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COVID-19: 273 hospitalized, 26 deaths over seven days: B.C. health officials release their weekly update on the latest hospitalizations, deaths and new cases.
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COVID-19: 273 hospitalized, 26 deaths over seven days
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COVID-19 update for June 23: South Africa repeals rules as fifth wave fades | B.C. patients describe rare reactions to vaccines | Manitoba premier tests ...
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COVID-19: 273 hospitalized, 26 deaths over seven days: B.C. health officials release their weekly update on the latest hospitalizations, deaths and new cases.
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COVID-19: 273 hospitalized, 26 deaths over seven days
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COVID-19 update for June 23: South Africa repeals rules as fifth wave fades | B.C. patients describe rare reactions to vaccines | Manitoba premier tests ...
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COVID-19 update for June 23: South Africa repeals rules as fifth wave ...
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Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close : A baby bust is starting to work its way through the system
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Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close 
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Israel should not rush to strike back at Iran: Instead it should try a novel response to Iran’s missile attack: restraint
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Israel should not rush to strike back at Iran
Quick Glance: Israel artist calls for Gaza ceasefire
  • The representative of Israel at the international art fair is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.

  • Ruth Patir’s video installation called (M)otherland was scheduled to open on Saturday at Israel’s national pavilion at the international art show but will remain closed for now.

  • Patir stated on her website that the artist and curators are showing solidarity with the families of the hostages and the large community in Israel calling for change, rather than canceling themselves or the exhibition.

  • It is believed that there are still individuals in Gaza, including 129 captives taken during the attacks led by Hamas on Israel on October 7, with 34 of them presumed dead.
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How to get more people into military uniforms: Why mandatory military service makes sense for some countries but not others
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How to get more people into military uniforms
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Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia: Its superdrones can reach targets as far away as Siberia
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Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
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Germany is flunking the education test: Its scores are heading down, as its schools fail to adapt
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Germany is flunking the education test
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As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support: An interview with the country’s new national security chief
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As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich: Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
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What to read to understand Chechnya: Four books and a film that unpack an influential region of Russia
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What to read to understand Chechnya
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The German chancellor’s awkward meeting with China’s boss: It is time for Xi Jinping to accept that Germany isn’t America’s puppet
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The German chancellor’s awkward meeting with China’s boss
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NHS rolls out new variant Covid vaccine as virus kills 100 a week: The new vaccination project started this week with jabs between now and June
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NHS rolls out new variant Covid vaccine as virus kills 100 a week
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Netherlands man battled COVID-19 for longest case ever recorded: A 72-year-old from the Netherlands was infected with COVID-19 for 613 days ...
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Netherlands man battled COVID-19 for longest case ever recorded
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A short history of India in eight maps: Understanding the breathtaking diversity of India and Indians
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A short history of India in eight maps
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What happens if Ukraine loses?: Russian victory would be debilitating for the West, and especially for Europe
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What happens if Ukraine loses?
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Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?: Bernard Arnault sizes up his heirs apparent
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Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?
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Iran and Israel’s shadow war explodes into the open: But the Islamic Republic may have miscalculated
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Iran and Israel’s shadow war explodes into the open
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Where are all the British robots?: Firms’ small size is the biggest barrier to automation
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Where are all the British robots?
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry: The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
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The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza: Its generals botched the strategy, and discipline among troops has broken down
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The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza
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Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive : Will it be enough?
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Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive
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How to locate the global south: How a fuzzy, scorned term reflects geopolitical shifts
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How to locate the global south
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?: The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the latest polls?
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Stokies can book eighth Covid jab - from today: The Spring Covid vaccination programme starts next week
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Stokies can book eighth Covid jab - from today
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Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo : The wrestler who shocked and changed Japan died in early April, aged 54
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Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
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COVID Vaccines Reduce Risk of Heart Failure, Clots: People who got COVID-19 vaccines had a reduced risk of heart failure, compared to people who didn’t get ...
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COVID Vaccines Reduce Risk of Heart Failure, Clots
Quick Glance: COVID Vaccines Lower Heart Failure, Clots Risk
  • Researchers from the University of Oxford found that COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of heart failure and blood clots.

  • The protection lasted up to a year and also lowered the risk of heart inflammation and certain types of blood clots.

  • The study revealed that vaccinated individuals experienced less severe symptoms, were less likely to be hospitalized, and had a lower mortality rate during a COVID infection.

  • Researchers analyzed health data from over 20 million people, indicating a significant reduction in the risk of heart failure and blood flow issues among vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated individuals.
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Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary export: They are even better than Vegemite
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Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary export
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Overnight, Israel appears to have retaliated against Iran: Also on the daily podcast: India’s opposition and a tribute to a sumo champion
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Overnight, Israel appears to have retaliated against Iran
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Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?: The wonder-technology faces accusations of copyright infringement
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Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
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New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships: Collisions kill 20,000 every year
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New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
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A story of Scottish wildcats : For some cats this is the best of times. For others, arguably a bit less good
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A story of Scottish wildcats
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Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny: Do the humans in Israel’s army have sufficient control over its technology?
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Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
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Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court: The court has become the de facto regulator of social media in the country
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Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court
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Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions: Different colonies build in competing architectural styles
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Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
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How tactical voting might affect the British election: The evidence for co-ordinated anti-Tory behaviour
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How tactical voting might affect the British election
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common: Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
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Robert F. Kennedy junior doesn’t care if he condemns America to Trump: He’s a tree-hugging conspiracy theorist – and he’s running for president
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Robert F. Kennedy junior doesn’t care if he condemns America to Trump
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What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang: Our columnist visits a harshly controlled region
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What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
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America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed: What are the consequences?
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America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed
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Large language models are getting bigger and better : Can they keep improving forever?
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Large language models are getting bigger and better
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Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals: A fleet of electric-car startups is struggling to stay in business
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Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals
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India’s democracy needs a stronger opposition: The Congress party is set for a drubbing in the world’s biggest election
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India’s democracy needs a stronger opposition
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Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers: As many as 25,000 could be MIA
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Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers
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In praise of Peter Higgs : The particle named after him became a selling point. For the man, it was a bit of a pain
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In praise of Peter Higgs
Quick Glance: Physicist Peter Higgs Passes Away at 94
  • Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science, has died at 94, according to the University of Edinburgh.

