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Huge staff cuts at WHO will leave world ‘less healthy and safe’, experts warn
Health organisation is to lose almost a quarter of its workforce in 2026, reducing its ability to help countries facing disease outbreaks
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 *Huge cuts to staff at WHO will leave world "less healthy and less safe," experts warn.* The saboteur in chief is responsible for these cuts.
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Eswatini confirms receiving over $5m from US to accept deportees
Trump administration struck largely secretive deals with at least five African countries to accept migrants
 The US is hiring various countries as private deportation prisons for the US.
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Labour is privatising the NHS in plain sight | Letter
Letter: Private appointments, tests and operations are a grave threat to the future of the health service, writes Margaret Greenwood
 In Britain, *Labour is privatising the NHS in plain sight.* I expect it will remain nominally a public service, but if you don't want your treatment to wait till you're dead, you will have to use it to book a private service to do the treatment - at private medicine prices.
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Trump is pushing 50-year mortgages. Talk about short-term thinking | Arwa Mahdawi
A proposal touting 50-year mortgages could double interest payments and worsen inequality
 *How can we make the housing crisis even worse? [The wrecker] has a plan.*
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Nestlé accused of ‘risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutrition
 *Nestlé accused of "risking health of babies for profit" over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries.*
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Poland closes last Russian consulate after ‘act of state terrorism’ on railway
Foreign minister orders closure of Gdańsk consulate and says four people now arrested after sabotage attack
 Poland accuses Putin of organizing sabotage against Poland's railroads. This doesn't surprise me. To start low-intensity war is Putin's modus operandi, intended to leave the attacked country unsure of how to respond. Europe needs to develop appropriate ways to fight back. It must not limit itself to a choice between the two extreme options - full war, and full
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Big Pharma’s Dark Money Scores $8 Billion Bonanza
The country’s top pharmaceutical lobbying group secretly gave millions to a Republican-aligned dark money group, then won billions in drug-pricin...
2020: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 By spending 4 million dollars on campaigns for Congress, the big US drug companies made Americans pay 8 billion more for medicine. They lobbied to eliminate the changes Biden made to make manufacturers negotiate a lower price for a list pf important medicines. Most countries have a national
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Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years
 *Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest.*
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What recreating Scott’s Antarctic expedition reveals about our seas today
A new polar project compared samples with those collected more than a century ago by by Scott, along with voyages led by Shackleton and Borchgrevink
 To observe the effects of ocean acidification, scientists retraced the path of Scott's Antarctic expedition, and collected sea animals to compare with the samples he collected. The sea urchins have become very fragile, and ocean acidification seems to be the cause.
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine has impossible choice as Trump pushes plan to end war
US president demands that Kyiv accepts plan that would mean giving up territory to Russia
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 The wrecker has thrown his support fully to Putin, trying to rush Ukraine into agreeing a pernicious deal to capitulate and hand over territory to the Putin forces. Zelenskyy has already refused.