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The last oneColorectal cancer rates are rising rapidly among adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s, and the most common warning sign for the disease is blood in the stool, according to a new scientific review.Rectal bleeding is associated with a five-fold increased risk of colorectal cancer, according to the new analysis, which looked at 81 studies that included nearly 25 million adults under 50 from around the world.Abdominal pain, changes in bowel habits and anemia are other common warning signs of the disease and should not be ignored, said the researchers, who published the paper Thursday in the journal JAMA Network Open.Because matterColon and rectal cancer rates have increased among young adults while rates have decreased among older adults, who are much more likely to undergo colonoscopi...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Moscow's forces were gathering for a new ground offensive in his country's northeast, a day after a Russian missile attack on a hardware hypermarket in the city of Kharkiv killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more. , according to Ukrainian officials.“Russia is the only source of aggression and constantly seeks to expand the war,” Zelensky said in a speech delivered in English inside the ruins of a publishing house in Kharkiv, destroyed last week by a Russian attack.“Russia is preparing for offensive actions,” about 60 miles northwest of Kharkiv, he said, adding that Moscow is gathering “another group of troops near our border.” Mr. Zelensky did not provide further details about the potential attack.Moscow surprised U...

A one-man startup believes it has an answer to the US government's concerns about Chinese-made drones dominating commercial sales in the American market.The CEO and founding partners of Anzu Robotics are all Americans, and the company is headquartered in Texas. The company's drones, which are expected to be used by law enforcement, utilities, architects and others, are assembled in Malaysia and run on servers located in Virginia.There's just one problem: Anzu has multiple, close ties to China and to DJI, the Shenzhen-based company targeted by legislative and regulatory efforts to curb Chinese drone sales in the United States.About half of Anzu's parts come from China. Much of its software originated there. Anzu has licensed its drone design to DJI, which receives payment...

Aid trucks from Egypt were expected to enter the devastated Gaza Strip on Sunday under a new U.S.-brokered deal to reopen a vital channel for humanitarian aid.Egypt has blocked aid from entering the enclave through its territory since Israel occupied the Rafah crossing - which provides access to southern Gaza - in early May. The two sides have traded blame for the closure of the crossing, even as aid has piled up on the Egyptian side. After pressure from the United States, Egypt announced Friday that it had agreed to divert trucks through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, which is about two miles from the Rafah crossing, as a temporary measure.About 200 trucks carrying food and other aid from Egypt entered Gaza through Kerem Shalom on Sunday, according to Ahmad Ezzat, an Egyp...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and provides behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism is born.Molly Mirhashem is used to running in circles, literally.Six days a week, Ms. Mirhashem runs near her home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Much of her weekly mileage takes place on the same approximately 3.5-mile loop at a nearby park. Her training will come in handy: This weekend she will run the Buffalo Marathon in upstate New York. It will be the ninth time she has run 22 kilometers since she first became passionate about the marathon in 2017.Ms. Mirhashem, a fitness editor at Well Desk, came to the New York Times last month from Outside Magazine, where she spent eight years assigning and editing articles on health and wellness, among other responsibilities.One of his...

For generations, the residents of Collyweston – a village in central England nestled against the River Welland – have passed down stories of a great Tudor palace, of royal processions through the valley below, of a king's mother who had called it home.For hundreds of years, the stories persisted, even as memory of where the palace stood faded. But the tradition suddenly came to life when a handful of amateur historians unearthed parts of the long-lost palace, buried under a few meters of earth. Historians at the University of York verified their findings.“We're a small village with a small group of enthusiasts, and what we've achieved here is nothing short of a miracle,” said Chris Close, 49, president of the Collyweston Historical and Preservation Society. “You know, it'...

In its lawsuit accusing Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, of being an illegal monopoly, the Justice Department drew on a series of internal communications that offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at the industry.The Justice Department argued in a sweeping complaint filed Thursday that the 2010 merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster had harmed competition, hindered innovation and resulted in increased ticket prices and fees for consumers. He asked for the company to be dissolved.In response, Live Nation, which is also the world's largest concert promoter, said it was not a monopoly and denied it had unilateral power to raise prices. Contrary to the government's arguments about its great power, Live Nation says it now faces more competition than...

Diplomats aim to restart ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas by next week, according to three officials briefed on the process, rekindling hopes of an end to the fighting in Gaza even as Israel presses ahead with its campaign. There.According to officials, preliminary talks took place this weekend in Paris between David Barnea, director of Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency; William J. Burns, the director of the CIA; and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, a key mediator between Israel and Hamas. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.For months, Qatar, the United States and Egypt have tried to persuade Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and prisoner exchange that could help end the ...

Countries around the world have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unite the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic, overcoming the nationalist ethos that emerged during Covid-19.The deliberations, which were expected to form a central point of the weekly meeting of the World Health Assembly starting Monday in Geneva, aimed to correct inequalities in access to vaccines and treatments between richer and poorer nations that have become evident during the Covid pandemic. .While much of the urgency around Covid has disappeared since treaty negotiations began two years ago, public health experts are still keenly aware of the pandemic potential of emerging pathogens, familiar threats such as avian influenza and disease, and once eradicated diseases s...

Russia bombed a hardware superstore in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon, killing at least six people and wounding at least 40 others, Ukrainian officials said. The attack was the latest in a prolonged bombing campaign against the city that has made life increasingly difficult and dangerous for civilians.Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, said 16 people were still missing, suggesting the death toll could rise. He added that another airstrike on Saturday in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, wounded at least 14 people.“For the whole day, Kharkiv was under Russian terrorist attacks. The airstrike in the Kharkiv region has been ongoing for more than 12 hours,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on soc...