International News (Page 375)

PORT ST. LUCIE — The Mets ranked ninth in MLB last season with a 3.90 ERA from their relievers. Much of that same crew is back. The most notable difference is the subtraction of left-hander Aaron Loup, who established a Mets record for a reliever by pitching to a 0.95 ERA and then departed through…Continue Reading

TAMPA — Fourteen years to the day that the Yankees signed Manny Banuelos as an international free agent — with a long, winding journey in between — the left-hander’s comeback attempt got another boost. Banuelos turned in a third straight scoreless Grapefruit League outing, getting the start against a mostly regular Blue Jays lineup and…Continue Reading

“Game of Thrones” may have concluded its eight-season run almost three years ago but the show is gearing up to return this August with an upcoming spinoff called “House of the Dragon.” The 10-episode prequel series, which will also premiere on HBO, travels back in time — almost two centuries before the events of “Game…Continue Reading

Elliot Page attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Getty Images/Arturo Holmes/FilmMagic) Elliot Page’s character on the Netflix superhero series “The Umbrella Academy” is getting an exciting update in the new season. On Tuesday, the…Continue Reading

Is there a franchise other than the Marvel Cinematic Universe that’s as skilled at lending its most mediocre titles an air of essentiality by hiring A-list talent? Even if there were a contender, the outright volume of interrelated titles and relationship upkeep places the MCU in a plane of reality by itself. Marvel’s latest entry…Continue Reading

Bruce Willis, the 67-year-old star of numerous classic blockbusters from “Die Hard” and “Armageddon” to “The Sixth Sense,” announced on Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with aphasia and will be retiring from acting for now. According to a post on the Instagram account of Rumer Willis, the actor’s daughter, her father is “experiencing some…Continue Reading

This image shows an onshore wind turbine in the Netherlands.Mischa Keijser | Image Source | Getty ImagesDiscussions about the energy transition, what it means and whether it’s actually underway at all, have become major talking points in recent years.  How the transition — which can be seen as a shift away from fossil fuels to…Continue Reading

A worker adjusts a pipeline valve at the Gazprom PJSC Slavyanskaya compressor station, the starting point of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in Ust-Luga, Russia, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOne of the early casualties of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and its continuing geopolitical and economic fallout — has…Continue Reading

Shanghai is in a two-part lockdown and has announced about 140 billion yuan ($21.88 billion) in tax relief, according to state media. The eastern half of the Chinese financial hub is in lockdown as authorities test all the city’s population in a bid to contain the epidemic.Yu Ruwen | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING —…Continue Reading