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Australia’s life expectancy gap narrows but men in disadvantaged areas dying almost seven years earlier
Major causes of death contributing to inequality are lung cancer, respiratory illness and heart disease, ANU researchers say
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Australia has made progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy but men living in disadvantaged areas are still dying almost seven years earlier, a new report from the Australian National University has found.
The study’s lead author and ANU demographer, Sergey Timonin, said the gaps in life expectancy between the most advantaged and disadvantaged areas stopped widening just before the Covid pandemic began and did not significantly worsen during the lockdown years.
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Continue reading...Tracking sea ice is ‘early warning system’ for global heating – but US halt to data sharing will make it harder, scientists warn
News comes as research finds record lows of Antarctic sea ice had seen more icebergs splintering off ice shelves
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Scientists analysing the cascading impacts of record low levels of Antarctic sea ice fear a loss of critical US government satellite data will make it harder to track the rapid changes taking place at both poles.
Researchers around the globe were told last week the US Department of Defence will stop processing and providing the data, used in studies on the state of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, at the end of this month.
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UK’s oldest cold case solved: 92-year-old jailed for 1967 rape and murder – Euronews.com
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- Israel kills more than 300 Palestinians in 48 hours as ceasefire in balance Al Jazeera
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- 24 said killed in strike on Gaza City cafe; troops dismantle 3-km tunnel network The Times of Israel
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Ukraine drone attack on central Russia kills three, wounds 35
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Iran Suspected of Scouting Jewish Targets in Europe – WSJ
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Children crossing Channel from France exposed to teargas, report says
NGO says rise in interventions has only increased danger as new data shows at least 15 children died in transit last year
Children and babies coming to the UK on small boats from northern France have been teargassed and subjected to tactics such as the discharge of rubber bullets and the slashing of dinghies with knives, according to a report.
The publication on Tuesday of We Want to Be Safe, by the French non-governmental organisation Project Play, came as the latest figures on daily crossings released by the UK government reached an all-time high of 19,982 for the first six months of the year, a 40% increase compared with the same period last year.
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UK police arrest three hospital managers in Lucy Letby investigation – Reuters
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US Senate Republicans struggle to push Trump’s budget bill over finish line
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Health alerts, risk of field fires as heatwave sweeps across Europe
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Israeli airstrike hits Gaza beach cafe, killing 22 people
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Judge tells 92-year-old he will die in prison after conviction in UK’s oldest solved cold case – AP News
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Ukraine Says Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker Suffered Explosion Off Libyan Coast – Kyiv Post
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Witnesses describe grim aftermath of Israeli strike on busy Gaza cafe
Women, children and elderly people among at least 24 killed by attack that turned beach spot into scene of carnage
Witnesses have described the bloody aftermath of an Israeli strike on a crowded seaside cafe in Gaza, which left at least 24 dead and many more injured.
Al-Baqa cafe, close to the harbour in Gaza City, was almost full in the early afternoon on Tuesday when it was hit by a missile, immediately transforming a scene of relative calm amid the biggest urban centre in Gaza into one of carnage.
Continue reading...Dozens dead in pharmaceutical factory blast in southern India
An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in India’s Telangana state has killed at least 36 people.