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Russian president sworn in for 5th term in Kremlin ceremony

Russian president sworn in for 5th term in Kremlin ceremony

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Russian state TV broadcast the one-hour ceremony live, accompanied by enthusiastic commentary, showing Putin walking out of his office in the Kremlin as he got into a car for a short drive to the ceremony as snow fell on Moscow. He then walked the red carpet of the Kremlin’s historic halls to the applause of hundreds of guests, made up of cabinet ministers, parliamentarians and celebrities, including American actor Steven Seagal, who has supported Putin for years. Asked by NBC News for his impression of the event Seagal replied: “the best.” The Russian leader stopped to shake a few hands before he took to the stage to renew his oath to the Russian people. “I want to bow to our heroes, participants in the special military operation, everyone who is fighting for the Motherland,” Putin said, using the Kremlin’s term for his war in Ukraine. As he vowed that Russians alone will determine the fate of the country, Putin — in power as either president or prime minister since 2000 — also said that Moscow …

Prince Archie’s 5th birthday plans with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Prince Archie’s 5th birthday plans with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

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Prince Archie will celebrate his birthday on 6 May which will no doubt have royal fans wondering how Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s son will mark the day.  While it has not been formally announced how Archie will spend the day, if it is anything like his fourth birthday, it will be a rather pared-back affair.  © NetflixPrince Archie will turn 5 The young Prince was thought to have celebrated his fourth birthday at his stunning $14 million Montecito home he shares with his parents and sister Princess Lilibet.  © Instagram / @SussexRoyayHarry and Meghan will celebrate Archie’s birthday in California People reported: “It’s going to be a low-key party at home. They’ll have friends around them and Meghan’s mom, Doria [Ragland]. Meghan will definitely have support that weekend.” Prince Archie’s little sister, Princess Lilibet, will also be around to celebrate with her big brother. © NetflixPrince Archie has celebrated every birthday in America Archie’s first birthday was captured in Netflix’s Harry & Meghan. The prince was seen in his high chair which was covered …

Kate Middleton’s son Prince Louis’ biggest milestones ahead of 5th birthday

Kate Middleton’s son Prince Louis’ biggest milestones ahead of 5th birthday

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The Prince and Princess of Wales’s youngest child, Prince Louis, will celebrate his fifth birthday on Sunday 23 April. The young royal was born in 2018 at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, just like his older siblings, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. While we’re yet to see Louis make his royal tour debut, the Prince has passed some incredible milestones. HELLO! takes a look at Louis’ most public moments to date… Trooping the Colour Louis stole the show at the 2019 ceremony with his enthusiastic waving and his adorable moment with then-Duchess of Cornwall. NEWS: Prince William and Princess Kate’s return to work date revealed after Easter holidays © GettyLouis made his balcony debut in 2019 The tot, who was 13 months old at the time, looked adorable in a blue and white outfit, previously worn by his father, Prince William, and his uncle, Prince Harry, when they were children. First words in public William and Kate’s children delighted royal fans when they took part in a Q&A with natural historian and broadcaster, Sir …

NFL star Travis Kelce: Taylor Swift’s boyfriend lands presenting role on celebrity spin-off of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? | Ents & Arts News

NFL star Travis Kelce: Taylor Swift’s boyfriend lands presenting role on celebrity spin-off of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? | Ents & Arts News

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Travis Kelce has landed his first TV presenting role – hosting the game show Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity? The American Football star – who has become more famous since he began dating Taylor Swift last year – plays for the Kansas City Chiefs and helped them win the Super Bowl for a second year running in February. Image: Kelce and Swift at Coachella. Pic: Jennifer Johnson/Shutterstock for Neon Carnival Their high-profile relationship has been credited with bringing NFL a legion of new fans, and causing a buzz every time they’re seen out together, including their recent date night at the Coachella music festival. The Prime Video production is a spin-off of the popular US game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, which first aired on Fox in 2007 and was hosted by US comedian Jeff Foxworthy. It was later revived by Nickelodeon in 2019, fronted by action star John Cena, and also spawned a board game and a book. In the UK, the show was remade as Are You Smarter Than …

Gold Closes At Record High For 5th Straight Day, Dollar Dumps As Bond Bloodbath Stalls

Gold Closes At Record High For 5th Straight Day, Dollar Dumps As Bond Bloodbath Stalls

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Another mixed bag of data today – something for everyone – ADP showed better job gains than expected (but wage growth soared, re-igniting inflation fears). S&P Global’s Services PMI dropped (but prices paid soared) and ISM Services PMI also dropped (notably more than expected) while Manufacturing rose yesterday. But the market only had eyes for one thing – the plunge in prices paid in ISM Services (which literally diverged from all other recent ‘prices paid’ surveys and the respondents’ comments)… Source: Bloomberg For context, that is the biggest two-month plunge in ISM Services Prices Paid since Dec 2008… Source: Bloomberg That one datapoint was all the algos needed and stocks rallied, the dollar and bond yields dropped, gold spiked to new highs, bitcoin jumped higher, and even rate-cut hopes rose immediately (but still less than 3 total rate-cuts priced in for 2024)… Source: Bloomberg Small Cap stocks loved the ‘dovishness’ of lower prices paid (and Powell didn’t offer much either way) and along with Nasdaq and the S&P ended the day green. “On inflation, it …

