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AMMAN - The Jordanian field hospital/2 in the war-torn Gaza Strip has treated 21,043 cases and performed 3,681 surgeries on the victims of the Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip.
The field hospital/2 was established on November 28 in Khan Younis in southern Gaza upon directives from His Majesty King Abdullah.
Jordan also runs another military field hospital in Gaza which was established in the aftermath of the Hamas-Israel war in 2008.
The surgical interventions included major and minor procedures such as wound care, burns, shrapnel removal, brain and nerve surgery, complex fractures, facial and jaw surgery, cosmetic procedures, and vascular and arterial surgery, the Jordan News Agency Petra, reported on Friday.
"These ongoing efforts by the hospital coincide with the challenging conditions in the strip and aim to alleviate the hardships faced by the people of Gaza in the absence of essential medical supplies," Petra added.
The hospital infrastructure comprises seven trailers housing operating theatres, medical wards, a laboratory, radiology facilities, a pharmacy, a dental clinic, admissions area and a sterilisation unit.
The hospital offers diverse medical specialties, including neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, general surgery, urology, paediatric surgery, paediatric internal medicine, haematology, orthopaedic surgery, maxillofacial surgery, internal medicine, emergency medicine and trauma care.
Jordan has established five field hospitals in occupied Palestine, three in the West Bank (Nablus, Ramallah and Jenin) and two in Gaza (Khan Yunis and Tal Al Hawa). Over several decades, these hospitals have provided free medical treatment and essential medicines to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
The Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army has implemented seven airdrops to the Kingdom's field hospitals in the besieged strip, the latest of which was on Christmas to assist those besieged within the Church of Saint Porphyrius in the north of Gaza Strip.
HRH Princess Salma, who holds the rank of first lieutenant/pilot at the Royal Jordanian Air Force, accompanied the personnel of the aircraft which carried out the fifth airdrop of critical medical supplies to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza (Hospital 76) on December 14.
Seven members of the medical staff at the Jordanian field hospital/76 in Gaza were injured at the entrance of the emergency department on November 16.
JAF said at the time that seven of the medical staff were injured while trying to administer medical aid to Palestinians who had been injured during an Israeli air strike.
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100 Abe Faction Members Alleged to Have Failed to Report Funds; Total Amount Likely to Exceed ¥570 Million
13:22 JST, January 1, 2024
Approximately 100 lawmakers of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe faction have allegedly failed to report part of their political fundraising party income on their political funds reports over the five years ending 2022, through kickbacks from their faction and pooling money at their own offices, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The amount of money pooled is believed to be at least ¥70 million. When combined with the money received as kickbacks, the total amount of the faction’s unreported funds is likely to exceed ¥570 million.
The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office has also uncovered the same facts. With the possibility of building a case on charges of violations of the Political Funds Control Law in mind, it is investigating the lawmakers in the faction who have large amounts of unreported funds, in addition to the faction’s treasurer.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places will take effect on New Year’s Day, even as a court case continues to challenge the law.
A U.S. district judge issued a ruling Dec. 20 to block the law from taking effect, saying it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones.
But on December 30th, a federal appeals court put a temporary hold on the district judge’s ruling. The appeals court decision allows the law to go into effect as the legal fight continues. Attorneys are scheduled to file arguments to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in January and in February.
The law, signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, prohibits people from carrying concealed guns in 26 places including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos.
The ban applies regardless of whether the person has a permit to carry a concealed weapon. One exception is for privately owned businesses that put up signs saying people are allowed to bring guns on their premises.
“This ruling will allow our common-sense gun laws to remain in place while we appeal the district court’s dangerous ruling,” Newsom posted to X, formerly Twitter, after the appeals court acted Saturday. “Californians overwhelmingly support efforts to ensure that places like hospitals, libraries and children’s playgrounds remain safe and free from guns.”
The California Rifle and Pistol Association sued to block the law. When U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney granted a preliminary injunction blocking the law, he wrote that the law was “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.”
Carney wrote that gun rights groups are likely to succeed in proving it unconstitutional, meaning it would be permanently overturned.
The law overhauls California’s rules for concealed carry permits in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which set several states scrambling to react with their own laws. That decision said the constitutionality of gun laws must be assessed by whether they are “consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
Newsom has said he will keep pushing for stricter gun measures.
Newsom has positioned himself as a national leader on gun control while he is being increasingly eyed as a potential presidential candidate. He has called for and signed a variety of bills, including measures targeting untraceable “ghost guns,” the marketing of firearms to children and allowing people to bring lawsuits over gun violence. That legislation was patterned on a Texas anti-abortion law.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta appealed Carney’s decision. Bonta, a Democrat, said that if the district judge’s ruling to block the law were allowed to stand, it “would endanger communities by allowing guns in places where families and children gather.”
The California Pistol and Rifle Association’s president, Chuck Michel, said in a statement that under the law, gun permit holders “wouldn’t be able to drive across town without passing through a prohibited area and breaking the law.” Michel said criminals are deterred when law-abiding citizens can defend themselves. | https://centraloregondaily.com/california-concealed-carry/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:32Z |
CEOs at top Hong Kong builders, landlords share optimism on outlook, see sustainability as key issue amid market stress
- CEOs of major landlords and developers say priorities for 2024 include offering tenants new, sustainable services and diversifying portfolios
- While optimistic about Hong Kong’s future, executives say a talent shortage and ageing population are weighing on the market
The CEOs of major landlords and developers in Hong Kong have made building on the normalisation that began last year a top priority for 2024, with a focus on strengthening balance sheets, evolving tenant portfolios and exploring new business opportunities.
These priorities also come with an emphasis on sustainability by offering green services to customers, they said. High interest rates, a slowing economy, a lack of talent and Hong Kong’s ageing population are among key challenges as the industry seeks to overcome a slide in property prices.
While placing emphasis on serving the community, tenants, customers, staff, and shareholders, Wharf “will also prioritise maintaining a healthy balance sheet to take advantage of investment opportunities as they arise”, he said.
He also expresses confidence in the city’s future, though, and the property market as a whole. He highlighted Hong Kong’s unique advantages as a financial centre.
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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are another top priority for the company, noting that sustainabiity is the most important issue in its industry.
“At Hongkong Land. we are guided by the group’s sustainability framework 2030 and science-based targets throughout all our properties,” Wong said. “We are moving the ESG agenda forward through technology, social programmes and constant innovation and reinvestment into our existing assets as we play our part in Hong Kong’s journey towards net zero [emissions].”
The company plans to make visible changes in its Central portfolio and attract new tenants in retail and lifestyle spaces.
“We will continue to evolve our Central portfolio as a world class luxury, lifestyle and office destination in the heart of Central to meet the changing needs of our tenants and customers,” he said. “In addition, we are speaking to several existing and prospective retail tenants about ways in which we can help them grow, innovate and optimise both permanent and temporary space within Landmark. We will have exciting plans to share in the first quarter of 2024.”
Auction house Sotheby’s is also set to open a state-of-the-art immersive exhibition and retail space in Chater House in the first quarter, Wong added.
Swire Properties, known for its sustainability measures, will continue focusing on pioneering work in this area and building vibrant, sustainable communities, said CEO Tim Blackburn.
Swire Properties ranked second globally in the 2023 Dow Jones Sustainability Index, a family of best-in-class benchmarks for investors who wish to evaluate the sustainability performance of companies that are traded publicly.
“Our top priorities in 2024 include the successful development of our exciting pipeline of mixed-use and residential projects in our three core markets,” Blackburn said. In 2022, the company announced plans to invest HK$100 billion (US$12.8 billion) in Hong Kong, mainland China and Southeast Asia over the next decade.
“We’ve been making good progress, with 30 per cent allocated to our home city of Hong Kong, 50 per cent to China and 20 per cent for new residential trading opportunities in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia,” he said. “We remain optimistic about the long-term growth potential for these markets, and I’m pleased to say that over 50 per cent has already been committed.”
Donald Choi, Chinachem’s executive director and CEO, said the company is prioritising business diversification this year.
“We have transformed a lot in the past few years,” he said. “Firstly, in the elderly care service industry, we hope to provide more resources to expand the business in our Pine Care Group. Hong Kong’s ageing population is actually a problem that needs to be solved and to put more resources together. So we are heading our way to develop more in senior housing.” | https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3246818/ceos-top-hong-kong-builders-landlords-share-optimism-outlook-see-sustainability-key-issue-amid?utm_source=rss_feed | 2024-01-01T05:28:32Z |
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has won reelection with more than 70% of the vote, the country's election commission said Sunday as opposition candidates and their supporters questioned the validity of the results.
The preliminary results of the Dec. 20 election were announced in the capital, Kinshasa, amid demands from the opposition and some civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to massive logistical problems that they said had undermined the balloting.
Tshisekedi's overwhelming declared victory was likely to fuel those concerns. The second-place candidate was businessman Moise Katumbi, who received 18% of the vote, and Martin Fayulu, who received 5%, finished third. Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, a physician renowned for treating women brutalized by sexual violence in eastern Congo, got less than 1%.
Speaking from his headquarters in the capital after the results were announced, Tshisekedi thanked his supporters for giving him another five-year term.
"You believed in my commitment so that our country can find its place in the concert of nations," he said. "You have embraced my vision of society. I will spare no effort for more jobs, more purchasing power, more access to basic services at all levels."
About 18 million people voted in the election, which had a turnout of more than a 40%, according to the election commission. The results will be sent to the constitutional court for confirmation, election chief Denis Kadima said.
Candidates opposing the results have two days to submit their claims, and the constitutional court then has seven days to decide. The final results are expected on January 10, and the president is scheduled to be sworn in at the end of that month.
Congo has a history of disputed elections that can turn violent, and there's little confidence among many Congolese in the country's institutions. Before the results were announced Sunday, opposition candidates, including Katumbi, said they rejected the results and called on the population to mobilize.
The logistical problems included many polling stations being late in opening or not opening at all. Some lacked materials, and many voter cards had smudged ink that made them illegible.
Voting in the election had to be extended into a second day— something local observers and civil society organizations have called illegal — and parts of the country were still casting ballots five days after election day.
"If a foreign country considers these elections to be elections, there's a problem," Fayulu said at a news conference in the capital Sunday before the results were announced. "It's a farce, don't accept (the results)."
Violence was already flaring in parts of the country before the results were announced. In the eastern city of Goma, youth barricaded some main streets demanding a revote. Earlier this week, clashes erupted between some of Fayulu's supporters and police officers who fired tear gas at protesters who threw rocks and barricaded themselves inside the opposition headquarters.
"These elections are an example of fraud and ballot-box stuffing, flouting any transparent and credible electoral process and, moreover, democracy," said Bienvenu Matumo, a member of LUCHA, a local rights group.
Leading up to and during the vote, the election commission was accused of not being transparent enough. The East African Community said its election observer mission was not granted access to Congo, and the European Union canceled its mission after authorities did not authorize the use of satellite equipment by EU monitors.
Congo analysts say the thousands of observers that were in the country were unable to say whether the irregularities had an impact on the overall integrity of the results, leaving it to the election commission.
Tshisekedi already has spent much of his time in office trying to gain legitimacy after a disputed 2018 election that some observers said Fayulu had actually won.
Overall, Tshisekedi's track record has been spotty. He's struggled to stem violence in the east, a goal he campaigned on.
Conflict in eastern Congo has raged for decades, with more than 120 armed groups fighting for power, resources and to protect their communities. But the violence has spiked during Tshisekedi's term with the resurgence of the M23 rebels, who have displaced millions of people and seized swaths of land. The fighting prevented 1.5 million people from registering to vote.
Attempts to quell the violence with an East African Force comprised of troops from neighboring countries have failed. The force is pulling out, along with a U.N. peacekeeping mission that has been in Congo for decades.
Still, Tshisekedi's initiatives creating free health care for pregnant mothers and babies and providing free primary education has changed the lives of some people living in remote villages.
"My brothers can go to school now without my parents paying, which allows my father to put that money to buying food for the family," John Nlaza, a resident of a small village in Kongo Central province told The Associated Press.
Congolese analysts said it's important to view Tshisekedi's win with caution given the significant uncertainty of the presidential election's validity.
"The opposition's contesting of the results is not only a predictable reaction, but it also highlights the persistence of a deeper crisis of legitimacy at the top of the state," Tresor Kibangula, a political analyst at the Congolese research institute Ebuteli, said. "This battle will depend on (the opposition's) ability to mobilize the Congolese people for its cause, with a view to reversing the balance of power."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-12-31/congos-president-is-declared-winner-of-election-that-opposition-wants-redone | 2024-01-01T05:28:32Z |
KINSHASA, Congo — Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has won reelection with more than 70% of the vote, the country's election commission said Sunday as opposition candidates and their supporters questioned the validity of the results.
The preliminary results of the Dec. 20 election were announced in the capital, Kinshasa, amid demands from the opposition and some civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to massive logistical problems that they said had undermined the balloting.
Tshisekedi's overwhelming declared victory was likely to fuel those concerns. The second-place candidate was businessman Moise Katumbi, who received 18% of the vote, and Martin Fayulu, who received 5%, finished third. Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, a physician renowned for treating women brutalized by sexual violence in eastern Congo, got less than 1%.
Speaking from his headquarters in the capital after the results were announced, Tshisekedi thanked his supporters for giving him another five-year term.
"You believed in my commitment so that our country can find its place in the concert of nations," he said. "You have embraced my vision of society. I will spare no effort for more jobs, more purchasing power, more access to basic services at all levels."
About 18 million people voted in the election, which had a turnout of more than a 40%, according to the election commission. The results will be sent to the constitutional court for confirmation, election chief Denis Kadima said.
Candidates opposing the results have two days to submit their claims, and the constitutional court then has seven days to decide. The final results are expected on January 10, and the president is scheduled to be sworn in at the end of that month.
Congo has a history of disputed elections that can turn violent, and there's little confidence among many Congolese in the country's institutions. Before the results were announced Sunday, opposition candidates, including Katumbi, said they rejected the results and called on the population to mobilize.
The logistical problems included many polling stations being late in opening or not opening at all. Some lacked materials, and many voter cards had smudged ink that made them illegible.
Voting in the election had to be extended into a second day— something local observers and civil society organizations have called illegal — and parts of the country were still casting ballots five days after election day.
"If a foreign country considers these elections to be elections, there's a problem," Fayulu said at a news conference in the capital Sunday before the results were announced. "It's a farce, don't accept (the results)."
Violence was already flaring in parts of the country before the results were announced. In the eastern city of Goma, youth barricaded some main streets demanding a revote. Earlier this week, clashes erupted between some of Fayulu's supporters and police officers who fired tear gas at protesters who threw rocks and barricaded themselves inside the opposition headquarters.
