48 m. ago ‘Tense calm’ in Sweida after withdrawal of Bedouin fighters – Middle East crisis live

Syria struggling to contain sectarian clashes between Bedouin and Druze fightersThe Reuters news agency has spoken to residents who say there is a “tense calm” in Sweida after the Islamist-led government declared that Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze city.Kenan Azzam, a dentist, told Reuters residents were still, however, struggling with a lack of water and electricity. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Cow collars to help walkers navigate livestock and boost sustainable farming backed by Scottish Government

Applications for funding to purchase the collars opened for farmers this week.

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5 h. ago UK drugs agency outsources 40% of applications after Brexit turbulence

New MHRA chief seeks to shift the organisation’s resources to areas where Britain has deep expertise

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7 h. ago Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science

Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s School of Public Health.That war appeared to enter a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Drug smuggling siblings caught at UK airport with £5m of cocaine after mum recruited them

Farzana Kauser, 54, used five of her children to smuggle drugs from Cancun in Mexico through to Birmingham Airport. Two of the children were teenagers at the time of the offences

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10 h. ago Gun runner from mob with tentacles all over Britain that supplied underworld thugs with weapons, drugs and bombs is found DEAD in jail

EXCLUSIVE: Notorious gun runner and drug smuggler Barry Kelly, 32, (pictured) has been found dead in prison, MailOnline can reveal.

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11 h. ago Environment Secretary pledges to halve sewage pollution by 2030

The Government is preparing to respond to a landmark review into the ailing water sector on Monday.

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11 h. ago Brit gran facing firing squad for smuggling drugs tells executioners 'get on with it'

Lindsey Sandiford, 69, was arrested in Bali in 2012 for smuggling £1.6 million worth of cocaine and has been in prison ever since. She is now facing the death penalty

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13 h. ago Warframe devs claim 'it's definitely time' after turbulent moment for games industry

EXCLUSIVE: As Warframe plots a new course, its devs discuss how it keeps reinventing itself amid a turbulent time for the games industry

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16 h. ago Mexican drug cartels kidnap thousands of kids after targeting them in McDonald's

Mexican cartels have ramped up their efforts to recruit vulnerable children by travelling to fast-food spots like McDonald's. Thousands of abductions have been flagged to police

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16 h. ago Hammer of justice! Drug dealers watch in bewilderment as police dressed in superhero costumes smash down door and shut down narcotics operation

This is the moment police officers in superhero costumes take down drug-dealing operation in Peru.

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18 h. ago Chilling final wish of drug smuggling Brit mum who faces death by firing squad

Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia after being caught smuggling cocaine into Bali

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19 h. ago Trump’s EPA eliminates research and development office and begins layoffs

Administration’s move to cut thousands of agency jobs will be devastating for US public health, union warnsThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees. One union leader said the moves “will devastate public health in our country”.The agency’s office of research and development (ORD) has long provided the scientific underpinnings for the EPA’s mission to protect the environment and human health. The EPA said in May it would shift its scientific expertise and research efforts to program offices that focus on major issues such as air and water. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Scots babies to get ‘suit of armour’ jab to fight deadly winter virus

NHS Scotland will offer the new drug to protect babies born before 32 weeks against respiratory syncytial virus.

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19 h. ago Gene therapy maker Sarepta tells FDA it won't halt shipments despite patient deaths

Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics says it won’t comply with a request from U.S. regulators to halt all shipments of its gene therapy

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20 h. ago Inside the 'devastating' ketamine epidemic crippling young Britons

In England, the number of under-18s entering drug treatment for ketamine problems rose from 335 to 917 between 2020 and 2023, according to the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.

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21 h. ago I buy Britain's biggest dumps: Father of two builds 'crack den' property empire by snapping up 'worst house on worst street'

EXCLUSIVE: A former crack addict who once haunted filthy drug dens in one of Britain's most broken towns is now turning a tidy profit by buying them for peanuts.

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23 h. ago S Club 7's Jon Lee reveals secret crystal meth addiction which almost almost killed him

Iconic band S Club 7 has been hit by a series of tragedies in recent years and on of its band members has now revealed a harrowing drug addiction which saw him almost die

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23 h. ago ‘Gangster granny’ who oversaw £80m drugs operation foiled by police

A "gangster granny" crime gang boss has been sentenced for dealing drugs with a street value of £80 million across the UK.

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24 h. ago Glasgow crime: £160k of drugs and £80k cash seized by police in raid on Scottish flat

A 22-year-old man was charged

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