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Brazilian President Lula da Silva recovering in intensive care after having emergency brain surgery | World News
10Dec By Aditi PawarNo Comments
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Brazilian President Lula da Silva recovering in intensive care after having emergency brain surgery | World News

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is recovering in intensive care after having emergency surgery to drain blood from his brain, a medical note published by the country's government said.The leftist politician, known as Lula, had reduced travel in recent months while doctors monitored his recovery from a trauma he suffered to the back of his head after falling at his home in late October. Mr da Silva was taken to hospital yesterday after he ended a meeting with congressional leaders due to a worsening headache, a source in the presidential office told Reuters.The 79-year-old had an MRI scan at a hospital in the capital Brasilia.He was transferred to Sao Paulo, around 620 miles away, overnight for surgery. The Brazilian president is now recovering "well, under monitoring in an IC...
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Syrians in NZ: ‘We can finally taste freedom’
10Dec By No Comments
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Syrians in NZ: ‘We can finally taste freedom’

Syrian NZers gather in Wellington to celebrate the toppling of the Assad regime. Photo: RNZ / Kate Green Syrian New Zealanders and their loved ones gathered in Waitangi Park on Wellington's waterfront on Monday to celebrate the end of a decades-long dictatorship. Rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, ending his family's five decade regime after more than 13 years of civil war. Shaymaa Arif was among the crowd of about 200 in Wellington. She is Sirian Iraqi, and her family immigrated to New Zealand in 1997, but friends and extended family remain in Syria. She said one of her uncles had spent time in prison, but that was not uncommon. "Every single Syrian you talk to here probably has a family member who has been arrested and detained for God knows what reason by the Syrian r...
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Watch: Luigi Mangione, suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, after first court appearance
10Dec By No Comments
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Watch: Luigi Mangione, suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, after first court appearance

The 26-year-old named as a "strong person of interest" in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson has made his first court appearance. Luigi Mangione was ordered held without bail and did not enter a plea when he appeared in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, CNN reported. He faces five charges, including one felony count of forgery and one felony count of carrying a firearm without a licence, according to the criminal complaint. Mangione was arrested after a McDonald's employee recognised him in Pennsylvania. He was reportedly acting suspiciously, had firearms and fraudulent items - believed to be fake IDs - on his person. He was also found with a suppressor "consistent with the weapon used in the murder". His next court appearance will be on 23 December in Pennsylvania ...
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Ontario court dismisses Michael Chan’s 2015 lawsuit against the Globe and Mail – National
10Dec By Aditi PawarNo Comments
Politics

Ontario court dismisses Michael Chan’s 2015 lawsuit against the Globe and Mail – National

An Ontario court has tossed out Michael Chan’s nearly decade-old libel lawsuit against the Globe and Mail over reporting on the former provincial cabinet minister’s alleged ties to Chinese diplomats. The Ontario Superior Court dismissed Chan’s case in August, Global News has learned, after Chan failed to submit documentation in a timely matter.The case has dragged on since 2015, when the Globe reported the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was concerned about what it believed were Chan’s “unusually close” ties to the Chinese consulate in Toronto and worried he was under the influence of Beijing. Chan said at the time the allegations were unfounded.Globe and Mail editor-in-chief, David Walmsley, and the publisher at the time, Phillip Crawley, were named in the suit, as was repor...
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Abbie Humphries, snatched from UK hospital as a baby, dies of brain tumour age 30 in NZ
10Dec By No Comments
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Abbie Humphries, snatched from UK hospital as a baby, dies of brain tumour age 30 in NZ

Abbie Humphries and Karl Sundgren on their wedding day. Photo: Supplied A woman who was snatched from an English hospital ward when she was a baby by a woman posing as a nurse, but who later shifted to New Zealand, has died of a brain tumour aged 30. Abbie Humphries was taken from her cot at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham in July 1994 when she was just three hours old, The Sun reported. She had walked into Karen Humphries' room and taken Abbie from her father Roger's arms, saying the baby had to have a hearing test, the AFP reported. Police found her just over a fortnight later in the Nottingham suburb of Wollaton - not far from the hospital. They had been tipped off that a former dental nurse called Julie Kelley, 22 at the time, who had been pregnant and was expecting a boy, ...
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China sends largest naval fleet in decades to region, threat level severe, Taiwan says
10Dec By No Comments
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China sends largest naval fleet in decades to region, threat level severe, Taiwan says

