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2 weeks ago | 
the-express.com | Housnia Shams
The US is reportedly considering launching drone strikes on Mexican drug cartels with the help of Mexico’s government, as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern borderThe White House, Defense Department and intelligence officials are in early stages of talks on potential drone strikes against cartel figures and their logistical networks, NBC News reported.
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2 weeks ago | 
the-express.com | Housnia Shams
China has labelled US President Donald Trump’s new threat of additional tariff hikes as "a mistake on top of a mistake” and has vowed to take countermeasures against the United States in response. It comes after Trump on Monday threatened an additional 50 percent tariff on Chinese imports in retaliation for Beijing’s backlash against the 34 percent tariffs he announced last week.
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2 weeks ago | 
themirror.com | Housnia Shams
Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has urged world leaders not to let Donald Trump “bully” them after the US President announced sweeping new tariffs on almost all American trading partners. Speaking to Times Radio, Scaramucci said Trump was all “about attention” and urged world leaders not to give in to the president’s demands. “He just wants you talking about him. He’s absolutely thrilled that he has Wall Street upset, he’s got the banking community upset,” he said.
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2 weeks ago | 
the-express.com | Housnia Shams
Video obtained from the scene clearly shows ambulances with their sirens onThe Israeli army has backtracked on its account of the killing of 15 Palestinian medics by its forces after new video emerged from the scene which appeared to contradict its claims. Israeli troops fired on 15 Palestinian medics and emergency responders, including a UN staffer, in southern Gaza on March 23.
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2 weeks ago | 
the-express.com | Housnia Shams
Life-threatening invasive strep infections more than doubled from 2013 to 2022 across the United States, according to a new study. The findings were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study used data from people in more than 10 states. It identified more than 21,000 patients with invasive strep infections from 2013 through 2022.
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2 weeks ago | 
the-express.com | Housnia Shams
The US President said the tariffs would punish other countries for years of unfair trade practices and bolster US manufacturing. The new policy will impose a baseline 10 percent tariff on all goods from all countries except those compliant with a free trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States. Importers of goods from other countries will begin paying the baseline tariff at midnight on Saturday. Around 60 countries will be charged a tariff at half the rate they charge the US.
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2 weeks ago | 
themirror.com | Housnia Shams
A young woman who woke up in hospital to find her leg had been amputated due to a 16-hour surgery delay has received a six-figure payout. Molly Harbron was just 22 when she went to A&E crying in pain with a numb and discoloured leg. Medics had suspected blood clots, but failed to carry out adequate tests. The following day, Molly woke from surgery to her worst nightmare – her leg had been amputated. The former carer, now 26, said: "I was in a lot of pain, I knew something wasn’t right.
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2 weeks ago | 
the-express.com | Housnia Shams
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the new Morag Corridor and suggested it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel had ordered evacuated, from the rest of Gaza. “We are cutting up the strip, and we are increasing the pressure step by step, so that they will give us our hostages,” Netanyahu said. Maps by Israeli media showed the corridor running the width of the strip from east to west.
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2 weeks ago | 
the-express.com | Housnia Shams
Superyachts owned by Russian oligarchs have reportedly been used to carry out underwater reconnaissance around Britain. The reconnaissance was conducted before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, The Sunday Times reported, citing three senior UK defense sources. Some of the superyachts have moon pools that can be used covertly to retrieve deep-sea reconnaissance and diving equipment, the report said.
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2 weeks ago | 
themirror.com | Housnia Shams
A groundbreaking new study has found that the shingles vaccination may reduce older adult’s risk of developing dementia by 20 percent. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, looked at data from more than 280,000 people in Wales who were around 80 when receiving the world’s first-generation shingles vaccine over a decade ago. It found that people who received the vaccine were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia of any type than those who were not vaccinated.
