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FACTBOX-Republican U.S. healthcare reform proposals

Source: Reuters Feb 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has asked Republicans to bring their best ideas on healthcare reform to a televised bipartisan meeting later this month that Democrats hope will help ...

Haiti, a nation in mourning

World Vision - USA February 8, 2010, Port-au-Prince - Four weeks after the catastrophic quake, Haiti's survivors face more than just staggering physical needs such as food and shelter, World Vision said today. More than ...

Alzheimer's drug Dimebon helps Huntington's - study

Source: Reuters * Alzheimer's drug helped brain function * Finding adds larger potential market for drug * (Adds Medivation chief executive David Hung) By JoAnne Allen WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Dimebon, ...

Q+A-West sees Iran nuclear moves aiding sanctions push

Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Iran's weekend announcement that it will expand its nuclear fuel program has bolstered the case for a fourth round of U.N. sanctions, though ...

US missionary in Haiti says trusts God to free her

Source: Reuters * US missionaries remain in custody in Haiti * Hearings to resume on Tuesday * Video emerges of police questioning of missionaries By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 8 (Reuters) - A ...

Another big snowstorm forecast for U.S. East Coast

Source: Reuters * U.S. government shut on Monday * U.S. mid-Atlantic region still digging out * Oil prices move higher WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Another big winter storm was forecast on Monday for the U.S. ...

Glaucoma medications may reduce risk of death

Source: Reuters * Glaucoma drugs may have direct effect on health * People who get eye exams may be more health conscious By JoAnne Allen WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Glaucoma drugs appear to reduce the ...

Suntech looking to triple U.S. sales, add dealers

Source: Reuters * Suntech aims for U.S. market share of 20 pct * Seeing good demand for its products across the globe By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - China's biggest solar panel maker Suntech ...

Obama's healthcare summit sets stage for end-game

Source: Reuters * Republicans skeptical about Obama healthcare summit * Both parties to get chance to air their views on bill By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's call for a ...

INTERVIEW-Taylor's S.Leone verdict by year's end-prosecutor

Source: Reuters * Case began in 2007, has been delayed * Defense cutting back on witness list, prosecutor says By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - A verdict in the long war crimes trial of ...

