Here's how to beef up your chess skills onlineTL;DR: Boost your chess skills with the Complete Chess Bundle for $99.99, a savings of 92% as of Jan. 15.
Even if you watched The Queen’s Gambit mainly for the fashion, there’s a good chance you picked up on a few chess tips and tricks. And there’s an even better chance you beca....
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Angry Birds Journey is a return to form for Rovio, now available in early access in select regionsUSA, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, and Poland can get in on the fun starting today
Rovio's Angry Birds series has seen many forms over the years. It all kicked off with a fantastic slingshot game, but in recent years Rovio has been treading water with low-effort bubble poppers and match-3 tit....
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South Korean research team contributes to discovery of photon avalanchesA joint research team from South Korea, the US and Poland has discovered a new phenomenon called “photon avalanche,” which is expected to open up new ways of research on fields that use optical technology. According to the research team....
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Report: Journalist claims 26-yr-old goalscorer could end up at West Ham UnitedReport: Journalist claims 26-yr-old goalscorer could end up at West Ham United - originally posted on Sportslens.com
Napoli striker Arkadiusz Milik has been linked with a move to West Ham United. The Hammers recently sold Sebastien Haller to Ajax for a fee of around £20 million and they are though....
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Report: West Ham considering move for Poland international strikerReport: West Ham considering move for Poland international striker - originally posted on Sportslens.com
According to The Sun, West Ham United are considering a move for Hertha Berlin striker Krzysztof Piatek as they seek a replacement for Sebastian Haller. Michail Antonio is currently manager Davi....
Mixed reactions to Communist-themed cafePETALING JAYA: Communism has changed much since the days of Mao Tse Tung, but many still think that it is insensitive to run a Red China-themed cafe in a country where lives were lost fighting communists.An academic agrees that we have to move on, given the passage of time, but sees the cafe concept....
FCA makes a significant investment in Polish plant for building electrified vehiclesThis week Fiat Chrysler Automobiles confirmed that it intended to refurbish a Poland plant, where it will build new models for the Jeep, Fiat, and Alfa Romeo brands. The vehicles built there will include hybrid and all-electric vehicles. While FCA has confirmed the factory’s investment, itR....
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Record-setting Kubacki soars to Four Hills win in GarmischGARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany: Defending champion Dawid Kubacki of Poland sailed out to victory in the second round of the Four Hills ski jumping competition on Friday.Kubacki could only finish 15th in the opening stage in Oberstdorf on Tuesday, but rebounded in some style as he registered a.......
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Report: Hammers identify 26y/o goalie as Fabianski's potential long-term successorReport: Hammers identify 26y/o goalie as Fabianski's potential long-term successor - originally posted on Sportslens.com
According to The Athletic’s Roshane Thomas, West Ham United are monitoring the progress of Slavia Prague goalkeeper Ondrej Kolar as they prepare for life without Lukas....
'The beginning of the end': Europe rolls out vaccines to see off pandemicEurope launched a massive vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to take the first shots to see off the Covid-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide.
"Thank God," 96-year-old Araceli Hidalgo said as she became the first ....
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European Union nations kick off mass COVID-19 vaccinationsWARSAW, Poland (AP) —
European Union nations on Sunday officially kicked off a coordinated effort to give COVID-19 vaccinations to adults among their 450 million citizens, marking a moment of hope in the continent's battle against the worst public health crisis in a century.
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EU launches vaccine rollout, historic day in virus fightWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Medical workers, nursing home residents and politicians are set to be vaccinated against the coronavirus across the European Union on Sunday, part of an effort by the bloc's 27 nations to roll out shots in a coordinated and equitable fashion.
European Commission President ....
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Hungary gives 1st vaccine shots a day before EU's rolloutWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hungarian doctors and health care workers began getting vaccinated Saturday with one of the continent's first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, upsetting plans for a coordinated rollout on Sunday of the first shots across the 27-nation European Union.....
