September 21, 2023
Only four countries — Brazil, Mauritius, the Netherlands and Turkey — have adopted all the anti-tobacco measures recommended in the fight against the “deadly scourge” of smoking, the World Health Organization said Monday. In a fresh report, the UN health agency urged countries to scale up their use of recognised measures to reduce tobacco use,
READ MOREAt least 20 people were killed as Colombian military personnel clashed with FARC dissidents and the Clan del Golfo crime gang in different parts of the country, authorities said on Monday. Fighting in Cauca province, in the municipality of Argelia, killed 12 combatants from a dissident group of the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
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A rising number of women are succumbing to alcohol-related deaths, a new study published in JAMA Network on July 28 found. While males historically have been more than twice as likely to die from alcohol-related conditions than females, the gap appears to be narrowing. Researchers from Hofstra University in New York, Harvard Medical School and
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Key Points Hangzhou Zoo in eastern China has reassured visitors its sun bears are real, and not humans in costume. Questions were raised after a video circulated online showing a bear standing on its hind legs. In a statement, the zoo said those speculating “don’t understand” bears. Hangzhou Zoo has reassured visitors its sun bears
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Police have made a desperate plea for help in finding a mother and her two children who left home on Monday but never returned. Brittney Inwood-Hamilton, 26, and her two children, Noah Hamilton, six, and Ruby Hamilton, four, were last seen about 8am on Monday. The trio were seen leaving their home on Hennesy Cres,
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Updated: 31/07/2023 – 11:15 Dozens of sailors were congratulated by the president, as they stood on the decks of their ships. Dozens of sailors were congratulated by the president, as they stood on the decks of their ships. A total of 30 ships of various classes will join the Russian Navy in 2023, Putin said
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Forty-five years ago, Sue Englander went door knocking in San Francisco to tell anyone who would listen that she was a proud bisexual woman who supported LGBTQ+ rights. Other queer activists were fanning out across California to do the same as part of a 1978 campaign to defeat a ballot measure that would have made
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A man who was a Princeton University student when the FBI arrested him on charges related to the U.S. Capitol riot pleaded guilty on Monday to joining a mob’s attack on police officers during one of the most violent clashes on Jan. 6, 2021. Larry Fife Giberson was on the front lines when rioters attacked
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Torrential rains in China Fierce rain and flooding pummeled Beijing yesterday, killing at least two people as the downpour triggered landslides and swept away cars on the city’s outskirts. The authorities issued a red alert for what they warned was the heaviest deluge in years. The intense rain, which is expected to last until today,
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