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Bat Virus Renamed After Protests from Malaysia State

...ewly-discovered bat-borne virus following an angry protest from the state it was named after, reports said Monday. Malaysian and Australian scientists recently announced that they had discovered a virus believed to be carried by bats that causes serious respiratory illness in humans. Malaysian health au...

Protestors Strip, Don Horns Against Spain's Running of the Bulls

... took part in a "Running of the Nudes" Thursday to protest the traditional running of the bulls ceremony in t... used in bullfights the same evening. Thursday's protest was organised by the animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which s...

More Than a Million Expected for Spain's Famous Bull Run Festival

...activists took part in a "Running of the Nudes" to protest the bull run. The demonstrators ran stripped to their underwear and sporting plastic horns, as well as the traditional red bandana worn by those who take part in the famous Spanish event. The running of the bulls was immortalised in Ernest Heming...

Polish Nurses to End Street Camp Protest

...s on Friday said they would call off the fruitless protest . Poland's state-employed medical workers are no...unday take down what has grown into a village-like protest site with tents, a kitchen and even a canvas clinic. "The struggle will continue. We are sad, but ...

Teachers in Lucknow Protest Against New Book on Sex Education

...ating sex education, by burning its copies . The protest comes even as the State Government issued an order asking the books be recalled, until the 'offensive' portions are amended, following earlier protests by various sections over what is being called as 'sexually explicit' text. Agitated teachers pro...

Abbot Sues French AIDS Group

...in response to a call from Thai HIV/AIDS groups to protest Abbott's recent actions regarding its antiretrovir...do so. "We don't have any issue with the right to protest or the fact that organizations disagree on different things," Abbott spokeswoman Jennifer Smoter sai...

Kerala Opposition's Unique Protest Over Fever Deaths

...s in the assembly even after it was adjourned - to protest against a raging fever that has killed 76 people. "We are prepared to sit through the entire proceedings for the day. Our only demand is that the government should be prepared for a discussion on this alarming situation," pleaded former chief mini...

Polish Police Break Up Nurses' Pay Protest

...eral units of police in riot gear, who tackled the protest Wednesday morning. Although the security forces cleared the street itself, the nurses managed to continue camping on a nearby verge, where they were ringed by police. Local residents turned out to support the protesters and gave them coffee. "The ...

Germany, Greece Hold Gay Rights Marches

...and lesbians marched through Berlin on Saturday to protest against discrimination in the workplace and schools, but only about 1,000 people joined a similar march in Greece, organisers said. In the German capital homosexuals were joined by bisexuals and trans-sexuals, many swathed in eccentric clothing or ...

World Wine Sales Brisk, but French Producers Hungover

...s incredible, he said, that in France people could protest about more stringent drink driving laws after having had one of the highest road accident rates in Europe. "If you make a product that people can do themselves harm with, you have to take responsibilities," he said. "It is it is up to the alcohol i...

Street-protesting Polish Nurses Threaten to Stay Put

...ty hall that they plan to keep up the high-profile protest until August 15, unless they get a hearing, said Halina Teplinska, an official of the OZZPP nurses' union, quoted by Poland's PAP news agency. Talks between the government and the OZZPP have failed to get off the ground, with each side accusing the...

Parents Boycott India School After HIV Kids Allowed Back

...ion has said it will not send children to class in protest against state government pressure over the affair, which has seen the establishment threatened with the loss of its permit to operate. The kids were first "outed" when a local paper published photographs of them attending an event on world AIDS day...

Mealaka Virus Will Have a New Name

...Ali said the state government would lodge a formal protest with Malaysia's health ministry. "Why not use another name, such as the doctor or scientist who discovered it?" the chief minister was quoted as saying by the national news agency, Bernama. Subsequently the countrys Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr ...

Unemployed Electropaths Threaten to Commit Suicide in Kashmir

...o their demands. The doctors, who have been on a protest for over two months, said Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had failed to keep his promise made recently. Manzoor, an electropathy doctor, said: The Government asked for our papers four months back. We submitted our papers, and now after four months,...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...ions of a weakening of respect for patents." In protest against the USTR report, around 30 Thai activists ...eatening access to treatment in Thailand." "This protest is to express our dismay and outrage at the USTR decision in response to Thailand's decision to issu...

Treaty With Japan may Legalize Dumping Toxic Waste in India

...fused to accept a memorandum registering Chennai's protest presented by civil society groups....

Bidi Workers Protest Against Using Skull and Crossbones Sign on Packets

...nyakumari districts began a strike this weekend to protest the union health ministry making the skull and crossbones sign on packets mandatory from June 1 this year. Though the ruling DMK has supported the strike, its alliance partner PMK has obviously not with its man Anbumani Ramadoss at the helm of the...

Denial of Treatment for HIV Infected Child Sparks Outrage

...Network of Positive People (BNPP) has threatened a protest movement against the recurrence of such cases in government hospitals. Adding to their outrage, local reports said a full-blown AIDS patient, who could barely breathe and move, was made to wait all day Tuesday at the MCH only to be denied a bed aft...

Hospital Employee in Kolkata Arrested on Molestation Charge

...led by Madan Mitra agitated before the hospital to protest the incident....

Students Protest Against Introduction of Sex Education in Schools

Young students from schools and colleges staged protest here on Friday against Government's proposal to introduce sex education in school. Moves to bring sex out of the closet have kicked up a morality debate between educators who say sex education will reduce number of HIV cases, and critics, who fear...

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