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Ceasefire negotiated by Melania Trump holds in Russia-occupied Ukrainian city

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A ceasefire that first lady Melania Trump helped negotiate in a front-line Ukrainian city that she described as being on the «brink of disaster» went into effect Tuesday.

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The pause in fighting in Oleshky started around 3 a.m. local time as «part of a humanitarian mission being carried out with the mediation and coordination of U.S. first lady Melania Trump, in cooperation with Yana Lantratova, Russia’s commissioner for human rights,» according to Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament commissioner for human rights.

«The situation in Oleshky is dire. Oleshky is a front-line war city on the brink of disaster,» Trump said in a statement last week. «Oleshky’s remaining population is comprised primarily of elderly residents who urgently need medical attention, medicine, food, and clean water.

«The people of Oleshky have limited electricity, live amid mined roads, and endure regular military attacks. It was abundantly clear that without my intervention, the possibility to bring humanitarian aid into the city and to evacuate the elderly would be impossible,» she added.

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First lady Melania Trump, left, and civilians being evacuated from Oleshky, Ukraine, in October 2022 during the early days of the Russia-Ukraine war. (Umit Bektas/Reuters; Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)

The White House said both Ukraine and Russia «agreed to temporarily stop all military action in Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid to enter and to prepare a civilian evacuation through a designated safe passageway.»

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«Non-military, civilian leaders from both countries will work together to visit Oleshky residents in their homes and determine the level of assistance they require. Residents who wish to evacuate will receive coordinated support and transportation to their preferred destination. I anticipate some will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine,» Trump added.

Speaking on «Fox & Friends Weekend,» senior advisor Marc Beckman said the agreement followed weeks of mediation involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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On Tuesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry wrote on Telegram, «In relation to the conduct of the humanitarian operation in the area of the settlement of Oleshky, Kherson region, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have ceased fire in the Kherson direction.»

Russian troops have held control of Oleshky since the early days of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to Reuters.

The news agency added that the city had a population of around 24,000 prior to the war, but that has since dwindled to only a few thousand.

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Smoke rises from a residential neighborhood in Oleshky.

In this undated image from video provided by the Ukrainian 34th Separate Marine Brigade «Borysfen» on Sept. 22, 2026, smoke rises from a residential neighborhood in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region of Ukraine. (Ukrainian 34th Separate Marine Brigade «Borysfen» via AP)

Fresh strikes also hit a bridge and subway infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Fox News Digital’s Madison Colombo contributed to this report.

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UK charges 2 men in suspected Iran-linked incident at RAF Fairford after US bombers pulled

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British prosecutors charged two men Tuesday under the U.K.’s National Security Act following an incident at RAF Fairford, a key base used by the U.S. military’s heavy bombers.

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Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, of London, was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service. Nouman Essghir, 24, was charged with entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the United Kingdom, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.

British counterterrorism police said they believe the foreign country Abdulkarim was assisting was Iran, Reuters reported.

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FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – JULY 25: A B1 Bomber at RAF Fairford on July 25, 2026 in Fairford, England. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has declared RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire a «legitimate target» after U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers used the British base to launch defensive bombing missions against Iranian military targets. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

The charges follow a September incident near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England. British police arrested five men outside the base in the early hours of Sept. 27, according to Reuters.

The base had been used by U.S. bombers to carry out strikes against Iran. About a dozen B-1 bombers were among the aircraft later withdrawn from RAF Fairford and returned to their home stations in the United States on security grounds, according to previous Fox News reporting.

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The main gate of RAF Fairford is pictured on September 27, 2026 in Fairford, United Kingdom. Police have declared a major incident after evacuating residents from their homes in Whelford, a village about one mile from RAF Fairford, a military base that hosts U.S. Air Force bombers involved in the Iran conflict. Several men have been arrested on suspicion of offences under the explosives act, and the Army’s specialist explosive ordnance disposal team are examining a number of vehicles in the area. (David Bown/Getty Images)

RAF Fairford serves as a key European operating location for U.S. heavy bombers and has supported American military missions.

Frank Ferguson, chief crown prosecutor for the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said the agency decided to prosecute the two men following a «complex» counterterrorism investigation.

