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Willie Mays, the center fielder and home run and batting average king for the San Franciso Giants across more than two decades, died on Tuesday, the US baseball team announced.  “It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93,” the Giants said in a joint statement issued with the player’s son, Michael.  “My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,” Michael Mays said in the statement. “I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Putin and Kim met on the runway at the capital’s airport before sharing a limousine ride towards the city center with a large police escort.  As North Korean state media outlet KCNA described it in English, the two leaders were able to share their “pent-up inmost thoughts” during this conversation and agreed to deepen the two countries’ relations.  Though Putin’s rarely in North Korea, he entertained Kim as recently as last September at a Russian spaceportImage: Yonhap/picture alliance Putin thankful…

Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization — the combined value of all of its shares — on Tuesday.  The chipmaker’s shares climbed 3.5% to $135.58 (roughly €126.25) during the day’s trading, taking the company’s perceived value to $3.335 trillion. It overtakes Microsoft, completing a rapid rise towards the top of the charts in the last roughly five years. The market capitalization surge can be traced in part to the emergence of AI and machine-learning technologies, with Nvidia a core producer of the processors necessary for such products.  Back in July 2019, a single Nvidia share fetched…

A fire broke out overnight at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital causing a series of explosions, government spokesman and Foreign Affairs Minister Koulamallah Abderaman said.  “Fire in a military ammunition store in Goudji,” he wrote, referring to a district in the capital, N’Djamena. “A fire broke out in a military ammunition store located in Goudji, causing major explosions. The population is invited to remain calm.” The fire “caused human and material damage. Peace to the souls of the victims, sincere condolences to the grieving families and a speedy recovery to the wounded,” President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno wrote…

A US Republican representative has said she is “truly ashamed” after being filmed pouring water into the bag of a Democratic colleague.Mary Morrissey, a state representative from Vermont, has apologised to Jim Carroll for repeatedly pouring water in the tote bag he hung in a hallway at the Statehouse. Mr Carroll, who like Ms Morrissey is from Bennington, a southwestern town of about 15,000 residents, described how at first he had noticed his bag being soaked a few times a week in January and February.Read more on Sky News:Search for missing British teenager in TenerifeSource of E-coli outbreak believed to…

Authorities in Germany have closed a number of Euro 2024 fan zones due to severe weather warnings on Tuesday. Severe thunderstorms, hail of up to five centimeters in diameter, and gale-force winds were forecast for parts of western and central Germany. The German Weather Service said that tornadoes were also possible. The decision affects venues set up for Tuesday’s match between Turkey and Georgia in Dortmund as well as fan zones in Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Gelsenkirchen. “Safety of the visitors is the top priority,” said Moritz van Duelmen from Kulturprojekt Berlin. The fan zone in Leipzig, where the day’s other…

On Monday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that 23 of its 32 member states were expected to meet the alliance’s defense spending commitments this year. That is 13 countries more compared to last year’s data, and five more than an earlier estimate in February. “This is good for Europe and good for America,” Stoltenberg said in a speech unveiling the newest numbers in Washington, “especially since much of this extra money is spent here in the United States.” The NATO defense investment target was agreed upon in 2014. The goal of the pledge was for members of the alliance to spend 2% of their gross domestic product…

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea on Wednesday for a two-day visit, the first in 24 years, as he seeks closer relations with leader Kim Jong Un. “Vladimir Putin has landed in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK [North Korea],” the Kremlin said.Putin touched down in Pyongyang early on WednesdayImage: Kristina Kormilitsyna/SNA/IMAGO Putin thanks Kim ahead of visit Putin thanked North Korea for its support of his invasion of Ukraine and said that the two countries would cooperate closely to overcome Western sanctions. The comments were part of an op-ed piece printed in North Korean state media on Tuesday morning, soon before…

So here’s a story of a morning at the beach. There’s no ice cream, no sandcastles and no sense of fun in this tale – but there are criminal gangs, dune buggies and desperate people.This beach in Calais is an illustration of the lengths people will go to, the risks they will take, just to try to get to Britain. And things start early. We arrive at the beach at about 4am. There is a beautiful orange sunset on the way and barely a whisper of wind. But down on the shore, things are happening.A group of people are getting…

A woman who survived the horrors of the Holocaust as the “cover girl” of a leading fashion magazine? You might wonder if that isn’t a little disrespectful, considering Margot Friedländer’s life and story of suffering? Yet it is not. Because this woman has something to say as one of the most important surviving witnesses of the Holocaust. She has made it her life’s work to tell people about what she experienced. Always gently, kindly, with compassion, without pointing fingers. Her main objective is to preserve remembrance culture while respecting humanity. A perusal of the diverse Vogue covers in various countries where…