Weight Loss Drugs
The slimming drugs aren’t just for shedding pounds. Because obesity is linked to over 200 health issues, including strokes, kidney problems and fatty liver, glp-1 drugs are proving useful for more than just obesity. While a lot of focus has been on the action of these medicines on improving metabolic health, scientists are now uncovering that
Chinese Economic Plan
global financial crisis of 2007-09, much of this capital accumulation took the form of new property and infrastructure. China’s workforce is now shrinking and demand for property has slumped: fewer people are moving to China’s cities, speculative gains on real estate are no longer assured and potential homebuyers are reluctant to buy flats in advance in
New attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
Hundreds of thousands in Ukraine’s Odesa region were left without power Sunday after debris from a downed Russian drone caused a blaze at an energy facility, Gov. Oleh Kiper said. Some 170,000 homes suffered power outages as a result of the attack, said Ukraine’s largest private electricity operator. A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure
Russia to start using Kalibr missiles
Russian forces have extensively used Kalibr missiles, launched from the Black Sea, in its series of mass attacks against civilian infrastructure in the winter of 2022-2023 and the early spring of 2023. These coordinated attacks also involved missiles of other types, as well as Shahed-type kamikaze drones. Russian forces have recenty started a new campaign
Israel suggesttion to UN on Dismantling UNRWA
Israel has given the UN a proposal to dismantle Unrwa, its relief agency in the Palestinian territories, and transfer its staff to a replacement agency to make large-scale food deliveries into Gaza.Israel insists that it is prepared to allow large amounts of aid into Gaza and that the limiting factor is UN capacity. Its decision
Protest against Netanyahu’s Government
Tel Aviv has been the scene of weekly demonstrations calling on the government to strike a cease-fire deal to free the hostages who have been held in Gaza since October. Those protests have been growing in size as the war has dragged on and anger at Mr. Netanyahu’s government has mounted. Although the United Nations
Bringing back bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers
Russian forces regularly shell the area and snipers hide in the trees on the edge of the fields observing the exchange. At the border, forensic scientists from the International Committee of the Red Cross carried out a spot check on the bodies. The corpse-carrying vans then crossed into Russian territory to meet their counterparts, with
Amazon removes some Items from its store
It’s estimated that Amazon (AMZN) itself sells between 300 million and 600 million stock keeping units, the industry term for individual items) at any given time, and the retail giant is constantly updating its inventory.One of the best parts of shopping in the 21st century is that consumers have access to millions, of items without
Food Aid to Gaza
An Open Arms ship inaugurated the direct sea route to the Palestinian territory earlier this month with 200 tons of food, water and other aid. The United Nations and partners have warned that famine could occur in devastated, largely isolated northern Gaza as early as this month. A three-ship convoy left a port in Cyprus
Taiwan new drone capabilities
More powerful drones are on the way, with the government-funded National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology contracted to develop eight types of surveillance and attack UAVs, including the Type-2 suicide drone.The Taiwanese military will bolster its combat drone capabilities as part of its defence strategy, but observers warn that it needs to move quickly,