A man in the Italian city of Florence has killed two Senegalese street vendors and wounded four others before turning the gun on himself. The gunman was described as a far-right militant. About 200 Senegalese street vendors protested, shouting "shame" and "racists".
The World Health Organisation says there's been progress in the fight against
malaria
, but much more funding is needed to achieve its target of eliminating deaths from the disease by 2015. Farhana Haider reports.
The WHO said just over 650,000 people died of malaria in 2010 - mostly young African children - a 5% drop compared with the year before. The WHO said this represented considerable progress, but the death rate was still
disconcertingly
high for a disease that was entirely preventable. Major efforts over the past few years have succeeded in getting insecticide-treated bed nets and new effective anti-malarial drugs to large numbers of families. It warned that hard-won gains may be reversed unless more funding is forthcoming.
The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has warned that the Central African Republic is in a state of medical emergency. In its report, MSF says high mortality rates are due to epidemic diseases, conflict, an economic downturn and poor healthcare.
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The US Justice Department has charged eight former executives of the German multinational company Siemens over a scheme to pay $100m in bribes to senior Argentine officials. It says Siemens, which also trades in the United States, broke American law when it paid the bribes in an attempt to retain a $1bn contract to produce passports and national identity cards in Argentina.