Archives: Morning Breakouts

As part of her two-week Asia-Pacific tour, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Australia on Saturday, where she called for increased cooperation between Australia and the U.S. to help drive down violence against women globally, Bloomberg reports. "Clinton has stressed throughout her trip that better treatment of, and opportunities for, women improve a nation's economic and social prospects," the news service writes (Gaouette, 11/6).

"G20 leaders meeting in Seoul this week are being asked to commit to plans for a 'Robin Hood Tax' on financial transactions," politics.co.uk reports. "A letter signed by 183 organisations from 42 countries, including members of the U.K.-based Robin Hood Tax campaign, is being sent to leaders to convince them to agree to taxing international financial transactions," the news service (11/8).

The New Yorker examines the challenges associated with treating tuberculosis across the world and looks at whether a rapid diagnostic test could prevent millions of deaths from the disease. "Vaccines and antibiotics have long been seen as touchstones of medical progress. To stop tuberculosis, however, particularly in the developing world, an accurate diagnostic exam is needed even more. In India, China, and Africa, at least two billion people have latent infections. Yet every day thousands are told, mistakenly, that they are sick and need treatment," the magazine notes.

During a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, President Barack Obama announced a new partnership between U.S. and Indian agriculture sectors to help improve food security globally, Press Trust International/Livemint.com reports (11/8). India is the first country on Obama's 10-day Asia-Pacific tour that began Saturday, IST/Reuters/Economic Times reports (11/7).

Participants in a five-day food security meeting at The Hague "urged U.N. climate negotiators Friday to consider agriculture when drawing up strategies to fight climate change," the Canadian Press reports.

Republicans are having serious conversations about how they want to go about trying to change Democrats' health overhaul

Those following health care all asking themselves a version of this question: Was the health overhaul behind Election Day's Republican sweep?

Opinions and editorials from around the country.

Thousands of workers suing New York City over health problems related to the 9/11 cleanup operations must decide whether to join a massive legal settlement or take their cases to trial.