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Japan pulls red mould supplement pill linked to deaths and hospitalisations

Kobayashi company recalls supplement brands with ‘benikoji’ ingredient after kidney complaints by customers. Japan has ordered the recall of health supplements believed to have killed two people and hospitalised more than 100. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical recalled three brands containing red yeast rice, or “benikoji”. The Osaka-based drugmaker said on Wednesday that it was investigating a suspected Read More

Human rights crisis in El Salvador ‘deepening’: Amnesty

Rights group says President Nayib Bukele has reduced gang violence by replacing it with state violence. As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele embarks on his second term in office, an international rights group has warned that his war on gangs has created a spiralling human rights crisis. As of February 2024, Bukele’s draconian two-year campaign, Read More

Fifth Circuit continues block on Texas immigration law

A divided appeals court said in a late-night ruling that a controversial Texas immigration law cannot go into effect as the state appeals a ruling that blocked it. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the 2-1 ruling regarding Senate Bill 4 on Tuesday night, just a week after it had previously blocked the Read More