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Common food preservatives found across the processed food supply may be associated with a greater risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, according to research published in the European Heart Journal. The study was led by Dr. Mathilde Touvier, a research director at INSERM (the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research), and Anaïs Hasenböhler, PhD student, both from the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and Université Paris Cité, France. Preservatives are added to foods for several reasons, including preventing the growth of bacteria and mold, slowing spoilage, and helping products maintain their…

A 38-year-old tanker driver, Alagbe Hezekiah, has narrated how he risked his life to move a burning petrol tanker away from populated areas in Iwo, Osun State, to protect lives and property. Mr Hezekiah, an indigene of Ogbomoso, Oyo State, said in an interview that the fire incident which occurred on Thursday started suddenly while he was about to deliver petrol to a filling station in Iwo. “We don’t know where the fire came from. We don’t know what caused the fire,” he said. According to him, he and others initially tried to put out the fire with an extinguisher,…

The Director-General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Dr Jobson Ewalefoh, has met with the Minister of Power, Mr Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe, to discuss strategic collaborations aimed at advancing critical Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Nigeria’s power sector.Ewalefoh disclosed this in a post on his X handle, saying the meeting focused on aligning strategies to attract private investment into key power infrastructure and improve efficiency across the sector’s value chain.According to him, “The power sector remains the bedrock of Nigeria’s economic development,” making it necessary to review strategic roadmaps designed to attract private investment into critical power infrastructure and…

“You guys should understand that we pulled off the biggest supplychain [sic] maybe ever recorded in modern history,” one TeamPCP member wrote in the leaked chats. Michael Fletcher, a former AFP analyst who now works in the threat research division of an Australian telecom firm, says he approached Larsen around that time about methods for monitoring the group’s members and activities. He says that Larsen responded by asking Fletcher to approach the hackers with caution because one of them was a “friendly,” Fletcher remembers. “I thought, damn, you all have been inside this early,” he says. Google’s undercover analyst, Larsen…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man near Jenin and an Israeli settler died from his wounds in a separate shooting.Published On 20 Sep 202620 Sep 2026Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man near the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank after he “attempted to carry out a vehicular attack” near an illegal settlement.An army spokesperson said on Sunday that Israeli forces shot the man near the illegal settlement of Ganim, east of the Palestinian city of Jenin. The spokesperson said there were no casualties among Israeli forces.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe Palestine Red Crescent…

The Redeemer’s Health Village (RHV), in collaboration with RoboMed Global and Nisa Premier Hospital, has performed what it described as Nigeria’s first tele-robotic surgery. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the surgery was performed in real time on Saturday from a Toumai console at RHV on a patient at Nisa Premier Hospital, Abuja. The procedure was a telesurgery-assisted, robot-assisted right radical nephrectomy performed to remove a kidney affected by a cancerous tumour. Tele-robotic surgery, also known as remote surgery, is a technique that enables a surgeon to perform an operation on a patient from a completely different physical location. Speaking…

According to the survey, many university leaders reported that geopolitical tensions, visa processing delays and policy uncertainty have made it more difficult to attract students from major sending …

At least two people have been killed and six injured in a “massive” overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Governor Andrei Vorobyev has said.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 450 drones heading for the capital had been shot down in what he called an “unprecedented attack”. The city’s main oil refinery was damaged and several homes were set ablaze.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Kyiv had hit a “key” Russian oil facility and a logistics site in the region, representing “billions of dollars that sustain the war machine”.Ukrainian officials meanwhile said nine people, including three children, had been killed in…

Smart feeders have become one of the most crowded categories in pet tech, with companies racing to add AI cameras and health tracking to devices that used to just dispense food on a schedule. I enjoyed testing Petlibro’s wet food dispenser a couple of years ago, so this time I wanted to try something from the company’s newest automatic feeder lineup: the Granary 2 series, designed specifically for dry food. I was not disappointed. Building on the brand’s Granary line, the Granary 2 series lineup is designed to give cat parents a clearer picture of what their pets are actually…

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper has warned the UK’s economic growth is being held back by a “computer says no” approach.She unveiled a 30-page growth plan aimed at removing barriers to business as part of her speech to the Lib Dem conference in Brighton.Cooper, who is also the party’s Treasury spokesperson, said too many ideas, start-ups and research started in Britain but ended up being taken overseas. She also outlined a new Growth and Defence Partnership with the EU to reverse the economic damage of Brexit, that she claimed is currently costing the UK £90bn a year in lost…