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COVID-19 vaccine shipments arrive across EU before rolloutWARSAW, Poland (AP) — The first shipments of coronavirus vaccines have arrived across the European Union as authorities prepared to administer the first shots to the most vulnerable people in a coordinated effort on Sunday.
The vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer arrived by truck in wareh....
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Here's how Biden can handle Putinby Amelie Theussen, University of Southern Denmark and Dominika Kunertova, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZurichWhen Vladimir Putin faced the world's media recently for his annual end-of-year press conference, he was characteristically aggressive. Asked by a BBC journalist whether, as Russia'....
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Flights: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia join countries banning UK flightsFLIGHTS from the UK have now been banned from a raft of new countries as concerns spread regarding a mutant strain of COVID-19 identified in the UK. Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania and the Czech Republic have said they will bar flights.....
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Kazik Suwala Outlines Plans for $150 Million European Film CenterThe planned $150 million festival center, which will form the crown jewel of the EnergaCamerimage cinematography gala in Torun, Poland, is heading into the concept phase, says the project's main organizer, with high hopes for international talent coming on board with design ideas in the coming year.....
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Robert Lewandowski beats Ronaldo, Messi to win FIFA Best Men's Player awardZurich: Bayern Munich and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski on Thursday beat Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to win The Best FIFA Mens Player award. Manchester City and England defender Lucy Bronze, meanwhile won the The Best FIFA Womens player award. The award ceremony was a virtual event due to....
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Lewandowski FIFA's Best Player of the YearGENEVA, Switzerland (AP): Robert Lewandowski won the biggest individual prize of his career yesterday, showing that a forward not named Messi or Ronaldo can be voted the world's best footballer. The Poland captain was named the FIFA Best Men's.......
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Mike Pence Will Reportedly 'Skip Town' After Confirming Joe Biden's VictoryDemocrat Joe Biden won both the popular vote and the Electoral College in the 2020 presidential election, but the final confirmation of his victory over President Donald Trump will take place on January 6, when the U.S. Congress is scheduled to certify and affirm the results.
Vice President Mike ....
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How the Production Team Behind Poland's Oscar Entry 'Never Gonna Snow Again' Massaged Movie's DetailsThe filmmakers behind Poland's official entry in the international feature film Oscar race, "Never Gonna Snow Again," say they will be following in the footsteps of Polish winners and nominees like Paweł Pawlikowski ("Cold War," "Ida") and Jan Komasa ("Corpus Christi"). Academy voters watching thei....
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Pence will literally flee town immediately after certifying election results for Biden: reportIn the coming weeks, Vice President Mike Pence will be faced with the one task no Republican lawmaker wants at this point: confirming President-elect Joe Biden's election victory.With Pence overseeing the Congressional session to formalize the Electoral College vote in Biden's favor, it is likely th....
Lewandowski hopes to break Messi, Ronaldo monopoly as world's 'Best'BERLIN: Robert Lewandowski is confident of being named FIFA’s best male footballer on Thursday on the strength of his 55-goal haul to help Bayern Munich win the treble last season.The Poland striker, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are shortlisted in the men’s category for.......
Do you need a coronavirus vaccine if you've already had COVID-19?People who've already been infected with COVID-19 and gotten over it should still plan on getting the coronavirus vaccine, according to a number of scientists.
One of the reasons is that the protection afforded by the vaccine is believed to be longer-lasting than the natural immune response....
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[Slawomir Sierakowski] Poland's populist Catch-22A half-billion people across the European Union have effectively been held hostage by United Poland, a tiny Polish political party that is largely unknown even among the country’s voters. At issue was a principle that 66 percent of Poles suppor....
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Polish leader hails summit deal on use of EU sanctionsWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's conservative ruling party leader says the compromise struck at last week's European Union summit that limits the use of financial sanctions is a "saber" protecting the country against any potential "attack" on the EU's part.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in comments pub....
