Day: October 19, 2024

Pyongyang has accused Seoul of dropping propaganda leaflets from a drone

North Korea claimed on Saturday to have found fragments of a crashed South Korean military drone, and threatened to retaliate, intensifying a standoff on the peninsula. 

According to Pyongyang’s state-run news agency KCNA, the UAV was likely used to drop leaflets over the capital. Similar drones were spotted scattering leaflets full of “political propaganda and slander”earlier this month, the outlet said. 

“If a violation of the DPRK’s territorial ground, air and waters by ROK’s military means is discovered and confirmed again, it will be regarded as a grave military provocation against the sovereignty of the DPRK and a declaration of war and an immediate retaliatory attack will be launched,” KCNA warned, as quoted by Reuters. 

The involvement of North Korean regular troops to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would be a serious escalation of the war, France and Ukraine’s foreign ministers said at a joint press conference in Kyiv on Saturday.

France’s Jean-Noel Barrot, who was making his first trip to Ukraine since becoming foreign minister in September, is also set to visit the east of the country on Sunday, where France will finance new two new centres for the protection of children impacted by the war.

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Cancer cases have hit a record high, with almost 1,000 people a day diagnosed, according to latest NHS figures.

There were 346,217 diagnoses in England throughout 2022 – 5 per cent higher than the 329,664 recorded in 2021.

The rise was largely due to an increase in detection of prostate cancer, with cases up by more than a quarter to 54,732.

The Cancer Registration Statistics show a 7 per cent increase in overall cancer cases among men in 2022, from 167,917 to 180,877. In women, it was a 2 per cent rise, from 161,747 to 165,340.

Cancer cases in England have reached a new high, nearly 1,000 diagnoses made every day, according to NHS data. In 2022, there were 346,217 cancer diagnoses, 5% increase from 2021. The rise largely stems from a significant increase in prostate cancer caseshttps://t.co/p2rVjeTtQ4

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Global cancer concerns

At the end of last year I reported that I was seeing melanoma patients who had been stable for years relapse after their first booster (their third injection). The number of my patients affected has been rising ever since. Other oncologists have contacted me from all over the world including from Australia and the U.S.

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