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Life expectancy in the United States has declined for the first time in more than two decades, according to a new report, a development linked to a range of worsening health problems in the country. US death rate increased 1.2 percent last year, the first time it has increased since 1993 and that led to a 0.1 percent drop in life expectancy, according to a report released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. American males could expect to live 76.3 years at birth last year, down from 76.5 in 2014. Females could expect to live to 81.2 years, down from 81.3 the previous year, the report said. Rising fatalities from heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, drug overdoses, accidents and other conditions caused the lower life expectancy. More than 2.7 million people died last year, about 45 percent of them from heart disease or cancer. “ I think we should be very concerned, ” said Anne Case, a Princeton University economist who u

‘ We were living in security and peace. These areas are being targeted, they want to force us to leave. Every Syrian is being targeted,’ one Syrian religious leader told a delegation of reporters who visited Aleppo earlier this month. by Eva Bartlett Part 6 - Displaced by terrorists For around four years, simple shelters at the Hafez al-Assad Mosque have housed around 1,000 people, all Sunni families displaced from areas occupied by militants. Most of those with whom I spoke listed similar reasons for leaving their homes and described being in fear for their lives because of the terrorist presence. “ They came and destroyed houses and killed civilians before they attacked the state. The army is protecting us, it’s the gangs [that] are the ones destroying the country, ” one man told me. He said his two brothers in terrorist-controlled areas in eastern Aleppo are “ not allowed to leave. ” “ They’ve tried many times but they are prevented. If the armed

Twenty-one years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, a NATO exercise, Able Archer 83, came terrifyingly close to precipitating an accidental nuclear war. National Security Archive When “Blue’s” limited attack failed to stop “Orange” forces, NATO commanders proposed “follow on use of nuclear weapons” – essentially a carte blanche escalation – which they duly executed on the morning of November 11. Only then, with almost nothing left to destroy, did Able Archer 83, the NATO war game designed to practice the release of nuclear weapons during wartime conditions, come to an end. While the 1983 nuclear conflagration was fictional, the top military and political leaders involved were entirely real, and the war game they enacted was based wholly on global strategic realities. Now available to purchase, Able Archer 83 , by the National Security Archive’s Nate Jones, tells the story of this dangerous but largely unknown nuclear exercise, the generals who ran it,

WikiLeaks WikiLeaks has released a cache of thousands of personal emails allegedly from the account of senior Turkish government minister Berat Albayrak, son-in-law of the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which it says shows the extent of links between Mr Albayrak and a company implicated in deals with Isis-controlled oil fields. The 60,000 strong searchable cache, released on Monday, spans the time period between April 2000 - September 23 2016, and shows Mr Albayrak had intimate knowledge of staffing and salary issues at Powertrans, a company which was controversially given a monopoly on the road and rail transportation of oil into the country from Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkish media reported in 2014 and 2015 that Powertrans has been accused of mixing in oil produced by Isis in neighbouring Syria and adding it to local shipments which eventually reached Turkey, although the charges have not been substantiated by any solid evidence. Mr Albay

Διασυνδέσεις του γαμπρού του Ερντογάν με την εταιρεία Powertrans, η οποία εμπλέκεται σε υποθέσεις εισαγωγής πετρελαίου από το ISIS αλλά και οργανωμένες προσπάθειες χειραγώγησης των μέσων ενημέρωσης από το καθεστώς Ερντογάν αποκαλύπτουν τα email του Μπεράτ Αλμπαϊράκ που δόθηκαν στη δημοσιότητα από τον ιστότοπο Wikileaks. Πρόκειται για 57.934 email από τον προσωπικό λογαριασμό του υπουργού Ενέργειας της Τουρκίας και γαμπρού του προέδρου Ρετζέπ Ταγίπ Ερντογάν και τα οποία αφορούν μια χρονική περίοδο συνολικά 16 ετών, από τον Απρίλιο του 2000 μέχρι τις 23 Σεπτέμβρη του 2016 και αποκαλύπτουν την επικοινωνία που είχε ο Αλμπαϊράκ με άτομα της τουρκικής ελίτ όπως πολιτικούς, επιχειρηματίες και μεγάλα ονόματα της Τουρκίας. Τα email φέρνουν στην επιφάνεια την έντονη επιρροή του υπουργού σε διάφορους χώρους της πολιτικής ζωής στην Τουρκία, ενώ προδίδουν και την οργανωμένη προπαγάνδα του Ερντογάν στον χώρο των μέσων επικοινωνίας κατά το διάστημα πριν και μετά το αποτυχημέ