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Local Polls Boost May Five Weeks Before UK General Election
He said voters recognised the need to "chip in a little more" to address the "chronic underfunding" of healthcare, pointing to a recent opinion poll which suggested 70% of voters would back a 1p rise in income tax if the money was guaranteed to go to the NHS. [Full Article...]
Congo reports a single confirmed case of Ebola, UN says
A conference call between DRC and auto officials, as well as World Health Organization experts, had taken place, Kabambi said, during which vehicle officials confirmed that they too were taking preventative measures along the border. The WHO has described Congo as "the country that knows how to beat Ebola ". "The DRC is a big country and the zone affected is quite hard to access, but it is ... [Full Article...]
Ireland handed favourable 2019 Rugby World Cup draw
Joe Schmidt's men have been drawn in Pool A , alongside Scotland, hosts Japan, the Europe 1 qualifer and a play-off victor. Presuming the All-Blacks come in the expected first position, Ireland would most likely expect to play South Africa in their quarter final and the victor would go on to play the victor of Group D or the runner up of Group C. [Full Article...]
Texas House OKs rejecting non-Christian parents
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Frank also states that the bill protects the rights of faith-based organizations to exercise their religious mission to serve others without fear of retaliation. About a third of the state's adoption agencies are religiously affiliated. A final vote is set for later Wednesday in the House. Given that many conservative religious belief systems reject LGBTQ identities, this bill essentially auth... [Full Article...]
Mattis Makes Clear US Commitment to Protecting Turkey
Ankara strongly opposes USA support of the YPG, viewing it as the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency inside Turkey. While the government expressed predictable anger, the deputy head of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ozturk Yilmaz said it should go even further by postponing Erdogan's visit to the US. [Full Article...]
20 attorneys general call for independent probe into Russia
Democratic Senator Al Franken of Minnesota found that deeply troubling. "There is a well-established process for other officials to step in when a conflict requires the recusal of the Attorney General". Staying out of it could have been seen as suspicious, giving critics ammunition to argue Sessions did so because there was a connection between the firing and the Russian Federation probe, Chong ... [Full Article...]
Heroin epidemic pushing up hepatitis C infections in US
The abuse of heroin and prescription opioids has boomed in the U.S.in recent years, creating a new generation of addicts at risk from needle-sharing. "It continues to call for public health approach", Patrick said. The rise in the number of new cases also points to the success of surveillance efforts put in place in anticipation of novel pills, the first of which was Gilead's Sovaldi in 2013. [Full Article...]
Boy, 8, killed himself after being beaten unconscious
But disturbing video has since emerged showing the eight-year-old being brutally attacked by his fellow classmates in the school restroom. Cornelia Reynolds" lawyers obtained police records that showed her son Gabriel "Gabe' Taye was beaten unconscious in a school bathroom at Carson Elementary School in OH on January 24. [Full Article...]