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France hopes to sell another type of navy ship to the Saudis, said a source at French defence contractor DCNS.
During 2014-15 Spain was the fourth biggest exporter of weapons to Saudi Arabia after the United States, Britain and France, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
"The question is: is the contract legal or illegal. And it is clearly illegal," said Alberto Estevez, an expert on arms sales at the Spanish branch of Amnesty International.
A 2013 United Nations global arms trade treaty bans the sales of arms which could be used in attacks against civilians or other violations of humanitarian law, he said.
A Saudi-led coalition began air strikes over Yemen in March 2015 after Huthi rebels and their allies, troops loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, overran much of Yemen.
Riyadh feared the Huthis would take over all of Yemen and move it into the orbit of Shiite Iran, Sunni Saudi Arabia's regional rival.
A coalition of rights groups in Spain, including Amnesty and Oxfam, has outlined dozens of alleged war crimes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition, such as the bombing of hospitals and schools.
The Spanish corvettes could be used for more than just patrols, warned Jordi Calvo, a researcher at Barcelona's Study Centre for Peace JM Delas.
They can be equipped with missile systems or cannons, and helicopter launch pads, he said.
Arab protesters on Monday threw eggs at a US delegation in Judea and Samaria and held up signs with anti-American slogans in a bid to prevent them attending an event.
Around 15 protesters confronted a vehicle from the US consulate in Jerusalem as it made its way into Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, and pelted it with eggs, an AFP photographer said.
They also held up signs that read: "US government you are not welcome in Palestine".
Another one read: "Hey Trump, Jerusalem is not the capital of Zion".
The cars then left the area.
In December, US President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and last week the United States transferred its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
His move has infuriated the Palestinian Authority, which seeks the eastern part of Jerusalem as the capital of their future state. The city is the capital of Israel.
A US State Department official denounced the protest as "intimidation", saying the delegation from the US consulate was there to "promote education and cultural exchange with the Palestinian people."
"Though no one was hurt, the objective was clearly intimidation. The United States absolutely opposes the use of violence and intimidation to express political views."
The PA has frozen ties with the White House over its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Asian markets were mixed on Monday with early gains pared by continuing concerns about the brewing China-US trade war, while the yuan struggled to maintain momentum after the Chinese central bank moved to support the unit.
Traders started the day on an upbeat note, tracking their New York and European counterparts following recent painful losses.
The gains came as data on Friday showed that while the US economy saw a slowdown in jobs creation in July, the pace of hiring remained strong over the past three months.
The report also showed wage growth remained tepid, helping ease worries about an overheating economy.
The result provided some much-needed cheer to markets, which brushed off a warning from Beijing that it would impose new tariffs on $60bn worth of US goods if Washington pushes ahead with levies on $200bn of Chinese imports.
However, while reports said unofficial talks have been held between Beijing and Washington, trade tensions continue to rise, with a top White House adviser calling China a bad bet and saying its economy - the world's second biggest - was struggling.
By the end of trade on Monday Tokyo was 0.1% lower, reversing a morning rally, while Shanghai tumbled 1.3%. Seoul dipped 0.1%.
Hong Kong was up 0.3% in late trade but well down from the gains of more than 1% seen soon after the open.
Sydney added 0.6%, Singapore gained 0.8% and Taipei was 0.1% higher. Manila and Bangkok were flat while Jakarta jumped more than one percent despite an earthquake that rattled the island of Lombok and killed dozens of people.
The yuan's early gains petered out, having made small gains Friday after the People's Bank of China unveiled measures making it harder to bet against the currency, which has suffered steep losses in the past two months.
The unit, which is wallowing around lows not seen for more than a year, bounced back soon after the announcement. It extended the gains Monday morning before going into reverse.
The bank's measure was similar to a move when the currency went into freefall following a devaluation three years ago that rattled global markets.
However, analysts were lukewarm on the move. Some said it indicated Chinese leaders were growing increasingly worried about the unit's depreciation.
