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The Foreign Ministers of the Arab League Council will hold an emergency meeting on Syria in Doha on Sunday amid an escalating armed conflict between the government forces and rebels. Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al-Arabi will deliver a report on the Syrian developments, RIA Novosti says. Arab League and UN deputy special envoy Nasser al-Kudwa, who has recently held consultations with Russia and Iran, and also met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, will report on the efforts to halt the armed conflict in the war-torn country. ...
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| Singer quits Wagner festival over Nazi tattoos |
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Russian opera singer has pulled out of the Bayreuth opera festival over Nazi tattoos on his chest days before the start of the celebration of Richard Wagner's works that was once popular with Third Reich leaders. Evgeny Nikitin was meant to play the Flying Dutchman in Wagner's opera of the same name but German newspaper and TV images have shown him bare chested with tattoos that resemble symbols used by the Nazis. One looks like a swastika, which appears to be covered by a new tattoo in more recent pictures. "I had these tattoos done in my youth. ...
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| Bayreuth: Samuel Youn steps in after Russian quits |
 The Bayreuth opera festival says bass-baritone Samuel Youn has stepped in to take the lead role in "The Flying Dutchman," the annual event's opening production, after Evgeny Nikitin withdrew when it emerged he once had Nazi-related symbols tattooed on his body.
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| Singer with Nazi tattoo cancels Germany appearance |
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| Stuart R. Schram, Physicist and Mao Scholar, Dies at 88 |
After working on the Manhattan Project, Mr. Schram published works in French and German and taught himself Russian and Japanese before turning to the study of Mao Zedong.
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| Opinion: What’s Lenin’s Dead Body to Do? |
Since the Soviet Union folded, Russia has been tippy-toeing around the dead mouse on the national living room floor, namely Lenin’s embalmed corpse.
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| Russian opera singer quits Bayreuth over Nazi tattoo |
A Russian opera singer on Saturday pulled out as the star of this year's legendary Bayreuth Festival just days before the opening premiere in a row over a Nazi tattoo.
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| Russian quits Bayreuth festival over Nazi tattoos |
A Russian baritone who was due to sing the lead role in Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" when the Bayreuth opera festival opens next week withdrew from the event Saturday after it emerged that he once had Nazi-related symbols tattooed on his body.
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