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Incheon (South Korea) — On Sunday, South Korea hosted a North Korean team for the first time in more than seven years, with the women’s soccer team arriving to compete in the Asian Club Championships. The 39 players and staff of Pyongyang’s Naegohyang Women’s Soccer Club rushed past a throng of media and security personnel at Incheon International Airport after the team arrived on a flight from Beijing. The North Korean players arrived smartly in matching blazers and skirts and headed straight to the bus without so much as a glance at the “welcome” cheers of the assembled unification supporters.…

Nancy Guthrie’s health condition revealed, requires medication to survive As the search continues for Nancy, authorities have stressed that she needs to take daily medication to survive, something she likely doesn’t have. “This woman is an 84-year-old woman who suffers from several physical illnesses, has physical problems, and requires medication,” Nanos said at a press conference on February 2. “Medications can be fatal if not taken within 24 hours.” “So we implore anyone who knows anything about this, anyone who has seen anything, anyone who has heard anything, to contact us,” he continued. “Call 911. We don’t need another tragic…

FIFA will provide solutions to Iran’s respective concerns before the match in the United States, Iran’s soccer chief said.Published May 17, 2026May 17, 2026FIFA Secretary-General Matthias Grafström said he had held constructive and positive talks with Iran’s head of football, Mehdi Taj, and expressed confidence in the country’s participation in the World Cup.”We had a great meeting and a constructive meeting with the Iranian Football Association,” Grafström told Reuters on Saturday. “We are working closely together and very much look forward to welcoming them at the FIFA World Cup.”Iran is scheduled to play all three of its group games in…

Tourists and vacationers sit or lie on towels on the beach, some play and swim in the English Channel in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France. Nicolas Guyonnet | Nicolas Guyonnet AFP | Getty ImagesEurope’s jet fuel crisis threatens peak travel season, but consumers are instead looking to vacation closer to home to save money and avoid flight disruptions.European airlines have been hurt since the start of the war between the United States and Iran, grappling with soaring fuel costs and jet fuel shortages while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The region typically imports 75% of its jet fuel from the Middle East.…

BEIJING – Despite the United States announcing a record $11 billion in arms sales to Taiwan in December against Beijing’s wishes, U.S. President Donald Trump remains uneasy silent on Taiwan after his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week.President Trump said arms sales to Taiwan would be a topic of discussion in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which ended on Friday. But after the first day of talks between the two leaders on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told NBC News that the topic “was not primarily a topic of discussion today.” The White House’s initial…

Emboldened by its wartime success in closing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is turning its attention to one of the hidden arteries of the global economy: the undersea cables beneath the waterway that carry vast amounts of internet and financial traffic between Europe, Asia, and the Persian Gulf. The Islamic Republic wants to charge the world’s biggest tech companies for the use of undersea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz, and state media has vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if the companies don’t pay. Lawmakers in Tehran last week discussed plans that could target undersea cables…

Rousey won the match with her signature armbarlock, forcing Carano to submit just 17 seconds into the bout.Published May 17, 2026May 17, 2026Mixed martial arts (MMA) star Ronda Rousey has retired again after defeating fellow mixed martial arts pioneer Gina Carano with an armbar just 17 seconds later in her long-awaited non-title return match in Los Angeles.After a hype-filled build-up, Saturday’s match became a jarring anticlimax, with Rousey just before slamming Carano to the floor and putting her into an armbar to end the match.American stars Rousey, 39, and Carano, 44, are widely regarded as two of the most important…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photo before their meeting in Beijing, China, September 2, 2025. Sergei Bobylev | via ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing from May 19 to 20, Moscow and Beijing announced on Saturday.The meeting comes less than a week after US President Donald Trump met with Xi in Beijing, marking the second time in less than a year that the leaders of the two largest economies have met.”The visit of the Russian president took place in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the…

Pilot Steve Giordano’s career was just beginning when Spirit Airlines grounded his plane before dawn on May 2nd.Giordano, managing partner of Nomadic Aviation Group, told CNBC that the company had planned a major recall of more than 20 Spirit aircraft that their lessors were seeking back. In just over a week, he said he and his team have transported 23 Spirit planes from airports across the United States to the Arizona desert. Just hours earlier, a bright yellow Airbus plane was flying Spirit customers.Giordano, who runs Nomadic with co-founder Bob Allen, started hearing in the early morning hours of May…

Reuters — The World Health Organization on Sunday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern” and posing a risk to neighboring countries. The WHO said that while the outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus does not meet the criteria for a pandemic emergency, countries that share land borders with the DRC are at high risk of further spread. The United Nations health agency said in a statement that as of Saturday, 80 suspected deaths, eight laboratory-confirmed cases and 246 suspected cases had been reported…