Category: News

  • Health care for all in Brazil improves, but inequalities continue

    Health care for all in Brazil improves, but inequalities continue

    Access to medical care for a large chunk of population in Brazil improved significantly, thanks to the combined Unified Health System and public policies, as seen on research published in the special edition of the International Journal for Equity in Health. Health inequalities persist, however, stating further the need to eradicate the problem. The papers…

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  • ISIL moving ‘trucks full of abducted civilians’ to Mosul as shields against airstrikes – UN warns

    ISIL moving ‘trucks full of abducted civilians’ to Mosul as shields against airstrikes – UN warns

    The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) today warned that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) fighters have taken some 1,600 civilians to Mosul city in an attempt to shield themselves from airstrikes, and that nearly 400 women from Kurdish, Yezidi or Shi’a Muslim communities in Tal…

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  • China to promote green, low-carbon development

    China to promote green, low-carbon development

    The State Council of the People’s Republic of China has issued a statement that it plans “to curb greenhouse gas emissions and promote green and low-carbon development during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.” The carbon dioxide emission levels per unit of GDP in 2020, according to the said plan, will be lower by 18 percent than…

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  • Regulating emotions contextually linked with one’s well-being

    Regulating emotions contextually linked with one’s well-being

    More often than not, people reframe how they think about a given situation in order for them to properly manage their emotions. But it turns out this isn’t helpful to one’s well-being, especially to situations where people actually have control over, according to a recent study published in the Psychological Science journal. “Our results caution…

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  • European Parliament calls on nations to lessen use of nuclear weapons

    European Parliament calls on nations to lessen use of nuclear weapons

    Nine countries—US, UK, Russia, France, Israel, India, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Pakistan—owned a total of about 15,395 nuclear weapons as of January 2016, according to a statement released by the European Parliament on Thursday, October 27. And the deteriorating relations between nuclear-armed nations, such as Pakistan and India or US and Russia,…

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  • 10 Syrian nationals seek asylum in Spain

    10 Syrian nationals seek asylum in Spain

    Ten Syrian nationals from Lebanon arrived at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport in Spain around 11 a.m. last Wednesday, October 26, under the National Re-settlement Programme that started in December 2015. Five will be re-settled in Ourense and the other half will be in Zamora. The group was composed of six children, two women, and…

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  • Can money buy happiness? Here’s the real score

    Can money buy happiness? Here’s the real score

    Some people said money can’t buy happiness, but a new study from Purdue University proved otherwise. Debt, however, should also be part of the money-happiness equation. “There has been a lot of research looking at whether and how income makes people happy in life, but few studies have examined whether debt can detract from happiness,” Louis Tay,…

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  • Study finds consumer confusion in look-alike Smart Snacks

    Study finds consumer confusion in look-alike Smart Snacks

    There may be consumer confusion if packaging of less nutritious snack food sold in schools is altered to look like their healthier counterparts—such as the Smart Snacks—which may compromise student nutrition and safety as well as affect perceptions on the food brands and the schools. In the peer-reviewed Childhood Obesity journal, the researchers made a…

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  • Emotional family reunions highlight need for psychosocial care for all girls abducted by Boko Haram

    Emotional family reunions highlight need for psychosocial care for all girls abducted by Boko Haram

    After more than two years of being held hostage by Boko Haram insurgents in north-east Nigeria, the 21 recently-released Chibok girls have finally been reunited with their families, however, their return emphasizes the necessity of urgent and intensive psychosocial care, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Gianfranco Rotigliano, Representative of UNICEF Nigeria, stated…

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  • New study identifies Ecuador as the most empathetic country

    New study identifies Ecuador as the most empathetic country

    Ecuador is the most empathetic country in the world, according to a study published online in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology on Friday, October 14. Among the top 10 countries in the rank are Saudi Arabia (2), Peru (3), Denmark (4), United Arab Emirates (5), Korea (6), United States (7), Taiwan (8), Costa Rica (9), and…

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  • 2016 FIBA 3×3 World Tournament kicks off today in China

    2016 FIBA 3×3 World Tournament kicks off today in China

    Twenty teams for both men’s and women’s divisions will participate at the 2016 FIBA 3×3 World Championships starting Tuesday, October 11, in Guangzhou, China.  Among those participating in the men’s division are Serbia, Russia, Italy, Qatar, New Zealand, Slovenia, Uruguay, Andorra, Indonesia, Egypt, Poland, Romania, Spain, Hungary, Philippines, USA, Netherlands, Japan, Turkey, and China. For women’s division,…

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  • Cyberbullying cases in Australia increase by 75%

    Cyberbullying cases in Australia increase by 75%

    Cyberbullying in Australia is on the rise. Most recent quarter figures showed a 75 percent increase in online abuse complaints as compared to the figures in the same period of last year. This year, 70 serious complaints on cyberbullying have been resolved, according to the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner. The Office also has…

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