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Italy’s elite mountain troops face inquiry over harassment claims
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Italy’s defence minister has called for an investigation after more than 100 women reported being sexually harassed during an annual parade held by Italy’s elite mountain troops, the Alpini, last weekend. The women, m...
Mo Farah admits elite track career may be over after losing to club runner
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Sir Mo Farah has admitted that his career as an elite track athlete is almost certainly over after he suffered a shock defeat by a club runner who had to pay £37 entry fee to compete at the Vitality London 10,000 on M...
Bodø/Glimt, the Norwegian minnows catching Europe’s elite cold
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There is an image in the lobby of the striking Stormen library, perched on the edge of the harbour in cosmopolitan Bodø, that speaks to the Norwegian city’s past. An old family photograph shows an elderly couple from ...
British Cycling U-turn freezes trans women out of elite female events
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Trans women are no longer able to compete in elite female events run by British Cycling after the organisation performed a significant U-turn and suspended its transgender policy. The Guardian understands that the dec...
‘We are elite complainers’: Pup, the punk band satirising a shameless music industry
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The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown workers of all kinds into long-term illness, poverty, homelessness and death, and musicians are among them. Unionisation efforts have hit back, including the Union of Musicians and All...
In this game, vampires aren’t feral beasts – they’re the global elite
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How do you make vampires feel menacing again? For game developer Big Bad Wolf, the answer was to make the living dead responsible for everything wrong with our world. In an age where the lines between conspiracy and r...
Saint Peter’s off Purdue to extend shock March Madness run into Elite Eight
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Doug Edert hopped on the press table and punched his fist in the air toward a delirious section of Saint Peter’s fans – aren’t they all? – as his teammates thumped their chests and flashed eight fingers as the mayhem ...
Syria using maze of shell companies to avoid sanctions on Assad regime’s elite
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The Syrian regime is setting up shell companies in a systematic attempt to avoid sanctions, according to official documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents, not publicly available, detail at least three compan...
Elite auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London
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The auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams have cancelled sales of Russian art in London in June, part of the art market’s response to western sanctions on Russia as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. T...
Elite sleepers: are you one of the people genetically programmed to need less sleep?
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Name: Elite sleepers. Age: As old as humanity. Appearance: Currently even smugger than usual. Oh God, what now? This is a time for wild celebration! Science has just proved that so-called “elite sleepers” are less lik...
The elite and the damned: Beijing 2022 begins with dose of realpolitik
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On the eve of these Olympics, which have been scarred by more controversy and tone-deafness than any since Moscow in 1980, Thomas Bach was asked a simple question. What was his message to the Uyghur population of Chin...
Leading campaigner urges UK to target wealth of Kazakhstani elite
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One of the architects of the UK’s updated sanctions legislation has called for the government and crime agencies to target the wealth of the Kazakhstani elite following the deaths of at least 164 people during unrest....
Jonathan David is emerging as an elite striker at Lille. Where will he go next?
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Space has always been at a premium for Jonathan David. “We only have a handful of domes here in Ottawa,” David’s former youth coach Jay Da Costa told First Time Finish last year. “Those domes get used up, not just by ...
White British cricketers from private schools 34 times more likely than young Asians to reach elite level
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Privately educated white British players are 34 times more likely to become professional cricketers than state-educated British South Asians, according to academic research that is likely to invite further investigati...
Nazis based their elite schools on top British private schools
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Nazi Germany’s elite schools, which were set up to train future leaders of the Third Reich, used British private schools such as Eton and Harrow as their models, a new book reveals. The historian Helen Roche has writt...
Hubert Germain, last of elite group of French resistance fighters, dies
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Hubert Germain, the last of France’s officially designated heroes of the resistance, has died aged 101. He was the only surviving member of the 1,038-strong Order of the Liberation, France’s highest bravery order, han...