Lawyers for Russian firearms producer Kalashnikov have prepared amendments to the national legislation liberalizing the purchase and ownership of firearms and introducing rules regulating gunsmithing, according to reports. Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday that it had managed to acquire and study the reworked draft of the Law on Weapons prepared by Kalashnikov’s legal team. The
OKLAHOMA CITY – The final roster for the 2017 USA Softball Junior Women’s National Team (JWNT) was announced by USA Softball. The 17-member roster will compete in the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Junior Women’s World Championship (JWWC) set to take place July 24-30 in Clearwater, Fla. The official tournament schedule features a total of 99
VANCOUVER — Family and colleagues of a professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., who went missing in Colombia say he has been found dead. Colombian police recovered the body of Ramazan (Ramo) Gencay outside of Medellin, university president Andrew Petter said in a statement to faculty and staff on Wednesday. “Ramo will be
The head of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party has called for rather radical measures to fight tobacco addiction that include a complete ban on public demonstrations of smoking, including statues and monuments. Vladimir Zhirinovsky issued this comment after mass media in East Russia’s Altai Region reported that the bronze monument to poet Robert Rozhdestvenskiy had been
The head of the Duma defense committee and former commander of Russian airborne troops has said Moscow would take all measures, including military ones, in response to a possible US strike on government forces in Syria. “The double standard policy has overstepped all possible boundaries. At this point, the [pro-Putin parliamentary majority] United Russia party
Durex has recalled specific batches of condoms in Canada. The brand’s parent company, RB Health (Canada) Inc., said certain batches of the Durex Real Feel Extra Lubricated 10ct condoms and Durex Real Feel 20ct condoms didn’t pass a “stringent” durability test. Durex Real Feel Extra Lubricated condoms and Durex Real Feel condoms have been recalled
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association’s official app for the 2017 NFCA National Convention in Las Vegas is now available. Powered by Diamond Kinetics, the free app is an opportunity for attendees to have all convention related items available to them in one quick click of a button after downloading it to your IOS
A Russian company specializing in the study of the atmosphere wants to upgrade its sounding rocket and turn it into an expandable launch vehicle for small satellites that cannot wait for a larger rocket to go into orbit. Nano and micro satellites have become popular platforms for all sorts of space applications. As long as
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State champion Los Alamitos and fellow California school Norco start 2018 the same way they finished last season — as the top two teams in the USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll — after both cruised through their first two games. No. 3 Oakleaf (6-0), which closed last season ranked
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following a wild weekend that saw the top three suffer five defeats, Washington held on to the No. 1 spot in this week’s USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Huskies (29-1) collected 23 first-place votes and 781 points. No. 1 Washington and then-No. 3 UCLA entered the week as