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| Winnie Mandela in six quotes Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was a firebrand activist who fought the apartheid regime in South Africa. She was far more militant than South Africa's first black president, her ex-husband Nelson Mandela. She also became a critic of the African National Congress (ANC), the party to which she was fiercely ...
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| Two men arrested in Dewsbury on suspicion of terrorist plot Police said loud bangs would have been heard as officers gained entry to two addresses in the Savile Town area of Dewsbury and they reassured people that this was "part of the method of entry". The men have been detained at a police station in West Yorkshire for questioning. Marianne Huison, West ...
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| Russia threatens sanctions over Latvian language in schools Russian MPs have urged their government to impose economic sanctions on Latvia, where the Latvian language will be made compulsory in all secondary schools. The language reform is being phased in; by September 2021 all 16 to 18-year-olds will be taught only in Latvian. More than a quarter of ...
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| Western payments companies patient in attempt to crack China Fading hopes for full access to the Chinese market and competition from world-leading innovators such as Alipay and WeChat have not been enough to blunt global payments groups' plans for big growth in China and the wider Asian region. With a mobile payments market 50 times bigger than the US's, ...
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| Russian central bank plans 'bad bank' for $19bn in toxic assets Russia's central bank is to create a "bad bank" to ringfence Rbs1.1tn ($19bn) in toxic assets from three nationalised top-10 lenders, vastly increasing the total bill for bailing them out. Vasily Pozdyshev, a deputy central bank governor, told Russian news agencieson Monday that the central bank would ...
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| Deontay Wilder 'accepts the challenge' to fight Anthony Joshua in the UK "We want to make it public that Deontay wants the fight, and we are prepared to come over, or meet here and get the deal done. Deontay is ready to sign and come to the UK to fight this summer." Only the WBC champion Wilder, who is undefeated in 40 contests, stands in the way of the Briton unifying all ...
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| Another nail in the coffin for learning styles By Christian Jarrett. The idea that we learn better when taught via our preferred modality or "learning style" – such as visually, orally, or by doing – is not supported by evidence. Nonetheless the concept remains hugely popular, no doubt in part because learning via our preferred style can lead us to feel ...
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| Extensions in Firefox 60 Many people read this blog because they've written extensions for Firefox in the past. Others, though, know some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and have been thinking about writing their first extension. Either way, now is the perfect time to jump into the WebExtensions ecosystem. That's because we're ...
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