Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Locals are angry about the pollution from big cruise liners that come into the heart of the city It is well-known that Venice is drowning as global sea levels rise because of climate change. Last year, the city suffered its worst floods in half a century. Less well-known is […]
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Corinne Suter has got her first win in a women’s World Cup super-G February 9, 2020, 12:17 PM 2 min read GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Corinne Suter got her first win in a women’s World Cup super-G on Sunday, a month after winning her first downhill. The Swiss skier coped with tricky conditions on the Kandahar
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With its core belief that the president is heroically battling entrenched evildoers, QAnon may be the ultimate manifestation of Trump-inspired conspiracy mongering. From the start, it was inexorably bound up with “Make America Great Again” communities online: The New York Times found last year that some 23,000 of Mr. Trump’s Twitter followers had QAnon references
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Image copyright Getty Images Concerns have been raised over “deposit-free” renting being mis-sold to tenants who do not understand the costs involved. The option allows renters to pay a smaller, generally non-refundable fee in place of a traditional deposit. Companies and letting agents offering it say it reduces upfront costs. But campaign groups and the
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TUCSON, Ariz. — UCLA watched Arizona State make almost everything it took from 3-point range. Two days later, Arizona missed nearly everything it shot, with a little help from the Bruins. The result: Arizona’s lowest shooting percentage in the McKale Center’s 47-year history. Playing arguably its best all-around game of the season, UCLA held No.
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Other people attending the trial, including interpreters, military paralegals, court stenographers, journalists and legal observers, are housed in a crude trailer park and tent city behind the courthouse, which may have to be expanded. More construction is under consideration, including shipping modular construction to the base by barge and adding closed-circuit feeds of the proceedings
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Spain has confirmed its second case of the new virus from China and a plane evacuating more than 200 people from the Chinese city at the center of the epidemic has landed in Britain February 9, 2020, 10:18 AM 2 min read MADRID — Spain has confirmed its second case of the new virus from
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“Saturday Day Night Live’s” spoof news show “Weekend Update” often mocks President Donald Trump, but Saturday’s episode could have marked a record number of especially hard-hitting takedowns. Hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che slammed Trump for mocking religion at the National Prayer Breakfast, for the president’s weird apparent make-up line in a photograph, and for
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionLiu Xiaoming: “I think what they are doing is a kind of a witch-hunt.” China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, says Tory politicians opposed to Huawei playing a role in the UK’s 5G network are conducting “a witch-hunt”. Some senior Conservatives have written to Tory MPs
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YAR-SALE, Russia — The tundra at dusk looks like the open ocean, waves of shades of blue, gray and white. Indigenous reindeer herders traverse this terrain, eking a nomadic living out of the barren land. The biting cold this time of year keeps their provisions perpetually frozen, but they sometimes lack the time — or
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