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☆ A US Navy amphibious warship returned home for repairs just 10 days after deploying
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Rachel Nostrant | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

USS Boxer, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, is returning home just 10 days after deploying. "USS Boxer is returning to San Diego to undergo additional maintenance in support of its deployment in the Indo-Pacific region," Lt. Cmdr. "We're seeing some potential delays on [the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp]," Franchetti said. A spokesperson for Surface Force Atlantic told Military.com following the incident that "during the underway, the ship discovered an engineering irregularity" and "returned to port to effect repairs." The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer transits the East Sea during Exercise Ssang Yong 2016 March 8, 2016.

Persons: Boxer, —, Cmdr, Jesus Uranga, Military.com, Uranga, Craig Z, Adm, Lisa Franchetti, Franchetti, Bill Dodge, Yong, Seaman Craig Z, Konstantin Toropin Organizations: US Navy, Service, USNI News, Navy, Marine Corps, Boxer, Marines, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, USNI, Space, Maritime, USS Boxer, USS Boxer U.S . 5th, . Navy, Naval, Surface Force, REUTERS, U.S . Navy, Reuters, USS, Somerset Locations: San Diego, Boxer U.S, USS Boxer U.S, Norfolk, Virginia, Handout, USS Somerset, Somerset, India

☆ Why Remedios Varo, one of the ‘three witches’ of surrealism, continues to fascinate today
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Like many of her contemporaries, Varo fled Europe as war bore down on the continent, arriving in Mexico in 1941. It took more than a decade for her to exhibit her work there, but when she did, she left her mark. Alchemy and artistryDuring her life in Mexico City, Varo bonded with fellow artist Carrington and photographer Kati Horna. Remedios Varo/ARS, New York/VEGAP, Madrid/Art Institute of ChicagoVaro’s sense of humor periodically cuts through in her work. You see that on the surface of her work, with story and material coming together into one unified composition.

Persons: CNN —, Remedios Varo —, —, los Remedios Alicia y Rodriga, Uranga —, André Breton, Varo, Juliana, Remedios Varo, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, ”, Varo’s, “ Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Caitlin Haskell, Tere Arcq, El Juglar, “, ” Haskell, Walter Gruen, Carrington, Kati Horna, George Gurdjieff, El, Rodrigo Chapa, Katrina Rush Organizations: CNN, Mexico City, Artists Rights Society, Art Institute of Chicago, Arte Moderno, York’s Museum of Modern, Art Institute Locations: Mexico, Spanish, Paris, Europe, New York, Madrid, Varo’s, Mexico —, United States, El, Mexico City, Venice, Ciencia

☆ Search suspended for US sailors last seen in northwest Mexico, Coast Guard says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] A view of the marina where three American sailors left earlier this month to San Diego, U.S. before went missing, as authorities suspended their search, in Mazatlan, Mexico April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo ResendizMEXICO CITY, April 20 (Reuters) - The search for three American sailors last seen in northwest Mexico has been suspended by the Mexican Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard, a Coast Guard spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday. The three sailors, identified as Kerry O'Brien, Frank O'Brien and William Gross, were last seen on April 4 in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the Coast Guard said last week. Los Angeles-based Coast Guard spokesman Richard Uranga told Reuters that after the Mexican Navy had suspended their search, the U.S. Coast Guard had followed suit. Uranga said he did not have further information on why the search was called off.

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