BEXLEY, Ohio (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appealed for the support of working-class Americans in industrial Ohio on Wednesday, a day after narrowly averting a humiliating defeat by rival Rick Santorum in Romney’s home state of Michigan.
Archive for February, 2012
BEIJING (Reuters) – China hopes to cap the number of people living with HIV/AIDS at 1.2 million by 2015, up from around 780,000 at present, partly by promoting increased condom use, the government said in an action plan released on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – German healthcare conglomerate Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Liberty Dialysis Holdings Inc, provided it sells 60 dialysis clinics, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
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AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian forces shelled an opposition stronghold in Hama province, killing 20 people, on Tuesday and hit rebel-held parts of Homs, activists said, as two wounded foreign journalists trapped in the city were reported to have been smuggled safely to Lebanon.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Provincial authorities in Argentina stopped two British-linked cruise ships from docking in Tierra del Fuego on Monday, upping the ante in Argentina’s spat with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in a north China city said on Monday that they have sentenced a man to two years of “labor re-education” for spreading rumors of an outbreak of the SARS virus in the city.
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CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is set to see off a leadership challenge from party rival Kevin Rudd on Monday, but she faces a mammoth task to rebuild flagging support for her deeply divided and unpopular minority government.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drugmaker-funded science isn’t always more likely to favor new medicines than studies paid for by non-profits, according to a new report on past research in rheumatoid arthritis.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sodium phosphate enemas, used to relieve constipation, may cause older people to suffer kidney failure or even die, a new report suggests.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite past evidence suggesting that eating soy might only lower cholesterol in those whose bodies are able to convert it to an estrogen-like compound called equol, a new study hints that soy might benefit a wider range of people.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – World economic powers told Europe on Friday it would have to do more to fight its financial crisis before they agree to provide back-up in the form of a bigger IMF war-chest.
TUNIS (Reuters) – Western and Arab nations will demand on Friday that Syria allow aid to be delivered to desperate civilians in the absence of any international resolve to intervene to end a crackdown on a near year-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seven states, Catholic groups and individuals on Thursday filed the first major lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s new contraceptive regulations, arguing that the policy violated the constitutional rights to religious freedom.
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PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) – Virginia’s Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday abruptly shifted his stance on a hotly-contested bill requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound, asking lawmakers to revise the legislation just before a scheduled vote.
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AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists.
KABUL (Reuters) – Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the country.
(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive William Weldon will step down from his post in April after a series of recalls called into question the quality of the healthcare conglomerate’s products, from artificial hips to infant Tylenol.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Financial market traders and keen gamblers take note. Scientists have found that a chemical in the region of the brain involved in sensory and reward systems is crucial to whether people simply brush off the pain of financial losses.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A little extra simple sugar in your diet probably won’t make you pack on the pounds — as long as you cut down on other carbs to make up for it, a new analysis of past studies suggests.
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(Reuters) – Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it every day may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new U.S. study.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s state media said on Monday its ruling Workers’ Party will hold a key conference in April, the first since 2010, in which it is likely to make official the succession of power to its third generation of leadership.
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – China said on Sunday it believed a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis was still possible as any armed intervention would only spread turmoil through the region, but Britain’s foreign minister said he feared Syria will slide into civil war.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A missile hit a beach on Saturday used as a base by al Qaeda linked insurgents who want to topple Somalia’s Western-backed leaders, the government and residents said.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – - Pope Benedict, putting his mark on the Catholic Church’s future, on Saturday inducted 22 men into the exclusive club of cardinals who will one day elect one of their own to succeed him.
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces, disregarding U.N. condemnation, renewed their bombardment of the opposition stronghold of Homs as a Chinese minister arrived for talks with embattled President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday.