Fans have backed Dr. Amir Khan on This Morning after he made a statement.
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Dr Amir Khan said he thinks about the topic constantly (Image: doctoramirkhan/Instagram)
Dr Amir Khan has garnered widespread backing after speaking candidly about an issue he confessed he ‘thinks about every day’. The beloved TV doctor turned to social media to make his voice heard.
He was addressing women’s health – particularly those enduring hardship in conflict zones or living as refugees. He spotlighted numerous health obstacles encountered by women facing extraordinarily difficult situations across the globe.
He explained he ‘advocates for women’s health’ because ‘these women don’t stop being women in war. Their bodies don’t pause, their cycles, their pain, their suffering, even when the world around them is collapsing’.
In the heartfelt video, which has the caption “something I think about every day,” he declared, “I always say I advocate for women and women’s health.
He continued, “And I really do believe that, which is why I can’t remain silent on this matter.” Women suffer the most in every war, every genocide, every refugee crisis, whether it’s in Gaza, Sudan, or the Congo. Not just from bombs and bullets, but also from everyday things that we rarely discuss.
Imagine having your period in a camp where there are no restrooms. Women are made to use newspaper, cloth scraps, and rags. No privacy, no clean water, and that’s where infection, shame, and injustice can come. Imagine a young girl getting her first period. Your family has been destroyed by bombs, and you have no one to assist you.
Imagine yourself one of the millions of women who suffer from painful conditions like fibroids and endometriosis. Conditions that make you shiver, bleed heavily, and feel exhausted. You must continue to trek for miles to safety. You must still take care of your children. You must continue, though.
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These women continue to serve in conflicts. Even when the world is collapsing, their bodies don’t stop, break, go through pain, or suffer. When we discuss war, we must also discuss women, dignity, health, and the unknown battles they face daily. Because we ignore half of these struggles and their stories if we ignore them.
“Yes, I do support women’s health,” she said. And that includes speaking out also for women in conflict. Women are everywhere. It can’t be forgotten about how they lived their pain, perseverance, and humanity. And to put an end to the violence, we must all raise our voices. “
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The doctor’s social media followers were incredibly supportive. “Amir,” one supporter said. There are so many people who won’t have given it any thought. . You represent so many of us… The suffering women in conflict are currently experiencing is heartbreaking. . I appreciate you. “
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Another responded, “Thank you for speaking up for all women,” while a third simply stated, “Brilliantly said.
One star sign on Thursday, September 25 has a desire for deeper meaning, while the other deals with the pressure of the workplace.
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Find out what’s written in the stars with our astrologer Russell Grant(Image: Daily Record/GettyImages)
One star sign has a flash of inspiration as another cares for the needs of another on Thursday.
There are 12 zodiac signs – Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces – and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more.
These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years. From Aries through to Pisces, here’s what today could bring for your horoscope – and what you can do to be prepared.
Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 20)
When you sense a strong urge to savor simplicity over intensity, things can get confusing. At least there is no need to try to resolve this in a hurry. Under the surface, there is a subtle transformation taking place, which will enable you to honor all of your inner truths, even the most obscure ones.
Taurus (Apr 21 – May 21)
Relationships and friendships are both enriching and complex. What you value might be a test for someone else’s needs or expectations. Maintain your integrity. An open conversation might lead to positive change. When making decisions, let compassion rule, especially in high emotions.
Gemini (May 22 – June 21)
Small annoyances are most likely to be related to daily routines or work. Do you allow your inner peace to be squandered by your desire for perfection? Not everything needs to be perfect, either. Something is urging us to delve deeper than the words of an online conversation.
Cancer (June 22 – July 23)
Inner apprehension is a response to a desire to express oneself more fully in a close relationship. Let this tension lead to greater comprehension. You can say what needs to be said in a way that doesn’t upset anyone, according to your intuition.
Leo (July 24 – Aug 23)
You’ll experience emotions that weren’t expected from a memory or a family member. Between letting go and letting go, you feel stymied. Before making a crucial decision, calm your mind. Although it is taking some time, realization is beginning to bloom. By this evening, you will be aware of your plans.
Virgo (Aug 24 – Sept 23)
You are passionate about a small but significant issue. Remind yourself that you are a master of overanalyzing everything. Tune in to your instincts right now, then. Your mind will be calm when you listen to your heart.
Libra (Sept 24 – Oct 23)
Emotional tensions in the areas of stability, wealth, or personal worth surface. Take a second to consider your situation. Your main goal should be to prioritize what motivates you, not just what appeals to other people. Your outlook on the future can be altered by a small self-respectful act.