Lauren London Pens Emotional Tribute to Nipsey Hussle on 5th Anniversary of His Death

Lauren London Pens Emotional Tribute to Nipsey Hussle on 5th Anniversary of His Death

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Lauren London is remembering Nipsey Hussle on the 5th anniversary of his death. On Sunday, the 39-year-old actress shared a tribute to the late rapper on Instagram. Alongside a photo of Hussle, she wrote, “If you know me You know March is always tough for me 31 days of holding my breath. This day decided to fall on Easter Sunday this 2024 Interesting…. considering your name #GodWillRise.” She continued: “Energy never dies…. I love you. Eternal.” London’s loved ones quickly showered her with messages of love in the comments.  “Sending you love always ????,” La La Anthony wrote.  Meanwhile, Sarunas J. Jackson commented, “???????????????????? always love to you and the fam.” Lil Wayne‘s daughter, Reginae Carter, replied, “I love you ???? ????????.” On her Instagram Stories, the You People star posted a series of photos of Hussle, as well as a clip of a previous interview he did with Charlamagne Tha God.  Hussle was fatally shot outside his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019. He was 33. Three years after his death, Eric Holder Jr., was found guilty of first-degree …

Jessica Simpson’s youngest daughter is her twin in adorable new family photos from 5th birthday celebrations

Jessica Simpson’s youngest daughter is her twin in adorable new family photos from 5th birthday celebrations

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It is a special day for Jessica Simpson and her family: her youngest kid is officially five years old! For her little Birdie Mae’s special day, the Open Book author and her family celebrated by heading to the happiest place on Earth, Disney of course. The former reality star, who married former NFL player Eric Johnson in 2014, is also a doting mom to daughter Maxwell Drew, 11, and son Ace Knute, ten. WATCH: Jessica Simpson opens doors to daughter Birdie’s epic bedroom Following Birdie’s weekend of celebrations, Jessica took to Instagram to share a glimpse inside the festivities, sharing a round of adorable family photos to her Stories from their time at the park. The birthday girl’s celebrations seem to have started in her school classroom, though Jessica then went on to share a sweet selfie where Birdie is smiling ear to ear – wearing Minnie Mouse ears of course – posing in between her parents. More heartwarming snaps of their day followed, including one highlighting Birdie’s matching red lipstick with her mom, heading …

Beethoven’s 5th: Watch an Animated Graphical Score

Beethoven’s 5th: Watch an Animated Graphical Score

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Stephen Mali­nows­ki is a self-described “Music Ani­ma­tion Machine,” with a pen­chant for cre­at­ing ani­mat­ed graph­i­cal scores. Above, he does his thing with the first move­ment of Beethoven’s Sym­pho­ny 5. How does he make this mag­ic? Mali­nows­ki writes: “There were a lot of steps; here’s a short sum­ma­ry. I found a record­ing I could license and made the arrange­ments to use it. I found a MIDI file that was fair­ly com­plete, and import­ed that into the nota­tion pro­gram Sibelius. I com­pared it to a print­ed copy of the score from my library and fixed things that were wrong… Then, I lis­tened to the record­ing and com­pared that to the score, and mod­i­fied the score so that the tim­ings were more like what the orches­tra was actu­al­ly play­ing. I export­ed this as a MIDI file and ran it through my cus­tom frame-ren­der­ing soft­ware. Then, I made a “reduc­tion” of the score and col­ored it to match the col­ors I was plan­ning to use in the bar-graph score. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, when I squished the bar-graph score enough to make …

Blinken Says a Lot of Work Remains on Cease-Fire and Hostage Talks as War in Gaza Enters 5th Month

Blinken Says a Lot of Work Remains on Cease-Fire and Hostage Talks as War in Gaza Enters 5th Month

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that “a lot of work” remains to bridge the gap between Israel and Hamas on terms for a new cease-fire and hostage-release deal after the militant group put forward conditions that run counter to Israel’s war goals. Hamas laid out a detailed three-phase plan to unfold over 4 1/2 months, responding to a proposal drawn up by the United States, Israel, Qatar and Egypt. The plan stipulates that all hostages would be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, including senior militants, and an end to the war. Israel has made destroying Hamas’ governing and military abilities one of its wartime objectives, and the proposal would effectively leave Hamas in power in Gaza and allow it to rebuild its military capabilities. President Joe Biden said Hamas’ demands are “a little over the top” but that negotiations will continue. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Blinken, and the two discussed the latest efforts to free the hostages. Both men …