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What do we know about Princess Kates cancer diagnosis so far? Doctors share insights

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, says she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy after cancer was discovered followingabdominal surgeryearlier this year. The former Kate Middleton announced the news in a video message released Friday. Word of her diagnosis followed months of speculation about the 42-year-old princess’ health — speculation that only grew whena doctored imageof Kate and her children was released by …

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Princess Kate revealed she is undergoing treatment for a cancer diagnosis. What is preventative chemotherapy?

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, announced Friday that doctors discovered cancer in tests conducted after she underwent major abdominal surgery in January. The 42-year-old princess is now undergoing a course of preventative chemotherapy as advised by her medical team, she said in a video. Here is what that may involve. What is preventative chemotherapy? Preventative chemotherapy, which is usually referred …

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At least 40 killed and dozens injured in Moscow concert hall shooting; ISIS claims responsibility

Several gunmen burst into a large concert hall on the edge of Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with automatic gunfire, killing at least 40 people, injuring more than 100 others and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putincemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide. Moscow Mayor …

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Harry and Meghan speak out after Princess Kate cancer diagnosis

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, wished Kate, the Princess of Wales, “health and healing” for her and her family after the royal revealed her cancer diagnosis on Friday. “We wish health and healing for Kate and the family, and hope they are able to do so privately and in peace,” Harry and Meghan said in …

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Russia and China veto U.S. resolution calling for cease-fire in Gaza as Blinken visits Israel

Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Friday which would have declared “the imperative of an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in theIsrael-Hamas war. Russia’s ambassador to the U.N., Vassily Nebenzia, said the draft language did not go far enough, and that the council must “demand” a cease-fire. The vote came as Secretary of …

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Metal detectorist looking for World War II relics instead finds medieval papal artifact

A man using a metal detector to search for World War II relics found a medieval artifact in Poland, a local museum said. The Museum of the History of the Kamień Land announced the “unbelievable” find on Tuesday. According to the museum’s news release, a man identified as Jacek Ukowski found a piece of a “medieval leaded pope’s bull.” A …

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U.K. cracks down on synthetic opioid 10 times stronger than fentanyl causing overdoses in Europe

London —As authorities clamp down on fentanyl distribution and the amount of heroin produced in Afghanistan decreases under the Taliban, criminal enterprises have turned to a deadly alternative. Some health agencies in Europe are reporting a rise in deaths and overdoses from a type of synthetic opioid that can reportedly be hundreds of times stronger than heroin and up to …

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Shopkeeper on a tiny Scottish island hatches a charitable solution to his chocolate Easter egg blunder

London— It was a pretty routine order for Dan ap Dafydd. The shopkeeper on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands was just trying to get ahead of the looming Easter holiday rush by ordering chocolate eggs six months in advance. But when the order arrived, he faced a hare-raising dilemma. “I thought just 80 individual eggs were coming, but in reality I …

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Kates photo of Queen Elizabeth II with her grandkids flagged by Getty news agency as "enhanced at source"

London —A 2023 photo of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, credited to Catherine, the Princess of Wales, has been flagged as “digitally enhanced at source” by international photo agency, Getty. The move came after a more recent image, a British Mother’s Day photo released by Kensington Palace in March, was found to have been digitally …

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Blinken says all of Gaza facing acute food insecurity as U.S. pushes Netanyahu over his war plans

Tel Aviv— The entire population of the war-torn Gaza Strip — some 2.3 million people — is now living through “severe levels of acute food insecurity,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday. He spoke amid increasing signs that the U.S. government is losing patience with Israel over its handling of the war with Hamas. “According to the most …

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