16 Dec 2009 22:35:43 GMT US FDA panel rejects early use of Tarceva * Panel votes 12-1 against early use of OSI, Roche drug
* FDA will consider panel recommendation
* OSI shares fall 7 percent (Adds details and comments from meeting, analyst comments, byline)
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16 Dec 2009 22:17:03 GMT Rudd puts nuclear arsenal on agenda
THE US and Russia should reduce their combined nuclear stockpile from 22,000 warheads to 1000 over the next 15 years, a report commissioned by the Australian and Japanese governments recommends.
16 Dec 2009 22:16:47 GMT INTERVIEW-U.N. forest-carbon scheme "nearly done" * U.N. forest scheme makes good progress in Denmark- chair
* But targets on halting deforestation, financing unclear
By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia
COPENHAGEN, Dec 16 ( ...
16 Dec 2009 22:05:05 GMT Colombia kills rebel chieftain and his bodyguards BOGOTA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Colombia's air force killed a key Marxist rebel commander and nine of his bodyguards in a bombing raid carried out on Wednesday in the mountainous northwest of the country, ...
16 Dec 2009 22:04:44 GMT Israel protests British arrest warrant against ex-FM Livni
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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel demanded Britain change its law on Tuesday after reports that ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni would have risked arrest on war crimes charges over last year’s Gaza offensive, had she ...
16 Dec 2009 22:04:44 GMT Abbas sticks by terms for talks, rules out violence
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RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank: President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday Palestinians would only resume peace talks if Israel fully halted illegal settlement building in the occupied West Bank, but ruled out any ...
16 Dec 2009 22:04:15 GMT Suicide bomber strikes Kabul diplomatic quarter
KABUL — A suicide car bomber struck an upmarket district of the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, killing eight people and wounding 40, officials said.
16 Dec 2009 22:02:35 GMT Baghdad struck by more bombs
BAGHDAD — Three car bombs struck the heart of Baghdad yesterday, killing at least five people in the fourth wave of coordinated attacks in as many months, days after top ministers were quizzed in Parliament over security.
