(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest: Malaria vaccine to be produced on massive scale [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-02 BBC There are already agreements in place to manufacture more than 100 million doses a year. Malaria kills mostly babies and infants, and has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity. The vaccine has been developed by the University of Oxford and is only the second malaria vaccine to be developed. A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO). Abercrombie & Fitch ex-CEO accused of exploiting men for sex BBC Mr Jeffries and Mr Smith did not respond to requests for comment. Eight men told the BBC they attended these events, some of whom alleged they were exploited or abused. A BBC investigation found a highly organised network used a middleman to find young men for the events with Mike Jeffries and Matthew Smith. The ex-CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch and his British partner face allegations of exploitation from men recruited for sex events they hosted around the world. The Guardian, Australia In autumn, the moths fly back to mate, lay eggs and die. Their progeny repeat the voyage without any experience of it – a feat that has long puzzled researchers. ‘It usually looks like the scales of a fish if you go into these caves during the summer,’ said Professor Eric Warrant, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden. ‘It’s absolutely amazing.’ Arriving in late September from their breeding grounds, up to 17 000 moths pack each square metre of cave wall and lie in a dormant state in a southeast mountain range known as the Australian Alps. Grey-brown bogong moths may not be much to look at, but every year they perform a nocturnal journey worthy of attention. Billions of them fly as many as 1 000 kilometres from plains in eastern Australia to mountain caves to escape the summer heat. The inquiry, which begins hearing evidence on Tuesday for its second stage examining the government’s handling of the pandemic, had requested key communications sent during the pandemic, from the end of January 2020 to the end of February 2022. In his witness statement to the public inquiry, seen by the Guardian, the prime minister claimed that he did “not have access” to the messages during the period running the Treasury because he had changed his phone several times and failed to back them up. Rishi Sunak has failed to hand over his WhatsApp messages from his time as chancellor to the Covid inquiry despite the high court ruling that ministers should disclose their communications for scrutiny. Taplin, who has worked as a native title practitioner for several Aboriginal land councils, says people are being targeted online and in person with messages saying native title is “slave’s title” or “you’re actually signing the land away”. Senior anthropologist Pascale Taplin is the lead author of a new paper warning sovereign citizen conspiracists are exploiting the concept of Indigenous sovereignty to target Aboriginal communities, disrupting native title claims in the process. Indigenous Australians are backing out of participating in native title claims after being targeted by proponents of a racist conspiracy theory exported from the US, according to new research. Now 24 and living in Melbourne, he says the habit led to drug use, as well as mental health issues that he is “only just starting to recover from”. He remembers gambling away $500 in birthday money when he was 12. “I was late to school because I didn’t want to leave my computer,” he says. Steven* was just 10 years old when he started gambling online, an addiction that by the age of 15 would see him lose about $2,000 and grappling with embarrassment and despair. Exclusive: A Guardian Australia investigation has found an increase in the number of young people seeking help for problem gambling, with calls for urgent action Deutsche Welle The intended optics during the visit of Josep Borrell, the top diplomat of the European Union, to Kyiv were unambiguous. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, Borrell hailed the visit as "historic." Monday marked the first time EU foreign ministers gathered in Kyiv for a meeting outside of the bloc's borders. But, Borrell said, early-stage EU accession candidate Ukraine, would one day lie within the bloc's frontiers. "We are here to express our solidarity and support to the Ukrainian people," Borrell wrote on X, formerly Twitter, at the start of talks. Deutsche Welle With most such facilities closed on weekends and Tuesday October 3 being a bank holiday in Germany, the strike was timed to create a four-day gap without local non-emergency services for many people. A patients' organization accused striking doctors of choosing a tactic that would "primarily affect the sick and the weak," and said it showed that patients were not treated like the customers they ultimately are in a system predominantly paid for by health care consumers and their employers. What is the strike about? Thousands of health professionals walked off the job in protest to government health polices that they say are failing to help them cover rising costs, while at the same time overloading them with bureaucracy. Al Jazeera The Maldives has a population of half a million people scattered across more than 1,000 islands. But last weekend, the picturesque archipelago delivered an electoral verdict that has sent shock waves around the world — and especially across the Indian Ocean region. Mohamed Muizzu, the opposition candidate, emerged victorious in the presidential run-off on Saturday and secured 54 percent of the vote, results released by the electoral commission showed. Muizzu, who backs closer ties between the Maldives and China, defeated the incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who is widely perceived as pro-India. “With today’s result, we have got the opportunity to build the country’s future,” Muizzu said in a statement after his victory. “The strength to ensure the freedom of Maldives.” All Jazeera More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever this year, official data shows – nearly four times more than in the whole of last year. At least 1,017 people have died in the first nine months of 2023 and nearly 209,000 have become infected, making it the country’s worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease since the first tallied epidemic in 2000. Among the dead are 112 children aged 15 and under, including infants. Hospitals in Bangladesh are struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely-populated South Asian country. Dengue is a disease endemic to tropical areas and causes high fevers, headaches, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain and, in the most serious cases, bleeding that can lead to death. 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