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Authorities say a man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape.

The CEO of one of Infosys' other major clients, Shell, also joined Rishi Sunak's new business council two weeks ago.

A jury has sentenced Robert Bowers for the 2018 attack - the deadliest antisemitic attack in the US.

Expect more extremes and a range of ‘surprises’ to exacerbate the climate emergency.

Between 4% and 13% of people of African origin could be carrying a particular variant that decreases the viral load

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Hollywood's striking writers and major studios have agreed to hold talks on Friday for the first time since their strike began over higher pay demands in May, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) said on Tuesday.

The sheriff if the former president is indicted, he'll be treated like anyone else accused of a crime.

Here are five takeaways from Tuesday's indictment accusing former U.S. President Donald Trump with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

Texas government installed barrier to deter migrants – Mexican and US governments want it removed as dangerous and illegal

"MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, and water

Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor"

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/02/mit_concrete_battery/?td=rt-3a

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Protect the economy by protecting nature, study urges: Protecting 30% of the world's land and sea outweigh the costs by a ratio of 5 to 1, according to a new report.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-economy-nature-urges.html

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Workers making clothes for the retail giant Shein work unlawfully long hours and are paid poor wages, an independent research has shown. The company uses cotton from the Xinjiang region, where the Chinese government forces Uyghurs to work, including on cotton plantations. And Shein transfers inventory risks to suppliers, who subsequently dump their leftover products in low-income countries.

The ex-president "spread lies" about the 2020 election which led to the 6 January riot, it is alleged.

Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms: The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are "bullshit" has been confirmed by a new study.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-people-pointless-meaningless-jobs.html

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A VEGAN influencer is feared to have died of starvation after attempting to live on a fruit only diet. Zhanna Samsonova, 39, previously told how she spent four years eating and drinking just fruits…

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A secret lab was found with 1,000 lab mice, alongside vials of human blood and diseases like malaria and HIV.

Donald Trump has been charged by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit.

The warnings, which will be in English and French, will include phrases like "Cigarettes cause cancer" and "Poison in every puff".

The new regulations go into effect on Tuesday.

Starting next year, Canadians will begin to see the new warning labels.

By July 2024 manufacturers will have to ensure the warnings are on all king-size cigarettes sold, and by April 2025 all regular-size cigarettes and little cigars with tipping paper and tubes must include the warnings.

The phrases will appear by the filter, including warnings about harming children, damaging organs and causing impotence and leukaemia.

In May, Health Canada said the new regulations "will make it virtually impossible to avoid health warnings" on tobacco products.

A second set of six phrases is expected to be printed on cigarettes in 2026.

The move is part of Canada's effort to reduce tobacco use to less than 5% by 2035 and follows a 75-day public consultation period that was launched last year.

Canada has required the printing of warning labels on cigarette packages since 1989 and in 2000 the country adopted pictorial warning requirements for tobacco product packages.

Health Canada said it plans to expand on warnings by printing additional warning labels inside the packages themselves, and introducing a new external warning messages.

Dr Robert Schwartz, of the University of Toronto, told BBC News it was good news that Canada was "moving forward with this innovation".

"Health warnings on individual cigarettes will likely push some people who smoke to make a quit attempt and may prevent some young people from starting to smoke," he said.

He also pointed to New Zealand, which has introduced very low nicotine cigarettes, as a leader in limiting the use of tobacco.

Mr Schwartz added: "These are the kinds of measures needed if we are serious about decreasing tobacco use."

Tobacco use continues to kill 48,000 Canadians each year.

"Tobacco use continues to be one of Canada's most significant public health problems, and is the country's leading preventable cause of disease and premature death in Canada," Public Services Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has previously said.

The Canadian Cancer Society, Canada's Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Lung Association have all praised the warning labels, saying they hope the measures will deter people, especially young people, from taking up smoking in the first place.

Cigarette smoking is widely regarded as a risk factor for lung cancer, heart disease and stroke.

In Canada, the rate of smokers aged 15 years or older is around 10%, according to a national 2021 Tobacco and Nicotine survey but electronic cigarette use has been on the rise.

The Biden Administration's rules seek to make lighting cheaper and less polluting

The previous record for back-to-back days above 110 degrees was 18, which was set in 1974.

The Gold Coast man, 45, has been charged with 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10.

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/mrna-vaccine-stops-pancreatic-cancer-study-finds

"mRNA vaccine stops pancreatic cancer, study finds"

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July 31 (Reuters) - The top U.S. utility lobby group intends to push back on the Biden administration's proposals requiring upgrades to existing natural gas-fired power plants to curb climate-warming emissions, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.