‘Breakthrough’ antidepressants work in same way as painkiller drugs and similarly reinforce addiction Ketamine-based treatments for severe depression could further fuel the addiction epidemic sweeping the US, researchers have warned, after a new study found the drug affects the brain in the same way as opioid medications. Stanford University researchers ... Read More »
French president says defence cooperation should include all European countries, including Russia Emmanuel Macron has said Europe can no longer entrust its security to the US alone, during a speech setting out the roadmap for French diplomacy in the year to come. In front of an audience of French ambassadors ... Read More »
‘There must never be a hiding place for those who commit these kind of atrocities,’ foreign secretary says Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt will visit Myanmar “to seek answers” after a damning United Nations (UN) report on the army’s violent crackdown on the country’s Rohingya muslims. Investigators have declared the systematic ... Read More »
Washington unhappy with speed of negotiations launched to prevent potential transatlantic tariffs Trade negotiations launched to prevent a transatlantic tariffs war between the EU and US must go faster, Washington is said to have demanded. Donald Trump agreed in July not to impose proposed border taxes on European firms while ... Read More »
Iranian lawyers will ask the International Court of Justice on Monday to order the United States to lift sanctions ordered by the Trump administration against Tehran. The lawsuit filed with the ICJ, also known as the World Court, says the U.S. sanctions, which are damaging its already weak economy, violate ... Read More »
Royal Air Force (RAF) interceptions of Russian military aircraft have been labelled dangerous and “provocative” by Moscow in a clear warning to the UK. Russia said the RAF intercepted its aircraft over the Black Sea and scrambled to intercept two suspected Russian fighter aircraft on Wednesday. The Russian embassy said ... Read More »
The extraordinary find is rewriting the story of archaic and modern humans. A single cave in the mountains of Siberia has produced a string of remarkable archaeological discoveries. In 2008, scientists there found a 41,000-year-old pinky bone, whose DNA matched neither humans nor Neanderthals. Instead, it belonged to a previously ... Read More »
Patients in study had ‘exhausted all other options’ but new combination halted their cancer for an average of 5.8 months A new treatment for patients with advanced ovarian and lung cancer could give them months longer to spend with their loved ones, early trial results suggest. The combination of targeted ... Read More »
In North Korea, Japan appears to have replaced the United States as the most vilified imperialist enemy, with state media deriding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government as a “cult” bent on derailing Pyongyang’s diplomatic outreach. North Korea’s blistering broadsides against Japan are nothing new, given its position as a hated ... Read More »
India and China have agreed to expand their military ties and enhance interaction to ensure peace on their common border, India said after a meeting between the old rivals’ defense ministers. Relations between the Asian giants were strained last year over a 73-day military face-off in a remote, high-altitude stretch ... Read More »
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