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SINGAPORE, Mar 15 2021 - China is on the roll. Already the second largest economy in the world, it is poised to become the first sooner than expected, possibly within this decade. Small wonder that the focus of the globe should be on the lianghui currently being held in Beijing. This is the ‘two sessions,’ China’s annual Parliamentary meeting. They entail back- to- back sessions of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the highest advisory body, and the Nationa...

We got a lore-filled tease for Tekken 7s Polish Prime Minister DLC character Heres the letter Tekken 7 is still trucking after a 2017 PC and console release, and at six million units sold by the end of last year, Bandai Namco isnt interested in abandoning it. That includes more and more DLC fighters as the months go by, including the new Polish Prime Minister tease. About that! Although the character has all but been revealed due to a recent leak, Bandai Namco sent us a little kit for Tekken 7...

Poland drops Holocaust speech case against journalist February 23, 2021 GMT WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland say they have found no breach of law in an article about the role of Poles in the Holocaust and have dropped the case against the journalist who wrote it for a left-wing newspaper in October. The police questioned Katarzyna Markusz this month after a complaint that her article, “Polish participation in the Holocaust” in the Krytyka Polityczna daily, insulted the Polish...

Zdjęcie Ambasady Polskiej w Mińsku To the West, last week was overshadowed by the aggravation of diplomatic conflict with Poland centred on the Polish national day of remembrance of “cursed soldiers”, which is traditionally a problematic issue for Belarus. The event commemorates the participants of the anti-Soviet armed underground. It features a march of “damned soldiers” in Hainouka, honouring(among others) Ramuald Rice, who was convicted of war crimes in 1949 as a war criminal for ...

How the Bolsheviks planned a WORLDWIDE revolution (POSTERS) Archive photo They honestly believed that the world would ‘sovietize’ in the end. The reality, however, proved to be much more complicated. Having seized power in 1917, the Bolsheviks didn’t plan on stopping there. Their plans were far more ambitious than setting up a socialist system just at home: communism was to become victorious the world over. Comrade Lenin CLEANSES the Earth of evil. Archive photo ...

At the corner of Bonaventure Road and Mechanics Avenue in Thunderbolt sits a slice of pure Americana. Pure, literally. It’s the building that was the Pure Oil filling station operated by Freddie Byrd in the 1940s and 1950s. Frankie Kerby and Cookie Espinoza have revived it as an Airbnb studio apartment called The Gas Station.  Frankie is a self-described “motorhead” who loves all things historical and automotive, so they have worked to have the décor inside to reflect the building’s h...

Courtesy photos Tim Keyes of Ivy Tech Community College Warsaw poses with student April Harrison, who benefited from the Laptop Loan-to-Own program. “I struggled with taking in-person classes since I do not drive, and a laptop was an answer to a few of my challenges,” Harrison said. Fraboni Morrill Warsaw Community High School seniors Jacob Kissling and Justin Park are pictured with their awards in the front row. Principal Troy Akers, counselor Sarah Wallen and Assistant Principal Terrence...

Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos. View here. 12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Conce...

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