October 2, 2023
With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, French authorities want to make sure the bedbugs don’t bite during the games and have started a drive to exterminate the pests. Social media users have been publishing footage of the insects crawling around in high-speed trains and the Paris metro, alongside a rash of online
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A public health warning has been issued after authorities confirmed a case of hepatitis A had been detected in a regional Queensland city. Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS) Public Health Unit confirmed on Monday they were managing a case of the viral infection in a person living in Gympie, north of Brisbane. Hepatitis
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Israeli authorities are trying to figure out how a heavily armored, but unarmed, tank was stolen from a military training zone after finding it discarded in a junkyard. The Israeli Merkava 2 tank disappeared from a training zone in northern Israel near the coastal city of Haifa, the Israeli army said Wednesday. The training zone
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Yves here. Tom Neuburger discusses the important issue of the real aims for the increase of the surveillance state in Western countries. He posits that it’s due to elites recognizing the potential of the lower orders to turn violently against them. In one sense, that’s already well recognized, witness how many of the super-rich have
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Protesters changing “Libya! Libya!” called on authorities to expedite their investigation into the disaster, for the UN to set up an office in Derna, for the urgent reconstruction of the city and for compensation for those affected by the flood. Officials warned Monday that a disease outbreak in Libya’s northeast, where floods have killed thousands,
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The WHO has urged authorities in Derna to stop burying flood victims in mass graves, highlighting the potential health risks if located near water and the distress it could cause families. Rescue teams in the coastal city of Derna are still searching for bodies almost a week after a devastating flood killed more than 11,000
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CNN — Iranian authorities detained the father of Mahsa Amini on the one-year anniversary of her death Saturday, Iranian journalists and rights groups have said. Amini was killed in the custody of the morality police on September 16, 2022, after being arrested for allegedly failing to wear her headscarf properly. Her death triggered protests throughout
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The Times said the probe underway concerns about a dozen Schiele works allegedly stolen by the Nazis. US authorities seized three artworks allegedly looted by the Nazis and which are being sought by the heirs of a Jewish art collector who died in the Holocaust, officials said Thursday. They confirmed a report in The New
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NEW balance of payments (BoP) projections for this year and next year have been approved by monetary authorities following a review of latest data and emerging developments. “The 2023-2024 forecasts for overall BoP position have been revised to reflect the estimated narrower current account shortfall over the forecast horizon,” the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
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