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V ladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...

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The study, published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, offers the most comprehensive estimate to date of mental disorders’ prevalence in China, with 191m cases in 2023 (equivalent to about one ...

Israeli troops launched a military operation to remove Israeli settlers from Qusra, a village in the West Bank. The settlers ...

Tired of war, Afghans have welcomed peace. Cities which used to ring to the blasts of suicide-bombers feel surprisingly calm. “This is the second summer that birds have returned to Kabul,” says a ...