Heavy drinking doesn’t just damage your liver. New research says it may also shrink your brain, impair memory, and take years off your life. A recent study has drawn a compelling connection between long-term alcohol use and brain lesions linked to cognitive decline and earlier…
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Gaza doctor describes daily struggle after health system collapse
Yolande KnellBBC Middle East Correspondent
BBCDr Sukkar says life in Gaza feels “like a nightmare that doesn’t end” Healthcare in the Gaza Strip is itself a casualty of 18 months of war between Israel and Hamas. With doctors struggling to cope, the…
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Iran Update, April 18, 2025 – Institute for the Study of War
- Iran Update, April 18, 2025 Institute for the Study of War
- Iran: Regime-Linked Banks And Entities At Heart Of Housing Crisis – OpEd Eurasia Review
- Iran News: IRGC Mouthpiece Warns Even Sanction Relief Won’t Stop Unrest National Council of…
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Ukraine, United States to start new round of negotiations on minerals deal next week – Kachka
A new round of negotiations on the minerals deal will start in the United States on April 24, 2025. Currently, the parties are working on technical issues and wording with regard to the operation of the future investment fund.
The relevant statement was made by…
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Russia sentences 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after poetic anti-war protest
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A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian…
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Fatima Hassouna: Gaza photojournalist who wrote, ‘If I die, I want a resounding death’ killed in Israeli airstrike
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Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months, was killed along with seven members of her family in an Israeli…
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Trump says US will 'pass on Ukraine' if talks don't progress soon
Washington mulls backing out of ceasefire efforts as Trump shares that negotiations between warring Russia and Ukraine are “coming to a head”.
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Defense Ministry reveals timeline for withdrawal of troops fighting since 2022 from front
Servicemen who have been fighting since 2022 will be withdrawn from the front.
This was stated by First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Lieutenant General Ivan Havryliuk during an hour of questions to the government in the Verkhovna Rada, an Ukrinform…
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Ukraine is ‘90%’ ready to agree to US peace proposal — now it’s up to Russia: official
WASHINGTON — Ukraine’s defense minister has told American officials that Kyiv is “90%” on board with President Trump’s peace framework presented in Paris this week by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the two special envoys…
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Trump’s threat makes Ukraine mineral deal look like business move
Ukraine started the day with, for once, the diplomatic wind in its sails.
It had finally agreed a mineral deal “framework” with Washington. An agreement that would see the US invest in Ukraine’s recovery, in return for a share of the country’s future profits from its natural resources, energy…
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