Scorpio (Oct 24 – Nov 22)
You’ve always been filled with strong emotions, and now that your feelings are even stronger than they were, you can see the moods and needs of others. Use this gift wisely. Not everything needs to be resolved. Even though you can’t yet see the full picture, something special is beginning to appear.
Sagittarius (Nov 23 – Dec 21)
Something is a blip. Even though you can’t explain it, you can sense this. A message worth taking seriously will be revealed in a dream that is triggered by intuition. You are acutely aware of your feelings and thoughts even when you are in crowded environments. They actually seem to speak louder than the noise in your surroundings.
Capricorn (Dec 22 – Jan 20)
A certain degree of tension is being caused by group dynamics and friendships. You can and should not force harmony when it is absolutely necessary, even if you would prefer harmony. No matter what other people might think or say about this, it’s important to let your values guide your choices.
Aquarius (Jan 21 – Feb 19)
You feel pressured to prove something in your professional, personal, or professional context. Ask yourself, “Is this really necessary?” and take a step back. People around you will notice a small change in how you approach challenging situations. Your quiet strength is admired by everyone.
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Pisces (Feb 20 – Mar 20)
Something or someone may make you yearn for deeper connections or meaning. Be perplexed by the direction this leads. Avoid rushing to the closest response. Wait a while, for insight will come from a spare moment or from a personal experience. Let wonder guide you.
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Medan, Indonesia – Delima, a sales representative in Indonesia’s fourth-largest city, used to collapse the moment she got home after spending the whole day on her feet serving customers.
But recently, Delima, who works at a cosmetics store in one of Medan’s upscale malls, has felt like she has “nothing to do”.
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“The mall is so quiet now, and when customers do come into the store, they have no intention of buying anything. They just use all the free testers, especially perfume, and then leave,” she told Al Jazeera.
Delima’s experience reflects “Rohana” and “Rojali”, the latest buzzwords to sweep Indonesian social media, in action.
“Rohana” and “Rojali”, portmanteaus of the Indonesian for “groups who just ask” and “groups who rarely buy”, have emerged as popular internet slang terms to describe the phenomenon of people who visit malls purely to engage in window shopping.
While it is difficult to put a precise figure on Indonesia’s window shoppers, there are signs that many Indonesians are tightening their belts as they find their rupiah going less far than in the past.
PT Unilever Indonesia, which produces everyday products ranging from ice cream to shampoo and toothpaste, saw its sales decline nearly 4.5 percent in the first half of 2025.
PT Matahari Department Store, which operates a chain of stores selling clothes, household appliances and beauty products, saw a steeper drop of more than 9 percent.
People walk through a connecting bridge to shopping malls in Jakarta, Indonesia, on October 10, 2021 [Adek Berry/AFP]
Tulus Abadi, the chairman of the Indonesian Consumers Foundation, said discussions of “Rohana” and “Rojali” reflect real shifts in people’s material circumstances.
“Transactions at shopping centres are dropping significantly. Sales of private cars and motorcycles are also declining,” he told Al Jazeera.
“This indicates that middle-class consumers are experiencing a decline in purchasing power. Yet, it is the middle class that is the driving force of the economy.”
On paper, Southeast Asia’s largest economy has been in good shape of late. Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.12 percent year-on-year in the April-June period, according to the Indonesian Bureau of Statistics, the fastest pace in two years and ahead of economists’ forecasts.
Still, economic discontent among Indonesians is not hard to find, erupting most visibly in deadly protests that swept the archipelago in late August.
Thousands of Indonesians took to the streets in cities across the country to protest against budget cuts to education, public works and healthcare, as well as the introduction of a monthly housing allowance for lawmakers worth about $3,000 – almost 10 times Indonesia’s monthly minimum wage.
In a survey published by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore in January, young Indonesians expressed markedly more pessimistic attitudes about the economy and the government than their peers in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Whereas an average of 75 percent of respondents expressed optimism about the government’s economic plans across the six countries, only about 58 percent of Indonesian youth felt the same, according to the poll.
About 16 percent of the more than 44 million Indonesians aged 15-24 are out of work, according to government statistics – more than double the rate of neighbouring Thailand and Vietnam.
Government officials have downplayed suggestions that Rohana and Rojali reflect real-life conditions.
Speaking at a news conference in Jakarta last month, Chief Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto said spending habits were simply moving online, pointing to rising household consumption among other positive data.
“The narrative around Rojali and Rohana is being blown out of proportion,” Airlangga said.
Airlangga Hartarto, Indonesia’s chief economic affairs minister, speaks during an interview at his office in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 26, 2025 [Willy Kurniawan/Reuters]
Teguh Yudo Wicaksono, an economics lecturer at Universitas Islam Indonesia, said official economic data painted a complex picture.