  • The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the CERN research center was a significant advancement in understanding the cosmos, steering physics towards once-fantastical ideas.

  • Higgs, initially 'incompetent' in the physics lab, later specialized in theoretical physics, inspired by quantum physicist Paul Dirac from his school.

  • The Higgs boson's completion of the Standard Model opened doors to explore unexplained aspects of the universe and abstract concepts like parallel universes, despite Higgs disliking the 'God particle' nickname.
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay: Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
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A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones: It is like stepping back into the 19th century, says David Nott
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A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones
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Welcome to an artificial-intelligence Utopia: What will humans do if technology solves everything?
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Welcome to an artificial-intelligence Utopia
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Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico’s embassy: Jorge Glas, who had claimed asylum from Mexico, is accused of abetting drug networks
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Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico’s embassy
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Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?: Some Israelis are rethinking the country that refuses to call Hamas a terrorist group
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Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
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What is screen time doing to children?: Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media
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What is screen time doing to children?
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China’s state is eating the private property market: Pity those soon to buy a home
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China’s state is eating the private property market
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Mike Johnson may have to choose between Ukraine aid and his job: The Republican House speaker is trapped by hardliners on his own side
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Mike Johnson may have to choose between Ukraine aid and his job
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Introducing Middle East Dispatch, our latest newsletter: Get to grips with a region that plays a vital role in geopolitics, the climate and the world economy
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Introducing Middle East Dispatch, our latest newsletter
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The short-sighted Israeli army: Force alone cannot bring security
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The short-sighted Israeli army
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After one year of war, Sudan is a failing state : Half a million may starve without urgent help
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After one year of war, Sudan is a failing state 
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“Never underestimate the extent to which Bibi can make a bad situation worse.”: Also on the daily podcast: Trump’s first criminal trial gets underway and ...
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“Never underestimate the extent to which Bibi can make a bad situation ...
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Where are all the British robots?: Firms’ small size is the biggest barrier to automation
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Where are all the British robots?
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Salman Rushdie’s gripping take on being stabbed: “Knife” is a memoir about the attack in 2022 but also a love story
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Salman Rushdie’s gripping take on being stabbed
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Spring Covid-19 booster jab on offer to at-risk groups from next week : Older people and those who have weakened immune systems are being offered a Spring ...
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Spring Covid-19 booster jab on offer to at-risk groups from next week
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The push to decriminalise abortion in Britain heats up: But campaigners should be careful what they wish for
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The push to decriminalise abortion in Britain heats up
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Russia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaign: For now, Ukraine has no answer to it
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Russia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaign
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Ukraine’s second city faces a renewed Russian threat: Also on the daily podcast: Mexico’s ‘desaparecidos’ and lotteries
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Ukraine’s second city faces a renewed Russian threat
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Local British politics is a mix of the good, the bad and the mad: Devolution is messier—and weirder—than people think
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Local British politics is a mix of the good, the bad and the mad
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Houston, Texas: where asylum cases come to die: Some immigration lawyers relish a challenge
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Houston, Texas: where asylum cases come to die
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By 2100 half the world’s children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa: Fertility rates are falling faster everywhere else
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By 2100 half the world’s children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa
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UFOs are going mainstream: Crowdsourcing sightings could lead to answers
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UFOs are going mainstream
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Why most people regret Brexit: A majority of British voters now believe the split was a mistake
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Why most people regret Brexit
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True swing voters are extraordinarily rare in America: We have found some
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True swing voters are extraordinarily rare in America
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China’s fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa’s coasts: The victims are non-Chinese crew members, local fishermen and marine life
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China’s fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa’s coasts
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Second most common cause of death: Corona reduced life expectancy, sometimes significantly
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Second most common cause of death: Corona reduced life expectancy ...
Quick Glance: Corona Reduced Life Expectancy Significantly
  • A study reveals that the global life expectancy decreased due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • In 2021, Covid-19 was the second leading cause of death, surpassing strokes.

  • Regional variations indicate differences in life expectancy impact from Covid-19.

  • Declines in deaths from intestinal infections contributed to the rise in life expectancy.
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What’s next for behavioural economics?: Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, the pandemic was the nascent field’s biggest test yet ...
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What’s next for behavioural economics?
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry: The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
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Israel’s relations with America reach breaking point : Following Israel’s killing of seven aid workers, Joe Biden delivers his sternest warning yet to Binyamin ...
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Israel’s relations with America reach breaking point
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Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions: How a psychologist transformed economics
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Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions
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Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains?: Inventories offer a clue
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Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains?