Alexander Volkov says that he is well aware that he is playing the villain ahead of the UFC’s first fight card in London in three years, and he says he fully intends to send what will be a hostile crowd in London’s O2 Arena home disappointed on Saturday night. 43-fight veteran …
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Hundreds of people marched in the Latvian capital Riga on Wednesday to honor their compatriots who fought alongside the Nazis during World War II. Around 200 demonstrators carried the national flags of Latvia and Ukraine, as well as flowers that were laid at the foot of the Freedom Monument in …
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Netflix has announced that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s satirical comedy series ‘Servant of the People’, which had been available from 2017-2021, is once again available for streaming in the US. ‘Servant of the People’ follows a teacher (played by Zelensky) who unexpectedly becomes president after his rant against corruption goes …
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A fine arts museum in Belgium has returned a painting to the heirs of a German Jewish couple who had their property stolen by the Nazi regime before World War II. ‘Blumenstilleben,’ (Still Life with Flowers) painted in 1913 by German artist Lovis Corinth, was among dozens of artworks stolen …
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A French museum has gotten one of its most valuable artifacts back thanks to the savviness of Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, nicknamed the “Indiana Jones of the art world,” who managed to find the statue of Roman god Bacchus almost half a century after it was stolen. The Musee …
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Alpha News reported on December 21 that a Minnesota school board unanimously voted to pay black teachers and Native-American teachers more than their white colleagues on no basis other than color – not for merit or seniority or for taking on extra duties. They also voted to segregate staff into …
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The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the trio performed a soft touchdown on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 9:13am (3:13am GMT), three hours after undocking from the ISS. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his producer Yozo Hirano, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin experienced a standard 4g acceleration load during the routine landing, …
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Kyrie Irving is back, sort of. The Nets have recalled their All-Star guard from the wilderness for road games this season, having initially banned him because he refused to get vaccinated. The Nets are top of the Eastern Conference standings but a spate of injuries and players lost to Covid …
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‘Red Queen’ Darina Mazdyuk, a flyweight with a taste for sparring sessions, luxury cars and smouldering photoshoots, needed just 90 seconds to beat hefty blogger Grigory Chistyakov in a technical knockout that achieved her crafty ambitions of hitting the headlines. Bellator bosses had seen enough and duly signed Mazdyuk to …
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Actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko spent 12 days in space, where they filmed footage for an upcoming drama titled ‘The Challenge’. Peresild stars in it as a cardiac surgeon who is recruited to go to the International Space Station to perform an emergency procedure on an ailing cosmonaut. …
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