Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-06-05). Bobi Wine in Somaliland for African Security Dialogue. plusnews.ug The leader of Uganda's leading opposition political party, National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine, is participating in an international conference on peace and state-building taking place in Hargeisa, Somaliland's Capital. The two-day conference which aims at addressing issues and exchange views on contributory factors that affect security and state-building in Africa, …

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-05). Mayo Clinic Minute: High-intensity workouts and reducing risk of injury. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org High-intensity function training, such as boot camp-type exercise classes, continues to grow in popularity, especially as many COVID-19 restrictions have relaxed. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine, explains how someone can reap the benefits of this type of exercise while avoiding injury. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/kNqNSA-m3kk Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (0: 59) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-05). Consumer Health: Recovering from a stroke. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is National Stroke Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about recovering from a stroke with stroke rehabilitation. Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. and a major cause of serious disability for adults. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stroke risk increases with age, especially after 55, but strokes can occur at…

____ (2022-06-05). The green modernization for a beautiful China, world. ecns.cn In 1972, the United Nations designated June 5 as World Environment Day to foster environmental awareness and prompt action. China, the second-largest economy in the world, has celebrated the annual event with solid steps in environmental protection.

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-05). Mayo Clinic Q and A: Fibroids and pregnancy. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 24, single and looking forward to having a family one day. I was recently diagnosed with fibroids. What treatment options would allow me to have a baby in the future? ANSWER: Fibroids are noncancerous masses made of muscle that grow within the uterus. While fibroids are common — they are present in over 75% of women — most people don't have symptoms or pregnancy problems due to fibroids, and everyone does not need…

Newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-06-05). Mayo Clinic Minute: Treating skin cancer with Mohs surgery. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month and a time to check your body for signs of this common and preventable disease. Nearly 5 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with a form of skin cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Dr. Naiara Sbroggio Barbosa (Nie-e-ARE-ah Bar-BOH-sah), a Mayo Clinic dermatologist, , explains how Mohs surgery can be used to treat basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and some types of melanoma….

____ (2022-06-05). China's warehouse storage sector rebounds in May. ecns.cn China's warehouse storage sector expanded in May, according to a survey jointly released by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing and CMST Development Co., Ltd.

____ (2022-06-05). UN Security Council welcomes truce extension in Yemen. ecns.cn The UN Security Council on Friday welcomed the extension of the UN-brokered truce in war-torn Yemen, which began on April 2.

Cherry Hitkari (2022-06-05). Extending the Olive Branch: China-Australia Relations. moderndiplomacy.eu It is the third time Beijing has extended an arm of friendship towards Canberra since the new Australian Labour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese assumed power. The desperate move comes at an interesting juncture of geopolitical and economic tensions between the two nations. When things turned sour A traditional US ally, Australia, which established formal diplomatic …

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-04). NATO Chief Says Ukraine Shouldn't Drop Goal of Driving Russia Out of Crimea. news.antiwar.com In an interview with The Washington Post, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine shouldn't avoid declaring ambitious war aims of driving Russia out of the eastern Donbas region and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014. "They have the right to say that they are fighting for the whole of Ukraine," Stoltenberg said. …

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-04). Spanish Court Orders Mike Pompeo to Testify on CIA Plot to Kill Julian Assange. news.antiwar.com Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been summoned to appear in a Spanish court to testify on whether the CIA planned to assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was the head of the agency, the Spanish newspaper ABC reported. Yahoo News reported last year that in 2017, the CIA plotted to kidnap Assange, …

Richard Horton (2022-06-04). [Comment] Offline: WHO's erasure of Palestinians must cease. thelancet.com Global health is a graveyard of good intentions. WHO's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, gave a widely admired address to the World Health Assembly last week. He spoke of "the profound consequences of conflict" for health and concluded his speech with these words: "Unless we seek peace, we will find war. Today, and every day, we have a choice—we make the choices. And today, and every day, we must choose health for peace, and peace for health. Peace, peace, peace." One choice his agency has made is to erase the existence of over 5 million people from its "comprehensive" assessment of world health…

Francisco Dominguez (2022-06-04). Maduro's Success: Principled Resistance to Imperialism Pays Off. orinocotribune.com By Francisco Dominguez Jun 1, 2022 | The world has been stunned by a double wonder: Bolivarian Venezuela's political survival and its miraculous economic recovery: the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has reported that it expects the Venezuelan economy to grow for the first time since 2014, by 5 per cent, one of the highest in the region. | Venezuela's rate of inflation has come down from something like 10 million per cent, as reported by CNBC in 2019, and described as the "biggest economic disaster in modern history" by the Washington Post in the same year, to 7.1 per cent in Septemb…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-06-04). Venezuelan Opposition Infighting: Former Allies of Leopoldo López Criticize Him for Abandoning Them. orinocotribune.com The fight within the Venezuelan extreme right is becoming more evident every day. Recently, one of Leopoldo López's former allies who participated in destabilizing events in Venezuela, has denounced the opposition figure for abandoning those who had backed him. | Eduardo Figueroa Marchena, an officer of the Bolivarian Air Force who betrayed his oath by participating in the conspiracy that became known as Golpe Azul, in February 2015, denounced Leopoldo López during an event in the University of Oviedo, Spain. | Figueroa Marchena, as spokesperson for the group of soldiers and civilians who have been part of variou…

Staff (2022-06-04). President Maduro Presents Report of Venezuela's Fight Against Colombian TANCOL Paramilitaries. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, June 2, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, presented an assessment of Operation Bolivarian Shield 2022 and the fight against TANCOL paramilitary and drug trafficking gangs that enter Venezuela from Colombia and have tried to take over different areas of the country. | President Maduro urged the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) to dismantle all these Tancol groups physically, territorially, logistically, militarily, politically, and socially. | The president reported that 257 structures and camps belonging to TANCOL groups in Apure state have been destroyed, of which 23 were laboratorie…

Prabhat Patnaik (2022-06-04). Neo-liberalism and anti-inflationary policy. mronline.org Central banks all over the capitalist world are raising, or are about to raise, interest rates as a means of countering the currently rampant inflation, which is certain to push a world economy that is barely recovering from the effect of the pandemic, back towards stagnation and greater unemployment.

Marta Paterlini (2022-06-04). [World Report] Warnings over doctor shortages amid Italian health reforms. thelancet.com As the Italian Health Ministry plans changes to primary care, health workers associations warn of a shortage of staff. Marta Paterlini reports.

Fay Bound Alberti (2022-06-04). [Perspectives] Harold Gillies and the battleground of surgical innovation. thelancet.com The damaged faces of soldiers treated by Harold Gillies have become something of a staple of popular culture since the World War 1 centenary. Thus, "shocking pictures" of "horribly disfigured" servicemen have featured in British tabloids, their faces assembled into a jarring photo-mosaic, showing a damaged mass of missing jaws and blown-away noses before being salvaged, corrected, and filled in by the pioneering New Zealander and so-called father of plastic surgery. Historians of medicine have recounted how the case photographs of the patients Gillies treated have even made their way into video games.

____ (2022-06-04). Iran warns against attempts to undermine IAEA credibility. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman warned against undermining and weakening the credibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

____ (2022-06-04). Iran welcomes extension of ceasefire in Yemen. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman welcomed the agreement reached between parties involved in Yemen war at the proposal of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to extend the ceasefire in Yemen for another two months.