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Washington, Oct 5 (IANS) Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has announced his plans of joining the race to become the next Speaker of the US House of Representatives following Kevin McCarthy’s ouster from the post in a historic vote.Jordan’s announcement came a day after McCarthy’s removal and shortly after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, also formally entered the race on Wednesday, reports Xinhua news agency.”We are at a critical crossroad in our nation’s history. Now is the time for our Republican conference to come together to keep our promises to Americans,” Jordan…

Tokyo, Oct 5 (IANS) A tsunami warning was issued on Thursday after a massive earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted Japan’s Izu Islands, the national weather bureau said.According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the temblor occurred at 11.09 a.m. at a depth of 10 km, reports Xinhua news agency.A tsunami advisory of an estimated height of one metre was issued following the quake. Details on damages and injuries were not immediately available.–IANSksk

London, Oct 5 (IANS) As September registered unprecedented temperatures to become the fourth consecutive month of this year, 2023 is on track to be the hottest in recorded history, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.Data released by the Service on Wednesday revealed that September beat the previous monthly record set in 2020 by a staggering 0.5 degrees Celsius, reports CNN.There has never been a month so abnormally hot since Copernicus’ records began in 1940, it said.“The unprecedented temperatures for the time of year observed in September — following a record summer — have broken records by an…

Washington, Oct 5 (IANS) The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that approximately 1.1 million 7.62mm rounds of munitions seized from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been transferred to the Ukrainian armed forces.In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Central Command said the transfer took place on Monday.”The government obtained ownership of these munitions on July 20 through the Department of Justice’s civil forfeiture claims against the IRGC. These munitions were originally seized by CENTCOM naval forces from the transiting stateless dhow MARWAN 1, December 9, 2022. “The munitions were being transferred from the IRGC to the Houthis in…

Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) Riddled with inflation and an un-abating auto workers strike, the US economy is facing the grim prospects of a health care workers strike that could paralyze the working of hospitals across the country.Claimed to be the largest health care workers strike, over 75,000 healthcare workers struck working on Wednesday and will continue until Friday morning.The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, representing healthcare workers and support staff for one of the largest not-for-profit medical systems, announced last week that it would strike if contract negotiations failed with management, media reports said.Critical patient care staff through the Kaiser…

Toronto, Oct 4 (IANS) XY chromosomes may be the reason that globally males were more likely than females to be hospitalised or admitted to the ICU or to die from Covid-19 despite having similar infection rates, finds a study. The pre-clinical research, published in the journal iScience, has yet to be replicated in humans, but points to the ACE2 protein as a key contributor to differences in Covid-19 outcomes between males and females. “Covid-19 severity and mortality are much higher in males than in females, but the reasons for this remain poorly understood,” said Haibo Zhang, a staff scientist at…

Guwahati, Oct 4 (IANS) A newborn infant, who had been pronounced dead by doctors at a private hospital in Assam’s Silchar town, was discovered to be alive just before being cremated.The event took place early on Wednesday.The child’s father Ratan Das, 29, said that on Tuesday night he took his six-months pregnant wife to a private hospital in Silchar where the doctors informed them that the pregnancy was having problems and that they could save either the mother or the child. “We gave them permission to deliver the baby, and they reported that my wife had given birth to a…

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Vehicular emissions that release toxic nanoparticles in Delhi may be hazardous to health, according to a study.Nanoparticles or ultrafine particles are usually defined as a particle of matter that is between 1 and 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter and are invisible to the naked eye.Due to rapid urbanisation, Delhi experiences frequent pollution events, and the particulate matter load exceeds the prescribed limit often.The study, led by researchers from the Delhi Technological University (DTU), analyses nanoparticles (10 to 1090 nanometre) during different emission scenarios, seasonal and meteorological conditions in two phases: April to June 2021 (Period…

London, Oct 4 (IANS) A team of British researchers have developed a novel robot that could revolutionise how women monitor their breast health by giving them access to safe electronic clinical breast examinations (CBE). The device, designed by a team at the University of Bristol is able to apply very specific forces over a range similar to forces used by human examiners and can detect lumps using sensor technology at larger depths than before.”There are conflicting ideas about how useful carrying out Clinical Breast Examinations (CBE) are for the health outcomes of the population,” said lead author George Jenkinson from…

London, Oct 04 (IANS) Covid-19 infection and vaccination have negligible effects on the severity of migraines, finds a study.People who perceived that their migraines worsened, those who had been infected were 2.5-times more likely to be concerned about migraine worsening.Patients who had been vaccinated were 17.3-times more likely to have this concern.The research, published in the ‘European Journal of Neurology’, was conducted among 550 adults who had received migraine-related care at a Spanish headache clinic.About 44.9 per cent (247) patients reported Covid at least once and 83.3 per cent (458) had been vaccinated; 24.7 per cent (61) reported their migraine…