Topic: Health — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-27 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Mayor Francisco "Isko" Moreno Domagoso on Wednesday ordered the Manila health workers to go door-to-door in their communities to find residents who may have been exposed to floodwaters or are showing symptoms of leptospirosis as cases in the city surged.
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[2026-08-27 07:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A deadly flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border has killed at least 150 people, with hundreds still missing.
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[2026-08-27 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The girl was airlifted to Royal North Shore Hospital in a critical condition. (ABC News: Heath McPherson)
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[2026-08-27 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, United States — At least a quarter of National Football League players may end up with a degenerative brain disease, according to a new study published Tuesday that lays bare the extreme toll of America's favorite sport.
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[2026-08-27 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: American singer Miley Cyrus said on Wednesday she was heartbroken following the death of her godmother, country music icon Dolly Parton, who died of cancer at age 80 on Tuesday.
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[2026-08-27 06:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL and NFL Players Association on Wednesday announced a Behavioral Health Network will launch on Sept. 1 and will be designed to provide simplified and confidential access to mental health assistance.
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[2026-08-27 06:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Medical Research
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[2026-08-27 06:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Mamadou Tahirou is 18 but he looks more like a 12-year-old, his frame frail from the ravages of sickle cell disease.
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[2026-08-27 05:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Suzi Scott, 57, was just nine years old when her mother June died of lung cancer in the 1970s. (ABC News: Janelle Miles)
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[2026-08-27 05:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Two Frankfurt airport workers have died after contracting malaria from a mosquito believed to have hitched a ride on an incoming flight, according to the city’s health authority.
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[2026-08-27 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Six workers in total were infected with malaria tropica – the most dangerous form of the disease – at Frankfurt Airport
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[2026-08-27 05:07 UTC+10:00] [Germany] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Six workers in total were infected with malaria tropica – the most dangerous form of the disease – at Frankfurt Airport
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[2026-08-27 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dr. Abhishek Pranayami examines a patient suffering from a heat-related illness amid high temperatures at a district government hospital in Banda, northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, June 19, 2026 (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
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[2026-08-27 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Revolution Medicines' targeted drug for adults with metastatic pancreatic cancer who have received prior treatment or cannot receive combination chemotherapy.
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[2026-08-27 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 02:48 UTC+10:00] [Cancer research] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: FDA officials approve first-of-a-kind pill called daraxonrasib to fight one of the deadliest types of cancer
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[2026-08-27 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ARCHIVO – El logotipo de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos en el exterior de sus oficinas en Silver Spring, Maryland, el 10 de diciembre de 2020. (AP Foto/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Archivo)
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[2026-08-27 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW DELHI — The World Bank is seeking to develop more investment-ready projects in emerging markets to attract private capital for development, saying a shortage of viable projects remains a major barrier to financing sectors such as agriculture, health, and water.
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[2026-08-27 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — A fire broke out in a hospital maternity ward in Islamabad on Wednesday, killing 14 infants, Pakistani authorities said, blaming a faulty air conditioner for the blaze.
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[2026-08-27 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Title:
Fire haze threatens health of millions in IndonesiaPEKANBARU, Indonesia — Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said on Wednesday, as El Niño-fueled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra islands.
The vast Southeast Asian archipelago has, for weeks, battled wildfires that have led to school closures and thousands of people requiring medical treatment, with smoke also reaching neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.
Indonesia’s health ministry said 3.4 million people living in seven provinces on Borneo and Sumatra were at risk of respiratory infections due to exposure.
In Pekanbaru, the capital of Sumatra’s Riau province, thick smog forced the government to shutter dozens of schools as it urged residents to stay indoors.
“The smog gets thicker at night, making Pekanbaru almost like a dead city. A lot of people don’t dare go out. And if they do, they wear masks,” Abdullah, a 38-year-old entrepreneur, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“My eyes sting so badly. When I go outside, it really feels like breathing in the smoke from freshly burned trash,” added the Pekanbaru resident who, like many Indonesians, has one name.
In Jambi, also on Sumatra, 31-year-old homemaker Farida said the haze had already affected her family’s health.
“My four-year-old child and I have begun coughing so much, especially when we stay outdoors too long,” she told AFP. “I have trouble breathing.” The Jambi local government has ordered homeschooling for children in kindergarten and elementary school for the rest of the week.
The health ministry said it had distributed more than 260,000 face masks to residents of the hardest-hit areas.
On Tuesday, President Prabowo Subianto said the government has deployed dozens of helicopters, aircraft, water pumps, and thousands of personnel to battle the blazes.
“Now I think it has begun to be brought under control, mitigated. In several places, I believe, and I hope that within the next one to two weeks everything can be resolved,” Prabowo said.
Most wildfires are blamed on slash-and-burn practices to clear land for farming.
Police said over the weekend they had arrested 72 people on suspicion of starting fires.
