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The Indian Army rescued and evacuated over 300 tourists stranded in Changgu and adjoining areas of East Sikkim owing to heavy snowfall, a Defence official said Friday. The Army personnel carried out the rescue operation amid the blizzard, evacuating the tourists travelling in 50 to 60 vehicles Thursday, the official said. The tourists who included women, children and elderly persons were taken to safer places. A number of them requiring immediate medical care due to the weather and high altitude... Читать дальше...

SICK Celtic fans have been caught on camera chanting “I hope you die in your sleep Brendan Rodgers… with a bullet from the IRA”. Hoops fans were left fuming this week when Rodgers quit to take over Leicester. But some crossed the line with their abuse as they linked up on Wednesday night for the […]

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THIS is the moment boozed-up Celtic fans chant “I hope you die in your sleep Brendan Rodgers .. with a bullet from the IRA”. In the 13-second clip, a small group of supporters can be heard singing the slur about their former manager inside an Edinburgh pub. The footage was taken at the Roseburn Bar […]

Frederick Douglass. Just the name alone is enough to inspire us to think of a life lived in activism and an unceasing fight for social justice. But there are other names in the life story of Frederick Douglass that are far more unknown to us, those of his daughters and sons: Rosetta, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., Charles Remond and Annie Douglass.

The weekend is often for relaxation, contemplation and, usually, tactical planning. More »

Union minister Jual Oram on Thursday said tribal forest produce gatherers will get minimum support price for 50 items under a new scheme. Under the "Scheme of Minimum Support Price and Value Addition", the MSP for 50 items will be hiked by 30 to 40 per cent. It will benefit 5.5 crore tribals who depend on forest produce for livelihood, he said. Oram also said the government's flagship Van Dhan scheme for increasing incomes of tribal population is ready to be extended to all tribal districts in phases. Читать дальше...

Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva has been attacked on social media following her inclusion for the World Figure Skating Championships at the expense of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, with many hoping the latter would be selected.
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On March 11-15, the delegation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands led by the Ambassador (with residence in Moscow) Renée Jones-Bos will visit Uzbekistan.

The EU has done a good job upholding net neutrality since it implemented a law on it back in 2016, but European net neutrality will face a new challenge in 2019: how to deal with 5G. The current net neutrality law is undergoing reform this year and it’s expected that it’ll largely revolve around the question of whether 5G should be treated like 4G and other internet services under net neutrality, or get special treatment. 5G is the much anticipated fifth generation of cellular mobile communications. Читать дальше...

I discussed the possibility in a previous article, considering whether the Trump regime intends inventing a pretext for military intervention.

The Delhi Commission for Women on Thursday issued a notice to the Delhi Police over large-scale open sale of illegal alcohol and drugs in north Delhi. The DCW said women across north Delhi complained to its chief Swati Maliwal regarding large-scale open sale of illegal alcohol and drugs and that their families have been destroyed by it. They complained of inaction and direct collusion of police in the matter, the DCW said. Following this, Maliwal issued the notice to the Delhi Police to seek an explanation. Читать дальше...

Luciano Spalletti hit back at Stefano Pioli for downplaying the Fiorentina-Inter controversy. “Now we think a handball is on your nipples…”

Two children in Australia have been identified as "semi identical" twins, making them only the second pair to be reported in the world.

Streaming service DAZN make Texas debut with Toyota Center fight card Houston Chronicle Boxing's return to Toyota Center on Saturday with a card highlighted by Jamie Munguia vs. Takeshi Inoue mar

• Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro recorded a lengthy livestream on Wednesday, talking about the state's carnival plans and showing Venezuelans celebrating.
• It came four days after at least two people died and at least 300 more were injured in violent clashes over the government's refusal to let in humanitarian aid.
• Meanwhile, self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó is planning to end his exile in Colombia, and mobilizing protests in Venezuela. 

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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei racked up a slew of deals to sell 5G equipment at the world's top mobile fair in Spain despite Washington's campaign to convince its allies bar the firm from their next-generation wireless networks. The famously secretive company launched a media offensive at the Mobile World Congress which wraps up in Barcelona on Thursday against US accusations that its cheap equipment used in telecommunications infrastructure across the globe is a Trojan horse for potential Chinese state spying and sabotage. Читать дальше...

Philippine officials say a proposal to re-examine a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty between Washington and Manila, and territorial conflicts in the South China Sea are likely to be discussed during … Click to Continue »

Carly Rae Jepsen released two songs at once, before confirming she will drop an album this year.

Chairman of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky said that in order to find a common consensus "North Korea’s issue should be reintroduced at the UNSC venue"

Yesterday, Netflix casually deleted over 60 movies and TV shows like it was no big deal. And y'know what? Maybe it wasn't. Turns out the streaming giant had a bunch of replacements waiting in the wings, including fan faves like District 9, Mamma Mia!, Blade Runner and the original Jurassic Park trilogy. Here's everything that'll be appearing tonight and over the weekend! More »