"The yuan kept falling when China did this last time in 2015, so I don't think the PBoC's move will significantly change the market tone," Hao Hong, chief strategist at Bocom International Holdings, told Bloomberg News.
"No matter what happened over the weekend, the weakness in Chinese stocks may continue. The trade war is nowhere near its end and China's economy is slowing down, so why would the trend reverse?"
In other forex trading, the pound was fighting to recover from Friday's sell-off after Bank of England boss Mark Carney warned that the chance of leaving the EU without a proper deal was "uncomfortably high" and "highly undesirable".
While he said such a situation was still unlikely compared with other outcomes, the comments come as leaders on both sides are struggling to reach a compromise with just months to go before Britain is due to formally exit.
The remarks sent sterling tumbling, with an interest rate rise last week unable to provide any support.
In early European trade London was flat, Paris added 0.1% and Frankfurt gained 0.2%.
Jeremy Hathcock calls it "the Texas redshirt," and it worked for him and his brothers at Lakeside Blue Ridge in the 1980s.
Koby Hathcock heard the remarks, felt the snubs.
He wasn't moving on to Mesa Desert Ridge High School following his eighth-grade year like the rest of his friends from the junior high.
He was to repeat the eighth grade.
No sports. Same classes. New classmates to make new friends.
"They didn't like it," Hathcock said about his friends from his first eighth-grade year.
Those guys are seniors now at Desert Ridge, where Koby is a junior playing linebacker and long snapping on his father Jeremy's varsity football team.
Do those seniors treat him like one of them?
"They treat me like a junior," Hathcock said.
Hathcock (5-11, 205), who gained 40 pounds and grew nearly eight inches since he came to Desert Ridge, isn't alone.
He is part of a continuing trend of parents holding back children a year to grow, whether it is athletically, academically or emotionally. Jeremy Hathcock calls it "the Texas redshirt," and it worked for him and his brothers at Lakeside Blue Ridge in the 1980s.
It is now working for his son, who is a key cog on a defense that has helped the Jaguars to a 2-1 start with a big 6A game at home Friday night coming up against unbeaten Peoria Liberty.
Jeremy Hathcock said he was 4-11, 90 pounds in the eighth grade at Creighton Elementary School in Phoenix. Then, the family moved to Lakeside.
"When we moved up to Blue Ridge, my parents held all of us back," Jeremy said. "They were like, 'You guys need to mature and grow up.' We did. We were little. Then, all of a sudden, we're the strongest, fastest, biggest kids. We had the athletic genes. We were just slow growers."
Koby admits it was tough repeating eighth grade, even though he passed all of his classes.
Jeremy said a couple of electives were switched up to prevent boredom. Koby said it wasn't hard to make new friends and it was good to retake courses he felt he could have done better in.
He got all A's the second time around.
Because he was repeating eighth grade, Koby couldn't do sports.
For an outlet, he would hit the weight room, run the track. He trained under the tutelage of Valley long-snapping guru Ben Bernard.
"It was the longest year of his life, he'll tell you that right now," Jeremy said.
Jeremy said his former running back, Joey Counts, a 2012 graduate, was held back a year before he got to Desert Ridge. Counts ended up with 3,485 rushing yards and 49 touchdowns in his varsity career.
"Joey was a younger kid and I saw what kind of positive impact that had on Joey and his future," Jeremy said. "We kind of ran that by Koby.
"At Blue Ridge, under (Coach Paul) Moro, we always had Texas redshirts. Not just for football. But for maturity in life. I always knew I wanted to do it with my kids. Of the four kids we have, three of them we held back early. With Koby we didn't. He is a little bit older now than most kids his age. But you can tell this year he is way above his years in maturity."
Koby will turn 18 soon. He will qualify under the age rules by the Arizona Interscholastic Association for his senior season next year.
"If he didn't want to do it, there wasn't going to be any chastising at all from us," Jeremy said. "We felt like if he was going to have a career at all in football, then he's got to be a little bit bigger."
