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Sweden is considering a deal to send foreign prisoners to jails in other countries – but is this just a way of getting rid of unwanted foreign criminals?
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Artificial Intelligence has great potential to save the lives of mental health patients.
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Think about how your child might feel in the future.
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Swearing can raise our pain threshold.
Protesters in the UK demonstrate against Ethiopia’s Tigray war in October 2022.
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Leaders at the centre of the Ethio-Tigray war don’t believe in equal partnership. In their political cultures, winners take all.
Amyloid-beta plaques in yellow.
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Too much amyloid-beta in the brain has long been considered the cause of Alzheimer’s. New research suggests it might be the opposite.
An artefact is returned to the king of Benin in Nigeria.
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Art stolen from African kingdoms is a knowledge system plundered by colonialists, who must take historical responsibility.
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From her role as sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote to originating some of the most famous roles on the stage, Lansbury’s career was impressive and expansive.
People in Luhansk watch Vladimir Putin tell them they have become part of the Russian Federation.
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History tells us that non-recognition works and that simply accepting illegal invasions sets a dangerous precedent.
A GOP plan means that voters may be challenged on their right to vote.
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On Nov. 8, the US may experience a surge of voters intimidated by Election Day challenges to their right to cast a ballot.
Candidate signs during the first day of early primary voting on July 7, 2022, in Silver Spring, Md.
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A partisan election system, attacks on election administration and widespread disinformation place the U.S. democracy in a precarious position.
Russian flags appeared on the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou shortly after the coup had been announced.
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Burkina Faso looks to be the latest west African state where Russian influence is on the rise.
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A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown
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The French writer has won the Nobel for literature for her ascetic approach to writing and fearlessness in covering the personal and taboo.
Jameela Jamil is a big advocate of body neutrality.
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‘Body neutrality’ has sometimes been called the ‘middle ground’ between loving or hating your body.
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Efforts to create a pan-European media outlet have found it tough going, but there are signs that a new digital player may well be finding success.
A healthy diet with plenty of variety can lower risk.
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Avoiding smoking and keeping a healthy weight can cut your risk of cancer.
United nations or a return to new Cold War?
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The Cold War provided the US with strategic and defensive advantages; some politicians also used it to push their view of what it meant to be American.
Andrew Bailey, the embattled governor of the Bank of England.
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If the Bank of England extends its rescue scheme for the bonds market beyond October 14, all bets are off.
Laurel was an ancient symbol of medicine, the arts and the end of war.
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Just in time for this year’s Nobel Prize announcements, here’s how the symbolism of a plant associated with the god Apollo lives on in modern-day laureates.