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Rock Paper Shotgun 

Your paper RPG character sheet itself is under attack in CrossOver: Roll For Initiative

The tabletop equivalent of “buying books and reading them are two different hobbies” is surely the difference between buying sexy tabletop RPG manuals and actually dragging your mates on to Discord for a few hours to stumble your way through a module. It’s the dogeared Fighting Fantasy from a carboot sale kid in me, I think. Something about reading worldbuilding snippets organised into numbered tables just hits in a way a novel doesn’t. Such tantalising ephemera is the name of the game in Microprose-published CrossOver: Roll For Initiative. Читать дальше...

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com (sports) 

'Coming home': World champions India board flight; Rohit posts photo with trophy

The T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team finally departed for Delhi aboard a charter flight from the Grantley Adams International airport here on Wednesday after being stranded here for three days due to a category 4 hurricane. The Air India special charter flight AIC24WC -- Air India Champions 24 World Cup -- took off around 4:50am local time and will land in the Indian national capital on Thursday at around 6:20 am (IST).

The Punch 

Nigerian students ranked top in New Zealand, compete for $10,000

Two Nigerian students have been selected among the top 30 students in the Architecture Engineering and Construction Management Industry sector in New Zealand. The Nigerians, Angela Odiete and Oludolapo Olanrewaju, were also listed among the top 10 students in construction management in the country. They have been given an all-expense paid trip to Christ Church

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Atlas F1 Bulletin Board 

How an out-of-the-blue email to Horner started Ford’s F1 return

Ford has revealed how the trigger for its return to Formula 1 with Red Bull was an out-of-the-blue email that it sent to team boss Christian Horner.The collapse of talks that Red Bull was having with Porsche in the summer of 2022 came at the exact time that Ford was considering the possibility of a return to F1 - attracted by grand prix racing's booming popularity and the attraction of the 2026 ...Keep reading

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 

Kyrgyzstan Detains Illegal Migrants From Bangladesh

Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security said on July 3 that border guards detained 11 citizens of Bangladesh for illegally crossing the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border.

Caught Offside 

Arsenal make opening bid of €47m for Chelsea transfer target, club not entirely convinced

Arsenal have reportedly made a €47million bid for the transfer of Bologna defender Riccardo Calafiori, which doesn’t look like being enough for the Serie A giants to sell. The Italy international is in demand at the moment, with Arsenal and Chelsea strongly linked with him by Fabrizio Romano, via his latest Daily Briefing column earlier […]

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The Copenhagen Post online 

A history of internationals and under payment as construction of huge bridge comes to conclusion

In 2021, there were four employees who came from non-EU countries, while in 2023 there were 311 employees in SBJV, the main contractor on the construction. The number of international workers from countries outside the EU has increased significantly on the construction of the new Storstrømsbro. An increasing number of construction workers come from India, […]

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Cyprus Mail 

Auditor-general takes stand as dismissal saga continues

It appears illegal to have a law that stipulates multiple pensions should not be paid but to insist it should be ignored, Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides told the Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday amid the ongoing hearing for his dismissal. Taking the stand for the second day of cross-examination, the first segment of the hearing dealt […]

The Punch 

VIDEO: Downpour causes flood in Lagos community

A heavy downpour on Wednesday has left the Iyana-Oworo, Olopo Meji area leading to the 3rd Mainland Bridge underwater. The flood rendered the road almost impassable causing gridlock and discomfort for commuters. An X user who tweets anonymously as #JayNaijaTv shared a video of the flooded area with the caption, “Iyana-Oworo, Olopo meji area heading

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BangkokPost.com 

‘Big Joke’ revives malfeasance complaint against PM

Sidelined deputy police chief Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn has resubmitted his malfeasance complaint against Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for the allegedly unfair appointment of the current police chief.