Monday, April 1, 2013

[World] Top Court in India Rejects Novartis Drug Patent

Top Court in India Rejects Novartis Drug Patent
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/timeline-novartiss-patent-plea-for-cancer-drug-glivec-in-india/382398-3.html
NEW DELHI - India's Supreme Court rejected a Swiss drug maker's patent application for a major cancer drug Monday in a landmark ruling that allows cheap copies of important medicines to continue being distributed in much of the world.

Singapore President Makes First Ever Visit to Burma
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/privately-owned-newspapers-return-to-myanmar/article4569444.ece
Singapore's President Tony Tan Keng Yam will travel to Burma on Monday for the start of a five-day visitâ€"the first ever by a Singaporean head of state since the two countries established relations in 1966.

Fighting erupts after car bombing in Mali
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/mali-troops-sweep-timbuktu-for-islamist-rebels-after-battle-348613
By Tiemoko Diallo. BAMAKO | Sun Mar 31, 2013 4:48pm EDT. BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian soldiers backed by French fighter jets battled Islamist rebels in Timbuktu on Sunday after insurgents used a car bomb as cover to infiltrate the northern desert town, ...

North Korean secrecy on bomb test fuels speculation on nuclear advances
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/north-korean-secrecy-on-nuclear-test-fuels-speculation-about-bomb-design/articleshow/19320029.cms
U.S. officials and independent experts say North Korea appears to have taken unusual steps to conceal details about the nuclear weapon it tested in February, fuelingsuspicions that its scientists shifted to a bomb design that uses highly enriched uranium as ...

Cutting British troops in Afghanistan would be "unforgivable", top General says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9964604/Cutting-British-troops-in-Afghanistan-would-be-unforgivable-top-General-says.html
Lieutenant-General Nick Carter, the most senior British commander in the country and deputy chief of Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), said the transition to Afghan control is going well.



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