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Moving the Champions League football final to Paris from the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg was supposed to be a diplomatic poke in the eye for Vladimir Putin.
It has instead turned into a post-pandemic stress test of the French capital’s ability to ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2022
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The colloquial term “24th of May” and the vanishing term “the Queen’s Birthday” have become embedded local tradition and is deservedly now called Bermuda Day. For people like me, it’s the marathon (half-marathon); for others, it’s the day the boats t...
DATE: May 31, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
One of the ironies of Russia's war against Ukraine — ostensibly fought to prevent that nation from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation — has been its impact on two of Europe’s traditionally neutral states, Finland and Sweden. On May 18, ju...
DATE: May 31, 2022
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A pair of mass shootings perpetrated by disturbed young gunmen — one in Buffalo, the other in Uvalde, Texas — come in haunting succession. The repetition, the needless loss of life, the political gridlock easily give way to an exasperation bordering ...
DATE: May 30, 2022
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Americans woke up on Wednesday morning feeling some combination of deep sadness and intense anger. The feeling was shared throughout the country. Americans are grieving. This is not a hunch from watching the interviews in Uvalde, Texas, or talking wi...
DATE: May 28, 2022
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In the last of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons recalls Margaret “Peggy” Ridley Watson
Margaret Ridley was 27 when she made the bold decision to board a passenger liner, and sail to Bermuda. She had never left En...
DATE: May 26, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Cecille Snaith-Simmons
Tomorrow we celebrate yet another Bermuda Day — perhaps one of our most significant days of this year.
As a country with diverse cultures, we tend to celebrate the day in many different ways. From early in the morning, many will line the streets to w...
DATE: May 26, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
Will Vladimir Putin survive this war that he created with Ukraine? At the moment it is anyone’s guess how this war will end. Russia has the numerical advantage but the resolve on both sides is strong and it is hard to predict a “winner”. If Russia pr...
DATE: May 25, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Our body has a vast consortium of microbial organisms that live on all of our barrier tissues. The highest density of organisms lives in the intestine, and these organisms provide a tremendous benefit to us (the hosts) via processing complex dietary ...
DATE: May 25, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Suraia Barclay
Former No 1 tennis player Gavin Manders’s decision to run the Bermuda Day Race to raise funds for a top junior player, Daniel Phillips, captures the theme of Bermuda Day 2022 — “Togetherness”.
As a result of Gavin announcing that commitment to finan...
DATE: May 24, 2022
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AUTHOR:
Glenn Fubler