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Michael Jackson?s doctor taken into custody
Michael Jackson?s doctor has been taken into custody and is being held on $75,000 bail after pleading not guilty to causing the pop star?s death.
West eyes 'strong' Iran sanctions
Pressure is building in the West for new international sanctions against Iran, after its announcement it will step up uranium enrichment.
John Murtha, defense appropriations chair, dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Representative John Murtha, the chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died on Monday.
Sri-Lankan General Fonseka may face military trial
Ex-Commander of the Sri-Lankan Army General Sarath Fonseka may face military trial on charges of plotting to overthrow the government and kill President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The general and his secretary were taken into custody from his Colombo office by military police on Monday.
Criminal probe is launched in Conn. plant blast
Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation Monday, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause.
Yanukovich wins tight Ukraine vote
Ukraine has narrowly chosen the pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovich as its next president, results showed on Monday, after elections that rejected the West-l
Lexus hybrid steered into Toyota?s suspect-brake recall
The recall crisis at Toyota has spread to the Lexus, the carmaker?s luxury marque, as its hybrid model is set to join the third-generation Prius on recall because of brake-system faults.
Egypt detains senior Brotherhood members
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces detained senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, sources close to the group said, calling it a crackdown o
Entertainment ? Super Bowl most watched TV show ever
The New Orleans Saints' victory over Indianapolis in the Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of "M-A-S-H"?
Another big snowstorm forecast for U.S. East Coast
08 Feb 2010 22:11:36 GMT Source: Reuters * U.S. government shut on Monday * U.S. mid-Atlantic region still digging out * Oil prices move higher WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Another big winter storm was forecast on Monday for the U.S. ...
Avalanche kills 17 Indian soldiers in held Kashmir
HELD SRINAGAR: Seventeen Indian soldiers were killed on Monday in an avalanche that slammed into a group of 70 combat troops at a high-altitude warfar
Yemen al Qaeda urges jihad, wants Red Sea blocked
SANAA/DUBAI (Reuters) - The Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda called for a regional Muslim holy war and a blockade of the Red Sea to cut off U.S. shipments to Israel, a further sign of the group's ambitions to mount new strikes outside its base.
World ? World's tallest tower closed a month after opening in Dubai
The world's tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting?
Boeing Engineer Gets 15 Years In Economic Espionage
A Chinese-born engineer convicted in the United States' first economic espionage trial was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for stealing sensitive information on the U.S. space program with the intent of passing it to China.
Top Canadian military official charged with murder
TORONTO (AP) -- The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women....
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SOUTH AFRICA: Inequality not so black and white
INEQUALITY NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE , 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - The growing gulf between the haves and have-nots in the black population has given South Africa the dubious distinction of becoming one of the world's most unequal societies, according to a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an inter-government body.
GLOBAL: Humanitarian system gets a “B-minus”
DAKAR, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - The emergency aid industry has improved but must try harder, according to the broadest ever assessment of its performance.
SOMALIA: Bomb survivors tend to IDPs
NAIROBI, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - A bomb explosion was the last thing Abdiqani Sheikh Omar, 26, expected on his graduation day, after six years of studying medicine at Somalia's Benadir University in the capital, Mogadishu.
OPT: Building back in Gaza - with mud bricks
GAZA, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Hassan al-Err, aged 67, and his seven-member family are moving into a mud house built by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, because other building materials are not available.
In Brief: Afghan floods, avalanches leave 20 dead
KABUL, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Flash floods killed at least 10 people and destroyed hundreds of houses in different parts of Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, on 7 February, according to the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS).
DRC: Security beefed up for North Kivu IDPs
NAIROBI, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Internally displaced people (IDPs) are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) even as authorities beef up security in IDP camps, officials said.
TIMOR-LESTE: Water supplies running on empty
LISAPAT, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Ask anyone in rural Timor-Leste what they want most and the answer is always water. “We don't have any,” complained Filomena Brites, 35, who walks up to 3km four times a day to the nearest spring to fetch water from her home in Lisapat, a tiny village high in the coffee-growing hills of Ermera District.
AFGHANISTAN: Fleeing on foot at night
KABUL, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Hundreds of civilian families are fleeing parts of Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, ahead of a major military operation by foreign and Afghan forces. The offensive is expected to drive Taliban insurgents out of Marjah, which has an estimated population of 80,000 people, according to government officials, and the surrounding area.
PAKISTAN: No way back to Bajaur
ISLAMABAD, 7 February 2010 (IRIN) - On a pavement in Islamabad several men sit with small stands and boxes of the equipment they need to mend shoes. All are from the Bajaur tribal area on the Pakistani-Afghan border, where fighting has continued between militants and the Pakistan army since August 2008.
EGYPT: Controversial organ transplant bill welcomed by WHO
CAIRO, 7 February 2010 (IRIN) - A controversial organ transplant bill expected to become law in the next few weeks could regularize organ transplants and curb Egypt's booming illicit trade in human organs, experts say.
WEST & CENTRAL AFRICA: Communities on the edge
DAKAR, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Natural disasters, epidemics and political unrest deal a particularly heavy blow to communities in West and Central Africa, where people live in a “fragile” state daily, UN Children's Fund said on 4 February.
HAITI: Schools slow to reopen
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - A call by Haiti's government for schools to reopen in areas spared by the earthquake has gone largely unheeded because of parents' fears and financial woes.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Snapshot of food security
JOHANNESBURG, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Economic conditions in most southern African countries declined as a result of the global recession, pushing many more people towards greater food insecurity. According to a new food security update which focused on some southern African countries, food prices have risen and are still climbing in several countries.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Cholera "going from bad to worse"
PORT MORESBY, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Cholera continues to spread in Papua New Guinea (PNG), where government health officials are now describing the disease as a major national public health concern.
NEPAL: Shanta Karki, "I don’t need rehabilitation"
SINDHULI, 5 February 2010 (IRIN) - Shanta Karki was barely 13 when she volunteered to be a child soldier for the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the Maoists' military wing in Nepal, in 2003.