Gordon Brown has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to hike gambling taxes so she can lift benefit restrictions at her autumn Budget. The former Labour prime minister and chancellor told …
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Lithuania has called on NATO for urgent support to strengthen its air defences after discovering a Russian drone carrying explosives had violated its airspace last week. The drone, found in …
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has issued what Bloomberg reports as a “best and final” offer to Dish’s parent company EchoStar’s Chairman Charlie Ergen, urging the company to sell its AWS-4 …
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John Oliver‘s jokes were secondary this evening as the host began Last Week Tonight by delivering an impassioned plea to stop the U.S. government’s complicity in Israel‘s blockade of the …
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Vasily Astrov, economist at wiiw and country expert for Russia and other CIS countries, is our guest.
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Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life”
Image by Dosseman, via Wikimedia Commons In 2012, archaeologists discovered in Southern Turkey a well-preserved mosaic featuring a skeleton savoring a loaf of bread and a pitcher of wine, surrounded …