Taliban's treatment of women could be 'gender apartheid' - UN expert
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A United Nations expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls could amount to gender apartheid as…
Children and elderly dying at Sudan’s border after walking for days to flee war
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Children and elderly people are dying at the Sudanese border after exhausting journeys fleeing the bloody conflict in Khartoum. Read More
Rise of the single mother: Number seeking to get pregnant through IVF soars 44% in wake of Covid - amid boom in egg-freezing rates
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The number of single women trying to get pregnant through IVF has soared while demand for egg-freezing is also booming, Read More
Nearly 100 die as scorching heatwave with 45C temperatures sweeps northern India
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A scorching heatwave sweeping across northeast India has caused nearly 100 deaths in two states with hundreds hospitalised in the span of…
Synthetic human embryo raises ethical issues
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Scientists have created the synthetic human embryos – using no eggs or sperm – provoking deep ethical questions, according to reports. Read…
Italy is gripped by hunt for five-year-old Peruvian girl who was 'bundled into a suitcase and kidnapped' from squat occupied by 140 illegal migrants in Florence
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A desperate search for a five-year-old girl who has been missing for ten days continued today in Florence, as police seized control…
Eating just 10 extra grams of fibre a day could reduce risk of stroke by 23%, says doctor
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Prevention is always better than treatment, but this is especially true for stroke.
British nationals 'will be put at the front of council housing queue'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute British nationals will be prioritised for council housing under plans being considered by the Government, it was reported last night. Read More
Doctors advise over-60s to stay indoors amid Indian heatwave
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Reading Time: < 1 minute At least 34 people have died in the past two days as a large section of the northern Indian state of Uttar…
Woman left disabled after surgeon 'experimented' on her - 'I was his guinea pig'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Only 21 at the time, Leann Sutherland placed her trust in the (now former) head of neurosurgery at NHS Tayside, Mr Sam Eljamel….