A study found that burning wood in our homes is one of the most dangerous types of air pollution. Here’s what you need to know Wood burning stoves have become a classic British middle class status symbol. Despite the fact that they cost around £3,000 to buy and install, 1.9 million people in Britain now have one in their homes. In fact, we’re so fond of their glowing embers that an episode of a virtual fireplace was Netflix’s most-watched Christmas show in 2024. But recently a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that burning wood in our homes is…
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Beijing attacks ‘arbitrary’ moves and says it will file WTO lawsuit Beijing has hit out at new 10 per cent tariffs imposed by the US on Chinese exports, saying it will “take necessary countermeasures to defend its rights and interests” as trade tensions between the two powers enter a new phase. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday that China opposed the tariffs, which it said were introduced “under the pretext of the fentanyl issue”. “The US needs to view and solve its own fentanyl issue in an objective and rational way instead of threatening other countries with arbitrary…
US president fires starting gun on trade war with levies of up to 25% on goods imported from trading partners Trump issued an executive order applying additional tariffs of 25 per cent to all imports from Canada and Mexico, with the exception of Canadian oil and energy products, which will face a 10 per cent levy. Canada is by far the biggest foreign oil supplier to the US, accounting for about 60 per cent of its crude imports. Imports from China will face a 10 per cent tariff over and above existing US tariffs. Posting on Truth Social, Trump said…
With chronic renal problems often diagnosed too late, here’s how to stay vigilant and get yourself checked over The UK is facing an unprecedented kidney disease crisis, one which could cost the NHS up to £11 billion per year by 2033 if left unchecked. This is due to the number of patients with chronic kidney disease ending up on dialysis machines, due to one or both kidneys failing, a growing demand which threatens to overwhelm the health service. According to a report from the charity Kidney Research UK, there are currently 30,000 people in the UK who require dialysis, a number which…
Staying active during pregnancy can boost your mood, improve labour and help you recover afterwards. It’s commonly said that pregnant women should lift as little as possible. But for Krissy Cela, a personal trainer, fitness icon and businesswoman with an activewear empire, that simply wasn’t an option. “After I found out I was pregnant, I kept doing what I had been doing for more than a decade at that point, which was strength training five times a week,” Cela says. “The gym had always been my safe haven, where I felt most myself. Having that stripped away from me because…
Foreign minister Mélanie Joly holds meetings in Washington in attempt to avert trade war. Mélanie Joly told the Financial Times the US president’s threat to impose levies of 25 per cent on Canadian imports would hit “real people” if relations between the two countries descended into a trade war. “We ship oil at a discount which is, ultimately, refined in Texas. If it’s not us, it is Venezuela,” Joly said, referring to the heavy grades of oil produced in Venezuela and Canada on which many American refineries depend. “There’s no other option on the table, and this administration doesn’t want…
US President Donald Trump has threatened BRICS nations with 100% tariffs if they replace the US dollar as reserve currency. He has also threatened Canada and Mexico with tariffs. Trump threatened BRICS member states with 100% tariffs on Thursday to dissuade them from replacing the US dollar as reserve currency. Trump had made a similar statement right after winning the November 2024 elections. “We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any other currency to replace the mighty US dollar or, they will face 100%…
Patients and health care advocates said the abrupt decision to halt U.S. funding for a lifesaving H.I.V. program led to widespread confusion. The backtracking didn’t help. As he does every three months, Sibusiso traveled on Wednesday morning to a clinic in the capital of Eswatini, a tiny southern African nation, to get a refill of the H.I.V. medication he needs to save his life. When he arrived, the door was locked and about 20 other patients stood outside, baffled that the clinic was closed. Sibusiso, 39 and unemployed, had heard rumors that President Trump was pulling funding for the program…
Sarkin Yakin Zazzau, Alhaji Rilwan Yahaya Pate, a district head in the Zazzau emirate council of Kaduna State, is dead. NEW DAILY PRIME learnt that Pate, the Sarkin Yakin Zazzau, Pate, who slumped while attending an occasion along with the Emir of Zazzau, Mallam Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, later died at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Kofar gayan, Zaria. Abdullahi Aliyu Kwarbai, the Media and Publicity officer of the Zazzau confirmed the sad incident in a statement on Thursday night. The statement read, “It is with great sadness that the Zazzau Emirate Council announces the passing of Sarkin Yakin Zazzau Alhaji…
About 5,000 repentant Boko Haram fighters have reunited with their families. Disclosing this at the second-day session of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum on Thursday, Head of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE), Amb. Mairo Musa Abbas stated that none of the former combatants returned to the battleground after six months of the deradicalisation programme. Mairo, who spoke at the Third Penal with the theme, “Managing Boko Haram Exits and Demobilisation of Armed Groups,” said harmonised strategy would help the governors of Lake Chad region to address their common issues. She said deradicalisation, rehabilitation and reintegration programme for ex-Boko…