"These elections are an example of fraud and ballot-box stuffing, flouting any transparent and credible electoral process and, moreover, democracy," said Bienvenu Matumo, a member of LUCHA, a local rights group.
Leading up to and during the vote, the election commission was accused of not being transparent enough. The East African Community said its election observer mission was not granted access to Congo, and the European Union canceled its mission after authorities did not authorize the use of satellite equipment by EU monitors.
Congo analysts say the thousands of observers that were in the country were unable to say whether the irregularities had an impact on the overall integrity of the results, leaving it to the election commission.
Tshisekedi already has spent much of his time in office trying to gain legitimacy after a disputed 2018 election that some observers said Fayulu had actually won.
Overall, Tshisekedi's track record has been spotty. He's struggled to stem violence in the east, a goal he campaigned on.
Conflict in eastern Congo has raged for decades, with more than 120 armed groups fighting for power, resources and to protect their communities. But the violence has spiked during Tshisekedi's term with the resurgence of the M23 rebels, who have displaced millions of people and seized swaths of land. The fighting prevented 1.5 million people from registering to vote.
Attempts to quell the violence with an East African Force comprised of troops from neighboring countries have failed. The force is pulling out, along with a U.N. peacekeeping mission that has been in Congo for decades.
Still, Tshisekedi's initiatives creating free health care for pregnant mothers and babies and providing free primary education has changed the lives of some people living in remote villages.
"My brothers can go to school now without my parents paying, which allows my father to put that money to buying food for the family," John Nlaza, a resident of a small village in Kongo Central province told The Associated Press.
Congolese analysts said it's important to view Tshisekedi's win with caution given the significant uncertainty of the presidential election's validity.
"The opposition's contesting of the results is not only a predictable reaction, but it also highlights the persistence of a deeper crisis of legitimacy at the top of the state," Tresor Kibangula, a political analyst at the Congolese research institute Ebuteli, said. "This battle will depend on (the opposition's) ability to mobilize the Congolese people for its cause, with a view to reversing the balance of power."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wxxinews.org/npr-news/2023-12-31/congos-president-is-declared-winner-of-election-that-opposition-wants-redone | 2024-01-01T05:28:32Z |
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II announced Sunday that she plans to abdicate after 52 years and hand over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik.
The queen, who is Europe’s longest-reigning living monarch, announced during her New Year’s speech that she would step down on Jan. 14th, which is the anniversary of her own accession to the throne at age 31 following the death of her father, King Frederik IX.
Margrethe, 83, said the back surgery she underwent in early 2023 led to “thoughts about the future” and when to pass on the responsibilities of the crown to her son. “I have decided that now is the right time,” she said in her speech.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen paid tribute to her in a statement, offering a “heartfelt thank you to Her Majesty the Queen for her lifelong dedication and tireless efforts for the Kingdom.”
Margrethe is the “epitome of Denmark” Frederiksen’s statement read, and “throughout the years has put words and feelings into who we are as a people and as a nation.”
The 6-foot-tall (1.82-meters-tall), chain-smoking Margrethe has been one of the most popular public figures in Denmark, where the monarch’s role is largely ceremonial. She often walked the streets of Copenhagen virtually unescorted and won the admiration of Danes for her warm manners and for her talents as a linguist and designer.
A keen skier, she was a member of a Danish women’s air force unit as a princess, taking part in judo courses and endurance tests in the snow. Margrethe remained tough even as she grew older. In 2011, at age 70, she visited Danish troops in southern Afghanistan wearing a military jumpsuit.
As monarch, she crisscrossed the country and regularly visited Greenland and the Faeroe Islands, the two semi-independent territories which are part of the Danish Realm, and was met everywhere by cheering crowds.
Denmark has Europe’s oldest ruling monarchy, which traces its line back to the Viking king Gorm the Old, who died in 958. Although Magrethe is head of state, the Danish Constitution strictly ruled out her involvement in party politics.
Yet the queen was clearly well-versed in law and knew the contents of the legislation she was called upon to sign.
She received training in French and English from her earliest years, as well as Swedish from her mother. In addition to archaeology, she studied philosophy, political science and economics at universities in Copenhagen, Aarhus and Cambridge along with the London School of Economics and the Sorbonne in Paris.
Ever since his birth on May 26, 1968, Frederik André Henrik Christian has been the heir to the Danish throne.
He is the oldest son of Queen Margrethe and her late French-born husband, Prince Henrik, who died February 2018. Frederik, 55, has a younger brother, Prince Joachim.
Since the age of 18, he has served as regent whenever his mother was outside the kingdom and carried out official duties, shaking hands with thousands and receiving foreign dignitaries.
The queen’s announcement made up only a few sentences at the end of her wide-ranging New Year’s speech which reflected on the “turbulence and upheaval in the world” amid the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the climate crisis.
But she also thanked her nation’s people for “the warmth and hospitality I meet with everywhere in Denmark.”
While lavishing accolades on the queen, the prime minister also looked to the future.
“In the new year, Crown Prince Frederik will be proclaimed king. Crown Princess Mary will become queen. The kingdom will have a new regent and a new royal couple,” he said in his statement. “We can look forward to all of this in the knowledge that they are ready for the responsibility and the task.” | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-denmarks-queen-margrethe-ii-to-step-down-from-throne-on-jan-14/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:33Z |
Top 25 College Football Streams & TV Channel Info | Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 25, 2023 at 2:46 PM CST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
The 2023 college football bowl game schedule features a matchup between the No. 3 Texas Longhorns and the No. 2 Washington Huskies in the Sugar Bowl.
You can find info on live coverage of the week's top college football action right here.
How to Watch AP Top 25 Games
No. 24 James Madison Dukes at Air Force Falcons
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 23
- Venue: Amon G. Carter Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Air Force (-2)
Virginia Tech Hokies at No. 23 Tulane Green Wave
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Virginia Tech (-11.5)
No. 16 Louisville Cardinals at USC Trojans
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Petco Park
- TV Channel: FOX
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Louisville (-4.5)
Texas A&M Aggies at No. 22 Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: NRG Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Oklahoma State (-3.5)
No. 17 SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Fenway Park
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: SMU (-13)
No. 19 NC State Wolfpack at Kansas State Wildcats
- Time: 5:45 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ACCN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Kansas State (-3)
No. 14 Arizona Wildcats at No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners
- Time: 9:15 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Alamodome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Arizona (-2.5)
No. 21 Oregon State Beavers at No. 15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: Sun Bowl Stadium
- TV Channel: CBS
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Notre Dame (-5.5)
No. 9 Missouri Tigers at No. 7 Ohio State Buckeyes
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: AT&T Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Ohio State (-4)
No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels at No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Penn State (-6)
No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs at No. 4 Florida State Seminoles
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Hard Rock Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Georgia (-22.5)
Wisconsin Badgers at No. 13 LSU Tigers
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Raymond James Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: LSU (-8.5)
No. 20 Iowa Hawkeyes at No. 25 Tennessee Volunteers
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Tennessee (-5.5)
No. 18 Liberty Flames at No. 8 Oregon Ducks
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: State Farm Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Oregon (-17.5)
No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 1 Michigan Wolverines
- Time: 5:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Rose Bowl
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Michigan (-1.5)
No. 3 Texas Longhorns at No. 2 Washington Huskies
- Time: 8:45 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Caesars Superdome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Texas (-3.5)
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Angry ‘Paper Crusher’ Dan Campbell is Livid With the Refs for Stealing the Win & Rich Eisen ‘Seems’ to Be in Agreement
Aniket Srivastava
|Published January 01, 2024
With the regular season nearing its conclusion, the competition among NFL teams to secure playoff berths has intensified. The Detroit Lions met the Dallas Cowboys in Week 17 and despite scoring winning points with few seconds left in the game, the Lions were titled the losers. Fans think Detroit was robbed, and HC Dan Campbell and analyst Rich Eisen couldn’t agree more.
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Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell wasn’t happy with the team’s result and blamed the referees for their loss. His aggression surfaced in a post-game presser while being questioned about the controversial call by the referees which led him to even crumble up a piece of paper in frustration before sliding it into his pocket. Campbell while talking to the reporters stated,
“Two people can’t report. I don’t want to talk about it. I explained everything pregame to a tee. 70 (Dan Skipper) reported… the explanation was that 70 reported.”
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Campbell’s aggression was valid as in the final moments of the fourth quarter, the Lions reduced their deficit to 20-19 after scoring a touchdown. Following which they had a chance to either kick for a tie or try for a two-point play.
Detroit chose the latter and offensive lineman Taylor Decker even scored after catching the ball. However, the referees nullified the play due to an illegal touching penalty and further stated that Decker did not reported as an eligible receiver.
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However, a video has surfaced on the internet in which Taylor Decker and Dan Skipper is seen approaching the referees, most probably to report the play.
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NFL analyst Rich Eisen took to X (formerly Twitter) to support Dan Campbell and Detroit Lions. Eisen stated as the trick play had been been reviewed and explained to the referees as claimed by Dan Campbell, then the referees decision during the game seems even more unexpected. This decision has not only affected the game’s result but has caused a big argument among football fans and experts.
Decker’s Confirmation Fuels NFL Refereeing Concerns
After analyzing the play carefully, Troy Aikman also pointed a crucial detail. He mentioned that during the play, not only did Dan Skipper, but Taylor Decker also approached the official. Aikman highlighted that a player typically approaches an official only if they are reporting as an eligible receiver. He stated,
“When you go back and you watch the tape, Dan Skipper comes in but Taylor Decker also walks over to the official. And you only do that if you’re telling the official you’re reporting as an eligible.”
In Taylor Decker’s statement, he himself confirmed that he precisely followed his coach’s instruction during the game. He mentioned that he went to the referees and said “report.” This confirms to a certain point that he did communicate with the referee. But, if the referees indeed made an error, this scenario might cause fans to doubt the fairness of referees when making crucial decisions in games.
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Additionally, despite the Week 17 loss, the Lions have an 11-5 record and currently lead the NFC North. Their impressive performance throughout the season has secured their spot in the playoffs. They will face the Minnesota Vikings next week with one more game left in the regular season.
Concerns against refereeing calls have reached a fever pitch this season. Campbell is not the first HC to rage against refereeing this season with Chiefs’ Andy Reid being handed a hefty fine for bad-mouthing the refs. It remains to be seen what the league decides to do in this instance.
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(MENAFN- Jordan Times) AMMAN - Boycott campaigns over the Gaza war have had severe repercussions on the local tourism industry, leaving over 12,000 Jordanians impacted by consumers' refraining from purchasing goods from specific western companies, according to Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Makram Al Qaisi.
In a recent press conference held as part of the Government Communication Forum, Qaisi said that the boycott campaigns have“yielded a reverse effect, impacting not only the boycotted companies, but also stakeholders and supply chain actors collaborating with these companies in Jordan”.
Many believe that well-known companies facing boycotts hold a pro-Israel stance and exhibit bias in the Gaza war. Nevertheless, boycotted companies have explicitly refuted any such accusations, asserting their neutrality.
Highlighting the state of the local tourism industry, Michael Nazzal, chairman of the Jordan Hotel Association, told The Jordan Times on Saturday that supply chains, including bakeries, meat and vegetable suppliers, have experienced the repercussions of widespread consumer boycotts.
“The impact has been felt directly and indirectly, affecting numerous employees and entities,” he said.
Nazzal emphasised that companies currently subject to boycotts must consider the long-term implications of the ongoing events, indicating that this could involve implementing specific changes or negotiating agreements with franchises to rebrand their outlets under new entities.
Speaking with The Jordan Times, Beesan W., who is employed at a food chain company, said that“I am still employed but we are constantly given unpaid leaves... the company is for sure going through financial difficulties during this time”. She added that some employees in other boycotted food chains were unlawfully terminated, expecting weaker sales caused primarily by wider boycott campaigns.
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Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea hold consultations on consular issues
SEOUL. KAZINFORM - The foreign ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Korea have held the 5th round of consultations on consular issues, Kazinform has learnt from the press service of the Kazakh MFA.
Tauboldy Umbetbayev, Director of the Consular Service Department of the Kazakh Foreign Affairs Ministry, led the Kazakh delegation at the consultations in Seoul.
The sides discussed the most pressing issues in consular ties, including illegal migration and ways to tackle it, protecting the rights of citizens of both countries and more. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-republic-of-korea-hold-consultations-on-consular-issues_a3493761/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:37Z |
Xi says willing to work with US for stable relationship
In an exchange of messages to mark the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Xi said both sides should "take practical actions to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of China-US relations"
China's President Xi Jinping said Monday he was willing to work with the United States to promote stable bilateral ties, exchanging congratulations with his US counterpart on the anniversary of diplomatic relations, state media said.
Xi and US President Joe Biden met in San Francisco in November, vowing to improve communication in an effort to stop competition from spilling over into conflict.
In an exchange of messages to mark the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Xi said both sides should "take practical actions to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of China-US relations".
"Xi Jinping emphasised, I am willing to work with President Biden to continue to navigate China-US relations, benefit both China and the United States and their people, and promote world peace and development," state broadcaster CCTV said.
Xi added that "adhering to mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win- win cooperation is the correct way for China and the United States to interact", CCTV said. | https://www.tbsnews.net/world/xi-says-willing-work-us-stable-relationship-767558 | 2024-01-01T05:28:36Z |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser — along with similar “private” modes in other browsers — to track their internet use.
The class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn’t track their internet activities while using incognito mode. It argued that Google’s advertising technologies and other techniques continued to catalog details of users’ site visits and activities despite their use of supposedly “private” browsing.
Plaintiffs also charged that Google’s activities yielded an “unaccountable trove of information” about users who thought they’d taken steps to protect their privacy.
The settlement must still be approved by a federal judge. Terms weren’t disclosed, but the suit originally sought $5 billion on behalf of users; lawyers for the plaintiffs said they expect to present the court with a final settlement agreement by Feb. 24.
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People Flock to Temples, Shrines for First Visit of 2024; Sensoji Crowds Return after Pandemic Restrictions Lifted
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Monday marked the first New Year’s Day since all restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic were lifted, and temples and shrines across Japan were crowded with worshippers who had come to make their first visit of the year — a tradition called hatsumode.
At Sensoji temple in Taito Ward, Tokyo, the street leading from the Kaminarimon gate to the main hall was crowded with worshippers and foreign tourists. A 22-year-old office worker from Koto Ward, Tokyo, who had been standing in line since Sunday night, said, “Now that the COVID pandemic is over, I want to actively challenge myself in various things this year.”
