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Nicola GilroyBBC Investigations, East MidlandsBBCCharlotte Chapman-Hart lives with chiari malformation – type 1, and syringomyeliaWeighing six stone and on the brink of organ failure, Charlotte Chapman-Hart is admitted to hospital in excruciating pain. It’s assumed the former model and dancer has an eating disorder. But Charlotte, who repeatedly denies she’s starving herself, has a rare disease. She’s been prescribed a new pain relief medication, which should have been monitored by her GP and wasn’t. A side effect is rapid weight loss – but it’s been overlooked by those treating her. Charlotte’s experience over the next three months would leave her…

Ofer Cassif is an Israeli politician who was removed from the Knesset podium for genocide remark.

  DR Congo Peace Talks Collapse as M23 Rebels Pull Out The M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo withdrew from peace talks with the government, saying it will not return unless the authorities adhere to a previous ceasefire deal. The fighting between the two sides escalated in January after the M23 captured large areas of the mineral-rich east, including the regional capital Goma. A ceasefire was signed in Qatar in July, intended as a step towards a permanent peace deal. The M23  accused the authorities of not respecting the provisions contained in the ceasefire deal, but DR Congo’s…

Mohammed in Skoura Oasis, 2022Every Sunday morning, Mohammed goes out very early to collect wood to fire the pottery he has crafted that week. Kilito says: ‘I have visited many oases, where I have made strong connections with their inhabitants. I was able to understand this rich environment but also its glaring realities. I realised that desertification, recurrent droughts and fires, changes in agricultural practices, overexploitation of natural resources, rural exodus, and the sharp drop in the water table are all imminent threats to the existence of oases’

7 The Kano State Government has awarded contracts worth over N40.8 billion for the construction and rehabilitation of 17 township roads across the metropolitan area of the state. The projects, according to the government, will open up communities, reduce traffic congestion, and boost business activities for residents. The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Waiya, during a tour of completed and ongoing projects with the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Alhassan Yahaya. Waiya said the contracts cut across key local government areas including Gwale, Nasarawa, Kumbotso, Fagge, Kano Municipal, Tarauni, Dala,…

Sunderland are exploring whether a move for Leicester winger Abdul Fatawu is viable as the newly promoted side look to continue their spending spree. The 21-year-old Ghana international is one of the Foxes’ most valuable assets, reportedly valued at about £30m.The Black Cats have held preliminary talks to formalise their interest but no bid has been made yet amid concern that a move could be too costly or difficult to complete. Sunderland have already spent £141.5m in the transfer window, which is just short of Nottingham Forest’s £142m in the summer of 2022, a British record for a promoted club.…

James Cameron has a confession: he can’t write Terminator 7. And it’s not because Hollywood won’t let him, as he’s too busy making the new Avatar – it’s because reality keeps nicking his plotlines. “I’m at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science-fiction,” Cameron told CNN this week. “I’m tasked with writing a new Terminator story [but] I don’t know what to say that won’t be overtaken by real events. We are living in a science-fiction age right now.”It’s an understandable quandary for the veteran film-maker. Back in 1984, when the first Terminator movie came…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says change upholds privacy of US users.Apple will no longer be forced to provide the United Kingdom’s government with access to American citizens’ encrypted data, Washington’s spy chief has said, signalling the end of a months-long transatlantic privacy row.Tulsi Gabbard, the United States’ director of national intelligence, said on Monday that London agreed to drop its requirement for Apple to provide a “back door” that would have allowed access to the protected data of US users and “encroached on our civil liberties”.Gabbard said the reversal was the result of months of engagement with the…

A US report on Nigeria has said that the recent new minimum wage of N70,000 ($47.9) approved by the federal government for federal workers has been eroded by the devaluation of the Naira, which has risen to over N1,500/$1. In the latest Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2024 by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour, the US noted that upon that, firms with less than 25 workers did not benefit from the new wage. “The law provided for a national minimum wage for public and private sector employers with 25 or…

The Federal Government has introduced a major subsidy on kidney dialysis in federal hospitals across the country, cutting the price of the procedure by 76 percent. Approved by President Bola Tinubu, the new policy reduces the average cost of a single dialysis session from ₦50,000 to ₦12,000. This was disclosed on Monday in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved a landmark subsidy to ease the cost of kidney dialysis for Nigerians. With this intervention, the price of each dialysis session has been reduced from ₦50,000 to…