In a major victory for US President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives has voted to dismantle the pillars of the US Affordable Care Act and make sweeping changes to the nation’s health care system, CNN reported.
Supporters of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez held a vigil outside his prison demanding to see him on Thursday after rumors about his health rattled the protest-hit country where the death toll from anti-government unrest rose to 36, Reuters reports.
“I don’t know from where the new parliament should find MPs both aware of the issue and with respective education and language knowledge, which is of utmost importance, as finally the delegation visits a place where two languages are used—English, French, they should comply with all criteria of European civilized democratic family member, however, recent MPs elected by preferential voting system don’t give such a hope,” Igityan said.
“The talks are already over; I can say the document is already ready. It will be promulgated in the near future,” Sharmazanov said. He added that the document to be signed between the two parties will be called a coalition agreement.
But as officials from the three countries that back rival sides in the conflict signed the agreement at the Syria cease-fire talks in Kazakhstan, members of the Syrian opposition delegation shouted in protest and walked out of the conference room in Astana, the Kazakh capital.
The militants are now besieged in the northwestern corner of Mosul which includes the historic Old City center, the medieval Grand alNuri Mosque, and its landmark leaning minaret where their black flag has been flying since June 2014.
The minister was gunned down in his car nearby the Presidential Palace of Mogadishu. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the country’s president, stopped his visit to Ethiopia upon learning the news.
Vartan Gharpetian will serve his third year on the Glendale City Council as the city’s mayor thanks to a unanimous vote by council members Monday, where new and returning faces were officially sworn in to their roles as civil servants, Asbarez reported citing Glendale News Press.
His candidacy was approved by the parliament through a voting. 133 MPs voted in favor of Borisov, and 100 votes against. Thereafter, the lawmakers supported the Cabinet proposed by Borisov which includes 18 ministers.
Grammy Award winning musician and activist Serj Tankian and social impact filmmaker Carla Garapedian introduced the organization’s first initiative – a USD 5,000 video challenge from the Oscar-winning director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda and The Promise).
