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Jin begins military service in the beginning of a new era in K-pop.
BTS’ oldest member Jin has begun his mandatory military service at an army training centre in South Korea. Jin, who turns 21 today, has urged his fans to not visit the training centre amid reports of his impending enlistment. Several banners along the carriageway welcomed Jin and the other recruits to the base, which is…
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Lionel Messi is looking to inspire La Celeste.
Argentina forward Lionel Messi, who will play his first World Cup final in the tournament on Friday, has scored five goals in the tournament. The 29-year-old has also won the Golden Ball award, which goes to the player who has most assists in a single World Cup tournament, three times. He is the all-time top…
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80 years later, a World War II ship pollutes the North Sea.
Researchers at Belgium’s Ghent University have discovered several WWI shipwrecks along the North Sea seabed. They found metals and chemicals that have the potential to affect the environment. The team, which will be developing a decision-making tool to asses the potential environmental risk a war-time shipwreck poses, also discovered shipwrecks that were almost fully intact,…
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A US official says that the Paul Whelan talks are going to continue because Russians have things they want.
US Paul Whelan, the third American to be released by Russia, said he was surprised that he wasn’t included in the deal with Russian arms dealer Mikhail Bout. Whelan said he hopes that US Vice President Joe Biden and his administration would do everything they could to get him home, regardless of the “price they…
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A scallion pancake is a mixture of thoughts of family, China and a tiny secret.
The London Fog raincoat draped over her father’s shoulders like a “Superman cape”, making pancakes, Remnant Liu said. “The memories are still with us of waking up on a Sunday… smelling the pancakes,” she added. Liu lives in Washington, DC, now, but said she can still picture walking down the stairs to see her father…
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France beats England to make the World Cup semifinals.
French forward Antoine Griezmann has become the all-time leading scorer in World Cup history after finding the net for France against England on Friday. Griezmann has now scored five goals in the tournament, four of them in the group stage. France will now face off against England in the World Cup’s semi-finals on Saturday.
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Messi is going to suffer after the World Cup shock.
Argentina’s Lionel Messi scored a penalty in his first game for his country at the 2022 World Cup to help Saudi Arabia beat Argentina 1-0 on Wednesday. The victory was Saudi Arabia’s first ever World Cup victory. This is the first time that Saudi Arabia have reached a World Cup semi-final.
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France and England are competing at the World Cup while Portugal is playing with the possibility of history being made.
Portugal on Monday became the first team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals after winning all their matches in Russia. Portugal will face Germany on Tuesday, while France will face England in their next match. This is Portugal’s first appearance in the World Cup quarter-finals. Notably, it was the first time Portugal had won a…
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Over the last 50 years, animal populations have shrunk by an average of 70%.
A new report by the Zoological Society of London and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found a decline in wildlife populations across the world over the past 50 years. Latin America and the Caribbean saw a 94% average population loss and Africa saw a 66% decline, while North America experienced only a 20% drop and…
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Grant was a journalist who collapsed at the World Cup.
Grant Wahl, a journalist who had covered eight consecutive FIFA World Cups, died at the age of 40 in Qatar in December 2005. Wahl’s family has said that he received death threats for wearing a rainbow shirt while reporting on soccer organization’s activities in the nation. Wahl had volunteered to cover football as a junior…
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Here is one for her future.
Brittney Griner has been released from Russia after being jailed for over five months on charges of possessing hashish oil. She was detained at Yaroslavl airport on September 10 and later sentenced to two years in jail. “When I first saw Brittney, she was a very strong young woman,” former WNBA player Lisa Leslie said…
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There was a deal that freed a woman but left a man in Russia.
The US has released Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout as a part of a deal that also saw former US Air Force Special Warfare Captain Brittney Griner being freed from custody. “I’m grateful for President (Joe) Biden’s willingness to honour my family’s request for my release,” Griner said. “I’m looking forward to returning home to…
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Lionel Messi is looking to inspire La Celeste.
