Most women arriving in parts of the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among a new wave of some 27,000 deportees from Angola, have been sexually abused, a local health official said.
“There are many injured people and 80 percent of the women [who arrived] had been raped,” Pierre Didi Mpata, [...]
Planet Organic Health Corp. (TSXV:POH) says it no longer plans to acquire California-based organic food retailer, New Leaf Community Markets, due to the impact of tighter capital markets.
That’s an about-face for the Edmonton-based company, which said last month that previously announced expansion plans would continue, despite the decision to cancel a stock offering that had [...]
On a September morning, five days before surgery to remove her cancer, Virginia Yule saw her seven-year-old son, Alex, off to school, made a cup of tea and began typing a letter on her computer %26mdash; to her doctor.
%26ldquo;There are a couple of things I would like to share with you,%26rdquo; she wrote, %26ldquo;which [...]
The latest is a strain of bacteria known as USA300. The codename makes it sound like a patriotic sporting event, but to judge by recent media coverage USA300 is a harbinger of apocalypse. ‘Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,’ screamed a recent headline in the Independent. ‘SF gay community an epicenter for new strain [...]
