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One of Australia’s most decorated living war veterans has lost a defamation lawsuit against three newspapers which accused him of war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith had launched legal proceedings against The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times over articles they published in 2018. The papers ran articles accusing the 44-year-old former
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New anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been passed in Uganda, expanding on rules which already criminalised same-sex acts and carried a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The new anti-homosexuality law now makes “aggravated homosexuality” – which is defined as sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with those under 18, and other categories of
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There’s a term that used to be applied to mass hysterias, a panic.  And we are in a social network panic.   The Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, a man who normally stays in the shadows, has issued a 25-page advisory with 104 research references warning of “a profound risk of harm” to
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A new Gallup survey of 5,167 American adults says that depression in the USA has just reached new heights.   The percentage of respondents who report having had depression “at some point in their lifetime” has gone up ten points since 2015.  It’s now at 29%.  In other words, nearly a third of us have been
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By Howard Bloom Two weeks ago, on March 30th, the Atlantic magazine published a story headlined “Why People Are Acting so Weird.”  The article claimed that “Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents [on airplanes], and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently.”   Peculiarly, the first example it gave was of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock
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Three researchers from New York University have shown something startling.   You can cut your risk of dementia in half with a simple trick—using the internet for roughly two hours a day.  Dementia is a state in which your brain shrinks  and your memory gives out on you.  It often comes with old age. In extreme
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Russia has claimed it stopped two drone attacks on Vladimir Putin’s presidential home overnight. The Kremlin blamed Ukraine for what it called a “terrorist act”. It said Russian military and security forces disabled the drones before they could strike. No victims or damage were reported and Mr Putin was not injured, it added. “On Wednesday
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