By Caren Bohan
LANSING, Michigan (Reuters) - Barack Obama proposed on Monday tapping the strategic oil reserve to help lower gas prices, a reversal of an earlier stance, and called rival John McCain a tool of big oil companies as rising energy costs took center stage in the U.S. presidential campaign.
Obama, celebrating his 47th birthday, released [...]
BY CATHERINE KARONG’O
The National AIDS Control Council (NACC) Monday opposed a report by Swiss researchers which suggested that discordant couples, where one partner is infected with HIV, could engage in unprotected sex.
NACC Head of Communications Peter Mutie told Capital News that discordant couples should always have protected sex by using a condom as a barrier [...]
By Anna Johnson, The Associated Press
SULTAN ZAWYIT, Egypt - In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters.
A year ago, she had few qualms about female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting a girl’s clitoris and sometimes other genitalia. She herself was cut [...]
MONTREAL (AFP) - Canada’s Conservative Party holds only a four-point lead over the rival Liberals despite Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s efforts to widen its lead ahead of possible elections later in the year, a new poll showed Saturday.
Harper’s Conservatives retain 34 percent support from the voting public, over 30 percent for the Liberals, according to [...]
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