Новости за 19.06.2023

Brett Forrest, WSJ
Inmates of IK-17 in Russia's Mordovia region struggle with hazardous work and meager medical care. It could be the next destination for jailed Wall Street Journal reporter...

Solomon, Intercept
Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker who died on Friday from pancreatic cancer, wanted to show Americans the truth about war.

Marsh & Rinke, Reuters
Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces a delicate balancing act this week at German-Chinese government consultations in Berlin, seeking to maintain good ties with Germany's largest...

The Intercept
Social media spying by the Army's Protective Services Battalion is supposed to keep an eye on embarrassing posts about generals.

Charles Robinson, Yahoo Sports
The big news in golf was also big news in America's most popular sports league, and if the Saudis want to bring sportswashing to the NFL, it'd be a difficult —...

Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Foreign Affairs and...

Connor Maxwell Ewing, New Rambler Review
Sarath Pillai reviews Norms and Politics: Sir Benegal Narsing Rau in the Making of the Indian Constitution, 1935-50, by Arvind Elangovan.

George Soros, Project Syndicate
Few technologies are as powerful – or as polarizing – as artificial intelligence. While more sanguine predictions may well be vindicated, this is far from...

Dustin Siggins, RealClearWorld

Next week's China visit by U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is being portrayed as a conversation between top leaders of world powers. It's diplomatic...

Movie and TV actress Brianne Howey, who stars in the beloved Netflix dramedy Ginny and Georgia, has announced the arrival of her first baby with husband Matt Ziering

Chris Richards and Folarin Balogun each score goals to lead the United States to a 2-0 victory over Canada in the CONCACAF Nations League final.

“Mom, this journal prompt is weird,” my son told me one afternoon in November 2019. He was a fourth-grade student at a private Montessori School. The students wrote weekly journal entries inspired by assigned articles to practice writing. “It’s kind...

Interim manager B.J. Callaghan's risk in fielding an attacking-minded lineup paid off in the form of a 2-0 win to clinch the USA's second CONCACAF Nations League title.

Summer school students at Edgar Martin Middle School should report to L.J. Alleman Middle School for class on Monday. Emergency crews will be working on a repair to the main water line.

Hurston Waldrep struck out 12 in six innings, and Florida homered three times to break its single-season record.

The Government should ensure no service stations are out of pocket when the fuel relief package comes to an end in two weeks’ time, the Motor Trade Association says. The fuel excise duty (FED) subsidy will end on 30 June. MTA says the subsidy ...

HBO

This week’s chapter of The Idol begins with one of the best eyerolls in recent memory, partially because it comes from the wildly talented Rachel Sennott (who plays personal assistant Leia), but because it echoes my exact sentiment towards this dreadful new episode. With lazy parallels to the cult-like Manson Family, torture scenes, and jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, “Daybreak,” which marks the halfway point of Season 1, The Idol has become completely unsalvageable.

In 2021, Pope Francis chose Sister Nathalie Becquart to serve as the first female undersecretary for the Synod of Bishops, making her one of the most powerful women in the Vatican. Now, as a historic synod approaches, Sister Becquart is an influential voice, telling cardinals, bishops and priests what the faithful want. (June 19) (AP video/Luigi Navarra, Gianfranco Stara, Paolo Lucariello, Trisha Thomas)

Top North Korean officials vowed to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite as they called their country's first, and failed, launch last month the most serious shortcoming this year and harshly criticized those responsible, state media reported Monday. In late May, a North Korean rocket carrying a military reconnaissance satellite crashed soon after liftoff, posing a setback to leader Kim Jong Un's push to acquire a space-based surveillance system to better monitor the United States and South Korea. Читать дальше...

Massive flooding caused by dam breach has contaminated drinking water and led to bans on swimming and eating seafood.

Keen traveller and social media personality Anna Paul has shared her 'genius' trick to find unique experiences while on holiday. She also shared why yo should skip Ubers while visiting a new city.

Commenting on the unfortunate sinking of a fishing vessel overloaded with migrants off the the southern Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said that this might be “the worst ever tragedy we’ve seen in the Mediterranean.” Her apprehensions could well be true because according to survivors, the ill-fated ship is believed to be carrying anything from 400 to 750 passengers, and with only 104 survivors being rescued and recovery of 78 dead bodies, the figures just don’t add up. Читать дальше...

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