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People reported having frequent bad dreams at the beginning of the study were twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s compared with those who had them less than once a week.
Forget real sneakers – soon we’ll be more worried about the digital variety.
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NFT sales passed US$40 billion in 2021 and now more brands want to get in on the action.
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Sophie Rostopchine, comtesse de Ségur (auteur) par François-Fortuné-Antoine Ferogio (illustrateur), via Wikimedia Commons
Dans la littérature de jeunesse, les mères sont souvent cantonnées à des rôles de femmes au foyer, anonymes – à moins qu’elles ne soient des sorcières ou de méchantes reines.
Ukraine is a major supplier of wheat globally but exports from the Black Sea ports are now blocked by the Russians.
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Scientists discover why antibiotics make life-threatening fungal infections such as invasive candidiasis more probable.
Swedish army medics simulate the evacuation of a field hospital as part of military exercise called “cold response 2022”, gathering around 30,000 troops from Nato member countries plus Finland and Sweden, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in the Arctic Circle on March 25 2022.
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The question of whether the Labour leader broke the rules in Durham Miners Club will come down to whether the gathering was ‘reasonably necessary’ for work or election campaigning.
El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, asiste a una ceremonia de ofrenda de flores en la tumba del soldado desconocido, cerca del Kremlin.
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El 9 de mayo de este año no ha sido el ‘día de la victoria’, ya que el mandatario ruso tiene poco de qué presumir tras 74 días de agresión contra Ucrania.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier close to the Kremlin.
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Many people want to go ‘back to normal’, but this isn’t possible for many disabled people.
Dans son livre « Les Fossoyeurs » publié début 2022, le journaliste d’investigation Victor Castanet révèle les dysfonctionnements qui ont conduit à des cas de maltraitance en maison de retraite.
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Les organisations se réfèrent de plus en plus à une vision légaliste vidant l'éthique de sa substance, au détriment d'une approche moraliste pourtant plus à même d'apporter des réponses aux problèmes.
Woman drying freshly made batik cloth. Batik is a micro, small and medium scale business that supports the livelihoods of Indonesian women, especially in Java.
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Empowering women can be a solution to the economic slowdown and health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. As the host of the G20 2022 Summit, Indonesia should focus on the issue.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomes delegates to peace talks in Istanbul, March 29 2022.
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Experts on poverty in Britain explain how destitution affects different groups of people and aspects of life.
Allies? Or client and patron: Belarus president, Alexandr Lukashenko, and Russian president, Vladimir Putin, after Kremlin talks in February 2022.
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In ideological terms, Putin’s regime is neither totalitarian nor fascist. But it is reactionary, and in a way that begs questions about the recent maltreatment of language in Western politics
Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham