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  • Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at US’s Columbia University | Israel-Palestine conflict News

    Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at US’s Columbia University | Israel-Palestine conflict News

    Pro-Palestinian student group says it staged demonstration to protest against university profiting from ‘imperialist violence’.

    Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists have staged a protest at Columbia University in the United States.

    Footage posted on social media showed demonstrators standing on tables, chanting and beating drums inside the university’s main library.

    Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a pro-Palestinian student group, said it had occupied the library to protest the…

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  • What are India and Pakistan’s military and nuclear capabilities? | Interactive News

    What are India and Pakistan’s military and nuclear capabilities? | Interactive News

    On Wednesday morning, India carried out multiple missile attacks on parts of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, in which at least 26 people were killed, including a three-year-old child.

    India has claimed its Operation Sindoor targeted nine sites with “terrorist infrastructure”.

    In response, Pakistan has claimed it has brought down five Indian planes – but India has not commented on this claim. At least 10 civilians have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir due to…

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  • Trump says he’ll decide on name of ‘Persian Gulf’ on Middle East visit | Donald Trump News

    Trump says he’ll decide on name of ‘Persian Gulf’ on Middle East visit | Donald Trump News

    US president says he will announce decision on waterway during trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

    United States President Donald Trump has said he will make a decision on how the US refers to the “Persian Gulf” during an upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

    Speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he expected his hosts to ask about the name the US uses for the waterway during his first trip to the Middle East…

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  • Two Israeli soldiers injured in W. Bank resistance operation

    Two Israeli soldiers injured in W. Bank resistance operation

    JENIN, (PIC)

    At least two Israeli soldiers were seriously injured in a Palestinian shooting operation that occurred near Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday

    According to the Hebrew media, the shooting incident happened in the area of the Reihan crossing in the West Bank. The wounded soldiers were evacuated via helicopter to a hospital in Haifa.

    Following the incident, the Israeli occupation forces launched a manhunt for the shooter and spread in the Jenin area.


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  • Removing ovaries and fallopian tubes linked to lower risk of early death among breast cancer patients with BRCA cancer genes

    Removing ovaries and fallopian tubes linked to lower risk of early death among breast cancer patients with BRCA cancer genes

    Women diagnosed with breast cancer who carry particular BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic variants are offered surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes as this dramatically reduces their risk of ovarian cancer.

    Now, Cambridge researchers have shown that this procedure — known as bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) — is associated with a substantial reduction in the risk of early death among these women, without any serious side-effects.

    Women with certain variants of the genes BRCA1 and…

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  • Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma

    Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma

    A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including commercially available CAR T cell therapies. The new therapy diminished cancer in 81 percent of patients and resulted in complete remission in 52 percent, with some of the earliest patients treated experiencing durable remission for two years or more. The findings, led by researchers in the…

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  • Non-inherited genes affect children’s development

    Non-inherited genes affect children’s development

    Parents’ genes — even when not directly inherited by a child — may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report by UCL researchers.

    The report, Understanding the intergenerational transmission of educational (under)achievement, which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation, evaluated how parental genetics can influence child development through the environment provided by their parents (for example, reading habits or access to better resources), also known…

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  • US jury acquits three Memphis police officers in Tyre Nichols beating death | Courts News

    US jury acquits three Memphis police officers in Tyre Nichols beating death | Courts News

    A jury in the United States has acquitted three former police officers in the controversial beating death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old father who was killed after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee.

    On Wednesday, former officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith were found not guilty in a state-level case that included charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.

    This was their second criminal…

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  • Trump administration taps wellness influencer for surgeon general | Donald Trump News

    Trump administration taps wellness influencer for surgeon general | Donald Trump News

    Trump picks Dr Casey Means, a close ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, as nominee for key health position.

    United States President Donald Trump has selected Doctor Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, as his nominee for surgeon general after withdrawing his previous nominee.

    In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said that Means would work closely with RFK Jr, who is his Health and Human Services…

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  • Pakistan vows retaliation after India launches air strikes | India-Pakistan Tensions News

    Pakistan vows retaliation after India launches air strikes | India-Pakistan Tensions News

    Pakistan has promised to retaliate after India launched military strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, fuelling fears of a broader confrontation between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

    Pakistan’s government on Wednesday pledged to respond “at a time, place and manner of its choosing to avenge the loss of innocent Pakistani lives and blatant violation of its sovereignty”.

    Pakistan’s military said at least 31 civilians were killed and 46 others injured in the Indian…

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