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The New York Times 

Olympic Surfing Comes to a ‘Poisoned’ Paradise

In 1974, a radioactive cloud from a French nuclear test drifted over Teahupo’o, Tahiti, now the surfing venue for the Paris Games. Villagers still feel the effects.

Dezeen.com 

Na Chainkua Reindorf creates "empowering and inspiring" artwork for NYC basketball courts

Artist Na Chainkua Reindorf has refurbished two basketball courts in Downtown Manhattan together with cosmetics brand Glossier, creating large-scale artworks to celebrate women in sport. Building on a four-year-long partnership with the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Glossier teamed up with Reindorf, non-profit organisation Project Blackboard and the New York City Parks Department to redesign

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Telecompaper.com 

NAB appoints Nexstar COO to television board of directors

(Telecompaper) The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced the appointment of Nexstar Media Group president and COO Michael Biard to its television board of directors, with immediate effect...

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The Taliban disavows some Afghan diplomatic missions abroad and rejects their consular services

The Taliban on Tuesday disavowed many Afghan diplomatic missions overseas, saying it will not honor passports, visas and other documents issued by diplomats associated with Afghanistan’s former Western-backed administration. It’s the Taliban’s latest attempt to seize control over diplomatic missions. In a statement posted to the social media platform X, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that documents issued by missions in London, Berlin, Belgium, Bonn, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Greece... Читать дальше...

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

SpaceX in talks to land and recover Starship rocket off Australia's coast

The plan would be to launch Starship from a SpaceX facility in Texas, land it in the sea off Australia's coast and recover it on Australian territory. Getting permission to do so would require loosening US export controls on sophisticated space technologies bound for Australia, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.