By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard, Reuters Sun Li-fang (C), spokesperson of Taiwan's Defence Ministry, speaks to the media at an airforce base during an inspection of the troops as part of Taiwan's annual Han Kuang military drills in Hualien on 23 July 2024. Photo: AFP / Sam Yeh China has deployed its largest navy fleet in regional waters in nearly three decades, posing a threat to Taiwan that is more pronounced than previous Chinese war games, the Taiwanese defence ministry have said. Speaking in Taipei, defence ministry spokesperson Sun Li-fang said the scale of the current Chinese naval deployment in an area running from the southern Japanese islands down into the South China Sea was the largest since China held war games around Taiwan ahead of 1996 Taiwanese presidential elections. ...
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Princess Catherine, Donald Trump and Joe Rogan among Time magazine Person of the Year 2024 shortlist
10Dec By No Comments
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Princess Catherine, Donald Trump and Joe Rogan among Time magazine Person of the Year 2024 shortlist

By Jessica Riga, ABC Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on 6 November 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / Getty Images via AFP Time magazine's shortlist for their annual Person of the Year honour features royalty, political power players and podcasting chart-toppers. Catherine, Princess of Wales, is among the 10 figures selected by the publication, along with US president elect-Donald Trump, who was bestowed with the title back in 2016. Since 1927, Time magazine has named a person, group or concept that it argues "had the biggest impact - for good or for ill - on the world over the previous 12 months". Last year, superstar Taylor Swift was named T...
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Israel has ‘destroyed the most important military sites in Syria’: war monitor
10Dec By No Comments
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Israel has ‘destroyed the most important military sites in Syria’: war monitor

Smoke billows on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus following Israeli airstrikes on December 9, 2024. Photo: AFP / Aaref Watad A war monitor said on Tuesday that Israel had "destroyed the most important military sites in Syria" with a flurry of air strikes since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad's government. Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops into a buffer zone on the east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after Assad's fall, in what Foreign Minister Gideon Saar described as a "limited and temporary step" for "security reasons". This picture taken from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights shows smoke billowing above the Syrian Governorate of Quneitra during Israeli bombardment, on December 9, 2024. Photo: AFP / Jalaa Marey It has also carried out "about 250 ai...
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Sweetened beverages can raise risk of cardiovascular diseases: Study
10Dec By No Comments
Health

Sweetened beverages can raise risk of cardiovascular diseases: Study

A large-scale Swedish study on Monday suggested that drinking sweetened drinks can significantly increase your risk of serious cardiovascular diseases like stroke, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation. The study also showed that eating too much-added sugar can increase the risk of stroke or aneurysm. However, limited consumption of treats can be safe. “Consuming sweet drinks was worse for your health than any other form of sugar," noted the study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health. Suzanne Janzi, a doctoral candidate at Lund University said that the sweetened beverages, which contain liquid sugars, "typically provide less satiety than solid forms" Janzi said this makes people feel less satiated "potentially leading to overconsumption”. Moreover, unlike treats that a...
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Suspect in killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson charged with murder
10Dec By No Comments
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Suspect in killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson charged with murder

adds video By Julio-Cesar Chavez, Andrew Hay and Joseph Ax for Reuters New York prosecutors have filed a murder charge against the suspect in the killing of a UnitedHealth executive, a brazen shooting that set off a manhunt that culminated in his capture in Pennsylvania earlier on Monday. The action brought an end to a tense five-day manhunt for the suspected killer. The suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after he was spotted eating at a McDonald's by a customer and an employee who believed he resembled the gunman, officials said at a news conference. When approached by two police officers inside the McDonald's and asked if he had recently been in New York, Mangione began to shake and went quiet, one of the responding officers said at a pre...
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