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Armed police maintain road blocks and security checks around RAF Fairford on September 28, 2026 in Fairford, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

«We will continue to work closely with our partners as this complex investigation continues,» Ferguson said.

Both men were expected to appear Tuesday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

The CPS emphasized that the charges are not findings of guilt and that both defendants have the right to a fair trial.

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Schumer, Dems are quietly betting big on one sleeper race in the Deep South

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National Democrats are getting aggressive in the homestretch of this election cycle, sending money and party figureheads to a state that, for decades, has been out of reach.

Mississippi has been a Republican stronghold for the GOP in the Senate since the 1980s, but in a political environment that is proving tough for incumbents of the party in power, Democrats appear to smell blood in the water.

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But Republicans aren’t buying the last-minute play in the Deep South, arguing that it’s a reach, at best, to make the race competitive.

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«Largely, I think they’re just throwing s— at the wall at this point,» a GOP political operative told Digital.

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The Senate Majority PAC, a political action committee with close ties to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reserved $1.2 million in advertising in the state to boost Scott Colom, a district attorney mounting a bid against Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

And major figures in the Democratic Party, like former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, have also made the trip or are set to appear in the state — Buttigieg is scheduled to hold a rally on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday.

Jake Monssen, Hyde-Smith’s campaign manager, told Digital in a statement, «This is simply Washington insiders making a last-ditch effort to give life to Scott Colom’s failing campaign.»

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«Scott is bankrolled by the radical left because he is in lockstep with their agenda,» Monssen said. «He supports tax increases, open borders, taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants, and sex change surgeries for minors.»

Like in other races across the Senate map, Colom has a fight with history to contend with. Mississippi has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982, and the Magnolia State has consistently supported President Donald Trump.

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But Colom believes that the ground operation he’s developed while national Democrats stayed away from the state is what would put him over the top against Hyde-Smith, not the last-minute support.

«It could be enough,» Colom told Digital. «I mean, the thing is, the people of Mississippi built this campaign.»

Colom went on the offensive against Hyde-Smith, arguing that she «refuses to debate, she doesn’t campaign.»

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«Because of that, I was able to build momentum on the ground, which means now that it’s getting attention, now that it’s getting resources, I’m able to take advantage of it in a way that other candidates couldn’t,» he said.

Republicans aren’t resting on their laurels in the state, however. The Senate Leadership Fund, a political action committee closely aligned with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., teed up a seven-figure ad buy there in response to Democrats’ spending.

And Trump appeared in Corinth, Mississippi, on Monday to rally for Hyde-Smith. He made a similar pitch to voters that he’s done at every rally stop this midterm cycle: pretend he’s on the ballot.

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«In this election, if you would, I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,» Trump said. «And the reason is that when I’m on the ballot, exactly 49% more people show up.»

Jonathan Klingler, a professor of political science at the University of Mississippi, told Digital that the increased spending and national attention to a once-sleepy race have generated the «talking point of Mississippi as evidence for momentum and building a Democratic wave.»

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«So at least I’m not — I can’t say whether that’s the intent of the funding here or visits, but that is the effect,» he said.

There are also voter demographics that both Hyde-Smith and Colom have to contend with. Mississippi has the highest share of Black voters in the country at nearly 40% of the electorate. In order for Colom and «Democrats to be successful, they simply have to peel off a larger share of White voters,» Klingler said.

There’s another storyline underneath the headlines of this race, too.

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Hyde-Smith and Colom have a history dating back to the Biden administration, when the lawmaker blocked his nomination to serve as a district court judge in Mississippi.

«Instead of saving himself the embarrassment of being denied a job twice by Hyde-Smith, Colom is running a campaign backed by Chuck Schumer, funded by George Soros, and built on pro-transgender and other far-left policies,» National Republican Senatorial Committee spokeswoman Bernadette Breslin told Digital.

That’s not Colom’s motivating factor, however. He had just left Trump’s northeast Mississippi rally where he spoke to voters about their main concerns, «everybody I talked to, gas prices, grocery prices,» and tariffs, he said.

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But Colom said his personal dispute with Hyde-Smith was not his primary motivation.

