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The Communists of Russia party has asked the security service to investigate whether Western intelligence services were involved in the death of Joseph Stalin.Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 until he died in 1953 – the cause of death was given as haemorrhagic stroke at the time. Party chairman Sergei Malinkovich appears unsatisfied with the official version of events, however, announcing that he has asked the FSB (Federal Security Service) and prosecutors to “check the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin”.Tuesday marked the 71st anniversary of Stalin’s death.”Many testimonies from Stalin’s contemporaries…

“I have this feeling that this constant access to the real me as a player has lowered the threshold for fans in the stadium to a point where some think they are entitled to do things which they really aren’t,” Leon Balogun said during a FIFPRO online discussion in early March. FIFPRO, the international football players’ union, says the numbers from its recent study bear him out. Three-quarters of the players unions it contacted for its men’s football workplace safety report said that workplace safety is a growing concern for professional footballers. Two-thirds said in recent years that parts of fan culture have “become increasingly…

Diana Savita Wagner hadn’t ever considered joining the military before. After abandoning a medical degree, the young woman tutored pupils in math, Latin and German, and worked as a web designer. She and her husband, a Canadian software developer, had just moved to Halle in eastern Germany, where she enrolled to study mathematics. But everything changed in March 2022, when she drove to Ukraine to provide humanitarian assistance. She had only ever heard of the country in the news. One month prior, Russia had launched a full-scale invasion of its western neighbor. Now, Wagner was transporting urgently required medicine and medical equipment…

A “hypervaccinated” patient is said to have received more than 200 COVID-19 injections in less than three years, scientists have reported. The unnamed man, a 62-year-old German national from the eastern city of Magdeburg, had 217 vaccines for “private reasons” over a period of 29 months, according to medical journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases. Academics contacted the patient after reading about him in newspaper reports – and asked if they could study his body’s response to multiple jabs.He had “no signs” of ever being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and had not reported any vaccine side effects, according to…

A major German trade union on Monday called on Lufthansa ground staff to strike again on Thursday and Friday, March 7 and 8, as it seeks to increase pressure ahead of another round of negotiations the following week.  It said that staff should stop work from at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning (0300 GMT/UTC) until 7:10 a.m. on Saturday. Delays and cancellations are probable, with previous similar strikes disrupting flights and prompting criticism from Lufthansa. On February 20, seven German airports were affected, most Lufthansa passenger flights were grounded and around 100,000 passengers impacted. The second strike on February 28 focused…

This article includes accounts of rape and physical assault. Three Indian men have appeared in court for the gang rape of a Brazilian-Spanish tourist who was on a motorcycle tour of India with her husband. Seven men are accused of carrying out the brutal attack. Police are hunting for four other suspects, reports said on Monday. “We have formed a team to hunt the remaining suspects,” senior local police officer Pitamber Singh Kherwar said. “We have to ensure strict punishment.” What do we know about the attack? The rape took place on Friday night in the Dumka district of the eastern Indian…

This was less Super Tuesday and more Predictable Tuesday. As Donald Trump made his way to the stage at his Mar-a-Lago mansion, he had notched up victories across the country, from Texas to Tennessee, Alabama and many more between. “This was an amazing day, an amazing night,” he crowed.At almost exactly the same time, President Biden released a statement. It was an even more dominant performance for the sitting president, capturing all the states in play for him.”Tonight’s results leave the American people with a clear choice: are we going to keep moving forward or will we allow Donald Trump to…

The Rwandan Investigations Bureau (RIB) has launched an official probe into the sexual misconduct allegations at the Tour du Rwanda, one of Africa’s most prominent international cycling events. The RIB said it is taking the recently surfaced claims of sexual abuse and exploitation of young women working during the prestigious cycling event seriously. However, rumors of alleged abuses taking place during the race had persisted for years without anyone coming forward as a whistle-blower to file any official report. Rwandan authorities hope this finally might change now.Judoka Marie Dinkel: ‘I thought I couldn’t speak up’To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Victims…

Portugal conquered Goa, the beach resort state on India’s west coast, in 1510, after which a sizable portion of its population converted to Christianity — a majority of whom became Goan Catholics. In the first half of the 19th century, a small number of Goan Christians relocated to the port city of Karachi, where they established businesses and gradually grew in number. In 1886, the Goa-Portuguese Association was formed, after which the community made valuable contributions to Karachi’s cityscape and socio-cultural life by setting up educational institutions and constructing breathtaking buildings. One of them is the Goa-Portuguese Hall, or Goan Gymkhana,…

As trade experts agree that the window of opportunity to clinch a deal is closing, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, last week delivered yet another dose of bad news regarding the trade agreement between the EU and the South American trade bloc Mercosur. While the South American countries expressed their intention to sign the controversial trade pact, resistance from within the EU, Borrell said, was threatening to derail the deal. Especially, French President Emmanuel Macron is wary of the anger brewing among his country’s farmers, who are fearing a fierce competition with the highly efficient agricultural sectors of…