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As few as one in ten people survive pancreatic cancer five years after their diagnosis — making it the most difficult cancer to survive. The survival rate five years after diagnosis is 6-14%, but there have been some promising advances to improve diagnosis and treatment. The biggest barriers to fighting pancreatic cancer are detecting tumors early and finding ways to remove them. Treatment is especially challenging — once the tumor is identified, it’s usually too late to save someone. “It’s a very poor prognosis, the vast majority of patients will die, more than 75% of them will die within a year,”…

Why does the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) exist? WADA was established in February 1999 at a World Anti-Doping Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) initiative was backed by around 140 countries. It was triggered by a major doping scandal at the 1998 Tour de France involving the French cycling team Festina. The scandal began after large quantities of banned substances were seized – even though at that point, no Festina rider had tested positive. At the conference in Lausanne, the participants agreed to establish an international anti-doping agency to standardize and coordinate the fight against doping. It…

US President Donald Trump said he was expecting Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit Washington on Friday to sign a “very big deal.” It comes as sources confirmed to several news agencies that Ukraine and the United States have agreed on a draft broad minerals deal, which may ease recent tensions between Trump and Zelenskyy. The deal will see the US jointly develop Ukraine’s mineral wealth, with revenues going to a new fund shared by both countries, according to senior Ukrainian officials, who were quoted by several news agencies. Draft deal lacks US security guarantees for Ukraine Zelenskyy had rejected Trump’s…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday revealed plans to sell new “gold card” US residency permits at $5 million (€4.8 million) a pop, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors. “We’re going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Speaking about the target audience, Trump said: “They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of…

Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart to sign away up to 50% of its mineral supplies.Amid concerns Mr Trump would withdraw aid if elected, during a meeting at Trump Tower in September, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly proposed a US stake in Ukrainian minerals in exchange for more weapons. But since Mr Trump’s return to the White House, US-Ukrainian relations have become increasingly strained, with him branding Mr Zelenskyy a “dictator” and excluding Ukraine from negotiations with Russia.Moscow contradicts Trump over peacekeepers; Ukraine latestA Ukrainian source told Sky News that Mr Zelenskyy is “not ready” to…

Among this year’s top contenders for the Oscars is the film “The Brutalist,” with 10 nominations. It tells the story of a European architect who, after surviving the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, emigrates to the United States, where he lands a building commission. A hit with critics, the three-and-a-half-hour movie has also been honored with prizes at film festivals and has won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards. Along with its epic narrative scope, the film also pays tribute to the divisive architectural style known as Brutalism. That name comes not from the style’s generally rugged, massive and radical look but from its…

Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine started three years ago, and there’s no end in sight. Even if the conflict ended today, the people of Ukraine still wouldn’t be safe. Research suggests the war’s effects on people, wildlife and the environment will last long into the future. The environment suffered $56.4 billion (€53.8 billion) in damage in the first year of the war. The total cost after three years of war is not yet estimated. A report released on the third anniversary of the war found that 229.7 million tons of CO2 emissions were blasted or burned into the atmosphere during…

At least three construction workers were killed and seven injured when a piece of elevated highway collapsed on Tuesday in South Korea. The bridge in Cheonan, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of the capital Seoul, was still being built when the 50-meter long beams holding it up crashed to the ground. The National Fire Agency said they were believed at least one more victim may be under the rubble. Authorities said that the cause of the incident could not immediately be determined.At least one victim was believed to be trapped under the rubbleImage: Hong Ki-won/Yonhap/AP/dpa/picture alliance Acting President Choi Sang-mok told relevant…

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced on Friday that it is suspending operations at Sudan’s largest displacement camp due to escalating violence. “Despite widespread starvation and immense humanitarian needs, we have no choice but to take the decision to suspend all our activities in the camp, including the MSF field hospital,” the global charity said, using its French acronym. The camp in North Darfur shelters more than half a million people, according to United Nations figures. Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensified this month in the camp after the RSF stormed Zamzam…

Germany’s economy has been struggling for more than two years, entering a likely third year of recession in 2025 after gross domestic product in Europe’s largest economy shrunk 0.2% and 0.3% in 2024 and 2023 respectively. Against the backdrop of a dire economic situation, the previous ruling three-party coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz was voted out of office in Sunday’s general election and his conservative challenger Friedrich Merz is set to take over the reins of power. Merz’s alliance of Christian Democratic Union (CDU)and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), won 28.5% of the vote, with Scholz’s Social Democrats…