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Samoa’s Pulemelei Mound to no longer be sold

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The owners behind a controversial land sale in Samoa have announced they will not sell the site where the ancient Pulemelei Mound is situated.

White House says no plans to mediate between India and China

No profit in it, or just disinterested in peace? Or still smarting from lie that he talked with Modi last month and then Modi spokespeople said the conversation never took place?

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There are no formal plans for US President Donald Trump to mediate between India and China following their border clash, the White House said amid an uproar in Washington over massive concessions he has allegedly made to Beijing on trade and human rights front in order to win a re-election in November 2020.

For-Profit Colleges, Long Troubled, See Surge Amid Pandemic

Little difference between the for-profit and not-for-profit college that advertise on television – both groups out for student loans first and student success last. Local community colleges and state schools still the best bet.

The coronavirus shutdowns have made online learning more attractive. But students at some schools say they have been taken advantage of.

Dame Vera Lynn obituary

RIP

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Singer known as the ‘Forces Sweetheart’ whose recordings of We’ll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover shaped the national mood in wartime Britain

At the start of the second world war, Vera Lynn, who has died aged 103, was an up-and-coming dance band singer. By 1945, this working-class young woman had become a symbol of the British wartime spirit, with a status comparable to that of the patrician prime minister, Winston Churchill. After the war, her friend Harry Secombe liked to joke that “Churchill didn’t beat the Nazis. Vera sang them to death.”

Lynn’s iconic status as the “Forces’ Sweetheart” was due to the success of her radio series, Sincerely Yours, which linked the soldiers at the front with their loved ones at home. In 1944, she visited the troops in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, which kindled her lifelong commitment to the welfare of veterans, especially those of the Burma campaign. Above all, her celebrity was due to her hit songs. Such numbers as We’ll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover caught and moulded a national mood, despite the harsh criticism her crooning style provoked from some politicians and BBC managers.

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