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The Scottish Prime Minister and Chairman of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon, promised this Monday that there will be a new independence referendum for Scotland at the beginning of the next term of the Scottish Parliament due to elections scheduled for 6 May 2021.
Image copyrightAFPImage caption Mr Abramovich will be the richest person in Israel The Russian-Jewish billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich, has flown to Tel Aviv after being found eligible for Israeli citizenship. Immigration officials told the BBC that he was interviewed last week at the Israeli embassy in Moscow. He has faced delays…
The baby was Shane MacGowan and, 30 years after his birth, his Celtic punk band The Pogues would release Fairytale Of New York, an anti-Christmas song about lost dreams and disillusionment. Fast forward another 30 years, and this holiday downer filled with bums, drunks and punks remains a Christmas essential in any half-decent medley. But…
Poland has registered 680 new cases of coronavirus in the past few hours, a record number of daily infections since the pandemic started in the country, increasing the total number of people infected to over 48,000. The Ministry of Health reported Tuesday that 680 new cases were registered in those 24 hours, compared to 575…
The Russian police arrested Ivan Safronov in Moscow, a journalist who was released by the Kommersant newspaper two months ago after refusing to disclose his sources in an exclusive article he published, which is currently serving as a consultant to the Russian Space agency Roscosmos was active. The Moscow Times reported about the arrest of…
Image copyrightWest Midlands PoliceImage caption Alin Marin hid 53 stolen phone inside a swimming costume A “human deposit box” stashed more than 50 phones stolen at a gig in a body-length swimming costume, police said. Alin Marin, 22, of no fixed address, took the phones during a Royal Blood performance at the Arena Birmingham on…
SAN FRANCISCO — Sonia Byck-Barwick couldn’t fall asleep. It was a windy October night, and the electricity in her home in Northern California’s wine country flickered. Sometime after 1 a.m., the facilities manager at Paradise Ridge Winery, which she co-owns with her father and siblings, called. A fire was approaching the winery, he reported, and…