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‘Ferritin face’: are social media claims about iron deficiency fact – or fiction?

Experts say symptoms such as dark circles under the eyes, grey skin, cracked lips and hair loss can be a warning sign – but there are other factors too TikTok is rife with influencers warning of “ferritin face”, a term they use to describe the pallor, dark circles, dry skin, and hair loss claimed to indicate low iron stores. But is this based on fact or fiction, and when is it time to head to the GP? Continue reading...

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International

ウクライナ南部の局地的な停戦、ヘルソン州全域に拡大と当局者

ロシアが占領するウクライナ南部へルソン州オレシュキで始まった局地的な停戦について、同市のあるヘルソン州のより広い地域にまで拡大されたもようだ。この停戦は、人道支援物資の搬入と民間人の避難を可能にすることを目的としている。ドニプロ川の南岸に位置するオレシュキでは現在、数千人の住民が、食料、水、電気のない状態で閉じ込められている。

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How rising seas transformed dry land into Venice lagoon

Scientists uncover ancient hills and swamps that disappeared as sea levels rose across northern Adriatic Venice is famed for being a floating city, but research shows the land it sits on once lay many miles inland. Dramatic changes in sea level over 10,000 years have reshaped the northern Adriatic coastline, with much of the land that our ancestors roamed now lying beneath the waves. Samuele Ongaro, at the University of Southampton, and colleagues combined seismic data with sedimentary cores from the coastal basins of northern Italy, Slovenia and northern Croatia to model changes in sea level

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International

Exit polls show no clear winner in Israeli general election, with neither ruling nor opposition party expected to reach a majority

Votes were counted in Israel's general election (120 seats, proportional representation system) on the 27th. Exit polls carried out by multiple local TV shows that neither the ruling nor opposition parties are able to secure a majority. This general election was the first since October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian armed group Hamas led an attack on Israel, and in response, Israel began its offensive against the Palestinian Gaza Strip.

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Starshield at minimum wages: what Musk, Trump and Zelensky argued about

SpaceX Internet in Ukraine has started working again. However, the story of its slowdown has left behind many questions, the main one of which is who made the decision to limit it and why? The BBC Russian service tried to understand the peculiarities of the provision of services by SpaceX to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the claims that Elon Musk made against them.

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