Poles protest on anniversary of communist-era crackdownWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands marched Sunday in Warsaw and other Polish cities to protest the country's right-wing government, the latest demonstrations after a high court ruled to tighten the country's already restrictive abortion law.
Sunday's protests coincided with the 39th anniversary of....
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Abortion laws: Polish women forced abroad for terminationsPoland has been rocked by weeks of protest over a ruling by the Constitutional Court, which has all but outlawed abortion, forcing even more Polish women to seek abortions abroad.....
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How $155 Million European Film Center Camerimage Will Put Torun on the Movie MapNow in its second year back in the city where it was born, the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival has partnered with the Torun council in Poland and the national government in funding its most ambitious project, the European Film Center Camerimage, a $155 million facility now entering the ....
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Housewife loses RM177,500 in African scamKEPALA BATAS: A housewife lost RM177,500 after being deceived by a man claiming to be from Poland, who is believed to be part of the 'African Scam' fraud syndicate.Seberang Perai Utara District Police chief (SPU) ACP Noorzainy Mohd Noor said the 40-year-old woman claimed she got to know the man thro....
The European Union has agreed to move forward with its budget plan and stimulus package after convincing Poland and Hungary to lift their vetoes. The agreement was reached Thursday at a meeting in Brussels. This....
Italy's 1982 World Cup hero Paolo Rossi, dies aged 64: mediaROME: Paolo Rossi, a hero of Italian football who inspired the national side to victory in the 1982 World Cup, has died aged 64, Italian media reported on Thursday.They paid tribute to 'Pablito', the star who was banned for his part in a betting scandal but returned to win the World Cup and the Ball....
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Google brings Stadia cloud gaming to players in 8 new countriesThe more gamers the merrier
Stadia celebrated its first anniversary last month. Google's cloud gaming platform was only available in 14 countries when it launched last November. It has added a number of features since then, and now it's adding support for additional countries as well.
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Societe Generale to merge retail banking networks, 600 branches to shut by 2025PARIS: France's Societe Generale on Monday accelerated plans to boost profitability by merging its two retail banking networks, resulting in the closure of 600 of its nearly 2,100 branches by 2025.With low interest rates continuing to crimp lending income and retail banking margins, France's third-b....
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Polish state oil refiner buying key private media companyWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's state-run oil company, PKN Orlen, announced Monday that it was buying Polska Press, a private media group that owns a wide swath of daily and weekly newspapers in the country.
The company's CEO, Daniel Obajtek, tweeted that Orlen is buying Polska Press from its cu....
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Tough budget talks risk delaying EU's new emissions targetBRUSSELS (AP) — Under pressure to deliver an updated climate target this month, European Union leaders are unlikely to agree on a more ambitious number when they meet this week if they can't compromise on the 27-nation bloc's long-term budget, top European diplomat says.
The last time EU leader....
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[Andreas Kluth] Merkel should call out Hungary, PolandAngela Merkel, now in her 16th and final year as German chancellor, is surely tempted to compromise with Hungary and Poland for the sake of rescuing a historic fiscal deal for the European Union. She shouldn’t. That’s because so much mor....
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Variety Teams With Focus Production Show on 'Streaming Room: The Big Restart'Variety has teamed up with London-based international production event Focus, which runs online Dec. 15-17, to present "Variety Streaming Room: The Big Restart," the latest in its series of online panel discussions. The collaboration is the first time Variety has worked with Focus on a live digital ....
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Crowne Plaza Warsaw takes brand into PolandThe hotel will form part of the Warsaw Hub, a newly-built modern business complex by Ghelamco Poland, offering a unique combination of office and retail space.....
US embassy in Hungary slams article likening Soros to HitlerBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The United States Embassy in Budapest on Monday condemned an article published by a Hungarian official that drew parallels between American-Hungarian billionaire George Soros and Adolph Hitler and the Nazis.
The embassy posted on its Twitter account that it "strongly co....