«I’ll tell you, as a Christian, I forgive her for that. That’s not a motivating factor for me,» Colom said. «I mean, as a district attorney, I have to prosecute cases where people lost their loved ones to gun violence. So, you know, and I’ve seen them forgive that person.»

«So that’s not the motivating factor,» he continued. «For me, it’s really the betrayal of the America First movement, right? Like she was supposed to help President Trump get lower grocery prices. Well, she betrayed us. We’re not getting lower grocery prices.»

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“Importa más el momento que la duración”: por qué hacer ejercicio luego de comer puede reducir el pico de glucosa en sangre, según la ciencia

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La mayoría de las personas asocia el control de la glucosa después de comer con una caminata larga o una visita al gimnasio. Sin embargo, distintas investigaciones sobre actividad física posprandial plantean que unos pocos minutos de movimiento, hechos en el momento indicado, pueden modificar el aumento de azúcar en sangre.

Después de una comida, quedarse sentado es una reacción habitual. Sin embargo, un ensayo controlado aleatorizado publicado en Experimental Physiology halló que un minuto de subir y bajar escaleras a baja intensidad redujo cerca de un 40 % el aumento de glucosa registrado a los 60 minutos, en comparación con permanecer sentado.

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El estudio, incluyó a 30 adultos jóvenes sin diabetes. Los participantes hicieron dos pruebas por la tarde, separadas por no más de siete días: en ambas tomaron una bebida con 75 gramos de dextrosa, pero en una permanecieron sentados y en la otra subieron y bajaron 32 escalones durante un minuto, a un ritmo cómodo elegido por ellos mismos.

“El momento resultó importar más que la duración”, dijo William A. Wallace, en su cuenta de X. El especialista en biología humana y tecnología de la salud planteó que una caminata o un breve tramo de escaleras después de comer puede aportar más al control de la glucosa que una sesión más extensa hecha mucho más tarde.

La prueba de un minuto de escaleras demandó una frecuencia cardíaca máxima de 116 latidos por minuto en los participantes evaluados. (Imagen Ilustrativa Infobae)

En el ensayo, la glucemia aumentó en promedio 2,5 mmol/L a los 60 minutos en la condición con escaleras, frente a 4,3 mmol/L en la condición sentada. El área bajo la curva y el área incremental bajo la curva también fueron menores tras ese único minuto de movimiento.

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Los participantes calificaron el esfuerzo en 1,9 sobre 10 en la escala de Borg modificada. La frecuencia cardíaca máxima durante la actividad fue de 116 latidos por minuto, equivalente al 61 % de la frecuencia cardíaca máxima estimada. El protocolo se realizó después de las 17:00 y el ejercicio comenzó 57 minutos después de beber la solución de dextrosa, un punto pensado para coincidir con el pico previsto de glucosa.

El estudio nocturno midió el efecto hasta dos horas después

Las muestras registraron valores menores de glucosa a los 60 y 70 minutos, pero la brecha frente al reposo desapareció a las dos horas. (Imagen Ilustrativa Infobae)

Los investigadores tomaron muestras de glucosa al inicio y a los 30, 60, 70, 80, 90 y 120 minutos. La diferencia entre las condiciones apareció luego de la sesión de escaleras: los valores fueron más bajos a los 60 y 70 minutos, mientras que la distancia entre los grupos se redujo a los 80 minutos y prácticamente desapareció a los 90 y 120 minutos.

La investigación fue diseñada como un ensayo cruzado aleatorizado, por lo que las mismas 30 personas participaron tanto de la condición sentada como de la de escaleras. El grupo estuvo compuesto por 13 hombres y 17 mujeres, con una edad media de 29 años. Todos se declararon sanos y ayunaron al menos cinco horas antes de cada prueba.

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Los autores señalaron que el estudio evaluó una bebida de glucosa, no una comida completa, y que solo incluyó adultos jóvenes sin diabetes. Por eso, todavía debe determinarse si el resultado se mantiene con comidas habituales, en jornadas sucesivas o entre personas con alteraciones en el control de la glucosa.

