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PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — Buses carrying crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier streamed into Thailand’s seaside resort city Pattaya on Thursday, as part of a port call after a lengthy deployment to the Middle East. The Lincoln was supporting the U.S. war against Iran, and its deployment included a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 260 days. Its lengthy deployment drew concerns last month about […]

NEW YORK, Sept 3 (Reuters) – A’ja Wilson’s stunning last-minute pull-out from the FIBA World Cup has afforded the world a sliver of hope against the dominant United States, as the global showpiece event kicks off on Friday with the Americans chasing a fifth straight title. The record four-times WNBA MVP Wilson bowed out of the competition just days before it was set to begin citing health issues. But if […]

LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s left-wing Green Party intends to stand in an election to parliament in the London seat vacated by former Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, a local newspaper reported on Thursday. Zack Polanski told the Camden New Journal he would be the Green candidate for Holborn and St Pancras, a left-leaning constituency which Starmer held comfortably in 2024 though with a much-reduced vote […]

By Field Level Media Sep 03 (Field Level Media) – James McCann homered to break a scoreless tie in the eighth, seven Arizona pitchers limited Philadelphia to three hits, and the Diamondbacks avoided a series sweep with a 1-0 victory over the Phillies in Phoenix on Wednesday. McCann hit a 409-foot homer on the first pitch he saw from Jonathan Bowlan (2-2). Jonathan Loaisiga (6-3) tossed a 1-2-3 eighth, and […]

TAIPEI, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s cabinet on Thursday proposed an additional T$145.7 billion ($4.59 billion) in defence spending for this year for systems including drones and anti-ballistic missiles. Taiwan’s government has made defence modernisation and increased spending a core policy given stepped up military pressure from China, which views the democratically governed island as its own territory. In May, Taiwan’s opposition-controlled parliament approved extra defence spending of $25 billion, […]

BERLIN, Sept 3 (Reuters) – German police are investigating a suspected politically motivated arson attack at a construction site outside the Munich headquarters of defence technology company Rohde & Schwarz, authorities said on Thursday. A Bavarian police spokesperson confirmed an investigation into suspected arson but said there was currently no evidence that the attack had been directed specifically at Rohde & Schwarz. The police spokesperson said a 28-year-old woman and […]

KUOPIO, Finland (AP) — In a civil defense shelter hewn into rock, behind doors designed to withstand a nuclear or biological attack, two Finnish conscripts wearing hazmat suits and breathing masks are measuring radiation levels as they take part in an exercise to turn a cave into a place of safety for thousands of people. Inside, in what is normally a sports hall, hundreds of people are sleeping overnight on […]

Russia will shutter German cultural centers across the country, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. The move comes after Berlin blamed Moscow for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport and announced the closure of both the Russian Consulate in Bonn and the Russian House cultural center in the German capital. Lavrov said that cultural centers belonging to Germany’s Goethe-Institut would be closed in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, adding that […]

DESSAU, Germany (AP) — Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down the world-famous Bauhaus school of design, it has once again become a cultural battleground between Germany’s establishment and the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has called the art movement an “aberration of modernism.” Founded in 1919, Bauhaus blurred lines between art and industry, influencing global design to this day. It remains a cultural icon that attracts a […]