Timber dispute clouds U.S.-Canadian trade
With only days to go before an agreement that puts limits on Canadian lumber exports to the United States expires, chances for quickly resolving one of the most contentious trade disputes between
With only days to go before an agreement that puts limits on Canadian lumber exports to the United States expires, chances for quickly resolving one of the most contentious trade disputes between
Like other urban institutions in Kabul, the zoo was badly damaged in the factional fighting of the early 1990s. Many animals died from hunger and neglect, and the only elephant was killed by a
China is barring beef imports from Japan after a possible case of mad cow disease was found at a Japanese dairy, an official said. Rules issued on March 1 banning beef from countries with outbreaks
The US based pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. has reduced the price of two of its AIDS drugs sold in Brazil. Merck will lower the cost of two drugs, the Estado news agency reported.
A judge in Canada has ordered a Saskatchewan farmer to pay the biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. thousands of dollars because the company's genetically engineered canola plants were found growing on
In the last few weeks, a ray of hope has appeared in the global fight against AIDS. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have finally begun slashing prices for anti-retroviral drugs for sub-Saharan Africa
Foot-and-mouth disease spread to a new area of the Netherlands, the government confirmed, despite tough measures to contain the outbreak.
Researchers at the pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. Inc. have announced that one of the their experimental AIDS vaccines is able to protect monkeys from progressing to the damaging stage of the
A small advance group of US special force may have been exposed to nerve gas when a U.S. led coalition bombed an Iraqi weapons site during the Gulf War, the U.S. Defence Department said in a report.
American foundations and African experts say that unless public health systems are strengthened in poor countries, the benefits of more AIDS drugs at lower prices could be undone by ineffective