6 d. ago ‘Don’t trust Trump’: how UK health experts are fighting back against a war on medicine

Ministers and medical groups have acted quickly to limit fallout after US president made unproven link between paracetamol and autismWes Streeting, the UK health secretary, was in a government car heading back into central London from a flag-raising to mark the UK’s recognition of Palestine when he saw the news. “He was aghast,” an aide said. Streeting was reading on his phone that Donald Trump had just warned women not to take Tylenol – known outside the US as paracetamol – during pregnancy.The US president had alleged without evidence that the common painkiller caused autism in children. “Don’t take Tylenol,” Trump said about a drug also known as acetaminophen. Continue reading...

Science

1 week ago The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too? | Raji Sourani

There is a UN convention for exactly this kind of horror: the convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. When will the world act on it?Raji Sourani is the coordinator of the Palestinian legal team at the international criminal court (ICC)Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide in Gaza. That is the conclusion of a UN commission report. Since the release of the report last week, Palestine has finally been recognised as an independent state by the UK and a number of other countries. In his announcement at the weekend, Keir Starmer called the death and destruction in Gaza “utterly intolerable”. This recognition comes too late and is still conditional, but has the UK government indeed now stopped tolerating Israel’s devastation of Gaza? Has anything changed for the people there who are being starved and bombed? Far from it.Even as the UN publishes the findings of its independent commission, and a flag is raised outside the Palestinian mission in ...

Society

1 week ago A glut of VIPs and a heckled minister see Palestinian flag raised at London’s newest embassy

Ambassador welcomes historic event with MPs keen to be seen but minister faces awkward crowdUK politics live – latest updatesMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe flag-raising event to mark Britain’s recognition of the Palestinian state was running a little late at London’s newest embassy. Over a century late it might be argued.The formalities had been due to kick off at 11am outside what had been known as the Palestinian Mission to the UK but there was a problem: too many VIPs. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Palestinian mission in UK celebrates statehood recognition, raises flag in London

Palestinian mission in UK celebrates statehood recognition, raises flag in London  Arab News

Events

1 week ago Moment Palestinian flag raised outside London mission for first time after UK recognition

A Palestinian flag was raised outside Palestine's mission to the UK in London on Monday, 22 September, after Sir Keir Starmer confirmed the UK will recognise a Palestinian state “to revive the hope of peace for the Palestinians and Israelis”.

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1 week ago Palestine’s ambassador to the UK raises Palestinian flag at London embassy

Palestine’s ambassador to the UK raises Palestinian flag at London embassy  Al Jazeera

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1 week ago Palestine flag rises in London in ceremony as mission becomes embassy

Palestine flag rises in London in ceremony as mission becomes embassy  London Evening Standard

Events

1 week ago Palestine flag raised at London ceremony as mission becomes embassy

The Palestine Mission in Hammersmith becoming embassy after the UK’s recognition of the state of Palestine

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1 week ago Moment Palestinian flag is raised outside mission in London – video

Moment Palestinian flag is raised outside mission in London – video  The Guardian

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1 week ago Mayors across France rebel against the government with Palestine flag protest

France has both Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim populations

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2 w. ago The mayor of a French village tried to ban smartphones in public. Now he fears voters will throw him out of office

Governments across the world are considering limiting smartphone use in the classrooms and beyond to prevent a growing addiction to screens. But in the sleepy village of Seine-Port, a ban on scrolling has caused a backlash, Harriette Boucher reports

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