Payout for weed killer

A US jury has awarded $112.2 million to a man who claimed his use of Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused his cancer.

The jury in the San Francisco federal court said the company was liable for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman’s nonHodgkin’s lymphoma.

It awarded $7 million in compensatory damages and $105 million in punitive damages to Mr Hardeman after finding Roundup was defectively designed, that manufacturer Monsanto failed to warn of the cancer risk and the company acted negligently. SYRIA has claimed that Israel attacked targets just north of Aleppo and that its defences had shot down several missiles.

If confirmed, it would be the first attack on Syrian territory since US President Donald Trump on Monday recognised the Golan Heights – seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War – as Israeli territory, a move that breaks with decades of international consensus.

“Army air defences repelled an Israeli air aggression that targeted a number of industrial sites in Shaykh Najjar industrial zone, northeast of Aleppo, and downed a number of the hostile missiles,” Syria’s official