The Daily Populous

Monday August 18th, 2025 night edition

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All members of Coalition of the Willing expressed strong support for Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty and opposed any forcible change of state borders.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in a post on Facebook following the meeting, according to Ukrinform.

Everyone agrees that borders must not be changed by force.

Security guarantees, Zelensky said, “must really be very practical, delivering protection on land, in the air, and at sea, and must be developed with Europe’s participation”.

We are working out a common vision of what a peace agreement should be – really fair, swift, and effective.

As reported by Ukrinform, on August 17, President Zelensky arrived in Brussels, where he met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Following their meeting, they jointly participated in an online meeting of the Coalition of the Willing leaders. »

A record low level of Americans drink, and a majority now say alcohol is bad for your health

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Gallup has been tracking Americans’ drinking behavior since 1939, and their views of the health implications of drinking since 2001.

For the first time, a majority of Americans – 53% – said that moderate drinking, defined as one or two drinks per day, is bad for your health.

“Certainly, the scientific evidence that we have would support lowering the recommended alcohol intake for Americans below what it is now. »

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

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Times may be tough on the high street but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and as online competition eases.

“BookTok is an easy label to put on it, but this is about people wanting to read and talk about books.”.

Those outlets are in addition to five in Next stores as the company tries to find locations that are convenient for shoppers. »

Call to ban ‘intolerant’ child-free resorts and hotels in France

Authored by theguardian.com

But Rossignol said the government must go further, and called for a parliamentary debate on her proposal to make it illegal to ban children from venues in France.

Rossignol said child-free spaces amounted to “organising society around people’s intolerance of others” and served to “institutionalise and legitimise intolerance”.

France has relatively few adult-only hotels and resorts, estimated to account for 3–5% of overall tourism, far less than neighbouring Spain, a market leader. »