Russia’s stage-managed presidential election on Sunday ended the way most knew it would: President Vladimir Putin, in power since 1999, won another six-year term with almost 88 per cent of the vote. While the official results of the election were decided by the Kremlin weeks ago, Sunday also marked the emerging clout of Putin foe Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexey Navalny.
Newfoundland, eager to shed its dependency on expensive travel nurses, launches program for rural communities A new pilot project hopes to reduce Newfoundland and Labrador’s reliance on expensive, out-of-province travel nurses who work for private staffing companies. The provincial government spent $35.6-millon on nurses from for-profit agencies in just five months last year, up from an average of about $1-million a year before the pandemic, The Globe and Mail reported last month in an.
U.S. President Joe Biden poked fun at former president Donald Trump during a Saturday speech in Washington. “One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me,”Searching for a Stanley Cup ring for 85 years: Syd Howe – no relation to Gordie – was playing cards with friends on a train in 1939 when his Stanley Cup ring from two years earlier went missing. Decades later, Syd’s family heard that the ring was being sold by a New York auction house.Lava flows from a volcano in southwest Iceland that erupted Saturday slowed on Sunday with the help of man-made barriers that steered it away from infrastructure.