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| Chinese director Zhang Yimou apologizes for violating one-child policy Sunday, Dec 01, 2013 06:28 PM PST  Acclaimed film director Zhang Yimou said he and his wife have three children after authorities summoned his agent amid speculation he had violated China's one-child policy and fathered seven children. In a statement posted on the verified Weibo account of Zhang's office late on Sunday, the director of epics "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" apologized for his actions. He said he was cooperating with family planning authorities in the eastern city of Wuxi and would accept any punishment. "Zhang Yimou and his wife Cheng Ting confirm that they have two sons and a daughter," the Weibo post read."For the negative consequences of my actions, I would like to express to the public my heart-felt apologies." The official Xinhua news agency reported last week that Wuxi authorities would question Zhang's agent after the director went missing. Full Story | Top |
| White House meets goals for HealthCare.gov, but more work ahead Sunday, Dec 01, 2013 01:25 PM PST  Two months after the disastrous launch of a website that is a key component of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, administration officials said on Sunday they had met their goal of getting the HealthCare.gov site running smoothly but warned that it needs more fixes. Obama adviser Jeffrey Zients said a five-week emergency "tech surge" had doubled the capacity of the online health insurance portal that is crucial to helping millions of people shop for insurance plans, while making it more responsive and less prone to errors. The administration said the effort's key improvement was to increase HealthCare.gov's capacity to 50,000 simultaneous users, which would allow the site to handle at least 800,000 users per day. Full Story | Top |
| Music, art help heal families torn by Newtown school massacre Sunday, Dec 01, 2013 11:22 AM PST  By Barbara Goldberg and Ellen Wulfhorst NEWTOWN, Conn./NEW YORK (Reuters) - When 6-year-old Ana Marquez-Greene was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre almost a year ago, her father, a professional jazz musician, stopped playing his saxophone. When he could bring himself to pick it up again a month later, Jimmy Greene felt his emotional wounds start to heal and, within months, he recorded an album celebrating his daughter's life. It is one of several works of art that have risen from the depths of loss and grief at Newtown. Creative expression helps express the unspeakable - shock, loss, sorrow - when other means fail, experts say. Full Story | Top |
| North Yemen fighting kills more than 120 Sunday, Dec 01, 2013 08:56 AM PST Fighting between Shi'ite Houthi rebels and Sunni Salafis in northern Yemen has killed more than 120 and a government official in charge of enforcing a ceasefire accused the Houthis of breaking the truce, a newspaper said on Sunday. The latest round of fighting between the Houthis and Salafis has added to the challenges facing U.S. allied Yemen, already grappling with a southern separatist movement and an insurgency by Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda. Amin al-Hemyari, head of government observers monitoring a ceasefire reached last month, said the death toll among Salafis in the town of Damaj had risen to more than 120, with dozens wounded, the government-run al-Thawra newspaper said. Clashes started after Houthi rebels, who control most of Saada province, accused the Salafis of massing thousands of fighters, including foreigners, in a religious school in Damaj with the aim of attacking them. Full Story | Top |
| Obama administration declares victory on fixing HealthCare.gov Sunday, Dec 01, 2013 06:48 AM PST  The Obama administration declared victory on Sunday in its effort to get HealthCare.gov working smoothly for the vast majority of users, saying the site had reached a goal of handling 50,000 simultaneous users after a five-week "tech surge." In a six-page progress and performance report, administration officials said the troubled website could now handle at least 800,000 visitors per day, with the system remaining up at least 90 percent of the time. The new performance levels mark significant improvement after the Obamacare website's disastrous October 1 launch, when it crashed in the face of high traffic volumes and remained down 60 percent of the time for weeks. Full Story | Top |
| Cuban doctors tend to Brazil's poor, giving Rousseff a boost Sunday, Dec 01, 2013 06:19 AM PST  By Anthony Boadle JIQUITAIA, Brazil (Reuters) - They were heckled and called slaves of a communist state when they first landed, but in the poorest corners of Brazil the arrival of 5,400 Cuban doctors is being welcomed as a godsend. The program to fill gaps in the national health system with foreign doctors, mainly from Cuba, could become a big vote-winner for President Dilma Rousseff as she eyes a second term in next year's election despite fierce opposition from Brazil's medical class. The move to tap Cuba's doctors-for-export program begun by former leader Fidel Castro became a priority for Rousseff after massive protests against corruption and shoddy public transport, education and healthcare services rocked Brazil in June. Brasilia signed a three-year contract to bring thousands of Cuban doctors to work in poor and remote areas where Brazilian physicians prefer not to practice. Full Story | Top |
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