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Thursday, 12 June 2025 19:47
NHS plans more robotic surgeries to speed up treatment times
The NHS is planning a major expansion of robotic-assisted surgery to improve treatment times and patient outcomes. Currently, one in five keyhole surgeries is robot-assisted, but NHS England projects this will rise to 90% by 2035,…
Thursday, 12 June 2025 19:45
Austria: national mourning after gunman kills ten
Austria has declared three days of national mourning after a 21-year-old former student fatally shot eight pupils and a teacher at his old high school in Graz, later taking his own life. A tenth victim, critically…
Thursday, 12 June 2025 19:43
Belgium: latest signs of booming illegal sales of ketamine
Customs officers at Brussels airport were stunned when crates expected to contain ketamine were actually full of salt. Authorities believe the drug was diverted into the black market during its complex journey from India, exploiting loopholes…
Thursday, 12 June 2025 19:41
UN report says world fertility rates in unprecedented decline
In India, Namrata Nangia and her husband long to have another child, but are held back by financial and time pressures - a dilemma increasingly shared worldwide. According to a new UN report, a global decline…
Thursday, 12 June 2025 19:39
India: disastrous plane crash in Ahmedabad
In one of India’s worst aviation disasters in decades, at least 240 people were killed when a Boeing 787 owned by Air India crashed in Ahmedabad soon after takeoff. The sole survivor, Vishwashkumar Ramesh, is in…
Thursday, 12 June 2025 19:37
USA: California governor condemns Trump’s use of National Guard
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has condemned Donald Trump’s uninvited deployment of the National Guard to quell unrest in Los Angeles, calling it an illegal escalation and ‘brazen abuse of power’. The unrest followed protests…