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When I was three years old, I fell in love with the violin thanks to an unlikely duet between Itzhak Perlman and a grumpy green Muppet. Watching Perlman’s bow dance across the strings on Sesame Street, I was transfixed. I turned to my parents and announced with all the gravityContinue Reading

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Kyiv circumvents air defences to target oil supplies, power stations, convoys and bridges, starving Russian front line., Ukraine’s disruption of Russian battlefield logistics escalated in the past week, with dramatic attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea and satellite communications centres near Moscow – two regions where Russia is supposedly prioritising air defence.Continue Reading

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Pakistan’s last hand-stitched football makers keep a fading craft alive as machines reshape the world’s game., The football factories cut the panels, assemble the kits and collect the finished balls. Much of the hand stitching is subcontracted to more than 1,400 registered centres across Sialkot district, each inspected every fourContinue Reading

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commentary The podcast host envisions a more radical Republican Party Published June 26, 2026 6:45AM (EDT) MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson (Al Drago/Getty Images) Tucker Carlson knows how to get attention. The former Fox News host-turned-powerhouse podcaster got explosive headlines after telling a Canadian podcast “Can’t Be Censored” last week thatContinue Reading

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Last night and this morning, Ukraine continued its middle-strike campaign to isolate the occupied Crimean peninsula in the south of the country. Ukrainian drones struck two Russian military-support ships, a near-finished ferry, and air defenses guarding the Kerch Strait in occupied Crimea on 26 June, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said. AContinue Reading

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Inadequate infrastructure in Caracas due to underfunding intensified destruction from the tremors., As two powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela, west of Caracas, in quick succession on Wednesday, the country’s capital sustained extensive damage. Authorities were continuing to search for people under the rubble of collapsed buildings on Friday as 235 peopleContinue Reading