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NewsDesk, 36 minutes ago to worldwithoutus

More than 200 million people in the world people have schistosomiasis, a parasitic worm that lodges itself in blood vessels, causes organ damage and diminishes learning ability if left untreated. Experts say 50 million young children are at risk, mostly in Africa. An effective treatment, a pill called praziquantel, is available to adults and school-aged children but has been complicated to dose for anyone younger. A version of the drug for preschoolers is in the works, but distributing it won’t be a straight-forward task. NPR has more.

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#Africa #Medicine #Parasite #Children #Doctors

NewsDesk, 2 hours ago to uk

The High Court of Justice in London granted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange permission to bring a new appeal against extradition to the U.S. after his lawyers argued the case against him in America is politically motivated. The U.S. Justice Department argues that Assange, who has been resisting extradition in the U.K. for over a decade, endangered lives when he leaked confidential information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011. BBC News has more.

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#Wikileaks #Assange #UK #US #DOJ #Extradition

NewsDesk, 23 hours ago to news

An airstrike kills 27 people, mostly women and children, in central Gaza as Israel’s increasingly divided leadership debates who should govern the territory after the war, now in its eighth month. AP reports: https://flip.it/E.DkW9
#News #WorldNews #MiddleEast #Israel #Gaza

NewsDesk, 1 day ago to news

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi’s condition “unclear” after helicopter “crash landing,” state media says. NBC News reports:
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#News #WorldNews #Iran #MiddleEast #Raisi

NewsDesk, 1 day ago to news

Houston distributes water as 500,000 remain without power after tornadoes, windstorms kill at least seven. NBC News reports:
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NewsDesk, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to news

Badly needed aid from a U.S.-built pier is expected to begin arriving in Gaza this weekend, even as aid workers warn much more access is needed. AP reports: https://flip.it/pXyicl
#News #WorldNews #Israel #Gaza #USA

NewsDesk, 3 days ago to Mexico

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 pledging to cut down on gang violence, but killings last month reached the same historic highs as when he first started his presidency. With his tenure set to end and elections set for June 2, cartels have stepped up their bloody turf wars against one another, and residents are caught in the crossfire. Read more from the Associated Press.

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#Mexico #Election #President #Cartels #Gangs

NewsDesk, 3 days ago to college

U.S. President Joe Biden is set to give a commencement address this Sunday at Morehouse, a historically Black college in Atlanta that counts Dr. Martin Luther King among its graduates. But the president’s coming speech has sparked consternation from the graduating class. Some students see Biden using Morehouse as a political tool for Black votes in an election year, and others are considering ways to protest his Middle East policies without overshadowing the celebration for their families. NPR has more.

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#Biden #Morehouse #Commencement #Graduation #College

Flipboard, 3 days ago to news

There’s a new playbook being written right now when it comes to the future of social media. The early-mover advantage is still in effect, and there’s a lot to figure out. Gone are opaque algorithms and the whims of any single company.

The fediverse represents a chance for quality journalism to shine again.

We talked to two leaders at fedi-forward publications — @TheConversationUS's @BostonAbrams, and @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler — about why they’re investing in the open social web, what they’ve learned so far, and their advice for other publishers just getting started.

https://medium.com/fedi-curious/lessons-on-the-road-to-reviving-journalism-via-the-fediverse-01b3748cacc5

#Flipboard #News #Media #Journalism #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse

NewsDesk, 3 days ago to Texas

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted a full pardon to Daniel Perry, a man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended the move. Perry claimed during the trial that he shot Garrett Foster, who was carrying an AK-47 rifle, in self-defense. Prosecutors argued Perry was seeking out the confrontation. Read more from USA Today.

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#Texas #Pardon #BLM #Protest #Guns

NewsDesk, 4 days ago to spain

Discussions in Brussels to finalize a border and transit deal for Gibraltar have ended without an agreement, leaving the self-governing British territory in limbo after Brexit ended its time in the European Union. Gibraltar residents came out overwhelmingly against leaving the E.U., with 96% of people voting to remain. The vote revived historic tensions between Spain and Britain over the territory, with Madrid calling for Gibraltar’s “decolonization.” Read more from Euronews.

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#Britain #Spain #Gibraltar #Brexit #EU

NewsDesk, 4 days ago to Ukraine

“It’s the world’s fault,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in frustration at the dire situation in the city of Kharkiv, where Russian troops are advancing. “They gave the opportunity for Putin to occupy,” he says, but adds “now the world can help.” Zelenskyy canceled a planned trip to Spain in order to be in the country as the Russian onslaught intensifies, saying “It’s really important for me to be here.” Read more from ABC News.

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#Ukraine #Russia #War #UkraineWar #Zelenskyy #Putin

NewsDesk, 4 days ago to USpolitics

The U.S. Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to the federal consumer protection agency.

NBC News reports: "The justices rejected a business-backed argument that could have hobbled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects people from unlawful financial services practices such as predatory lending."

