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  • Downtown Seoul tense as court due to rule on President Yoon’s impeachment | Politics News

    Downtown Seoul tense as court due to rule on President Yoon’s impeachment | Politics News

    Seoul, South Korea – The catchphrase “8-0” was blasted on loudspeakers and seen on placards in Seoul’s historic centre of Jongno District, where thousands of critics of impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol gathered.

    The demonstrators on Thursday were calling for Yoon to be impeached, confident that all eight acting justices in the country’s Constitutional Court will decide to uphold an impeachment motion passed by the National Assembly in mid-December after Yoon’s short-lived…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Exercise as an anti-aging intervention to avoid detrimental impact of mental fatigue

    Exercise as an anti-aging intervention to avoid detrimental impact of mental fatigue

    Retired people who habitually exercise are more able to fight the impacts of mental fatigue, new research suggests.

    In a paper published in the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, a team of researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Extremadura in Spain worked with groups of adults to find out whether age would increase, and regular exercise would decrease the impact of mental fatigue on a series of cognitive and physical performance tests.

    In the first study,…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Six people dead after alleged dynamite attack in Bolivia gold-mining clash | Mining News

    Six people dead after alleged dynamite attack in Bolivia gold-mining clash | Mining News

    The dynamite attack is thought to be the result of two mining collectives fighting over access to gold deposits.

    A clash between gold-mining operations in Bolivia has resulted in an explosion that killed six people, according to authorities.

    Thursday’s blast rocked the Yani mining camp approximately 150 kilometres – or 90 miles – northwest of the country’s administrative capital, La Paz.

    “There are six dead, and we have reports of missing persons,” said Jhonny Silva, a…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Trump says he thinks Iran wants direct talks with US | Donald Trump News

    Trump says he thinks Iran wants direct talks with US | Donald Trump News

    US president says Iran initially wanted talks through intermediaries, but he thinks Tehran has changed its position.

    Washington, DC Donald Trump has suggested that Iran may agree to direct talks with the United States despite the intensifying tensions and back-and-forth threats between the two countries.

    Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the US president appeared optimistic about the prospect of face-to-face diplomacy with Tehran.

    “I think it’s better if we have direct talks,” he…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • RFK Terminates Teams Responsible For Public Records Requests, Fueling Public Health Concerns

    RFK Terminates Teams Responsible For Public Records Requests, Fueling Public Health Concerns

    Multiple public records teams were entirely cut by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the HHS as part of the Trump administration’s layoffs of 10,000 health workers on Tuesday. A few staffers who handle requests for public government documents remain, but many have been let go according to reports from NPR.

    One…

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    News Source: www.forbes.com

  • Oscar-winning Palestinian director speaks at UN on Israeli settlements

    Oscar-winning Palestinian director speaks at UN on Israeli settlements

    Palestinian director Basel Adra, who won an Oscar this year for co-directing a documentary on Israeli violence in the West Bank, sounded the alarm at the UN on Thursday, saying the situation was worsening despite the film’s success.

    Adra was invited to speak by the UN Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at a screening of his film, “No Other Land.”

    The documentary chronicles the forced displacement of Palestinians by Israeli troops and settlers in Masafer Yatta — an…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Drug-delivering aptamers target leukemia stem cells for one-two knockout punch

    Drug-delivering aptamers target leukemia stem cells for one-two knockout punch

    Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign report.

    The aptamers — short single-strand snippets of DNA that can target molecules like larger antibodies do — not only deliver cancer-fighting drugs, but also are themselves toxic to the cancer stem cells, the researchers said.

    Led by Xing Wang, a U. of I. professor of bioengineering…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Touchlessly moving cells: Biotech automation and an acoustically levitating diamond

    Touchlessly moving cells: Biotech automation and an acoustically levitating diamond

    Engineers at a University of Bristol spin-out company have created a new technology that can move cells without touching them, enabling critical tasks that currently require large pieces of lab equipment to be carried out on a benchtop device.

    The invention could accelerate the discovery of new medicines and unlock personalised medicine screening in clinics.

    The groundbreaking concept was unveiled for the first time today in an article in Science published by Dr Luke Cox, where he describes…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Ambush in Dara’a: The Rise of Southern Syria’s Resistance

    Ambush in Dara’a: The Rise of Southern Syria’s Resistance

    The mobilization of local armed forces surrounding Dara’a has evidently now reached a new height. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

    By Robert Inlakesh

    The mobilization of local armed forces surrounding Dara’a has evidently now reached a new height, and if things continue to escalate, there is now reasonable grounds to believe that this could develop into a formidable resistance movement.

    On Wednesday evening, local southern Syrian militia forces mobilized to confront an Israeli…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Senate rejects Sanders effort to block Israeli weapons sale as war on Gaza widens – Mondoweiss

    Senate rejects Sanders effort to block Israeli weapons sale as war on Gaza widens – Mondoweiss

    The Senate has rejected a pair of resolutions from Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) aimed at blocking weapon sales to Israel.

    The final votes were 15-82 and 15-83.

    Sanders’s resolutions of disapproval were aimed at halting a $8.56 billion sale of weapons and munitions to Israel.

    “This war has been conducted almost entirely with American weapons and some $18 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Sanders in a statement days before the vote. “Israel has dropped…

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    News Source: mondoweiss.net