Column-Amid Middle East Chaos, China Changes Tactics on Taiwan and Japan

April 17 (Reuters) – As U.S. Vice President JD Vance returned to Washington last weekend after unsuccessful peace talks in Pakistan over the crisis in the Gulf, China’s Foreign Ministry was ⁠preparing for ⁠a bumper slate of visitors including Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the leaders of Spain, ⁠Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates. …

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Naloxone’s OD-Reversing Powers Challenged By Today’s Opioids, Tests Show

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 20, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The overdose-reversing drug naloxone has been rightly hailed as a lifesaving breakthrough, saving countless lives from opioid ODs. But a new study warns that the wonder drug has its limits, especially when confronted with overdoses involving the powerful new wave of synthetic opioids like …

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Dreams Affect Your Morning Mood In Surprising Ways, Study Finds

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 20, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Bad dreams can affect your morning mood, but not if a little joy is sprinkled into your slumber, a new study says. People who had dreams filled with fear were more likely to be in a rotten mood the following morning, researchers recently reported …

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With No End in Sight to Their Deployment, National Guard Troops Roam Washington

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cherry blossoms draw more than a million visitors to Washington’s Tidal Basin annually. This year was no different, except some strolling the area between the Lincoln Memorial and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial were dressed in camouflage — and armed. Eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the …

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Psychedelic Drug Makers Rally as Trump Orders FDA to Expedite Reviews

April 20 (Reuters) – Shares of psychedelic drug developers ⁠rose ⁠in premarket trading on ⁠Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order ​directing health regulators to speed up reviews of psychedelic drugs and boosted federal ‌research funding. Shares of Atai Life ‌Sciences jumped 21% before the bell, while Definium Therapeutics rose 15% and …

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Shipping Traffic Remains at Virtual Standstill Through Hormuz, Data Shows

LONDON, April 20 (Reuters) – Shipping traffic ⁠through ⁠the Strait of ⁠Hormuz remained at a virtual standstill ​on Monday with just three crossings in the space ‌of 12 hours, according ‌to shipping data. The oil products tanker ⁠Nero, ⁠which is under British sanctions for Russian oil activities, ​left the Gulf and was sailing through the …

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Israel Condemns Soldier’s Desecration of Crucifix in South Lebanon

By Maayan Lubell and Maya Gebeily JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, April 20 (Reuters) – ⁠Israel’s ⁠foreign minister and military on ⁠Monday condemned the desecration of a crucifix smashed by an Israeli ​soldier in a southern Lebanese village home to Christians. A photo that emerged online over the weekend shows ‌a soldier taking the blunt side ‌of an axe …

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