Before the pandemic, nearly 3 million visitors would flock to Sensoji temple during the first three days of the year, and a large crowd is expected for this year’s hatsumode as well.
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“Conor McGregor Wants to Be the First”: Henry Cejudo Breaks Down Motive Behind 185-Pound Call Out for Michael Chandler
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After almost three years away from the octagon, Conor McGregor announced his return on 1st January 2024 through a video on X. Along with the announcement McGregor also revealed Michael Chandler as his opponent. A number of UFC stars including Henry Cejudo shared their thoughts on McGregor’s return.
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Leading up to the new year, Conor McGregor had stated that he would announce his return to the UFC on the first day of the year. The Irishman kept his word when he announced details regarding his return. ‘The Notorious’ stated that he would be returning to UFC action in June 2024 during international fight week. Apart from naming Chandler as his opponent, McGregor also disclosed the weight class for the fight which caught fans by surprise. The Irishman announced that the fight would take place at 185-pounds.
Former double champion Henry Cejudo took to YouTube to share his thoughts on why Conor McGregor chose middleweight. In the video he said,
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“Since the beginning he has said we’re going to be fighting at 185-pounds. Maybe Conor wants to be the first person to say, hey I fought in four different weight classes in the UFC. Which is absolutely crazy. Conor has gotten big. But for that weight class Conor is short. But guess what so is Michael Chandler. They’re both two short stocky dudes that are going to be firing at 185-pounds.”
Cejudo went on to give his props to Chandler for playing the long game. He said,
“Michael Chandler did a really good job of just waiting. Because you know why? Conor McGregor is a cash cow. I mean I would wait almost two years to fight Conor…. Those are a whole lot of M’s coming your way Michael Chandler.”
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Cejudo did have a point about ‘The Notorious’ making his move to 185-pounds. But is this a realistic fight for Conor McGregor given his success in the featherweight and lightweight division? Lets take a closer look.
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Conor McGregor vs Michael Chandler; which weight class will it take place at?
Conor McGregor has fought in only three weight classes so far in the UFC. The last time ‘The Notorious’ fought at welterweight was in January 2020 against Cerrone. While ‘The Notorious’ states that the fight will take place at 185-pounds, fans expected the fight to take place in a different weight division.
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In all likelihood, fans expected the fight between him and Chandler to take place at 155-pounds. When Chandler called out McGregor in UFC 274 post fight interview he wanted to fight McGregor at 170 pounds. However, with McGregor’s announcement it would be interesting to see if the fight will indeed take place at 185-pounds or not.
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BERLIN (AP) — Three more people were detained Sunday in connection with a reported threat of an attack on the Cologne Cathedral over the holidays, German authorities said.
The detentions came only days after a 30-year-old Tajik man was detained in relation to an alleged plot to attack the world-famous cathedral by Islamic extremists in the western German city.
The suspects were detained in the western cities of Duisburg, Herne and Dueren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and their apartments were also searched there. No details about their identities were released.
All of the detained suspects — including the Tajik who was arrested last week — allegedly belong to a larger network that included people across Germany and in other European countries, according to Cologne police chief Johannes Hermanns, German news agency dpa reported.
The attack was supposed to have been carried out with a car loaded with explosives, local media reported.
Cologne police said in a Sunday news conference that the cathedral’s underground parking garage had been searched and that explosives detection dogs had been deployed — but nothing was found. Since the early morning, the entrance and exit of the underground garage had also been checked for suspicious activity.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul called the latest detentions a “success, for which I would like to thank the investigators.”
Islamic extremists have always been active, but they are currently more active than usual and the Catholic cathedral was a prime target for them, Reul said, according to dpa. “The police always try to be a few steps ahead,” he added.
Police had received information about a planned militant attack on Cologne Cathedral shortly before Christmas. The attack was to be carried out on New Year’s Eve.
The city’s world-famous cathedral has been under high protection for a week and the threat led to the closure of the house of worship for tourists since Christmas Eve.
Usually, more than 100,000 tourists visit the cathedral in the last week of the year. In recent days, only worshippers were allowed to enter the building for Mass, but they had to go through thorough security checks involving sniffer dogs.
On Sunday evening, around 1,000 police officers were on duty around the cathedral as revelers began celebrating the end of 2023.
Reul, the state interior minister, encouraged people to celebrate and not stay at home despite the attack threat.
“Islamist terror is still a threat on German streets,” he said. “We have often suppressed that. And whenever there is a one-off event like this, we are all very electrified again.”
However, it would be wrong to panic, said Reul. “I say: Celebrate! Behave yourselves! Take care — and enjoy the transition into the new year.” | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-german-officials-detain-3-more-suspects-in-connection-with-a-cologne-cathedral-attack-threat/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:39Z |
In rare apology, Israeli minister says she 'sinned' for her role in reforms that tore country apart
And this weakness, in many ways, brought massacre. Distel Atbaryan, who served as public diplomacy minister, was one of Netanyahus strongest supporters and drew attention for her harsh criticism of his opponents.
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A former member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet offered a rare public apology Sunday for contributing to the internal strife in Israel that preceded the October 7 attack by Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip.
The mea culpa by Galit Distel Atbaryan, a lawmaker from Netanyahu's Likud Party, was one of the first times a Likud member has accepted responsibility for the polarised atmosphere ahead of the attack, which triggered a devastating war that has continued for nearly three months.
Distel Atbaryan appeared to accept the argument that the internal divisions created perceptions of weakness that encouraged Hamas to attack.
''I'm here sitting and telling you, the democratic, secular public: I sinned against you, I caused pain for you, I caused you to fear for your lives here, and I am sorry for this,'' she told Channel 13 TV.
Distel Atbaryan added that she was taking responsibility for her role in the massive protests and civil discord that erupted after Netanyahu's right-wing government attempted to implement a far-reaching overhaul of the judicial system. The crisis sparked mass protests, alarmed business leaders and former security chiefs, and drew concern from the United States and other close allies.
''I was one of those people that caused the state to be weakened, that harmed people,'' she said. ''I created a split, I created a rift, and I created tension. And this tension brought weakness. And this weakness, in many ways, brought massacre.'' Distel Atbaryan, who served as public diplomacy minister, was one of Netanyahu's strongest supporters and drew attention for her harsh criticism of his opponents. But days after the October 7 attack, she resigned when it was clear that other government ministries were handling her responsibilities. Distel Atbaryan said the office was a ''waste of public funds'' during wartime. She has remained as a member of parliament in the Likud.
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Australia ex-cycling world champion Rohan Dennis charged after Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins died in accident - reports
- 32-year-old Hoskins, who won gold in the 2015 world championships, died after she was struck by a vehicle while riding in Adelaide
- Dennis has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, endangering life and driving without due care, according to Australian media reports
Former Australian world champion cyclist Rohan Dennis is reported to have been charged in connection with the death of his 32-year-old wife, Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins, who died after being struck by a vehicle while riding in Adelaide.
South Adelaide Police said emergency services were called to an address in Medindie, an Adelaide suburb, around 8pm on Saturday, following reports a woman had been struck by a vehicle.
Police said the woman, later identified as Hoskins, suffered serious injuries and died after being transported to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Calls grow among Australia’s 1 million South Asians to ban caste discrimination
A 33-year-old man has been arrested and charged with causing death by dangerous driving, driving without due care and endangering life, police said. The driver was known to the woman and given bail to appear in court on March 13, police added.
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said in a post on social media platform X on Monday, “The AOC has expressed the utmost sadness at the loss of Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins after the tragic events in Adelaide. Our condolences go to Melissa’s family, friends and the cycling community at this extremely difficult time.”
Hoskins won gold in the team pursuit at the 2015 world championships and was a member of the Australian team at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics.
Dennis won gold medals in the team pursuit at the 2010 and 2011 World Championships and was the world time trial champion in 2018 and 2019. He won silver in the team pursuit at the 2012 London Olympics and bronze in the road time trial at the 2020 Tokyo Games. He also is a stage winner at the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Spanish Vuelta.
Dennis retired from cycling last year. He and Hoskins were married in 2018. | https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3246850/australia-ex-cycling-world-champion-rohan-dennis-charged-after-olympian-wife-melissa-hoskins-killed?utm_source=rss_feed | 2024-01-01T05:28:42Z |
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AMMAN - Mosaics decorated some of most prestigious buildings in the Ummayad Caliphate: Bath houses, mosques, palaces and private villas. The latest research reveals that the shift between the late antiquity and the early Islamic period was gradual and similar artistic patterns characterised both epochs.
Epigraphic evidence shows that instead of big schools and workshops small groups of craftsmen, often from the same family, produced mosaics. Sometimes, commissioned mosaicists would work on a certain project and separate after completing the job. Mosaicists would spend their whole career working in the same region and in the same area where they lived.
“Regular local commissions would have been needed to keep such a pool of mosaicists in training. Madaba and its surrounding settlements clearly met this requirement between the 6th and 8th centuries, and major cities such as Jerusalem presumably supported even larger numbers of artisans,” noted a British art historian Beatrice Leal, adding that this was largely due to an active culture of ecclesiastical patronage; the majority of known commissions of mosaics in the early mediaeval Mediterranean, either on floors or walls, were for churches.
Stone mosaics as a result of their durability were used for the floor while glass mosaics were often used for walls.
“Firstly, the materials were not completely segregated. Many wall mosaics, including those in the Great Mosque of Damascus, use stone tesserae for pink, red and white. Some floor mosaics, both in the Byzantine and early Islamic period, included glass tesserae to highlight certain features,” Leal elaborated adding that this suggests that floor and wall mosaicists were supplied from the same sources, and probably they were equally skilled in cutting tesserae from the two materials.
Secondly, many of the buildings that had floor mosaics also had wall mosaics.
The upper walls have gone from most of the churches in which mosaic floors have been excavated, so the decoration of their apses has been lost, Leal said, noting,
“But both from archaeological finds of loose glass tesserae, and from written references, we know that apse mosaics were common across the Byzantine world. Floor and wall mosaicists therefore depended on the same patrons for their living, and may also have been on-site at the same time”.
Thirdly, the skills needed for the two media are almost identical: Chipping tesserae into shape, mixing and laying plaster and composing the designs. Which leads to the fourth point,“that there was substantial crossover in motifs between floor and wall mosaics”.
The nave floor of St Stephen's at Umm Al Rasas in Jordan was laid in 718/19AD, approximately three years after the Great Mosque was completed.
“It depicts cities and buildings along a river, as well as trees and acanthus scrolls, as do the wall mosaics in the mosque. The motifs on the church floor are simpler. But various details - such as roofs depicted as parallelograms sticking out from tower walls, or U-shaped acanthus leaves with lines of black tesserae inset around the curve, or trees with solid areas of dark tesserae surrounding and separating the lighter leaves - are shared,” Leal underlined.
One of such mosaics is the Madaba Mosaic Map from 6th century AD which depicted Jerusalem, Zoara on the Dead Sea, Baptism site and many other localities of the day.
The name of the artist is unknown but in 614AD Madaba was briefly occupied by the Sassanid Empire, the major disaster occurred in 746AD when a catastrophic earthquake hit the whole region causing Madaba to be abandoned.
“The sixth-century mosaic map of the Holy Land created on the nave floor of the church in Madaba, discovered in 1884 during the construction of a modern church and restored in 1965, is not only a remarkable example of the excellence of Byzantine mosaic art, but is also a valuable historical resource for understanding the towns and Christian holy places of the region,” noted Professor Joan Taylor from King's College, London.
The artists of the Madaba Map“had a good eye for detail and it did not only apply to detail”. This attention applies not only to buildings and towns, but also to features of the landscape of holy land.
The mosaic artists did not like excessive empty space or repetitive patterns, and filled these with motifs representing features of the environment, Taylor continued, adding that the fish in the Jordan River change direction when they encounter the salty water of the Dead Sea. It depicts that ancient mosaicists were aware of the difference between freshwater and the highly saline Dead Sea.
Also depiction of ships carrying different commodities is the evidence of highly active commercial hubs on both sides of the lake.
“To our knowledge, however, no one has looked specifically at the plants shown in the map as indicating the economic value placed on certain crops in the region near Madaba, and the artist has made a point of being extremely precise about recording important trees. Date palms are shown on the Madaba mosaic map as being grown around Scythopolis [barely shown on far-left], Phasaelis, Jericho, Bethagla, Bethnambris, Livias, Callirhoe and Zoara,” Taylor highlighted.
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Kazakhstan, Romania discuss opportunities for development of bilateral transit-transport coop
The Kazakh diplomat informed about the recent Addresses of the President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan "New opportunities under the fourth industrial revolution" and "Growing welfare of Kazakh citizens: increase in income and quality of life". The Ambassador paid special attention to the tasks set by the Head of State for the development of transport infrastructure. In this regard, the parties discussed and reviewed projects and issues important for the utilization of the two countries' potential.
In his turn, Lucian Bode stressed the openness of Romanian side to intensify cooperation, highly appreciating Kazakhstan's success in developing transport routes connecting Asia and Europe. The Deputy noted that the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta could become a gateway for the transport of goods from the Trans-Caspian region and play an important role in the development of transport routes from Asia to European countries.
The Romanian politician also emphasized that Kazakhstan and Romania are reliable partners in all areas of cooperation. In this regard, Bucharest attaches great importance to the development of bilateral parliamentary interaction as an effective mechanism to strengthen friendship and partnership between the two countries. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-romania-discuss-opportunities-for-development-of-bilateral-transit-transport-coop_a3492917/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:44Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s an annual end-of-year exercise in futility for many.
From the first spray of fireworks to the closing chorus of “Auld Lang Syne” 366 days into the future — 2024 is a leap year — it could be the year for finally achieving long-elusive goals, fulfilling aspirations and being resolute on all those New Year resolutions.
“As humans, we are creatures that aspire,” said Omid Fotuhi, a social psychologist who is a motivation and performance researcher.
“The fact that we have goals, the fact that we want to set goals is just a manifestation of that internal and almost universal desire to want to stretch, to want to reach, to want to expand and grow,” said Fotuhi, the director of learning innovation at Western Governors University Labs and a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh.
“New Year’s resolutions are one of those ways in which we do that,” he said. “There’s something very liberating about a fresh start. Imagine starting on a blank canvas. Anything is possible.”
If so, could this be the year to run a marathon, vanquish (or make peace with) old foes such as the bathroom scale and a thickening waist? Maybe learn Mandarin or register to vote, and actually vote? So many questions, and so much time to delay.
Tim Williams used to issue himself a panoply of resolutions: lose weight, drink less, exercise more and yada yada.
Now, he doesn’t bother.
