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Champions League group stage draw LIVE REACTION: Rangers get Liverpool, Celtic play Real Madrid, Chelsea face AC Milan
LIVERPOOL will take on Rangers in the pick of the Champions League groups. The Reds and the Gers will also face Ajax and Napoli. Meanwhile, Barcelona take on Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and minnows Viktoria Plzen in the undoubted group of death. Chelsea will be relatively satisfied with their drawContinue Reading
Jews are leaving Russia again – is history repeating itself?
Russia's oldest synagogue in Irkutsk: around 20,000 Russian Jews have left the country since the war with Ukraine started. Shutterstock It’s not the first time that Jews have felt it necessary to flee Russia, but the invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the fourth wave of exiles in the pastContinue Reading
The inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to ‘black’ propaganda in Ukraine
In the early 1990s, Senator Patrick Moynihan campaigned for the abolition of the CIA. The brilliant campaigner thought the US Department of State should take over its intelligence functions. For him, the age of secrecy was over. In a New York Times opinion piece, Moynihan wrote: For 30 years theContinue Reading
Luciano Pavarotti’s daughter ‘still dizzy’ thinking of his accomplishments
L uciano Pavarotti’s daughter says she “still feels dizzy” remembering her late father’s accomplishments, as he was posthumously honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The world-famous opera singer’s daughter, Cristina Pavarotti, delivered a heartfelt speech in Italian at the event in Los Angeles on Wednesday. PavarottiContinue Reading
Chelsea transfer news LIVE: Aubameyang cut price £12.5m deal, Anthony Gordon transfer request, Fofana blow
Eur in luck Thursday’s Champions League group-stage draw in Istanbul will only bring home to fans just how much a test of strength even only the FIRST half of the campaign is going to be. Tottenham’s return to the Euro elite will have a major knock-on effect for N17 financesContinue Reading
Criminal barrister strike is no surprise – their pay can start at less than minimum wage
Criminal barristers in England and Wales have voted in favour of an all-out, indefinite strike after years of declining pay. This industrial action will begin in the first week of September and escalates existing instances of withdrawn labour in relation to cases funded by criminal legal aid. Nearly 80% ofContinue Reading
Rishi Sunak admits the Government ‘was wrong to scare people’ during the pandemic
RISHI Sunak has sensationally accused No10 of strangling disagreement over lockdown – and admitted the government “was wrong to scare people”. The ex-Chancellor said Downing Street ignored his concerns about the havoc Covid restrictions would wreak on the economy, schools and the NHS. Rishi Sunak has sensationally accused No10 ofContinue Reading
Cataracts: we’re working on eye drops to treat them so people don’t need surgery
Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock Many years ago, I began my PhD with the firm resolve of finding a cure for cataracts – not in several years or decades, but within the duration of my PhD. Such was my enthusiasm and naivety. Decades later, though, that dream looks as if it might comeContinue Reading
YouTube: how a team of scientists worked to inoculate a million users against misinformation
The amount of information online is overwhelming. Shyntartanya From the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine, misinformation is rife worldwide. Many tools have been designed to help people spot misinformation. The problem with most of them is how hard they are to deliver at scale. But we may haveContinue Reading
Robert Troy resigns as Minister of State
Minister of State Robert Troy has resigned as a Minister of State after he failed to declare all details of his properties to the Dáil register of members’ interests. In a statement issued this evening, he said: “I am issuing this statement as a serving TD for the constituency ofContinue Reading