US EditionPhilly Sculptor Unveils 10-Foot-Tall Muhammad Ali Bronze Statue
- Philadelphia artist Zenos Frudakis revealed a towering bronze sculpture of Muhammad Ali, standing 10 feet tall, in the heart of downtown Philadelphia on May 31.
- The project arose to honor Ali’s historic 1965 fight against Sonny Liston in Lewiston, Maine, and aims to provide a positive community symbol.
- Frudakis, who called Ali one of his heroes, described the statue as a healing project celebrating Ali’s civil rights impact and athletic legacy.
- The statue debuted in a soft unveiling at Laran Bronze Foundry in Chester and will travel to its permanent site in Lewiston, Maine.
- This monument highlights Ali’s importance beyond sports and is intended to foster community pride and remember his influence on social issues.
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Philly sculptor unveils 10-foot-tall Muhammad Ali bronze statue
NATO members delivering on U.S. defense spend demands would be “very, very difficult,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told CNBC. The current defense spending target for NATO members is 2% of their GDP. U.S. President Donald Trump has called for allies to step up their defense expenditures to 5%. It would be challenging for NATO members to deliver on U.S. President’s Donald Trump’s defense spending demands, Greece’s prime minister told …
Italy expects Nato to raise defence spending target to between 3.5% and 5% of GDP
ROME - NATO will raise the defence spending target for its member nations to between 3.5% and 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) from the current 2% at the next alliance summit in June, Italy's Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Wednesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The US ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, believes that the alliance needs to present clear steps to reach a target of defense spending of 5 percent of GDP, with a focus on "hard defense capabilities."
Not long ago, there was a debate in the Czech Republic about whether spending two percent of GDP on defense was too much. After more than three years of widespread Russian aggression against Ukraine, a NATO summit is approaching, at which the alliance states may agree on a historic increase: to 3.5 percent of GDP on defense in direct spending and an additional 1.5 percent in support spending.
The government can imagine spending around five percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) on defense annually, which currently corresponds to roughly 420 billion crowns. In response to President Petr Pavel's statement on Wednesday, Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) said this in an interview with the Deník.cz server on Thursday. The increase in defense spending by NATO members will be discussed at the June summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in…
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