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Qasa Alom, a presenter of the BBC, has shared photos of him in a hospital bed on his Instagram account revealing that he was “battling” a health issue.
BBC presenter Qasa Alom was taken to the hospital after ‘battling his body with a health issue’. The rising star, who recently hosted BBC’s Today at Wimbledon, took to his Instagram page to share a carousel of pictures of himself at the hospital recovering from his illness. In the first snap, he threw up the peace sign while sitting on a hospital bed.
He continued, “I can’t say the last few weeks have been easy… I’ve been battling my body with a health issue since the middle of Wimbledon.” I put off getting medical attention because I simply didn’t want to miss The Championships (error). It eventually became too much and then “escaloped”
He also shared pictures of a nurse taking blood and a picture of himself being wheeled into an ambulance on a stretcher. In his post, Qasa thanked the NHS for being ‘brilliant in giving him the care he needed’. It comes after reports of all the celebrities rumoured to be joining BBC Strictly Come Dancing 2025.
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The actress called it “a real wake-up call for all those young, seemingly fit people out there seeing this” in the media. No matter how high your heart rate is when you’re resting, or how good your VO2 max is, no matter how many chia seeds you consume or observe interval fasts… You can control what can happen inside of our bodies, which will knock you out for six.
Respect your body and its limitations. One is all we have. Thankful to my family for assisting me through a challenging time and now the recovery journey.
His fans and friends emailed well wishes through the comments section. Sending lots of love, friend, according to one user! “and another posted: “So glad you’re feeling better. “
“Ah, sorry to hear Qasa, rest up and recover well,” one commentator wrote, “Sorry bro, sending love and light, I hope you’re bouncing back. “
Qasa joined the BBC in 2010, starting in local radio. He made a Radio 4 series and soon progressed to being a Midlands Today television newsreader.
The presenters soon appeared on BBC1 in a half-hour documentary about JRR Tolkien called Books That Made Britain: “Factories to Middle Earth in 2016. A year later, he directed a film about Muslim women in Birmingham called Crossing Birmingham’s Invisible Borders.
He received the Radio Presenter of the Year Award at the 2020 Asian Media Awards for his work on the BBC Asian Network.
He has covered The Boat Race and the 2022 Commonwealth Games. In 2023, Qasa was announced as the new presenter of the BBC’s daily flagship tennis highlights programme for Today at Wimbledon.
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Trump appoints task force to ensure ‘safe, seamless’ LA Olympics
United States President Donald Trump established a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games being held in Los Angeles that he said would ensure the event is “safe, seamless and historically successful”.
The 2028 games will be the first Olympics to be hosted by the US since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“The LA Olympics is shaping up to be a wonderful moment for America. It’s going to be incredible. It’s so exciting”, Trump said on Tuesday as he signed an executive order at the White House establishing the task force.
The White House did not immediately release the text of the order or details about the task force’s work.
At the event, Trump praised Gene Sykes, chair of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) board of directors, for the USOPC’s move to effectively bar transgender women from competing in women’s sports.
“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women at the 2028 Olympics”, Trump said.
He questioned why he did not hear applause from the room when he praised Sykes for this, and then received some claps from some people in the room.
Trump “considers it a great honour to oversee this global sporting spectacle”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, calling sport one of the president’s “greatest passions”.
LA28 president and chair Casey Wasserman said the task force “marks an important step forward in our planning efforts and reflects our shared commitment to delivering not just the biggest, but the greatest Games the world has ever seen in the summer of 2028”.
During a briefing Tuesday afternoon, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the task force would “coordinate across federal, state and local agencies to ensure streamlined visa processes, robust security and efficient transportation”.
Members of the task force include Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, among others, Trump announced Tuesday.
Along with the 2028 games, Trump has said that the 2026 FIFA World Cup, being hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico, is among the events he is most looking forward to in his second term.
UN says nearly 60,000 displaced by heavy fighting in northern Mozambique
According to a UN report, nearly 60 000 people have reportedly fled Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province in two weeks as a result of a long-running uprising by ISIL (ISIS).
In a statement released on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) claimed that 57, 034 people, or 13, 343 families, had been displaced as a result of the escalating attacks that started on July 20.
More than 42, 000 people were forced to live in Chire, with the majority of them children, according to the IOM, making it the hardest-hit area.
According to Paola Emerson, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “a total of 30 000 displaced people have received food, water, shelter, and essential household items.”
In the upcoming days, OCHA, according to Emerson, will increase its assistance. In light of the United States and other nations’ cuts to international aid, she said, “The response, however, is not yet at the scale required to meet growing needs.”
She continued, “Life-saving aid is being reduced due to funding cuts.” Only 19% of the pledges have been made so far for the UN’s 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan for Mozambique.
The organization added that involuntary relocations, as well as the lack of safety and documentation, were contributing to the protection risks.
The Southern African country has been fighting a rebellion in the north for at least eight years against a group known as al-Shabab,  , despite having no connections to the Somali fighters of the same name. Mozambique is being helped by Rwandan soldiers.
According to conflict tracking service ACLED, more than 6 100 people have died since the start of the insurrection, including 364 last year, according to data from the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies.
The French company Total Energies suspended operations in Cabo Delgado in 2021 because of its significant offshore natural gas reserves. The $ 20 billion gas project will be re-ignited this summer, according to the French fossil fuel giant.