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Kremlin Says Russian ‘Volunteer’ Forces Will Fight in Syria

As NATO protested a Russian warplane’s incursion into Turkey, Russia signaled deepening military involvement in the Syria war that could include ground forces.

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EXCLUSIVE: Twitter ditches S.F. expansion plan as growth lags

twitterbuilding*100xx2487-2487-638-0.jpgTwitter Inc. abandoned plans at the 11th hour for a big expansion into Uber and Square’s 1455 Market St. headquarters, potentially due to a hiring slowdown, according to three people with knowledge of the company’s plans.

Before putting U.S. expansion plans on hold, the microblog social networking company had nearly finalized a deal with 1455 Market landlord Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE:HPP) last week to add about 100,000 square feet of former Bank of America office space a block away from…

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Goya in hell: the bloodbath that explains his most harrowing work

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His horrifyingly bleak Black Paintings are said to be a result of Goya going deaf. But is there another reason? As the National Gallery show opens, Jonathan Jones finds the shocking answer in the artist’s hometown of Zaragoza

A dog is drowning in quicksand. Its grey head pokes defiantly out of the brown sludge, even as a dead yellow sky above insists there is no hope. No saviour. In the next painting, supernatural shapers of the world reveal themselves, but they are grinning hags floating eerily above a lifeless landscape in the dead of night – the Fates, arbitrary and uncaring. Over on the other side of the gallery is a paternal god, of sorts, but it is the ancient deity Saturn and he is eating one of his own children, as if chomping on churros at a Spanish bar, with blood instead of chocolate sauce.

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