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Mark Knopfler, 40 years after Dire Straits’ groundbreaking album: ‘I’m not good enough to improvise like a jazz musician’
El País
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June 21, 2025
Mark Knopfler wrote the lyrics for Money for Nothing half-hidden behind a stack of microwave ovens, sitting next to the window of an appliance store. He wanted to capture the bizarre scene he was witnessing: a delivery boy, taking a break — and...
World's 'safest countries' in case of nuclear war as Iran-Israeli conflict deepens
Irish Star
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June 20, 2025
04:44 ET, 20 Jun 2025 With whispers of another global conflict stirring, people worldwide are scouring for sanctuaries amidst Russia's continual nuclear saber-rattling towards Western nations, simmering strife in the Middle East, and suggestions...
The day the fates of Jordan and Maradona diverged
The Saturday Paper
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June 20, 2025
On June 21, 1995, God was recovering in a hospital bed. The surgical thinning of his “jowls” had been successful. “I’ve lost so much weight that they began to look inflamed and were totally unaesthetic,” Diego Maradona said through a translator....
35 hot new books to fit your summer mood
The Globe and Mail
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June 19, 2025
Summer, for a lot of us, is peak reading season. Those extra hours of sunlight mean more time to sneak in just one more chapter, whether you’re stretched out in the grass, relaxing on the beach or a balcony, or hiding from the heat indoors. To...
A brief history of the global economy, through the lens of a single barge
MIT
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June 17, 2025
In 1989, New York City opened a new jail. But not on dry land. The city leased a barge, then called the “Bibby Resolution,” which had been topped with five stories of containers made into housing, and anchored it in the East River. For five years,...
The remarkable quest to identify Captain Cook’s Endeavour
The Spectator
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June 17, 2025
The announcement that a shipwreck in Newport Harbor, 200 miles up the coast from New York City, has been proven to be James Cook’s HMS Endeavour, will not surprise those who have followed the search for years. In 1768, when Cook set out to record...
Pubs giant in plan to convert city centre landmark into hotel
The Herald (Scotland)
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June 16, 2025
Regeneration specialist Artisan Real Estate has submitted a planning application to the City of Edinburgh Council to transform the sandstone office building on the edge of the New Town into a 102-bedroom hotel. The current occupiers of Albany...
British Overseas Territories: how you can visit or even live in one of these tax-free havens
Devon Live
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June 17, 2025
From the financial hub of the Cayman Islands to the rugged natural beauty of South Georgia, British Overseas Territories (BOTs) might ring a bell - but do you truly grasp what they are? Are these "British" locales simply tax havens for the...
Our Changing World: Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu
RNZ
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June 16, 2025
New Zealand, Australia and Oceania are the last places in the world where H5N1 bird flu has not yet been detected. Photo: Jenny Edwards Five years after Covid-19 reached New Zealand shores, we are bracing for the arrival of another deadly virus: a...
Beautiful 'picture postcard' UK village is like stepping into another world
The Mirror
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June 18, 2025
Sitting on the edge of the Cotswolds is a village not as traditional as its neighbours. The ‘picture postcard’ destination is defined by cottages in a different shade but just as charming and impressive. Great Tew is located five miles east of...
Today in High Prairie: June 15, 2025
South Peace News
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June 14, 2025
Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews@hotmail.com and/or spneditor@outlook.com....
How British Overseas Territories work - and how you can visit or live in one of them
Gloucestershire Live
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June 17, 2025
The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), from the financial powerhouse of the Cayman Islands to the untamed beauty of South Georgia, are often recognised but not fully understood. Are these "British" spots merely havens for the rich to avoid...
PETER YOUNG: Need to de-escalate conflict between Israel and Iran
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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June 17, 2025
By PETER YOUNG With the crisis in the Middle East moving so fast following Israel’s first long-anticipated strike on Iran last week, it is hard to comment meaningfully at this early stage. Observers are still assessing the significance of this and...
Today in High Prairie: June 14, 2025
South Peace News
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June 14, 2025
Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews@hotmail.com and/or spneditor@outlook.com....
Yukonomist: Canada's quickest, cheapest and most doable Arctic sovereignty gambit
Yukon News - Alaska
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June 15, 2025
The Arctic and the Yukon are back in global headlines and Canada is, once again, scrambling to react. Fortunately, the Yukon can offer a gambit that is one of Canada’s quickest, cheapest and most doable moves to bolster its Arctic sovereignty. But...
Citizen Journalism: A Reading List
JSTOR Daily
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June 13, 2025
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The next time you watch user-generated news content—say, a street demonstration filmed on a smartphone—you might recognize that clip as part of a wider democratic movement. Citizen...
Adam Curtis paints Britain’s death pangs
Unherd
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June 13, 2025
Adam Curtis’ last series, TraumaZone, used archive footage and an increasingly abstract editing style to portray the dissolution of Soviet society. It showed political leaders slowly realising their mental models bore no relation to reality, that...
Red Arrows flightpath route and exact timings to see Trooping the Colour flypast over London
MyLondon
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June 13, 2025
A map showing the route of the Red Arrows flightpath has been created and shared for eagle-eyed observers as preparations get underway for the King's official birthday celebrations. Trooping the Colour takes place once again on Saturday, June 14,...
John McDonnell proposes to save the Labour Party from Starmer
World Socialist Web Site
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June 13, 2025
John McDonnell has issued a public call in the Guardian for Labour Party members to “take back control of the party.” The angry, forceful and urgent headline of the MP, currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party, reads, “Starmer and...
On This Day: Army established as 1st U.S. military branch
United Press International (UPI)
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On this date in history: In 1623, in the first breach-of-promise lawsuit in the United States, the Rev. Greville Pooley sued Cicely Jordan in Charles City, Va., for jilting him for another man. In 1775, the Continental Congress established the...