The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting on whether to declare an international emergency over the Zika. The virus, which has spread rapidly across borders, may be linked with birth defects.

The EU’s competition boss has said she’d be willing to look into a deal signed between the US tech company and Britain. The deal proved controversial domestically as well as abroad.

BURNS, Ore. (Reuters) – Police and federal agents sought on Thursday to convince a handful of remaining protesters to abandon their occupation of a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon following the shooting death of a comrade and calls from their jailed leader to stand down.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most Americans say they back a plan that would allow certain illegal immigrants to stay in the country, but support for the idea slips when President Barack Obama’s name is attached to the question, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) expects the Zika virus, which is spreading through the Americas, to affect between three million and four million people, a disease expert said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Paul Kantner, one of the founding members of 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, died on Thursday aged 74, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.