From lowering blood pressure and reducing inflammation to improving heart health and relieving stress, laughter has the power to trigger a number of positive chemical and physical benefits.
Category: 3. Europe
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Why you should try laughter yoga: The fun workout that’s good for your mind and heart
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Savour the indoors with EU Ecolabel this winter
Winter is coming. Let your interior reflect your sustainable choices, with well-crafted pieces chosen with intention. The EU Ecolabel guides you towards choices that resonate.
When winter settles in, our homes come alive with candlelit evenings. Frost gathers on windowpanes, a crackling…
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The rich were quieter after COVID. Now they’re not – and people are noticing
Year after year, inequality deepens, hardens, and settles in across the world.
Fewer than 60,000 of the world’s richest people own more wealth than half of the entire world put together, with a global elite amounting to 0.001% of the population being three times wealthier than the bottom…
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Broken promises: Indian students at a Berlin university face deportation instead of graduation
Deep Shambarkar would never have thought that his studies in Germany would end up like this.
The 25-year-old moved from Maharashtra in India to Berlin last July to pursue a master’s in business management. He had enrolled at the private International University, or IU for short.
Shambarkar…
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Uzbekistan’s Islamic Civilization Center: Reframing Central Asia’s place in global history
When Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev first told the United Nations General Assembly in 2017 that his country planned to establish an Islamic Civilization Center, the ambition was clear: this would not be another national museum, but a global cultural institution.
The aim, he said…
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Fake listings and phishing emails: How travellers have lost hundreds to Booking.com scams
On a recent trip, I booked an airport hotel for a layover in Jakarta. I used Booking.com, selecting the option for an automatic card payment to be taken a few days before the stay.
A week before the trip, I received a WhatsApp message purporting to be from the Jakarta airport hotel. There…
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Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen dieses Podcasts – POLITICO
Ein turbulentes politisches Jahr 2025 neigt sich dem Ende zu. Von der vorgezogenen Neuwahl im Februar über die Zitterpartie bei der Kanzlerwahl von Friedrich Merz bis hin zu den ersten Auslandsreisen der neuen Regierung: In dieser Sonderfolge blickt ein Teil des POLITICO-Teams…
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Europe is failing Ukraine – POLITICO
The felling of the “reparations loan” proposal, which would have recycled Russian assets that are mostly frozen in a clearing bank in Belgium, deprives Ukraine of guaranteed funding for the next two years.
It was Belgium’s legal anxieties over the loan, along with French President…
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Could France’s conservatives really work with Le Pen? It’s no longer unthinkable. – POLITICO
Even small-town alliances were enough to provoke nationwide outrage. A country haunted by its history of Nazi collaboration wasn’t going to accept candidates working with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front founder infamous for belittling the significance of the…
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Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin – POLITICO
Flood of parliamentary questions
Marc Henrichmann, a conservative lawmaker and the chairman of a special committee in Germany’s Bundestag that oversees the country’s intelligence services, said that while the government is not obliged to divulge classified or highly sensitive…
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