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More than 100 premature babies in Gaza at risk as hospitals run out of fuel | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Two of Gaza’s largest hospitals have issued desperate pleas for help, warning that fuel shortages caused by Israel’s siege could soon turn the medical centres into “silent graveyards”.

The warnings from al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza City and Nasser Hospital in southern Khan Younis came on Wednesday, as Israeli forces continued to bombard the Palestinian enclave, killing at least 74 people.

Muhammad Abu Salmiyah, the director of al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest facility, told…

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July 10, 2025
This muscle supplement could rewire the brain—and now scientists can deliver it

Creatine is popularly known as a muscle-building supplement, but its influence on human muscle function can be a matter of life or death.

“Creatine is very crucial for energy-consuming cells in skeletal muscle throughout the body, but also in the brain and in the heart,” said Chin-Yi Chen, a research scientist at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

Chen is part of a research team working to develop a technique that uses focused ultrasound to deliver creatine directly…

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July 10, 2025
Doctors say we’ve been misled about weight and health

Focusing solely on achieving weight loss for people with a high body mass index (BMI) may do more harm than good, argue experts in The BMJ.

Dr Juan Franco and colleagues say, on average, people with high weight will not be able to sustain a clinically relevant weight loss with lifestyle interventions, while the potential harms of weight loss interventions, including the reinforcement of weight stigma, are still unclear.

They stress that a healthy lifestyle has important benefits, but that…

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July 10, 2025
Trump assails ex-FBI, CIA heads amid reports of criminal probe | Crime News

US president attacks John Brennan and James Comey amid reports two men are under investigation over Trump-Russia probe.

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that former CIA director John Brennan and ex-FBI chief James Comey may have to “pay a price” amid reports that the two men are under criminal investigation.

Asked about reports on Wednesday that Brennan and Comey are being investigated by the FBI, Trump said he did not know anything other than what he had read in the…

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July 10, 2025
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,232 | Russia-Ukraine war News
Ukrainian air defence units were defending Kyiv against Russian drones early on Thursday for the second night running, with officials reporting a fire in a city-centre apartment building and drone fragments landing in different districts. At least two people were injured in the latest attacks, according to the AFP news agency.
A Russian air strike killed three people and injured one in the front-line town of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s east, national emergency service officials said. A…

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If Trump wants Gaza ceasefire, he must pressure Netanyahu, experts say | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Washington, DC – The White House says Donald Trump’s “utmost priority” in the Middle East is to end the war in Gaza.

But as the United States president hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, the two leaders have heaped praise on each other. Meanwhile, Israel continues its assault on the Palestinian territory, where more than 57,575 people have been killed.

Analysts say that, if Trump is truly seeking a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, he must leverage his country’s…

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Trump singles out Brazil for 50 percent tariffs, citing political motives | Donald Trump News

United States President Donald Trump has continued to publish letters announcing individualised tariff hikes for foreign trading partners.

But on Wednesday, one of those letters was different from the rest.

While most of the letters are virtually identical, denouncing trade relationships that are “far from reciprocal”, Trump’s letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took a decidedly more personal — and more confrontational — approach.

“Due in part to Brazil’s…

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PSG hammer Real Madrid 4-0 to reach FIFA Club World Cup final | Football News

A Fabian Ruiz double helps Paris Saint-Germain thump Real Madrid to set up FIFA Club World Cup final against Chelsea.

Fabian Ruiz scored twice, Ousmane Dembele tallied a goal and an assist, and Paris Saint-Germain eliminated Real Madrid as well as Kylian Mbappe from the FIFA Club World Cup by sailing to a 4-0 semifinal win.

PSG built a 3-0 lead in 24 minutes, deflating the heavily pro-Madrid crowd on Wednesday. Goncalo Ramos, who subbed on for Dembele early in the second half, added a goal…

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With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity

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Over the span of two days, one of the last remaining Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho was uprooted from its land.

On the evening of July 2, dozens of Israeli settlers descended on the West Bank shepherding village of Al-Muarrajat. They broke into homes, stole around 60 sheep, and erected a small outpost inside the village. By the next morning, settlers were seen sitting…

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We used Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation – Mondoweiss

According to unsealed court documents, the Trump administration relied on an anti-Palestinian doxxing site to identify student protesters to target.

The testimony came from Peter Hatch, a senior official with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations during a Boston court case challenging Trump’s deportation policy.

According to Hatch, the Department of Homeland Security developed a “tiger team” of intelligence analysts to compile files on about 100 foreign students and…

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