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China to send two pandas to the US later this year
WASHINGTON: China will send two young giant pandas to Washington, the National Zoo said on Wednesday, months after the zoo returned three of the bears amid heightened tensions between the two global superpowers. The announcement follows increased engagement between Washington and Beijing that has put ties on a steadier footing since relations…
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France’s Macron: ‘Systematic postponement’ of a two-state solution should end
France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday there should be an end to the "systematic postponement" of both the implementation of a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine and the setting up of a Palestinian state."(Macron) asserted France's commitment to work, with its European and Arab partners, on a shared vision of…
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Pentagon Opens Ammunition Factory to Keep Arms Flowing to Ukraine
In a warehouse off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in an industrial area outside Dallas, the future of American military ammunition production is coming online.Here, in the Pentagon’s first new major arms plant built since Russia invaded Ukraine, Turkish workers in orange hard hats are busy unpacking wood crates stenciled with the name Repkon, a…
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GOP senator urges $55B defense budget boost to counter China, Russia and Iran
Politics
By Josh Christenson
Published
May 29, 2024, 11:59 a.m. ET
The leading Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee is bucking his party’s isolationist leanings and urging an increase of $55 billion in defense spending to counter Chinese, Russian and Iranian aggression.
Roger Wicker…
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Galatasaray wins Turkish soccer league, edges city rival Fenerbahce on final day
ISTANBUL (AP) — Galatasaray clinched the Turkish league title on Sunday, edging city rival Fenerbahce with a record total of 102 points.Galatasaray needed just a point in its final game at Konyaspor, and won 3-1 with talismanic striker Mauro Icardi scoring twice to raise his league-leading total to…
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Stock market today: Dow leads stock slide as rising Treasury yields rattle nerves
US stocks waded in the red on Wednesday, after a spike in Treasury yields unsettled investors already weighing whether recent data will shift the needle on interest rates.The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 0.7%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) drifted about 0.9% lower, shedding nearly 350 points. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC)…
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Earthcare cloud mission launches to resolve climate unknowns – BBC News
Image caption, Artwork: It's taken fully 20 years to get Earthcare into space Article informationA sophisticated joint European-Japanese satellite has launched to measure how clouds influence the climate.Some low-level clouds are known to cool the planet, others at high altitude will act as a blanket.The Earthcare mission will use a laser and a…
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EU Whiz 2024 challenges Filipino students on European Union knowledge
The Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines challenges the brightest young minds across the Philippines to join and win the EU Whiz 2024, set from August to October 2024.
The EU Whiz is one of the events held by the EU Delegation to the Philippines in celebration of the 60 Years of EU-Philippines Diplomatic Relations. An exciting…
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Ontario legislator makes history at Queen’s Park with speech in Oji-Cree
Liam Casey and Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, May 28, 2024 5:53AM EDT
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Cyclone kills at least 16 in India, Bangladesh | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Coastal areas of India and Bangladesh have been battered by a powerful cyclone, the first of the year.Local media say the storm killed at least 16 people in both countries.
Weather officials say Cyclone Remal moved north over the Bay of Bengal before making landfall on Sunday.
Media outlets say at…
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