WASHINGTON – When Mitt Romney speaks to an agreement on the Conservatives here Friday, he faces a potentially fatal political obstacle: his past embrace of a health insurance mandate, as his Republican friends who now scoff at as “Obamacare. “I like mandates. The mandates work, “he said, when seeking the presidency of speech 2008.Such thrilled [...]

The environmental group Greenpeace filed a grievance with the German legitimate Court against the initiatives taken by the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, to extend the life of the oldest nuclear plants in the country in September. “Everyone has the right to life and physical integrity,” Greenpeace said in a declaration on its website, adding [...]

Hanufa Bibi stoops in a worn sari and mismatched flip-flops to work the hand pump on her backyard well. Spurts of clear water wash grains of rice from her hands, but she can never get them clean. Thick black warts tattoo her palms and fingers, the result of drinking arsenic-laced well water for years. It’s [...]