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By Canadian standards, the C$10.4 billion military purchase announced this week moved at lightning speed, perhaps in just nine months.Traditionally, when Canada purchases major military items such as aircraft, the process turns into a Wagnerian opera of epic length and complexity. This purchase of at least 14 Boeing maritime surveillance planes was also surrounded by political protests, but the operation remained on an accelerated track, in part because the government was willing to toughen up some reactions to make it happen.While there are many examples of sluggishness in Canadian military procurement, the most dramatic has been the recent fighter aircraft…

Cristiano Ronaldo is facing a $1 billion class action lawsuit in the United States after promoting his non-fungible token (NFT) collaboration with cryptocurrency exchange Binance on social media.Binance recently suffered a major blow to its reputation. Last week, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao resigned from the company after pleading guilty to money laundering violations. The US justice department also said Binance would be required to pay $4.3 billion (£3.4 billion) in fines and report suspicious activity to federal authorities.Last November, Ronaldo launched a collection of NFTs with the company, the cheapest of which was priced at $77. A year later, this…

The National Baseball Hall of Fame is planning to consider Andre Dawson's request to change the cap on his Cooperstown license plate from the Montreal Expos to the Chicago Cubs. Dawson has long believed that Wrigley Field and the spotlight surrounding the Cubs helped energize and extend his legendary career.The initial choice of the Expos logo was made without Dawson's approval after the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted for its induction as part of the Hall of Fame's 2010 class. Dawson recently sent a letter to Jane Forbes Clark, leader of the Hall of Fame's board of directors, asking…

This season, Atletico follows Union Berlin, a former East German Bundesliga club that played regionally less than 20 years ago, on their maiden voyage to the Champions League for our Iron In The Blood series.GO DEEPERIs the Premier League still in the running for an extra Champions League place?As the Union Berlin players slid down the tunnel and the stands of the Braga Municipal Stadium emptied to the rhythm of one last song played over the sound system, Marie-Louise Eta remained alone for a moment on the sidelines, lost in her thoughts.Union had just won their second consecutive Champions League…

Page after page, filled with flimsy details, the indictment unsealed in New York this week describes a chilling plot: a criminal operative, on orders from a government official in India, tried to arrange the killing of a Sikh American US soil.As the plan developed, according to court documents, it became more and more brazen. When a prominent Sikh was gunned down in Canada in June in what prosecutors said was a related killing, the officer was told to speed up in New York, not slow down, the indictment says. And they were ordered to proceed just as the Indian prime…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Con la loro figlia dodicenne, Katie, che nuotava nelle vicinanze, Shari e Christian Grimes erano sul ponte della piscina a parlare con l'allenatore dei Sandpipers del Nevada Chris Barber. A Christian era appena stato offerto il lavoro di vice capo dei vigili del fuoco a Logan, nello Utah, e la famiglia stava pensando di trasferirsi lì dalla loro casa di Las Vegas.Barber è un buon ascoltatore con una mente calma, dice Shari, e la famiglia Grimes si fida di lui. Quindi non prese alla leggera le sue parole quel giorno. Barber ha esordito dicendo che Katie…

Guy Philippe, the former Haitian police commander, politician and rebel who staged a coup against his country's then-president in 2004 and served six years in a U.S. federal prison for money laundering, was deported to Haiti on Thursday, according to one of his lawyers. in Haiti, Emmanuel Jeanty.The return of Philippe, 55, has fueled concerns that it could add to turmoil in the Caribbean country, already in a fragile state due to political instability and rising killings as heavily armed gangs try to quell a gang-led vigilante citizens. movement.It was not immediately clear what the authorities' plans were for managing…

Tiger Woods has laid out a plan for the 2024 season, saying the best-case scenario for his return to golf is to potentially play one tournament a month.Woods suggested a scenario in which he plays the Genesis Invitational in February and then finds a tournament for March before the majors begin in April.“I have to prepare for all this. I think this week is a step in that direction," he said Tuesday at a news conference at the Hero World Challenge, the golf tournament he hosts annually in the Bahamas. “I'm as curious as all of you to see what…