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Snow Rugby - Russia's latest sports craze aiming for Red Square (VIDEO) Snow rugby is Russia’s latest sporting craze and the sport’s chiefs Moscow have high ambitions for the quintessentially crazy sport - to play the annual tournament finals on Red Square. That’s if they can find snow to play on. READ MORE: 'I want to make rugby top-3 sport in Russia' - National Team Captain Vasily Artemyev At last year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan, Russia crashed out of the tournament without winning a single game, despite a valiant 30-10 losing effort in the opening match against the hosts - seen by 20 million people worldwide. Despite the setback Russias found a way to make the game suit them - unsurprisingly, the solution was to play the game on snow.  ...

Iraqi govt tells military to ‘minimize US reliance’ – report The government in Baghdad has told its military not to seek assistance from the US-led coalition in operations against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), AP reported, citing Iraqi military officials. Officially, the Iraqi military announced on January 30 that it resumed joint military operations with the coalition after a three-week halt. The pause was called amid tensions following the January 3 US airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and senior Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. In practice, Iraqis are seeking to minimize coalition assistance against IS, based on government orders, two Iraqi military officials and one militia official said this week. Outgoing PM Adel Abdul-Mahdi has stated p...

WATCH 1st footage of plane that crash-landed at Turkish airport Footage showing a plane which overran the runway at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport has been shared on social media and shows the aircraft in flames. The video shows the plane broken in half, and appears to have been recorded from inside a moving vehicle or another plane at the airport. Sabiha Gökçen Havaalanı..Pist dışına çıkan bir uçak yanıyor. pic.twitter.com/RzzJR8lwV9— . (@OlaCak_OlaCak34) February 5, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Other footage gives an even grimmer perspective, as it is clear that the Pegasus Airlines aircraft actually split into three pieces when it overshot the runway and came to a stop on a grassy area nearby. [n...

Romanian centrist govt loses no-confidence vote in parliament Romania’s centrist government led by centrist PM Ludovic Orban lost a no-confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, a development that raises the prospect of early elections. Lawmakers voted 261 to 139 in favor of the motion proposed by two opposition parties, the Social Democrats and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania. To pass, the motion needed to be supported by 233 lawmakers. The vote was triggered by a disputed bill backed by the government which would introduced changes to the election law, including two-round elections in mayoral races and how Romanians living abroad can cast their votes, AP said. The minority Orban government, led by his center-right National Liberal Party, has only been in po...