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Researchers have long puzzled over why children in India, despite being wealthier, are shorter and smaller than children in sub-Saharan Africa. At least part of the answer may be a patriarchal society that puts young women on the lowest rung of the social ladder, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National […]
The Daesh group’s Egyptian affiliate, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem), said on Twitter it carried out the assault on the police base. It has been behind the majority of attacks on the security forces in the rugged region. The suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the base in North Sinai’s provincial […]
Activists protested for a third day in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman, the latest in a string of killings that have intensified concerns of racial bias in U.S. law enforcement. More than 100 people angry over the death of Tony Robinson Jr. marched […]
Gunmen have attacked a Sufi mosque in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, killing at least six people and wounding five others. According to officials, the attack took place on Saturday at around 7:00 p.m. local time (1430 GMT), when two armed men, with pistols equipped with silencers, entered the mosque and opened fire on the […]
Police chased down student protesters and dragged them onto trucks Friday in Myanmar’s third such crackdown on public demonstrations in as many days. Authorities went after five students after they broke off from 200 other demonstrators locked in a standoff at a Letpadan monastery, an Associated Press photographer and other witnesses said. The demonstrators oppose […]
The living conditions of nearly 2 million Palestinians residing in the Gaza Strip have been undermined by the enduring blockade against the enclave, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today. The longstanding restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from Gaza have led to steadily deteriorating living standards for Gaza’s 1.8 million […]
The European Union (EU)’s top human rights watchdog warned that torture at the hands of European police and prison officers is feeding the threat of terrorism across the continent, demanding an end to such ill-treatment. Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, made the remarks in an opinion piece published by the […]
A 10-year-old girl was killed and five other civilians were injured when five mortar shells hit al-Sayida Zeinab area in the southern suburbs of Damascus, a police source told the Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, on Wednesday. Two civilians were killed after foreign-backed terrorists opened fire on a number of vehicles on Harasta highway, in […]
A boat capsized off Sicily when the migrants aboard rushed to meet rescuers, killing at least 10 people, the Italian coastguard said Wednesday. “The migrants, as they frequently do, all rushed to one side of the boat which then capsised,” Italian coast guard spokesman Filippo Marini told TV station SkyTG24, adding many of the passengers […]
A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day would provide additional health benefits. Free sugars refer to monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such […]
