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Two strangers on a train strike up a conversation. The first stranger points to a package on the luggage rack – “What’s in that?” The owner of the package replies: “It’s a MacGuffin.” The first stranger asks: “What’s a MacGuffin?” “Well,” comes the reply, “it’s an apparatus for trapping lions…

Thursday 16 March 2023 6:00 am The boost in spending was described as a victory for defence minister Ben Wallace (Photo by Tolga Akmen – WPA Pool / Getty Images) Defence spending is set to increase by £11bn over the next five years amid fears over the UK’s “hollowed out”…

LUCH, Ukraine, Feb 27 (Reuters) - For a Ukrainian village devastated by war, Cold War bunkers built to withstand a nuclear attack that never happened have proven a lifeline for residents who have spent much of the past year living in them. Luch, a southern village, about 40 km (25…

By The Canadian Press Sun., Feb. 26, 2023timer1 min. read HALIFAX - Storm warnings are blanketing pockets of Atlantic Canada as wintry weather continues to grip the region. Much of southwestern Nova Scotia is under a snowfall warning, with Environment Canada predicting up to 20 cm of snow in Yarmouth…

The consequences are almost beyond imagination. Everything about Vladimir Putin's insane invasion of Ukraine has been unthinkable — but if China weighs in with open support for the Russian dictator's beleaguered army, then our whole way of life could be threatened. President Xi Jinping's government is already bankrolling the Kremlin,…

Key PointsHe said the US intelligence community was still trying to learn more about the three unidentified objects.China says the 60 metre balloon was for monitoring weather conditions.Mr said the United States was continuing to engage diplomatically with China on the issue.US President Joe Biden says he expects to speak…

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Apple has published the first official trailer for Tetris, a biographical movie inspired by the true-life story of one man's quest to globally distribute arguably the greatest puzzle video game ever. Tetris,…

Trying to evoke a lost Cold War consensus, the GOP’s rising star conflated “normal” with “crazy.” February 10, 2023 Later this November, the United States will mark the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cut down in his prime, the martyred president has continued to haunt the…

DUBAI: Samira Azzam was one of Palestine’s greatest female authors of the 20th century. And yet she is relatively unknown today — her work in radio broadcasting, short-story writing and journalism largely forgotten.  Born in 1927 to a middle-class Christian family in the coastal city of Acre, Azzam became a…

With Russia's best and largest nuclear submarine now out of commission, the next-best option in its submersible fleet still dwarfs the largest U.S. crafts in some regards. Following months of speculation, Vladimir Maltsev, head of the Russian Movement for Navy Support, confirmed to the Russian press on Monday that the…