News Headlines - 04 February 2016

▽Toshiba Expects Biggest-Ever Yearly Net Loss of $6 Billion - WSJ

Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it would record the biggest annual loss in its 140-year-old history as the firm wrote down the book value of several units, including energy and infrastructure, while restructuring costs ballooned.

▽Colombia confirms first three deaths of patients infected with Zika virus | The Guardian

Colombia has confirmed the first three deaths of patients infected with the Zika virus who had contracted a seemingly related disease that attacks the nervous system and causes paralysis.

▽Syria war: Donors pledge more $10 billion - CNN.com

Donor countries pledged more than $10 billion for Syria at an international conference Thursday in London, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced, but a brutal Syrian government offensive, backed by Russian air power, overshadowed this goodwill.

▽Student's death clouds Italy-Egypt relations - Al Jazeera English

An Italian newspaper has revealed that a Cambridge University student found dead in Cairo worked for it as a freelance writer and had told one of the paper's editors that he feared for his life.

▽Julian Assange: UN panel on detention 'rules in fugitive Wikileaks founder's favour' - Telegraph

A United Nations panel considering whether Julian Assange has been detained arbitrarily after spending years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London has ruled in his favour, it has been confirmed.