Image copyright Jim Estill Image caption Jim Estill has personally enabled more than 300 Syrians to start a new life in Canada The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Jim Estill, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist. When Jim Estill saw the horrors of the […]
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Zion Williams may not be quite as tall as billed. He still soared in his first NBA preseason game Monday night. Showing off the high-flying talents that made him one of the most anticipated rookies in years, Williamson turned in a ferocious slam less than 2 minutes into his debut with the New Orleans Pelicans
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s sudden blessing of a Turkish military operation in northern Syria and his announcement of an American troop withdrawal from that region raised questions about the fate of thousands of Islamic State detainees that the Turks’ targets, American-backed Syrian Kurds, have been holding in makeshift wartime prisons. Mr. Trump insisted that Turkey
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Image caption Caroline Wyatt visited Prof Robin Franklin to find out more about a drug that might help stop the progression of MS “I don’t like to think of the future. It’s such a big question mark. I just keep living in the present.” Karine Mather was diagnosed with MS when she was 27, although
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The Fab Five are going international. Netflix has announced that a four-episode special season of “Queer Eye” will hit the streaming network on Nov. 1. The above trailer for “Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!” finds the Emmy-winning series’ five stars ― Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness ― bringing their “infectious brand
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGloomy post-Brexit forecasts ‘accurate’ Even a “relatively benign” no-deal Brexit would push UK debt to its highest since the 1960s, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said. The think tank said borrowing would likely climb to £100bn and total debt would soar to 90% of national income.
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Her most prized dish was chicken relleno, reserved for the grandest festivities. She had never revealed the recipe to anyone, which strained some friendships. The day I learned to make chicken relleno, my lola laid out two cutting boards and a set of battered but carefully sharpened knives. Wearing a shower cap over her head,
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Charlie Morton to the rescue, again. Kevin Kiermaier hit a go-ahead, three-run homer as Tampa Bay teed off on Zack Greinke, and the Rays got another clutch playoff performance from Morton to beat the Houston Astros 10-3 Monday and cut their AL Division Series deficit to 2-1. Facing the team he helped win the World
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WASHINGTON — For nine months, the Pentagon played down the presence of its 1,000 troops in Syria, hoping that President Trump would not focus on the extent to which the American military was continuing to fight the Islamic State despite his order in December to pull out. On Sunday, the president appeared to say he
The United States is blacklisting a group of Chinese tech companies that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology that the U.S. says is being used to repress China’s Muslim minority groups. A move Monday by the U.S. Commerce Department seeks to put the companies on a so-called Entity List for acting contrary to
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