11 h. ago ITV's Lorraine interview cut short and pulled off air after Pope Francis death

Lorraine was brought to a halt on ITV today as host Christine Lampard announced the death of Pope Francis

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3 d. ago Campaigners and charities horrified by revelations about impact of Trump’s ‘reckless’ USAID cuts

Trump has been accused of giving ‘millions of people a death sentence’ after The Independent exposed the reality of the cuts on the ground

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4 d. ago The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths

HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programs are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca Thomas

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5 d. ago The ‘game changer’ heart failure treatment trialled in the UK that cuts deaths by two

St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London, and Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales, became the first two hospitals in the UK to treat patients with the innovative method

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5 d. ago The ‘game changer’ heart failure treatment trialled in the UK that cuts deaths by two thirds

St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London, and Morriston Hospital in Swansea, Wales, became the first two hospitals in the UK to treat patients with the innovative method

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5 d. ago British hospitals introduce treatment for heart failure that cuts deaths by 62%

‘Gamechanger’ brought in after success of trial offering larger doses of drugs within first two weeks of treatment People in Britain with heart failure are being given larger doses of drugs at the start of their treatment after a global study found that this led to a huge fall in deaths.Experts say the new approach could mean those with the potentially fatal condition start receiving their ideal amount of medication within two weeks of diagnosis rather than after many months. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Secret to living longer could be hidden inside very easy brisk walking exercises

Scientists believe promoting efforts for people to walk faster “may be a safe and effective way” to cut deaths from stroke and cardiac arrest, they claimed in a landmark new study

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1 week ago Millions of Afghans will be ‘abandoned’ to famine thanks to Trump’s aid cuts, warns UN

World Food Programme says essential programmes to prevent malnutrition and death will not be possible unless Elon Musk-led USAID cuts are reversed

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1 week ago Abusive wife, 50, jailed for 22 years for murder of geologist husband, 65, she stabbed to death and buried under grass cuttings in their garden

Maureen Rickards, 50, was jailed for a 22 years after murderering and callously dumping her 65-year-old husband Jeremy Rickards' body in a holdall beneath grass cuttings in at their home in Kent.

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2 w. ago Death toll from flooding in Congo's capital reaches 33 as officials race to support victims

The death toll from flooding that cut access to over half of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa has reached 33 as authorities race to evacuate and support hundreds of families trapped in their homes

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2 w. ago Doge’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says

Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapseOffice closures, staffing and service cuts, and policy changes at the Social Security Administration (SSA) have caused “complete, utter chaos” and are threatening to send the agency into a “death spiral”, according to workers at the agency.The SSA operates the largest government program in the US, administering social insurance programs, including retirement, disability and survivor benefits. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Italy's biggest union joins prosecution of farm owner over death of Indian migrant worker

Italy’s main trade union confederation is backing the prosecution of a farm owner over the death of an undocumented worker from India who bled to death after his arm was cut off

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2 w. ago UK aid cuts to vaccines could lead to half a million child deaths, MPs warned

Conservative former minister Sir David Davis asked Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty how he “lives with himself”.

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3 w. ago US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

US Department of Agriculture calls in university to help study decline as Trump administration staff cuts stingHoneybee deaths have hit record highs in the US, with the unprecedented loss of colonies pushing many beekeepers close to ruin as scientists scramble to identify the main cause of the huge declines.Commercial beekeepers have reported losing more than 60% of their colonies, on average, over the winter, according to an ongoing Project Apis m. survey that covers more than two-thirds of America’s managed bees. Continue reading...

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last month The obscure Jimmy Lai ruling that exposed the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law

The moves that barred the media mogul’s choice of lawyer are immune from legal challenge, giving the national security committee what one expert called ‘the powers of a police state’The dwindling freedom in Hong Kong over the past few years has been described as “death by a thousand cuts”. Critics have been jailed, elections have been transformed into “patriots only” affairs, journalists have been harassed and hundreds of thousands of people have left.This week, an obscure legal development has, in the eyes of some legal experts, inflicted another cut on the city’s once revered legal system. Continue reading...

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