By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Fighters are increasingly targeting water and sanitation facilities across the Middle East, exacerbating severe shortages for agriculture and households, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. Militants in Syria, Iraq and Gaza have also used access to water and electricity supplies as “tactical weapons or as bargaining chips,” the ICRC said in a report. “Heavy fighting and direct targeting have
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The crash of a Germanwings Airbus in a remote area of the French Alps on Tuesday does not appear to have been caused by a terror attack, the White House said, according to a report by Fox News. “There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time,” the cable network quoted White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan as saying. (Reporting by Timothy
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday that prospects were good for passage of a permanent fix to Medicare’s flawed doctor-pay formula that would spare physicians from impending steep pay cuts. Earlier on Tuesday, Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that bipartisan legislation had been introduced to change the way doctors are reimbursed for Medicare costs. Though potential pitfalls remain,
The United States is reviewing whether any U.S. citizens were aboard the Airbus operated by Lufthansa’s Germanwings budget airline that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. “The United States stands ready to offer assistance and support to the governments of France, Germany, and Spain as they investigate this tragedy,” department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in the statement.
Germanwings said it was unclear what caused its Airbus A320 aircraft to crash in the French Alps on Tuesday but that there had been no problems with the plane before takeoff. “There were no anomalies on the plane,” the Lufthansa unit’s Managing Director Thomas Winkelmann told journalists at a news conference on Tuesday, hours after the crash. He said Airbus delivered the plane to Lufthansa in 1991, after which it
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Even though nine out of 10 nurses are women, men in the profession earn higher salaries, and the pay gap has remained constant over the past quarter century, a study finds. The typical salary gap has consistently been about $5,000 even after adjusting for factors such as experience, education, work hours, clinical specialty, and marital and parental status, according to a report in JAMA,
