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| 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. When police fired teargas and guns into the air, crowds fled and created a stampede, some of them falling into a deep ditch nearby in the rush of people. |
| 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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| Newspaper database shows police killings of Kenyans on the increase | | | By Neha Wadekar Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Police killings of Kenyans are on the rise, a Kenyan newspaper said on Sunday, as it published the country's first comprehensive database detailing hundreds of such alleged killings in the past two years. The Daily Nation, one of Kenya's top selling newspapers, said it hoped the database covering 262 killings since the beginning of 2015 would help policymakers tackle police impunity. Kenya's struggle to track such killings has many parallels with the United States, the paper's data editor Dorothy Otieno said. |
| Southern Philippines rebels free 3 Indonesian hostages | | | Abu Sayyaf rebels linked to Islamic State freed three more Indonesian captives on Sunday after a three-month ordeal, the Philippine government said, taking the number of hostages released to nine in the past two weeks. During the past two weeks Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist group that has made vast sums of money from the kidnap business, had freed three Indonesians, two Filipinos and a Norwegian man snatched from a resort last year alongside two Canadians who were later beheaded. President Rodrigo Duterte has made destruction of the Abu Sayyaf the top security priority of the military, and has ruled out including it in a nationwide peace process because of its brutality and criminal activities. |
| BCCI rejects several key reform recommendations | |  The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has rejected some of the Supreme Court's key recommendations aimed at administrative reform, a move that could bring sanctions from the country's highest judicial body. The Court accepted in July most of the recommendations of the Lodha Committee, a three-member panel it set up to look into the operations of the world's richest cricket board, which is run by politicians and businessmen and has been criticized for a perceived lack of transparency. The BCCI, after a marathon special general meeting on Saturday, said in a statement it had adopted "important recommendations" made by the committee but made no mention of the age and tenure recommendations nor a "one state/one vote" policy.
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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 to a deal ending 52 years of war that calls for 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 last week 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 (FARC), whose numbers dwindled 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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