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The hearing of individuals like Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in front of the lawmakers marked the first public assessment of the conflict by top U.S. intelligence officials. The officials said while it is clear Russia did not expect the level of resistance it received from Ukraine, they are unclear on what Russian President Vladimir Putin’s next move will be. “We assess Putin feels aggrieved the West does not give him proper deference and perceives this as a war he cannot afford to lose,” Haines said at the hearing....

Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have taken to the streets in the wake of the country’s August 9 election, which saw Lukashenko—who has been in power for 26 years—come away with just over 80 percent of the vote compared to his popular challenger Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. The rival candidate and her supporters have alleged the results were fraudulent. Tsikhanouskaya has since fled the country, saying she fears for her life....

The American Psychiatric Association is updating its immense (911 pages) diagnostic manual, which offers 20 forms of bipolar disorder alone. “But it’s still just a checklist of symptoms, which different physicians can interpret differently,” says psychiatrist James Greenblatt, who directs the eating-disorders unit at Waltham Hospital in Massachusetts. For him and a growing number of psychiatrists, the search for a modern, objective diagnostic tool has led to the past: the electroencephalogram, first used in 1929 to record the brain’s electrical activity....

Beneath the surface, this now-infamous date also exposed something even more fundamental to the functioning of our society and politics: a failure of competent governance, a failure of administrative leadership, a failure of communication, coordination, cooperation and planning. And the question for those in positions of power and authority must be: How can we learn from this breakdown? How can we do our jobs better? How can we succeed where, in this instance, we failed?...

The Denmark Open, which is a BWF Super 750 tournament, is set to mark the return of international badminton action after the indefinite halt due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Saina Nehwal confirms participation in Denmark Open Fellow Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has decided to confirm her participation for the tournament, along with some of the players from the men’s contingent such as Parupalli Kashyap, Kidami Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Ajay Jayaram and Subhankar Dey....

Ahmedabad Defenders have already made it to the last four after overwhelming the Kolkata Thunderbolts 3-2 (7-15, 15-10, 15-13, 15-14, 10-15) on February 19. Team Hyderabad Black Hawks are currently placed second in the points table with seven points and are just a step away from qualifying for the semis. The Heroes are in fifth place with four points. Speaking ahead of their clash against Calicut Heroes, Amit Gulia said:...

As is typical for Supergiant releases, Pyre is somewhat hard to describe. Basically, the game is a blend of a party-based RPG with sports, with enemy encounters typically consisting of contests called Rites. In Pyre, Rites are special competitive rituals that residents of Downside engage in to try to earn their way back to the “other side.” Rites consist of grabbing a ball in the middle of the arena and taking it to the opposing team’s pyre....

NEWSWEEK: What made you want to take on evangelicals and global warming? Bill Moyers: Last year, when a large group of influential evangelicals issued their “Call for Climate Action,” challenging the position of the Bush administration on global warming, I thought it’s not just a theological story; this is a story of a political awakening, too. I come out of the evangelical culture in the South. In all the time I spent attending Central Baptist Church in Marshall, Texas, I can’t remember any sermon preached on the environment....

Salvador led her country’s delegation at a meeting of foreign ministers at the Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters in Washington last week. Before boarding a flight home to Quito, Salvador spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Joseph Contreras. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: You and other officials of the Correa government have voiced satisfaction with the resolution that was adopted at the OAS meeting, but nowhere does the text actually condemn the government of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for the March 1 incursion....

In “Goodnight, We Love You,” we learn that she has launched yet another career—this one as a painter —which is fitting, since she was already a classically trained pianist and a housewife and mother of four in 1955 when she started doing stand-up, ultimately paving the way for Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Sandra Bernhard and Roseanne Barr. Diller, who holds the Guinness Book world record for most jokes told in a minute (12), recently spoke on the phone with NEWSWEEK’s Brian Braiker from her Los Angeles home about retirement, plastic surgery and Michael Richards....

