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SAN FRANCISCO — As the final day of the 2024 NBA Draft and the start of free agency approaches, Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy is clutching his cards so tightly that a cut remains on his chest. That’s evident when Dunleavy suggested Monday that trades are extremely difficult to structure and complete in today’s NBA. “In addition to certainly knowing the whole team, and I think I said this before, it’s just hard to make a deal,” he said during a news conference at Chase Center. “I can’t stress this enough, there are a lot of good teams out there…
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting on June 22, 2024 on new military operations aimed at curbing escalating violence in the country. Pakistan Prime Minister’s OfficePakistan’s top leadership has approved a new military operation called “Azm-e-Istekam,” Urdu for “determination for stability,” aimed at quelling the escalation of violence and terrorism.The effort follows a review by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of the country’s counterterrorism operations, focusing in particular on the National Action Plan adopted after the December 2014 attack on the Peshawar Army Public School that left more than 140 people dead, mostly students, and which the…
BANGKOK (AP) — Julian Assange The WikiLeaks founder arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday for fuel as he accepted a plea deal with the U.S. government to resolve a years-long, cross-continental lawsuit over the publication of classified documents. Mountain of classified documents.A charter flight from London, which Assange’s wife Stella identified as carrying her husband, landed at Don Mueang International Airport. Local authorities told The Associated Press that the plane was headed for Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, where Assange is due to appear in court on Wednesday. Protesters hold signs in…
Rocket debris appears to have rained down on terrified villagers in China after a satellite launch.Footage posted on Chinese social media appears to show a rocket booster launching over a town in Guizhou, one of China’s poorest provinces, followed by a plume of bright orange smoke.The images take some of the shine off the success of Beijing’s latest robotic mission to the far side of the moon, which returned to Earth on Tuesday.Chinese President Xi Jinping has set ambitious goals to become a major space power, including landing astronauts on the moon and establishing a research station in Antarctica, but…
Lok Sabha session live updates: For the first time ever, the Opposition has nominated a candidate, Kondikunal Suresh, for the Speaker-post election without unanimous selection. The NDA has fielded Om Birla, and the nominations were closed by 12 pm. Lok Sabha session live: DMK MP Kanimozhi took oath as the member of 18th Lok Sabha on Tuesday.(Sansad) The Narendra Modi-led NDA government failed to reach a consensus with the Opposition INDIA bloc, as their demand for the Deputy Speaker post appeared unlikely to be fulfilled. On the opening day of the 18th Lok Sabha session, 262 newly elected MPs, including…
Strong Points: A comfortable ride, a smooth, quiet and powerful engine and a beautiful interior with plenty of technology. Cons: The styling is likely to be controversial, and options can get pricey quickly. The 2024 Mercedes-Benz E-Class follows its predecessor in being a classy, high-tech powerhouse that also feels great to drive. For now, there are four-cylinder and inline-six as powertrain options, but AMG may return in the future. Unlike BMW’s strategy of sharing a body between its EV and gasoline sedan, Mercedes has kept the E-Class as a traditional three-box sedan, and the EQE (electric vehicle) has adopted potato-like…
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Cisco established operations in China in 1994.Sopa Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesDALIAN, China — Cisco Systems is “very optimistic” about expanding business with Chinese electric vehicle makers as they expand overseas, the company’s head of Greater China told CNBC on Tuesday.The EV division is the U.S. tech giant’s second-largest in the region. Cisco derives most of its revenue in Greater China from manufacturers, with electric vehicles making up the largest category, said Ming Wong, Cisco’s vice president and CEO for Greater China.Chinese EV makers stepped up their global expansion last year amid intensifying domestic competition.But trade tensions are escalating,…
BEIJING (AP) — China’s Chang’e 6 Probe The probe returned to Earth on Tuesday with the world’s first rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon.The probe landed in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region on Tuesday afternoon.”We declare the Chang’e-6 lunar exploration mission a complete success,” Zhang Kejian, director of the China National Space Administration, said at a televised press conference shortly after the landing. Chinese scientists expect the samples returned will contain volcanic rocks and other materials that are 2.5 million years old, which they hope will answer questions about the geographic differences between the…
Soledad High School graduate Eric Segura will attend training camp for the USA Collegiate Baseball National Team. (Raul Ebio – Monterey Herald Archives) Former Herald Baseball Player of the Year Eric Segura has been selected to participate in the USA Collegiate Baseball National Team training camp. The former Soledad hurler and Oregon State University freshman will attend a camp in Cary, North Carolina, this week before being selected to play in the International Friendly Series, where the U.S. national team will play five games against Chinese Taipei. Segura, a right-hander who was named All-Pac 12 honorable mention this spring for…