Books prove an escapist pleasure in lockdown
The pandemic has been good for reading, but not for all booksellers
The pandemic has been good for reading, but not for all booksellers
His soothing voice while presenting the BBC show ‘Grandstand’ filled many a rainy Saturday afternoon
A former Las Vegas police officer is tangled in a legal battle with the Metropolitan Police Department, where he claims he experienced a culture of racism.
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Читать дальше...Malta has appointed a long-standing diplomat to serve as its "ambassador for women" as it prepares to implement a United Nations gender equality pledge. Ambassador Celia Pirotta, whose diplomatic career stretches almost four decades, will steer oversight of a national action plan concerning UN resolution 1325, which was first launched 20 years ago. The resolution seeks to promote gender equality, prevent all forms of violence and increase the representation of women. Foreign Affairs minister Evarist... Читать дальше...
There are some notable positional switches on the Leitrim team named to face Mayo in the Connacht SFC quarter-final in Carrick-on-Shannon on Sunday (throw-in 1.15pm).
Johnson & Johnson plans to start testing its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in youths aged 12 to 18 as soon as possible, a company executive said at a meeting held by the US Centers for Disease Control...
Security forces and young men clashed in Lebanon's capital Friday after around two hundred people protested against the French president's defense of the right to publish cartoons seen as offensive to
Nine years after they first met, Caroline McKay and Monica Duran founded Rayu, an artisan accessories line that shines a light on Latin American communities and traditions. Launched this summer, the brand hopes to disrupt the fashion industry with a focus on female empowerment and sustainability.
Is spending money on players wise this winter? What are the rules of engagement? Buckle up, baseball fans, for a bumpy offseason.
W. Lohman & F. Jannuzi, WOTR
Last month, a Taiwanese air force pilot radioed a Chinese military aircraft that it was breaching the median line that divides the Taiwan Strait between China and Taiwan. The Chinese pilot responded, “There is no median line.” The assertion was not corrected by the pilot’s military or civilian superiors. To the contrary — soon after, China’s foreign ministry
Christopher Layne, Foreign Affairs
Since the closing days of the Cold War, U.S. policymakers, pundits, international relations scholars, and policy analysts have argued that great-power war is a relic of a bygone age. In 1986, the historian John Lewis Gaddis termed the post–World War II era a “Long Peace” because the Soviet Union and the United States had not come to blows. A few years later, the political scientist John Mueller suggested that changing norms had made great-power conflict obsolete. Читать дальше...
The mission is to help quell the violence that began after the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr on Monday.
Guardsman Mathew Talbot was on an anti-poaching operation in Malawi when he was killed.
Charities say it is ‘scandalous’ that people seeking refuge forced to wait seven months for allowance to cover cost of ‘basic essentials’ such as toiletries, phone data and bus fares
James Roberts, RealClearWorld
The United Kingdom recently moved to integrate its foreign-aid operations more closely with its overall foreign-policy efforts. The United States should strongly consider following suit.
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JACKSONVILLE - The goals are more modest now.
The Jaguars are 1-6 entering their 2020 bye week, having lost six consecutiv
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Читать дальше...Infection levels in England are about four times higher than the government's worst-case winter plan.