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Media captionIn his own words, Mr Trump explains his doomed effort to repeal Obamacare US President Donald Trump has blamed Democrats for the failure of his healthcare bill. The bill was withdrawn on Friday because it did not have enough support to pass in Congress. Speaking to the Washington Post, Mr Trump said “We couldn’t […]
Image copyright Reuters Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee, who was jailed twice in his homeland for posting political and religious criticism online, has been granted asylum in the United States. Mr Yee, 18, has been detained in the US since he arrived at Chicago’s O’Hare airport in December. He came into the country on a […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The opposition says Mr Maduro’s mismanagement is to blame for the economic crisis. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has asked for help from the United Nations to boost the country’s supplies of medicines. Mr Maduro said the UN had the expertise to normalise the supply and distribution of drugs in the […]
Image copyright Alamy It’s been claimed that Finland’s baby boxes, given to every newborn in the country, help reduce cot deaths. But what evidence is there that they lower infant mortality rates, asks Elizabeth Cassin. In June 2013, the BBC News website published an article entitled Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes. It’s been […]
Image copyright Fellipe Abreu “Our land is our spirit,” says one of the spiritual and political leaders of the Cinta Larga. “An indigenous person without land is an indigenous person without soul,” he says about the challenges facing this indigenous group in Brazil. Image copyright Fellipe Abreu The group lives in the Roosevelt Indigenous Area […]
Psiciliscybin mushrooms, also known as “magic” mushrooms, are banned in many countries around the world due to their hallucinogenic qualities. But one 72-year-old-woman in South Africa is fighting through the courts to legalise their use for spiritual ceremonies. Monica Cromhout faces a possible jail sentence for dealing in illegal substances. Source link
Emad was just four years old when a missile landed on his house. He lost both of his legs and is suffering psychologically from the effects of an ongoing war. Aden, where Emad lives, has witnessed some of the most intense fighting in Yemen’s two-year conflict. More than 150 children there have lost limbs, and […]
Alberto Mohamed is one of about 4,000 children taken by the Indonesian authorities in the 1980s and 1990s, during Indonesia’s brutal occupation of East Timor. Now a local NGO is trying to reunite them with their families. Reporter: Rebecca Henschke; Producer: Olivia Lang; Camera and editor: Haryo Bangun Wirawan Source link
Media captionSnipers are working with the Iraqi government forces to defeat so-called IS When the jihadists who call themselves Islamic State (IS) are beaten in Mosul it will be a serious defeat for their organisation. But it will not, magically, bring peace to Iraq. At the moment the offensive has been stalled by fierce IS […]
Image copyright AP Image caption From left, Woo Kwok-hing, John Tsang and Carrie Lam are vying to be Hong Kong’s next leader Hong Kong chooses its next leader on Sunday in a vote overshadowed by fierce divisions over stalled political reform in the city. It is the first chief executive election since Hong Kong was […]
Image copyright AP Image caption Residents carry the bodies of people killed in Mosul’s Jadideh neighbourhood The United Nations has raised grave concerns about reports of high civilian casualties in the Iraqi city of Mosul. A senior UN official in Iraq said she was stunned by accounts of “terrible loss of life”, after claims that […]
President Trump called Obamacare a nightmare and a disaster and made repealing and replacing the healthcare law his number one priority. Two months into his presidency, that effort has now failed. Here’s what Mr Trump had to say at each stage of the saga. Source link