“In the past, I would make them, and I would fail or give up on them or whatever,” said Williams, a part-time resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Carla Valeria Silva de Santos, a Florida transplant from Brazil, wants to learn to play the guitar. A native Portuguese speaker, she wants to learn Spanish and improve her English.
With any resolution, she said, the ultimate goal is “to improve your life and be in peace with yourself.”
Josh Moore, another Fort Lauderdale resident, sees things in line with the natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton and physics. For every action there must be an equal reaction.
“If you do something like eat a bunch of candy or a bunch of desserts at a holiday party, go run,” he said while interrupting a jog with his dog. “Maybe you went out drinking too much and you might have a hangover. But then next day when you’re feeling better, go to the gym.”
Too many people are too soft on themselves, he posited. “You’ve got to actually hold yourself accountable.”
Resolutions don’t have to be big, grandiose or overly ambitious, Fotuhi said.
Even it they are, he said value should not exclusively be derived from the achievement but also be measured by what you become by trying to better yourself.
“Goals are only there to serve a function to get you started,” Fotuhi said. “If they don’t do that, then maybe that’s not the appropriate goal for you.”
In other words, it is a time to recalibrate goals and expectations, he said, adding that some people hang on to outdated goals for way too long.
“If you set a goal that’s overly ambitious, that doesn’t have the effect of getting you excited and making you believe that it’s possible, then maybe you should think about a goal that’s a little bit more within your reach — starting with a 5k for instance, then moving up to 10K,” Fotuhi said. | https://centraloregondaily.com/new-year-resolutions/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:44Z |
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Good weather was observed across the nation on New Year’s Day, prompting many people to go out and see the first sunrise of 2024.
A number of people gathered on Senjushin Bridge over the Arakawa River in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, from around 6:30 a.m. Monday. When the eastern sky turned bright and the Sun appeared just before 7 a.m., many cheered and took photos with their smartphones. A man in the crowd pressed his hands together and wished for the coming year to be a good one.
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Putin, in New Year address, makes only passing reference to Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing an election in March, made only passing reference in his New Year address on Sunday to his war in Ukraine, hailing his soldiers as heroes but mostly emphasising unity and shared determination. The pre-recorded address, being aired just before midnight in each of Russia's 11 time zones, was in sharp contrast to last year, when he stood behind grim-looking soldiers to make a stern call for sacrifice in what he cast as a fight for survival.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing an election in March, made only passing reference in his New Year address on Sunday to his war in Ukraine, hailing his soldiers as heroes but mostly emphasising unity and shared determination.
The pre-recorded address, being aired just before midnight in each of Russia's 11 time zones, was in sharp contrast to last year, when he stood behind grim-looking soldiers to make a stern call for sacrifice in what he cast as a fight for survival. "To everyone who is at a combat post, at the forefront of the fight for truth and justice: You are our heroes, our hearts are with you. We are proud of you, we admire your courage," Putin said, this time with the more traditional backdrop of the Kremlin walls.
Ukraine was not mentioned by name, nor the "special military operation", Putin's term for the war he unleashed in February 2022 by sending Russia's armed forces into Ukraine. Russian news agencies later quoted Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov as saying Putin had telephoned Russian military commanders in six sectors of the war in Ukraine to offer New Year greetings.
With all significant opposition forces suppressed, along with any expressions of political dissent, the 71-year-old is certain to win the election and extend his 24 years in power. Yet in the last few months, with the war largely deadlocked, he has toned down his previously strident, nationalistic messaging on Ukraine and given more public attention to the economy and inflation - issues likely to be closer to the hearts of voters.
"We have proven more than once that we can solve the most difficult problems and will never retreat, because there is no force that can divide us," he said. There was no mention in his speech of the hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers estimated to have been killed or wounded, or the repeated spilling over of the conflict onto home territory, seen dramatically in Saturday's Ukrainian attack on the city of Belgorod, 34 km (21 miles) from the border.
The armed mutiny in June by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, was also notably absent from Putin's speech. Instead, Putin portrayed Russia and its people as united, supportive and "firm in defending national interests, our freedom and security, our values".
"Working for the common good has united society," he said. "We are united in our thoughts, in work and in battle, on weekdays and holidays, showing the most important traits of the Russian people - solidarity, mercy, fortitude."
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes in central Gaza killed at least 35 people Sunday, hospital officials said, as fighting raged across the tiny enclave a day after Israel’s prime minister said the war will continue for “many more months,” resisting international calls for a cease-fire.
The military said Israeli forces were operating in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis, and residents reported strikes in the central region, the latest focus of the nearly three-month air-and-ground war that has raised fears of a regional conflagration.
The U.S. military said its forces shot and killed several Iran-backed Houthi rebels when they tried to attack a cargo ship in the Red Sea, an escalation in a maritime conflict linked to the war. And an Israeli Cabinet minister suggested encouraging Gaza’s population to emigrate, remarks that could worsen tensions with Egypt and other friendly Arab states.
Israel says it wants to destroy Hamas’ governing and military capabilities in Gaza, from where it launched its Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. The militants killed some 1,200 people after breaking through Israel’s extensive border defenses, shattering its sense of security. They also captured around 240 hostages, nearly half of whom were released during a temporary cease-fire agreement in November.
Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets, setting off air raid sirens in southern and central Israel. No injuries were reported.
Displaced Palestinians found little to celebrate on New Year’s Eve in Muwasi, a makeshift camp in a mostly undeveloped area of southern Gaza’s Mediterranean coast designated by Israel as a safe zone.
“From the intensity of the pain we live, we do not feel that there is a new year,” said Kamal al-Zeinaty, huddled with his family around a fire inside a tent. “All the days are the same.”
Another relative, Zeyad al-Zeinaty, who fled with the family from the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, said his wife, brother and grandchildren are among many relatives he has lost in the war.
Israel’s unprecedented air and ground offensive has killed more than 21,800 Palestinians and wounded more than 56,000 others, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza, which does not distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths.
The war has sparked a humanitarian crisis, with a quarter of Gaza residents facing starvation, according to the United Nations. Israel’s bombardments have leveled vast swaths of the territory, displacing some 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents.
THE OFFENSIVE GRINDS ON
Israel expanded its offensive to central Gaza this week, targeting a belt of densely built-up communities that house refugees from the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation and their descendants.
In Zweida, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens of others, according to witnesses. The bodies were draped in white plastic and laid out in front of a hospital, where prayers were held before burial.
“They were innocent people,” said Hussein Siam, whose relatives were among the dead. “Israeli warplanes bombarded the whole family.”
Officials from Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah said the 13 were among 35 bodies received on Sunday.
The Israeli military said it was battling militants in Khan Younis, where Israel believes Hamas leaders are hiding. It also said its forces operating in the Shati refugee camp, in northern Gaza, found a bomb in a kindergarten and defused it. Hamas continued to launch rockets toward southern Israel.
Israel has faced stiff resistance from Hamas since it began its ground offensive in late October, and the military says 172 soldiers have been killed during that time.
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesman, said Sunday that Israel was withdrawing some forces from Gaza as part of its “smart management” of the war. He did not say how many, and held out the possibility they would return at a later point in the war.
Israeli media said up to five brigades, numbering thousands of soldiers, would be withdrawn, but it was not immediately clear if it represented a normal troop rotation or a new phase in the fighting. Hagari also said some reservists would return to civilian life to bolster Israel’s wartime economy.
The fighting has pushed much of Gaza’s population south, where people have flooded shelters and tent camps near the border with Egypt. Hundreds of thousands have sought shelter in the central town of Deir al-Balah. Israel has continued to carry out strikes in both areas.
Eman al-Masri, who gave birth to quadruplets a week ago at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, is now sheltering with them in a room with 50 other people at a school-turned-shelter. “There is a shortage of diapers, they are not available, and no milk,” she said.
ISRAELI MINISTER URGES MASS MIGRATION FROM GAZA
The scale of the destruction and the exodus to the south has raised fears among Palestinians and Arab countries that Israel plans to drive Gaza’s population out and prevent it from returning.
On Sunday, Israel’s far-right finance minister said it should “encourage migration” from Gaza and re-establish Jewish settlements in the territory, where it withdrew settlers and soldiers in 2005.
“If in Gaza there were only 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs and not 2 million, the entire discussion about ‘the day after’ would be completely different,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told Army Radio.
Smotrich has been largely sidelined by a war Cabinet that does not include him. But his comments risked worsening tensions with neighboring Egypt, which is deeply concerned about a possible mass influx of Palestinian refugees, along with other friendly Arab countries.
Later Sunday, an official in the prime minister’s office said Israel does not want to resettle Palestinians.
“Contrary to false allegations, Israel does not seek to displace the population in Gaza,” the official said in a statement to The Associated Press. “Subject to security checks, Israel’s policy is to enable those individuals who wish to leave to do so.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with the media.
Israel is also at odds with the United States, which has provided crucial military aid for the offensive, over Gaza’s future.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel must maintain open-ended security control over the Gaza Strip. At a news conference Saturday, he said the war would continue for “many more months” and that Israel would assume control of the Gaza side of the border with Egypt.
Israel says Hamas has smuggled weapons from Egypt, but Egypt is likely to oppose any Israeli military presence there.
Netanyahu has also said he won’t allow the internationally-backed Palestinian Authority, which administers some parts of the occupied West Bank, to expand its limited rule to Gaza, where Hamas drove its forces out in 2007.
The U.S. wants a unified Palestinian government to run both Gaza and parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a precursor to eventual statehood. The last Israeli-Palestinian peace talks broke down over a decade ago, and Israeli governments since have been staunchly opposed to Palestinian statehood.
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Mroue reported from Beirut and Goldenberg from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem and Jack Jeffery in Cairo contributed to this report.
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KINSHASA, Congo — Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has won reelection with more than 70% of the vote, the country's election commission said Sunday as opposition candidates and their supporters questioned the validity of the results.
The preliminary results of the Dec. 20 election were announced in the capital, Kinshasa, amid demands from the opposition and some civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to massive logistical problems that they said had undermined the balloting.
Tshisekedi's overwhelming declared victory was likely to fuel those concerns. The second-place candidate was businessman Moise Katumbi, who received 18% of the vote, and Martin Fayulu, who received 5%, finished third. Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, a physician renowned for treating women brutalized by sexual violence in eastern Congo, got less than 1%.
Speaking from his headquarters in the capital after the results were announced, Tshisekedi thanked his supporters for giving him another five-year term.
"You believed in my commitment so that our country can find its place in the concert of nations," he said. "You have embraced my vision of society. I will spare no effort for more jobs, more purchasing power, more access to basic services at all levels."
About 18 million people voted in the election, which had a turnout of more than a 40%, according to the election commission. The results will be sent to the constitutional court for confirmation, election chief Denis Kadima said.
Candidates opposing the results have two days to submit their claims, and the constitutional court then has seven days to decide. The final results are expected on January 10, and the president is scheduled to be sworn in at the end of that month.
Congo has a history of disputed elections that can turn violent, and there's little confidence among many Congolese in the country's institutions. Before the results were announced Sunday, opposition candidates, including Katumbi, said they rejected the results and called on the population to mobilize.
The logistical problems included many polling stations being late in opening or not opening at all. Some lacked materials, and many voter cards had smudged ink that made them illegible.
Voting in the election had to be extended into a second day— something local observers and civil society organizations have called illegal — and parts of the country were still casting ballots five days after election day.
"If a foreign country considers these elections to be elections, there's a problem," Fayulu said at a news conference in the capital Sunday before the results were announced. "It's a farce, don't accept (the results)."
Violence was already flaring in parts of the country before the results were announced. In the eastern city of Goma, youth barricaded some main streets demanding a revote. Earlier this week, clashes erupted between some of Fayulu's supporters and police officers who fired tear gas at protesters who threw rocks and barricaded themselves inside the opposition headquarters.
"These elections are an example of fraud and ballot-box stuffing, flouting any transparent and credible electoral process and, moreover, democracy," said Bienvenu Matumo, a member of LUCHA, a local rights group.
Leading up to and during the vote, the election commission was accused of not being transparent enough. The East African Community said its election observer mission was not granted access to Congo, and the European Union canceled its mission after authorities did not authorize the use of satellite equipment by EU monitors.
Congo analysts say the thousands of observers that were in the country were unable to say whether the irregularities had an impact on the overall integrity of the results, leaving it to the election commission.
Tshisekedi already has spent much of his time in office trying to gain legitimacy after a disputed 2018 election that some observers said Fayulu had actually won.
Overall, Tshisekedi's track record has been spotty. He's struggled to stem violence in the east, a goal he campaigned on.
Conflict in eastern Congo has raged for decades, with more than 120 armed groups fighting for power, resources and to protect their communities. But the violence has spiked during Tshisekedi's term with the resurgence of the M23 rebels, who have displaced millions of people and seized swaths of land. The fighting prevented 1.5 million people from registering to vote.
Attempts to quell the violence with an East African Force comprised of troops from neighboring countries have failed. The force is pulling out, along with a U.N. peacekeeping mission that has been in Congo for decades.
Still, Tshisekedi's initiatives creating free health care for pregnant mothers and babies and providing free primary education has changed the lives of some people living in remote villages.
"My brothers can go to school now without my parents paying, which allows my father to put that money to buying food for the family," John Nlaza, a resident of a small village in Kongo Central province told The Associated Press.
Congolese analysts said it's important to view Tshisekedi's win with caution given the significant uncertainty of the presidential election's validity.
"The opposition's contesting of the results is not only a predictable reaction, but it also highlights the persistence of a deeper crisis of legitimacy at the top of the state," Tresor Kibangula, a political analyst at the Congolese research institute Ebuteli, said. "This battle will depend on (the opposition's) ability to mobilize the Congolese people for its cause, with a view to reversing the balance of power."
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(MENAFN- IANS) Beijing, Jan 1 (IANS) Eugene German scored 34 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out eight assists as the 16th-ranked Fujian Sturgeons pulled off a home victory over leaders Xinjiang Flying Tigers, 104-93, in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) League on Sunday.
Fujian led the opening stages with a 13-point advantage, however, Xinjiang made a 34-19 run in the second quarter to go up at 51-44 before halftime, reports Xinhua.
German hit a 3-pointer with 0.1 seconds remaining in the third quarter as Fujian reversed the situation. The 26-year-old American continued to impress in the last period and finally helped Fujian snap their six-game losing streak.
Travis Trice scored 17 points, Qi Lin 16 and Abudushalamu Abudurexiti 15 for Xinjiang, who had won 12 straight games before Sunday's match.
Five players scored double-digits as the Qingdao Eagles led through all four quarters to grab their fourth straight win with a 104-92 victory over the sixth-ranked Shenzhen Aviators.
