Samoan rugby players will wear skin suits to cover their traditional tattoos during some training sessions at the World Cup in order not to offend their Japanese hosts. Samoa captain Jack Lam said team officials consulted an expert on Japanese culture to make sure tattooed players avoided any cultural issues. Tattoos are often associated with […]
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For a president with a loose relationship with the facts and poisonous relationships with allies, the attack on the Saudi oil fields poses a challenge: how to prove the administration’s case that Iran was behind the strike and rally the world to respond. President Trump must now confront that problem as he struggles with one
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Japan’s exports fell 8% in August from a year earlier, as trade tensions took a growing toll on demand across the region. Exports of machinery, vehicles and chemicals all declined, the Finance Ministry reported Wednesday. Exports totaled 6.1 trillion yen ($56 billion), while imports slipped 12%, the fastest rate in almost three years, to 6.3
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Alex Trebek is going through another round of chemotherapy after a troubling discovery from his doctors. The “Jeopardy!” host told “Good Morning America” Tuesday that after he lost 12 pounds in a week and his “numbers went sky high, much higher than they were when I was first diagnosed,” his medical team made a decision. “The
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Image copyright Cobham The government is to intervene in a US private equity firm’s takeover of UK defence and aerospace firm Cobham, citing national security concerns. Advent International made a £4bn offer to buy Cobham in July and shareholders approved the deal last month. But Cobham’s founding family raised concerns about the company’s future and
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For the first time in nearly a century, a rare California trout species will swim in a mountain creek that is its native habitat, marking a major milestone that conservationists hope will lead to a thriving population and removal of its threatened status. About 30 Paiute cutthroat trout will be plucked Wednesday from Coyote Valley
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Kenley Jansen has got his groove back with the playoffs nearing. He got four outs for his 30th save of the season, Corey Seager drove in four runs, including a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 Tuesday night. Jansen struck out two
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — President Trump engaged in a long-distance debate over Iran with one of his closest allies on Tuesday as Republicans sought to influence the administration’s response to the attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia over the weekend. Mr. Trump, who was in California for campaign fund-raising events, lashed out on Twitter
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Wendy Williams has a theory about the injury that led Christie Brinkley to pull out of this season’s “Dancing With the Stars,” claiming that the model faked it so that her daughter, Sailor Brinkley-Cook, could take her place on the hit show. Williams was responding to ABC’s announcement Monday that Brinkley would be leaving the show due
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The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil installations are an attack on the “whole world” and its economy, according to the newly appointed Saudi ambassador to London. Prince Khalid Bin Bandar Al-Saud told the BBC’s Frank Gardner that Iran was most likely behind the attack. He also called last year’s murder of Saudi journalist Jamal
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