With the iOS 15 launch today, some iPhone users will have the option to share data from their Health app directly with their doctors through their electronic medical records. Six health record companies are participating in the initial launch, and some of those companies say that doctors and medical practices on their systems are eager to start using the feature. People who use the option can use the new sharing function on the Health app to let their doctor see data like their heart rate and time spent exercising, as collected through the Health app. It could help physicians keep…
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Taliban and IS are hardline Sunni Islamist groups, but they differ on the issues of religion and strategy, which has led to bloody fighting between the two. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in the city of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, the group’s Amaaq News Agency said on its Telegram channel on Sunday. Amaaq News Agency said that “three separate bomb attacks” targeting three “Taliban vehicles” in Jalalabad on Saturday, and another “bomb attack” Sunday on “a Taliban vehicle”. “More than 35 Taliban militia members were killed or wounded, in a series of explosions that…
IAEA issued a report last month saying Pyongyang appeared to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons. Reuters | , Vienna PUBLISHED ON SEP 20, 2021 03:06 PM IST North Korea’s nuclear programme is going “full steam ahead”, UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said in a speech to an annual meeting of his agency’s member states on Monday.”In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, (the) nuclear programme goes full steam ahead with work on plutonium separation, uranium enrichment and other activities,” said Grossi, who issued a report last month saying…
All Indian students at a medical university in the Russian city of Perm are unhurt, the Indian embassy said on Monday after a student opened fire and killed at least eight people and wounded several. “Shocked at horrific attack at Perm State University in Russia; our deep condolences for loss of life and best wishes for early recovery of those injured,” the Indian embassy in Russia tweeted. “Embassy is in touch with local authorities and representatives of Indian students. All Indian students at Perm State Medical University are safe,” it added. Shocked at horrific attack at Perm State University in…
With just over half of the votes counted, Kadyrov won 99.6% in the polls, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. AFP | UPDATED ON SEP 20, 2021 02:57 PM IST The strongman leader of Russia’s Chechnya republic, Kadyrov, won over 99 percent of the region’s votes in this weekend’s parliamentary elections, state media said Monday.Kadyrov, a former warlord and ally of President Vladimir Putin, has ruled the predominantly Muslim region for more than a decade and has formed a cult around his family name.With just over half of the votes counted, Kadyrov won 99.6 percent in the polls, according…
Satellites spotted a large plume of methane leaking from one of Pakistan’s largest cities last month.The cloud was seen over Lahore on Aug. 6 and had an emissions rate of about 126 metric tons of methane an hour, according to an estimate from geoanalytics firm Kayrros SAS. That amount of the greenhouse gas would have roughly the same short-term climate warming impact as the annual emissions of 6,200 cars in the UK. A second, smaller plume was seen above the city on Aug. 31, emitting about 39 tons of methane an hour. Methane plume over Lakhodair landfill in Lahore, Pakistan, spotted on July 1, 2021.(GHGSat/Bloomberg) Methane is…
China on Monday launched a second unmanned cargo spacecraft, which will join the core module of the country’s under-construction space station carrying supplies for future missions, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said.The robotic Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft was launched at 3pm (China time) on a Long March 7 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s Hainan province. “China launched cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-3 on Monday to deliver supplies for its under-construction space station,” the official news agency Xinhua said, quoting CMSA.The Tianzhou-3 is carrying supplies including water and propellant to sustain missions in the future and will…
A student opened fire on a university campus in central Russia on Monday killing at least eight people, investigators said, in the second mass shooting at an education facility this year.Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said several people were also injured in the attack at Perm State University and that the suspect had been wounded while being detained.Investigators previously said that five people were killed and another six wounded.Russia has relatively few school shootings due to normally tight security in education facilities and because of difficulty of buying firearms legally, although it is possible to register hunting rifles.Videos…
Pyongyang has said it would take action if a new Indo-Pacific alliance between the US, Australia and the UK had “even the smallest negative effect” on North Korea’s security.North Korea said Monday that a US-Australia submarine deal, coupled with the new Indo-Pacific defense pact between the US, Australia and United Kingdom, could cause an “arms race.”State media quoted a foreign ministry official as saying: “These are extremely undesirable and dangerous acts which will upset the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific region and trigger off a chain of nuclear arms race.”What caused the row between France and Australia?Last week, France recalled…
The Taliban have said they will establish “a potent and effective administration” under the Sharia law for women as they kept girls out of school and ordered women employees in the Kabul city government to “stay home”, according to a local report. Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said that the administration will be created in the framework of Islamic principles and there is no need to give it the name of a ministry or its sub-division, reported The Khaama Press News Agency.The Khaama Press said Mujahid, who is also the Taliban deputy minister of information and culture, has said in his…