Elsewhere, the Ningbo Rockets defeated the Sichuan Blue Whales 106-101 at home, the Shandong Heroes cruised past the Guangzhou Loong Lions 103-83, and the Tianjin Pioneers overturned Shanghai Sharks 117-113.
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Denmark's Queen Margrethe II announces surprise abdication on live TV
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, Europe's longest-serving monarch, will abdicate on Jan. 14 after 52 years on the throne and will be succeeded by her eldest son Crown Prince Frederik, she announced on Sunday.
The 83-year-old queen, who ascended the throne in 1972, made the surprise announcement on live TV during her traditional New Year's Eve speech, which is viewed by many in the country of 5.9 million people.
Referring to a successful back operation she underwent in February, she said, "The surgery naturally gave rise to thinking about the future - whether the time had come to leave the responsibility to the next generation".
"I have decided that now is the right time. On 14 January 2024 – 52 years after I succeeded my beloved father – I will step down as queen of Denmark," she said.
"I leave the throne to my son, Crown Prince Frederik," she said.
The queen became the longest-serving monarch in Europe following the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022. In July, she became the longest-sitting monarch in Denmark's history.
In Denmark, formal power resides with the elected parliament and its government. The monarch is expected to stay above partisan politics, representing the nation with traditional duties ranging from state visits to national day celebrations.
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen thanked the queen for her life-long dedication to duty.
"It is still difficult to understand that the time has now come for a change of throne," Frederiksen said in a statement, adding that many Danes had never known another monarch.
"Queen Margrethe is the epitome of Denmark and throughout the years has put words and feelings into who we are as a people and as a nation," she said.
Born in 1940 to Denmark's former monarch King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid, Margrethe has throughout her life enjoyed broad support from Danes, who are fond of her tactful and yet creative personality.
She is also known for her love of archaeology and has taken part in several excavations.
She became heir to her father in 1953 at the age of 31, after a constitutional amendment allowed women to inherit the throne.
In 1967, she married French diplomat Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, who served as her royal consort until his death in 2018.
The couple's two sons are Crown Prince Frederik, who will become King Frederik X, and Prince Joachim. Frederik married Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, an Australian, in 2004. | https://www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/europe/denmarks-queen-margrethe-ii-announces-surprise-abdication-live-tv-767578 | 2024-01-01T05:28:48Z |
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Kazakhstan’s copper ore mining increases by 8%
Over the past year, mining of copper ore rose by 8.2% year on year to 103.2 million tons. The country produced: 12.9 million tons (+15.7% YOY) of copper concentrates, 4.8 million tons (-4.2%) of copper-zinc ores, and 580.6 thousand tons (+15.5%) of copper in copper concentrate.
The main copper ore miners are East Kazakhstan (37% of the total production in the country), Pavlodar (30%) and Karaganda (28%) regions.
"For 12 months of 2018, production of refined copper and copper alloys reached 442.6 thousand tons or 3% more than a year before. The top producing regions are Karaganda region (76% of the country's total output) and East Kazakhstan region (21%). Kazakhmys operates in Karaganda region - about forty industrial facilities of the company operate in Karaganda, Satpayev, Zhezkazkan, and Balkhash," the publication reads.
At the end of the first 11 months of 2018, exports of refined copper and copper alloys decreased by 4.2% in volume and increased by 5.1% in monetary terms.
"Among the CIS countries, Ukraine still remains the main importer of Kazakhstan's copper. The other (importing) countries of the world include China, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. It is noteworthy that the exports of copper-mine tailings and copper scrap increased at once by nearly 57% in volume, while in monetary terms it decreased by almost 19%. The key importer of copper-mine tailings and copper scrap is Russia."
Kazakhstan's supplies of copper wire to international markets decreased by 44.3% in volume and 36.8% in monetary terms. All supplies are imported by Russia. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-s-copper-ore-mining-increases-by-8_a3492396/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:51Z |
Indonesia residents remain hostile against Rohingya refugees as more arrive – ‘only bring problems later’
- Nearly 150 Rohingya refugees arrived at a beach in North Sumatra on Saturday in a leaky wooden boat that brought them from Bangladesh
- The latest arrival came after a mob of Indonesian students on Wednesday attacked a site in Banda Aceh, where 137 Rohingya were taking shelter
The group of 53 men, 39 women and 55 children arrived on Karang Gadih beach in Langkat district late Saturday, said the village head, Muhammad Amiruddin. A rickety, leaky wooden boat that brought them from Bangladesh was moored on a lighthouse island not far from the village, he said.
Five among the refugees were sick after the long journey and residents gave them food and water while they waited for instructions from immigration and local officials to decide where to take them. Residents do not want the refugees in their communities, however, and last week many protested the recent Rohingya arrivals.
“We helped them as they look very weak from hunger and dehydration,” Amiruddin said. “But many residents cannot accept them to live in our village because they will only bring problems later.”
Rohingya refugee recounts realities of being displaced in Indonesia
He said that one of the refugees told authorities that they sailed from the Cox Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh to Indonesia and became stranded on a lighthouse island.
Indonesia’s navy said on Thursday that it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after it approached the shores of Aceh province.
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It is unclear whether the refugees who arrived late Saturday in neighbouring North Sumatra province were from the same boat that was pushed away by the navy.
Indonesia has appealed to the international community for help and intensified patrols of its waters due to a sharp rise in Rohingya refugees leaving overcrowded camps in Bangladesh since November. Over 1,500 Rohingya have arrived in Aceh and faced some hostility from fellow Muslims.
Indonesia, like Thailand and Malaysia, is not a signatory to the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention so is not obliged to accept the Rohingya. So far, refugees in distress have received at least temporary accommodation. | https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3246858/indonesia-residents-remain-hostile-against-rohingya-refugees-more-arrive-only-bring-problems-later?utm_source=rss_feed | 2024-01-01T05:28:52Z |
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Based on our projections, the best bet against the spread out of 39 FBS postseason matchups is Florida State (+22.5) -- for more tips, including parlay possibilities, keep reading.
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Pick: Florida State +22.5 vs. Georgia
- Matchup: Georgia Bulldogs at Florida State Seminoles
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Florida State by 2.2 points
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: December 30
- TV Channel: ESPN
Pick: Tulane +11.5 vs. Virginia Tech
- Matchup: Virginia Tech Hokies at Tulane Green Wave
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Tulane by 3.9 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 27
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Pick: LSU -8.5 vs. Wisconsin
- Matchup: Wisconsin Badgers at LSU Tigers
- Projected Favorite & Spread: LSU by 21.3 points
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: January 1
- TV Channel: ESPN2
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Pick: Ohio +1.5 vs. Georgia Southern
- Matchup: Georgia Southern Eagles at Ohio Bobcats
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Ohio by 10.7 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Pick: Boise State +6.5 vs. UCLA
- Matchup: UCLA Bruins at Boise State Broncos
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Boise State by 5.5 points
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
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Over 40.5 - Oregon State vs. Notre Dame
- Matchup: Oregon State Beavers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Projected Total: 55.0 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 29
- TV Channel: CBS
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Over 40.5 - Miami (OH) vs. Appalachian State
- Matchup: Miami (OH) RedHawks at Appalachian State Mountaineers
- Projected Total: 51.3 points
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
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Over 47.5 - SMU vs. Boston College
- Matchup: SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Projected Total: 55.6 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 28
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Over 46.5 - UTSA vs. Marshall
- Matchup: UTSA Roadrunners at Marshall Thundering Herd
- Projected Total: 54.5 points
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: December 19
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Under 66.5 - Georgia Tech vs. UCF
- Matchup: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at UCF Knights
- Projected Total: 59.6 points
- Time: 6:30 PM ET
- Date: December 22
- TV Channel: ESPN
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that he will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP.
Attorneys for the civil rights organization had sued on behalf of several Jackson residents, saying the new court undermines democracy because local voters or local elected officials won’t choose its judge or prosecutors.
The new Capitol Complex Improvement District Court will have a judge appointed by the state Supreme Court chief justice and prosecutors appointed by the state attorney general — officials who are white and conservative.
In a ruling filed late Sunday, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate dismissed requests to block the new court, which was created by the majority-white and Republican-controlled Mississippi Legislature. Jackson is governed by Democrats.
“None of the Plaintiffs has alleged that he or she is in actual or imminent danger of experiencing any concrete and particularized injury resulting from the establishment of the CCID Court or the challenged appointment of a judge or prosecutors for that court,” Wingate wrote.
Under a law signed by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves during the spring, the new court will come into existence Jan. 1 and will have jurisdiction in a part of Jackson that includes state government buildings and some residential and shopping areas.
Reeves and legislators who support the new court say it is part of an effort to control crime in Jackson — a city that has had more than 100 homicides for each of the past three years, in a population of about 150,000.
The Capitol Complex Improvement District Court will have the same power as municipal courts, which handle misdemeanor cases, traffic violations and initial appearances for some criminal charges. People convicted in most municipal courts face time in a local jail. Those convicted in the new court will be held in a state prison, near people convicted of more serious felony crimes.
Most municipal judges are appointed by city officials. Jackson has a Black mayor and majority-Black city council. The judge of the new court is not required to live in Jackson.
Legal arguments in the case touched on racial discrimination, public safety and democracy.
In response to plaintiffs’ saying they do not feel represented by the chief justice or attorney general, Wingate wrote that they failed to prove they had ever complained to local officials or that local officials had been open to listening.
“Further, had the local officials been so obliging, this court is mystified why Jackson’s system of criminal justice is in the deplorable shape it is in, with an overcrowded docket requiring defendants to jettison any notion of a speedy disposition,” Wingate wrote.
NAACP attorneys intend to appeal the ruling.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office will continue to defend the law and “perform our duties to help protect the people of Jackson from stifling, suffocating crime that plagues the city,” chief of staff Michelle Williams said Sunday.
The state law creating the new court also expands the patrol territory for Capitol Police. The state-run police department previously patrolled near state government buildings in downtown Jackson, but the new law added other parts of the city, including more affluent residential and shopping areas.
In September, the Mississippi Supreme Court struck down the part of the same law that would have required the state chief justice to appoint four circuit judges to serve alongside the four elected circuit judges in Hinds County. The county includes Jackson and is also majority-Black and governed by Democrats.
Justices wrote that longstanding Mississippi law allows the chief justice to appoint some judges for specific reasons, such as to deal with a backlog of cases. But they wrote that “we see nothing special or unique” about the four appointed Hinds County circuit judges in the 2023 law, “certainly nothing expressly tethering them to a specific judicial need or exigency.”
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Associated Press/Report For America reporter Michael Goldberg contributed to this report. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-judge-allows-new-court-in-mississippis-majority-black-capital-rejecting-naacp-request-to-stop-it/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:54Z |
(MENAFN- IANS) Shimla, Jan 1 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu on Monday felicitated the people for New Year -- 2024.
The Governor expressed hope that the New Year would bring abundance of good health and happiness in the lives of the people and Himachal Pradesh would witness more progress in all spheres.
Chief Minister Sukhu, in a message, said the New Year may fill lives with joy and happiness.
He hoped that with the active participation of the people, Himachal Pradesh would scale new heights in every sphere.
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Israeli minister repeats call for Palestinians to leave Gaza
One of the senior figures in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition called on Sunday for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave the besieged enclave, making way for Israelis who could "make the desert bloom". The comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has been excluded from the war cabinet and discussions of day-after arrangements in Gaza, appear to underscore fears in much of the Arab world that Israel wants to drive Palestinians out of land where they want to build a future state, repeating the mass dispossession of Palestinians when Israel was created in 1948.
One of the senior figures in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition called on Sunday for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave the besieged enclave, making way for Israelis who could "make the desert bloom".
The comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has been excluded from the war cabinet and discussions of day-after arrangements in Gaza, appear to underscore fears in much of the Arab world that Israel wants to drive Palestinians out of land where they want to build a future state, repeating the mass dispossession of Palestinians when Israel was created in 1948. "What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration," Smotrich told Army Radio. "If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different."
He said if the 2.3 million population were no longer there "growing up on the aspiration to destroy the state of Israel", Gaza would be seen differently in Israel. "Most of Israeli society will say 'why not, it's a nice place, let's make the desert bloom, it doesn't come at anyone's expense'."
Smotrich, whose hard-right Religious Zionism party draws support from Israel's settler community, has made similar comments in the past, setting himself at odds with Israel's most important ally, the United States. But his views do not reflect the official government position that Gazans will be able to return to their homes after the war against the Islamist movement Hamas which controls Gaza, now nearing the start of its fourth month.
Smotrich's party, which helped Netanyahu secure the majority he needed to become prime minister for the sixth time almost exactly a year ago, has seen its approval ratings slump since the start of the conflict. Opinion polls also indicate that most Israelis do not support the return of Israeli settlements to Gaza, after they were moved out in 2005 when the army withdrew.
Palestinians and leaders of Arab countries have accused Israel of seeking a new "Nakba" (catastrophe), the name given to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the wake of the 1948 war that accompanied the founding of the state of Israel. Most ended up in neighbouring Arab states, and Arab leaders have said any latter-day move to displace Palestinians would be unacceptable.
In a speech on Sunday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected any move to force Palestinians to leave their homes. "We will not allow displacement, whether from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank," he said. Israel withdrew its military and settlers from Gaza in 2005 after a 38-year occupation, and Netanyahu has said it does not intend to maintain a permanent presence again, but that Israel would maintain security control for an indefinite period.
There has been little clarity, however, about Israel's longer-term intentions, and countries including the United States have said that Gaza should be governed by Palestinians.
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In Israel's killing of 3 hostages, some see the same excessive force directed at Palestinians | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/2762683-israeli-minister-repeats-call-for-palestinians-to-leave-gaza | 2024-01-01T05:28:55Z |
Kazakhstan's future in safe hands, view
"2019 was declared the Year of Youth. It will open new horizons for young Kazakhstanis. They will have all necessary conditions in place to make their ideas reality," Amina Khamzina told Kazinform correspondent.
She believes that participants of the Youth Forum with the participation of Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed a lot of things that are of paramount importance for Kazakhstani youth.
Amina welcomed the initiatives announced at the forum. She said, "We, the youth, have always been the generators of bold ideas. The Year of Youth will let us contribute to the development and prosperity of the nation. I believe that the future of Kazakhstan is in safe hands."
Recall that the Year of Youth officially kicked off in Kazakhstan on January 23, 2019. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-s-future-in-safe-hands-view_a3493292/ | 2024-01-01T05:28:57Z |
Anthony Edwards vs. Julius Randle and the New York Knicks: Stats, Projections and Game Preview
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 10:45 PM CST|Updated: 33 minutes ago
Julius Randle's New York Knicks (17-15) will host Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves (24-7) at Madison Square Garden on Monday, January 1. It tips off at 3:00 PM ET.
