On federal death row they feared Biden would set up another Trump killing spree, then he commuted 38 death sentences
Since the re-election of Donald Trump, a rising chorus of activists, lawmakers and members of the legal community had been calling on President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all 40 men on federal death row to life without parole.
Experts: Famine redefinition unlikely to ease assistance mobilisation to Gaza
The IPC famine thresholds require specific assessments: of mortality, of the percentage of households facing an extreme lack of food and of the percentage of malnourished children.
Human suffering in Gaza is immense but hunger watchdog refrains from describing the acute food shortage as famine
Most days, Shay said he treated on average 40 new patients who were admitted to the hospital. Many had severe cases of pneumonia, and several others suffered from meningitis, an illness that can kill in hours. Newborns were often small for their age, he said.
Kakamega county in western Kenya leads the East African in combating ‘forgotten’ tropical diseases that puts 25m at risk
Through End Fund, Amref is financing the war against the deadly tropical diseases by making available preventive drugs for the elimination of the diseases. Part of the campaign involves treatment of water, hygiene and sanitation at all levels.
How Ethiopia is suffocating with its own IDPs, refugees from the Sudans, Eritrea and Somalia
Levels of forced displacement in Mali continue to expand as the security situation deteriorates. Violence linked to militant Islamist groups has grown and these militant actors now control an estimated 50 per cent of the country.
Foreign appetite for Africa’s natural resources generates over 14 million refugees and internally displaced persons
With 3 per cent of its total population forcibly displaced, Africa has both a larger share and absolute number of forcibly displaced people than any other major region in the world.
Xenotransplantation: A 53 year-old patient becomes third patient to receive genetically engineered pig kidney
More than 103,000 people in the United States are on the waiting list for a transplant, with the vast majority of those needing a kidney. With human donor organs in short supply, some researchers are exploring the use of pigs as a potential source.
Findings: Most social media users who buy hard drugs online are aged between 13 and 18 years
The world’s first internet-facilitated sale, in the early 1970s and on the internet precursor Arpanet, was for an undetermined amount of cannabis. The agreement was between students. Today, strangers may contact you on social media offering drugs to buy. For as many people who believe this is something of a utopian development, you can be sure many more view it as dystopian – especially if the dealers are in fact scammers or selling dodgy goods.
Who hard drug peddlers turned emojis, gifs into cool tools of trade to evade security surveillance
For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall and snowmen symbolise cocaine. Love hearts, lightning bolts and pill capsules mean MDMA or molly. Brown hearts and dragons represent heroin. Grapes and baby...
Genetically engineered crops caused farmers billions of dollars in market losses from transgenic contamination, now US federal court rules GMOs must be regulated
The December 3 ruling overturns the 2020 rule overhaul by the first Trump administration that had eliminated most government oversight over GE crops, trees and grasses. The court held that the previous regulations violated the Plant Protection Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
