New Covid variant spreading rapidly across UK amid rise in cases across all ages
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new Covid variant is spreading across the UK, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Read More
Ecuador arrests nine prison staff after search finds drugs, weapons in offices
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBanned drugs and weapons were found in offices at Ecuadorean prisons on Friday, prompting the arrests of two wardens and seven other…
The world's hottest city becoming 'unliveable' as even the streets have air conditioning
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn July 21, 2016, the Mitribah weather station in northern Kuwait registered a temperature of 54C (129F) – the third-highest reading in the…
Battle of the pharma giants: GlaxoSmithKline sues Pfizer
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGlaxoSmithKline has accused fellow pharma giant Pfizer of using its tech to make a rival RSV vaccine. Read More
Soaring mortgage costs ‘affecting mental health of almost a third of people’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlmost a third of people in England and Wales said their mental health has been affected by soaring mortgage costs in the past year, according…
‘Shameful’: Afghan refugees in UK becoming homeless after government hotel evictions
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfghan refugees in the UK are presenting as homeless to councils after being turfed out of government hotels in “shameful” evictions. Read More
Chance discovery helps fight against malaria
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have found a naturally occurring strain of bacteria which can help stop the transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to humans. Read…
Meta, Google and YouTube ‘profiting’ off posts for bogus women’s health cures in Kenya
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMeta, YouTube and Google are profiting from posts promoting harmful and useless health products to women in Kenya, according to an investigation. Read…
Thousands potentially exposed to toxic tests made at California biolab
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteTens of thousands of Americans may have used Covid and pregnancy tests made at a filthy, Chinese-run biolab that housed dangerous viruses…
Britain’s era of cheap food is over, say economists
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBritain’s era of cheap food has come to an end, economists have said, as the Bank of England warned grocery price inflation will…