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The seat in Greater Manchester is vacant after Andrew Gwynne stood down on Friday as an MP on health grounds.
From BBC
Damir Dzumhur, a fixture in the men's top 100 over the past decade, was born in Sarajevo while missiles rained down on the Bosnia-Herzegovina capital in 1992 as the former Yugoslavia dissolved.
From BBC
In Ismir, they met Isra'a, a then-11-year-old girl whose family had left Aleppo as bombs rained down on the city, and who would become the subject of their documentary "One In A Million," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday.
From Barron's
Kevin O’Leary, the Canadian-born entrepreneur of “Shark Tank” fame, has derided altcoins as “poo-poo coins” in recent interviews — and he doubled down on those comments when speaking with MarketWatch this week.
From MarketWatch
Doubling down on his view about why it only makes sense to focus on the two big crypto names because of their market dominance, O’Leary said: “Don’t shoot the messenger; shoot the numbers. It’s all poo-poo.”
From MarketWatch
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