Getty Images Strangers are about twice as kind as people think, a study looking at happiness across the globe suggests. This year’s World Happiness Report – released on Thursday – measured trust in strangers by deliberately losing wallets, seeing how many were returned and comparing that with how many people thought would be handed in. The rate of wallets returned …
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A few years ago, George Lewis was driving back from performing in a comedy club when he realized he had to change his life. He had played the same club several years earlier, also for just a few minutes and also for little more than gas money. Both times, he did what he had to do. He showed up. He …
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Widening impact assessment The tj-actions developers had previously reported they could not determine exactly how attackers gained access to their GitHub personal access token. This new finding from Wiz provides the missing link, suggesting that the initial reviewdog compromise was the first domino in this cascading attack chain. Beyond the confirmed compromise of reviewdog/action-setup@v1, the investigation has revealed several other …
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US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that they had a constructive call about moving towards a ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow, with the White House suggesting the US could take control of Ukrainian power plants to ensure their security. Mr Trump told Mr Zelenskiy that the US could be “very helpful in running those …
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Pope Francis has suspended the use of an oxygen mask, the Vatican said on Wednesday, adding that the 88-year-old’s clinical condition was “improving” after more than one month in hospital.
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KYIV, Ukraine — President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that they had a constructive call about moving toward a ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow, with the White House suggesting that the U.S. take control of Ukrainian power plants to ensure their security. Trump told Zelensky that the U.S could be “very helpful in running those plants …
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US President Donald Trump has ordered a review of the sanctions policy, aiming to make the restrictions more damaging to countries like Iran and Russia, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced. In an interview with Fox Business on Tuesday, he argued that the “lackadaisical” sanctions imposed by former President Joe Biden have failed to achieve any meaningful result, only hurting …
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Workers laboring in Vaca Muerta. Although oil has allowed Argentina to become a net exporter, this has not improved living conditions in the province of Neuquén, where most of it is located. Credit: Martin Álvarez Mullaly / Opsur by Daniel Gutman (buenos aires) Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Inter Press Service BUENOS AIRES, Mar 19 (IPS) – For about three years now, …
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Emboldened by Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu is intensifying the war. There’s been widespread international condemnation of Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza, including from the United Nations. But the United States was the only country on the 15-member UN Security Council to back Israel’s air strikes at a meeting on Tuesday. Emboldened by US President Donald Trump’s support, Israeli Prime Minister …
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Getty Images US President Donald Trump has held what he described as a “very good” hour-long phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after speaking to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said the call was aimed at aligning Ukraine and Russia “in terms of their requests and needs”, adding …
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