While I never met Donald Rumsfeld in person, our paths crossed indirectly on several occasions. What I learnt from these experiences hardened my heart toward a man who caused so much harm based on actions that placed ambition over integrity. In the days following my September 3, 1998, testimony before …
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Osaka, 23, withdrew from the French Open in May after triggering a row with organizers when she refused to conduct her media duties after matches, citing the toll it took on her mental health. Threatened with fines and potential expulsion, Osaka opted to walk away from the tournament after the …
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Honoring the late, great Luciano Pavarotti at Italia ’90, Andrea Bocelli got the postponed tournament off to a flying start by bellowing out Nessun Dorma before kick off to fireworks. His passion was matched by both teams’ hearty renditions of their national anthems, with the Italians as always screaming theirs …
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In a letter sent out to customers on Friday, Volkswagen, which also owns Audi, warned that an “unauthorized third party” obtained customer data from a North American vendor between 2019 and 2021. The data itself had been gathered by the vendor between 2014 and 2019 for sales and marketing purposes. …
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India’s national carrier and largest international airline informed the public of the breach on Friday. “This incident affected around 4,500,000 data subjects in the world,” the company said in a statement. The airline explained that hackers have gained access to personal information that was registered between August 26, 2011 and …
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Speaking on Tuesday, President Michel Aoun talked of the “the depth of the brotherly relationship between Lebanon and the Gulf countries,” notably Saudi Arabia, and sought to repair any damage done by caretaker Foreign Minister Wehbe. The president’s remarks followed a volley of criticism aimed at the foreign minister, who, …
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‘The Endless Letter’ website, produced in partnership with Red Collar Digital Agency, is the final part of the cross-platform #VictoryPages digital project launched by RT Creative Lab in 2020 and dedicated to 75 years of victory over Nazism. #VictoryPages is represented by ‘The Endless Letter’ on Instagram. ‘The Endless Letter’ …
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The “kind, personal message” from the head of the Catholic Church was delivered to Assange’s cell by a prison priest, Stella Moris told her Twitter followers on Sunday. Moris did not disclose the content of the missive, but expressed gratitude to Catholics and other Christians campaigning for Assange’s freedom. Assange …
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Disaster contingency planning is the sort of thing to make any consultant’s mouth water. Dreaming up catastrophic scenarios where things go very wrong is a good way to milk a client by exploiting their fears. When I worked on Fleet Street, one big newspaper group used to host regular disaster …
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In 1938 the great Irishman William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called ‘Politics’. It could perhaps, more accurately have been entitled ‘Anti-Politics’. War is looming, everything is political, “And there’s a politician That has both read and thought” in the room but Yeats reminds us there is something much more …
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