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Slovenia to get new PM to stem dramatic decline

LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia was set to usher in a new government on Wednesday to tackle a dramatic decline that has transformed the tiny Alpine country from post-communist rising star to the euro zone's latest bailout candidate. With unemployment at a 14-year high and the banking sector strangled by bad loans, parliament was set to pass a "constructive no-confidence motion" to oust conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa and hand financial expert Alenka Bratusek a one-year mandate to pull the ex-Yugoslav republic back from the brink. ...


Italy's Grillo rules out voting for center-left government

ROME (Reuters) - Populist leader Beppe Grillo on Wednesday ruled out voting for any government led by the traditional parties after Italy's inconclusive election but said his 5-Star Movement could back individual laws. Democratic Party (PD) leader Pier Luigi Bersani, whose center-left coalition took the most seats in parliament but failed to win a majority in the vote which ended on Monday, has put out cautious feelers towards 5-Star, which benefited from a huge protest vote. ...

GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs

LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries. ViiV Healthcare, majority-owned by GSK, is the second research-based pharmaceutical business to sign up to the new Medicines Patent Pool, following a lead set in 2011 by Gilead Sciences. Although more than half of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS now get the drugs they need - thanks to a major roll-out of treatment in Africa - an estimated 6. ...


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