Sri Lanka PM ‘willing to resign’ after President’s House stormed
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office says he is ready to resign to make way for an all-party government as protesters storm the president’s residence.
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is willing to resign to make way for an all-party government, his office says in a statement which follows angry protesters storming the president’s residence and office.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was evacuated from the President’s House in capital Colombo before thousands of protestors stormed his residence on Saturday, demanding his resignation, in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit island this year.
‘Disturbing’: weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples
CDC study finds glyphosate, controversial ingredient found in weedkillers including popular Roundup brand, present in samples
More than 80% of urine samples drawn from children and adults in a US health study contained a weedkilling chemical linked to cancer, a finding scientists have called “disturbing” and “concerning”.
The report by a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that out of 2,310 urine samples, taken from a group of Americans intended to be representative of the US population, 1,885 were laced with detectable traces of glyphosate. This is the active ingredient in herbicides sold around the world, including the widely used Roundup brand. Almost a third of the participants were children ranging from six to 18.
Academics and private researchers have been noting high levels of the herbicide glyphosate in analyses of human urine samples for years. But the CDC has only recently started examining the extent of human exposure to glyphosate in the US, and its work comes at a time of mounting concerns and controversy over how pesticides in food and water impact human and environmental health.
How are young Europeans coping in times of crisis?
War in Europe, the pandemic ongoing, climate change underway: How are young Europeans looking to the future and what do they expect from their governments?
It's summer vacation season in Poland and 18-year-old Aleksandra Piasecka, Lena Kubisa and Kinga have traveled to the city of Gdansk on the Baltic Sea for a break. The three friends started planning their trip half a year ago — well before war broke out in neighboring Ukraine. It has changed their lives, too.
"Every now and then I remember there is a war going on and then I get something like a panic attack because it is so close. I have a feeling that this fear will not go away until the war is over," Zuwała tells DW on the phone from Gdansk.
China accused of ‘intimidation’ to stop dissident from running for US congress
In an unprecedented joint address, the directors of the FBI and MI5 warned on Wednesday of the multifaceted threat posed by Chinese espionage. They highlighted one potentially violent effort to prevent a Chinese dissident turned American citizen from running for a seat in Congress.
The heads of the American FBI and British MI5 have never before appeared side by side for a joint statement. Christopher Wray travelled from Washington to show a united front with British intelligence head Ken McCallum in London on Wednesday, July 6, where they declared that there is currently no greater threat to the West than China.
Shooter says he believed Abe promoted religious group that bankrupted his mother
The man who fatally shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told police that he initially planned to attack a leader of a religious group who he believed caused his mother to go bankrupt because of her donations to the group, investigative sources said Saturday.
Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has also admitted that he intended to kill Abe, believing he had ties with the group, the sources said.
Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was pronounced dead Friday, around five hours after being shot from behind during a stump speech near a train station in the western city of Nara. Yamagami was arrested at the scene, where he was wielding a homemade gun.
BBC Bitesize gave platform to ‘extreme’ anti-abortion group
Health experts slam use of the term ‘pro-life’ and inclusion of US organisation with a history of promoting misinformation
A lesson on the BBC’s website promoting the views of an anti-abortion group has been removed by the broadcaster this weekend, following a backlash from health experts.
The religious studies revision guide, on BBC Bitesize, the broadcaster’s educational resource, listed “powerful arguments” against abortion, used the term “pro-life” rather than “anti-abortion” and featured a page devoted to a vocal campaign group that wants abortion in Britain to be banned.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has a history of promoting misinformation in schools and was exposed in 2019 for launching a Toy Story-themed campaign aimed at children that falsely claimed foetuses can feel pain 10 weeks after conception.
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