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28 Ways Heated Rivalry Changes The Book, From The Face-Off Ad To That Cottage Ending

Dive into 28 book-to-screen changes in Heated Rivalry — from Scott and Kip’s episode to that cottage ending.

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'War Has Come': Russians Shaken By Ukrainian Drone Barrage

As a drone smashed into the side of her apartment block early on Tuesday, Russia's full-scale offensive on Ukraine literally came home to Svetlana in a suburb southeast of Moscow.

International Business Times

15 Cat-Infused Reproductions Of Famous Classical Paintings Created By This Artist (New Pics)

Svetlana Petrova reinterprets famous art pieces by incorporating her silly cat pictures. The artist started by adding her orange cat Zarathustra, but now she has two other cats, who continue to steal the show. The post 15 Cat-Infused Reproductions Of Famous Classical Paintings Created By This Artist (New Pics) first…

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Ukraine MPs Vote To Ban Russia-linked Orthodox Church

Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday voted to ban the Russia-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as Kyiv cuts religious, social and institutional ties with bodies it considers aligned with Moscow.

International Business Times

Suket Dhir’s itinerary for kids

Delhi-based designer Suket Dhir makes a case for unplanned holidays. Befriending roosters and studying in village schools are pluses

The Hindu

This Much I Know at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs review: there's too much and too little going on here

American writer Jonathan Spector has created something fascinating but flawed

Evening Standard

After the flood: The nightmare is just beginning for those left to rebuild after the Ukraine dam explosion

Bel Trew travels the Dnipro River speaking to some of those who have been left with nothing after the floodwaters wrecked their homes, and hears from officials warning of the extreme long-term consequences that could be felt by the rest of the world

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Tears, faraway motherhood: Toll of EU’s seasonal farm labour

More than half a million children in Romania alone had at least one working parent abroad in 2021, a study shows.

Al Jazeera

‘Mariupol used to be so beautiful’: ITV correspondent Rohit Kachroo on his year in Ukraine

A full 365 days after reporting for ITV News on the invasion of Ukraine, Rohit Kachroo went back to Kyiv to reconnect with the families he met — and found people still trying to make sense of it all

Evening Standard

Moment Pro-Putin traitor films CCTV as he's jailed for selling British secrets to Russia

Berlin spy David Smith was a former security guard at the British Embassy in Germany and had admitted eight charges under the Official Secrets Act. Today he was jailed at the Old Bailey

Daily Mirror

Friday essay: parents of 9-month-old babies as 'workers in waiting'? How ParentsNext monitors single mothers

For the first two months of Svetlana’s daughter’s life, the pair couch-surfed and lived on the streets. Granted public housing, Svetlana then worked to “stabilise” herself and slowly form “new ties”. A “former addict”, she had been “clean and sober for six years”.

The Conversation

Brit Embassy spy says he was 'disgusted' with himself for selling secrets to Russians

David Smith, 58, hoarded documents and was caught filming a man he thought was a Russian "traitor" where he worked at the British embassy in Berlin

Daily Mirror

Holiday in Montenegro becomes escape from call-up for Russians

When Alexander and his wife Svetlana arrived for a two-week vacation in Montenegro, they planned to return home to Russia.

Reuters

Izium: after Russian retreat, horrors of Russian occupation are revealed

As the Ukrainian city’s five-month ordeal ends, the evidence of dead bodies and survivors’ testimonies suggests Izium could be another Bucha

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Kyiv’s apparent return to normality is deceptive on eve of independence day

Celebrations commemorating freedom from Soviet rule have been banned in Ukrainian city as spectre of war looms large

Edinburgh Live

East Lothian cheesemonger could be named one of the nations best small businesses

Family run business in Haddington, The Cheese Lady, has been nominated as one of the just four finalists for the Small Independent Retailer of the Year award

Daily Mirror

Frenzied holidaymakers sprint through hotel bar to bag poolside sunbeds

Several dozen holidaymakers carrying lilos, towels and pool toys were seen running through a bar in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in a desperate bid to get to sun loungers round a pool

ABC News

Russian Australians are watching news from Moscow, but not everyone is falling for Putin's propaganda

There have been moves to block Russian propaganda in Australia since the invasion of Ukraine, but some Russian Australians are still consuming Russian news. Ukrainians are concerned about the message some people are hearing.

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Either/Or by Elif Batuman review – adventures in literature and life

The further chronicles of a Turkish-American student in the 1990s showcase a wonderfully idiosyncratic comic voice

WEKU

What it's like living in Ukraine's warzone

Ukraine's army is slowing Russia's invasion to a crawl, but there is still heavy fighting in the south. For those living there, the war has started to feel like a deadly kind of normal.

Edinburgh Live

Svetlana The Cheese Lady is celebrating success today after judges praised her Haddington cheese shop. If you haven't been out to East Lothian for a visit, make sure to put it on your list!

Evening Standard

‘Putin shelled our family home in Mykolayiv, the city cannot fall’

Tatiana Bland, a Ukrainian woman living in Twickenham, talks about the anxiety of watching her childhood home be bombed

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian girl whose family were murdered by Russian troops is on the road to recovery

Sophia Kudrin’s parents and sister Polina were among the first victims brutally murdered as they attempted to flee Ukraine in the early days of Russia’s invasion

France 24

Solidarity and French bureaucracy: the Ukrainian refugees of Paris

France is taking its share of Ukrainian refugees with locals in Paris stepping up to help as the refugee crisis escalates. FRANCE 24 met some of those fleeing the war and the Parisians who are helping them navigate the French system at the only "Welcome Ukraine" centre in the French…

The Independent UK

Orthodox monks welcome Ukrainian refugees to medieval monastery

The 15th-century Romanian monastery has opened its doors to families fleeing the war

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