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UFC bantamweight Cameron Smotherman gave staff members a brief scare just months after his viral faint ahead of his last fight. UFC Macau is hours away as top bantamweights Song Yadong and former flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo battle in the main event. The winner could potentially move into a No. 1 contender victory with a win this weekend as the UFC returns to China. One of the most intriguing UFC Macau undercard fights pits former flyweight title challenger Kai Asakura against bantamweight prospect Cameron Smotherman. It’s a massive fight for both athletes, after Smotherman and Asakura underwent tough times in…

Real American Freestyle (RAF) returns TONIGHT (Sat., May 30, 2026) with its ninth event, streaming live from College Park Center of the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas. Olympic gold medalist and two-time NCAA Division I Heavyweight champion Gable Steveson makes his RAF debut as he headlines the card against former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Top 15 Heavyweight Alexandr Romanov. In the co-main event, three-time UFC title challenger Colby Covington welcomes former UFC Middleweight champion Chris Weidman to the RAF mats — in a battle of former college wrestlers. In addition, former UFC champions Merab Dvalishvili and Frankie…

This is the live blog for Gable Steveson vs. Alexandr Romanov, the main event match at RAF 9 from College Park Center in Arlington, Tex. on Saturday night.Still only 25 years old, Steveson is the 2020 Olympic gold medalist. But after his early success in wrestling, Steveson has spent the past few years trying his hand at other endeavors, including professional wrestling and football. Most recently, Steveson pivoted to MMA, and signed to the UFC where he will make his debut this summer. However, he’s also returning to wrestling, competing for RAF, with his sights set on making another Olympic…

The New Zealand government unveiled its defence budget for FY2026/27 on 28 May. It promised investment of NZ$5.491 billion (US$3.23 billion) in the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) for the coming year, compared to NZ$5.064 billion last year. This represents an 8.43% year-on-year increase, despite what the government calls “a challenging fiscal position”. If other areas of spending related to defence and intelligence are added, then total expenditure reaches NZ$5.883 billion (US$3.46 billion). Minister of Finance Nicola Willis told Parliament, “New Zealand faces the most adverse and contested geostrategic environment in the past 80 years. While we cannot control the…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s Defence Force and intelligence agencies are on track to receive almost $4.3 billion (US$2.5 billion) in this year’s budget, Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced on May 28.The NZDF is among the handful of government agencies exempt from trimming their budgets by 2% this year.Their funding includes $2.3 billion capital and $1.2 billion operating funding to retain NZDF personnel — currently more than 15,000 people — increase numbers in key areas and improve accommodation and training facilities at military bases across the country. Intelligence and communication security services receive $156 million.The operating funding includes $120…

France – Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères Communiqué On : May 29th 2026 The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs summoned the Russian Ambassador to France on May 29 at the Minister’s request. He was received by the Ministry’s Director General for Political Affairs. The purpose of this summons was to strongly condemn the Russian Foreign Minister’s statement of May 25, in which he warned civilians and foreigners in Kyiv, including the staff of diplomatic missions and international organizations, to leave the city. The Director General stressed that these unacceptable threats to civilians and the diplomatic corps illustrate…

Late last year, the Trump administration began an effort to recruit early-career software and data engineers after pushing almost 20,000 technology employees out of their government jobs under widespread downsizing imperatives.The goal of that new effort, called the U.S. Tech Force, was to hire a 1,000-strong cohort — potentially as soon as the end of March, Scott Kupor, the head of the Office of Personnel Management, said in December. So far, the program has onboarded only 10 new hires, Tech Force Director Kevin Hennecken said during a Thursday event held by the Alliance for Digital Innovation trade association. Overall, the program…

In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back.China’s nuclear missiles can already reach any city in the United States. Now, satellite images reviewed by Reuters show Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles.The images reveal more than 80 pads for possible use by China’s expanding fleet of mobile missile launchers and air-defense…

Houston, TX – Roni Corporaton, the leading designer and manufacturer of the renown Micro-Roni, PDW-style pistol-to-carbine conversion kits and other firearms accessories, has introduced their newest, most compact pistol-to-carbine conversion kit, the Nano Roni. Like all other Roni conversion kits, owners can install their handgun into the Nano Roni chassis in a matter of seconds without tools, instantly transforming it into a pistol-braced PDW. This configuration increases the pointability, shootability and performance of the pistol. The Nano Roni is at the center company’s ongoing product evolution and their recent strategic move to U.S. based manufacturing. This is Roni’s most compact and advanced…

Ex-UFC fighter Greg Hardy enjoyed a massive 52-pound weight advantage going into his fight on Saturday but that didn’t matter much after he ate a brutal overhand right from Darko Stosic to end their fight in the FNC 31 co-main event.After stepping on the scale 25 pounds over the heavyweight limit on Friday, Hardy faced off with another UFC veteran in Stosic, who made him pay dearly for that mistake on Saturday. Just midway through the third round, Stosic landed a nasty leg kick and then a vicious overhand right that twisted Hardy’s head around as he crashed to the…