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Swiss Cops Fire Tear Gas On Protestors At Feminist Rally

firedPolice fired tear gas on participants of a feminist rally in Switzerland. (Representational) Zurich [Switzerland]: Police in Switzerland’s Zurich on Saturday (local time) fired tear gas on participants of a feminist rally held on the eve of International Women’s Day, and arrested two demonstrators. According to a report by Sputnik, the police had warned people […]

Sports

UFC 259 live updates and results — Jan Blachowicz vs. Israel Adesanya

LAS VEGAS — Israel Adesanya, who headlines UFC 259 vs. Jan Blachowicz on Saturday, has become one of the most talked-about fighters in the world. “The Last Style Bender” says he is comfortable with the idea that he could one day transcend MMA, like a Conor McGregor or a Ronda Rousey. “It’s inevitable,” Adesanya said. […]

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LA County May Return Beachfront Land Taken From Black Family

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.: Los Angeles county officials may return a beachfront property that was seized from a Black family nearly a century ago. Manhattan Beach used eminent domain in 1924 to force Willa and Charles Bruce, the city’s first Black landowners, off the land where they lived, KABC-TV reported Friday. They also ran a resort […]

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NBA commissioner Adam Silver says ‘most players’ will get COVID-19 vaccine, but aren’t required to do so

5:34 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Saturday said the NBA will not require anyone to get a COVID-19 vaccine, however he believes “most players” will ultimately choose to do so. “We’re seeing this now, both in the actual numbers of people getting vaccinated in the United States and opinion polls, that […]

Technology

Jack Dorsey is offering to sell the first tweet as an NFT

Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018. Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Jack Dorsey appears to be offering to sell the very first tweet as a non-fungible token, or NFT. The Twitter CEO shared a […]

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Journalists’ Group Calls For Release Of Reporters In Myanmar

INDIANAPOLIS: The Society of Professional Journalists, saying it is “frustrated and fed up with the arrests of reporters doing their jobs, has called on Myanmar to release Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw and five others detained while covering protests in the Southeast Asian nation. The nation’s oldest journalism organization also called on U.S. law enforcement […]

Business

David Newhouse, 65, Dies; His Paper Broke the Sandusky Story

David Newhouse, who as the editor guided The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., to a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story that led to the conviction of the Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky for sexually abusing young boys, and to the firing of Joe Paterno, the school’s once-beloved head football coach, died on Wednesday […]

Technology

Super Earth Gliese 486b is Close to Us and Has a Thin Atmosphere, But Could it Support Life?

Scientists with the CARMENES consortium have discovered a very interesting candidate that’s not too far away in outer space – a planet that falls within the definition of a ‘super Earth’, is practically next door from us, and even has a thin enough atmosphere with a unique atmospheric pressure composition. Orbiting dwarf red star Gliese […]

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We are successful because we don’t crib about pitches, says Virat Kohli | विराट बोले- स्पिनिंग ट्रैक टॉकिंग पॉइंट बन जाता है, लेकिन सीमिंग ट्रैक पर मैच जल्द खत्म हो जाए तो कोई कुछ नहीं बोलता

डिजिटल डेस्क, अहमदाबाद। मोटेरा के नरेंद्र मोदी स्टेडियम में दो दिनों में मैच खत्म होने से पिच को लेकर मचे बवाल पर भारतीय कप्तान विराट कोहली का बयान सामने आया है। विराट कोहली ने कहा, स्पिनिंग ट्रैक अकसर टॉकिंग पॉइंट बन जाता है, लेकिन सीमिंग ट्रैक पर जब मैच तीन दिनों में खत्म हो जाता […]

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Oil Pipeline Bursts Under Ob River in Siberia

MOSCOW — A burst pipeline in Siberia led to a dramatic scene on Saturday as partially refined oil caught fire on the ice of the frozen Ob River, according to Russian officials and media reports. The spill occurred in the heartland of Russia’s oil industry, the Khanty-Mansiysk region of Siberia, which is dotted with wells […]