Fighting disinformation in Central Europe: showing StopFake’s best practices in Skopje, North Macedonia

StopFake.org - Sun, 10/27/2024 - 11:50
StopFake is proud to announce Skopje as our next stop! It’s an amazing opportunity to learn more about fake news, how to spot it and how to counter disinformation. StopFake is 10 years old this year. To celebrate, the famous Ukraine-based team of fact-checkers has teamed up with Google News Initiative to go on tour. […]
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Russia is Indoctrinating Schoolchildren Throughout Occupied Ukraine

StopFake.org - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 18:17
By Tetiana Kotelnykova, for UkraineAlert In March 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for his role in the mass abduction of Ukrainian children. The ICC’s allegations made headlines around the world, helping to raise international awareness about the thousands of Ukrainian children who have been abducted […]
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Pipeline of Lies and Fantasies

StopFake.org - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 17:53
By EUcsDisinfo Winter is approaching and with it a new focus on those familiar Kremlin disinformation narratives about the EU’s energy supply and the folly of ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions. The story has remained largely unchanged since Putin cut gas supplies to Europe back in spring 2022 with a demand to lift EU sanctions. According to the pro-Kremlin disinformation, […]
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Fake: Ukraine Plans to Make Bomb from Nuclear Waste

StopFake.org - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 14:04
Ukraine does not possess nuclear weapons and has no ongoing efforts to create them. It has neither the technological capabilities nor the desire to violate the many international agreements that Ukraine continues to uphold. Russia has once again spread disinformation suggesting that Ukraine is preparing to make a dirty nuclear bomb, this time claiming that […]
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UK regulator tells doctors to watch out for obesity injection misuse

Health News BBC - Thu, 10/24/2024 - 21:07
It follows reports of a rise in numbers of people who are not obese, becoming very sick.
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Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic

Scientific News BBC - Thu, 10/24/2024 - 02:05
Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests.
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NHS will not fund new drug to slow Alzheimer’s

Health News BBC - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 12:02
A new drug that slows the pace of Alzheimer's disease is too expensive for too little benefit to be used on the NHS, the watchdog says.
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What is assisted dying and could the law change?

Health News BBC - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 11:27
Many countries have legalised assisted dying, assisted suicide or euthanasia, which are different.
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Is the system letting down people who were harmed by Covid vaccines?

Health News BBC - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 08:48
People affected by rare blood clots say they feel they have been airbrushed out of the pandemic.
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Is the system letting down people who were harmed by Covid vaccines?

Health News BBC - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 08:48
People affected by rare blood clots say they feel they have been airbrushed out of the pandemic.
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Could vaccines end the winter vomiting bug?

Health News BBC - Wed, 10/23/2024 - 02:05
The easily spreadable virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences during winter.
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Mega meteorite tore up seabed and boiled Earth's oceans

Scientific News BBC - Tue, 10/22/2024 - 02:02
It was 200 times bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs nearly three billion years later.
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What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?

Health News BBC - Mon, 10/21/2024 - 13:15
One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
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We've spent years covering the Lucy Letby case - here’s why experts are still arguing about it

Health News BBC - Sun, 10/20/2024 - 06:49
For more than a year, we’ve been examining the scientific evidence and speaking to the experts at the centre of the case.
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How will weight-loss drugs change our relationship with food?

Health News BBC - Sat, 10/19/2024 - 06:10
The rise of these treatments has major implications for how we think about obesity, says James Gallagher.
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How will weight-loss drugs change our relationship with food?

Health News BBC - Sat, 10/19/2024 - 06:10
The rise of these treatments has major implications for how we think about obesity, says James Gallagher.
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What is biodiversity and how can we protect it?

Scientific News BBC - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 18:56
Colombia is hosting talks to assess global progress in protecting 30% of all land and water by 2030.
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Breast cancer patients denied life-extending drug in cost row

Health News BBC - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 03:39
Jeannie Ambrose, one of about 1,000 affected patients, says the drug should be made available on the NHS
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Assisted dying bill dangerous, says Archbishop

Health News BBC - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 15:11
His comments came ahead of an assisted dying bill being introduced to Parliament.
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Assisted dying bill dangerous, says Archbishop

Health News BBC - Wed, 10/16/2024 - 15:11
His comments came ahead of an assisted dying bill being introduced to Parliament.
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