Russian troops clad in World War II-era uniforms marched Thursday across Moscow’s Red Square in a reconstruction of a legendary wartime parade. The Nov. 7, 1941, parade saw Red Army soldiers move directly to the front line in the Battle of Moscow, becoming a symbol of Soviet valor and tenacity in the face of overwhelming […]
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Russia hardened its line Thursday on a doping issue which could threaten the country’s participation at next year’s Tokyo Olympics. The Russians, who handed over a vast archive of data from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory to the World Anti-Doping Agency in January, denied that any of it was manipulated. Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said Russian
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The Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, and the Green Party have formed an electoral pact, agreeing not to stand against each other in dozens of seats. At the Unite to Remain press conference, Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said that people who wish to remain in the European Union feel “utterly abandoned”. Commenting on the parties
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Before his mother died in 2018 at the age of 84, Thomas G. Plante used some of his time on frequent visits to her home in Rhode Island to help get her estate in order. Early on, he found a life insurance policy that a relative had bought for her in 1933, when she was
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Catch Devon Teuscher, a 30-year-old principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre in New York, walking around the streets in her Brooklyn neighborhood, and you’ll likely find her adorable, fluffy Cavapoo dog Bailey at her side. But there’s one thing you won’t ever see her in: flip-flops. The unsupportive shoe is, after all, the stuff of
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Image copyright PA Media Image caption Environmental campaigners in Edinburgh during a mass global “climate strike” protest in September A phrase which hit headlines after millions of people joined climate change protests around the world has been named 2019’s word of the year. “Climate strike” was picked by Collins Dictionary after being used on average
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Image copyright Getty Images The UK’s competition watchdog has raised concerns train ticket prices could rise under the new operators of the West Coast Rail franchise. FirstGroup and Trenitalia won the contract to run the rail route between London Euston and Glasgow or Edinburgh. The Competition and Markets Authority said that on 21 routes, passengers
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To see how advanced the ear pieces are, we compared them to two translation tools on the market, Google Translate’s conversation mode and the hand-held CM Translator ($117 retail) from Cheetah Mobile. A preproduction model of the Ambassador ($150 retail) was tested at company headquarters in Brooklyn, while the WT2 Plus earbuds ($230 retail), were
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Others say efforts to change how the government polices competition are moving too fast. Daniel Crane, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, has written a draft paper arguing that the movement to change the law “has emerged out of virtually nowhere to claim a position at the bargaining table over antitrust reform
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Kawhi Leonard isn’t healthy three weeks into the season, according to the NBA, which says that as a result the Los Angeles Clippers can rest their new superstar. He was on the bench against the visiting Milwaukee Bucks for a national TV game Wednesday night, the first half of a back-to-back for the Clippers. They
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