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  • Luka Doncic scores 45 as Lakers win against Mavericks | Basketball News

    Luka Doncic scores 45 as Lakers win against Mavericks | Basketball News

    Emotional return for Luka Doncic and Mavericks fans in his first game at Dallas since being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in February.

    Luka Doncic scored 31 of his 45 points in the first half of his highly anticipated Dallas homecoming as the visiting Los Angeles Lakers locked up a playoff spot with a 112-97 win against the Mavericks.

    Doncic’s 46th career 40-point game on Wednesday was complemented by eight rebounds and six assists while connecting on 16-of-28 from the floor and…

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  • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,141 | Russia-Ukraine war News

    Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,141 | Russia-Ukraine war News

    These are the key events on day 1,141 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

    Here is where things stand on Thursday, April 10:

    Fighting

    • Kyiv’s air force said Russia launched 55 drones towards targets in Ukraine overnight, of which air defence units shot down 32. Eight more drones were lost due to electronic warfare measures, the air force said.
    • Russian drone attacks targeted three Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk, Dnipro and Kharkiv, injuring at least 22 people, of which at least seven were in…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Hamas leadership operating behind veil of secrecy

    Hamas leadership operating behind veil of secrecy

    After Israel killed a string of its leaders, Hamas anointed new commanders to top ranks, this time shrouding their identities in secrecy to protect them from assassination.

    Israel vowed to crush Hamas in retaliation for the October 7 attack, launching a blistering offensive in Gaza that has massively weakened the movement while reducing much of the territory to rubble.

    Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh, the head of its armed wing Mohammed Deif, and Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • FDA clears IND for clinical trial testing switchable CAR-T therapy in patients with autoimmune diseases, without chemotherapy

    FDA clears IND for clinical trial testing switchable CAR-T therapy in patients with autoimmune diseases, without chemotherapy

    Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines, the drug discovery division of Scripps Research, announced today that the FDA has cleared their investigational new drug (IND) application to study switchable chimeric antigen receptor T cell (sCAR-T) therapy (CLBR001 + SWI019) in patients with autoimmune conditions. Patient recruitment for the phase 1 trial will begin soon (NCT06913608). The phase 1 clinical trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of CLBR001 + SWI019 in patients with…

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  • Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds

    Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds

    A new study from researchers at the George Washington University has found that certain bacteria living in the nose may influence how likely someone is to get a COVID-19 infection. Published in EBioMedicine, the research reveals that certain types of nasal bacteria can affect the levels of key proteins the virus needs to enter human cells, offering new insight into why some people are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others.

    “We’ve known that the virus SARS-CoV-2 enters the body through the…

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  • Europe’s population is adapting better to cold than to heat

    Europe’s population is adapting better to cold than to heat

    A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high temperatures over the last two decades. The research, carried out in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) and published in The Lancet Planetary Health, shows that there has been a significant decrease in cold-related mortality risk in recent years compared to the first decade of…

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  • The Politics Behind Netanyahu’s Shin Bet Scandal, and the Trump Factor

    The Politics Behind Netanyahu’s Shin Bet Scandal, and the Trump Factor

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

    By Ramzy Baroud  

    Netanyahu’s actions have violated a longstanding taboo, further exacerbating Israel’s already unprecedented internal crisis.

    In just 24 hours, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Eli Sharvit as the new chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, only to quickly retract the nomination.

    This episode highlights the lack of coherence in…

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    News Source: www.palestinechronicle.com

  • Complicit in Genocide: Is Israel an Outpost or a Country?

    Complicit in Genocide: Is Israel an Outpost or a Country?

    Donald Trump (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: US Embassy of Tel Aviv, via Wikimedia Commons)

    By Dr. M. Reza Behnam

    The United States has, to its misfortune, invested heavily in its Zionist outpost, masquerading as a law-abiding moral country.

    In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of terrorism, while those that commit unspeakable crimes, flagrantly violating international and humanitarian…

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  • US, Saudis urge Sudan peace talks as top Riyadh diplomat visits Washington

    US, Saudis urge Sudan peace talks as top Riyadh diplomat visits Washington

    Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat held talks in Washington on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for a visit by US President Donald Trump, which would be the first foreign trip of his second term.

    Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department, and the two called on the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces to resume peace talks.

    The diplomats “agreed that the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces must return to peace talks,…

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  • Barcelona hit Dortmund for four in Champions League quarterfinal | Football News

    Barcelona hit Dortmund for four in Champions League quarterfinal | Football News

    Barcelona set sights on Champions League progress with 4-0 home win in quarterfinal first leg against Borussia Dortmund.

    Barcelona claimed a commanding 4-0 home win over Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

    Robert Lewandowski scored twice and Raphinha recorded a goal and an assist on Wednesday, leaving the Catalan club in a strong position to reach the semifinals for the first time since 2019.

    Lamine Yamal also scored as Barcelona dealt a hammer blow to…

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