@ryanscottborman @Frasier67Blank @_ryanruby_ That isn't what the claim is, just that the research might have been federally funded. UKRI is much more likely to have paid for it.
Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of childhood lead exposure, which causes permanent brain damage.
Nearly all children here have significant lead poisoning.
Researchers in the US have found the source of the lead. But nobody has told the Afghan public.
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@gtinebike@RoyalNavy@RNASCuldrose "Curbing fuel bills" means they can spend more money on things that go bang in the future. Reading the article it rather looks like the existing systems were due for replacement anyway.
Yesterday an Iranian girl at the university in Tehran was attacked by the ‘morality Police’ for not wearing her hijab properly so she took off her clothes in protest. This artwork says everything about the struggle of women inside Iran and the smallness of the regime that oppresses them.
@BobbyF03545868@PippaCrerar Tesco alone that's 220,000 people who are getting a pay rise. All the other supermarkets are similar. Don't think they're at risk of closure!