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Oil pulling can treat bad breath, study finds

(NaturalNews) Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic practice that involves swishing oil around the mouth for 15 to 20 minutes to kill harmful oral bacteria. In addition to being a popular folk remedy in its native India, oil pulling became known in the West when a Ukrainian oncologist…

Oil pulling can treat bad breath, study finds

(NaturalNews) Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic practice that involves swishing oil around the mouth for 15 to 20 minutes to kill harmful oral bacteria. In addition to being a popular folk remedy in its native India, oil pulling became known in the West when a Ukrainian oncologist…

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Hiroshima survivors: haunted 70 years on, determined to remember

By Kiyoshi Takenaka HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Hiroshi Harada remembers how his leg sank into one of the bodies blocking a narrow Hiroshima street 70 years ago, as he fled the spreading fire ignited by the atomic bomb. Then it was very hard to pull my leg out … To escape, I had no choice,” said Harada, the 75-year-old former head of an atomic bomb museum. “But Hiroshima needs to

Hundreds protest against pollution from south China coal plant

Hundreds of people in China’s southern Guangdong province protested against the expansion of a coal-fired power plant on Sunday, state media reported, the latest sign of public discontent over pollution. Residents had complained of smog in Heyuan city since the power plant there began operations in 2008, and officials recently approved a second phase for the project, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Risk of Ebola spreading to other countries appears to be falling: WHO

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – West Africa’s Ebola epidemic still poses a threat to other countries but the risk of it spreading internationally appears to be diminishing as the areas affected shrink, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The U.N. agency declared in August 2014 that the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, which began in December 2013, represented a “public health emergency of international concern” that forced health

Father, brother, uncle arrested after Indian teen alleges years of rape

By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The father, uncle and brother of a 16-year-old girl in eastern India have been arrested accused of raping her repeatedly over a period of two years, police said on Saturday. The girl told a school teacher in Dhupguri town in West Bengal state on Thursday after being too scared to speak out previously. She alleged that her uncle also raped her