The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Portland Pilots (9-17, 3-8 WCC) at San Diego Toreros (15-11, 5-6 WCC) San Diego; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: San Diego plays the Portland Pilots after Wayne …

SEREBRYANSKY FOREST, Ukraine (AP) — As the radio crackles with enemy communications that are hard to decipher, one Russian command rings out clear: “Brew five Chinese tea bags on 38 orange.” A Ukrainian soldier known on the battlefield as Mikhass, who has spent months listening to and analyzing such chatter, is able to quickly decode the gibberish. It means: Prepare …

DATE OF ELECTION November/December TYPE OF ELECTION Presidential  WHO’S RUNNING Romania’s incumbent pro-Western President Klaus Iohannis is wrapping up his second term and is not eligible to run again in the EU country. The final presidential candidates have not yet been announced, but there have been rumors that Social Democrat member and NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geona could run, as …