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The U.S. researchers said the results justify larger clinical trials to evaluate this class of drugs — known as glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists — for alcohol use disorder. The study is published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “We hoped to see a reduction in drinking and craving,” said Christian Hendershot, lead author of the study from the University of Southern California. “What I didn’t expect was the magnitude of the effects looks fairly good … compared to other alcohol-use disorder medications.” Stephen Burgess from Cambridge university said the study was a small “but an…

DUBLIN — If you want to accuse someone of telling lies in Ireland’s parliament, Prime Minister Micheál Martin has just shown the way — by saying it in Irish. Ireland’s official language is Gaeilge (a.k.a. Irish Gaelic), known simply as Irish here. The trouble is, only a minority of citizens can confidently speak Irish in what is, overwhelmingly, an English-speaking country. As a consequence, Martin — a fluent Gaeilgeoir, as native speakers are called — enjoys speaking at length in Irish when replying to questions from the leader of the opposition: Mary Lou McDonald of the nationalist Sinn Féin party.…

According to Braže, while any diplomacy would have to involve Kyiv, “in order to have successful peace deal, Russia needs to be weakened on the battlefield. Russia’s politics, economics, religion, media, private sector, religion — it is all oriented towards war. Thus, Russia has to be forced to peace.” In a readout issued Wednesday, the Kremlin said Trump and Putin had spoken for 90 minutes. Meanwhile, the American president posted on Truth Social that the two leaders have “agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately.” “We will begin by calling President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, to inform him…

Brussels wants to simplify and reduce the administrative burden for businesses in order to improve European competitiveness. Brussels is proposing a formula for improving European competitiveness: simplifying and reducing the administrative burden on companies.According to a working plan by the European Commission, the first areas that will be impacted include important pieces of legislation such as sustainability due diligence, which ensures companies address human rights and the environmental impact of their actions.Another affected area is taxonomy, which defines the criteria for economic activities to be aligned with a net zero trajectory.”There is much at stake. Without simpler and more cost-effective…

PARIS — Les dirigeants dans le monde ne craignent pas que l’intelligence artificielle entraîne l’extinction de l’humanité ou qu’elle soit utilisée à mauvais escient par des terroristes. Ils semblaient beaucoup plus préoccupés par le fait de ne pas gagner la course mondiale à l’IA, lorsqu’ils se sont réunis au Sommet pour l’action sur l’intelligence artificielle qui s’est tenu à Paris cette semaine. Le président français Emmanuel Macron, le vice-président américain JD Vance, le Premier ministre indien Narendra Modi, la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen et le ministre britannique de la Technologie Peter Kyle ont tous mis…

Scholz’s comment reportedly came during a discussion about the CDU’s decision to pass migration-related measures in parliament with votes from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, a development that has dominated the election debate and which Scholz has also sharply criticized in public. Arguing the CDU alignment with the AfD broke a major taboo in German politics, Scholz was cited as saying it was evidence the CDU was sliding further toward fascism. Chialo challenged him, asking whether he really believed the CDU was a racist party when he sits in the party’s leadership. “Every party has its court jester,”…

As many as 1,400 people were killed, mostly by the country’s security services, in demonstrations last summer against the now ousted leader Sheikh Hasina. Bangladesh’s former government could be guilty of crimes of humanity, after its crackdown on protests last summer left as many as 1,400 people dead, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has said. The student-led demonstrations against state corruption erupted at the start of July and continued until 15 August, when Sheikh Hasina, the country’s long-serving leader, fled to India. In a report published on Wednesday, the OHCHR said that Bangladesh’s intelligence and security services had “systematically…

Nearly the entire world is exposed to air at some point that doesn’t meet the strict standards set by the World Health Organization. Everyone loves a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, too often our air is anything but fresh.While air quality varies dramatically from place to place and day to day, nearly the entire world – about 99 per cent of the global population – is exposed to air at some point that doesn’t meet the strict standards set by the World Health Organization. Polluted air, laden with noxious gasses or tiny, invisible particles that burrow into human bodies, kills…

In his latest offer to the ÖVP Wednesday, Kickl offered it more ministries than his own party would get, though insisting on the key posts of interior and finance. In its counteroffer, the ÖVP wanted to keep the finance and interior ministries, but offered the FPÖ the asylum and migration portfolios — an offer Kickl subsequently rejected. Van der Bellen could now appoint a technocratic government — or Austria could be poised for a new election. Another possibility remains: that the ÖVP resume coalition talks (which first broke down in early January) with the Social Democratic Party, the Greens and…

Referring to a peace plan for Ukraine, Merz said in a televised debate on Sunday: “We have to wait and see what the American government is planning. Apparently, it wants to present proposals at the Munich Security Conference next weekend … I’m very curious.” Trade is expected to be another key focus. Trump enacted new 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imported into the U.S. earlier this week, a move that will significantly impact Germany’s export-oriented businesses and significantly escalate the trade war between Brussels and Washington.  Merz will also meet with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, the European Union’s…