Angola’s President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco (L) speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. Lourenco’s MPLA has long maintained close ties with Russia. ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s long-held ties with the Southern African nation of Angola could be in jeopardy as the
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A virtual “robot rapper” has been dropped by a record label following criticism that it perpetuated racist stereotypes. Just days after announcing it had signed the computer-generated FN Meka, Capitol Music Group announced it had “severed ties” with the project and apologised to the black community for its “insensitivity” and lack of research. It comes
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Police are pursuing a “number of very positive lines of inquiry” as they hunt the gunman who killed a nine-year-old girl in Liverpool. Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot dead by a masked attacker while inside her home in Kingsheath Avenue, in the Dovecot area of the city, on Monday night. He was chasing 35-year-old convicted burglar
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7:00 AM ET Just a few more days before we have honest-to-goodness college football games and the 2022 season is here. ESPN’s preseason All-America team includes some familiar names and some new ones. Included are four players who made ESPN’s 2021 postseason All-America team — Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, Georgia tight end Brock Bowers, USC
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6:40 PM ET SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. sat atop the dugout bench on the first-base side at Petco Park on Tuesday afternoon and spoke unprompted for 250 seconds. He was measured yet unscripted, composed yet noticeably despondent. He lamented all the people he “failed” by testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance, and he
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