Health Rounds: J&J drug shows promise in helping keep a precancerous condition from progressing
At five years, 63 per cent of patients in the daratumumab group remained progression-free, compared to 41 per cent in the active monitoring group. Survival at five years was 93 per cent in the daratumumab group versus 87 per cent for monitoring.
New Pentagon report says Kenya and Nigeria feature in China’s plans to set up military outposts in Africa
In a previous report, the Pentagon estimated that Beijing had more than 400 operational nuclear warheads in 2021. If he sticks it out, then the way to get rid of him would be a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, the Parliament.
Western official and Iran officials says the ME nation’s Revolutionary Guards are tightening control over Tehran’s oil exports
Six specialists – Western officials and security experts as well as Iranian and trading sources – said the Guards control up to 50 per cent of Iran’s oil exports, a sharp increase from about 20 per cen three years ago. The sources declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Carmakers Honda, Nissan plan to create $54 billion that woul make it world’s third-largest auto group
Honda and Nissan discussions are focused on finding ways to bolster collaboration and include the possibility of setting up a holding company, said the people, who declined to be identified because the information has not been made public.
Mass graves sites in Syria expose ousted President Assad’s ‘machinery of deat’ with about 100,00 killed
An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run “machinery of death” under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013. Speaking after visiting two mass grave sites...
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.
Trump’s trade wars with China already on the cards before he even assumes office
The transition team calls for clawing back whatever funds remain from Biden’s $7.5 billion plan to build charging stations and shifting the money to battery-minerals processing and the “national defence supply chain and critical infrastructure.”
Adani extradition: US case against Adani Group top brass is strong but it’s doubtful India will let its credibility to be soiled
The US fraud case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani appears to be backed by documents that will help prosecutors make a strong case, legal experts said, but the tycoon is unlikely to be extradited to stand trial anytime soon. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn last month unsealed an indictment accusing Adani...
‘Uncharted territories’: Biologist warns of high risks of Covid vaccine DNA contamination
Kevin McKernan also discussed the lingering presence of spike protein from the mRNA shots in the body, noting that multiple recent studies have shown it lingers for significantly longer than vaccine manufacturers claimed.
South Korea’s Acting President Han holds talks with US President Biden, calms financial markets
South Korean shares rose for a fourth straight session on Friday on hopes that the political uncertainty would ease after the impeachment vote in parliament, which followed a failed vote a week earlier.
