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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 Jackmanā¦
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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 areaā¦
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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 championshipsā¦
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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 Thyssenkruppās 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, Zambalesā¦
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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 GMTā¦
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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 kindā¦
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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 staffā¦
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June 4, 2025
Raytheon, RTXās 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 missilesā¦
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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 haveā¦
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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 5ā¦
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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 Hegsethā¦
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June 3, 2025
The company has now raised $525 million total in funding. Tom Mueller, an employee of Elon Muskās SpaceX and a founding member, is leading the team at Impulse Space, which creates spacecraft that transport satellites to different orbital positionsā¦
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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.
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June 2, 2025
Adani Group in India denied on Monday "any deliberate involvement" in sanctions evasion, or trade of liquefied gas with Iranian origin after Wall Street Journal reported U.S. prosecutors investigating whether Adani entities imported Iranian LPG to India through its Mundra port.
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June 1, 2025
The government announced that Britain would increase its fleet of nuclear-powered attack subs. This announcement comes ahead of an upcoming defence review, which is expected to state that the country needs to invest billions in order to be prepared and equipped for a modern conflict.
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May 30, 2025
Good night from the Daybook. 7 a.m. An interview with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). An interview with Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield (D). An interview with former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D), a Democratic candidate for Georgia governor. 5 p.m. An interview with Rep.
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May 30, 2025
India's Defence Minister said that it will use its navy to respond to any future aggression from Pakistan. This comes weeks after the fiercest battles in decades between these two nuclear-armed neighbors. After four days of fighting betweenā¦
