As genocide rages, doctors must choose: Care or collaborationism | Israel-Palestine conflict

As genocide rages, doctors must choose: Care or collaborationism | Israel-Palestine conflict

ByNews Polite

“The physician is the natural attorney of the poor” was a slogan Rudolf Virchow, a wealthy German pathologist, politician and social medicine activist, helped popularise in the mid-nineteenth century. More than 100 years later, Frantz Fanon – a Martinican-born psychiatrist who resigned from his position in the French medical system…

Data Breach in US Exposes Personal Information of 2,37,000 Federal Employees

Data Breach in US Exposes Personal Information of 2,37,000 Federal Employees

ByNews Polite

The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the US Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday. The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs. It…

North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel long-range missile
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North Korea says it tested new solid-fuel long-range missile

ByNews Polite

North Korea said Friday it flight-tested a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, a possible breakthrough in its efforts to acquire a more powerful, harder-to-detect weapon targeting the continental United States. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency issued the report a day after the country’s neighbors detected a…

China Lashes Out Against New US Chip Export Rules Aimed at Hobbling Its Semiconductor Industry

China Lashes Out Against New US Chip Export Rules Aimed at Hobbling Its Semiconductor Industry

ByNews Polite

China on Saturday criticized the latest US decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will “isolate and backfire” on the US. “Out of the need to maintain its…