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Pandemic wilts immigration by nearly 40%: report

[ad_1] By the end of December, approximately 20,000 new immigrants will have arrived in Israel since the beginning of the year, the Jewish Agency for Israel said Monday. That number is 40 percent lower than the 33,247 new immigrants who arrived in 2019, according to figures from the Central Bureau …

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A year without Roger Federer

[ad_1] Roger Federer Wwe saw very little of Roger Federer in 2020. The Swiss reached the semifinals of the Australian Open and won Rafael Nadal win the Tennis for Africa exhibition tournament, but that’s it. A knee injury kept the 39-year-old out of action for the remainder of February before …

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Roger Federer to skip the Australian Open

[ad_1] When organizers finalized plans to move the Australian Open to February from its usual start of January, the world’s 100 best men and women rushed to sign up, longing to play a Grand Slam in a country with few coronavirus cases, even if meant a two-week quarantine upon arrival. …

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Mouradian’s ‘The Resistance Network’ to be released on January 1

[ad_1] Khatchig Mouradian’s book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press) will be published on January 1, 2021 and is now available to pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org. The Resistance Network is the story of a clandestine network …

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Driving winds and snow over Croatian mountains

[ad_1] The Telegraph Chinese citizen journalist jailed for four years for reports on Wuhan coronavirus A Chinese court sentenced a citizen journalist to four years in prison on Monday for her uncensored reporting from Wuhan during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak. Zhang Zhan, 37, appeared in court in …

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Intel in 2020: review of the year

[ad_1] If you’ve been following the tech news throughout 2020, it probably hasn’t escaped your attention that the stories and rumors about Intel haven’t been entirely positive. They span the gamut, from stories about how AMD processor sales are crushing Intel to turning it to dust on the desktop, to …

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