Tag: president
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Obama to give his diagnosis for what ails Obamacare
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday will head to the election battleground state Florida to give his prescription for fixing the Affordable Care Act, his signature healthcare law, but any remedies will be left up to his successor and the next Congress. Battling a barrage of negative headlines about rising…
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AP FACT CHECK: Health insurance costs up, but not doubling
WASHINGTON (AP) — A claim from the final presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts:
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Approval rating of Peru’s Kuczynski drops 8 points after scandal
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's approval rating dropped 8 percentage points to 55 percent after a corruption scandal forced him to fire his health adviser, an Ipsos poll published in a newspaper showed on Sunday. Kuczynski's popularity had risen to 63 percent through September after a razor-thin victory in June's run-off election against right-wing populist…
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Approval rating of Peru’s Kuczynski drops 8 points after scandal
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's approval rating dropped 8 percentage points to 55 percent after a corruption scandal forced him to fire his health adviser, an Ipsos poll published in a newspaper showed on Sunday. Kuczynski's popularity had risen to 63 percent through September after a razor-thin victory in June's run-off election against right-wing populist…
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Syria’s Assad says taking Aleppo from rebels key to pushing ‘terrorists’ back to Turkey
By Jack Stubbs and Ellen Francis MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army's capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be “a very important springboard” to pushing “terrorists” back to Turkey. Rescue workers said that Syria's military…
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Five in six infants undernourished, risk irreversible mental and physical damage: U.N.
By Alex Whiting ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Five in six children under two years old in developing countries are not getting enough of the right kinds of food, putting them at risk of irreversible mental and physical damage, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Friday. Half of children aged between six and 23…
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More U.S. counties to see Obamacare marketplace monopoly: analysis
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly a third of U.S. counties will likely be served by only one insurer that participates in an Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace in 2017, according to an analysis published Sunday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The 31 percent of U.S. counties that will have just a single…
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Philippines drug war deaths climb to 1,800; U.S. ‘deeply concerned’
By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines has recorded about 1,800 drug-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took office seven weeks ago and launched a war on narcotics, far higher than previously believed, according to police figures. Philippine National Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa told a Senate committee on Monday that 712 drug traffickers…
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Philippines’ Duterte threatens to quit U.N. after drugs war censure
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organization and invite China and others to form a new one. Two U.N. human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop…
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Repeal or retain? Election opens final act for ‘Obamacare’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day 2016 will raise the curtain on the final act in the nation's long-running political drama over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.