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UK officials have paused a clinical trial on puberty blockers for children after the medicines regulator raised safety concerns. The regulator warned about unknown long-term biological risks and called for a minimum age of 14. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will hold talks with King’s College London next week. The Department of Health and Social Care confirmed that the study will not recruit participants until they resolve the concerns. The government launched the Pathways trial after the Cass review criticised existing research. The review found weak evidence for the benefits of puberty blockers in young people with gender…
Big Tech faces a historic legal challenge. A major trial over social media addiction has begun and could transform the technology industry. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a jury for the first time over allegations that social media harms young people. His testimony came more than four years after leaked internal documents suggested the company knew its platforms could cause harm. Internal documents presented in a Los Angeles courtroom appeared to confirm long-standing concerns. Meta knew preteens used its apps. The company aimed to maximize scrolling time. It also ignored expert advice on safety, though Meta said the documents…
China has overtaken the United States as Germany’s largest trading partner, with total trade reaching €251bn in 2025.The figure rose slightly from the previous year, while trade with the US fell to €240bn. Germany imported €170.6bn in goods from China and exported €81.3bn in return.Tariffs introduced by Donald Trump are seen as one factor behind the drop in US trade. Chancellor Friedrich Merz will visit Beijing for talks with premier Li Qiang and president Xi Jinping.He is expected to discuss Ukraine, human rights and economic relations. German industry remains deeply tied to the Chinese market.Car manufacturers such as Volkswagen, BMW…
Hungary Links Support to Restored Pipeline Hungary has made clear it will not back the European Union’s 20th sanctions package against Russia until oil shipments through the Druzhba pipeline resume. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after a meeting of the Energy Security Council that no additional EU war loans should be sent to Ukraine while Hungary’s own energy supplies remain disrupted. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó confirmed that Budapest will block the new sanctions package, expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers. He said Hungary is waiting for Ukraine to repair the Druzhba pipeline, reportedly damaged in a Russian strike,…
The European Union faces criticism after a report revealed huge subsidies for foods that worsen the climate. Experts call on the EU to introduce a Plant-Based Action Plan to promote sustainable diets and help farmers transition from meat and dairy. Red meat and other high-emission foods receive disproportionate EU subsidies, raising concerns about misuse of taxpayer money. Charity Foodrise published a report showing that in 2020, the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) allocated far more funding to animal-based foods than to plant-based options. Animal-sourced foods received roughly 77 percent of total CAP subsidies, totaling €39 billion of the €51 billion…
The US Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping global tariffs last year.The court decided by six votes to three that Trump could not use a 1977 emergency law to tax imports from nearly every country.The judges said only Congress can create new taxes under the Constitution. The ruling left open whether consumers and companies could receive refunds for the estimated $130bn generated by the tariffs.The court did not address refunds, and further legal disputes are expected.Hours after the decision, Trump signed a proclamation under a different law to impose a new 10%…
OpenAI considered notifying Canadian police about a user later linked to a mass school shooting.The company flagged the account in June for “furtherance of violent activities”. It reviewed whether to contact the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but decided the activity did not show an imminent or credible threat.Its policy requires clear evidence of serious, immediate risk before a referral. Months later, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people in a remote British Columbia community and died by suicide.Police said the victims included a teaching assistant and several students aged 12 and 13.The attacker had previous mental-health-related contact with authorities. After…
A Swift Response to the Court Just a day after the US Supreme Court ruled that his sweeping tariff plan exceeded presidential authority, President Donald Trump announced he would raise global tariffs from 10% to 15%, effective immediately. In a social media post, Trump said the move followed what he described as a “ridiculous” and “anti-American” decision from the court. The justices had struck down his earlier tariff framework in a 6–3 ruling, concluding that he had overstepped by using emergency powers to justify broad import taxes. The case centered on Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act…
US researchers say a single nasal spray vaccine could protect against coughs, colds and flu. The vaccine could also prevent bacterial lung infections and may even reduce allergies. Scientists at Stanford University tested the universal vaccine in animals and still need human clinical trials. They describe the approach as a radical break from more than 200 years of vaccine development. Experts called the findings exciting but emphasized that the research remains at an early stage. Conventional Vaccines Fight Only One Illness Current vaccines train the immune system to fight a single infection. A measles vaccine protects against measles, and a…
Amazon’s cloud division suffered at least one outage last year after an internal AI agent made a critical change to its environment, according to reports.The disruption lasted about 13 hours in December when the system deleted and recreated part of its setup. AWS provides core infrastructure for large parts of the internet, so reliability is closely watched.A separate outage in October temporarily knocked dozens of websites offline and highlighted dependence on a few major providers. Amazon said the incident was caused by misconfigured access controls and described it as user error, not an AI failure.The company added that only one…