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...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...v=6fdKfaq1YN8 – Sujeet wants more independent news and tough questions....
...The attack came after the USS Mason had responded to a distress call from the M/V Central Park, which had been boarded by unknown assailants, Centcom said....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...“Sunday, I drink.” Nuclear deterrence is central to Nato’s key concept of mutual defence — that an attack on one country represents an attack on all....
...On Sunday, a few blocks from the event, about a thousand protesters turned up to demand a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, tying up traffic and delaying some arrivals....
...In this weekend’s semi-final (Saturday and Sunday at midday on major chess websites, with live commentary by England’s David Howell) Carlsen faces the World Cup’s giant-killler and hometown favourite Nijat...
...If you are near London, consider the monthly Sunday afternoon six-round rapidplays close to High Street Kensington tube. The next one is on Sunday 8 October....
...This could only provide a hint of the vast richness of Hindustani and Carnatic music, but the driving percussion duo of V SelvaGanesh and Swaminathan Selvaganesh was gripping, and the Carnatic singing of...
...Remove the imported ingredients this Stir-Up Sunday and what is left? Apple dumplings and a pint of beer....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...But these days, Villa is valued at more than £500mn after Sawiris and Edens agreed the sale of a minority stake in their V Sports vehicle to US investment firm Atairos in December last year....
...Late Sunday night I was ambushed by tears as I processed the news of her passing. It felt in that moment as though I had lost a friend....
...“What India has done is to bring in the concerns and priorities of the global south and to try and move them beyond standard approaches to address the real issues,” said V Anantha Nageswaran, Modi’s chief...
...On Sunday, Musk had sought to lower expectations for the launch attempt. In a discussion broadcast over Twitter, he warned that many issues could delay the launch or cause the rocket to fail....
...Puzzle 2513 Michael Coenen v Philipp Lamby, Bundesliga 2022. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Freedom House, a US NGO, has downgraded the country from “free” in 2021 to “partly free” now while the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute considers India an “electoral autocracy”, alongside the likes of Russia...
...Puzzle 2518 Ding Liren v Wang Hao, Ningbo 2011. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...faces his strongest test yet from the new teenage generation when the “chess Wimbledon”, Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, starts at the small North Sea town on Saturday January 14, with the 13th and final round on Sunday...
...People were stopped from joining just before 11pm on Sunday, with the lying-in-state due to end at 6.30am....
...— she swallows the “v” so that it could as easily be an invitation to die....
...Puzzle 2477 Pavel Anisimov v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Krasnoyarsk 2007. Black, the future double world title challenger, to move and force mate. Click here for solution...
...A third round of Carlsen v Niemann is possible this weekend....
...The royal revelation that struck me most forcefully, while watching Tom Bradby’s ITV interview with Prince Harry on Sunday night was the battle of the beard....
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