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Zelenskyy to crash EU summit after calling Orbán’s bluff in €90bn loan row
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Two common drugs may reverse fatty liver disease, study finds
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease is now the most common liver condition worldwide, affecting about one in three adults. It develops when excess fat builds up inside liver cells, which can lead to serious liver damage and also increases the risk of dying from heart and…
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A New Reserve Currency for the Global South — Russia in Global Affairs
Is it possible to create a new reserve currency as an alternative to the U.S. dollar? The topic is controversial. Some believe that it is not, others think that it is even undesirable. I am one of the few who believe that it is not only desirable and possible, but…
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Is Norway really a war profiteer?
Country is facing pressure from its neighbours to share increased energy earnings to support Ukraine
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‘Beyond Inheritance’ offers a new view on mutations
Beyond Inheritance
Roxanne Khamsi
Riverhead Books, $30.00It’s easy to think of the human body as a single, fully integrated unit. After all, stub your toe all the way at one end of your body, and your brain registers it at the other. A suite of muscles works together to hop…
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Swedish Intelligence: Russia’s economy is worse than its official data says
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Russia is manipulating economic data to conceal the true economic state and to create the impression that sanctions are having little effect, according to Swedish intelligence.…
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How deep is your knowledge of the ocean? — Harvard Gazette
Oceans cover about 70 percent of Earth’s surface area, but largely remain a mystery to us, particularly the deep sea. They are less mysterious to Jeffrey Marlow, author of “The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea,” who completed postdoctoral research in Harvard’s
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Russia keeps arresting Crimeans. The count just hit 520
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Russia now holds 520 Ukrainians on politically motivated criminal charges from occupied Crimea — more than double the 238 documented at the time of the full-scale invasion in…
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Ukraine to restart flows via Russian oil pipeline
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says repairs have been completed after three-month hiatus that jeopardised Kyiv’s financing
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Ukraine lost 500 American battle taxis. Now it’s building a tougher one.
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- Ukrainian forces use tracked armored personnel carriers for an array of dangerous tasks on rough terrain
- American-designed M-113s from the 1960s handle many of the…
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