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  • Lebanese PM visits Syria’s president to reset years of strained relations | News

    Lebanese PM visits Syria’s president to reset years of strained relations | News

    Nawaf Salam meets Ahmed al-Sharaa to discuss border security, refugees, and past political killings under ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

    Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has held talks in Damascus with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, in his first official visit to Syria, in an effort to recalibrate relations between the two nations, which have been strained for decades.

    The diplomatic shuttle on Monday marks the highest-level Lebanese delegation visiting Syria since Beirut’s new…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Israel demands hostage release for Gaza ceasefire: Hamas

    Israel demands hostage release for Gaza ceasefire: Hamas

    Hamas said Monday that Israel has offered a 45-day ceasefire if it releases half of the remaining hostages held in Gaza, which the United Nations said is now in the grip of its worst humanitarian crisis since the start of the war.

    A Hamas official told AFP that Israel had also demanded that the Palestinian militants disarm to secure an end to the Gaza war but that this crossed a “red line”.

    Egyptian mediators passed on an Israeli proposal that “includes the release of half the hostages in the…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Israeli demands hostage release for Gaza ceasefire: Hamas

    Israeli demands hostage release for Gaza ceasefire: Hamas

    Hamas said Monday that Israel has offered a 45-day ceasefire if it releases half of the remaining hostages held in Gaza, that the United Nations said is now in the grip of its worst humanitarian crisis since the start of the war.

    A Hamas official told AFP that Israel had also demanded that the Palestinian militants disarm to secure an end to the Gaza war but that this crossed a “red line”.

    Egyptian mediators passed on an Israeli proposal that “includes the release of half the hostages in the…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • UN warns over Gaza humanitarian crisis as France, Abbas call for truce

    UN warns over Gaza humanitarian crisis as France, Abbas call for truce

    The United Nations warned Monday that Gaza was facing its most severe humanitarian crisis since the war began, with no aid entering the territory for weeks and conditions rapidly deteriorating following a ceasefire’s collapse.

    The UN’s alarm came as Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and French President Emmanuel Macron called for an “urgent” ceasefire in Gaza.

    Israel resumed an intense military offensive on Gaza after a ceasefire that came into effect on January 19 collapsed two months later…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Macron, Abbas call for Gaza truce as Hamas insists on guarantees

    Macron, Abbas call for Gaza truce as Hamas insists on guarantees

    Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and French President Emmanuel Macron called for an “urgent” ceasefire in Gaza Monday, as Hamas said it is prepared to free all hostages provided it receives guarantees Israel will end the war.

    Since the collapse of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in mid-March, Israel has launched an intense military offensive in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of people have since been displaced and Israel has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid.

    In a phone…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • High blood pressure? Eat more bananas

    High blood pressure? Eat more bananas

    New research from the University of Waterloo suggests increasing the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium intake may be more effective for lowering blood pressure than simply reducing sodium intake.

    High blood pressure affects over 30 per cent of adults globally. It’s the leading cause of coronary heart disease and stroke and may also lead to other afflictions like chronic kidney disease, heart failure, irregular heartbeats, and dementia.

    “Usually, when we have high blood pressure, we are…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Gestational diabetes linked to ADHD in children

    Gestational diabetes linked to ADHD in children

    An Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has found children born to mothers who experienced gestational diabetes (GDM) during pregnancy are more likely to develop attention-deficient hyperactive disorder (ADHD) and externalising behaviour.

    The research by ECU Honorary researcher Dr Rachelle Pretorius and Professor Rae-Chi Huang examined data from 200,000 mother-child pairs across Europe and Australia, and found that in children aged 7 to 10, those born to mothers with gestational diabetes had…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • Pioneering method detects oral cancer earlier

    Pioneering method detects oral cancer earlier

    The powerful potential of nano technologies and AI to detect oral cancer earlier and more accurately have been revealed by a University of Otago — Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study.

    Researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry combined atomic force microscopy (AFM) with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect changes in cancer cells at a very small scale.

    Senior author Associate Professor Peter Mei says the pioneering method is a substantial advancement in cancer diagnostics.

    “Combining the two…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com

  • New method for detecting nanoplastics in body fluids

    New method for detecting nanoplastics in body fluids

    Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in organs, blood and other body fluids. In the FFG bridge project Nano-VISION, which was launched two years ago together with the start-up BRAVE Analytics, a team led by Harald Fitzek from the Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and an…

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    News Source: www.sciencedaily.com