November 3, 2022

Major league baseball pitcher Cristian Javier and the Houston Astros bullpen combined on just the second no-hitter in World Series history, silencing a booming lineup and boisterous ballpark as the Astros defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0 Wednesday night to even the matchup at two games each. The only previous no-hitter in the World Series was a perfect game by Don Larsen of the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956. Javier and three relief pitchers weren’t perfect, but they were close. Plus, they’d done this before: Javier, the starter in a combined no-hitter against the New York Yankees

Myanmar’s ruling junta is shoring up ties with pro-military political groups in the run-up to next year’s elections in a bid to change the constitution to ensure its long-term rule in the Southeast Asia nation following its February 2021 coup.  The State Administration Council, the official name of the ruling junta, is holding talks with pro-military ethnic political parties that will participate in elections the regime plans to hold in August 2023. Myanmar’s powerful army deposed the democratically elected members of the country’s ruling party, the National League for Democracy, in a February 2021 coup. The army declared a state of emergency, annulled