Un metaanálisis sobre diabetes tipo 2 reportó que el ejercicio posprandial reduce la variabilidad glucémica durante 24 horas. (Imagen Ilustrativa Infobae)

El artículo indicó que las respuestas de glucosa después de comer suelen ser mayores al final del día que por la mañana. En ese contexto, un minuto de actividad a intensidad ligera produjo una reducción que los autores describieron como sustancial en el cambio de glucemia desde el inicio hasta los 60 minutos.

La relación entre el horario de la actividad y la glucosa fue evaluada también en una revisión sistemática con metaanálisis publicada en Sports Medicine y citada por los Institutos Nacionales de Salud de Estados Unidos (NIH).

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El trabajo reunió ocho ensayos cruzados aleatorizados, con 30 intervenciones y 116 participantes. De ese total, 47 tenían diabetes tipo 2 y 69 no tenían ese diagnóstico. Los estudios compararon los efectos de ejercitarse antes de comer, después de comer y permanecer sin actividad.

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El análisis encontró que la actividad física posterior a la ingesta redujo más las subidas de glucosa que el ejercicio previo a una comida y que una condición de reposo. Hacer ejercicio antes de comer, en cambio, no logró una reducción significativa de la glucosa posprandial frente a no hacer actividad.

El intervalo fue otro dato relevante. Los autores observaron que, a menor tiempo entre el final de la comida y el comienzo del ejercicio, mayor era el efecto sobre la glucosa. La revisión concluyó que caminar u otra actividad física realizada lo antes posible después de comer tuvo un resultado más favorable que la misma práctica después de una espera prolongada.

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Una revisión sistemática con metaanálisis publicada en julio de 2026 en Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders aportó resultados en adultos con diabetes tipo 2. El trabajo reunió 17 ensayos cruzados y concluyó que la actividad física aguda posterior a las comidas redujo la glucosa media durante 24 horas, el tiempo fuera del rango objetivo y la variabilidad glucémica. Según el análisis, esos efectos se mantuvieron entre los distintos tipos de movimiento evaluados.

Un estudio en Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases demostró que diez minutos de escaleras mejoran la sensibilidad a la insulina. (Imagen Ilustrativa Infobae)

Tres minutos de escaleras redujeron glucosa e insulina

La duración mínima necesaria para obtener un resultado también fue estudiada en una investigación publicada en Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases. El trabajo incluyó a 30 adultos jóvenes sanos, 18 hombres y 12 mujeres, reclutados en el área de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego.

Cada participante realizó cuatro pruebas de tolerancia oral a la glucosa: una de reposo y otras tres que sumaron uno, tres o diez minutos de subir y bajar escaleras. En todas las jornadas tomaron 75 gramos de dextrosa disueltos en agua y utilizaron una escalera de 21 escalones.

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El ritmo fue elegido previamente por cada participante entre 90 y 110 pasos por minuto, con un metrónomo para mantenerlo estable. Las pruebas se hicieron por la mañana, tras un ayuno nocturno de al menos diez horas. Las sesiones de diez, tres y un minuto comenzaron 18, 25 y 27 minutos después de terminar la bebida, respectivamente.

El análisis citado por los NIH concluyó que un menor tiempo entre la comida y el inicio del ejercicio potencia el descenso glucémico. (Imagen ilustrativa infobae)

Los resultados mostraron que tres minutos de escaleras redujeron la glucosa y la insulina, mientras que un minuto no produjo una diferencia significativa frente a la condición de reposo. El aumento de glucosa fue 15,37 mg/dL menor tras la sesión de tres minutos, y el de insulina, 2,589 μIU/dL menor.

Diez minutos produjeron una reducción mayor: 22,69 mg/dL menos de glucosa y 6,11 μIU/dL menos de insulina. Esa fue, además, la única sesión que mostró una mejora significativa del índice de sensibilidad a la insulina.

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Los autores no encontraron cambios en la capacidad antioxidante total con ninguno de los tres tiempos de ejercicio. Tampoco detectaron diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en los cambios de glucosa, insulina, sensibilidad a la insulina o capacidad antioxidante.

El estudio advirtió que se trató de un análisis exploratorio de datos secundarios y que sus resultados deben interpretarse con cautela. También señaló que la bebida con 75 gramos de dextrosa no reproduce una comida común, que suele incluir grasas y proteínas.

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