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New drug could be cure for common cause of high blood pressure

Benefits of baxdrostat are unexpectedly found to remain up to two years after patients stop taking itMillions of people with high blood pressure stand to benefit from a new drug that has stunned doctors by reversing a common cause of the condition for years after patients stopped taking the medication.Patients who t…

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وزیر دفاع آلمان: نیازی به اجباری شدن خدمت سربازی نیست

وزیر دفاع آلمان با اشاره به بحث‌های اخیر در این کشور مبنی بر احتمال اجباری شدن خدمت سربازی گفت اگر همچنان شمار زیادی از داوطلبان برای خدمت ثبت‌نام کنند، حتی بدون سربازی اجباری نیز تعداد سربازان این کشور کافی خواهد بود.

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Japan man with ‘grudge against society’ stabs bookshop worker

Japanese police arrested a 33-year-old man who admitted to stabbing a bookshop worker in Osaka on Sunday, a spokesman said, adding that the suspect said he “held a grudge against society”. The man, identified as Satoshi Okamoto, allegedly used a kitchen knife to stab the worker – who called police immediately afterw…

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Could One Big Cold Snap Torch Hedge Funds' Record US NatGas Shorts

Could One Big Cold Snap Torch Hedge Funds' Record US NatGas Shorts Meteorologists are tracking a potential cold blast across the eastern half of the Lower 48 next week, just as hedge funds' short-only positions in US natural gas futures have surged to record highs. That crowded bearish positioning leaves the market …

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‘I just got AI emails rejecting my application – or no reply at all’: this is the soul-crushing reality of being a Neet | John Harris

Alan Milburn describes them as a ‘lost generation’. Those I spoke to just want to know what they have to do to finally get a job – and a chance in lifeCallum Atkinson is 23 years old, and lives in the Greater Manchester town of Rochdale. Until very recently, he was one of hundreds of thousands of young people in the…

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‘Spiritual darkness’: US ambassador to Israel says critics of Iran war are blinded by Satan

‘Spiritual darkness’: US ambassador to Israel says critics of Iran war are blinded by Satan Submitted by MEE staff on Sun, 11/08/2026 - 10:32 Remarks made during an October podcast resurfaced after the US midterm elections, drawing criticism over Huckabee's characterisation of war opponents US Ambassador to Israel M…

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Cop31 must deliver climate progress that people can see is real, host says

High-stakes talks involving 190 countries begin on Monday as world grapples with El Niño supercharged by fossil fuelsThe Cop31 summit must produce progress, “a tangible outcome ... that people can see is real”, its host has said as scores of world leaders and representatives of close to 190 countries gather in Turke…

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China to enter Brazil’s cement market as Huaxin agrees to buy CSN Cimentos

Chinese building materials giant Huaxin Building Materials Group plans to acquire a 99.99 per cent stake in Brazil’s second-largest cement producer, CSN Cimentos, in a landmark deal that will mark China’s first entry into the Brazilian cement market, according to a company statement. The company from central China’s…

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UCLA won’t let idiotic CFP selection committee leave it behind 8 ball

MINNEAPOLIS — Take that, you inattentive dolts. Eat this, you SEC apologists. Get lost, you power-hungry losers. With its majestic triumph over Minnesota on Saturday, UCLA delivered the only statement that matters when it comes to the College Football Playoff: Nobody will decide the Bruins’ fate except the Bruins. O…

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Revealed: how a UK firm is spearheading growth in trade of US fracked ethane

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions“My children started getting sick,” says Lois Bower-Bjornson, a campaigner at the Clean Air Council in Washington County, Pennsylvania.“My oldest son had rashes all over his body. His ears, his eyelids, everywhere. My younge…

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How CrossFit helped shape the macho fitness culture of Trump’s America

The movement founded by Greg Glassman grew into an empire, helping popularize the masculinity aesthetic embraced by Pete Hegseth and RFK JrComparative machismo is hardly new, but when Donald Trump publicly admired Senator Jon Husted’s backside earlier this month, later telling advisers it made the since-defeated Ohi…

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Is China getting faster at integrating new nuclear missiles into its forces?

China’s newest land-based intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-61, has made its way into routine military training much faster than earlier ICBMs, according to state broadcaster CCTV. That raises the question of whether the People’s Liberation Army is becoming more efficient at integrating new strategic missil…

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