PATIENTS waiting for crucial knee, hip and cataract operations are facing long delays, a damning report claims. Daily Express :: Health Feed
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Shadow Brokers threatens to expose NSA hacker’s covert operations against China
Published time: 28 Jun, 2017 19:42 The Shadow Brokers has threatened to name and shame a former NSA Equation Group member “writing ugly tweets” about the hacking group. The hacking group levied an attack against a Twitter user it calls “doctor,” whom it accuses of tweeting unjustified criticism. Information about the identity of the “doctor” […]
Air Force grounds F-35A operations at training base after pilots suffered hypoxia
(credit: US Air Force) The US Air Force’s 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona today cancelled “local flying operations” for F-35A fighters after five incidents in which pilots “experienced hypoxia-like symptoms,” an Air Force spokesperson said in a statement. Hypoxia is a deficiency in oxygen reaching the body through the circulatory […]
Trump touts his blocked travel ban during ongoing police operations in London
REUTERS/Mike Segar US President Donald Trump touted his proposed travel ban in response to several ongoing police operations in London, where multiple casualties were reported Saturday night. “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of […]
Doctors say they’re running out of baking soda — and the shortage is putting life-saving operations on hold
The shortage of baking soda solution is hitting hospitals nationwide and life-saving operations are being put on hold, the New York Times reports. A hospital in Alabama recently postponed seven open-heart operations and one doctor said that he tried mixing his own solution to combat the deficit. Besides the baking soda medicine shortage, there are […]
China systematically crippled CIA operations, killing or imprisoning up to 20 sources
Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Investigators remain divided over whether there was a spy within the Central Intelligence Agency who […]
GM will cut operations in India, South Africa
DETROIT – General Motors plans to quit selling vehicles in India by the end of this year and will sell operations in South Africa, the latest steps in a strategy of focusing cash and engineering effort on fewer, more profitable markets. The Detroit automaker said on Thursday it will take a $ 500 million charge […]
US to continue South China Sea operations – top navy commander
The US is looking to continue its ‘Freedom of Navigation’ ops in the disputed South China Sea region, according to top military officials. No such missions have been carried out since the Trump administration took office. “US forces operate in the Asia-Pacific region on a daily basis, including in the South China Sea,” US Navy […]
GM ceases operations in Venezuela after plant takeover
General Motors said on Tuesday it has ceased operations at its Venezuela plant and will take up to a $ 100 million charge after a judge ordered the seizure of its plant last month. The largest U.S. automaker said it is deconsolidating its business in Venezuela. The decision follows the seizure of GM’s Valencia plant […]
USS Stethem conducting operations in S. China Sea – Navy
The guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem is conducting operations in the South China Sea, the US Navy has announced amid tensions between Washington and Beijing over China’s controversial claims to the disputed waterway. The Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) is “conducting routine operations” in the South China Sea, according to a Friday press […]
