Chess

I didnโ€™t know what to expect from the Youth Sports Games. But they blew me away | Adrian Chiles

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To see the kids kicking balls around at the international tournament in Croatia is more than just a joy; itโ€™s a miracleEven though I didnโ€™t know Graham Norton, I ended up playing simultaneous chess alongside Nemanja Vidiฤ‡. I should explain. A couple of…

Britain finally has a female chancellor. It only took 800 years.

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Meet Rachel Reeves: the chess-playing former banker who needs to get the U.K. economy rolling.

Macronโ€™s camp plots unlikely comeback amid French election chaos

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With no one in charge, the French president’s allies believe anything is possible.

Britainโ€™s new power list: 12 people you need to know in the UK Labour government

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now in office. These are the people who really matter in his government.

Farewell Rishi Sunak

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Britain’s prime minister is destined to failure. Does he even know why?

Here comes Europeโ€™s โ€˜foreigners out!โ€™ generation: Why the young vote far right

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Their grandparents ushered in the sexual revolution. Today’s youth want to turn back the clock to 1950. Why?

Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv mourns prominent combat medic and journalist killed in action

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Hundreds attend funeral of Iryna Tsybukh, who was killed in action last week in Kharkiv. What we know on day 831See all our Ukraine war overageAlmost 1,000 mourners gathered in central Kyiv on Sunday for the funeral of a high-profile journalist and vol…

Russia threatens to charge chess grandmaster Kasparov under โ€˜foreign agentโ€™ law

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Former world champion is accused of “heading a terrorist society, funding terrorist activity and justifying it publicly,” TASS reports.

How Geert Wilders turned all corners of Dutch society into far right voters

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The taboo of voting for populist, anti-immigration parties is fading.

All You Need Is Death review โ€“ Irish horror finds evil in taboo folk ballad recording

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The story of two historians unleashing evil while recording a song is a strong idea and there are good moments and performances, but it is too chaotic and unfocused to resonatePaul Duane is the film-maker who in 2011 made Barbaric Genius, a gripping do…

Protecting Israel wonโ€™t stop Biden from pushing on Gaza

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Bidenโ€™s defense of Israel and campaign to protect civilians in Gaza will remain on two separate tracks.

Russian influence scandal rocks EU

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Pro-Kremlin website spread propaganda and “paid” European politicians, top European officials said.

Some advice for Russiaโ€™s newest opposition leader

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Opposition movements, especially those based abroad, rarely succeed.

Putin kills off the handsome princes

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They say authoritarians who survive have a talent for identifying and eliminating the greatest threats to themselves.

The Real Russian Men That Threatened Vladimir Putin

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They say authoritarians who survive have a talent for identifying and eliminating the greatest threats to themselves.

Greens try to flip the script: Blame conservatives, not the Green Deal

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‘The farmers are protesting decades of conservative farming policy,’ one official argued. That case will be a hard sell amid a cacophony of green-bashing.

The desirables of Davos

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The 13 hottest celebs, CEOs and politicians for your panel (or party) at this yearโ€™s World Economic Forum.

โ€˜Pissed off, and rightly so.โ€™ EU fury at Charles Michel stepping down

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EU diplomats are increasingly skeptical if the European Council president can combine campaigning to be an MEP with his current role.

Serbia election protests mount in Belgrade

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Election observers have condemned fraud and manipulation in the December 17 vote.

The guardrails that once prevented wars are failing

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Wars are no longer black-swan events. They are a regular occurrence, representing the most significant transformation in global affairs since 9/11.

Vuฤiฤ‡โ€™s key to Serbia election victory: Media capture

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President uses government-friendly stations to cast himself as defender of ordinary Serbs โ€” on everything from Kosovo to sausage prices.

Henry Kissinger, Americaโ€™s most famous diplomat, dies at 100

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Henry Kissinger, a ruthless practitioner of the art of realpolitik who had an outsize impact on global events and who won a premature Nobel Peace Prize for ending a war that kept going, has died. A cunning, erudite strategist whose transformative diplomatic efforts helped to reshape the world, Kissinger was 100. His death Wednesday was [โ€ฆ]

Italyโ€™s Meloni plans a geopolitical Queenโ€™s Gambit

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Thereโ€™s no guarantee it will work โ€” but with so many crises and challenges pressing at the same time, trying to tackle them one by one is futile.

Georgia: A border in my backyard

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All Georgians can do is gaze toward the snowy mountains and remember where they once used to swim, walk and graze their cattle, carefree.

Kings of the castle! How our political leaders splash the cash

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Rishi Sunak wants everyone to play chess, and Thierry Breton has bought a castle.

Why Belgium may be about to break up

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Mounting concern over migration is fuelling a surge for Flemish independence parties ahead of an election next year.

Risk of nuclear escalation is still too large for comfort

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The Cuban missile crisis has resonance now, and history signals that no one should be sanguine about nuclear risks.

Kings, pawns and little citizens: the island where children love chess

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Corsicaโ€™s schools have become a laboratory for a chess revolution thatโ€™s about much more than winning movesThe contrast couldnโ€™t be more black and white: inside the competition room at the Corsica Chess Club in Bastia, a handful of players are locked i…

The Ease and Perils of Modern Love โ€“ legal effects of algorithmic based dating (online)

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Tessa
Sophie Hoffmann & Chrisa Alexiou (University of
Groningen)

 

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