Wed 24 September 2025: US President Donald Trump has linked childhood vaccine use and paracetamol use by pregnant women to autism. The World Health Organization (WHO) has debunked United States President Donald Trump’s claim of a possible link between autism and the use of paracetamol during pregnancy. In a statement on Wednesday, the organisation emphasised that there […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Trump presents plan on ending war on margins of UNGA dominated by Gaza, billed countries attending meeting as ‘the group that could do it’. Turkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he is “pleased” with the results of a “fruitful” meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Arab and Muslim leaders […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Press freedom around the world has suffered its sharpest fall in 50 years as global democracy weakens dramatically, a landmark report found. According to the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), democracy has declined in 94 countries over the last five years and only a third have made […]
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Wed 24 September 2025: Dozens of Israel’s leading economists warned that a full military reoccupation of the Gaza Strip would push Israel into an unprecedented economic downturn. In a statement reported Monday by the Israeli outlet Walla, more than 80 academics and former senior officials at the Finance Ministry and Bank of Israel said the […]
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Sun 17 August 2025: US-based OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT’s lack of ethical safeguards poses serious risks to young people, a new report has found, as concerns mount over the safety of AI-powered chatbots. The British-American watchdog Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said in an Aug. 6 report that ChatGPT gave harmful information […]
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Sat 16 August 2025: Imagine a busy train station. Cameras monitor everything, from how clean the platforms are to whether a docking bay is empty or occupied. These cameras feed into an AI system that helps manage station operations and sends signals to incoming trains, letting them know when they can enter the station. The […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: Japan will use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to teach the Japanese language to children with foreign roots. The move comes amid a shortage of teachers who can speak languages such as Portuguese, Chinese, and Spanish, Kyodo News reported on Thursday. Guidelines are expected to be prepared to use AI to adopt […]
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Fri 15 August 2025: As the UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting. Each year, the world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste – more than the combined weight of all the people on Earth. Just 9 percent of it is recycled, and one study predicts […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: A criminal hacker group has obtained the personal data of tens of thousands of holidaymakers from Italian hotels, collected from ID documents required at check-in. The group, called Mydocs, has been offering around 70,000 documents for sale online in recent days, Italian police said on Wednesday. The breach affected high-end hotels in cities such […]
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Thu 14 August 2025: Drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro (known as semaglutide and tirzepatide) have changed the way clinicians manage diabetes and obesity around the world. Collectively known as GLP-1 agonists, these drugs mimic the hormone GLP-1. This limits both hunger and interest in food, helping users lose weight, and helps control blood sugar […]
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