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House panel backs bill giving FDA tobacco power (Reuters)

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Denise Gaizo, a smoker for 20 years, smokes outside her home in New York September 21, 2004. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)Reuters - A House of Representatives committee
on Wednesday passed a bill for the first time that would give
the Food and Drug Administration broad authority to regulate
tobacco.


Oryginal news: Reuters

House passes big hike in global AIDS funds (Reuters)

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

A nun holds a red ribbon symbol as she walks with volunteers during an AIDS awareness rally in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province December 1, 2006. Chinese police have detained up to eight HIV/AIDS-affected people who tried to complain to Premier Wen Jiabao about a hospital they claimed spread the HIV virus, lawyers for two of the families said on Monday. (China Daily/Reuters)Reuters - The House of Representatives on
Wednesday passed a bill to more than triple spending to fight
AIDS in Africa and other parts of the world, one of President
George W. Bush’s foremost foreign aid quests.


Oryginal news: Reuters

Republican McCain tacks away from Bush (AFP)

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain greets members of the varsity football team who presented him with a AFP - John McCain on Tuesday struck away from the political legacy of President George W. Bush, as he sought to plot an obstacle-strewn course back to the White House for Republicans.


Oryginal news: AFP