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Before Golden State Warriors center Kevon Looney became an NBA champion, he tried to guide UCLA to a national championship when he was with the Bruins for the 2014-15 season. Though UCLA lost in the South Regional semifinal to Gonzaga, Looney said it was among the moments he was going to remember for the rest of his life. CLICK HERE …

The German parliament on Thursday welcomed its first deaf lawmaker, who took her place in a moment that the house’s speaker described as historic. Heike Heubach, 44, narrowly missed out on a seat in parliament’s lower house, or Bundestag, in Germany’s 2021 election. But she joined the house this week as the replacement for Uli Grötsch, a fellow member of …

Alfalfa plants sway under a thin veil of mist as towering irrigation equipment rolls above the crops, spraying the vast fields with water. It’s an important agricultural product in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, grown there for hundreds of years. Rich in fiber and protein, it’s used to feed livestock in Latin America’s second-largest economy. But alfalfa crops and other …

The economic situation in debt-stricken Sri Lanka has started to gradually improve following its worst economic crisis two years ago, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday. The country’s inflation has come down from a peak of 70% in 2022 to 5.9% last month and its economy expanded in the second half of last year following a year and a half …

In the shadows of a massive monument glorifying nuclear energy, over 30 leaders and delegations from around the world backed the idea of using the controversial energy source to help achieve a climate-neutral globe while providing countries an added sense of economic and security independence. Such a summit would have been unthinkable a dozen years ago after the 2011 Fukushima …

Amid his long-anticipated acting debut in a remake of “Road House,” Conor McGregor annnounced on Wednesday it is “all systems go” for him to return to the UFC octagon this summer. The Irishman hasn’t fought since 2021, when he broke his leg against Dustin Poirier – while on hiatus, he filmed the movie alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. McGregor, although not officially …

India reversed a laptop licensing policy after behind-the-scenes lobbying by U.S. officials, who however remain concerned about New Delhi’s compliance with WTO obligations and new rules it may issue, according to U.S. trade officials and government emails seen by Reuters. In August, India imposed rules requiring firms like Apple, Dell and HP to obtain licences for all shipments of imported …

Russia aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station moments before they were scheduled to lift off Thursday, but the crew was safe, officials said. The Russian Soyuz rocket was to carry NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. The launch was aborted …

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former soccer star Robinho turned himself in Thursday to start serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy. The 40-year-old Robinho left his apartment building in the beachfront city of Santos, outside Sao Paulo, in a black police car. JAPAN …

Purdue had just fallen unexpectedly in the Big Ten Tournament last week and Braden Smith sat down alongside star Zach Edey and coach Matt Painter to meet reporters. It took three questions to conjure a March Madness specter: the Boilermakers’ improbable loss as a No. 1 seed to 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson in last year’s NCAA Tournament. “I don’t think we’re …