Fri 28 March 2025: The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm over a severe shortage of blood supplies and trauma care materials in Gaza, warning that the territory needs at least 4,500 blood units per month to meet urgent medical needs but currently has access to fewer than 500. “Trauma is increasing, but […]
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Fri 28 March 2025: The importance of sharing meals is recognised across cultures, from the Jewish Shabbat meal to the fast-breaking Iftar meals during Ramadan. The known link between food and social relationships is ancient. The English word companion, the French copain (friend) and the Italian compagno (partner) come from the Latin cum and pānis – literally “with-bread”. The Chinese term for companion/partner […]
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Fri 28 March 2025: At least 28 people were killed in Myanmar and three in Thailand, while 81 others were trapped after a skyscraper collapsed in Bangkok following a strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Myanmar’s Sagaing region on Friday, according to local media. The first jolt was followed by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: As Eid nears, Sambhal police have announced stringent laws on Eid prayer and use of loudspeakers. The Superintendent of Police announced that Eid prayers will only be allowed at allocated mosques and Eidgah laying complete prohibition of public prayers on roads and rooftops. Additionally, more police personnel are set to be […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Leaders gathered Thursday in Paris for a “coalition of the willing” summit to discuss military support and security guarantees for Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, Spanish President Pedro Sanchez, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Polish Prime […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Home break-ins and motor vehicle theft have increased in Australia over the past year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday. The proportion of households affected by break-ins rose from 1.8 percent in 2022-23 to 2.1 percent in 2023-24, an increase of 32,000 households, bringing the total to […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Moscow is working on financial instruments within BRICS, including a cross-border payment system, state-run news agency TASS said Wednesday. “At the BRICS platform, we are considering our various financial innovations, including a cross-border payment system, which can be based, in addition to bilateral settlements, on […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: An estimated 1 in 10 people worldwide have diabetes. Africa is the region with the fastest growth and it’s estimated that the number of people on the continent with diabetes will more than double in the next 20 years, increasing to about 55 million people by 2045. Having diabetes has serious consequences for health and […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: Europe has rarely found itself in as much of a bind as it faces now, arguably since the conflicts, territorial breakups and political transitions of the 1990s. Amid a perceived rising military threat from Russia, the faltering of Ukraine’s cause on the world stage and the withdrawal of the critical support […]
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Thu 27 March 2025: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune for the first time, NASA said on Wednesday. The data was obtained in June 2023 using Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph. In addition to the image of the planet, astronomers obtained a spectrum to characterize the composition and measure the temperature […]
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