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- Edwards' numbers on the season are 26 points, 5.2 assists and 5.4 boards per game.
- The Timberwolves have a +182 scoring differential, topping opponents by 5.9 points per game. They're putting up 113.3 points per game to rank 20th in the league and are allowing 107.4 per outing to rank first in the NBA.
- Minnesota pulls down 44.4 rebounds per game (11th in the league) while conceding 40.6 per outing to its opponents. It outrebounds opponents by 3.8 boards per game.
- The Timberwolves knock down 12.1 three-pointers per game (21st in the league) while shooting 38.2% from beyond the arc (fifth-best in the NBA). They are making 1.1 more threes per outing than their opponents, who drain 11 per game while shooting 33.9%.
- Minnesota has lost the turnover battle by 1.3 turnovers per game, committing 14.7 (27th in NBA action) while forcing 13.4 (13th in the league).
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- Randle gets the Knicks 23.6 points, 9.6 boards and 4.8 assists per game. He also averages 0.6 steals and 0.2 blocks.
- The Knicks put up 115.3 points per game (15th in league) while allowing 113.9 per outing (14th in NBA). They have a +46 scoring differential and outscore opponents by 1.4 points per game.
- The 45 rebounds per game New York accumulates rank sixth in the NBA, four more than the 41 its opponents grab.
- The Knicks make 12.9 three-pointers per game (11th in the league) at a 37.5% rate (eighth-best in NBA), compared to the 13.6 their opponents make, shooting 37.6% from deep.
- New York and its opponents have been relatively even in the turnover battle. The Knicks commit 12.4 per game (seventh in league) and force 13 (17th in NBA).
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After lithium-ion batteries burned in a large cargo ship’s hold for a number of days, the U.S. Coast Guard said late Saturday that the fire was out and directed the ship to anchor near Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
The 19 crew members of the ship, Genius Star XI, were uninjured and technicians from the Salvage and Marine Firefighting team remain onboard to ensure the fire doesn’t return, according to a Coast Guard press release.
“This protected anchorage … will allow the vessel to remain stable, minimizing risk of any re-flash of the fire as we continue our response,” Capt. Chris Culpepper said in the press release, which said an investigation into the fire’s origins will begin once response efforts wrap up.
Genius Star XI was shipping lithium-ion batteries from Vietnam to San Diego. The crew alerted the Coast Guard early Thursday morning to the fire, after pumping carbon dioxide into hold No. 1 — where the blaze began — and sealing it, fearing an explosion.
The Coast Guard diverted the 410-foot (125-meter) cargo ship to Dutch Harbor, one of the nation’s busiest fishing ports located in Unalaska, an Aleutian Islands community about 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage.
Arriving Friday, Genius Star XI was kept 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from shore to mitigate the risks of toxic gases produced by the fire to the community and environment while responders worked to extinguish the flames, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Mike Salerno said in an email to The Associated Press.
There have been no oil leaks associated with the fire, according to the ship’s owners, Wisdom Marine Group. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-lithium-ion-battery-fire-in-a-cargo-ships-hold-is-out-after-several-days-of-burning/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:01Z |
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SMEs, despite offering innovative products and services, often struggle to gain the brand recognition they deserve due to a boring storyline. They face several common challenges:
Uninspiring Press Releases: Crafting press releases that fail to captivate readers and generate interest can hinder SMEs from making a lasting impression. Limited Third-Party Validation: A boring storyline has SMEs relying solely on their press releases for media coverage, so they encounter challenges in securing third-party validation and external endorsements. News Follow-Up: Some SMEs fail to secure any media coverage, but when they do, ensuring that the news continues to resonate and gain attention is equally vital. Online Brand Presence: Establishing and maintaining a strong online brand presence is essential, especially when competing with larger competitors. Attention in the Digital Space: SMEs may find it challenging to capture the attention of their target audience in the crowded digital landscape.
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For SMEs looking to enhance their brand visibility, capture audience attention, and excel in the digital age, MaxMention is the partner to rely on. MaxMention is dedicated to providing SMEs with the tools, knowledge, and support needed to thrive and stand out in the competitive market.
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Hong Kong welcomes 223,000 tourists on New Year’s Eve, but thousands stranded overnight at train station while returning to mainland China
- Tourism Board attributes influx to ‘biggest-ever’ New Year’s Eve fireworks, which drew 479,000 revellers on both sides of Victoria Harbour
- Crowds of people gather at Sheung Shui railway station, awaiting first train to cross the border on Monday morning
Hong Kong welcomed 223,000 tourists on New Year’s Eve, marking the highest number of single-day arrivals in 2023, but thousands were stranded overnight at a train station while trying to return to mainland China.
The Tourism Board revealed on Monday morning the number of visitors in the city as of 10pm on Sunday, and attributed the influx to what it called the biggest-ever New Year’s Eve fireworks.
The fireworks, a 12-minute display themed “New Year New Legend”, drew 479,000 revellers on both sides of Victoria Harbour, the board said.
According to the Immigration Department, 195,888 visitors from the mainland came to the city on Sunday, accounting for 87 per cent of total tourist arrivals.
Despite MTR train services operating throughout the night, services to the border stations of Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau Spur Line checkpoints were not available overnight, resulting in crowds of people gathering at Sheung Shui MTR station awaiting the first train to cross the border on Monday morning.
Some internet users complained on mainland social media platform, Xiaohongshu, that they had to wait for five hours at the border before they could go home.
“From Tsim Sha Tsui MTR [station] to Huanggang, it took me five hours to leave the checkpoint after watching the fireworks,” an internet user with the account name Coco963 said at 6am and also shared videos showing the crowds. “What a new year celebration!”
Hong Kong’s New Year countdown party to bring back harbour fireworks
As the MTR services between Sheung Shui and the checkpoints at Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau Spur Line commenced after 5.30am, crowds gathered at the concourse of Sheung Shui railway station, spilling over into outdoor areas before dawn.
Road traffic was busy before the train services started.
At the Sheung Shui MTR station, people with babies and luggage were seen sleeping or sitting on the ground.
Many were waiting for the first train to the Lo Wu control point. The checkpoint only runs between 6.30am and midnight. Others were trying to catch the first train to the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line connecting Shenzhen’s Futian, with the control point operating from 6.30am to 10.30pm.
At the Lok Ma Chau control point, which links Shenzhen’s Huanggang and operates around the clock, overnight shuttle bus services struggled to cope with the large number of people.
Last month, the National Development Reform Commission, the mainland’s planning agency, said it intended to have more land checkpoints with the city that operated 24 hours a day to boost connectivity with the Greater Bay Area, a new economic zone combining Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities in Guangdong.
Out of Hong Kong’s 14 control points, only four work around the clock, namely Hong Kong International Airport, Lok Ma Chau control point, Macau Ferry Terminal in Sheung Wan and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. | https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3246851/hong-kong-welcomes-223000-tourists-new-years-eve-thousands-stranded-overnight-train-station-while?utm_source=rss_feed | 2024-01-01T05:29:02Z |
Kazakhstan’s investment opportunities presented to business circles of Omsk
AIFC Managing Director Aidar Kazybayev stressed that the AIFC has English common law, as well as an independent court and arbitration. At the same time, participants in the proceedings may independently choose arbitrators, including from the Russian Federation, and the language in which the dispute will be considered. He also noted the geographical availability of Astana for Russian entrepreneurs.
"Attracting investment and financial-industrial enterprises of the Ural-Siberian region of Russia to the AIFC site is an important task of strengthening interregional cooperation between Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. By the beginning of the work of the Border Cooperation Forum of Kazakhstan and Russia, scheduled for autumn 2019, the parties intend to demonstrate real projects of mutually beneficial cooperation within the AIFC," said Kazybayev.
During the presentation, participants were informed about the exclusive institutional conditions at the AIFC site and access to a wide range of financial instruments that will attract additional funds for the further development of Omsk SMEs, including from Western and Asian markets.
The speakers also mentioned that the infrastructure of the AIFC will become a platform for the PRC "Belt and Road" initiative. The mechanism for financing infrastructure projects will be provided by the AIFC Exchange (AIX).
At the end of the presentation, bilateral meetings were held, during which representatives of SMEs received detailed answers to their questions, as well as consultations on the registration procedure at the AIFC and support of participants. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-s-investment-opportunities-presented-to-business-circles-of-omsk_a3493217/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:04Z |
How to Watch EFL Championship Soccer Today: TV & Live Streaming Links - Monday, January 1
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 9:12 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
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Property registration in Mumbai city rises 4 pc to record 1,26,907 units in 2023: Report
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Property registration in the Mumbai municipal area increased 4 per cent year-on-year to an all-time high of 1,26,907 units in 2023 on the back of better demand, according to Knight Frank.
The registration number hit a record in 2023, beating the previous high of 1,22,035 units in the previous year, real estate consultant Knight Frank India data showed.
The state government collected a revenue of Rs 10,869 crore as stamp duty in 2023, up 22 per cent from the previous year.
In December, 12,255 units were registered in Mumbai city (an area under BMC jurisdiction), up 31 per cent from 9,367 units in the year-ago period.
Knight Frank has compiled the data on the registration of properties from the Department of Registrations and Stamps, Maharashtra government. The data includes sales in primary (fresh) and secondary (re-sale) markets.
Of the overall registered properties, residential units constitute 80 per cent.
Knight Frank CMD Shishir Baijal said the demand has been driven by rising income levels, better affordability and a positive homeownership outlook. ''Notably, a 57 per cent increase in the share of high-value property registrations attests to the robustness of the market,'' he said. Supported by stable interest rates and an increasing preference for bigger and better homes, homebuyer confidence continues to fuel Mumbai's real estate momentum, Baijal said.
Akhil Saraf, founder of Proptech startup Reloy, said, ''People have understood that real estate is the safest asset class along with gold. Gold has liquidity, but real estate has utility''. Economies around the world have collapsed, but the houses people own over there are safe, he added.
''With prices and rent both increasing in Indian housing, all the hubris around 'rent vs buy' has been laid to rest,'' said Saraf, whose firm helps builders in generating referral sales.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/science-environment/2762316-property-registration-in-mumbai-city-rises-4-pc-to-record-126907-units-in-2023-report | 2024-01-01T05:29:03Z |
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) As we bid farewell to a challenging and exhausting year, the Jordanian economy is gearing up for a new year, carrying unique economic challenges and opportunities that demand strategic planning and adaptability. A comprehensive analysis of the Jordanian economic landscape reveals a delicate balance between strengths and weaknesses, the impact of external shocks and internal dynamics, requiring careful attention to achieve sustainable growth.
Jordan faced the challenge of continuous growth long before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic shocks resulting from the pandemic and subsequent global and regional shocks have affected existing macroeconomic risks, urging a critical reevaluation of growth strategies adopted over the past decade and a half in Jordan. External shocks and their responses have reshaped the relative advantages of the production structure in the Jordanian economy. However, amid these challenges, there are clear and significant opportunities that, if strategically leveraged, can lead the economy into a new era of sustainable growth in 2024.
While growth and reform strategies in Jordan have been comprehensive and ambitious, the primary focus has been on reforms rather than fostering strong economic growth. Urgent transformation is needed in the growth strategy to achieve significant leaps in economic growth rates, inaugurating a new era of economic prosperity for Jordan through the following key points:
First, fundamental transformation in coordinating mechanisms between the public and private sectors and their related initiatives. Partnership projects must play a significant role in the new growth strategy, especially considering the positive and sustainable impact previous partnership projects have had on the economic structure.
Second, investment in research and development to enhance competitiveness in the Jordanian economy, encouraging entrepreneurship and supporting technological startups to promote innovation and technology integration across various sectors. Leveraging digital technology for remote work can boost productivity, opening new avenues for specialised employment and positioning Jordan as a hub for knowledge-based industries.
Third, expansion of export markets for goods and services, recognising the vital role that export-oriented activities can play in expanding Jordan's presence in global markets. This involves diversifying key export sectors, expanding export markets and enhancing competition for export products.
Fourth, exploring the potential of green growth, as it represents a promising path for the transformation of the Jordanian economy. By investing in sustainable practices, renewable energy and environmentally friendly initiatives, Jordan can contribute not only to environmental preservation but also benefit from the growing global demand for green technologies and products.
Fifth, continued development and improvement of logistical and transportation infrastructure to enhance trade, attract investment, and stimulate economic zones' development.
Sixth, maximising the potential and capabilities of the robust banking sector, a key pillar for supporting economic stability. Utilizing the sector's strength to facilitate access to credit for individuals and companies can further stimulate economic growth. Collaborative efforts between the government, central bank and banks can lead to innovative financial solutions to address specific challenges. Additionally, cooperative efforts between the government, central bank, and commercial banks can lead to innovative financial solutions to address specific challenges. It is essential to emphasize the need to increase credit facility growth rates to levels not less than 20 per cent, aiming to achieve economic growth rates higher than 5 per cent, especially considering that the majority of liquidity in the economy originates from the banking sector. This requires presenting viable economic projects to banks for financing from the available liquidity they possess.
Seventh, in response to the deep economic impacts of global economic repercussions, shocks and geopolitical tensions on the Jordanian economy, increasing economic resilience is crucial. This involves diversifying and complicating the economy, adopting risk-based policies and strategies, and establishing diplomatic and trade relationships with a diverse range of countries to mitigate the impact of external shocks.
Eighth, addressing the persistent challenge of high and entrenched unemployment requires a multifaceted strategy. Improving employment opportunities can be achieved through investments in education and vocational training aligned with labor market needs. Simultaneously, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, promoting entrepreneurial spirit, providing financing, enhancing infrastructure and directing investment towards promising sectors that require a workforce are essential.
Ninth, another factor affecting the Jordanian economic landscape is the significant increase in public debt, reaching approximately 115 per cent of the gross domestic product by the end of 2023. A large portion of this debt is attributed to the energy and water sectors. This poses a significant financial challenge for the government, necessitating careful debt management strategies and a focus on enhancing financial sustainability.
In conclusion, Jordan must take decisive steps to implement these strategies, making 2024 an effective beginning for a new era of economic growth and prosperity. Wishing everyone a prosperous year ahead.
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DETROIT (AP) — Four people died and two others were injured Saturday in a Michigan house explosion that could be heard miles away, police said.
The explosion happened before 4 p.m. in Northfield Township, about 45 miles (72.4 kilometers) west of Detroit. The structure was destroyed, leaving only the basement, Northfield Township Police Lt. David Powell told reporters Saturday.
The blast, which could be heard about 9 miles (14.4 kilometers) away, sent debris into the air that landed on both sides of a nearby highway. Neighboring homes were not damaged, Powell said.
