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Russia has replaced the commander of its Black Sea fleet, based in Crimea, after a series of explosions rocked the peninsula it annexed in 2014 and had previously seen as a safe rear base for its war in Ukraine Moscow blamed saboteurs for the explosions that engulfed an ammunition depot in northern Crimea on Tuesday. Plumes of smoke were later seen rising from a second Russian military base in central Crimea, Russian newspaper Kommersant said. Ukraine has not officially claimed responsibility, but has hinted at it. Ukraine’s apparent ability to strike deeper into Russian-occupied territory, either with some form of…

By Michael Susin Chill Brands Group PLC said Thursday it has signed a brokerage agreement with Bellator Group LLC to support and expand distribution of its cannabidiol product lines in the US market. The London-listed CBD products company said that under the agreement, both companies will cooperate to monitor market trends to improve sales plans and increase retail buyers and consumers. Bellator will also market Chill’s range of CBD products and potential future product extensions to its broader network of retail contacts, Chill said. Shares at 07:30 GMT were up 0.24 cents, or 8%, at 3.25 cents. Write to Michael…

football 08/17/2022 20:54:00 History links August 17, 2022 Walk into a UConn football practice and you’re sure to see a lot of excitement among players and coaches. However, no one may have more energy on the field than UConn defensive backs coach Dalton Hilliard. “One thing I’ll never stop doing is I’m going to coach like I’ve played, with passion and energy, because it’s contagious,” Hilliard said. “One thing we talk about in the DB (defensive left) room is setting the field on fire, setting it on fire with our passion and our energy and letting people feed off of…

Indians were urged to buy and proudly display the national flag on Independence Day this week, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he wanted 200-metre flags waving in the wind. But now the question for those who celebrated is: how do you dispose of all the flags, with respect and honor? Across streets and rooftops, from mansions to shacks and even remote outposts in the mountains, the flag has been displayed everywhere following celebrations on Monday of the 75th anniversary of Britain’s independence. “In my life the flag was raised from the village school, never from anyone’s house. This time…

Australian medical cannabis company Emyria (ASX: EMD) has received the go-ahead for a Phase 3 trial of its over-the-counter cannabidiol formulation. In March we reported emryia was preparing for a phase 1 study of its EMD-RX5 formulation, which has been developed to address psychological distress. On Tuesday, the company announced that it had received approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) to start a phase 3 clinical trial of EMD-RX5. So what happened to a phase 2 trial? As we previously mentioned, Emyria stated that it would collect enough real-world data during the Phase 1 trial to skip a…

NEW YORK (AP) – One skyscraper stands out from the rest on the Manhattan skyline. It’s not the tallest, but it’s the thinnest, the thinnest in the world, in fact. The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, holds the title of “world’s slimmest skyscraper” thanks to its logic-defying width-to-height ratio: 23 1/ 2 to 1. “Any time it is 1 to 10 or more what is considered a slender building; 1 to 15 or more is considered exotic and really hard to do,” said SHoP Architects founding director Gregg Pasquarelli. “The most slender buildings…