Belluno Dolomites in Italy and the wild Taiga in Finland. The Taiga has an array of wildlife that

A morning mist filled the valley near Hatgal, a small village at the southern tip of Lake Khovsgol in north central Mongolia.... The family’s herd stood as still as if in a Flemish painting.... Only a few hundred remain here in northern Mongolia....

TOKYO( Kyodo)--Actors Shun Oguri and Ken Watanabe are among Japanese celebrities calling in a now-viral YouTube video for young people in the country to vote in the upcoming general election.... It has so far garnered more than 310, 000 views since it was uploaded on Saturday.... In the 2019 upper house election, the overall voter turnout was 48.8 percent, but among those aged 18 and 19 it stood at around 30 percent, according to the government....

Yoshinobu Yamamoto allows two runs over seven innings to earn his eighth win as the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes beat the Seibu Lions 5-3 at MetLife Dome outside Tokyo on July 2, 2021.... The right-hander went to the mound at MetLife Dome in the bottom of the first with a two-run lead, after cleanup hitter Yutaro Sugimoto opened the scoring in the first with a two-run home run, his 18th.... Sugimoto went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs....

The defending champions of the third All Japan High School esports Championship in the League of Legends division, team KDG NI of N High School( Okinawa), compete in the semifinals this year on March 14, 2021, in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.... Under the team name" N1," N High School has advanced to the quarterfinals in hope of taking the title again.... 23 live stream for League of Legends will go live from 12: 30 p.m.( 3: 30 a.m. UTC)....

This vast body of water, found in Siberia, holds a huge number of world records, including being the deepest lake in the world and covering an area larger than several countries. Russia’s Lake Baikal covers an area of 12, 248 square miles-slightly larger than Belgium-making it the seventh-largest lake by surface area and the second-largest in Eurasia after the Caspian Sea.It is also the oldest lake on Earth, at an incredible 25 to 30 million years old and the world’s largest freshwater lake by v

The report did not assign blame to any individuals, nor did it address some of the more systemic issues with the immigration system. Under current rules, detainees can be held indefinitely even when they have no criminal record and have applied for asylum status.... Despite being the world’s third-largest economy, the country approves less than 1 percent of applications, which last year amounted to 47 people.In a statement, Shoko Sasaki, the official in charge of Japan’s immigration system, too

And at such a high speed." Most read in The Sun DRIVEN MAD Cops forced to jump queue as ambulance CRASHES into traffic during fuel chaos OUT OF ACTION Which petrol stations are closed and where can I buy fuel from?... 5 Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoiguaccompanied Putin on the holiday Credit: Reuters 5 Putin is konwn for his ove of hunting Credit: Reuters One Putin health-watcher, political analyst Valery Solovei, claimed last week on Echo Moscow radio that Putin “ needs to undergo surgery

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The fight against the pandemic changed Russia from the inside and these changes are more important than any foreign policy manoeuvres oradaptation tointernational affairs, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev. The coronavirus pandemic, which arrived inRussia exactly ayear ago, inA