By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Senate Democrats unveiled on Tuesday a plan to reshape U.S. healthcare that calls for sweeping insurance market reforms and prohibits insurers from denying coverage or charging more due to medical history.
The measure also would require individuals to buy insurance, provide subsidies to help make coverage affordable and set up [...]

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By Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Canada’s premiers called for a new agreement with the United States to extend free trade to provincial, state and municipal levels Tuesday as Canadian lobbyists fanned out over Washington to press legislators to soften Buy America purchasing policies.
“Premiers believe the time has come for all orders of government [...]

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 ’Don’t Split the Liberal Vote!’
 
The party is too small; and they’ll never win, and you’ll end up splitting the Liberal vote!  Has anyone ever told you that about the NDP?
 
I lived in British Columbia when the NDP won their first election in 1972 under Dave Barrett. The NDP passed a great deal of legislation in [...]

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Immigration plan to allow dual citizenship
 
Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang addresses participants during the official opening of a workshop on immigration policies at the Laico Regency, Nairobi on Tuesday. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE 
By LUCAS BARASA
In Summary
Under the policy, people married to Kenyans will also have opportunity to become Kenyan citizens after fulfilling certain conditions.
Kajwang: Government’s duty to make [...]

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BY LABAN WANAMBISI
The Shinyalu and Bomachoge constituency by-elections will be held on August 27.
Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) chairman Ahmed Issack announced on Tuesday the appointment of Silvanus Ndemo Nyamora and Thomas Aggrey Okila as the Returning Officers for Shinyalu and Bomachoge constituencies respectively.
“We know the demographics that are there in the old register which [...]

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East Africa: Mugabe Takes Comesa Chair
Mabasa Sasa
Victoria Falls — PRESIDENT Mugabe has urged Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa member-states to invest their own capital in the development of the region to achieve continent-wide economic integration.
In his acceptance speech after assuming the chairmanship of the 19-member bloc here yesterday, President Mugabe outlined the core [...]

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