NEWSWEEK’s Daniel Gross talked to Reich about those hidden costs, the motivations behind the rise of corporate responsibility and why Wal-Mart really isn’t the enemy. NEWSWEEK: Rather than paint big corporations as the villains, as many contemporary critiques of capitalism do, you’re sympathetic to them. You even claim that corporations are victims. How so? Robert Reich: I don’t subscribe to the usual corporate conspiracy [theories]. Under Supercapitalism, consumers have a world of choice and can switch almost effortlessly to better deals....

The letter, purporting to be from Saddam Hussein, has launched a new round of speculation over whether the deposed Iraqi leader survived the American-led invasion on his country. According to the note, which arrived via fax at the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, Saddam abandoned his palaces “a long time ago to live in a small house.” If the letter–dated April 28, Saddam’s 66th birthday–is the real deal, the deposed tyrant has, at least temporarily, joined an illustrious roster of international pariahs living in exile....

PUBG Mobile VN or Vietnam is one such version. It was made to cater to the users from the region, with the language of the UI being changed to Vietnamese. Many players desire to download the Vietnamese version of the game and look for ways to do it. In this article, we provide a step-by-step guide on how the players can download PUGB Mobile VN using its APK file....

We discussed the revealed teaser in our previous article enlightening the possible crossover. Today, PlayerUnknown’s Battleground revealed a 1 minute 27 seconds long trailer confirming the PUBG X Suicide Squad crossover. This crossover includes Joker and Harley Quinn’s skins. There are other contents which will be included in this crossover but for now, only the two skins was revealed. The Special Skins will be available for both PC and Xbox users....

After reviewing so many community feedbacks, the developers of PUBG PC decided to increase the spawn rate of Assault rifles by 20%. As mentioned by officials on their Twitter account, these amendments will be made only in Erangel and Miramar map. Here’s what they said in the post: Along with this, PUBG servers will also be kept under maintenance to perform general service stabilization. A patch update will be pushed in the global servers of Players Unknown Battleground upon the completion of maintenance....

Following the ultra-successful and eventful release of the game on PC, it was shortly announced that PUBG would now come on to the mobile. As of today, the game has hit 10 million active players all around the globe. The gameplay is simple. You are dropped onto one of three different maps anywhere across the island or desert alongside 99 other players. From there, you go on to pick up various items that shall aid your goal....

Puig delivered a bases-loaded single off the top of the right field wall with two outs in the 10th inning, allowing Cleveland to continue its playoff push with a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. The Indians entered the day one-half game behind Tampa Bay for the second AL wild-card spot and remain 2 1/2 games in back of wild-card leader Oakland. “I’m feeling good because this is my first walkoff with this team, finally,” Puig said, exhaling....

Wickeet-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant has jumped as many as 21 places to be 17th, the joint-highest by a specialist India wicketkeeper along with Farokh Engineer, who did so in January 1973. M S Dhoni’s highest Test ranking was 19th. India captain Virat Kohli has maintained his number one position in the batsmen rankings. Pant, a star at the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup in 2016 when he scored an 18-ball half-century against Nepal, has moved into the top-20 after only his ninth Test with an unbeaten 159....

United States forward Pulisic was Chelsea’s last signing but, after the club’s transfer ban was reduced on appeal, they are reportedly ready to splash the cash in the January window. Jadon Sancho and Wilfried Zaha, who also play wide, are said to be among Chelsea’s targets as they seek to add depth to Frank Lampard’s young squad. Pulisic, who has scored five goals in 16 Premier League appearances since joining from Borussia Dortmund, is not worried about the prospect of fresh faces at Chelsea....

That’s about where we are right now with “ballistic fingerprinting,” except that adoption of this new system for catching criminals is far from a sure thing, thanks to the warped politics of guns. President Bush, not wanting to look insensitive while a sniper stalks the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, has reversed course and now says he’ll “explore” the idea with the FBI and ATF, which have long supported it. But there’s every reason to believe that the president and his rural “red state” pro-gun supporters in both parties in Congress are just finessing the issue until the sniper story passes....