Fires between January and July burned more than 200,000 hectares of land — an area three times the size of the capital Jakarta, the government said last week.
That is already larger than during previous El Niño seasons in 2019 and 2023.
The El Niño weather pattern triggers worldwide changes in winds, atmospheric pressure, and rainfall.
Muslims in Indonesia, celebrating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad on Tuesday, prayed for rain.
Malaysia said it stood ready to help put out fires.
Poor air quality in Malaysia’s Sarawak state on Borneo, which it shares with Indonesia and Brunei, led to nearly 600 schools being closed last week.
At one point on Wednesday morning, tracker IQ Air ranked the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, the second-most polluted city globally. AFP
Snippet: PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said on Wednesday, as El Niño-fueled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra islands.
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[2026-08-27 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Millions of Indonesians risk health complications from exposure to thick haze covering several cities and towns, officials said on Wednesday, as El Niño-fueled wildfires wreak havoc on Borneo and Sumatra islands.
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[2026-08-27 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BAGUIO CITY — The City Health Services Office (CHSO) reported one confirmed death due to leptospirosis here even as the number of cases decreased by 39 percent this year.
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[2026-08-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has killed at least five people in Gaza in new strikes over the last 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.
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[2026-08-27 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-08-27 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Marvel has a new franchise crossover, and it isn’t the one Disney is marketing. Over the past week, more than 20 actors with Marvel Cinematic Universe credits – Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Mark Ruffalo (the Hulk), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Ian McKellen, whose X-Men run predates the MCU but whose fandom overlaps it – signed onto “Freedom for Marwan,” a campaign demanding the release of Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison.
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[2026-08-27 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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[2026-08-27 01:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dolly Parton actúa en el festival de música de Glastonbury, el 29 de junio de 2014. (Foto Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, archivo)
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[2026-08-27 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Private health insurance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Research finds just 0.1-0.4% of the total insured population will ditch insurance, while the government will save as much as $940m a year
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[2026-08-27 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: AP and Reuters have demanded answers from Israel over last year’s strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza, which killed more than 20 people, including five journalists.
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[2026-08-27 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: AP and Reuters have demanded answers from Israel over last year’s strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza, which killed more than 20 people, including five journalists.
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[2026-08-27 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court acquitted Yona Simcha Schreiber on Wednesday over his attack on a Christian nun near King David’s Tomb on grounds of mental illness, ordered him to be hospitalized for up to six years.
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[2026-08-27 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: At least 50 people were injured, including three taken to hospital with burns, on Wednesday after fireworks exploded at the start of an annual fiesta in northern Spain, authorities said.
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[2026-08-27 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-27 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-26 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan — It was 6:30am on Wednesday when Arif Rana, 46, woke to a phone call. He had been asleep on the lawn outside the maternity unit of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad’s largest public-sector hospital.
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[2026-08-26 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Kuwait on Wednesday announced it had carried out the largest drugs bust in its history, seizing nearly $500 million worth of a medicine that has become a popular party drug.
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[2026-08-26 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Kuwait on Wednesday announced it had carried out the largest drugs bust in its history, seizing nearly $500 million worth of a medicine that has become a popular party drug.
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[2026-08-26 23:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: New Delhi, India – Around noon on Thursday, Krishna Prasad received a telephone call from a friend informing him that his six-year-old son, Pranay Teja, had collapsed in school and had been taken to a public hospital.
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[2026-08-26 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli strike on a displaced people's camp in Mawasi, Khan Younis, has killed at least one person and wounded several others, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing a source at Nasser Hospital.
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[2026-08-26 23:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Meta and coalition of state attorneys general have settled a major federal trial centering on allegations that the social media giant misrepresented the extent of child-related mental health harms caused by apps like Facebook and Instagram.The settlement was revealed a court filing released Wednesday that details several requirements Meta must make to its apps as part of a proposed "consent judgement." These include daily usage limits and "nighttime blocks" for teenagers that use the company's apps like Facebook and Instagram,
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[2026-08-26 22:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The team says ‘myografts’ could provide health benefits to those who cannot exercise easily, such as bedridden people
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[2026-08-26 22:53 UTC+10:00] [subcutaneous myograft transplantation] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The team says ‘myografts’ could provide health benefits to those who cannot exercise easily, such as bedridden people
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[2026-08-26 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF struck and destroyed a structure in the Jabalya area of the Gaza Strip that was used as an ambush position for Hamas terrorists and as a storage facility for various types of weapons on Tuesday, the military said on Wednesday.
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[2026-08-26 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Officers arrest two people during raid at Sheung Shui site, confiscating more than 400,000 alleged controlled pharmaceutical items
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[2026-08-26 22:33 UTC+10:00] [Shirley Woo Suet‑yi] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Officers arrest two people during raid at Sheung Shui site, confiscating more than 400,000 alleged controlled pharmaceutical items
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