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FROM FAKE MEDICINES TO WATCHES, COUNTERFEITS ARE EVERYWHERE AND GETTING HARDER TO CATCH

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Fri 15 May 2026: There’s now a vast, rapidly expanding global trade in counterfeit goods: imitation clothes, shoes and electronics, and even fake cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Some fake products can pose serious health risks to unsuspecting buyers. Health authorities have warned consumers to “exercise extreme caution when buying medicines and medical devices online”. These include counterfeit weight-loss products falsely claiming to […]

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GERMAN PAEDIATRICIAN CHARGED WITH DOZENS OF SEX OFFENCES

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Fri 15 May 2026: Prosecutors in Germany announced Wednesday that a pediatrician has been charged with 130 cases of rape and other forms of sexual abuse involving children. The unidentified suspect who worked in clinics in Brandenburg state near Berlin allegedly committed the crimes over 12 years, they said in a statement, without specifying how […]

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HOW WORLD CUP FILMING HAS EVOLVED SINCE THE LAST US TOURNAMENT – FROM SPIDER CAMERAS TO AI AND DRONES

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Thu 14 May 2026: When players arrive in the US this year for their World Cup pre-tournament media shoot, they will each step into a scanning chamber to capture their precise body-part dimensions and create 3D, AI avatars. Why? Because even when you’re the biggest sport in the world, you can’t afford to stand still. […]

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“UNIMAGINABLE SUFFERING” IN GAZA AS 43,000 PEOPLE ENDURE LIFE-CHANGING INJURIES SINCE OCT. 2023

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Thu 14 May 2026: An estimated 43,000 people of the 172,000 injured in Gaza since October 2023 have sustained life-changing injuries, including around 10,000 children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, said the updated estimates reflect the […]

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VIDEO | MUSLIM YOUTH FORCED TO DRINK ‘COW URINE’ IN INDIA’S HARYANA

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Wed 13 May 2026: New allegations of cow-related vigilante violence have emerged in Haryana after videos spread online allegedly showing two Muslim men being beaten, humiliated, and forced to drink what appears to be cow urine by a self-proclaimed cow protection group. The incident this week has triggered anger among minority groups and rights activists, […]

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INSTAGRAM CAN NOW READ ALL USERS’ PRIVATE MESSAGES. WILL THIS MAKE KIDS SAFER OR JUST BOOST AD TARGETING?

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Wed 13 May 2026: As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram. Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature. But this has raised questions about its impact on user privacy and whether it will improve child safety on the platform. Instagram […]

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MEXICO, CIA REJECT REPORT OF US ASSASSINATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST CARTELS

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Wed 13 May 2026: Mexico’s government and the CIA have rebutted a report claiming that US intelligence agents have participated in the targeted assassinations of alleged drug cartel members in the Latin American country. The denials on Tuesday came after CNN reported that the CIA has been deeply involved in deadly operations aimed at dismantling Mexico’s drug cartels. CIA operatives have “directly participated” in several attacks […]

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NYT COLUMNIST REPORTS WIDESPREAD SEXUAL ABUSE OF PALESTINIANS IN ISRAELI DETENTION

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Wed 13 May 2026: Columnist says there was ‘no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes,’ but argued Israeli authorities had built ‘security apparatus where sexual violence has become,’ citing UN report, one of Israel’s ‘standard operating procedures’ A New York Times opinion columnist has alleged that Palestinian detainees have been subjected to widespread sexual violence […]

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CONTEXT INFLUENCES THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE – WHETHER YOU’RE A HOMEBUYER, A JUROR OR A PHYSICIAN

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Tue 12 May 2026: When my husband and I purchased a new home last year, the house we ultimately bought was one we had at first ruled out. While the house had many positives, including being affordable, it also had several negatives, so we’d kept looking. A few months later, we thought we’d found the […]

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