Lawyers

• Champs-Elysees Will be Car-Free Once a Month to Help Cut Paris Air Pollution

  The Champs-Elysees boulevard will be pedestrian-only on the first Sunday of every month. The new program is expected to help cut air pollution in Paris, among other similar programs initiated by the city mayor.

• European Commission Seeks Relicense of Cancer-Causing Weedkiller Amidst Warning From UN Agencies

  The European Commission is set to extend the authorization or relicense of a weedkiller containing cancer-causing ingredient Glyphosate. The news comes a week before its expected approval.

• US Congress lifts funding ban for needle exchange programs

  The Congress has quitely lifted the funding ban on needle exchange programs in late December. The programs allow people to obtain clean needles for little to no cost.

• U.S. lawsuits build against Monsanto over alleged Roundup cancer link

  Personal injury law firms around the United States are lining up plaintiffs for what they say could be "mass tort" actions against agrichemical giant Monsanto Co that claim the company's Roundup herbicide has caused cancer in farm workers and others exposed to the chemical.

• Hong Kong issues 'red alert' against South Korea travel due to MERS

  Hong Kong issued a "red alert" advisory on Tuesday against non-essential travel to South Korea, where eight new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) were reported, bringing the total to 95 with seven fatalities.

• South Korea fights to contain MERS outbreak, considers tough measures

  South Korea struggled to contain an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Monday as health authorities announced three more cases, bringing the number of infections to 18 in just over 10 days.

• U.N. envoy appeals for truce extension in war-damaged Yemen

  The U.N. envoy to Yemen called on a Saudi-led military coalition and its adversaries to extend a humanitarian truce due to expire at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. ET) on Sunday to allow for the delivery of aid supplies.

• Liberia declared Ebola-free, but outbreak continues over border

  Liberia was declared free from Ebola by the government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday after 42 days without a new case of the virus, which killed more than 4,700 people there during a year-long epidemic.

• Pakistan arrests parents for refusing children's polio vaccinations

  Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against polio, officials said Tuesday, as community opposition and Taliban threats block efforts to eradicate the crippling disease in one of its last strongholds.

• Medical aid unable to enter Syrian rebel-held Aleppo: WHO

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has been unable to get a desperately needed medical aid convoy through to civilians in the rebel-held part of Aleppo despite a government promise last month to give it access.

• Sierra Leone's president calls for week of fasting, prayer over Ebola

  Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma asked the country to begin a week of fasting and prayers on Thursday to end the Ebola virus that has killed more than 2,700 of his countrymen.

• Mali steps up border controls after Ebola case arrives from Guinea

  Mali said it was reinforcing health controls at border posts but has no plans to close its frontiers after a man with Ebola arrived from Guinea and infected others including a nurse who has died of the virus.

• Liberia rights commission calls for compensation for Ebola quarantine shooting

  Liberia's human rights commission has called on the government to pay compensation to the family of a boy shot dead during a protest over Ebola quarantine in August, saying officers had not fired in the air as they claimed but directly on the crowd.

• Australia bans travel from Ebola-hit countries; U.S. isolates troops

  Australia became the first developed country on Tuesday to shut its borders to citizens of the countries worst-hit by the West African Ebola outbreak, a move those states said stigmatized healthy people and would make it harder to fight the disease.

• Two U.S. states to quarantine health workers returning from Ebola zones

  New York and New Jersey will automatically quarantine medical workers returning from Ebola-hit West African countries and the U.S. government is considering the same step after a doctor who treated patients in Guinea came back infected, officials said on Friday.

• Panama bars travelers from three Ebola-hit African countries

  Panama has banned entry of travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three West African nations worst hit by the Ebola virus, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

• Ebola patient dies in Texas; five U.S. airports to screen for fever

  The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died on Wednesday, underscoring questions about the quality of care he received, and the government ordered five airports to start screening passengers from West Africa for fever.