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Biden administration to relist Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis as designated terrorists amid Red Sea attacks
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}} The Biden administration is expected to re-designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis as a terrorist group after its removal from the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list in 2021, following repeated recent attacks in the Red Sea, Fox News has learned. Officials told Fox News that it wasn’t clear if the Houthis will be placed under…
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Origins of life may have bubbled out of a hot spring
Hot springs may have served as a catalyst for the origins of life on Earth billions of years ago, a new study has suggested. The study, which is featured in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, suggests that primordial hot springs could have helped produce life from key molecules found within them. To learn more about…
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Opinion | Iran and the Houthis Don't Get Biden's Message – The Wall Street Journal
Opinion | Iran and the Houthis Don’t Get Biden’s Message The Wall Street Journal Continue Reading News Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-houthi-missile-attacks-ships-navy-seals-biden-administration-88b9e98a
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Two British brothers jailed over Swiss museum heist | Switzerland
Two British brothers have been jailed for stealing Ming dynasty artefacts worth about £3m from a Swiss museum. Louis and Stewart Ahearne, from Greenwich, south London, confessed to stealing two vases and a cup from the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva on the night of 1 June 2019. On Tuesday the…
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How Iran chose easy targets in Iraq’s Erbil to avoid Israeli reprisal
Banners cheering victory were put up across the capital Tehran on Tuesday after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired a barrage of missiles on a building in Erbil, the capital of the neighboring, semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region. In a chain of statements published on its official website early Tuesday, the IRGC said the target was…
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Video Games Risk Irreversible Hearing Loss, Scientists Warn
Topline Gamers could be at risk of permanent noise-induced hearing loss and other hearing problems, scientists warned on Tuesday, urging officials to minimize health risks for gamers amid growing interest in esports and a staggering global surge in video game popularity in recent years. Video games could damage hearing, researchers warn. getty Key Facts Gamers…
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Video gamers risking permanent hearing loss after exceeding permissible safe limits | Deafness and hearing loss
Video gamers worldwide may be risking permanent hearing loss or persistent ringing in their ears, according to a systematic global review of all the available evidence. The analysis suggests that the sound levels reported in studies of more than 50,000 gamers often near, or exceed, permissible safe limits. And given the popularity of video games…
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Enlarged breast tissue in men linked to heightened risk of death
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Men with enlarged breast tissue, not caused by excess weight—a condition formally known as gynecomastia—may be at heightened risk of an early death before the age of 75, suggests the first study of its kind, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open. … Continue Reading News Source: medicalxpress.com
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Video gamers worldwide may be risking irreversible hearing loss and/or tinnitus
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Video gamers worldwide may be risking irreversible hearing loss and/or tinnitus—persistent ringing/buzzing in the ears—finds a systematic review of the available evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Public Health. … Continue Reading News Source: medicalxpress.com
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Same-level workplace falls set to rise amid surge in older female workforce numbers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Same-level falls in the workplace are set to rise amid rapid growth in the numbers of older female employees in the workforce, suggests Australian research published online first in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine. … Continue Reading News Source: medicalxpress.com
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