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Israel launches new wave of attacks on Iran as crisis deepens

DOHA/WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, March 20 (Reuters) – Israel launched a fresh wave of attacks on Iran on Friday, a day after President Donald Trump told it not to repeat its strikes on Iranian ​natural gas infrastructure, which sharply escalated the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The conflict has killed thousands of people, spread to neighbouring nations and hit the global economy since the United States ‌and Israel launched strikes on February 28, after talks about Tehran’s nuclear program failed to yield a deal. “The IDF has just begun a wave of strikes against the infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in the heart

‘Microshifting’ puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules

NEW YORK March 20, 2026 (AP) — Before the house is humming and her teenagers ask her to whip up breakfast or chauffeur them to school, Jen Meegan reads her company emails and revisits ideas she drafted the night before. She works for an hour or so, then after the school run shops for groceries or gets gas before returning to focus deeply on her job as head writer and cofounder of Sheer Havoc, a creative services agency. And so goes the rhythm of her day: working in targeted chunks for a few hours, breaking for an hour or two

Energy production imbalance in brain, blood cells could contribute to fatigue in depression: Study

New Delhi, Mar 19 (PTI) A study has found that brain and blood cells in young adults with depression produced energy at rest but had trouble increasing production when needed — the imbalance could contribute to symptoms such as fatigue and low motivation, researchers said. The finding, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, could pave way for an earlier diagnosis of major depressive disorder and personalised treatments. Author Susannah Tye, associate professor from The University of Queensland in Australia, said the findings mark the first time researchers have detected patterns in fatigue-related molecules in both the brain and bloodstream of

India’s proposal to preload national ID app Aadhaar on phones faced pushback

NEW DELHI, March 19 (Reuters) – India’s government privately proposed in January that firms like Apple, Samsung and Google consider pre-installing its biometric ​identification app Aadhaar on phones, a move opposed by a group representing the smartphone giants, industry letters show. The tussle over preloading state-run apps ‌has become a recurring flashpoint between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and tech firms, with the Aadhaar request one of six that Indian IT industry body MAIT has pushed back against, according to the letters. Aadhaar is a unique 12-digit identity number tied to an individual’s fingerprints and iris scans, held by nearly

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