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‘They’ve invented a spurious pseudo-disease’: why are so many men being told they have low testosterone?
NEWS | 10 May 2026
But because men’s natural testosterone levels vary so widely, “to have a true diagnosis of male hypogonadism, you need low testosterone, but you also need key symptoms”, Jayasena says. This isn’t the first time the company has taken a somewhat loose approach to accepted definitions of low testosterone. “They’ve invented a spurious pseudo-disease called ‘low testosterone’ from which vast numbers of men are said to suffer,” says Dr Richard Quinton, a consultant endocrinologist and a co-author of the Society for Endocrinology’s guidelines on testosterone replacement. double quotation mark Was I fat so I had low testosterone, or was my low testosterone causing me to be fat? “Was I fat so I had low testosterone, or was my low testosterone causing me to be fat?

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Nobel laureate’s smuggled memoir details beatings and neglect in Iranian prisons
NEWS | 10 May 2026
In an exclusive extract of writing smuggled from prison in Iran, the Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has described the “torture” of solitary confinement, and her systematic medical neglect by the prison system. It details beatings, constant interrogations, deprivation of medical care and long stretches in solitary confinement during her numerous imprisonments. Requests by her family and doctors for her to receive proper medical treatment from her team of surgeons in Tehran were repeatedly denied. She has been sentenced to a total of 44 years in prison and 154 lashes across a number of convictions. The campaigner was awarded the Nobel peace prize while in prison in 2023, during the Women, Life, Freedom protests.

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‘Blindfolded, I sat down slowly. Then the interrogation began’: Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi on the torture of solitary confinement
NEWS | 10 May 2026
The most delusional element of solitary confinement is time itself. Occasionally, the ringing of a bell shattered the cell’s abrasive silence and broke through the long, echoing loneliness of the solitary confinement corridor. Instead, they ring the bell, and a female warden retrieves the prisoner.’ A female prison guard in Tehran’s Evin prison. Solitary confinement is one of the great unknowns – and once it envelopes you, it fills you with terror and dread. Before my arrest, one of our activities had been protesting the use of solitary confinement against our family members.

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First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Tenerife – Europe live
NEWS | 10 May 2026
From 1h ago 07.31 EDT First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship has left Tenerife We have some updates from Tenerife, where a small group of Spanish passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has reportedly left on a plane for the Gómez Ulla Central Defense hospital in Madrid. Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images Share Updated at 08.00 EDT1h ago 07.31 EDT First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship has left Tenerife We have some updates from Tenerife, where a small group of Spanish passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship has reportedly left on a plane for the Gómez Ulla Central Defense hospital in Madrid. View image in fullscreen People wearing blue protective suits are evacuated on a boat from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius. View image in fullscreen Passengers are being disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius. View image in fullscreen Police in the port of Granadilla as efforts begin to evacuate passengers on MV Hondius.

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Passengers begin evacuating cruise ship hit by hantavirus
NEWS | 10 May 2026
An evacuation has begun of passengers onboard a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of hantavirus. View image in fullscreen The first passengers to be evacuated have been taken by coach to Tenerife airport to fly home. View image in fullscreen Passengers and crew on the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius after arriving at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife. The polar cruise ship arrived at the Canary Islands after spending days stranded off the coast of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde. On 2 May, a German passenger died onboard the ship after also testing positive for the virus.

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‘Empty and vapid’ CDC finally responds to hantavirus outbreak. But experts say it’s too little, too late
NEWS | 10 May 2026
The CDCs limited role in responding to the hantavirus outbreak is raising questions, including whether it now has a diminished role in responding to health scares. The hantavirus outbreak was reported to the WHO on 2 May; a notice issued two days later updated to seven confirmed or suspected cases. It wasn’t until Thursday that the CDC activated its 24/7 emergency center in Atlanta to monitor the recent hantavirus outbreak and classified it at its lowest activation level. “The CDC is not even a player,” said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University, told the AP. Photograph: APThe hantavirus outbreak is “a sentinel event” that speaks to “how well the country is prepared for a disease threat.

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Vladimir Putin suggests Ukraine war is ‘coming to an end’
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down, hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years and even as two of his senior aides played down the notion of a quick end to the conflict. “I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin said of Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. However, two top Kremlin representatives played down any idea of a quick end to the war. With no victory in sight and no timeline for an end to the war, the mood in Russia is souring. In 2022, after the war broke out, Zelenskyy called Schröder “disgusting” for meeting Putin and speaking in the Russian leader’s favour.

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Ukraine war briefing: Moscow and Kyiv trade accusations of violating ceasefire
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down – remarks that came a few hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years. Casualties were still reported on both sides, as Moscow and Kyiv continued to exchange drone strikes. In Russia’s western Belgorod region, three people were wounded by Ukrainian drone strikes, said the governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov. No attacks were recorded on Russia’s diminished Victory Day parade on Red Square . Russia and Ukraine on Saturday traded accusations of violating a three-day ceasefire , but no major strikes were reported.