While household consumption grew nearly 5 percent in the second quarter, retail sales weakened slightly, though remaining higher than the same period last year, Wicaksono said.
“So, what can we conclude from this indicator? I think there may indeed be a weakening of purchasing power, but this may be occurring in certain segments,” he said.
Wicaksono said while weakened purchasing power could be at play, consumers also appeared to be shifting their spending patterns.
“People are starting to increase spending related to sports, hobbies, and entertainment. Some are spending on services,” he said.
“The proportion of this increase in spending has almost doubled, and this is happening primarily in the lower-middle-class segment. As a result, the portion of spending in other groups has decreased, especially for certain types of goods. This is what we perceive as the Rohana and Rojali phenomenon.”
Abadi of the Indonesian Consumers Foundation said the growing popularity of internet shopping had contributed to the Rohana-Rojali trend.
“The digital economy has rendered malls merely a means of window shopping,” he said.
In an online survey conducted earlier this year by Snapcart, a platform for analysing consumer behaviour based on customer receipts, half of the Indonesian respondents said they viewed online shopping as more practical than visiting brick-and-mortar shopping centres.
Shopee was the most popular platform, used by 90 percent of online shoppers, followed by Tokopedia, Lazada and Alfa Gift, according to the survey.
Indonesian shoppers roam around a mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 14, 2008 [Jewel Samad/AFP]
Dewi Fauna, an admin assistant for an overseas client, said she had begun to embody the Rohana and Rojali phenomenon due to budget concerns and the convenience of e-commerce.
“I only go to the mall to eat in the restaurants and I rarely buy anything, mostly because of the price, and there are not as many options,” she told Al Jazeera.
“I don’t like to look around from one store to another just to find one item. With the same quality, you can get cheaper if you shop online.”
Fauna said she enjoys frequenting malls for the social aspect that they can provide.
“I go with friends or with my husband. I never go alone to the mall because the purpose of going to the mall, for me, is having fun with friends, and chatting while eating,” Fauna said.
Aalborg airport in Denmark, which serves both commercial and military flights, was closed as a result of an unidentified drone’s operation in its airspace, which comes a day after the country’s main Copenhagen airport was forced to temporarily close due to drone sightings.
Danish police reported early on Thursday that “more than one” drones had been spotted close to the Jutland region’s airport, which is Denmark’s fourth-largest city by population, near Aalborg airport.
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A number of large, unidentified drones were spotted close to one of Scandinavia’s busiest airports on Monday, prompting police to say the drone sightings in Aalborg followed a pattern similar to the ones that temporarily halted flights at Copenhagen Airport for four hours on Monday.
Due to its use as a military base, Danish armed forces were impacted by the closure of Aalborg airport, according to police.
A police official told the Reuters news agency, “It is too early to say what the drones’ intentions are and who is the actor behind them.” He added that authorities would try to remove them as soon as they could.
The Danish armed forces did not go on to further comment, but instead stated that they were helping local and national police with the investigation.
Later on Thursday morning, police announced that the drones had left Aalborg’s airspace and had also been reported in the vicinity of airports in the west of the country, including Esbjerg, Sonderborg, and Skrydstrup.
The F-16 and F-35 fighter jets from Denmark’s base in southern Jutland are called “basis” at Fighter Wing Skrydstrup.
De uidentificerede droner som blev observeret i det nordjyske stört sig ikke lngere over Aalborg Lufthavn. En heightened efterforskning, police will be looking for all oplysninger i say henvende sig p 114. #politidk https://t.co/sU3Azw8amD
Translation: The unidentified drones that were spotted in northern Jutland are no longer operating over Aalborg Airport. The police are conducting an in-depth investigation, and they want to speak with anyone with information about the case by dialing 114.
Northern Jutland police claimed that “more than one drone” had been seen flying with lights on near the Aalborg airport.
According to police, the drones were first spotted on Wednesday night around 9:44 p.m. [19:44 GMT] and remained in the airspace for a while.
Due to drone activity in the area, Eurocontrol, which manages European air traffic control, announced arrivals and departures at Aalborg Airport would be “zero rate” until 04:00 GMT on Thursday.
Police in Northern Jutland were unable to specify the kind of drones or whether they were identical to those that were seen over Copenhagen Airport on Monday.
Authorities in Denmark attributed the incident at Copenhagen Airport to a number of alleged Russian drone incursions and other disruptions throughout Europe, calling it the most serious attack on the country’s critical infrastructure.
