• Synthetic opioids previously linked to UK deaths are being ‘advertised for sale on social media’

    Suppliers boast to undercover reporters about promoting illegal nitazenes, on SoundCloud and XLethal synthetic opioids linked to more than two deaths a week in the UK have been advertised for sale in thousands of posts on social media, an investigation has found.Suppliers boasted to undercover BBC reporters posing as dealers about how easy it was to use social media to promote nitazenes, an illegal group of drugs several times more powerful than heroin. Continue reading

  • Thousands of ads discovered selling super-strength opioids linked to 100 deaths

    Killer new drugs ‘nitazenes’ can be so potent that a dose the size of a grain of sand can be fatal

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    Tens of thousands evacuated from floods in China's south

    STORY: More than 700 school students stranded in their dormitories after heavy rains and the ensuing floods were rescued by emergency workers, said CCTV.The southern Chinese province has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall since Thursday (April 18), with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the region's annual flooding season.As of Monday morning, 11 people were missing in Guangdong, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported without giving...

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    Tens of thousands evacuated from massive China floods

    Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in

  • is seen for the FIRST time since The Juice's death

    DailyMail.com spotted Marcia Clark, 70, taking out the trash outside of her Los Angeles home on Thursday. Clark was the lead prosecutor in OJ Simpson's murder case and made headlines for her makeover during the trial. The former NFL star died last week at 76 after a short battle with prostate cancer

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    Guangdong: Tens of thousands evacuated from massive China floods

    Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in

  • Tens of thousands of Colombians protest against president's reform agenda

    Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro's reform agenda. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogota. While protests have been a constant since the former leftist guerrilla

  • CDC finds no link between COVID vaccines and cardiac deaths

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no link between COVIDovid vaccines and cardiac deaths among young people.

  • Thousands protest in Argentina as Milei's austerity plan hits universities

    Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei has tried to dismiss the worsening budget crisis at public universities as politics as usual, a contest with his leftist political rivals who hold sway over liberal campuses. It does not feel that way to many of the students at the elite University of Buenos Aires, where halls went dark, elevators froze and air conditioning stopped working in some buildings last week. Professors taught 200-person lectures without microphones or projectors because...

  • FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries

    The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3, manufactured by Thoratec Corp., a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories.

  • UK inflation falls to lowest level since late 2021

    Inflation in the UK fell to its lowest level in two-and-a-half years in March after a further easing in food prices, official figures show, a development that could further pave the way for a welcome cut in interest rates soon. Consumer prices rose by 3.2 per cent in the year to March, down from 3.4 […]

  • FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries

    A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA's most serious recall, the agency announced Monday.The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3, manufactured by Thoratec Corp., a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories. The devices are not currently being removed from the market. In an emailed response, Abbott said it had communicated the risk to customers this year.The delayed action...