North Korea has sent containers to Russia that could hold nearly 5 million artillery shells and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely seek even more when he soon visits Pyongyang, South Korea’s defense minister said.
Shin Wonsik said in an interview with Bloomberg News that Seoul has detected at least 10,000 shipping containers being sent from North Korea to Russia, which could hold as many as 4.8 million artillery shells of the likes that Putin has used in his bombardment of Ukraine.
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February 9, 1959 12:00 AM GMT-5
On the white desert of the geographic South Pole, a house of worship was dedicated last week. Its congregation: the 17 men of the Deep Freeze IV outpost in Antarctica. The “Chapel of Our Faith” began when the outpost’s recreation building, where religious services had been held, caved in under the weight of snow. Navy Petty Officer C. Norman Engel, 37, of Spring Lake.
“The devil made me buy this dress,” says the minister’s wife in one of Comedian Flip Wilson’s routines. “He sneaked up behind me and said, ‘Say, Mama, look at that dress in the window . . .’ ” The listener chuckles at the transparent rationalization. Everybody knows that there isn’t any real devil. The devil is just a myth, a relic of folklore, grist for a joke. Or is he? After years of being dismissed or ignored by many theologians and ordinary believers, the devil is making a startling comeback.
Chris Hurst, the coworker and boyfriend of the Roanoke, Va., reporter who was fatally shot during a live news broadcast, has quit his anchor job to run for political office.
Hurst will campaign for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, a decision he said was made to “honor” his slain girlfriend, Alison Parker. Her cameraman, Adam Ward, was also killed by the gunman.
“I’m leaving my career at the station where she worked to fight for the causes she and I value the most,” Hurst wrote in an op-ed for the Daily Beast.
In 2010, Sandra Bullock's gold column gown matched the Best Actress Oscar statue she took home for her portrayal of real-life mom Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side. Designed by Marchesa, the dress was adorned with metallic floral embroidery and vintage beading. See TIME's audio slide show "The Never-Ending Role of Sandra Bullock."
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There they stand in the landscape, great, granite figures—some 13 feet tall and weighing up to 2½ tons. Their hollow gaze seems to follow the visitor; their enigmatic expressions change from minute to minute in the shifting sunlight. “When you look at one, you know it represents someone—someone to whom you could give a name,”says Archaeologist Roger Grosjean, 47, the man responsible for bringing the monuments to light. Corsica’s sculptured menhirs (from Breton men-stone, and hir-long) are among the oldest monumental statues in Europe.
It was January 1964, and America was on the brink of cultural upheaval. In less than a month, the Beatles would land at JFK for the first time, providing an outlet for the hormonal enthusiasms of teenage girls everywhere. The previous spring, Betty Friedan had published The Feminine Mystique, giving voice to the languor of middle-class housewives and kick-starting second-wave feminism in the process. In much of the country, the Pill was still only available to married women, but it had nonetheless become a symbol of a new, freewheeling sexuality.
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Two months after Donald Trump egged on his supporters as they violently marched on the U.S. Capitol, the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution decided to start asking Americans about their stomach for political violence. The way they measured this was asking if respondents agreed that “because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.
Anyone with bets down on both the Clay-Cooper fight and the Preakness is going to need two TV sets to keep track of the action this Saturday. For once, it isn’t due to the networks’ penchant for counterprogramming. Both events are being held simultaneously: the heavyweight championship bout, live from London via Early Bird satellite (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.);* the 91st running of the Triple Crown classic, live from Pimlico, Md. (CBS, 5:30-6 p.
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From Drag Race host RuPaul’s memoir to a posthumous novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez, the 2024 books lineup offers something for every reader.
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