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Russia will always be victorious, says Putin at scaled-back Victory Day parade
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Vladimir Putin has declared Russia will always be victorious as he oversaw a scaled-back Victory Day parade on Red Square held under heavy security amid mounting fears of Ukrainian attacks and growing public fatigue with the war. Victory has always been and will always be ours.”Despite the confident rhetoric, this year’s parade laid bare a moment of acute weakness for the Russian president. On the eve of the parade, the US president, Donald Trump, announced Russia and Ukraine had agreed to a three-day ceasefire and prisoner exchange. The customary display of missiles and armoured vehicles, a fixture of the parade since Putin introduced military hardware in 2017, was absent entirely. View image in fullscreen Russian soldiers, who were involved in the military campaign in Ukraine, march in a military parade on Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow.

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Cape Verde bets on tech to reverse postcolonial brain drain
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Now, almost 150 years since slavery was abolished in Cape Verde, and just over 50 years since independence from Portugal, Pedro Fernandes Lopes wants the country to become a beacon for the free movement of human and financial capital across the African diaspora. The ministry already provides public services for the approximately 529,000 people living in Cape Verde’s 10 islands, as well as its vast diaspora, which is estimated to be three to four times larger than the country’s population. Photograph: Ricci Shryock“Companies can develop their activities from Cape Verde, work remotely with clients [worldwide] and do it in conditions [that are] at once technically and economically competitive,” she said. View image in fullscreen Workers at Cabo Verde Digital, a government programme to promote innovation and entrepreneurship, in their office at TechParkCV. Photograph: Ricci Shryock/The GuardianSome within the ecosystem say startups are overreliant on government support.

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Iran threatens US sites in Middle East if tankers come under fire
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have threatened to target US sites in the Middle East if its tankers come under fire, Iranian media reported on Saturday, as Washington was left waiting for Tehran’s response to its latest negotiating position. “Any attack on Iranian tankers and commercial vessels will result in a heavy attack on one of the American centres in the region and enemy ships,” the force said, a day after US strikes on two Iranian tankers in the Gulf of Oman. On Friday, a US fighter jet fired on and disabled two Iranian-flagged tankers that Washington accused of challenging its blockade of Iran’s ports. Oil slick appears off Kharg IslandMeanwhile, satellite images have shown an apparent oil slick spreading off the coast of Iran’s Kharg Island, a key oil export terminal for Iran. View image in fullscreen This satellite image appears to show an oil slick spreading off the coast of Kharg Island.

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Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company reported a 26% jump in profits in its first quarter as its east-west pipeline allowed it to ship millions of barrels of oil out of the Gulf despite conflict in the Middle East. Profits at Saudi Aramco hit $33.6bn (£26.9bn) in the first three months of the year, while revenue rose nearly 7% compared with a year earlier to $115.5bn. The boost in profits came even as Aramco grappled with attacks on its infrastructure and a halt to exports through its Gulf ports. Aramco’s east-west pipeline allows it to ship oil from its east coast to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. Aramco, which is headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, employs more than 76,000 people globally and is one of the biggest businesses and oil producers in the world.

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Trump news at a glance: Marco Rubio hopes for ‘serious offer’ from Iran on ceasefire proposal
NEWS | 10 May 2026
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said Washington is expecting a response from Iran to its proposals for an interim deal to end the conflict in the Middle East, as Iran accused the US of breaching the increasingly fragile ceasefire announced last month. In recent days there have been the biggest flare-ups in and around the contested strait of Hormuz since the informal truce began. The rise in violence followed Donald Trump’s announcement – then rapid pause – of a new naval mission aimed at opening the strategic waterway. But diplomatic efforts continue despite the clashes, with mediators Pakistan passing a brief memorandum to Iran that the US has said could act as a basis for a more solid ceasefire and allow new talks. Here’s what happened on Friday 8 May 2026.

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Pardoned January 6 rioter sentenced to seven years for Virginia burglary
NEWS | 10 May 2026
Henrico county, Virginia, officers alleged that Alam broke into a home just outside the state capital of Richmond on 8 May 2025. That echoed comments he delivered at his US Capitol attack sentencing hearing: “I believed in my heart I was doing the right thing. The Trump administration later reached a $5m settlement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his slain supporter’s family. However, Taylor’s statement alluded to how the president’s clemency was powerless with respect to the Virginia state charges for which Alam was convicted in October. The arrest in Henrico which culminated in Alam’s sentencing on Thursday was believed to the first post-clemency incidence of new charges for a pardoned US Capitol attacker.