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Friday marks the fourth day of an intense standoff between law enforcement and protesters who have set up an around-the-clock eviction blockade in front of the house, equipped with makeshift barriers and onsite camping. The demonstrators are fighting to take back ownership of the home that previously belonged to the Kinney family for 65 years. “We refuse to let another eviction happen. Outraged at the treatment of this Afro-Indigenous family, the Portland community has united to save the Red House on Mississippi, rallying support around the family to reclaim the house and hold the land in a 24/7 eviction blockade,” the organizers wrote on their GoFundMe page....

Azerbaijan and Armenia, two former Soviet nations, began fighting at their shared border on Tuesday and both sides say the other is to blame for the fighting. Meanwhile, Kyrgyzstan accused Tajikistan on Friday of new shelling after the two ex-Soviet states reached a ceasefire deal in another dispute, Reuters reported. The breakout of conflict among the ex-USSR members could be a new headache for Putin as he continues to fight a war in Ukraine that has dealt several tough blows to Russia in recent days....

The State Department announced Wednesday that a delegation headed by Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman met with a Russian team led by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Geneva to mark the beginning of the U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue, which was outlined in last month’s summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The U.S. delegation discussed U.S. policy priorities and the current security environment, national perceptions of threats to strategic stability, prospects for new nuclear arms control, and the format for future Strategic Stability Dialogue sessions,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement....

In case you didn’t know… Mustafi became the most expensive defender in Arsenal’s history when he left Valencia for a fee in excess of £35 million in 2016. The Germany international has, however, failed to justify his price tag, having made a series of crucial errors at the centre of the Gunners defence. Arsenal fans have been rooting for his exit and have urged the club to solve their present defensive crisis, which has been aggravated by the departure of former club captain, Laurent Koscielny....

Arsenal are joined by Molde on top of the group, with Dundalk in third place after losing their opening game. Arsenal had a bit of trouble overcoming Rapid Wien in their opening European game, with late goals from David Luiz and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang sparing their blushes in a 2-1 win. No such goals saved them against Leicester over the weekend in the Premier League, with Arsenal turning in a poor performance and getting sucker-puched by a late Jamie Vardy goal to lose 1-0 at the Emirates....

With a win at home, Arsenal can go level with its rivals on points. Considered to be on the hot seat for some time, manager Mikel Arteta’s positivity has seemingly paid dividends: He now has once-injured players back in their starting roles alongside new acquisitions that are already making an impression. That has led to two shutout wins in a row in the Premier League, and advancement to the Round of 16 of the Carabao Cup....

The Chile star, who, like reported Manchester United target Ozil, is out of contract at the end of the season, has been heavily linked with a January move to City after seeing a move break down at the end of the previous transfer window. Although Pep Guardiola has insisted that he expects Alexis to stay at the Emirates Stadium, Goal understands the attacker is desperate to leave and is hoping to persuade the Premier League leaders to snap him up this month....

The pressure is on Arshdeep. This game, by the way, could also decide who takes a giant leap towards qualification. Both India and Bangladesh are deadlocked on four points and a misstep at this juncture could prove catastrophic. For the first time in a while, there is a hush at the Adelaide Oval. For almost the entirety of the contest, both sets of fans have cheered their lungs out, and have barely been able to talk to the person next to each other....

Hachiyanagi and her victim, Lauret Savoy, were both professors at Mount Holyoke College, a liberal arts women’s college in Western Massachusetts. Savoy taught geology and environmental studies, while Hachiyanagi headed the art department. According to 2020 reports, Hachiyanagi arrived at Savoy’s home late at night on December 23, 2019, telling Savoy that she “wanted to talk about her feelings.” She was reportedly seeking emotional support from Savoy following a breakup....

Trying something new is not a bad thing but perhaps the semi-final of a European competition is not the best time to do it - especially when your season is on the line. Mikel Arteta has shown before that he is not the type of manager who is afraid to think outside the box but this time his gamble backfired in calamitous fashion. Arsenal now find themselves with it all to do in their Europa League semi-final second leg against Villarreal following a disappointing 2-1 first leg defeat away from home....

