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The Pentagon’s website and social media channels were overhauled Friday at President Donald Trump’s behest to reflect the United States Defense Department’s new “Department of War” persona, shifting from Defense.gov to War.gov—a symbolic rebranding that highlights the administration’s preference for projecting strength through the language of war rather than the idiom of defense.Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to once again be named the so-called Department of War, reviving a name retired after World War II to mark America’s turn to deterrence as the principle bulwark against nuclear annihilation.At an Oval Office ceremony, Trump said the…

Israeli forces subjected the major urban centre in northern Gaza to another night of deadly bombing raids.

Starting with his breakthrough feature, the simmering Australian crime family saga Animal Kingdom, David Michôd has leaned frequently into dark material. There’s grit but also lugubriousness in Christy, an inspirational sports movie that morphs in somewhat ungainly style into an unflinching depiction of domestic violence. It’s only when that ugliness creeps in that the director seems fully engaged. Until then, it’s a pedestrian and numbingly repetitive drama in which the stakes just never seem all that high. We watch Sydney Sweeney as real-life ‘90s boxing star Christy Martin land one power punch after another, felling a stream of opponents without…

With an estimated more than 4 million people, Adds Ababa is one of the most congested cities in the country and in Africa. As a result the cost of land per square meter is very expensive and is difficult to find adequate space to run agricultural businesses which naturally require wider area of land. Hence, it has to rely on the products of rural areas to feed the large number of residents. But the Deputy Commissioner of the City’s Urban Agriculture Commission, Melese Ashebo argues to the opposite. What the city needs to diversify urban agriculture is not a wide…

While progress has been made in restoring health services across resettled areas of Borno State, significant gaps remain. Across Borno State, providing accessible healthcare for resettled communities remains a work in progress. Years of conflict have devastated the health infrastructure, leaving many newly resettled residents dependent on overstretched and under-resourced Primary Health Centres (PHCs). Aisha Ali, originally from Kalmari and now resettled in Dalori by the Borno State Government, recounts her experience at the community health facility, Litari Daloriye, which means Dalori hospital in the local Kanuri language. Two weeks earlier, Mrs Ali had trekked several miles at dawn, carrying…

For days, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab watched the pounding monsoon rains fall and the rivers rise with mounting apprehension. By Wednesday, many woke to find their fears realised as the worst floods in more than three decades ravaged their farms and decimated their livelihoods.Hundreds of thousands of acres of bright green rice paddies – due to be harvested imminently – as well as crops of cotton and sugar cane were left destroyed as they became fully submerged in more than five feet of muddy brown flood waters. The bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground.“The crops are…

Ritwik Bhowmik is making the jump from streaming to cinemas with “Abhootpurva,” a romantic horror-comedy that will serve as the “Bandish Bandits” star’s maiden theatrical outing. The genre-hybrid project hails from producer Khyati Madaan’s Not Out Entertainment, with Sumit Kumar Mishra also producing. Lensing is expected to commence in November. The story unfolds in Agra during the 1990s, weaving together romantic elements with comedic beats and supernatural scares. Madaan’s production aims to capture the era’s charm while incorporating the famous monument as more than mere scenery — the Taj Mahal functions as an integral story component in the leads’ romantic…

Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025Second seed Carlos Alcaraz took down 24-times major winner Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-6(4) 6-2 with clinical precision to reach the US Open final, prevailing in a highly anticipated showdown that packed the house at Arthur Ashe Stadium.The match on Friday was billed as the hottest ticket in New York and lived up to the hype, with a scoreline that belied its intensity, as the 2022 champion Alcaraz soaked in deafening cheers on match point.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listDjokovic had won their two most recent meetings, including in the quarterfinals of the…

Kris RhimCloseKris RhimESPNKris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Kris covers the Los Angeles Chargers, including coach Jim Harbaugh’s franchise-altering first season (https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41068072/los-angeles-chargers-2024-preview-jim-harbaugh-culture). In Kris’ free time, he lives his NBA dreams at men’s leagues across Los Angeles.Nate TaylorSep 5, 2025, 11:24 PM ETSÃO PAULO — Since Patrick Mahomes became a starter in 2018, the Kansas City Chiefs have beaten up on much of the NFL, and perhaps no team understands what that dominance has felt like more than the Chargers. The Chargers went into Friday night’s game at Corinthians Arena in São Paulo on a seven-game…

Watch: ICE was ‘just doing its job’ with Hyundai arrests, Trump saysMany of the car workers arrested in a huge US workplace immigration raid had violated their visitor visas, officials say.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 475 people, mostly South Korean citizens – were found to be illegally working at a Hyundai battery plant in the state of Georgia on Thursday.”People on short-term or recreational visas are not authorized to work in the US,” ICE said, adding that the raid was necessary to protect American jobs.South Korea, whose companies have promised to invest billions of dollars in key US industries…