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Frozen pensions: Dunkirk veteran among those losing up to £5,600
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Almost half a million UK pensioners living overseas will be left out of pocket by up to £5,600 this year after being excluded from this month’s annual state pension increase. They include the 103-year-old second world...
Alaska man found clinging to ice chunk after frozen shoreline breaks off
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An Alaska man walking on a shoreline wound up clinging to a chunk of ice for more than 30 minutes in frigid water when the shoreline ice broke loose and carried him out into Cook Inlet. Jamie Snedden, 45, of Homer, wa...
Frozen out: how the UK’s sanctions against Russia will work
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From Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law to the chairman of Russia’s second largest bank, più di 100 individuals and entities have been added to the UK sanctions list, in what Boris Johnson has billed as the “larges...
per il primo puzzle e Bernardo Recamán: Finnish cross-country skier suffers frozen penis in 50km race
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The men’s 50km mass start skiiing race at the Beijing Games was shortened to 30km but that did little to help Finland’s Remi Lindholm, who needed a heat pack at the end of the race to thaw out a particularly sensitive...
Biden releases $7bn in frozen Afghan funds to split between 9/11 families and aid
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Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday releasing $7bn in frozen Afghan reserves to be split between humanitarian efforts for the Afghan people and American victims of terrorism, including relatives of 9/11. In a h...
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
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The BBC licence fee will be abolished in 2027 and the broadcaster’s funding will be frozen for the next two years, il governo ha detto, in an announcement that will force the corporation to close services and make...
Frozen in time: clock that tells tale of Jewish resistance in wartime Amsterdam
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A clock that is the sole surviving object from a second world war Jewish hideout will go on display at Amsterdam’s Dutch Resistance Museum this year. The round mantelpiece clock may have been one of the last things pe...
Frozen to Die Hard: all the best films on TV this Christmas
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On a train back to Nottingham on Christmas Eve 1985, Stringfellow-esque club owner Tony Towers (Michele Sheen) discovers that if he moves between coaches he can visit his past or future life. With his business and re...
Sulle frontiere gelate d'Europa con i migranti presi in un gioco letale
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Ai margini della foresta di Białowieża – che scavalca il confine tra la Polonia sud-orientale e la Bielorussia – un gruppo di sette curdi iracheni si dirige stancamente verso il villaggio polacco di Grodzisk. Gli ultimi chilometri ...
Frozen in Time: Anthony Bourdain, New York, Maggio 2001
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He sits at a round two-top in Les Halles restaurant on Park Avenue. The wall behind him is white-tiled and there are a couple of shabby little laser-printed notices. It’s obviously somewhere back of house, but Anthony...
Poussin and the Dance review – the greatest frozen ballet in all art
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The scene: a chain of dancers in a glade, Roman tunics fluttering beneath a sky torn between sunlight and fierce darkness. A man leaps, two women twirl, a third opens her arms in elegant arabesque. There is ballet, un...
Frozen turkeys in high demand as Christmas shopping starts early
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It is not even Halloween yet, but shoppers have already started their Christmas shopping in earnest with Aldi reporting runaway demand for frozen turkeys. The discounter revealed it is selling 1,500 turkey crowns a da...
‘Generation frozen out’: New Zealand house prices soar despite government reform
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As New Zealand’s average house price closes in on $1m, a generation says they’re being locked out of the market – and the glacial impact of government reforms may come too late, if it arrives at all. “It’s urgent,” sa...
‘I imagine the children we might have had’: deciding what to do with my late husband’s frozen sperm
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It’s the hottest week of the year and I am sitting in a windowless room on the lower ground floor of London’s University College Hospital discussing the precise temperature of frozen sperm. At -196C, these glacial swi...
Frozen review – stunning musical extravaganza creates its own magic
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This musical extravaganza about estranged sisters, an icy kingdom and unharnessed supernatural powers arrives in the West End from Broadway as part of a plan to stage five Frozens around the world this year. As canny ...
‘Big sisters are magic!’ Frozen musical set to cause a West End flurry
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It was the sound unleashed from a million pairs of little lungs across the land: “Let it “go-oooo-ooo!” The standout hit from Disney’s 2013 animation Frozen; a song that wormed its way into the ears of everyone who he...