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The Department of Health, in collaboration with various stakeholders, is joining the global community to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (WBW), which runs from 1 – 7 August. This initiative aims to raise awareness about the long-term health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for both mothers and children, as part of ongoing efforts to increase breastfeeding rates in the country. WBW is a global initiative celebrated in more than 120 countries. This movement aims to promote breastfeeding and foster a supportive environment for mothers, ultimately enhancing the well-being of both mothers and their babies. According to the department, exclusive breastfeeding provides several…

Chris Woakes is poised to slip his left arm out of its sling and return to action just four days after a serious shoulder injury as England, with four wickets in hand, seek the 35 runs required to seal the final Test against India and with it the series.The scans on the shoulder he injured on the opening day may have suggested that Woakes would be out of action for many months, but the 36-year-old is preparing himself to bat if required.“He’s all in, like the rest of us,” Joe Root said. “It’s been that kind of series, where guys…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Rescue operations are ongoing to find dozens more missing, local authorities say.At least 54 African refugees and migrants have died and dozens remain missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to health authorities in Abyan governorate in the south of the country.Abdul Qader Bajamil, director of the health office in Zanzibar, said on Sunday that rescue teams had recovered 54 bodies from the beaches there and surrounding areas, while 12 survivors were transferred to Shaqra Hospital.The boat carrying around 150 people, mostly from Ethiopia, capsized in the Arabian Sea off the coast of…

Sarah Michelle Gellar is preparing to slay a new generation of supernatural evil creatures. The actress, who led the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer series for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003, recently took to her Instagram to share a video of her training at the gym alongside her new co-star, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, in the forthcoming reboot. “Warrior 1 and 2 We don’t sweat … we sparkle,” Gellar captioned the video (below), which sees them both doing various workouts while sharing a few laughs. Related Stories It was previously announced that Armstrong had been cast to lead the new Hulu series…

Australia may join more than a dozen other nations in recognising the state of Palestine.Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia, calling for peace and aid deliveries in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where a humanitarian crisis of man-made starvation has been worsening as a result of Israel’s punishing blockade.Pro-Palestinian protesters braved heavy winds and rain on Sunday to march across the bridge, chanting “Ceasefire Now” and “Free Palestine”. Some of those attending the march, which the organisers dubbed the “March for Humanity”, carried pots and pans as symbols of the forced starvation wracking…

State media says armed groups violated the truce agreed in the predominantly Druze region.Druze armed groups have attacked personnel from Syria’s internal security forces in the restive area of Suwayda, killing at least one government soldier and wounding others, as well as shelling several villages in the southern province, according to state-run Ekhbariya TV.Ekhbariya’s report on Sunday quoted a security source as saying the armed groups had violated the ceasefire agreed in the predominantly Druze region, where sectarian bloodshed killed hundreds of people last month.In response to the renewed violence, the Syrian government said in a statement that “the media…

In 2023, a Belgian man reportedly ended his life after developing eco-anxiety and confiding in an AI chatbot over six weeks about the future of the planet. Without those conversations, his widow reportedly told the Belgian outlet La Libre, “he would still be here”.In April this year, a 35-year-old Florida man was shot and killed by police in another chatbot-related incident: his father later told media that the man had come to believe an entity named Juliet was trapped inside ChatGPT, and then killed by OpenAI. When the man, who reportedly struggled with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was confronted by…

An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi ignited a raging fire, as the two countries traded strikes at the end of one of the deadliest weeks in Ukraine in recent months.More than 120 firefighters worked to put out the blaze, said the regional governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, as emergency officials reported a fuel tank with a capacity of 2,000 cubic metres (70,000 cubic feet) had burned before it was extinguished.Drone wreckage hit an “oil tank, which caused a fire”, Kondratyev said on the Telegram messaging app. Sochi, which hosted the 2014…

Barcelona-born, England-trained Alberto Sciamma has forged his own path in features over the last three decades, attracted to oddball themes and genre mashups that often wound up more intriguing in description than execution. But after not quite landing the eccentric conceits of “Killer Tongue,” “Black Plague,” “Jericho Mansions,” “Bite” and “I Love My Mum,” he’s hit an unexpected home run in “Cielo,” a U.K. production shot on location in Bolivia. The Spanish-language magical realist exercise about a young girl’s bizarre cross-country journey is like a kinder, gentler version of Jodorowsky’s fantastical narratives. While not lacking flaws, it offers considerable ambition,…

KYIV, UKRAINE — It’s a quiet room. The people who bothered to show up are distracted: fidgeting, whispering or gazing at their phones. A hoarse voice drones for nearly half an hour, reading from a disciplinary case examining the behavior of a judge. This is Ukraine’s highest judicial oversight body, the High Council of Justice. Just 15 of the 21 seats reserved for judges are filled. The empty chairs speak volumes about a system in crisis. The council, established in its current form in 2016 to reform a judiciary plagued by corruption and inefficiency, is now faltering. Decisions are rushed…