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Island Nation: Australia Playing Double Game on Climate

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is criticizing Australia and questioning whether the country is suitable to host the COP31 climate summit next year, reports The Guardian. While waiting for a UN decision on which country to host it, Australia has decided to extend the North West Shelf fossil gas project by 40 years until 2070.

- This is not the leadership we want to see from Australia, says Vanuatu's Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu.

He accuses the Australian government of "playing double games", since Foreign Minister Penny Wong visited Vanuatu last in May and said that Australia must stop being "emission heavy". 

The tremors on Santorini
One death in Turkey after earthquake

A teenage girl has died in Turkey after an earthquake in the Mediterranean last night, reports AFP. Dozens were also injured as they tried to flee their homes in the city of Marmaris in panic, according to the country's interior minister.

The injuries occurred after several people jumped from windows or balconies.

According to SVT, fear of earthquakes in the region has affected tourism to, among other places, the Greek island of Santorini. A third of tourists are reported to have canceled their holidays there.

The earthquake occurred at 02, local time, and measured 5.8 on the Richter scale. The earthquake was also felt on the Greek island of Rhodes, writes TT.

Progress in cancer research
Cancer doctors warn of increased quackery on the Internet

More and more cancer patients are rejecting proven medicine in favor of "quackery" such as coffee enemas and raw juice diets, American oncologists warn in a new study according to The Guardian.

The misleading and false information spread online has worsened sharply over the past decade and is now a significant public health problem, say researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. According to them, alternative methods lead to the spread of cancer tumors and the unnecessary death of patients.

Julie Gralow, a physician and medical director of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, confirms the picture. She has several patients who have gone in search of “all-natural” treatments for cancer. In some cases, they have returned to her clinic after a few months, without results.

– In other cases, they have not come back. And then I have been told after some time that they have tragically died.