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...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Additional help from Monique Mulima, Monica Lopez, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...Women were outnumbered five to one in the 533 most senior leadership positions in S&P 100 businesses in 2023, with only 17 black women on that list, according to USA Today in March....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party is set to win a gubernatorial election in Mexico’s most populous state, according to preliminary results released last night....
...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...In an attempt to win over William, Harry turned to Google, calling up images of their bearded ancestors Edward VII and George V in uniform. Why do beards get some people so hot under the collar?...
...But in the USA v USSR match in New York Averbakh arrived late for one of his games against Donald Byrne, lost their mini-match 3-1, incurred the wrath of his captain Igor Bondarevsky, and was removed from...
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.” Republican leaders largely embraced the ruling on Friday....
...Kelly HollandBruce Springsteen had just come out with Born in the USA, I think. So we decided we would call it Porn in the USA (laughing) and that’s how it started....
...Health officials say they have only reported 11,812 adverse reactions from the BioNTech/Pfizer, AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Sputnik V jabs....
...receive 24m doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...He said he would still hold a scheduled call with Vladimir Putin on Monday morning to discuss procuring Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and bilateral ties....
...So far, 16.7m vaccine doses have been administered with 10.7m people having received their full course of treatment, said Hugo López-Gatell, health undersecretary....
...Slovakia’s drug regulator claimed a batch of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine was unlike those reviewed by western medical experts....
...Mexico is waiving an upcoming shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from India, which is in the throes of a brutal coronavirus second wave, as “a way of expressing our solidarity”, President Andrés Manuel López...
...Dramatic images showed the train suspended at a 45-degree angle, snapped into a V-shape, and suspended above a mountain of rubble on the road....
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