Harold Gary Morse, who transformed his father’s cluster of a few hundred mobile homes in central Florida into the gigantic retirement utopia The Villages and made it a must-stop on campaign trails with his funding of Republican politics, has died. He was 77.
Buenos Aires, Oct 30 (IANS/EFE) Argentina’s lower house of Congress, controlled by President Cristina Fernandez’s allies, gave final approval Thursday for a new Hydrocarbons Law that was harshly criticised by opposition lawmakers.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rap music figure Marion “Suge” Knight had a Las Vegas traffic warrant reduced to a parking ticket on Thursday, but was returned in custody to the Clark County jail to await a Monday extradition hearing in a California robbery case.
A move by U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan to classify a key assessment of multibillion dollar efforts to train and equip local security forces is “inexplicable” and hides issues from the public, a U.S. John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, said in a quarterly report to Congress on Thursday that his office was “deeply troubled” by the decision to classify the executive summary of the report that assesses the capability of ANSF, the Afghan National Security Forces. “ISAF’s classification of the report summary deprives the American people of an essential tool to measure the success or failure of the single most costly feature of the Afghanistan reconstruction effort,” Sopko said in the report. Sopko said the need to carefully monitor the development of the ANSF was underscored in August, when Afghan soldier shot dead U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The three Republican senators responsible for comprehensive immigration legislation, which remains stalled in Congress, on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to hold off on any steps to shield millions of people from deportation.
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists have been puzzling for years over why some people survive Ebola while many others perish. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle reported their findings on Thursday in the journal Science. Mice used in the study were generated from eight different strains of the animal and were bred to represent human genetic diversity. Symptoms in these genetically diverse mice ranged from mild weight loss to full, hemorrhagic fever, including internal bleeding, swollen spleens and changes in liver color and texture.
By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani province is rewriting school books to make them more Islamic, inserting verses on jihad, removing pictures of unveiled women and changing material on recent history, officials said on Thursday. The public tussle over the changes mirrors a struggle for power at the heart of Pakistan’s young democracy. School books commissioned by provincial governments have been frequently rewritten. Education official Bashir Hussain Shah told Reuters that the changes include reintroducing religious verses on jihad, a word that means holy struggle but is also often used by insurgents.
Nigeria look like avoiding a FIFA suspension after a court case involving a battle for the leadership of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) was withdrawn from the High Court on Thursday. Dropping the case paves the way for FIFA-backed NFF president Amaju Pinnick and his executive to resume their duties after they had been ousted from office by an interim ruling last Thursday by Justice Ambrose Allagoa, who placed Chris Giwa in charge. Judge Allagoa ruled that the elective congress that brought Pinnick to power on Sept. 30 was invalid but that ruling is no longer being supported by Giwa and is being dropped.
By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – As the global health community ramps up its efforts to treat Ebola patients and curb its spread in West Africa, a new analysis finds that the greatest impact would come from insuring safe burials for victims, scientists reported on Thursday. The body should not be washed or handled in any way, something that has been a common practice in much of West Africa. The new findings, published in the journal Science, are based on a mathematical model being developed by Ebola researchers at Yale School of Public Health. The Yale model calculates the spread of Ebola in the community, in hospitals and at funerals, including how many secondary cases are caused by the average case in each setting.
New Delhi, Oct. 30 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Thursday alleged that there are some people, who have serious reservations about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics and his past.
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