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Fish & Flowers

Fish & Flowers

My wife was walking with a lei garland of flowers around her neck on a on the beach near Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Luckily, it was a windy day, so the ocean breeze kept the smell of the local fish away from us!

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Photo of U2 performing at Las Vegas’ new $2.3-billion Sphere venue over the weekend.

U2 performing at Las Vegas’ new $2.3-billion Sphere venue over the weekend.

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Welcome to Monday, where Turkey strikes Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq hours after a suicide blast hit Ankara’s interior ministry, a UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Nobel Prize season kicks off. Meanwhile, Wiktoria Bielaszyn, in Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, reports on the suspected spy network operated by the Russian Orthodox Church through its clergy members abroad, particularly in the U.S.

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