was banned for five years and fined 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,250) by FIFA's Ethics Committee. Steve Goddard and Adeel Carelse, both former heads of the SAFA's refereeing department, were each banned for two years, soccer's governing body said in a statement.
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| U.N. rights envoy urges prosecution of North Korean leader | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights investigator for North Korea called on Monday for leader Kim Jong Un and senior officials in the country to be prosecuted for committing crimes against humanity. Marzuki Darusman told the U.N. Human Rights Council that North Korea is devoting huge resources to developing nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction while many of its citizens lack sufficient food and others work in "slave-like conditions". "We are now at a crucial stage, therefore there is a fundamental need for countries to make that next step in ensuring accountability is undertaken," he said.
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