Argentina and Netherlands will face each other in the World Cup knockout stages for the third time after they faced off in 1998 and 1978. They last met in the semi-finals eight years ago, a goalless game that Argentina ultimately won on penalties. Both the teams have lost their last two matches at the World…
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The basketball player was freed from a Russian prison.
Paul Whelan, a former US marine held by Russia for allegedly spying, has been released from the country in exchange for Maria Butina Griner. The swap took place after the US released Russian arms control officer Viktor Bout in a prisoner swap on Wednesday. Whelan had been detained in 2018 after he was charged with…
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The obstacles need to be conquered for invention to happen.
China is the only Asian country that is ranked low in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index (GII) for 2020. China is behind other nations in patents, trademarks and the size of its domestic market. The country is also not ranked high for GII metrics related to international relations such as student numbers…
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Biden is going to bring Paul Whelan home from Russia.
US President Joe Biden said that Russia is treating Paul Whelan, a US citizen held in a Russian penal colony since 2014, differently than Brittney Griner, who was released on Thursday. Biden added that Russia’s accusation that Whelan was a spy made him higher up than the other two men released in April. “Sadly, Russia…
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Is it true that elite woman athletes are not safe?
American basketball player Brittney Griner has been jailed in Russia for nine years over a drug conviction. According to Griner’s lawyer, the 23-year-old was found in possession of traces of hashish oil in her handbag. Griner, who is a part of the US women’s national team, is the first American female basketball player to be…
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A US citizen was sentenced for causing the death of a British teenager.
Anne Sacoolas, the 45-year-old US woman accused of killing 19-year-old British motorcyclist Harry Dunn in a traffic accident near a US military base, pleaded guilty on Thursday. Britain’s attempt to extradite SaCoolas to face charges of causing death by dangerous driving was declined by US authorities. SaCoolas has been ordered to be disqualified from driving…
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There are a lot of great Apple Deals.
Amazon and Best Buy’s deals have slashed prices of several Apple products including the iPad Air, MacBook Air, Mac Mini and Apple Watches during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. The cheapest iPad Air on sale at Amazon is priced at $810. Walmart has the best price on the 11-inch iPad Pro, which features…
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The University of Virginia canceled classes in the wake of the fatal shooting of 3 football players.
At least three people were killed and two others were injured after a shooting at the University of Virginia on Sunday, campus police and university president Jim Ryan confirmed. The shooter, identified as 22-year-old Jeffrey Jones, was later killed in a gun battle with the police. The shooting is the third major mass shooting at…
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Egypt’s climate scientists share the hope of the 27th Conference of Parties.
The world is on a highway to “climate hell”, UN climate chief Simon Stiell said during the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) on Monday. “We always want more,” he said. Countries need to conduct more of their own climate studies, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, which already experiences low rainfall and arid…
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His posts on social media got him in trouble.
Rapper Ye has been accused of racism and antisemitism after he posted pictures from his fashion show and social media posts. Ye tweeted that he would soon go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE”. The rapper has been accused of racism and antisemitism in recent days after his fashion show and social media posts.
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Bezos says he’s going to give most of his money to charity.
Jeff Bezos has said that unity is one trait that will be necessary to confront climate change. “I…felt so proud to have been part of that little seed money that will hopefully grow into something great and help to heal this world,” he added. The Bezos Courage and Civility Award was given this year to…
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There is trade at stake for the US and China economies.
The US has imposed sanctions on Chinese technology firms over alleged theft of American trade secrets. The Trump administration also said that it expects China to “act in a fashion that protects US intellectual property and technology” and “act in accordance with the rules of international trade”. This comes after the US imposed sanctions on…
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Top aide says that Trump wanted I.R.S. investigations.
Former US President Donald Trump’s ex- chief of staff, John Kelly, has said the US government, whether it’s the Internal Revenue Service or the Justice Department, should never be “weaponised” or used to retaliate, The New York Times reported. “I would say, ‘It’s inappropriate, it’s illegal, it’s against their integrity and the I.R.S. knows what…