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Dec 7, 2025 - World

Man charged with attempted murder less than four months after Iryna Zarutska was killed in unrelated knife attackPolice in North Carolina have charged a 33-year-old man with critically injuring another person in a stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train, just a few months after a Ukrainian refugee riding one of the city’s trains was killed in an unrelated knife attack.Oscar Solarzano, 33, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon and other crimes stemming from the Friday afternoon attack in which he wielded a large knife, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said in a news release. Continue reading...

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Make America Healthy Again leaders call for Lee Zeldin to quit for favoring chemical companies over US familiesMake America Healthy Again (Maha) movement leaders have put out a petition calling for Donald Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin, who, since being appointed in late January, has quickly moved to undo toxic chemical regulations and fast-track pesticide approvals.The petition represents the latest salvo in a growing Maha-Maga feud over the Trump administration’s policies around toxic chemicals and pesticides. Trump campaigned on cleaning up the nation’s water and food supply, a priority for the Robert F Kennedy-led Maha movement that helped propel the US president to office. Continue reading...

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Calls for regulation of pharmacies and transparency around who is sponsoring products being registered with the TGA Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProf Geraldine Moses was speaking to a nurse who told her something concerning: patients with kidney failure were taking “iron supplements” that contained almost no iron.Patients on kidney dialysis often need iron supplements because the disease reduces the body’s ability to produce red blood cells, leading to iron deficiency and anaemia.Always see your GP for testing and advice because other medications, absorption issues and underlying conditions all affect how much iron is needed and how it should be taken.People who are iron deficient usually need between 150mg and 200mg a day of elemental iron. Check the label for “elemental iron” and the amount per dose.Many iron supplements are considered “food-supplements” or “listed medications” by the TGA with less of a requirement to prove their efficacy.Look for an AUST R number if you have been diagnosed with iron deficiency or anaemia – these products are fully evaluated by the TGA for safety, quality and efficacy.And ask your GP for product recommendations. Continue reading...

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Education program sponsored by Shell’s Queensland Gas Company is ‘climate obstruction dressed up as education’, advocacy group saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland Museum has been accused of misleading teachers and children about the root cause of the climate crisis through a multimillion-dollar education partnership with one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies. Shell’s Queensland Gas Company has been sponsoring the museum’s Future Makers learning program since 2015 and produces teaching materials as well as running free professional development courses for teachers. But a review of the program’s climate change materials carried out by climate advocacy group Comms Declare claimed they ignore the root cause of the climate crisis: the burning of fossil fuels, including gas.Belinda Noble, founder of Comms Declare, said: “This is climate obstruction dressed up as education. We wouldn’t let big tobacco sponsor teaching materials – fossil fuel companies shouldn’t shape how kids learn about the climate.” Future Makers worksheets and learning materials about global warming designed for years 7 to 10 explain how greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are rising and this is causing rapid warming, but the cause of the rise – mainly fossil fuel burning – is not explained. Continue reading...

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EUDonald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war. Continue reading...