Tag: president
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe back home after heart attack rumours
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home late on Friday after a month-long holiday in the Far East, just over a week after the presidency dismissed rumours that Africa's oldest president had suffered a heart attack and collapsed. Mugabe, who turns 92 on Feb. 21, is the only leader that…
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe back home after heart attack rumors
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home late on Friday after a month-long holiday in the Far East, just over a week after the presidency dismissed rumors that Africa's oldest president had suffered a heart attack and collapsed. Mugabe, who turns 92 on Feb. 21, is the only leader that…
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Three people test positive for Zika in New York: authorities
Three people in New York have tested positive for the Zika virus, which has been blamed for a surge in babies born with abnormally small heads in Latin America, city officials said. All three had travelled to areas outside the United States where the mosquito-borne ailment is spreading rapidly, the New York State Department of…
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Sanders lashes out at Clinton in contentious Democratic debate
By John Whitesides and Amanda Becker CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic White House candidate Bernie Sanders went on the offensive against front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday in the most contentious of their four presidential debates, accusing her of cozying up to Wall Street and misrepresenting his stance on healthcare and guns. Reflecting Sanders' rise in…
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Sanders lashes out at Clinton in contentious Democratic debate
By John Whitesides and Amanda Becker CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Democratic White House candidate Bernie Sanders went on the offensive against front-runner Hillary Clinton on Sunday in the most contentious of their four presidential debates, accusing her of cozying up to Wall Street and misrepresenting his stance on healthcare and guns. Reflecting Sanders' rise in…
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Sanders releases universal healthcare plan before Democratic debate
By Amanda Becker CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released details on Sunday evening about his “Medicare-for-all” universal healthcare funding plan and how he would pay for it. The plan was released hours before Sanders was to square off in a Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, against Hillary Clinton,…
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Sanders releases universal healthcare plan before Democratic debate
By Amanda Becker CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released details on Sunday evening about his “Medicare-for-all” universal healthcare funding plan and how he would pay for it. The plan was released hours before Sanders was to square off in a Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, against Hillary Clinton,…
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Cancer ‘moonshot’ aims to speed fight against No. 2 killer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harking back to America's triumphant race into space, the Obama administration is launching what it calls a “moonshot” effort to cure cancer.
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The decades-long quest to cure cancer
US President Barack Obama's announcement of a “moonshot” bid to cure cancer, continues a centuries-long quest to defeat a disease which kills over eight million people every year. There are more than 100 types of cancer, each with its own diagnosis and treatment. Surgery became common only in the 19th century with the advent of…
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Gambia president declares country an Islamic republic
Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh on Friday declared the formerly secular country an Islamic republic in a move he said was designed to distance the West African state further from its colonial past. “In line with the country's religious identity and values, I proclaim Gambia as an Islamic state,” said Jammeh on state television. “As Muslims…