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Drop that fork! Why eating at your desk is banned in France

What the French history of the leisurely lunch break can teach us about separating work from rest. (Image credit: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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‘Checked out’: Trump rebukes Ivanka over Jan. 6 testimony – POLITICO

‘Checked out’: Trump rebukes Ivanka over Jan. 6 testimony  POLITICO Trump claims daughter Ivanka ‘checked out’ and wasn’t looking at election results  CNN Everything Donald Trump Has Said About Ivanka Trump’s Testimony  Newsweek Donald Trump dismisses daughter Ivanka’s Jan. 6 Committee testimony  New York

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Chinese Fighter Jet Crashes Into Residential Buildings, Killing One

Incident is first significant accident involving a Chinese military aircraft to be officially confirmed in more than a year

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Solar-System Rocks Could Have Helped Jump-Start Life on Earth, Asteroid Study Finds

An analysis of dust and pebbles from the asteroid Ryugu shows that it contains amino acids that are considered the precursors of life, supporting a theory that solar-system rocks crashing into Earth helped jump-start primordial life-forms.

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Turkish hilltop where civilization began

On a sun-blasted hillside in southeast Turkey, the world’s oldest known religious sanctuary is slowly giving up its secrets. “When we open a new trench, we never know what to expect,” said Lee Clare of the German Archaeology Institute, who

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The age of outbreaks: Experts warn of more animal disease threats

With the spread of monkeypox across the world coming hot on the heels of Covid-19, there are fears that increasing outbreaks of diseases that jump from animals to humans could spark another pandemic. While such diseases — called zoonoses —

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A major natural gas terminal in Texas goes offline because of an explosion

The company, Freeport LNG, said no one was injured. The shutdown comes at a time when global demand for LNG is high because many nations are trying to wean themselves off Russian gas. (Image credit: Marie D. De Jesús/AP)

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Ukrainian forces ‘holding on’ in key Donbas battles

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were “holding on” in the flashpoint eastern city of Severodonetsk where intense street battles with Russian troops could determine the fate of the Donbas region. Moscow has concentrated its firepower on the industrial city,

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Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo: I didn’t know I was in charge at the shooting scene – CBS News

Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo: I didn’t know I was in charge at the shooting scene  CBS News Uvalde schools police chief said he intentionally left radios behind  Insider New Documents Show Uvalde Police Waited to Confront Gunman  The New York Times

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Death sentence for Britons fighting in Ukraine ‘an egregious breach of Geneva Convention’

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said the death sentences handed to two Britons in Ukraine are “an egregious breach of the Geneva Convention”.

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