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Implant helps paralysed man walk again
AFP, Published on 24/09/2018
» PARIS - Five years after he was paralysed in a snowmobile accident, a man in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant, in a potential breakthrough for spinal injury sufferers.
New treatment allows 4 paralysed to walk, stand
AFP, Published on 26/09/2018
» WASHINGTON: Two patients in an experimental US rehabilitation programme for paralysed people have been able to walk again thanks to electrical stimulation of their spinal cords, and two others have been able to stand or sit, according to newly published results.
Andorra, one of Europe's last abortion holdouts
AFP, Published on 28/09/2018
» ANDORRA LA VELLA (ANDORRA) - Andorra is best known as a ski destination and tax haven -- but it's the tiny principality's status as one of Europe's last countries with an abortion ban that activists want to highlight on International Safe Abortion Day.
Fujimori, in hospital plea, says return to prison would be 'death sentence'
AFP, Published on 05/10/2018
» LIMA - Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori said from his hospital bed Thursday that a return to prison would be a "death sentence," the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity.
Disease fears as more bodies found in Indonesia disaster
AFP, Published on 06/10/2018
» PALU (INDONESIA) - Rescuers picking through the grim aftermath of Indonesia's quake-tsunami issued a fresh public health warning Saturday as more decaying corpses were unearthed from beneath the ruined city of Palu.
Parts of quake-hit Palu fated to be mass graves
The Associated Press, Published on 06/10/2018
» PALU, Indonesia: Search teams pulled bodies from obliterated neighbourhoods in this disaster-stricken city on Saturday as more aid rolled in and the government said it was considering making some devastated areas into mass graves.
Peruvian police arrest Keiko Fujimori in Odebrecht probe
AFP, Published on 11/10/2018
» LIMA - Police in Peru have arrested Keiko Fujimori, the opposition leader and daughter of disgraced ex-president Alberto Fujimori, for alleged money laundering involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, her lawyer said Wednesday.
In Canada, pot legalization poses health and safety challenges
AFP, Published on 15/10/2018
» OTTAWA - Canada will end its pot prohibition Wednesday with the goals of curbing the black market and use by youth, amid concerns around the public health and safety merits of legalization.
German nurse serial killer on trial over 100 deaths
AFP, Published on 30/10/2018
» OLDENBURG (GERMANY) - Former nurse Niels Hoegel, accused of killing more than 100 patients in his care, will go on trial Tuesday in the biggest serial killing trial in Germany's post-war history.
German nurse admits killing 99 patients
Reuters, Published on 30/10/2018
» OLDENBURG, Germany: A German nurse admitted in court on Tuesday to being post-war Germany's deadliest serial killer, murdering 99 patients with lethal injections so that he could play the hero by trying to revive them.