Six people were in the home, with four fatalities discovered at the scene and the two surviving victims hospitalized in critical condition. Police did not immediately know if the victims were related, Powell said.
Authorities have not determined the cause of the explosion.
Northfield Township police did not immediately return a message from The Associated Press seeking additional information on Sunday. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-michigan-home-explosion-heard-for-miles-kills-4-and-injures-2-police-say/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:07Z |
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Kazakhstan's Sadriddin Akhmedov soars in world rankings
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan's Sadriddin Akhmedov (7-0, 7 KOs) had another professional fight, Sports.kz reports.
In a boxing event in Montreal, 20-year-old Akhmedov knocked out Mexican boxer Abraham Juarez (13-2, 5 KOs) in the fourth round and, therefore, gained the WBC youth world super welterweight title.
Following the bout, the Kazakh boxer made a drastic breakthrough in the BoxRec.com rankings within his division. Sadriddin immediately climbed 116 positions and now ranks 85th.
It should be mentioned that another Kazakh boxer Nursultan Zhanabayev (6-0, 4 KOs), who holds the WBC Asia belt, is 80th in the rankings. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-s-sadriddin-akhmedov-soars-in-world-rankings_a3492330/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:11Z |
Premier League Anytime Goal Scorer Prop Bets & Odds in the US Today, January 1
Published: Dec. 20, 2023 at 10:33 PM CST|Updated: 57 minutes ago
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- Games Played: 19
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- Games Played: 19
- Goals: 5
Cody Gakpo, Liverpool FC (+130)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 17
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- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 13
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- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 18
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- Games Played: 9
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Callum Wilson, Newcastle United (+210)
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- Games Played: 14
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- Games Played: 18
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Dominik Szoboszlai, Liverpool FC (+350)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 19
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What to expect from Hong Kong in 2024: from high-level national security trials to a citywide recycling push
- The new year will see the high-profile trials of media tycoon Jimmy Lai and opposition figures, as the city presses on with pandemic recovery amid economic headwinds
- Hongkongers may also find out if government plans to reverse brain drain and flagging birth rates will bear fruit
Hong Kong can expect more shake-ups in its political, legal and environmental scenes in 2024, with national security set to remain in the spotlight amid several ongoing high-profile trials and new legislation, while a garbage levy and much more are also on the agenda.
The Post breaks down the biggest topics set to dominate the headlines in 2024.
Trial of Jimmy Lai
The court will record Lai’s plea before hearing the opening statement from the prosecution, with witnesses to take the stand afterwards. The trial is expected to last about 80 days.
Three High Court judges will decide whether Lai’s conduct constitutes sedition and collusion with foreign forces for allegedly seeking international sanctions against local and national authorities and inciting public hatred during the 2019 social unrest.
London and Washington in December both called for the 76-year-old’s immediate release, with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron accusing the prosecution of being “politically motivated”.
Verdict for trial of Hong Kong 47
A panel of three top judges are also expected to hand down a ruling as early as March for 16 opposition figures who pleaded not guilty of conspiring to subvert state power through an unofficial Legislation Council primary election in 2020.
The group face up to life in prison if they are found guilty of taking part in a “grand strategy of subversion” that allegedly breached national security legislation.
The other 31 out of the 47-strong group have already pleaded guilty to the charge and will go through mitigation proceedings this year before the judges issue a ruling.
Hong Kong 47: who are the key defendants in national security trial?
Passage of Article 23
The legislation will supplement the existing Beijing-imposed law from 2020 and is expected to cover espionage, theft of state secrets and political activities conducted by foreign political entities.
While further details on the legislation, including plans for a public consultation, are not yet clear, security minister Chris Tang Ping-keung has suggested that Hong Kong’s definition of state secrets will differ from the mainland’s.
Protesters appear in court five years on
In the nearly five years since Hong Kong witnessed demonstrations against a now-shelved extradition bill that turned into anti-government protests, police have made 10,279 arrests in connection with the incident and charged 2,910 of the group.
While proceedings for most of the related cases have closed, courts in 2024 are still contending with a backlog of trials and appeals, including those linked to mob violence at Yuen Long MTR station that took place on July 21, 2019.
Police chief Raymond Siu Chak-yee had suggested concluding all related cases by March 2023, but city leader Lee later ruled out setting any time frame as “unrealistic”.
The city’s appeal court will also hear the government’s second bid to ban “Glory to Hong Kong” through way of an injunction.
The song, composed amid the unrest, has been mistaken overseas for being Hong Kong’s national anthem at several high-profile sports events.
Court role over national security limited, ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ appeal told
Waste charge from April 1
Under the policy, residents must pay to use rubbish bags, which are available in nine sizes and priced at 11 HK cents per litre. Oversized waste will be levied using paid labels.
The scheme will only be actively enforced after a six-month transition period, during which some residents will receive free bags.
Advocacy groups have also raised concerns that people with disabilities will end up paying more as some used medical supplies cannot be recycled.
Taking a drive from Guangdong to Hong Kong
Private motorists from Guangdong province and Macau will have the opportunity to drive to Hong Kong under a quota scheme set to launch in 2024.
But the first phase will only allow drivers to park their cars at a facility near the border, with visitors to rely on public transport to travel further into the city.
Motorists must reserve one of thousands of spaces at an “automatic” facility at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.
Transport minister Lam Sai-hung earlier said authorities had not set a timeline for expanding the scheme, citing concerns about the conditions of local roads.
He also criticised city authorities for assigning an “economic” policy to transport officials.
Hong Kong’s transport chief raises concerns over southbound travel plan
Phased completion of Kai Tak Sports Park
The Kai Tak Sports Park, which forms the centrepiece of redevelopment efforts at the former airport site, is expected to be “completed in phases” by the end of 2024, one year ahead of the original target.
The main venue can hold up to 50,000 people and will host the iconic rugby sevens tournament from 2025 onwards. The local music industry also hopes the site can help attract mega pop stars after Taylor Swift and Coldplay skipped Hong Kong for their 2024 concert series.
Victoria Harbour in 2024 will also be the site of the E1 World Championship finale, the first-ever all-electric boat race, as part of efforts to attract major events and boost the city’s global profile.
Hong Kong airport to use 3 runways
The Airport Authority said it expected a full post-pandemic recovery by the end of 2024, reporting flight movements and passenger traffic had reached 80 per cent of pre-Covid levels.
Hong Kong’s air passenger traffic expected to return to pre-Covid levels by 2024
Depleting government coffers
Hong Kong faces uncertain economic prospects for 2024, with the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce predicting a full-year real gross domestic product growth forecast of 2.9 per cent, citing “external headwinds” such as weak global demand and high interest rates.
The city is also expecting another eye-watering deficit in the new year following tough conditions in the property and financial markets in 2023 that weighed on the government’s land sales and stamp duty income.
That would follow an estimated deficit of HK$139.8 billion in the previous year, the second highest on record.
Hong Kong’s fiscal reserves stood at HK$670.7 billion as of November 30, 2023, compared with HK$1.1 trillion in the same period in 2018.
Hong Kong deficit hits HK$164.1 billion for first 8 months of financial year
Population boom or bust?
The new year will also serve as a waypoint for a raft of government measures to overcome past migration waves and a flagging birth rate.
City leader Lee’s administration has already introduced several measures to encourage families to have more children, such as a HK$20,000 handout for every newborn, and get a foot on the property ladder.
Hong Kong previously launched a series of drives to trawl for skilled workers, such as the Top Talent Pass Scheme. The government has already brought in more than 81,000 people under the various policies as of November, more than double its original target.
The general population stood at 7,498,100 in June 2023, up 2.1 per cent from 7,346,100 logged the year before, signalling a recouping of the decline recorded since 2020. | https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3246834/hong-kong-just-stepped-2024-high-level-national-security-trials-citywide-recycling-push-heres-what?utm_source=rss_feed | 2024-01-01T05:29:13Z |
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) In a recent address, Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, shed light on the remarkable security challenges that Israel is currently confronting. Strikingly, Israel believes to be under attack on seven fronts, including Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. Gallant asserts that addressing this multi-front assault is not merely incidental but is deemed a necessary strategy for ensuring Israel's security in a region fraught with volatility.
The ongoing conflict in Gaza has already spread, prompting Israel to broaden its strategic focus to address potential threats emanating from abroad. Regions like Lebanon, Syria, and specific Iranian targets are now under heightened scrutiny. The recent high-profile assassination of a key figure in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp further underscores the intensity of this escalating situation. It appears that targeted intelligence operations against individuals perceived as significant threats to Israel's security are part of a broader strategy to assert control over regional challenges.
This new phase introduces a layer of complexity and risk that extends beyond Israel's borders, impacting the entire region. Of particular concern is the Red Sea issue, notably the involvement of the Houthis, which has garnered international attention. The prospect of forming an international coalition to assist Israel in countering these diverse threats gains significance, especially considering the broader ramifications on global trade and navigation system instability on numerous countries.
While confronting threats on multiple fronts is undeniably daunting, Israel's approach seems to align with a military doctrine that anticipates and prepares for such multifaceted scenarios. Previous joint drills and training exercises with strategic partners, such as the US, have specifically equipped Israeli forces to respond effectively to situations involving open fronts and diverse regions. With the Gaza conflict gradually de-escalating, this juncture could be strategically opportune for Israel to proactively address risks emanating from abroad.
Simultaneously, the situation in Gaza remains a persistent and deeply troubling humanitarian crisis. The extensive damage to infrastructure has rendered the region increasingly uninhabitable. Encouragingly, proposals are emerging to address this crisis, involving technocrats, governments and international collaboration. These evolving solutions are becoming not only realistic but essential for fostering stability and addressing the plight of the affected population.
Beyond immediate security concerns, Israel's national security considerations extend to the situation in Syria and the intricate connections between Tehran and Beirut. Disrupting the flow of weapons, money, and fighters between these regions is deemed crucial in the overarching strategy to mitigate risks and ensure the long-term security of Israel. The adoption of a seven-front approach, while complex, reflects a comprehensive effort to safeguard the country amid evolving regional dynamics.
As conflicts escalate in the region, their far-reaching impacts extend to various nations, including neighbouring Jordan. The imperative for Jordan lies in securing its borders and developing a national security strategy that can anticipate and effectively address potential consequences. The evolving nature of this conflict, extending beyond Gaza, especially from the escalation in the West Bank, underscores the pressing need for comprehensive regional development and proactive conflict management. In navigating these challenges, Jordan's cooperation and engagement with its allies on all levels, intel, military and political becomes paramount.
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MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — Nearly 150 Rohingya refugees, mostly hungry and weak women and children, have reached a beach in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province after weeks at sea, officials said Sunday.
The group of 53 men, 39 women and 55 children arrived on Karang Gadih beach in Langkat district late Saturday, said the village head, Muhammad Amiruddin. A rickety, leaky wooden boat that brought them from Bangladesh was moored on a lighthouse island not far from the village, he said.
Five among the refugees were sick after the long journey and residents gave them food and water while they waited for instructions from immigration and local officials to decide where to take them. Residents do not want the refugees in their communities, however, and last week many protested the recent Rohingya arrivals.
“We helped them as they look very weak from hunger and dehydration,” Amiruddin said. “But many residents cannot accept them to live in our village because they will only bring problems later.”
He said that one of the refugees told authorities that they sailed from the Cox Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh to Indonesia and became stranded on a lighthouse island.
About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh after fleeing their homes in Myanmar to escape a brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces. But the camps in Bangladesh are squalid, with surging gang violence and rampant hunger, leading many to flee again.
A mob of Indonesian students on Wednesday attacked the basement of a local community hall in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, where 137 Rohingya were taking shelter. The incident drew an outcry from human rights group and the U.N. refugee agency, which said the attack left the refugees shocked and traumatized.
Indonesia’s navy said Thursday that it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after it approached the shores of Aceh province.
It’s unclear whether the refugees who arrived late Saturday in neighboring North Sumatra province were from the same boat that was pushed away by the navy.
Indonesia has appealed to the international community for help and intensified patrols of its waters due to a sharp rise in Rohingya refugees leaving overcrowded camps in Bangladesh since November. Over 1,500 Rohingya have arrived in Aceh and faced some hostility from fellow Muslims.
Indonesia, like Thailand and Malaysia, is not a signatory to the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention so is not obligated to accept the Rohingya. So far, refugees in distress have received at least temporary accommodation.
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Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report.
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More Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia despite rejection from locals
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Some 170 likely Rohingya refugees, mostly hungry and weak women and children, were found on a beach in Indonesia's North Sumatra province after weeks at sea, officials said on Sunday.
The group arrived on a beach at Kuala Besar, a fishing village in Langkat district, late on Saturday, said the village head, Muhammad Amiruddin.
Villagers who saw the group of Rohingya Muslims helped them with food and water as they waited for further instructions from immigration and local officials in North Sumatra province, he said.
However, residents around the beach hesitated over having the refugees in their villages, Amiruddin said.
“We helped them as they look very weak from hunger and dehydration,” Amiruddin said, “But many residents cannot accept them to live in our village because they will only bring problems later.” A mob of students on Wednesday attacked the basement of a local community hall in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, where 137 Rohingya were taking shelter.
The incident drew an outcry from human rights group and the UN refugee agency, which said the attack left the refugees shocked and traumatised.
Indonesia's navy said on Thursday that it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after the vessel approached the shores of Aceh province a day earlier.
It's unclear whether the refugees who arrived late Saturday in neighbouring North Sumatra province were from the same boat that was pushed away by the navy on Wednesday.
Indonesia has appealed to the international community for help and intensified patrols of its waters due to a sharp rise in Rohingya refugees leaving overcrowded camps in Bangladesh since November. Over 1,500 Rohingya have arrived in Aceh and faced some hostility from fellow Muslims.
Indonesia, like Thailand and Malaysia, is not a signatory to the United Nations' 1951 Refugee Convention so is not obligated to accept the Rohingya. So far, refugees in distress have received at least temporary accommodation.
Muslims comprise nearly 90 per cent of Indonesia's 277 million people, and Indonesia once tolerated such landings, while Thailand and Malaysia pushed refugee boats away. But there has been a surge of anti-Rohingya sentiment this year, especially in Aceh, where residents accuse the Rohingya of poor behaviour and creating a burden.
The growing hostility of some Indonesians toward the Rohingya has put pressure on President Joko Widodo's government to take action.
About 740,000 Rohingya were resettled in Bangladesh after fleeing their homes in Myanmar to escape a brutal counterinsurgency campaign by security forces. But the camps in Bangladesh are squalid, with surging gang violence and rampant hunger, leading many to flee again.
