Mon 07 October 2024: Condom use is down among sexually active teens and young adults in the United States due to a combination of medical advancements like long-term birth control options and drugs that prevent sexually transmitted infections, a fading fear of contracting HIV, and widely varying levels of sex education, reported The Associated Press […]
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Sun 06 October 2024: Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate in the UK has risen to the highest total in more than a decade, according to a charity monitoring such incidents. Tell Mama said it recorded 4,971 incidents of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in the year since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. The incidents, to the end of […]
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Sun 06 October 2024: The Italian government Friday passed a decree toughening measures against people attacking health staff in hospitals across the country. The move is meant to address a surge in assaults on doctors, nurses, and other professionals in the public health system. Key countermeasures included allowing for arresting perpetrators on the scene of […]
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Sat 05 October 2024: Elon Musk has said he is going to join Donald Trump for an election rally at the site of a July assassination attempt on the former president’s life. Musk, 53, announced on Friday that he will appear at the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, the following day. Trump, who served as the United States president from 2017 to 2021, […]
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Sat 05 October 2024: Bosnia and Herzegovina will hold its eighth local elections since 1992 on Sunday. A total of 143 mayors and 3,200 council members will be elected in the two entities in the country — the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBIH) and the Republika Srpska (RS) and the Brcko District, which has […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: More than 700,000 people are currently internally displaced in Haiti, marking a 22% increase since June, according to the latest figures from the International Organization for Migration, shared by UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Over half of the displaced population are children, highlighting the severe impact of escalating gang violence and the […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: More than 1,000 people have died and at least 740,000 displaced as floods wreak havoc across West and Central Africa, affecting over 5 million people in 16 countries, the UN said on Thursday. Most parts of the central and west African region as well as the Sahel have been experiencing severe […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief said on Friday that the UN agency has approved the first mpox in vitro diagnostic (IVD) test for emergency use. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ announcement came on X, as the global demand for mpox testing increased due to ongoing outbreaks in some countries, particularly in the […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: Some 250 million containers cross the oceans every year, but not everything arrives as planned — more than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half, according to the World Shipping Council (WSC), an industry group. “Their varied contents have washed onto shorelines, poisoned fisheries and […]
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Fri 04 October 2024: CAGE International has announce its intention to file a war crimes complaint against former UK government ministers Robert Jenrick and Ben Wallace. The move comes in response to Jenrick’s recent campaign video, in which he states that British Special Forces are “killing rather than capturing ‘terrorists’” to prevent their release under human […]
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