Riot confirms League of Legends LeBlanc visual update, despite divisive response
Despite a split response to LeBlanc's look in the League of Legends Season 1 cinematic, Riot has confirmed she's getting a visual rework.
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25 years of Vladimir Putin: When Boris Yeltsin resigned and asked his PM to ‘take care of Russia’
Vladimir Putin walks to take his oath as Russian president during an inauguration ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024.- AP Vladimir Putin became the Acting ...
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Toronto Blue Jays Star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Joined Rare History with Scorching Summer
Though the team season was a failure, the season was a resounding success for superstar first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The 25-year-old made the All-Star Game for the fourth time, won a Silver ...
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In New Year speech, Putin tells Russians ‘everything will be fine’
President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year address that Russia would move forward with confidence in 2025 and that Russians should be “proud” of what the country had achieved during his ...
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Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s 'Likeliest' Trade Destination Could Be AL East Rival
First baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. isn't slated to become a free agent until next winter. However, his future with the Toronto Blue Jays could be decided in the coming weeks. Will he stay with ...
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Sanctions brought on by Putin’s war in Ukraine are taking a bite out of Russia’s New Year's salad
MOSCOW — It’s akin to Turkey at Thanksgiving: On New Year’s in Russia, revelers traditionally consume lashings of Olivier salad. It was introduced to the then-Russian Empire in 1860 by ...
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After a quarter-century in power, Putin faces a new test: The return of Trump
“Why stand in his way?” That strong leader was a political unknown: a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. This New Year’s Eve, when Putin addresses Russians, he will be marking a quarte ...
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Putin says he saved Russia, but a year of challenges suggests Moscow’s position is precarious
When Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, resigned on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he publicly implored Vladimir Putin, his handpicked but little-known successor ...
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Putin marks 25 years in the Kremlin with Ukraine war and internal authoritarianism at fever pitch
Twenty-five years since December 31, 1999, when an exhausted Boris Yeltsin resigned and handed over the interim presidency, all the resources of the state, and the support of his oligarchs to a ...
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‘LGBTQ+ travel operator’ found dead weeks after Putin declared it an ‘extremist group’
Russia has stepped up its chilling crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights as President Vladimir Putin claims the country is trying to preserve ‘traditional values’. Saudi Arabia's holiest city of Mecca ...
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Meet Kazakhstan’s Vladimir Nikitin, its only NHL prospect at the World Juniors
Kazakhstan goalie Vladimir Nikitin just wanted to try something. Kazakhstan was playing its first game at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship at TD Place in Ottawa. The opening test wouldn’t ...
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'He is an introvert – a man of deeds, not words': How Vladimir Putin rose to power in Russia
When Vladimir Putin took over as acting president of Russia at the start of the year 2000, the former spy was an enigma to many. In History looks at how the surprise leader survived a tough ...