Moving away from diets rich in animal products could have ‘unintended consequences’ for the consumption of choline   The increasing popularity of plant-based and vegan diets risks lowering the intake of a nutrient critical for brain health that is mainly found in animal foods, a nutritionist has said. Moving away from ...

Study prompts medicines regulator to advise all women using HRT to remain vigilant   The risk of breast cancer from using hormone replacement therapy is double what was previously thought, according to a major piece of research, which confirms that HRT is a direct cause of the cancer. The findings ...

Aid efforts to help communities struggling to recover from drought compounded by continuing conflict, aggravated by al-Shabaab   Somalia faces a new humanitarian crisis with more than 2 million people now threatened by severe hunger, aid agencies say. A further 3 million people are uncertain of their next meal, latest ...

President Michel Aoun says Lebanon has the right to defend territorial integrity after drones crash in Beirut. Lebanon’s president has said an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend was a “declaration of war” that justified a military response. “What happened is a declaration of war,” Michel Aoun told ...

Moscow aiming to win influence by wooing African states with nuclear energy   Russia is attempting to gain influence in Africa and earn billions of pounds by selling developing nations nuclear technology that critics say is unsuitable and unlikely to benefit the continent’s poorest people. Representatives of Rosatom, the Russian ...

  Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. President Jair Bolsonaro also tried to temper global concern, saying that previously deforested areas had burned and that ...

  In the wake of violent clashes in Hong Kong on Sunday, during which a live gunshot was fired for the first time since protests began in early June, Chinese state media used its harshest rhetoric yet to condemn the unrest and warned that Beijing could soon intervene. The 12th ...

An Israeli aircraft fired two rockets at a Palestinian guerrilla base in east Lebanon early Monday, Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV reported. The station said the predawn attack targeted a base for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Bekaa Valley village of Qousaya, near ...

Australia’s ASX200 index down 1.46%, Tokyo off 2% and Hong Kong falls 3.3% as fears grow about a global recession   Shares in Australia and across Asia Pacific have fallen sharply amid a new flare-up of US-Chinese trade tensions. Despite a senior Chinese leader saying Beijing wanted to resolve the ...

Nigeria marks three years without a wild polio case, meaning Africa could be declared free of the disease in 2020   Africa is on the verge of being declared polio free, after three years without any recorded cases of the disease, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Nigeria marked ...