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Smoking cigarettes doesn’t just cause lung cancer. The toxic smoke affects nearly every organ in the body – yet some of its most serious consequences may be less widely recognized. https://cnn.it/4AbLWIZ

Until this year, the annual September 11 commemoration ceremony at Ground Zero has included six moments of silence — one for each of the key fatal moments of that day in 2001. But a seventh moment of silence will acknowledge another growing toll. It will be held for the thousands more who have since died […]

Join us for the Critical Collective screening of Samidoun: the Steadfast women of Palestine.Followed by a post screening panel with director Mariam Shahin, academic Yara Sharif (Architects for Gaza) and Hala Shoman (Palestine Deep Dive) Date: 20.9.26 Venue: Genesis Cinema, Mile End Road, Whitechapel, E1 4UJ In aid of the Ghassan Abu-Sittah Children’s Fund: https://gascf.org […]

The authorities in Nepal and Tibet said that more than 4,000 people were missing after a deadly Himalayan landslide and glacial collapse last month. From New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/asia/nepal-tibet-floods-wtk.html?smid=whatsapp-nytimes Rescuers were still searching for people trapped in mud and debris more than a week after the catastrophic Himalayan floods that killed more than 1,300 people. […]

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