Charmander is one of the Kanto starter trio–it’s the Fire-type Pokemon that players could choose to begin the Pokemon Gen 1 games with. Eevee, meanwhile, is a Normal-type Pokemon that has stayed relevant across multiple generations due to its unique characteristic. Eevee was introduced as the only Pokemon that had multiple evolutionary options of different types, which made it a versatile choice for any player’s team. RELATED: Pokemon Fan Makes Custom Eevee Ground-Type Evolution...

Video games are unique among art forms in that they allow the viewer to control the subject within frame. The 90s saw the refinement of 3D games which allowed full in-game worlds to be made which the player could freely explore and interact with. These virtual worlds are only getting more realistic with the development of engines like Unreal Engine 5. RELATED: Unreal Engine 5 Game Project M Shown Off in Jaw-Dropping Trailer...

But his COVID-19 diagnosis, coming right on the heels of his chaotic debate performance, may be a different animal altogether, with Joe Biden putting distance between himself and the president while looking to press his advantage in states that were formerly ruby red. From Georgia to North Carolina, and Texas to Arizona, Biden is pushing into territory that went for Trump in 2016, and wasn’t expected to be a main area of focus for either campaign....

In their 37th meeting over the course of eight years, Putin and Xi held a virtual summit Wednesday in which both men pledged to further boost the strategic partnership amid heightened tensions with Washington. Following the hour-and-a-half-long talks, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov revealed further details that gave an insight into potentially critical deliberations made by the two heads of state. Among the more notable comments from Ushakov was that “particular attention was paid to the need to intensify efforts to form an independent financial infrastructure to service trade operations between Russia and China” during the talks between Putin and Xi, according to Russia’s RIA Novosti outlet....

According to the FiveThirtyEight average of head-to-head polls in Georgia, Ossoff and Warnock lead Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue by roughly two percentage points each with 24 hours left until Election Day. In the weighted average, Ossoff is backed by 49.2 percent of Georgia voters, while Perdue is backed by 47.4 percent. By comparison, Warnock is supported by 49.5 percent of voters, while Loeffler is backed by 47.2 percent....

The unresolved feud between the Koreas is the first and longest-running military front of the 20th-century Cold War. Now, experts and former officials with whom Newsweek spoke see the recent spike in tensions as an emerging theater of a new Cold War already manifesting in flashpoints across the globe. Earlier this month, the White House openly accused Pyongyang of sending a “significant” amount of artillery shells to Moscow under the guise of shipments to third countries in the Middle East and North Africa....

Yes, believe it or not, Cutler was the breakout star of wife Kristin Cavallari’s new E! reality show, “Very Cavallari,” according to fans and critics. The same qualities that made him a poor field general make the 35-year old Cutler a scene-stealer on his wife’s new show. He’s selfish, sulky, unsmiling. MORE: Cutler reportedly never moved out of Miami hotel room after joining Dolphins As anybody who watches “The Bachelor/Bachelorette” or “Survivor” knows, reality TV viewers love bad boys/girls who don’t give a hoot about anybody but themselves....

On the day that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was meeting with Taliban negotiators in Qatar, more than a dozen rockets were fired into residential areas of the Afghan capital. The center and the north of Kabul including the area which houses embassies and international companies, were targeted around 9 a.m. local time on Saturday. The Iranian embassy said its compound had been hit by rocket fragments. Iran’s foreign affairs spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh blamed the attack on the U....

A Daily Kos/Civiqs poll, released on Wednesday, showed that 33 percent of Republicans believe that the QAnon theory is “mostly true”. Another 23 percent believed that “some parts of the conspiracy are true”. Candidate Tracy Lovvorn won her nomination unchallenged for the Republican nomination in Massachusetts’ 2nd congressional district, a heavily Democratic district. Lovvorn expressed her embrace of the QAnon theory on her Twitter account on 23 March, using the hashtag #WWG1WGA—“Where we go one, we go all”—a common expression among QAnon adherents....

Gianluca Mancini struck four minutes from stoppage time to force a share of the spoils as AS Roma and Inter Milan drew for a sixth consecutive time in the league. Milan Skriniar and Achraf Hakimi scored in quick succession in the second half to cancel out Lorenzo Pellegrini’s early opener for AS Roma. However, some lax defending from Inter Milan allowed Mancini to leap the highest and head home a late equaliser....