Hathcock is ranked eighth nationally for high school long snappers in the 2020 class by Kohl's Kicking.
He knows his ticket to college is through long snapping.
When he looks back, Koby has no regrets.
"My dad told me it would be harder than it was," Koby said. "I just had to stick through with it."
April 23, 2019, 12:08 a.m.
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Growth in China's manufacturing sector unexpectedly accelerated in August, suggesting the world's second-largest economy is still expanding at a healthy clip despite rising financing costs and a cooling housing market.
Growth in China’s manufacturing sector unexpectedly accelerated in August, suggesting the world’s second-largest economy is still expanding at a healthy clip despite rising financing costs and a cooling housing market. Along with stronger U.S. economic growth reported overnight, China’s official factory readings indicated the global economy remains on solid footing for now, despite concerns that growth may begin to fade in coming months. China’s resilience has surprised economists so far this year and given an extra boost to a global recovery despite Beijing’s crackdown on riskier types of lending and ever-tougher curbs to get the overheated housing market under control. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released on Thursday rose to 51.7 in August from the previous month’s 51.4, confounding economists’ expectations for a marginal decline. Production, total new orders and business expectations all shifted into higher gear, with a separate survey showing activity in the steel industry hitting a record high thanks to a year-long, government-led construction boom.
In particular, a sharp pick-up in input prices bodes well for resource companies’ earnings and investment in coming months, ANZ said. “The price-driven recovery will continue at least in the third quarter”, said Raymond Yeung, Greater China chief economist for ANZ in Hong Kong. “On the demand side, infrastructure spending and fixed asset investment continue to maintain (at decent levels)…I see no reason for a sharp downturn even after the fourth quarter this year.” The sustained rally in industrial commodities’ prices largely reflects stronger demand for building materials and government efforts to reduce excess capacity by shutting inefficient and heavily polluting mines and mills. Demand is so robust that futures prices for steel reinforcing bars used in construction have surged 8 percent this month and more than 50 percent this year. Output prices also rose at the fastest pace since December, indicating strong pricing power for producers, which should fatten profit margins and give firms extra breathing room in the country’s fight against a rapid build-up in debt.
China’s economy grew by a faster-than-expected 6.9 percent in the first half, with resurgent exports and robust retail sales adding to the momentum from an infrastructure building spree and record lending by state-controlled banks last year. China watchers still insist the economy will start to lose some steam eventually, as higher financing costs for companies and homeowners start to drag on activity. But they do not foresee a sharp slowdown, especially as the government is keen to ensure stability ahead of a once-in-five-years Communist Party leadership reshuffle in the autumn. After a strong start to 2017, the government looks certain to comfortably meet or beat its full-year growth target of around 6.5 percent. ANZ is forecasting 6.7 percent. Analysts did note a number of areas that bear watching, including a slowdown in new export orders. A separate official reading on China’s services sector showed expansion slowed to 53.4 in August from 54.5 in July, the slowest pace of growth since May 2016, but still comfortably above a reading of 50, which separates growth from contraction.
China’s leaders are counting on growth in services and consumption to rebalance their economic growth model from its heavy reliance on investment and exports. Slower growth was seen in the property and financial sectors, while the information technology, broadcasting and aviation industries expanded strongly, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement along with the data. A sub-index for the construction sector fell to 58.0 in August from 62.5 in July. While still quite robust, the lower reading may suggest the strong economic impulse from the massive government infrastructure spending is starting to fade.
Data for July came in mostly below expectations as growth in imports faltered, while industrial output grew at the slowest pace since early this year. “Looking ahead, if we are right to believe that tighter policy will continue to weigh on investment spending in the coming quarters, then we doubt that the current pace of industrial output growth can be sustained for long,” Capital Economics’ economist Julian Evans-Pritchard wrote in a note. The data on Thursday showed manufacturers cranked up production in August, with a reading of 54.1 from 53.5 in July, while new factory orders rose to 53.1 from 52.8 in July. That suggested domestic demand picked up, as export orders fell to 50.4, the lowest reading since January and down from the previous month’s 50.9.
