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Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators are making their voices heard during the Venice Film Festival.

Three people have been killed and 103 others injured due to a train derailing while en route to the Egyptian capital Cairo, the country’s health ministry has said.The train had been travelling from the northern coastal city of Marsa Matruh when seven of its carriages came off the tracks around 15:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on Saturday, with two carriages being overturned, officials said.Health Minister Dr Khaled Abdul Ghaffar offered his condolences and prayers to the families of the victims, and wished those injured a swift recovery.The transport ministry and the Egyptian National Railways Authority (ENRA) are investigating the cause…

Nepal has demonstrated commendable progress on a range of health indices, despite myriads of challenges. Nepal is among the least developed countries currently, but due to its sustained and growing progress on a range of sustainable development indices, it is all set to do away with this tag in 2026. Dr Bikash Devkota, Secretary, Department of Health and Population, Government of Nepal, shared some of the milestones “that we believe are not only national successes but maybe the global exemplars.” Dr Bikash Devkota, Photo: Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS) “Nepal has witnessed one of the most dramatic health transformations.…

In 1909, French journalist-turned-entrepreneur Pierre-Francois Lardet returned from a trip to Nicaragua determined to recreate a beverage he had tasted there.Five years later, in August 1914, Banania was born.The arrival of the chocolate-flavoured banana powder drink came just as France found itself at war.The following year, its mascot – a Black soldier wearing a red fez – first appeared on an advertising poster.During World War I, 200,000 African soldiers fought for France on the battlefields of Europe, Africa and Anatolia. They came from French colonies in West and Central Africa. Many were forcibly recruited.The African soldier on the Banania poster…

We expect our doctors to be demi-gods – flawless, tireless, always right. But they are only human. Increasingly, they are stretched thin, working long hours, under immense pressure, and often with limited resources. Of course, better conditions would help, including more staff and improved systems. But even in the best-funded clinics with the most committed professionals, standards can still fall short; doctors, like the rest of us, are working with stone age minds. Despite years of training, human brains are not optimally equipped for the pace, pressure, and complexity of modern healthcare.Given that patient care is medicine’s core purpose, the…

When Jair Bolsonaro was Brazil’s far-right president, the guerrilla trumpeter Fabiano Leitão would stalk him around the capital, Brasília, to taunt him with renditions of the anti-fascist anthem Bella Ciao.In March, when Bolsonaro was charged with plotting a coup, Leitão changed his tune and began provoking the ex-president by serenading him with Chopin’s Funeral March. “It symbolises his political demise, which is what we want to see,” said the 46-year-old musician.Now, as the supreme court prepares to decide whether to send Bolsonaro to jail for that alleged power grab, Leitão is cooking up another performance to commemorate the populist’s downfall…

Jude Law joked that he hopes he wasn’t naive when he “didn’t fear repercussions” for taking the part of Vladamir Putin in French director Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin, a fictionalized account of the Russian president’s ruthless rise to power throughout the 1990s. The political thriller is premiering at the Venice Film Festival Sunday night and Law, Assayas and stars Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander and Jeffrey Wright were all on-hand on the Lido Sunday to discuss is creation. “Olivier and I discussed this wasn’t to be an interpretation of Putin and he didn’t want me to hide behind…

After a new research suggested that the use of Acetaminophen during pregnancy may be linked to a higher risk of autism and attention-deficit disorder (ADHD) in children, Rwandan health experts have advised expectant mothers to exercise caution when taking the drug. The study, published this month in BMC Environmental Health, looked at previous research and found that the most reliable studies reported this risk, raising concerns about the drug’s use during pregnancy. ALSO READ: Medication safety during pregnancy Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol and sold under brand names like Tylenol,…

A head-on collision in Namibia involving vehicles belonging to the security services killed 14 people, including 11 members of the prison service, a police officer and two civilians.The accident took place 270km (167 miles) south of the capital, Windhoek, outside the town of Mariental on Saturday.”No words can truly capture the depth of this loss,” President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wrote on social media, praising “the souls of our fallen officers”. Namibia has one of the highest road traffic fatality rates in the world.Home Affairs Minister Lucia Iipumbu also passed on her condolences and thanked those who attended the scene of the…

There is not much more to the secluded Italian village of Remis, the setting for Paolo Strippoli‘s crackling supernatural horror “The Holy Boy,” than the road that runs through it, a high school, a tavern and the low-roofed dwellings that house an unusually contented community. Remis is such a happy place, in fact, that the town motto is “Valley of Smiles.” But it’s also ordinary, dull even — the screenplay, co-written by Strippoli, Jacopo Del Giudice and Milo Tissone, so intelligently commingles the area’s uncanny energies with plausible reality, that you can’t be sure that, driving on a dark night,…