World - Part 4
The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals across the US this Labor Day weekend was nearly 300% higher than this time last year, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The average number of deaths was over 86% higher than the same period last ...[Read more]
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Sewage treatment chemicals have been added to the growing list of products in short supply because of the UK’s chronic lorry driver shortage, it has emerged.
The government has told wastewater plants in England and Wales they may be able to discharge ef ...[Read more]
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Official figures state that 841,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between 1999 and 2019, and that opioids caused 70.6 percent of drug overdose deaths in 2019. The CDC also reports that in 2020, overdoses spiked by about 30 percent for all drugs and n ...[Read more]
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"On average, U.S.-led airstrikes have killed more than 1,000 civilians a year since 2001." ...[Read more]
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November 2001, ~ 2,000 Taliban prisoners are believed to have been killed in container trucks by US-allied Afghan troops, operating with US forces, and buried in a mass grave in Dasht-e-Leili, #Afghanistan. Investigators discovered the mass grave in 2002 ...[Read more]
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The gunman killed a man, two women and an infant who were found in two homes near Lakeland, Fla., the authorities said. A girl, 11, also was wounded. ...[Read more]
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An Oklahoma doctor has said overdoses of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, which many believe without evidence can prevent or cure Covid-19, are helping cause delays and problems for rural hospitals and ambulance services struggling to cope with the res ...[Read more]
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Wholesale firms have been trying to mitigate rising costs ‘but will not be able to continue absorbing them’ ...[Read more]
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The variant, first identified in Colombia, has characteristics that suggest it might be able to evade antibodies from vaccination or infection. ...[Read more]
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