(2024-10-30). "Godfather of vaccines" admits vaccine researchers experimented on orphans, the mentally handicapped and babies of mothers in prison. expose-news.com In the early 1960s, Stanley Plotkin was doing a paediatric residency in London, England, at the Hospital for Sick Children (now the Great Ormond Street Hospital). It was during this time, as …
(2024-10-30). Government non-interest expenditure expected to increase. sanews.gov.za Government non-interest expenditure expected to increase | Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says government non-interest expenditure is expected to increase in 2024/25. | He was delivering the Medium-Term Budget Policy (MTBPS) statement speech in Parliament on Wednesday. | The increase is mainly attributed to: | Rollovers from the previous financial year, to the value of R2.1 billion. | R2.7 billion expenditure that was announced at the time of the main budget, mainly for the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant. | Unforeseeable and unavoidable expenditure of R2.1 billion, mainly for disaster relief. | A sp…
(2024-10-30). New Formulations of Glyphosate-Round Up: When Complaints Against Highly Hazardous Products Are Made, These Are Replaced with Even More Hazardous Products. globalresearch.ca In recent times a subject of great concern for health has been that powerful multinational companies are introducing several products which are highly hazardous for people, exposing them to several serious ailments and diseases including cancer. | As the incidence of …
(2024-10-30). McDonald's sued by US consumers in proposed class action over E coli outbreak. scmp.com One person was killed at at least 75 sickened by infections linked to onions in the fast-food chain's Quarter Pounder burgers.
(2024-10-30). "I Am the Face of AIDS:" Ryan White and the Politics of Innocence in the History of HIV/AIDS. counterpunch.org 
While Ryan's "innocence" pushed the federal government to act on AIDS, the "guilt" of marginalized groups fueled the urge "to punish sick people for their alleged lack of moral purity," as one Philadelphia Daily News editorial put it. Specifically, the CARE Act contained punitive HIV criminalization and notification statutes and prohibited federal funding for needle-exchange programs.
(2024-10-30). The case for an eco-friendly alternative to GDP. scmp.com We need new metrics that recognise the full value of biodiversity and the ecosystem, and new financial tools that reward conservation.
by Alaska J. Turaray | The Philippines, an archipelago with a rich biodiversity, is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Among its regions, the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) stands out for its unique geography as the country's only landlocked area. CAR's lush mountainous landscape, coupled with its cool climate, has earned it the reputation as a top tourist destination. This natural charm has also contributed to the region's high Human Development Index (HDI), with Benguet leading the charge as one of the top-ranked provinces, according to the 2023 Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA…
KAMPALA, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda on Wednesday confirmed its first death of mpox as the cumulative number of laboratory-confirmed infections hit 164 in the East African country. Henry Kyobe Bosa, incident commander at Uganda's Ministry of Health, told Xinhua over the phone on Wednesday that the death was registered in the mid-western district of …
Israel's expansion of airstrikes to its northern neighbors, Lebanon and Syria, continued with renewed bombing of civilian areas in both countries on Wednesday. Israeli occupation aircraft launched a series of raids on the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Wednesday evening, causing widespread destruction to buildings, facilities and infrastructure. According to local sources, …
The proposed measure has been widely debated by Russian MPs amid efforts to boost the birth rate in the country | A tax on childlessness is unlikely to solve Russia's demographic problems, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The country has been plagued by a declining birth rate for years, and in 2023, only 1.264 million children were born in Russia, the lowest since 1999, according to Rosstat. | The proposed tax entered the spotlight earlier this month, after Lieutenant General Andrey Gurulev, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee, suggested reviving the Soviet-era policy of taxing people who…
Many maritime crimes negatively impact oceanic health, such as illegal fishing or harvesting, ocean dumping, and polluting. In addition to overfishing, where necessary species are removed from the food chain, and accelerating biodiversity loss, unsustainable industrial development along coastlines has also contributed to ocean pollution. "All of these threats erode the capacity of the ocean to provide nutritious food, jobs, medicines, and pharmaceuticals as well as regulate the climate," stated a 2020 article in the journal Nature. "Women, poor people, Indigenous communities, and young people are most affected."
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KLM's CEO urged the bloc to address the "unfair" competition caused by its sanctions against Moscow | The EU should establish financial measures to curb competition from Chinese airlines that can freely cross Russian airspace, according to Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) CEO Marjan Rintel. | Western countries closed their airspace to Russian airlines as part of sanctions imposed after the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. In response, Moscow banned aircraft from 'unfriendly nations', forcing EU planes to reroute, resulting in higher fuel consumption and increased costs. | "Russia's airspace is closed to Eur…
After a year of near-constant Israeli military raids on their homes and private spaces, women are some of the most affected among the Palestinian residents of Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.
The finding was made in Vu Quang National Park, which is known for its biodiversity…