Brazilians worst abusers of diet pills, U.N. says
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Brazilians are the world's worst abusers of diet pills and the biggest producers of two potentially dangerous weight-loss drugs, a study by the International Narcotics Control Board said on Thursday.
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Brazil is cracking down on the drug gangs, prompting many a shootout in the poorer districts, known as favelas. The Guardian spent a day with a Rio photographer who risks his life almost daily to cover the battle
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Brazil on Friday denounced a U.S. magazine report saying Brazil's uranium enrichment plant will give it the potential to build nuclear warheads.
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Young women are being warned not to put their lives at risk by taking laxatives in a bid to lose weight.
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Poverty is "the most destructive weapon of mass destruction," Brazil's president said Monday as world leaders spotlighted the growing gap between rich and poor and the often devastating impact of globalization on millions of people trying to eke out a living.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A suspension of government food handouts worsened malnutrition among thousands of Indians in southwestern Brazil, and at least two young children died, a leading human rights group said Friday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 4 (IPS) - The Brazilian government and farmers celebrated a  third triumph so far this year against the farm subsidies shelled  out by the industrialised North after the World Trade  Organisation (WTO) handed down an interim ruling Wednesday that  found that the European Union (EU) is illegally dumping millions  of tons of subsidised sugar on the world market.
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The leaders of France and Brazil on Monday warned that poverty leads to violence and urged the international community to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor, casting a spotlight on the more than 1 billion people living on less than &#36;1 per day.
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Eyeing a potential gold mine in the global obesity epidemic, the pharmaceutical industry has launched a massive drive to develop new diet pills and an intense campaign to persuade
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With ingredients such as high  cholesterol coconut milk, clarified butter and sugar cane, the  traditional Malaysian diet may be among the most unhealthy  cuisines in the world.
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Sexual abuse of girls by U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was widespread and ongoing despite many revelations and probes, the U.N. watchdog agency reported on Friday.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's opposition candidates   stepped up attacks on Thursday against President Luiz Inacio   Lula da Silva over corruption in an effort to trim the former   union leader's solid lead in the presidential election race.
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&quot;While under-nutrition continues to be a key concern, particularly in developing countries, many children in all regions of the world have poor eating habits and are not getting enough exercise,&quot; she added.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - U.S. regulators should reject a proposed weight-loss pill called Zimulti because of concerns it may increase suicidal thinking and depression, an advisory panel unanimously said on Wednesday.
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A weight-loss drug used by thousands is unsafe for those also taking antidepressants, health watchdogs warn.
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The NZ Herald has the story.  More coverage can be found by performing a Google News search for "un congo sex abuse".    Details of the story include the fact that over 150 counts by at least 30 staff members are being investigated, and that this isn't the first time that the U.N. has been so accused.
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Brazil will subsidize birth control pills for the poor, Health Minister Jose Temporao said on Monday, a decision that may stoke a simmering conflict between the state and Catholic Church over contraception and abortion.