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Sidra Medicine leads largest research on rare genetic disease risk in Middle East

The Peninsula 25 Apr 2024

... country’s population and that of the wider region ... “Collectively rare diseases impact up to 5.9 per cent of the world’s population, and many of these remain under-studied and lack effective treatments.

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Central Jakarta Residents Access Population Document Arrangement Services

Berita Jakarta 25 Apr 2024

Hundreds of Central Jakarta residents, accessed the post service for arranging and controlling population documents held in each urban village, Thursday (4/25) ... Residents' population document data is in accordance with de facto and de jure.

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Tinubu: We’re Poised To Empowering Girls, Women, Young People

This Day 25 Apr 2024

Unveiling the United Nations Fund for Population Activities’ (UNFPA) State of the World ... The UNFPA’s flagship State of the World Population Report, which was themed “Interwoven Lives, Threads of Hope.

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UN Gaza relief mechanism for expediting aid shipments set to launch soon: Official

Anadolu Agency 25 Apr 2024

Kaag further stressed the need for the continuation of "a paradigm shift" with aims "to meet the immense needs of the civilian population in a safe and secure manner." ... Palestinian population in Gaza.

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Silver service – Retailers must adapt to cater for our ageing population

Irish Independent 25 Apr 2024

The world’s population is ageing, and many consumers believe the retail ...

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France records growing number of supercentenarians

The Daily Tribune - Bahrain 25 Apr 2024

France's overall population is around 68 million, with over 20 percent aged 65 or over ... It said, however, that the island populations, mostly descendants of slavery survivors, may have inherited more ...

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Ferrying voting machines to mountains and tropical areas in Indian elections is a Herculean task

ABC News 25 Apr 2024

The massive seven-phase election in the world’s most populous country of over 1.4 billion people started last week and will conclude on June 1.

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'Urban camping' in this Montana city has spiked 200% as priced-out locals move into cars ...

Business Insider 25 Apr 2024

The unhoused population in Bozeman, Montana, has grown 50% since 2020, with urban camping making the problem more visible ... Since 2020, the overall unhoused population has grown by 50%.

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Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows

Hong Kong Standard 25 Apr 2024

It follows a "catastrophic breeding failure" in 2022, signalling long-term implications for the population, the study's author Peter Fretwell told AFP.

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Prison population now ‘unsafe and unacceptable’ as it nears 5,000, prison officers say

The Irish Times 25 Apr 2024

The numbers were already “staggering”, with the prison population increasing by 760 in the last 18 months, though only 43 extra prison spaces were created during that period.

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Bangladeshi children at high risk amid persisting heatwave in Bangladesh: UNICEF

People Daily 25 Apr 2024

"With temperatures soaring to unprecedented levels, we must prioritize the well-being of children and the most vulnerable populations," the statement read.

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Gray wolf GPS collar data points to possible breeding pair

Fox31 Denver 25 Apr 2024

"The wolf population in Colorado is far below any restoration goal," Davis wrote. "We have the legal duty to establish a self-sustaining population of wolves while minimizing conflict risk As the wolf ...

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Climate change will place 'millions more at risk' of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue

The National 25 Apr 2024

The geographic range of vector-borne diseases has expanded rapidly in the past 80 years, placing more than half the world’s population at risk ... population growth continue to rise at their current rate.

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Young breast cancer survivors almost twice as likely to develop another cancer, study finds

AOL 25 Apr 2024

Breast cancer survivors were also found to have twice the risk of cancer in their other, healthy breast, compared with the general population ... cancer compared to the general population of the same age.

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Deprivation linked to higher second cancer risk among England breast cancer survivors

AOL 25 Apr 2024

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge analysed NHS data from almost 600,000 patients in England and found, compared with the general female population, women who had survived breast ...