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June 8, 2025
Taiwan's Coast Guard held drills on Sunday with the Military to better practice the joint operations against what the Government in Taipei claims is a growing threat from China. China claims the island as their own territory. Taiwan, a democratically-governed island…
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June 7, 2025
On Saturday, Spain led the first day of the SailGP sixth round. Diego Botin and his team were well-positioned to win consecutive races. Spain, the defending series champions, won the San Francisco race in March. They made it look effortless…
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June 6, 2025
SailGP teams are ready to shake off rust this weekend in New York, as the global championship returns to action following a short hiatus caused by a defect with the wingsail that forced the cancellation of the Rio event. The defect was identified…
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June 6, 2025
A local official announced on Friday that the harvesting campaign had begun in Crimea earlier than expected. The goal is to collect 1,1 million metric tons, including 900,000.00 tons of wheat. The latest crop forecast for Crimea is lower than last year's 1.5 million ton harvest.
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June 6, 2025
SailGP, with its new celebrity owners and an array of fresh sponsors hopes to harness the wave of popularity to take the global sailing series to the next stage as it returns to New York City for the third time to race this weekend. SailGP announced that Hugh Jackman…
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June 6, 2025
Fishermen fear that they will now be forced to compete with large vessels on municipal waters, a 15-km (9-mile) stretch of water off the coasts of cities. Rommel Escarial (37), who has been fishing Manila Bay since he became a teenager, said that once commercial fishing vessels entered the area…
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June 5, 2025
Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds and the BONDS flying Roos are now co-owners. The three-time champion SailGP Team of Australia is now renamed the BONDS flying Roos. The investment gives star power to an Australian outfit which has dominated global sailing championships…
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June 5, 2025
The Feed Leaders Committee of South Korea (FLC) purchased around 67,000 metric tonnes of animal feed corn on Thursday in a private transaction without holding an international tender. The corn was bought at an estimated cost of $234.99 per ton, including freight.
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June 5, 2025
Berlin must decide quickly whether it will purchase a stake in Thyssenkrupp’s defence division TKMS. A leading official of the labour movement has called for clarity before a crucial supervisory board meeting scheduled for later this month.
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June 5, 2025
Manila's military said that the Philippines and United States have been sailing together in the South China Sea seven times to improve interoperability. The exercise, which was held in the waters near the provinces Occidental Mindoro, Zambales…
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June 5, 2025
Chicago wheat futures were up on Thursday due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as well as the dry weather that threatens yields in China, the top grain consumer. Prices of corn and soybeans both rose, while prices for corn fell. As of 0319 GMT…
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June 4, 2025
Alphabet's Google and the Chilean Government signed an agreement during a Wednesday meeting to deploy a 14,800 kilometer (9,196 mile) submarine data cable to connect Australia and Asia. The cable is expected to be operational in 2027. The first pact of its kind…
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June 4, 2025
Mostakbal Misr (the state grain purchasing agency in Egypt) has signed major wheat contracts with strategic French and Romanian partners as part of an overall push to diversify the supply and stabilize imports amid global uncertainties, it announced on Wednesday.
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June 4, 2025
U.S. Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick said at a Senate hearing, that NOAA has 'full staff' of weather forecasters and scientist after concerns raised about some offices not having 24-hour staffing before hurricane season. "We have a full staff…
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June 4, 2025
Raytheon, RTX’s defense arm, announced on Wednesday that the U.S. Navy has awarded it a contract worth $1.1 billion to produce additional short-range AIM-9X Block II Missiles. The contract will help increase production of air-to -air and surface to -air missiles…
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June 4, 2025
European traders reported that Jordan's state grain purchaser purchased approximately 60,000 metric tonnes of animal feed barley in an international bid seeking up to 122,000 tons on Wednesday. The trading house Al Dahra was reported to have…
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June 4, 2025
Researchers from the United States said that North Korea appeared to have repositioned its Choe Hyun Class destroyer, which partially capsized after a botched launch ceremony. Kim Jong Un said that the failure to launch the warship weighing 5…
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June 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, JUNE 3 - The U.S. Navy is renaming an oil tanker named Harvey Milk after the slain gay activist. This move, announced by U.S. officials on Tuesday, is the latest in a series of initiatives taken by the U.S. Military under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
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June 3, 2025
The company has now raised $525 million total in funding. Tom Mueller, an employee of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a founding member, is leading the team at Impulse Space, which creates spacecraft that transport satellites to different orbital positions…
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June 3, 2025
Darren Davidson is the vice president at Siemens Energy UK&I. He said that if Britain wants to reach its clean energy targets for 2030, it must have a record amount new offshore wind power. Offshore wind is at the core of the country's plans to decarbonise electricity by 2030.
