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Image result for House Republicans pass healthcare bill in first step toward replacing ObamacareHouse Republicans narrowly approved a controversial plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, taking a significant first step toward fulfilling a seven-year promise to repeal and replace the 2010 law that served as a landmark overhaul of the US healthcare system.

Republicans passed the American Health Care Act with one vote to spare, following a dramatic series of negotiations that exposed deep fissures between the party’s moderate and conservative wings... Read more HERE

Published on 05/05/2017 @ 15h47  |

Image result for North Korea accuses CIA of biochemical plot to kill Kim Jong-unNorth Korea has accused the CIA of attempting to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong-un, using unspecified biochemical substances during a public ceremonial event in the capital, Pyongyang.

The ministry of state security issued a statement claiming the US intelligence agency had bribed a North Korean citizen, named only as Kim, to carry out the plot. It said possible locations for the killing included the mausoleum where Kim Jong-un’s father and grandfather lie in state, or a military parade. Read more HERE

Published on 05/05/2017 @ 14h49  |

Setting out for the first time the locations that will be beneficiaries of the UK’s exit from the EU, one of the US bank’s most senior executives indicated that other roles would follow once the outcome of the negotiations was known.

“We are going to use the three banks (Dublin, Frankfurt and Luxembourg) we already have in Europe as the anchors for our operations,” Daniel Pinto, JP Morgan’s head of investment banking, told Bloomberg.Read more HERE.

Published on 05/05/2017 @ 13h36  |