The Syrian city was nearly empty in early March, its streets littered with burned cars. Shops were plundered, their windows shattered and locks shot off. Some buildings were little more than blackened walls and ash.
Emergency workers had turned a…
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Osaka World Expo Recalls a Faded Dynamism From Japan in 1970
When Osaka first hosted the World Expo in 1970, a quarter-century after World War II, Japan’s economy was newly affluent and expanding so rapidly it was hailed as an economic miracle. The Expo broadcast that momentum to the world.
It was the…
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Korsar battalion fighters destroy two Russian IFVs, tank in Pokrovsk sector
Operators from the Korsar strike drone battalion of the 38th Separate Marine Brigade destroyed two Russian infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and a tank in the Pokrovsk sector of the front.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Telegram by the press service of…
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Hungary would hurt EU taxpayers by lifting Russia sanctions, warns Estonia
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Hungary’s Viktor Orbán will lump European taxpayers with an even bigger bill for support to Ukraine if he forces the EU to lift restrictions on €210bn of frozen Russian…
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Russian army one of biggest threats to Christian churches, believers
Over the years of full-scale war, 67 Ukrainian priests, pastors, and monks have been killed or tortured by Russian occupiers, 640 religious sites have been destroyed by the enemy.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky wrote this on his Telegram channel on Easter…
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Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Expedition 72 crew lands in Kazakhstan
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, along with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, successfully returned to Earth, according to the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.
The agency reported that the deorbiting and descent process proceeded…
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Zelensky talks about real situation on front lines following CinC report
The Easter statements by Putin did not extend to the territories of Kursk and Belgorod regions, combat operations continue on some fronts.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.
“We are documenting the actual situation on all…
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‘Bridgerton’ Star Nicola Coughlan Trolls J.K. Rowling While Raising $125K for U.K. Trans Charity
Nicola Coughlan, one of the many stars of Barbie and Lady Whistledown herself in Netflix’s Bridgerton, responded to a recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling with some choice words for British author J.K. Rowling and an impressive fundraising effort.
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In Ukraine, on Easter, it will be up to 24° Celsius, with rain only in west
In Ukraine, on Sunday, April 20, it will be up to 24° Celsius during the day, no precipitation is expected, only in the western regions there will be short-term rain and thunderstorms.
This was reported by the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center on Facebook,…
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Father’s mental health can impact children for years
In popular culture, dads are stoic, sensitive and strong. So powerful is the mystique of the happy dad that celebrities, joke books — even hard seltzers — carry the label.
Real life is different. Fathers get down, sometimes debilitatingly. And as new research from Rutgers Health reveals, when…
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