Canada deploys patrol aircraft to monitor North Korean sanctions evasion at sea
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Canada deploys patrol aircraft to monitor North Korean sanctions evasion at sea

Canada will deploy a patrol aircraft to Japan this month to monitor North Korea’s illicit maritime activities aimed at circumventing U.N. sanctions, Tokyo’s foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. The Royal Canadian Air Force will deploy a CP-140 long-range patrol aircraft from mid-September to mid-October to monitor illicit maritime activities, including ship-to-ship transfers involving North Korean-flagged...

Iran says it will suspend cooperation with UN’s nuclear watchdog | Politics News
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Iran says it will suspend cooperation with UN’s nuclear watchdog | Politics News

President Masoud Pezeshkian also says that Tehran will ‘overcome obstacles’ if wide-ranging UN sanctions are reimposed. Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The warning from the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)...

Look to Myanmar for a terrifying vision of a world where authoritarians have unfettered power | Simon Tisdall
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Look to Myanmar for a terrifying vision of a world where authoritarians have unfettered power | Simon Tisdall

The children were sleeping when death came from the air. A military warplane dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on their boarding school, witnesses said. Imagine, if you can, the carnage and the horror. At least 18 died. Others suffered life-changing injuries. The ruling regime claims to be fighting terrorists. Yet more often than not, it...

How celebrities described Armani over the years
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How celebrities described Armani over the years

During the span of his career, the Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani developed a cult following with big names including Beyoncé and Liam Neeson. Back in 2007, Beyoncé described how she felt “fabulous” at 16 wearing her first Armani. “It’s a girl’s dream ,” she said at the time. Model Naomi Campbell had praised the...

Calls for clear licensing rules if dogs allowed into Hong Kong restaurants
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Calls for clear licensing rules if dogs allowed into Hong Kong restaurants

The restaurant industry and pet owners have urged the government to map out clear licensing rules, especially on hygiene, as Hong Kong prepares to lift a 30-year-old ban on dogs in eateries. Simon Wong Kit-lung, chairman of the LH Group of restaurants and a dog owner, said the licence should explicitly define even basic points...

Seoul’s top diplomat presses China to help bring North Korea back to talks
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Seoul’s top diplomat presses China to help bring North Korea back to talks

Seoul’s top diplomat pressed Beijing to help bring North Korea back to negotiations on Wednesday, meeting his Chinese counterpart face-to-face for the first time. South Korean foreign minister Cho Hyun met China’s Wang Yi for three hours of talks and dinner in Beijing on Wednesday, discussing Korean Peninsula affairs, bilateral relations and other issues of...

Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
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Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space

For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation, and “obsolescence would be a problem” because making repairs or upgrades would be confoundingly difficult. Hajimiri believes that data centers in space could, someday, be a viable solution but hesitates to say...

Mike Trout hits towering 485-foot shot for 400th career homer
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Mike Trout hits towering 485-foot shot for 400th career homer

Sep 20, 2025, 10:24 PM ET DENVER — A difficult season for Mike Trout and his Los Angeles Angels team came with a historic benchmark Saturday. The three-time American League Most Valuable Player and 11-time All-Star hit his 400th career home run in the eighth inning against the Colorado Rockies. The 485-foot solo shot to...

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc wins Russia’s Intervision song contest
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Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc wins Russia’s Intervision song contest

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc has won Russia’s Intervision song contest, held in Moscow on Saturday. Vietnam was among 23 countries participating in the Soviet-era contest, revived by President Vladimir Putin three years after Russia was banned from Eurovision because of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Putin said he was confident the event would become “one...