Former Chicago Mayor Daley in intensive care at hospital

(Reuters) - Richard M. Daley, who was mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011, was in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital on Saturday after falling ill the day before, the hospital said. Northwestern Memorial Hospital said that Daley, 71, became ill after returning from a business trip in Arizona and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. "Mayor Daley's family is with him and they are visiting between tests." No further information was immediately available.

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Florida reviews thousands of drug cases for possible evidence tampering

By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida's state police agency on Saturday announced a massive evidence review in thousands of drug cases handled by one crime-laboratory chemist, saying its findings could lead to some criminal cases being quashed and drug dealers set free. The chemist is suspected of taking illegal drugs out of evidence storage and replacing them with over-the-counter medication, the agency said. We don't know," Gerald Bailey, head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), said at a news conference.

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Shareholder DWS urges Lufthansa to appoint new CEO

Deutsche Bank's fund management unit DWS is growing impatient with German airline Lufthansa's delay in appointing a new chief executive, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said. Henning Gebhardt, a fund manager at DWS, told the paper Lufthansa was taking too long to appoint a successor to Christoph Franz who said in September he would leave to join Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche .

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Merck joins companies ending chimpanzee research

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Drugmaker Merck & Co. is joining two dozen other pharmaceutical companies and contract laboratories in committing to not use chimpanzees for research.



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Thousands march in Madrid against planned abortion limits

By Inmaculada Sanz MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched in Spain's capital on Saturday to protest against a government plan to limit abortions that has caused unusually open divisions in the ruling conservative People's Party. Protesters from around the country joined the biggest demonstration so far against a draft bill to restrict abortion to cases of rape or severe danger to the mother's health. Four years ago, Spain came in line with most of the rest of Europe when the then Socialist government legalised abortion on demand in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's cabinet approved the draft bill on abortion in December - in a move widely seen as an attempt to appease his party's disgruntled right wing - but it has not been submitted yet to parliament for debate.

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Khartoum stops Red Cross activities in Sudan: ICRC spokesman

Sudan's government has suspended the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the country, the organization said on Saturday without giving details of the reasons. The Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), a government agency responsible for permitting, coordinating and monitoring the activities of aid organizations, told the ICRC on Wednesday its work would be suspended on February 1, Adel Sherif said. "We have stopped our work across all of Sudan," Sherif, spokesman for the ICRC in the country, told Reuters. The United States imposed sanctions on Sudan in 1997 over alleged human rights violations and support for "international terrorism", then strengthened the penalties in 2006 over Khartoum's festering conflict with rebels in Darfur.



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S.Africa's dogged dealmaker Joffe eyes Adcock victory

By David Dolan JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Brian Joffe, the hard-headed South African entrepreneur whose empire spans ships to mops, has a favourite saying: "Why go into business to test the waters? Go in to make waves." The 66-year-old son of Lithuanian immigrants made another splash this week when he fended off a rival bid for Johannesburg's Adcock Ingram after months of jostling for control of the drugmaker. His rival, Chile's CFR Pharmaceuticals, has offered 12.8 billion rand for Adcock. But Joffe sees another chance for his sprawling Bidvest Group to turn around an ailing firm and access new markets.



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