The new Ingingerness scheme encourages redheads to reclaim the term "ginger" and help them beat the bullies.
LeSean McCoy earns around $9 million-a-year as one of the Philadelphia Eagles' star players.
The youngster was arrested following an attack at The Chase Technology College in Malvern, Worcs., on Monday morning.
Jonathan McNally, 27, had appeared in a Myleene Klass pop video and was taking part in a TOWIE style show.
Robert Crane, 61, a talented musician, was heard screaming from his seventh floor flat as the ferocious blaze took hold.
The prickly animal nicknamed Tughall after the village where he was found was brought to the centre by a member of the public.
Samantha Adeokun, 41, killed partner Peter Davegun, 42, in a brutal attack on December 23 last year. Callous Adeokun then smoked cannabis and chatted to her daughter on the phone while Mr Davegun lay dead on the floor. When she called an ambulance 40 minutes later she told the operator Mr Davegun had accidentally struck his head.
These never-before-seen photographs were taken nearly 50 years ago by a Hollywood insider who got to know The King. The superstar used the Palm Springs hideout to wine and dine female friends and kept it hidden from fans and journalists.
Stephanie Aird, 35, is being investigated after the "inappropriate" films were shared online by pupils.
Jon Lawson, 11, started secondary school this week and his parents assumed he would get a free pass.
The Huskies avoided a similar letdown Wednesday night.
During its 89-53 rout of Pittsburgh, UConn had its second-best total of the season in points, shooting (57.8 percent), field goals (37) and assists (23). The Huskies also finished with 16 steals, a season high, in front of 1,394 at the Petersen Events Center.
"We didn't want to take any steps back," UConn senior Jessica Moore said. "We kind of feel as a team, everybody's kind of getting comfortable with how we're playing right now. It seems like everybody's thinking we'll get up for those big games. But when those big games are coming around and you haven't prepared for them correctly, then you're not going to be ready to go. Our team, we can lose to everybody but we can beat everybody too."
Ninth-ranked UConn (13-4, 6-0) was coming off a lackluster 64-47 win against Seton Hall.
Against the Panthers Wednesday, four Huskies scored in double figures, led by Moore's 19 points, which ties a season high. Ashley Battle had a good homecoming with 14 points on 6-of-11 shooting. Charde Houston (15 points) and Barbara Turner (11) rounded out the top scorers for UConn.
Katie Histed led Pittsburgh (11-7, 3-4) with 17 points and Allisha Morris added 14. The Panthers made just 39.2 percent of their field goals as the Huskies held their opponent to less than 40 percent shooting for the third consecutive game.
Meanwhile, UConn finished with a 60-16 scoring advantage in the paint. Most of those points came on two key runs in the game, during which the Huskies practically made layup after layup.
"Going into the game, we had hoped to make the game more full court," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "Pittsburgh's big kids were really tough to handle. In the half-court set, they clogged the lane, and I thought if we could get them running up and down the floor, that might be to our advantage."
For a time in the first half, however, there was some doubt if UConn would win by a blowout.
Other than a 17-2 run in the final five minutes of the first half, the Huskies barely resembled a Top-10 team.
A pair of free throws from Cheron Taylor with 5:02 to play in the half cut the UConn lead to just 30-27.
The Huskies' biggest lead before then was seven points, and Pittsburgh even took an 11-9 lead early in the game.
"It really did seem that way (a repeat of the Seton Hall game)," Moore said. "I know I got really frustrated, a couple of other people got frustrated, and the biggest thing was we turned it around. We didn't let it keep happening."
UConn made six consecutive layups at the end of the 17-2 run for a 47-29 halftime lead. The Huskies' full-court press forced four turnovers from Pittsburgh in the last four minutes.
By the half, Moore already scored 17 to reach double figures for the fourth consecutive game. Moore, who was recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament tear in her right knee during the summer, scored in double figures just once in the first 13 games.