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Rate of maternal deaths among Black women in UK glaring: Study
Jan 12, 2024 06:58In a case of racial disparity, the maternal mortality rate among Black women and those from other deprived backgrounds in Britain has increased, suggesting bias within the UK healthcare system.
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‘Shocking political failure’: Health inequalities led to 1m early deaths in UK in last decade
Jan 08, 2024 12:22More than one million premature deaths occurred in England in the last decade, due to a combination of poverty, austerity, and COVID, according to new research by one of the UK’s leading public health experts.
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UK charged with double standards for not backing genocide case against Israel at ICJ
Jan 08, 2024 04:47The British government has been charged with double standards after submitting detailed legal arguments to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to support claims that Myanmar has committed genocide, but refraining from doing the same in the case of Israel.
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UK petition urges expulsion of Israeli ambassador for ‘genocidal language’
Jan 07, 2024 04:48A UK petition calls for the expulsion of Israel's ambassador to the UK for “advocating a genocidal act” in Gaza as Israel’s three-month offensive has massacred at least 22,700 Palestinians in the besieged territory so far.
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UK police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters during London march
Jan 07, 2024 03:33UK police have clashed with protesters during a fresh Free Palestine demonstration in London, as the British government continues to silence the pro-Palestinian voices across the country.
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Iran's FM condemns West’s silence on Israeli genocide in Gaza in phone call with UK counterpart
Jan 01, 2024 03:03Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has denounced the double-standard approach applied to the ongoing Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip by some Western countries, stressing that the occupying regime cannot be allowed to continue its genocide of Palestinians in the besieged enclave and set the entire region ablaze.
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Healthcare workers, journalists hold vigil in London for colleagues martyred in Gaza
Dec 31, 2023 03:19Dozens of health workers and journalists have attended a vigil in the British capital, London, to pay tribute to colleagues martyred in Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and call for an immediate ceasefire.
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UK shipping hundreds of air-defense missiles to Ukraine, says British minister
Dec 30, 2023 11:47England is shipping around 200 air-defense missiles to Ukraine, a British minister says, as Russia launched a wave of missile strikes against targets in the ex-Soviet republic.
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Arrival of British warship in Guyana waters escalates tensions with Venezuela
Dec 30, 2023 10:26A persisting territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the oil-rich Essequibo region has escalated as a British warship provocatively just arrived in Guyana waters.
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Venezuela’s Maduro orders military exercise over British warship 'threat'
Dec 29, 2023 07:43Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has ordered a "defensive" military exercise off the coast of the disputed region of Essequibo over Britain’s “provocative” deployment of a warship to neighboring Guyana.