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Life science leaders say UK is better off in a reformed EU

The UK’s leading life science companies warn that leaving the EU could bring uncertainty to the industry.

The UK’s leading life science companies have warned that leaving the EU could add risk to the wealth and health of the nation by bringing uncertainty to the industry, adding barriers to investment in the UK and threatening access to the latest medicines on 8 May.

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Respect for different faiths ‘bedrock’ and ‘prerequisite’ of world peace, UN General Assembly told

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Religious leaders.

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OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre’s Mediation Support Team hosts brainstorming session on Dialogue in Ukraine

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OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine Vaidotas Verba and Torbjørn BjorvatnSenior, Project Manager, Agder Research, Kristiansand, Norway - OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre’s Mediation Support Team brainstorming session on Dialogue in Ukraine, Vienna, 26 April 2016.

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Panzeri on Libya: "The sooner we act the better it will be for all of us”

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Pier Antonio Panzeri

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UNICEF: Give children better protection under revised EU asylum procedures

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Children outside refugee tents, 8 March 2016, in Idomeni, Greece.

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No corner of Aleppo is being spared, Security Council told, as UN officials urge end to ‘carnage’ in Syria

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Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman addresses the Security Council meeting on Syria.

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Budget woes ‘costly distraction,’ Ban says, urging reliable funding for UN Palestine refugee agency

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UNRWA delivers humanitarian aid to civilians in Yalda, including those displaced from Yarmouk camp in Syria.

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Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch through Brasilia

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Syrian refugee Hanan Dacka takes part in the 2016 Olympic Games torch relay in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 3rd, 2016.

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Security Council demands protection for hospitals and health workers in conflict zones

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nurse taking care of an infant child in an incubator at the Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sana’a. Hospitals and clinics in Yemen have been paralyzed by the war: they have either been attacked, run out of medical supplies and fuel or the medical staff have been forced to flee.

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Horrified shipwreck survivors watched as hundreds drowned

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From left to right: Abdulrahman, aged three, sits on the laps of his father Yasin, 24. They are among 41 survivors of a boat that sank in the Mediterranean in mid-April causing the death of hundreds on board.