Following a drone sighting, Norwegian authorities temporarily closed the Oslo airport’s airspace for three hours on Monday evening.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated in a statement on Tuesday that she “cannot in any way reject the possibility that Russia” is to blame for the incident at Copenhagen Airport.
The European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, stated on social media that “while the facts are still being established, it is obvious we are witnessing a pattern of persistent contestation at our borders.”
She claimed that “our crucial infrastructure is in danger.” And Europe will be strong and determined in overcoming this threat.
Russian drones are “guided by international regulations in all their flights and do not violate them in any way,” according to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin.
Poland’s military reported that after Russian drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace, it closed four of its airports, including one in Warsaw, earlier this month.
In the wake of the drone attack in Poland, NATO members have pledged to strengthen their borders while reaffirming their allegiance.
A day after the military shot down Russian drones that were in violation of Polish airspace, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk thanked the pilots at the 32nd Tactical Air Base. [Marian Zubrzycki/EPA]
Following his meeting with interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that their leaders had formally resumed diplomatic relations with Syria as they convened on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
According to a brief statement from the Syrian Foreign Ministry, Asaad al-Shaibani and an accompanying delegation also attended the meeting on Wednesday in New York.
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After Bashar al-Assad’s government moved to declare the “independence” of the Russian-backed breakaway republics Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Syria in 2022. Syria made a statement shortly after that it would renounce its relationship with Kyiv.
According to Zelenskyy, Syria and Ukraine both signed a letter requesting the restoration of diplomatic ties.
The Ukrainian leader wrote on X that “we welcome this significant step and are ready to support the Syrian people on their way to stability.”
Zelenskyy said, “We also discussed in detail promising areas for developing cooperation, security threats faced by both countries, and the importance of countering them,” during our discussions with the president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Ukraine and Syria signed a Joint Communiqué today to resume diplomatic relations. We applaud this significant step and are prepared to support the Syrian people’s stabilization efforts.
We also discussed… pic during our discussions with Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. twitter.com/HBXsoaRob8
The Ukrainian leader claimed that the two countries had agreed to “build our relations on the basis of mutual respect and trust.”
Al-Sharaa arrived in New York on Sunday with a delegation of ministers to attend the UN General Assembly, marking Syria’s first presidential participation in the annual gathering in nearly 60 years.
Following the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1967, when Israel occupied the Golan Heights in southwest Syria, Damascus had canceled the gathering.
The last head of state from 1966 to 1970 to represent Syria at the UN summit was President Nureddin al-Atassi.
After the opposition forces overthrew President al-Assad’s regime, al-Sharaa took control of Damascus in January, putting an end to the Assad family’s five-decade rule over Syria.
Al-Sharaa demanded that the UNGA’s inaugural speech on Wednesday, which was his first one.
A champion Latin dancer, Michele Tsiakkas and Jamie Borthwick danced together in last year’s Strictly Come Dancing, but she is “gutted” not to have a celebrity match.
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Michelle Tsiakkas addressed her Strictly Come Dancing snub.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Michelle Tsiakkas says she is “gutted” not receive a partner on this year’s series.
The 30-year-old dancer worked with EastEnders’ Jamie Borthwick last year and said she felt it was the first time fans got to really know her. However, she has failed to get a celebrity partner this time and is disappointed.
Speaking in a video she posted to her Instagram account, Michelle said: “Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well. I just wanted to make this post to acknowledge and say thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the lovely messages I’ve received since you’ve all seen that I don’t have a partner on Strictly this year. To those of you asking how I am. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t gutted, but I think that’s a normal feeling to have.”
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Strictly Come Dancing, a Saturday night staple since 2004, returned last weekend and saw the likes of Thomas Skinner, Alex Kingston and George Clarke jive with the professionals. Several pros, though, haven’t been matched with a celebrity. Others include Luba Mushtuk, Michelle Tsiakkas and Neil Jones. Weeks prior, Gorka Márquez had shared that he wouldn’t have a partner.
However, Michelle, a champion Latin dancer, has had time to consider the choice. She continued, “My first year with a partner was my first year, and it made me realize how much I enjoy the process.
The show’s most beautiful and rewarding moments, in my opinion. And I also believe that last year marked your first contact with me personally.
I’ll do my best to post more on here to make up for the lack of time you see on your screens because there is still a lot more of me to discover.
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I want to help you get to know me better, and I’ll be revealing more about my life, my interests, my interests, my experiences, my opinions, just so you can see that I won’t completely disappear from the stage this year. “
Michelle, born in Cyprus, first appeared on the BBC television dance show in 2022. At the time, she called it “her dream ever since I was a little girl”.
