A rainbow lifeguard tower painted to honor Pride month was destroyed in a fire early Tuesday, California authorities said.The Long Beach Fire Department said in a statement that the tower, located alongside the shoreline, was “engulfed” in flames...
Coalition negotiations are stuck. Trnava-based carmaker will have their very first Slovak CEO.
UNCOMPROMISING centre half, Manchester United legend and hard-nosed manager are normally phrases used to best describe Steve Bruce. But the under-fire Newcastle United manager is also a canny and prolific writer, penning three crime thriller books published between 1999 and 2000. Bruce was managing Huddersfield Town, when he wrote the epic trilogy Striker! Sweeper! And […]
(Telecompaper) Australian operator Optus has officially opened its first retail store in Echuca town, in Western Victoria...
Peter Suciu
F-14 Tomcat,
Because of its versatility, the F-14 served as an air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor, and even tactical reconnaissance platform.
Here's What You Need To Remember: Though it made its first deployment in 1974, the F-14 Tomcat continues to be used to this day, including by Iran.
During its three decades in service with the United States Navy the Grumman F-14 Tomcat more than lived up to the role, it was designed for, drawing... Читать дальше...
In this week's Ask Monty, Monty Roberts answers the question, "What is Join-Up? I’d love for my horses to follow me around the paddock."
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A political conflict between Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Sheikh Mujib led to the genocidal Operation Searchlight on March 25, 1971. The rest is history.
Читать дальше...Steve Phillips is appointed chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union on a permanent basis.
Tesla has warned customers that they could lose the value of their car if they use its new bitcoin-purchasing scheme wrongly.
The 'Blade Runner' actress speaks out on 'toxic Hollywood men,' including her one-time co-star James Woods, who she says 'destroyed' her career with false accusations of stalking.
Virus fatalities in four States touch 28; Telangana, A.P incidence rises
Aladdin star Mena Massoud becomes a live-action version of Star Wars: Rebels character Ezra Bridger in new The Mandalorian fan art.
JULIA BRADBURY has revealed on Twitter that she has "made it a rule" not to work with people she doesn't get along with, after past experiences.
S. Castelier, Al-Mon.
Gulf Arab states issued record debt last year, in large part after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the coronavirus a pandemic just over a year ago, on March 11, 2020.
There are only two unpolluted fresh water sources left in the country, which we must conserve and use
Saeed Ghasseminejad, FDD
The Biden administration has put Washington's Arab allies in the Persian Gulf on notice. Since Jan. 20, the White House has made several decisions that have harmed those allies and strengthened Tehran's position in the region. A longer-term beneficiary will be China.
Poppy McPherson, Reuters
For the last seven weeks, Myint Htwe has been moving between secret locations, organizing meetings and planning protests.
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Ted Galen Carpenter, The Am. Cons.
Unscrupulous used car dealers could learn a trick or two from America's foreign policy mandarins when it comes to bait-and-switch tactics. Repeatedly, U.S. officials have invoked a specific justification—frequently an emotionally charged one with wide appeal—to obtain congressional and public support for a military intervention or other questionable policy initiative. When the original justification subsequently proves to be bogus, exaggerated, or no longer applicable... Читать дальше...
Williams doesn't see a decline coming in his play any time soon
Cristina Gallardo & Hans Von Der Burchard, Pol. EU
LONDON — Richard Szostak has been handed a task that some would consider impossible: Breaking the EU-U.K. logjam over its divorce agreement as tempers flare over the pandemic.
Joshua Kurlantzick, World Politics Review
Since seizing power in a coup in early February, Myanmar's military, known as the Tatmadaw, has increasingly cracked down on civil society and the political opposition. In recent weeks, it has shuttered most independent media outlets; arrested many members of the former ruling party, the National League for Democracy, or NLD;
Constanze Stelzenmüller, FT
Berlin's inflexibility risks alienating a US administration that wants to stand up to Russia
Roger Boyes, Times of London
air Bolsonaro, now global Covid denier-in-chief, is in a pickle. Brazil's total death toll from the virus is set to reach 300,000 this week, second only to the United States, and all of the president's breezy indifference to it, his urging of the sick to man up, his contempt for face-masking, is coming back to haunt him.
Mark Landler & Stephen Castle, New York Times
LONDON — In Bristol, an English college town where the pubs are usually packed with students, there were fiery clashes between the police and protesters. In Kassel, a German city known for its ambitious contemporary art festival, the police unleashed pepper spray and water cannons on anti-lockdown marchers.
