Authorities in the Italian canal city of Venice say a tax on day-trippers will start being charged on July 1, 2020. The tax was announced nearly a year ago, but its implementation was delayed as officials worked out how it would be paid and enforced. Authorities said Wednesday that the level of the tax will […]
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The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prizes (all times local): 5:45 p.m. Nobel chemistry prize winner M. Stanley Whittingham says he hopes the award for work on lithium-ion batteries will “push the field further and faster.” The 77-year-old British-American chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton is one of
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The wives of two of English soccer‘s most high-profile players got embroiled in a spat on Twitter on Wednesday about the leaking of information to a tabloid newspaper. In a post to her 1.3 million followers, Wayne Rooney’s wife, Coleen, accused Rebekah Vardy — or somebody with access to Vardy’s account — of informing The
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WASHINGTON — American diplomats who had pushed for the Trump administration to restore security funding to Ukraine were advised by the White House to play down the release of the money when it was finally approved, documents show. “Keep moving, people, nothing to see here …” Brad Freden, the State Department’s acting deputy assistant secretary
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A year after Hurricane Michael, the Florida county hardest hit by the Category 5 storm is still in crisis. Thousands in Bay County are homeless, medical care and housing are at a premium, and officials say domestic violence has been an issue. Michael was among the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United
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Image copyright Getty Images The one where they all come back and make another series. Friends fans have been calling for it since the final episode aired in 2004 but now we hear the cast have all met up at Courtney Cox’s house. Add to that the fact that for a second year it’s the
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Image caption John and Irene Hays of Hays Travel have agreed to rescue 555 Thomas Cook shops John Hays, founder of the travel firm that is rescuing Thomas Cook’s High Street shops, knows a thing or two about survival. Soon after setting up Hays Travel in the back of his Mum’s childrenswear shop in 1980,
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The food and art favored by Leah Chase, who was the nation’s pre-eminent Creole cook when she died in June at age 96, will live on in a restaurant that members of her family and an international hospitality group plan to open as soon as November inside the new billion-dollar terminal of Louis Armstrong New
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In January, Ms. Salke attended the Sundance Film Festival for the first time as the Amazon Studios head — and the company went on a spree, shelling out significant sums for several films, including $14 million for “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” a low-key, feel-good comedy now in theaters; another $14 million for “The Report,” a
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Russia has won its first men’s all-around team gymnastics world title since the end of the Soviet Union after a crucial fall from China. China went into the high bar — the last rotation for both China and Russia — with a 1.394-point lead but Sun Wei’s fall allowed Russia to snatch the initiative on
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