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| No threat in China rivalry for Africa business: Obama Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 10:37 AM PDT  By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States does not feel threatened by the growth of trade and investment in Africa by China and other emerging powers, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday. Suggestions that he has allowed China to steal a march over the United States in doing business with Africa have dogged Obama's three-nation swing through the continent, but he said the increased Chinese engagement was beneficial for all. "I don't feel threatened by it. I feel it's a good thing," Obama told a news conference during a visit to South Africa. ... Full Story | Top |
| Leading light in science, Italy's 'lady of the stars' Hack dies Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 08:50 AM PDT By Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - Astrophysicist Margherita Hack, a popular science writer, public intellectual and the first woman to lead an astronomical observatory in Italy, died on Saturday at the age of 91. Known as the "lady of the stars", Hack's research contributed to the spectral classification of many groups of stars, and the asteroid 8558 Hack is named after her. ... Full Story | Top |
| United States "not threatened" by China's surge in Africa -Obama Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 07:44 AM PDT  By Jeff Mason PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States does not feel threatened by the growth of trade and investment in Africa by China and other emerging powers, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday. "I don't feel threatened by it. I feel it's a good thing," Obama told a news conference during a visit to South Africa. He said the more countries invested in Africa the more the world's least developed continent could be integrated into the global economy. "I want everybody playing in Africa. The more the merrier," Obama said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mandela remains 'critical but stable' Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 05:21 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition remains "critical but stable" but the government hopes the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero will be out of hospital soon, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. "We hope that very soon he will be out of hospital," Zuma said at a televised press conference with visiting U.S. President Barack Obama. Mandela has been in hospital for three weeks for treatment for a recurring lung infection. (Reporting by Ed Stoddard and Ed Cropley; Editing by Ed Cropley) Full Story | Top |
| Mandela still critical, Zuma says hopes he will leave hospital soon Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 04:07 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition remains "critical but stable" but the government hopes the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero will be out of hospital soon, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. "We hope that very soon he will be out of hospital," Zuma said at a televised press conference with visiting U.S. President Barack Obama. Mandela has been in hospital for three weeks for treatment for a recurring lung infection. Full Story | Top |
| Kansas judge blocks portions of state's new abortion law Friday, Jun 28, 2013 09:02 PM PDT By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - A Kansas judge on Friday issued a temporary injunction on two parts of the state's new anti-abortion law, while upholding the majority of far-reaching measure that goes into effect Monday. Shawnee County District Judge Rebecca Crotty struck down a part of the law that forbids a waiver of the required 24-hour waiting period to be granted based on the woman's mental health. ... Full Story | Top |
| Adrian Grenier uses 'Entourage' language in drug documentary Friday, Jun 28, 2013 07:23 PM PDT  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor-director Adrian Grenier is best known as the charismatic lead star of HBO's film industry satire "Entourage," but behind the camera, the actor has found an edgier way to explore real-life issues, including producing a mock tutorial-style documentary on the war on drugs. "How to Make Money Selling Drugs," out in theaters this week, is billed as a 10-step guide to entering the drug trade from the ground up to the level of the cartels. ... Full Story | Top |
| New Jersey's Christie vetoes Medicaid expansion bill Friday, Jun 28, 2013 06:51 PM PDT  (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday vetoed a bill that attempted to make the state's expansion of Medicaid eligibility permanent under the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said on Friday. Christie's office announced he vetoed eight bills that "would add potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local budgets." He also signed a $32.9 billion budget and three other bills, his office said in a statement. Among the bills he vetoed was one dealing with Medicaid expansion under the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Senate Republicans warn NFL, other leagues about Obamacare Friday, Jun 28, 2013 04:19 PM PDT  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is urging the National Football League and other professional sports leagues not to support President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, calling Obamacare divisive and unpopular. In a June 27 letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, McConnell and fellow Republican Senator John Cornyn accused the Obama administration of drawing the league into "one of the most divisive and polarizing issues of our day" by trying to enlist its help in promoting subsidized health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. sets birth control rule for employers with religious ties Friday, Jun 28, 2013 02:49 PM PDT By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday made it final that employees of religiously affiliated, nonprofit institutions would receive insurance coverage for birth control amid mounting legal challenges to a rule in the recent healthcare law. The White House proposed in early 2012 an arrangement that allows universities, hospitals and other employers with a religious affiliation to avoid paying directly for contraceptives. Instead, insurance companies provide coverage and foot the bill under the law. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pennsylvania girl gets second lung transplant after first failed Friday, Jun 28, 2013 02:36 PM PDT By Francesca Trianni NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who sparked a national debate about child access to organ donation took her first independent breath this week on a second set of donor lungs after her first transplant failed, the girl's family said on Friday. Sarah Murnaghan, who had cystic fibrosis and needed a lung transplant, had been kept off an adult organ transplant list due to an age restriction. She became eligible for an adult pair of lungs only after a judge's order. ... Full Story | Top |
| Brazilian president's plan to import doctors faces resistance Friday, Jun 28, 2013 02:13 PM PDT  By Esteban Israel SAO PAULO (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff's plan to import foreign doctors to work in rural and poor parts of Brazil, part of a move to quell massive street protests over poor public services, has run into stiff opposition from the powerful medical lobby. Public dissatisfaction over the quality of healthcare has helped fuel nationwide protests over the past month and spurred Rousseff, a pragmatic leftist, to announce earlier this week the "emergency action" plan to bring in foreign doctors. ... Full Story | Top |
| PTSD tied to raised heart disease risk Friday, Jun 28, 2013 01:52 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may also be at increased risk of heart attacks and strokes, according to a new study of Vietnam War veterans. After following nearly 300 pairs of male twins, all Vietnam vets, for more than a decade, researchers found that almost a quarter of the men diagnosed with PTSD also had heart disease, compared to less than a tenth of the men without the combat-related stress disorder. ... Full Story | Top |
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