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Finland expels nine Russian diplomats over 'intelligence' work

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

Finland will expel nine diplomats at the Russian embassy in Helsinki, accusing them of working on intelligence missions, the Finnish president's office said on Tuesday (6 June)."Their actions are contrary to the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations," the president's office said in a statement, adding that it would inform the Russian ambassador of the expulsions.The decision was made at a meeting between Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and the country's ministerial committee on foreign and security policy.The Russian embassy in Helsinki did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by Reuters.Nordic neighbours Norway and Sweden have also expelled Russian diplomats in recent months over claims they were in fact intelligence officers.Moscow has denied that its diplomats engaged in improper activities, responding by expelling Norwegian and Swedish diplomats in return. Finland joined NATO in April, upsetting next-door neighbour Russia.Niinisto and Finland's mi...

Word Game: June 8, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

TODAY’S WORD — METHODS (METHODS: METH-uds: Ways, techniques or processes for doing something.)Average mark 23 wordsTime limit 35 minutesCan you find 28 or more words in METHODS? The list will be published tomorrow.YESTERDAY’S WORD — CAPTIVATE cape capitate captive cave caveat cavitate cite civet activate active apace attic aviate pace pact pate pattie pave peat pica pieta pita tacit tact tapa tape teat vacate vatic vice vita epact epic evictTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.Contact ...

Horoscopes June 8, 2023: Maria Menounos, don’t make unnecessary waves

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Maria Menounos, 45; Julianna Margulies, 57; Frank Grillo, 58; Keenen Ivory Wayans, 65.Happy Birthday: Live and learn. Take in as much information as possible, and follow through with your plans. Talk is cheap, and actions speak louder than words. Make a point of living up to your promises and remaining true to yourself. Compassion, understanding and fair play will help you maintain your position and meaningful relationships. Don’t make unnecessary waves; stay calm and focused on your target. Your numbers are 2, 14, 20, 28, 31, 36, 42.ARIES (March 21-April 19): Lean into whatever you want to do with force. Make your presence felt and command attention, and you’ll enlist the help of qualified people to pitch in and turn your plan into something worthwhile. Love and romance are favored, and personal improvement is apparent. 4 starsTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t underestimate the extent of a job or let anger set you back. The simpler your...

Detached house sells for $3 million in Los Gatos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

209 Old Adobe Road – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 200 block of Old Adobe Road in Los Gatos was sold on May 24, 2023 for $3,015,000, or $1,513 per square foot. The house, built in 1961, has an interior space of 1,993 square feet. The property features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a garage, and two parking spaces. It sits on an 0.3-acre lot, which also has a pool.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:In March 2023, a 2,223-square-foot home on Old Adobe Road in Los Gatos sold for $2,700,000, a price per square foot of $1,215. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On Old Adobe Road, Los Gatos, in May 2023, a 2,362-square-foot home was sold for $2,770,000, a price per square foot of $1,173. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.A 3,038-square-foot home on the 100 block of Via de Tesoros in Los Gatos sold in December 2022, for $2,950,000, a price per square foot of $971. The home has 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. 

Ask Amy: How do I tell them their friend is skeevy?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

Dear Amy: I am in my mid-20s and have a great relationship with my parents. I live nearby and see them multiple times a week.They have a large social network of other married couples as friends, many of whom I’ve known since childhood, as they were the parents of my own friends, classmates, neighborhood kids, etc.In the past couple of years, I’ve started to feel uncomfortable around one of their male friends.He has never done or said anything specific, but I can’t help but just feel this … icky vibe when I’m around him.It’s little things, like just leaning in too close when he talks to me, holding eye contact too long, and “teasing” in a way that if it was coming from a man my age I would perceive as definite flirting.My parents are planning a weekend vacation at the end of the summer at an Airbnb. They plan to invite several of their friend-couples, including this man and his wife.I really want to go, but I can’t shake this nagging feeling that I will be spending the weekend ...

Harriette Cole: How could I have kept this dorm situation from escalating?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

DEAR HARRIETTE: I moved out of my dorm last year with three weeks left in the semester.I had a randomly assigned roommate, and our relationship started off well. As the year progressed, she started to bring her two friends into our room every day.Related ArticlesAdvice | Harriette Cole: Should I cut my parents off because they can’t shut up about my life? Advice | Harriette Cole: This clumsy woman wrecks my house and acts like it’s a joke Advice | Harriette Cole: I’m afraid this exciting job will make me faint frequently Advice | Harriette Cole: I don’t want to falsely accuse them but I can’t shake this bad feeling Advice | Harriette Cole: I found out there are lies about me in this book If they had left at a decent time, I would’ve been OK with this as I wasn’t in the room very much; however, they were often in our room until at least midnight. I would then awkw...

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s all-Black ‘Macbeth’ hits historic ruins of Ellicott City

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's Jason Fraley previews CSC's all-Black 'Macbeth' (Part 1) $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Forget “something wicked this way comes.” Something revolutionary this way comes. This is no “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” This is a tale told by a talented theater, full of sound and visual splendor, signifying diversity.The Chesapeake Shakespeare ...

Russia says top UN court should dismiss Ukraine’s case over Crimea and terrorism funding

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russia urged judges at the United Nations’ highest court on Thursday to throw out a case brought by Ukraine against Moscow over the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.“We appear before you today in order to demonstrate that Ukraine’s application must be dismissed because it is without any legal foundation. Nor does it have any factual evidence to back it,” Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Shulgin told judges at the International Court of Justice.Lawyers for Ukraine said as hearings in the case opened Tuesday that Russia bankrolled a “campaign of intimidation and terror” by rebels in eastern Ukraine starting in 2014 and sought to replace Crimea’s multiethnic community with “discriminatory Russian nationalism.”Ukraine filed the case in 2017, asking the world court to order Moscow to pay reparations for attacks and crimes such as the ...

No homecomeming for Messi as Barcelona again fails to do enough to attract him back

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Once again, Barcelona couldn’t do enough to entice Lionel Messi.Nearly two years after the club was forced to let Messi go against his will because of its financial struggles, Barcelona again missed out on a chance to bring the World Cup winner back.The 35-year-old Messi announced Wednesday he would not return to Spain and instead said he was going to join Inter Miami in Major League Soccer.There had been hopes of a reunion between the Argentina great and the Spanish club where he thrived for nearly two decades before leaving to join Paris Saint-Germain, but in the end there was only more disappointment for both sides.Again, Barcelona’s finances kept the club from luring Messi back.The Argentine apparently wanted to return but didn’t want to go through the ordeal of not knowing whether the Catalan club would be able to sign him. He said he was told the club would have to either sell other players or lower salaries, and he didn’t want that to happen.“I reall...

Prosecutors will get to see report on how Loudoun Co. schools handled sexual assaults, but public won’t

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:19 GMT

Loudoun County Public Schools said it will turn over a report on how it handled two in-school sexual assaults by the same student in 2021 to prosecutors, but the Virginia school system doesn’t intend to make it public.In a statement Wednesday, the school system said it doesn’t plan to appeal a Circuit Court judge’s ruling last week that the report be shared with prosecutors within seven days. That’s “because the B&K Report will remain confidential and can only be seen by the individuals involved” in former Superintendent Scott Ziegler’s case, the statement said.Law firm Blankingship & Keith put together the report.“Board members also believe it is better for the Loudoun County community if it does not contest this matter further,” the statement said.A majority of the school board disagreed with last week’s ruling.In April 2022, the school system said a different Loudoun County Circuit Court judge ruled that the repo...