Majority of firearms used in UK gun crime come from overseas, police reveal
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlmost all of the firearms being used by criminals on the streets of the capital are being brought in from abroad, senior…
Teachers and GPs ‘staggering’ under extra demands caused by poverty in Great Britain
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBritain’s schools and primary health services are “staggering” under the pressure of demand caused by an epidemic of extreme poverty, as desperate…
Missouri woman cleared of murder after 43 years behind bars
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 Missouri murder has had her conviction overturned after spending 43 years…
Five killed as goods train hits passenger express in India’s east
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt least five people have been killed in India’s eastern state of West Bengal after a goods train collided with a passenger express in Darjeeling district on…
‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSudan is facing a famine that could become worse than any the world has seen since Ethiopia 40 years ago, US officials…
Singapore races to clean up beaches after oil spill
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSingapore authorities are scrambling to clean up a major oil spill that has blackened the city-state’s southern coastline, days after a shipping…
Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine…
In South Africa, traditional healers join the fight against HIV. Stigma remains high in rural areas
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe walls of Shadrack Mashabane’s hut in the rural South African town of Bushbuckridge are covered with traditional fabrics, with a small…
Type of food and drink that 'kills 370,000 people every year in Europe'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUltra-processed foods, alcohol, tobacco, and fossil fuels are wreaking havoc across Europe, claiming 2.7 million lives annually, the World Health Organisation (WHO)…
ICU nurse arrested for swapping patients’ pain medication with tap water
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Oregon nurse has been arrested for allegedly using her patients’ pain medication and swapping it with tap water, risking “serious infections” in those she…