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RMS : comments on the floods in Japan
Intense rainfall over the 24 hours from 12:00UTC on Wednesday, July 11, has resulted in flash flooding, as rivers burst their banks, and landslides...
Portugal : health workers strike over budget cuts
Thousands of doctors and nurses in Portugal launched a two-day nationwide strike on Wednesday over sweeping cuts in the health budget, in a protest...
U.S. : John Roberts ‘wrote both sides of US health care ruling’
Chief Justice John Roberts flipped late in the game on the Supreme Court ruling on "Obamacare" and ended up writing both the majority opinion...
U.S. : GlaxoSmithKline fined $3 billion
GlaxoSmithKline was socked with $3 billion in fines by US authorities Monday over charges it marketed drugs for unauthorized uses, held back safety data,...
RMS : comments on Colorado wildfires
According to the latest satellite information (related to active fire detection), there no further areas affected by the Waldo Canyon Fire than on Friday,...
U.S. : health industry relieved by court ruling
The US health care industry breathed a cautious sigh of relief Friday after the Supreme Court's surprise decision to uphold President Barack Obama's sweeping...
AIR Worldwide : Colorado wildfire spreads
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, a dangerous wildfire that started on June 23 in the Pike National Forest west of Colorado Springs,...
RMS : Tropical Storm Debby
Tropical Storm Debby made landfall late Tuesday night near Steinhatchee, Taylor County, Florida – the second tropical storm to make landfall over the U.S....
RMS : comments on the flooding in the north of England and on Tropical Storm Debby
Northern UK Flooding :
A band of heavy rain associated with a low pressure system affected parts of northern England and southwest Scotland on Friday,...
Greece : leadership health-ridden ahead of bailout revision bid
Greece's new prime minister and finance minister will for health reasons both miss a key EU summit where they were to launch efforts to...
Roche : faulty drug-safety reporting
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is under investigation over a failure to properly report adverse drug side-effects, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday.
Inspectors...
AIR Worldwide : moderate earthquake hits Victoria State in Australia
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, at 10:53 UTC this morning, the biggest earthquake to hit Victoria, Australia, in more than a century...
Samsonite : worldwide luggage range recall announced
US company Samsonite said Tuesday it was pulling its Tokyo Chic luggage from stores worldwide after a Hong Kong consumer group found parts contained...
U.S. : 46 46 million Americans lack health insurance
A total of 46.3 million people in the United States do not have health coverage, a trend that has been rising in the past...
AIR Worldwide : Carlotta makes landfall and dissipates over Mexico’s mountainous terrain
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Hurricane Carlotta came onshore Friday night as a Category 1 storm near the Oaxacan town of Puerto...
U.S. : 9/11 victims with cancer eligible for aid
People with cancer who were caught in the aftermath of the World Trade Center collapse during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New...
Europe / home loans : better advice for borrowers, more stable markets for lenders
Proposed new rules to ensure that house buyers are properly informed before taking on a mortgage were approved by the Economic and Monetary Affairs...
Greece : crisis creates medicine shortages
Greece's highly uncertain future has forced businesses into a quasi hand-to-mouth existence, with one of the most alarming effects a shortage of medicines, including...
Europe : unemployment rate at 11% in April 2012
The euro area(EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 11.0% in April 2012, stable compared with March. It was 9.9% in April 2011. The EU27 unemployment...
RMS : comments on Italy earthquake
At 07:00 UTC on Tuesday, May 29 a Mw5.8 (moment magnitude) earthquake struck the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, just over a week after a...
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