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(Bloomberg) — The Philippines said a Chinese maritime militia vessel “deliberately sideswiped” and caused minor damage on a government fisheries boat in the South China Sea amid lingering tensions between the two nations in the disputed waters.Most Read from BloombergThe incident took place on Friday while two vessels of Manila’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources boats conducted routine patrol near the Philippines-occupied Thitu Island in the Spratly Islands, according to a statement posted on the agency’s website on Tuesday.“These dangerous maneuvers caused the sideswiping and collision with the BFAR vessel, which sustained minor dents in its starboard bow,” the…

Citizens in Rutherford County will vote Nov. 5 for president and candidates for other federal, state, Smyrna, La Vergne and Eagleville offices.Early voting will be Oct. 16-31.The ballots with partisan elections list Republicans first based on the party with the majority of seats in the Tennessee General Assembly. Democrats are listed next followed by independent candidates.Elections for nonpartisan local government offices are listed alphabetically by last name on the Rutherford County Election Commission ballots.Prior to the presidential election, voters in Rutherford County elected candidates in August for county and Murfreesboro offices.Elections 2024: Vaught, Vaughn, Tidwell and Maxwell win to join…

Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha visited Moscow over the weekend to thank Russia for liberating his country from fascism in World War II and to apologize for the “growing Russophobia” in the EU and the US.Blaha, a member of Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Social Democratic SMER-SD party, published a video of himself visiting Red Square and laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall and at the monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov.“I came… as a friend of Russia because I can no longer look at the growing Russophobia in the West,” Blaha said in a video published…

A massive yacht, once featured in the James Bond movie “Never Say Never Again” and later owned by former President Trump in the late 1980s before being sold to Saudi businessman and investor Al-Waleed bin Talal in the early 1990s, crashed into a pier at a port in Tunisia last week.SuperYacht Times reports the 85.65-meter (281 ft) superyacht “Kingdom 5KR” (originally named “Nabila”) allegedly suffered a mechanical issue while on approach to docking at a port in Bizerte, Tunisia, and smacked into the side of the pier, causing millions of dollars in damage to the bow. “The incident occurred whilst Kingdom 5KR…

Photo courtesy of Trump White House Archived on Facebook. Kamala Hariss and Joe Biden have repeatedly called Trump a threat to democracy, while ignoring the real threat posed the many assassination attempts against him. The fact that Iran has been linked to at least one of these attacks and that the FBI warned Trump that Iran is trying to kill him should be ringing alarm bells all over Washington. Instead, the media is downplaying the attacks. Democrats and liberals on Twitter are either mocking the situation or criticizing Trump for bringing up these assassination attempts. Meanwhile, the administration, beyond issuing…

“Reagan” stars Dennis Quaid as President Ronald Reagan.ShowBiz Direct Reagan—which stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan—is coming soon to digital streaming. Reagan opened in theaters on August 30. The film also stars Penelope Anne Miller as Nancy Reagan and Mena Suvari as Jane Wyman. The official synopsis for Reagan reads, “From dusty small-town roots to the glitter of Hollywood, and then on to commanding the world stage, Reagan is a cinematic journey of overcoming the odds. Told through the voice of Viktor Petrovich (Jon Voight), a former KGB agent whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald…

The Biden-Harris administration gave the Iranian regime access to $200 billion in oil revenues through lax sanctions enforcement, according to a report Monday in the Washington Free Beacon, citing new government data. The Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo wrote: The full financial toll of this sanctions relief only became clear in recent days following the publication of a hotly anticipated U.S. government report on Iran’s oil trade. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, a government agency that monitors global markets, was mandated under an April 2024 law to publicly tally Iran’s oil revenue, providing one of the first official snapshots after four years of…

Britain’s left-wing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has danced around the question of coming tax rises, his past as a high-flying lawyer showing as he stresses that even should he rise taxes, he won’t technically have broken his election-time pledge not to. Former chief prosecutor, now Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke of the coming October Budget, when the country’s new left-wing government announces how it will tax and spend money for the coming years, in an interview with state-owned broadcaster the BBC on Tuesday morning. Facing a gentle grilling on tax rises — which his government has repeatedly talked…

Illegal immigration in the Biden-Harris America is also a problem on the northern U.S. border, Maine congressional candidate Austin Theriault, a former NASCAR driver hoping to unseat Democrat Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) in the state’s Second Congressional District, said during an interview on Breitbart News Daily on Monday. Host Mike Slater walked through some startling statistics, noting that during former President Donald Trump’s last year in office, 574 illegal aliens crossed the Swanton Sector, covering New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire. “So not specifically you guys, but you know, it’s all right there,” Slater said, explaining that in 2023 fiscal…

Manchester City announce renewal of regional partnership with ABeam ConsultingManchester City has today announced the renewal of its regional partnership with ABeam Consulting Ltd – an integrated management consulting firm based in Tokyo, Japan, which provides global services across the sports industry and other sectors.ABeam Consulting became the Club’s Official Management Consulting Services Partner in Japan in August 2021 and after three years of successful collaboration, the multi-year agreement will see the consulting firm continue as an official partner of the region.  ABeam Consulting provides a diverse range of consulting services to its customers across the world in areas such…