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She has also won eight of her 13 meetings with fellow top-10 players, with two of those losses coming in major finals against Rybakina, and two arriving this week.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Yanis Varoufakis, the leather jacket-clad celebrity economist who was Tsipras’s finance minister in the tumultuous first six months of his premiership, continues to rage against the policy of high surpluses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
“I always do good against Mater Dei. I love playing against them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
The Green Party has warned against "demonising" young and disabled people and wants the government to address the "structural inequalities stacked against them".
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
A filthy, ripped sofa piled with broken furniture and bags of garbage sits in the middle of the living area, a stained mattress propped up against its side.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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