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#CFPB #SupremeCourt #ConsumerProtection #Consumer #USPolitics #News

NewsDesk, 4 days ago to USpolitics

'The [U.S.] Justice Department on Thursday informed House Republicans that President Joe Biden has formally asserted executive privilege over the audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, a move that DOJ says effectively shields Attorney General Merrick Garland from any criminal exposure as the Republican lawmakers move toward trying to hold him in contempt of Congress."

ABC News reports the Justice Department has already released a full transcript of the interview. The White House believes the audio would be used for "partisan political purposes."

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#Biden #ExecutivePrivilege #USPolitics #Elections #News

NewsDesk, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump have agreed to debate in two televised broadcasts. These events are usually organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates, but the Biden and Trump teams directly negotiated the terms of the showdowns. The Biden campaign says the Commission “is out of step with changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters.” But there’s some strategic thinking involved in the move, too. Yahoo! News has more about the changes and why they’re important.

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#Trump #Biden #Debate #President #Election #Voting #USPolitics #Politics

NewsDesk, 5 days ago to climate

A blistering heat wave has been toasting Asia for several weeks, resulting in hundreds of deaths and canceling schools across the region. A scientist for the World Weather Attribution, a meteorological research group, says only human-caused climate change could be responsible for the increased probability of extreme heat in places like the Philippines. “The heat wave exacerbated already precarious conditions faced by internally displaced people, migrants and those in refugee camps and conflict zones across West Asia,” the organization said in a new study. Read more from CBS News.

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#Climate #Asia #Heat #Weather #Refugees

NewsDesk, 5 days ago to Slovakia

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and taken to the hospital.

@euronews reports the incident took place in Handlova, Slovakia, about 150km northeast of Bratislava, the capital.

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#Slovakia #RobertFico #Europe #News

NewsDesk, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to Israel

President Joe Biden plans to send an additional $1 billion arms shipment to Israel, despite the U.S. being opposed to a full-scale invasion by the Israeli military on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

BBC News has the latest: https://flip.it/KZ5Rwb

Do you think the U.S. should halt all weapons shipments to Israel until there's a ceasefire?

#Israel #Gaza #Biden #Palestine #Hamas #News

NewsDesk, 5 days ago to USpolitics

What do a wine retail magnate and Jan. 6 rioter have in common? They’re both on the ballot in the U.S. Tuesday.

Politico reports on the primary elections in Maryland, Nebraska, West Virginia and North Carolina: https://flip.it/wS7fWo

For more U.S. politics news, follow @2024

#Elections #USPolitics #Politics #Jan6

NewsDesk, 6 days ago to news

In a new investigative report, AP finds: "In hundreds of deaths where [U.S.] police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times."

"For its investigation, AP catalogued 1,036 deaths over a decade’s time after officers had used force not involving their guns. In about half, medical officials ruled that law enforcement caused or contributed to the deaths, but they usually didn’t mention whether policing best practices were followed."

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#Police #PoliceBrutality #Crime #News

NewsDesk, 6 days ago to Georgia

The Georgian parliament approved a divisive "foreign influence" bill that sparked weeks of mass protests.

@dw reports: "Critics have called it a threat to domestic freedoms and the country's aspirations to join the European Union. They have also drawn comparisons with comparable rules introduced in Russia in recent years."

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#Georgia #Europe #Democracy #Media #Journalism

NewsDesk, 6 days ago to Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday as much-needed U.S. military aid began arriving in Ukraine.

@axios reports: "Ukrainian forces are currently trying to stave off increased Russian attacks on the country's second largest city, Kharkiv."

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For the latest news, follow @ukraine

#Ukraine #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #Blinken #News

NewsDesk, 7 days ago to USpolitics

"For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the U.S.’s broken immigration system are often overlooked."

Vox presents America’s misunderstood border crisis, in 8 charts: https://flip.it/JBD0ah

For similar content, follow @immigration

#Immigration #Border #Migrants #Asylum #USPolitics

NewsDesk, 7 days ago to USpolitics

A Democratic ad campaign tries to chip away at Donald Trump's support among rural swing voters in three key states.

One commercial features "Lori Cataldi, 57, a nurse who works for a local community hospital in central Pennsylvania and speaks in her ad about abortion rights. 'If we reelect Trump, what are women going to lose next?' she asks."

From AP: https://flip.it/pc34Hu

#Trump #USPolitics #Abortion #Politics #Democrats

NewsDesk, 7 days ago to Russia

"Russia is conducting a sabotage campaign across Europe in an increasingly aggressive effort by President Vladimir Putin to undermine Western support for Ukraine, seeking to damage railways, military bases and other sites used to supply arms to Kyiv, U.S. and European officials say."

NBC News reports: "The attempted sabotage includes an alleged Russian-backed arson attack on a Ukrainian-linked warehouse in the United Kingdom, a plot to bomb or set fire to military bases in Germany, attempts to hack and disrupt Europe’s railway signal network and the jamming of GPS systems for civil aviation."

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For more stories about Russia, follow @russia

#Russia #Europe #Putin #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #News