A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an unusual silence settled over their village in Minas Gerais, a southeastern Brazilian state where forested hills give way to the winding Doce River. A mining dam owned by Samarco — a joint venture between Brazilian company Vale and Anglo-Australian giant BHP Billiton — burst upstream near the town of Mariana, unleashing a to

C-reactive protein – a marker of inflammation – is as easily measured with blood work in a doctor’s office as cholesterol.

Norovirus has been rising in the U.S. since as early as mid-October, especially in states like Louisiana, Michigan and Indiana, according to data from WastewaterSCAN.

Scientists working in Mexico have recorded multiple incidents in which a group of orcas hunt young great white sharks and eat their energy-rich livers.

Japan’s most talked-about Pokémon hotel stays range from MIMARU’s apartment-style rooms with giant Snorlax plushies to Grand Hyatt Tokyo’s ultra-limited Beach Resort Suite. The key differences come down to city, space, booking ease, and what guests can actually take home.

EU member states agreed on Thursday to create a legal basis for the use of Russian state assets for Ukraine by majority vote, so as to permanently prevent the funds from being returned to Russia, the Danish EU presidency announced. This means countries such as Hungary will not be able to veto future EU sanctions decisions extending the current freeze on Russian assets held in the bloc.

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Land disputes over unregistered Hindu religious sites have long fuelled racial tensions in Muslim-majority Malaysia, with the latest example involving unfounded claims that a public hospital in northern Penang state would be relocated to avoid "disturbing" a nearby temple. The now-deleted post cites a Malaysian minister, whose aide has lodged a police report against the social media user who made the false claim. The hospital's visitor's board said it proposed an expansion, not a relocation.