Quordle today – hints and answers for Monday, October 2 (game #616)

Quordle today - hints and answers for Monday, October 2 (game #616)


It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. 

Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.



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Quordle today – hints and answers for Saturday, September 2 (game #586)

Quordle today - hints and answers for Saturday, September 2 (game #586)


It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. 

Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s good fun, but also difficult.



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Body Is Found in Search for Missing British Poet

Body Is Found in Search for Missing British Poet


The family of a British poet who disappeared last weekend from a music festival in England was in mourning after a body was found following a nearly weeklong search that drew national headlines and intense interest on social media.

The poet, Gboyega Odubanjo, 27, was last seen at the Shambala music festival in Kelmarsh, England, about 85 miles north of London, around 4 a.m. on Saturday. Mr. Odubanjo had been scheduled to perform at the festival on Sunday.

The search ended on Thursday morning, when the Northamptonshire Police said they had found a man’s body, which they did not publicly identify.

The police said that the man’s family had been informed and that there did not appear to be suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.

In a statement shared with The New York Times by a close friend of Mr. Odubanjo’s, Tice Cin, his family remembered him warmly and said his disappearance had been “entirely out of character.”

“He is a warm and infectious personality, a contagious smile, and a heart full of kindness,” the family’s statement said. “When his sister’s twins were born, he took it upon himself to move in and support his sister and husband with their young family.”

Echoing criticism on social media of the search for Mr. Odubanjo, the family’s statement also said, “We believe that if he had received adequate care, he would still be alive.”

In a statement, the Northamptonshire Police said that, “Searching open terrain and water requires specialist skills to locate a missing person and to secure and preserve evidence. Unofficial searches carry a risk to both those searching, and to the investigation.”

The disappearance and death remain an active investigation, the police said. The organizers of the Shambala Festival, which describes itself as “anti-corporate, independent and environmentally pioneering,” said they were “devastated by this situation” but otherwise declined to comment while awaiting the coroner’s report on the cause of death.

Mr. Odubanjo, who was born and raised in London, was considered a rising star in the city’s poetry scene. He was the author of “While I Yet Live” and the prizewinning collection “Aunty Uncle Poems,” and served as the editor of bath magg, an online poetry magazine. He worked as an editor at Bad Betty Press and was studying for a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire.

His disappearance prompted an outpouring of support from Britain’s poetry community.

“Our light switch in a dark room,” Kareem Parkins-Brown, a London-based poet, said of Mr. Odubanjo. “He was the voice for the joys of London life. Our city’s Frank O’Hara.”

“In the literary world I have often felt misunderstood and eager to explain myself, but I always felt you got me,” the poet Raymond Antrobus said in a message. “So many of us who knew your brilliance and were waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.”

“He just had this air of wisdom about him,” Ms. Cin, Mr. Odubanjo’s friend, said. “He could go anywhere in the world and people would look to him for advice.”

Mr. Odubanjo had been scheduled to appear at the Barbican Centre in London this month as part of 05fest, a festival put on by the poet Inua Ellams.

But Mr. Odubanjo had big ambitions outside of his native Britain. “He wanted to tell stories across the whole world,” Ms. Cin said, but he always felt a strong connection with his home city.

As Mr. Odubanjo said in one of his poems: “london is a bit of me / london is the place for me.”



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E.U. Official Accuses Russia of Using Grain as Geopolitical Tool: Ukraine Live Updates

E.U. Official Accuses Russia of Using Grain as Geopolitical Tool: Ukraine Live Updates


President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visiting the White House earlier this year.Credit…Sarah Silbiger for The New York Times

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has pitched his country as a peacemaker in Russia’s war with Ukraine. But he now seems to have accepted that neither side is ready to lay down arms anytime soon.

Brazil “is trying to find some way to use the word peace,” he told foreign correspondents during a breakfast on Wednesday. Later, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, he said, “For the time being, both of them are in that phase that ‘I will win, I will win, I will win.’”

Brazil — Latin America’s largest nation, which has long pursued a foreign policy of neutrality — believes it is well positioned to help bring an end to the war. Mr. Lula said that Brazilian officials have had conversations with counterparts in China, India, South Africa and Indonesia, as well as in other countries in Latin America and in Africa, about brokering peace negotiations.

He said he has made his chief foreign policy adviser, Celso Amorim, his “special war envoy” and dispatched him to meetings with Mr. Putin in Moscow and Mr. Zelensky in Kyiv.

And he has blocked Brazil from selling any weapons that could end up being used in the war.

But none of those efforts have yielded much progress, he said.

Still, Brazil is not giving up. Mr. Amorim, who will appear remotely at a meeting on Ukraine’s peace plan scheduled on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, said in an interview on Wednesday that his strategy is to respect both Ukraine and Russia, even if one invaded the other.

“Territorial integrity of states must be respected,’’ he said. “Security concerns, including Russia’s, also must be respected by everyone.”

Mr. Amorim said he believed that Brazil has more influence with Russia than it does with Ukraine, in part because of its place in a bloc known as BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

China, he said, has already helped tamp down Moscow’s rhetoric about nuclear weapons. He said that the United States could also play a key role in persuading Ukraine to seek peace.

Brazil’s stance that Russia’s concerns must be heard has frustrated Ukraine and its Western allies. When a planned meeting between Mr. Lula and Mr. Zelensky on the sidelines of the Group of 7 Summit in Japan in May failed to happen, the leaders blamed each other.

Mr. Lula has said that both Russia and Ukraine caused the war. And Mr. Zelensky has criticized Mr. Lula’s call for peace talks, saying the Brazil leader just wants to be “original.”

But Mr. Zelensky seemed to encourage improving relations recently when he suggested that Brazil host a summit for Latin American nations that Ukraine could attend.

Mr. Amorim, Brazil’s chief foreign policy adviser, said Brazil would welcome Mr. Zelensky for a visit — but would not host meetings for him.

“Brazil does not have to be a stage for anyone, not for Zelensky, not for Putin,” he said. “We want peace, we want the Ukrainian people to live in peace, to end the war in which they are the main victims. But for that, we also have to have credibility with the other side.”

Paulo Motoryn contributed reporting.



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Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, August 3 (game #556)

Quordle today - hints and answers for Thursday, August 3 (game #556)


It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. 

Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s good fun, but also difficult.



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Microsoft has a new plan to make Edge better than Chrome

Microsoft has a new plan to make Edge better than Chrome

Microsoft Edge is going to make an effort to help you improve the browser with a new system of badges for add-ons.

Add-ons (also referred to as extensions) are little extras that can be bolted onto the browser to deliver all kinds of functionality, but clearly the trick to making Edge better with them is choosing good add-ons, and not bloat or poor-quality efforts (or even malicious ones in a worst-case scenario).



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