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STOCKHOLM, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Sweden’s defence material administration on Monday signed an order for four Naval Group navy frigates during a ceremony in Stockholm attended by French President Emmanuel Macron and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Sweden in May said it would order the vessels from the French company in a $4 billion deal that will triple its air defence capacity in the face of security threats in the […]

Nothing about Colin Kaepernick, the football player, changed on that warm Southern California night a decade ago. Not his speed. Not his arm strength. Not the improvisational skills that made him one of the NFL’s most electrifying, if at times erratic, quarterbacks. And to be honest, nothing changed about Colin Kaepernick, the 28-year-old man, that night either. If anything, the moment the San Francisco 49ers star decided to take a […]

Chris Sale shut out the Dodgers and threw a 100 mph fastball in the process. You could call it turning back the clock, but that would imply the Atlanta left-hander’s best days are behind him. And that’s hardly the case. Sale struck out 11 in a five-hitter Thursday night, lowering his ERA to 2.06. Only Jacob Misiorowski’s (1.73) is better, and Sale may be the only one capable of pushing […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A pregame stunt involving two passenger jets flying dramatically low over a sports stadium in South Africa drew huge cheers from the estimated crowd of around 56,000 people, but also sparked a major debate over safety risks. The flyby by two Embraer jets operated by local airline Airlink happened on Saturday before a rugby game between South Africa and New Zealand in Cape Town. Flight tracking service […]

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost. The president is calling it “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that […]

MIAMI (AP) — Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have launched an investigation into a controversial policing tactic that permitted staggering amounts of deadly fentanyl to reach the streets as federal authorities sought to build bigger drug cases. The committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Todd Blanche requesting records related to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s controversial strategy of monitoring […]

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial are set to return for their third day of deliberations Monday to determine whether to hold the former labor and delivery nurse criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 — a case that has drawn attention to maternal mental health after childbirth. The 12 regular jurors and six alternates began deliberating on Thursday in Plymouth County Superior Court […]

Aug 31 (Reuters) – Shein on Monday priced its initial public offering in Hong Kong at the midpoint of its marketed range, raising HK$13.60 billion ($1.74 billion) from the share sale. The online fast-fashion retailer has offered 280 million shares for the listing at HK$48.56 per share, below the maximum offer price of HK$49.50 apiece announced last week. ($1 = 7.8379 Hong Kong dollars) (Reporting by Nikita Maria Jino and […]

By Rachel More and Christina Amann DRESDEN, Germany, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s workers, management and political leaders must work together to minimise the impact of job and capacity cuts at Europe’s biggest automaker and boost its competitiveness, the state leader of Saxony said. State premier Michael Kretschmer, a member of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative CDU party, is under pressure to shield auto jobs in Saxony, a poorer part of […]