CORRECTION: Reuters withdraws alert that chemical weapons watchdog found Sarin used in an April 4, 2017, attack on Idlib, Syria.

Lack OF vitamin D trebles the length of time patients stay in hospital, according to new research.

Those with the lowest levels of the sunshine vitamin are also more frail, at higher risk of dementia and falls and are more likely to die in hospital than those with the highest levels.

In a rags-to-riches story for the ages, prostitute-turned-pirate-lord Ching Shih remains one of the most feared and successful pirates in history. After her husband’s death, Shih took over the infamous Red Flag Fleet, led over 50,000 pirates, and lived to tell the tale with all of her acquired riches intact.

Members of the House of Saud are seeking to find an alternative successor to the throne and prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from becoming king, sources close to the royal court said.

While they say that no change to the line of succession could take place while the 82-year-old King Salman lives, after his death the field may open.

The sources suggest there is a growing conspiracy among members of the House of Saud to ensure the favoured son does not become King.

On June 7, 1692, Port Royal, Jamaica, the pirate-haven that had been hailed “the wickedest city on Earth”, was engulfed in a tidal wave.

It was a city so overrun with liquor, slavers, and prostitution that one in every four buildings was either a bar or a brothel. But on that fateful June day, the very earth beneath the sin city began to shake. The brothels were collapsed and a great tidal wave rose up over the city walls.

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Chlorine water is routinely sprayed all over U.S. chicken meat, believe it or not, as a way to destroy pathogens and other harmful compounds that are rampant in America’s disgusting factory farms. Most of Europe has much higher standards than the U.S. when it comes to rearing animals for meat production, hence why American meat typically isn’t welcomed there.

But now that the U.K. is “independent” from the E.U. governance, it’s apparently open game for American imports – including potentially disease-ridden chicken meat that, in addition to possibly containing harmful bacteria, is loaded with bleach chemicals that are harmful to human health.

The most popular vaccines, flu shots, are loaded with mercury, which has been proven to cause neurological and brain damage to humans. The CDC recommends annual mass-mercury injections for all pregnant women and 6-month-young infants. Ever heard of mad hatter syndrome?

Nearly every psychological drug on the market today causes depression, anxiety, confusion, doubt, and other physical and mental conditions that keep people from thinking critically, or thinking straight at all.

Canola oil has been proven by science to cause memory loss, confusion, cognitive decline and dementia. Ever wonder why most Democratic voters can’t seem to remember what happened just weeks or months ago? It’s like “Ground Hog Day” (the movie) every day for these folks.

Genetically modified foods contain pesticides, including chemical insecticides and herbicides, that literally break down the cleansing organs and systematically destroy the brain, causing cancer and dementia.

Facebook was hit particularly hard with a fall of 39 per cent below its year high following bad publicity over its hand in the spread of fake news and the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.

Google's own data protection issues are thought to have forced its parent company Alphabet's 20 per cent drop, while experts suggest that Apple's 20 per cent slump is the result of the hefty price tags of its recent iPhones.

Netflix said its 35 per cent drop was the result of incoming competition from Disney and Apple, which are both heavily rumoured to be starting up their own TV streaming services, while Amazon blamed a widespread sell-off in tech stock.

Apart from barter trade, Tehran and Baghdad are mulling the idea of using the Iraqi dinar for mutual transactions to reduce reliance on the US dollar amid banking problems Iran is facing due to US sanctions.

An Associated Press (AP) cameraman has been injured by gunfire while filming a protest in the Gaza Strip, the agency said. He was apparently shot by an Israeli sniper despite wearing clothes identifying him as a media worker.

Rashed Rashid, 47 was injured in the leg on Monday while covering the weekly protest at the Israeli border wall, AP reported. He received multiple bone fractures above the ankle and will require surgery.

A pair of armed robbers approached a man on a Detroit street last Monday night demanding cash, police told WXYZ-TV — and it went downhill from there for the perpetrators.
The victim wasn’t as easy a mark as the pair likely figured, as he wrestled the gun away from one of the suspects on Annott Street, the station said — and he killed one of them and wounded the other.

Goldman Sachs is now offering free sex change surgeries to its British employees in an effort to shed the bank’s conservative “old boys’ club” image.
What are the details?
Vice Chairman Richard Gnodde made the announcement during a staff town hall meeting, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, saying the new benefits are geared toward helping “the whole issue of inclusiveness” at the bank’s London office.
The Herald reported that the bank is fighting “to change its reputation as a conservative old boys’ club.”

"The entire world is worried."

That was Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's grim statement at the end of a summit of world leaders yesterday.

The two-day APEC gathering, which took place over the weekend on the Pacific island, was marred by tensions between the US and China.

For the first time in the summit's 26-year history, regional leaders failed to issue a formal joint statement, with Mr O'Neill saying "the two big giants in the room" had been unable to agree.

And all the while, Australia and New Zealand sit in an awkward position.

US AND CHINA SHARE COMPETING VISIONS

The bickering between the US and China was largely over trade differences, which for months have been building alongside a multi-billion dollar trade war.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors announced new criminal charges against U.S.-born Kremlin foe Bill Browder on Monday, days before a Russian police officer could become president of Interpol in a move that some Moscow critics fear might politicize the law enforcement agency.

Browder and other opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin have complained that Russia has tried to use Interpol against them. If a Russian is elected as its new president, it could encourage Moscow to intensify attempts to hunt down its critics abroad.

The new charges leveled against Browder accuse him of forming a criminal group to embezzle funds in Russia. They also alleged that he could be behind the death of his employee, Sergei Magnitsky, in a Russian prison.

Jonathan Cook says by bolstering Hamas, Netanyahu hopes to ensure Palestine remains disunited, divided territorially and ideologically, and in no position to exert pressure on Israel via Europe or the UN to begin peace talks or concede Palestinian statehood.>>

Jonathan Cook says by bolstering Hamas, Netanyahu hopes to ensure Palestine remains disunited, divided territorially and ideologically, and in no position to exert pressure on Israel via Europe or the UN to begin peace talks or concede Palestinian statehood.>>

including examples like charging $100 for one bag of soldier's laundry

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...What matters most for China is Afghanistan becoming part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). That’s exactly what Chinese envoy Yao Jing told the opening session of the 4th Trilateral Dialogue in Islamabad earlier this week between China, Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Kabul can act as a bridge to help expand connectivity between East, South and Central Asian regions,” Jing said. Pakistani Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed said: “The Greater South Asia has emerged as a geo-economic concept, driven by economy and energy, roads and railways and ports and pipelines, and Pakistan is the hub of this connectivity due to CPEC.” For Beijing, CPEC can only deliver its enormous potential if Pakistan and India relations are normalized. And that road goes right through Afghanistan. China has been aiming for an opening for years. Chinese intel operatives have met the Taliban everywhere from Xinjiang to Karachi and from Peshawar to Doha. The China card is immensely alluring.

UNIVERSITY lecturers have been told not to use words in capital letters when setting assignments because it might frighten students into failure.

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6ix9ine has publicly identified himself as a member of a violent New York gang, 9 Trey Bloods.

Have you ever had a day when your children were crying due to hunger but the cupboards were completely bare and your bank account was empty? If you haven’t, you should consider yourself to be extremely blessed, because this is what real life feels like for millions upon millions of Americans in 2018. As you will see below, a third of all Americans cannot even afford “the basics” each month, and 13 million households are officially considered to be “food insecure”. In other words, they don’t have enough to eat. Many parents out there choose to skip a meal (or two) each day just so that their kids can have full stomachs. But sometimes the money runs out completely, and that is when it gets really tough.

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