At long, long last, NHL hockey is set to resume. Edmonton Oilers players and hopefuls conducted a preliminary on-ice session sans coaches at NAIT Arena on Sunday, before camp formally gets underway on Monday. And a short one it will be, with the NHL regular season set to get underway in 9 days time on Jan 13, ten months to the day from the first Oilers game to be cancelled due to COVID last March. That’s a long time between regular season games, with just four disappointing play-in games last August to break the monotony of no hockey at all. Read More
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The growing role of mercenaries in warfare
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, December 10: With volunteers from Sri Lanka and Nepal joining the Russian or Ukrainian armies for money, the use of foreign mercenaries…

