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A human sacrifice bridge rumour started circling on Facebook — then eight people were murdered

Out of control Facebook is more of a danger than any kind of help

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Eight people are killed in vigilante lynchings in Bangladesh sparked by rumours on social media of children being kidnapped and sacrificed as offerings for the construction of a bridge.

Boris Johnson: the clown is crowned as the country burns in hell | Hannah Jane Parkinson

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It’s 33C in London, 0.2% of the nation has spoken and a DUDE has lied his way about bananas and condoms to high office

Well, here we are then. Someone who could easily be rejected as a Guess Who character for looking too ridiculous is now to lead the country. A man whose DNA profile is the exact same as a Bernard Manning joke. A man who mentioned the 20 hustings he had taken part in, approximately 30 seconds after Conservative party chairman Brandon Lewis talked of the 16 hustings held.

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Drug-resistant malaria parasites ‘spreading aggressively’ across south-east Asia

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Up to 80% of the most common carriers of the disease are immune to the most common treatments, researchers find

Drug-resistant forms of malaria-causing parasites are spreading across south-east Asia leading to “alarmingly high” treatment failure rates of frontline medication, researchers have warned.

In twin studies published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they revealed that in parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia up to 80% of the most common malaria parasites were now resistant to the two most common antimalarial drugs.

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