Month: August 2020

London-based fashion community FashMash has announced a new mentoring scheme designed to support and nurture the next generation of fashion talent, in particular, those from ethnic minorities and from low socio-economic backgrounds. The Young Pioneers initiative will team 12 senior FashMash members, including Claire Bergkamp, global sustainability and innovation director from Stella McCartney and Kate …

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BUDAPEST, Hungary – The United States fell short of the medal round at the World Wrestling Championships on Saturday at Papp Laszlo Sports Arena. American Greco-Roman wrestlers Jesse Thielke, Jordan Holm and Caylor Williams suffered losses and were not pulled back in for the repechage. All three wrestlers were competing in their first Senior Worlds. …

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South Korean K-pop singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young was convicted on Friday of gang rape, as well as secretly filming and distributing illicit sex videos of his partners, and jailed for six years. Jung and Choi Jong-hoon, a former member of boy band FT Island, were found guilty of gang-raping two different victims on two occasions in 2016. …

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Zimbabwe’s president completed two rites of passages beloved of old-school African strongmen on Friday when he stripped dozens of streets of their colonial identities — and then renamed many of them after himself. Thoroughfares in ten of Zimbabwe’s biggest cities and towns, including the capital Harare, will now bear the name Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa as …

Read more “Mnangagwa Street and Fidel Castro Road: Zimbabwe’s president ditches colonial street names for tributes”

AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly was a happy camper at the end of Sunday’s British Grand Prix, delighted with his points haul but ecstatic over the manner in which he achieved his P7 finish. Gasly started building his momentum at Silverstone early on in free practice and only owed his absence from Q3 to having set an …

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The Syrian rebel fighter shouted “kill the pigs, kill the infidels,” as he went door-to-door searching for the homes of Kurds who had fled the newly captured town of Ras al-Ayn. Click Here: New Zealand rugby store The man wearing camouflage and khaki spray-painted graffiti to mark which belonged to a Kurd, which to a …

Read more “Kurds watch their homes burn from afar as picture of ‘ethnic cleansing’ emerges”

One of Donald Trump’s most senior African American aides has gone public with criticism of the White House after resigning amid reports of a blazing row at a Christmas party.  Omarosa Manigault, who appeared on The Apprentice, said she saw things while working for the president that made her “very uncomfortable” and “unhappy”.  She did …

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American fashion designer Christian Siriano will receive 352,590 US dollars in funding from the state of New York to continue to produce “needed supplies to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic”. The announcement was made by New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, who said that 12 New York companies will receive support from the State to …

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Another race, another protest for Renault which has lodged its third complaint of the 2020 season against midfield rival Racing Point. The French team has targeted Racing Point’s RP20 and more specifically the latter’s brake ducts in order for the FIA to rule once and for all on the legality of the Mercedes-copied car. Renault …

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MARSHALL, Minn. – Southwest Minnesota State University head wrestling coach Jesse Nelson announced on Monday that five high school standouts have signed letters of intent to continue their academic and wrestling careers at SMSU. Joining the SMSU program for the 2014-15 season include Lucas Damm from Atwater, Minn., Justin Haneke from Beresford, S.D., Kurtis Loftis …

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