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Texas vs. Washington Sugar Bowl Semifinal Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - Monday, January 1
According to our computer model, the No. 2 Washington Huskies will beat the No. 3 Texas Longhorns when the two teams play at Caesars Superdome on Monday, January 1, which kicks off at 8:45 PM. For our projections on the spead, point total, and final score, see the rest of the article below.
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- Based on this contest's moneyline, the Longhorns have an implied win probability of 63.6%.
- Against the spread, the Longhorns are 7-6-0 this season.
- Texas has an ATS record of 6-6 when playing as at least 3.5-point favorites.
- The Longhorns have played 13 games this season and five of them have gone over the total.
- Texas games this season have posted an average total of 54, which is 9.5 points fewer than the total for this matchup.
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- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Huskies have a 40.8% chance to win.
- So far this year, the Huskies have put together a 6-6-1 record against the spread.
- Washington is a perfect 1-0 against the spread when an underdog by 3.5 points or more this year.
- The Huskies have hit the over in six of their 13 games with a set total (46.2%).
- The average point total for the Washington this year is 1.2 points less than this game's over/under.
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Kazakhstan's youth becomes competitive globally, view
"The official opening of the Year of Youth took place. It is a long-awaited event. The road to the bright future is always open for youth of Kazakhstan and the 2019 devoted to the country's youth once again places emphasis on this fact. Today's youth succeed in the international arena, in music, sport, starting business and development of innovations. Young scientists rose to prominence. Kazakhstan's youth becomes competitive throughout the world, and the various governmental youth development programs bear fruits to the full. There are bright representatives who take creative and modern approaches in their work. That very youth will have to build new Kazakhstan to join the top 30 developed states of the world as the President and the Government have already laid foundation," Kairyev said.
"Let me congratulate the youth of Kazakhstan on this landmark event, the opening of the Year of Youth, with participation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. It is a great honor for the youth, a big start," he resumed. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-s-youth-becomes-competitive-globally-view_a3492467/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:18Z |
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) As we set resolutions to achieve personal goals and give back, the end of the year is a time to envision the positive changes we can bring to the world in the upcoming twelve months. Shining a light on the power of doing good, it is a time to consider how we can extend our impact to do the most that we possibly can.
Globally, all countries have promised to fix all the world's big issues by 2030, through the so-called Sustainable Development Goals. The world's governments came together in 2015 to promise to end hunger, poverty and disease, to fix corruption, climate change and war, to ensure jobs, growth and education along with a bewildering array of major and minor promises like developing more urban gardens. Unfortunately, this year even the UN admitted that we are failing badly. Promising everything means nothing is a priority.
We need to insist that our politicians get real in 2024 and focus first on the most efficient policies. And in our own, end-of-year donations, we should similarly look to achieve the most good we can for every dollar spent.
Together with my think-tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, in recent years I have worked with more than a hundred of the world's top economists and several Nobel Laureates to discover where each of us can help the most first.
Our free, peer-reviewed findings, which can also be read in the book“Best Things First”, offer a roadmap for the 12 smartest initiatives for politicians around the world. They highlight proven solutions to persistent problems that deliver immense benefits at low cost. These are policies like delivering more mosquito nets to tackle malaria, nutritional supplements for pregnant women to boost the baby's opportunities even before it is born, or better legal protection to ensure poor farmers' rights over their land, increasing productivity.
In total, politicians could set aside just $35 billion a year, a rounding error in most global negotiations, to deliver immense benefits: implementing these 12 policies would save 4.2 million lives annually and make the poorer half of the world more than $1 trillion better off every year. On average, a dollar invested would deliver an astounding 52 dollars of social benefits.
But just as these overarching goals should inspire and guide politicians, they can also guide us as we make our own, end-of-year donations to help make a better 2024.
We need to focus more on the tuberculosis epidemic. TB has been treatable for more than 50 years, yet, still kills more than 1.4 million people annually. The solution is quite straight-forward: Make sure more people get diagnosed and make it easier for patients to stay on their medication, which is needed for a grueling 6 months. Many organisations push for these simple solutions, and you can help them. We find that governments should similarly increase their funding. Just $6.2 billion annually can save a million lives a year over the coming decades. Each dollar delivers an amazing 46 dollars of social benefits.
We also need to pay attention to cheap and efficient ways to increase learning for kids in schools. Shared tablets with educational software used just one hour a day cost only $31 per student over a year and result in learning that normally would take three years. Semi-structured teaching plans can make teachers teach more efficiently, doubling learning outcomes each year for just $9 per student. As individuals, we can donate to organizations doing amazing work in these areas, across Africa and beyond. And governments could collectively dramatically improve education for almost half a billion primary school students in the world's poorer half for less than $10 billion annually, to generate long-term productivity increases worth 65 dollars for each dollar spent.
And we can help much more with maternal and child health. The research shows a simple package of policies that improve basic care and family planning access are incredibly powerful, and many organisations are working hard in these areas, today. If we could convince politicians to commit less than $5 billion annually, we could actually save the lives of 166,000 mothers and 1.2 million newborns annually.
Across all the 12 policies we identified, there are inspiring organizations doing incredible work. These are the areas where our donations, and any additional government spending, can have the biggest impact.
As the year winds down, we are presented with an occasion to break free from the never-ending cycle of negativity. The holiday season, with its moments of reflection and celebration, encourages us to pause and take stock of the positive aspects of our lives and the world at large. For 2024, let us resolve not only to help more, but to help better. In the twelve months ahead, let's focus on making the most effective and impactful contributions to create a brighter world.
Bjorn Lomborg is the author of“Best Things First”, which The Economist named one of the best books of 2023.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his military to “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea if provoked, state media reported Monday, after he vowed to boost national defense to cope with what he called an unprecedented U.S.-led confrontation.
Kim is expected to ramp up weapons tests in 2024 ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November. Many experts say he likely believes his expanded nuclear arsenal would allow him to wrest U.S. concessions if former President Donald Trump is reelected.
In a five-day major ruling party meeting last week, Kim said he will launch three more military spy satellites, produce more nuclear materials and develop attack drones this year in what observers say is an attempt to increase his leverage in future diplomacy with the U.S.
In a meeting on Sunday with commanding army officers, Kim said it is urgent to sharpen “the treasured sword” to safeguard national security, an apparent reference to his country’s nuclear weapons program. He cited “the U.S. and other hostile forces’ military confrontation moves,” according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kim stressed that “our army should deal a deadly blow to thoroughly annihilate them by mobilizing all the toughest means and potentialities without moment’s hesitation” if they opt for military confrontation and provocations against North Korea, KCNA said.
In his New Year’s Day address Monday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he will strengthen his military’s preemptive strike, missile defense and retaliatory capabilities in response to the North Korean nuclear threat.
“The Republic of Korea is building genuine, lasting peace through strength, not a submissive peace that is dependent on the goodwill of the adversary,” Yoon said, using South Korea’s official name.
At the party meeting, Kim called South Korea “a hemiplegic malformation and colonial subordinate state” whose society is “tainted by Yankee culture.” He said his military must use all available means including nuclear weapons to “suppress the whole territory of South Korea” in the event of a conflict.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry warned in response that if North Korea attempts to use nuclear weapons, South Korean and U.S. forces will punish it overwhelmingly, resulting in the end of the Kim government.
Experts say small-scale military clashes between North and South Korea could happen this year along their heavily armed border. They say North Korea is also expected to test-launch intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the mainland U.S. and other major new weapons.
In 2018-19, Kim met Trump in three rounds of talks on North Korea’s expanding nuclear arsenal. The diplomacy fell apart after the U.S. rejected Kim’s offer to dismantle his main nuclear complex, a limited step, in exchange for extensive reductions in U.S.-led sanctions.
Since 2022, North Korea has conducted more than 100 missile tests, prompting the U.S. and South Korea to expand their joint military drills. North Korea has also tried to strengthen its relationships with China and Russia, which blocked efforts by the U.S. and its partners in the U.N. Security Council to toughen U.N. sanctions on North Korea over its weapons tests.
KCNA said Kim and Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged New Year’s Day messages on Monday on bolstering bilateral ties. North Korea faces suspicions that it has supplied conventional arms for Russia’s war in Ukraine in return for sophisticated Russian technologies to enhance the North’s military programs.
Estimates of the size of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal vary, ranging from about 20-30 bombs to more than 100. Many foreign experts say North Korea still has some technological hurdles to overcome to produce functioning nuclear-armed ICBMs, though its shorter-range nuclear-capable missiles can reach South Korea and Japan. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-north-koreas-kim-orders-military-to-thoroughly-annihilate-us-south-korea-if-provoked/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:22Z |
Hong Kong’s new district councillors pledge to serve as bridge between government, communities in oath-taking ceremony
- 470 councillors swear oath of allegiance under supervision of home affairs chief Alice Mak
- City leader John Lee reminds councillors of Article 97, which states community-level organisations are not political organs, according to barrister Kacee Ting Wong
District councillors elected under Hong Kong’s revamped system have pledged to serve as a bridge between the government and their respective communities during an oath-taking ceremony, as the city leader called on them to bolster local solidarity.
The 470 councillors on Monday swore an oath of allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the city’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, under the supervision of the Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen at the government headquarters in Admiralty.
Before the closed-door swearing-in, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu delivered opening remarks, reminding the new-term councillors of Article 97 of the Basic Law, which states that the community-level organisations are not political organs, according to barrister Kacee Ting Wong from the Eastern District Council.
Ting quoted Lee as saying the new councillors should effectively serve as a bridge between local residents and the government.
In a social media post sharing his New Year’s message on Monday, Lee said the government aimed to improve residents’ livelihoods in 2024.
“Particularly, after improving the district governance system, the [new] District Council will start to serve from today. They will better gather community forces and improve people’s livelihoods,” Lee said.
He added that the administration would also focus on revitalising Hong Kong’s economy, such as organising “innovative” activities.
Hong Kong’s new district councils will be more ‘constructive’: John Lee
Lo Hiu-fung, one of the 22 district councillors in Tai Po, revealed his team earlier convened a meeting to discuss their future plans and many said the body over the past two years had remained stagnant.
“Tai Po District Council hasn’t held meetings in the past two years,” Lo told a radio programme before the swearing-in ceremony. “Many recreational facilities, construction works and transport plans have been halted. We will set up committees to continue them.”
About 260 former district council members from the opposition camp across different districts voluntarily resigned their seats in 2021 ahead of new oath-taking rules that required pledging loyalty to the government and on the heels of leaks suggesting they could be forced to return an entire year of salary and other funding.
Lo added that the council chairperson, a role that is no longer elected among the members but taken up by the government’s district officer under the revamped system, also suggested fostering economic development in Tai Po.
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He said the officer’s suggestions also included setting up night markets in Lam Tsuen and at the Tai Po Arts Centre, as well as three photogenic spots to encourage local consumption and attract tourists to the area.
Lo said he also expected that other councillors, especially those who were appointed and had a business background, could share their professional knowledge to sustain economic development in the area.
Speaking on the same radio programme, Tsuen Wan District Councillor Ng Chun-yu also voiced his expectations for appointed members in the area, saying they should make use of their expertise when reaching out to certain stakeholders, as well as locating venues for activities.
He added that the Tsuen Wan municipal body earlier held a preparation meeting, in which he suggested getting residents’ opinions on future redevelopment plans and their needs to adapt coming government policies accordingly.
The district council election on December 10, dubbed as the last piece of the puzzle for establishing the Beijing-ordered “patriots-only” governance structure, cut the proportion of directly elected seats from almost 95 per cent to 19 per cent, or 88 seats in 44 enlarged geographical constituencies.
The election drew a turnout rate of 27.54 per cent, the lowest since 1997 when the city returned to Chinese rule.
The three area committees chose another 176 seats, with the city leader appointing 179 and rural leaders taking the remaining 27 seats.
A set of guidelines were announced in late December to evaluate the district councillors’ work performance, which include a requirement to attend at least 80 per cent of general meetings, submit annual work reports and give notice if they plan to leave the city for more than 48 hours. | https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3246860/hong-kongs-new-district-councillors-pledge-serve-bridge-between-government-communities-oath-taking?utm_source=rss_feed | 2024-01-01T05:29:23Z |
PM Modi to inaugurate Mumbai Trans Harbour Link on Jan 12: CM Shinde
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), the country's longest sea bridge, on January 12, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Sunday.
The 21.8-kilometre long bridge between Sewri in Mumbai and Nhava Sheva area in Raigad district will bring down the journey from the current two hours to around 15-20 minutes, the CM said.
''Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate MTHL on January 12. This bridge will bring economic development and growth in areas connected to it,'' Shinde told reporters.
The MTHL will further connect to the arterial Mumbai Pune Expressway, which links the state's two largest cities, as per officials.
The MTHL is a 6-lane sea link, with 16.50 kilometre of the stretch on sea and 5.50 km on land.
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Timberwolves vs. Knicks: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Spread, Home/Road Splits
The New York Knicks (17-15) will look to break a three-game losing streak when they host the Minnesota Timberwolves (24-7) on Monday, January 1, 2024 at Madison Square Garden as only 1.5-point underdogs. The matchup airs at 3:00 PM ET on NBA TV, MSG, and BSN. The matchup's over/under is set at 223.5.
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- When: Monday, January 1, 2024 at 3:00 PM ET
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- Minnesota and its opponents have combined to score more than 223.5 points in 14 of 31 games this season.
- The average point total in Minnesota's contests this year is 220.6, 2.9 fewer points than this game's over/under.
- The Timberwolves have gone 16-15-0 ATS this season.
- This season, Minnesota has won 20 out of the 22 games, or 90.9%, in which it has been favored.
- This season, Minnesota has won 20 of its 22 games, or 90.9%, when favored by at least -120 on the moneyline.
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(MENAFN- Jordan Times) Sustainable environmental policies play a pivotal role in shaping the way contemporary societies interact with their surroundings, if they are truly supported by strong political will. The sustainable policy maker seeks to create a framework that balances economic, social and environmental factors to ensure a prosperous and just future for all. Sustainable environmental policies highlight the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDG 2030 as a guiding framework for governments to align their policies with sustainability and work hard to build a sustainable future, and address critical issues, such as climate change, global warming, biodiversity loss, pollution, and resource management.
Sustainable environmental policies are at the forefront of the global front in the fight against climate change. It sets emissions reduction targets, regulates climate change mitigation and adaptation policies, encourages investment in renewable energy sources, and creates incentives for companies to adopt sustainable practices. Sustainable Environmental Policies also explains the concept of carbon pricing and carbon trading policies and their ability to incentivise companies and individuals to reduce carbon emissions. Without these policies, the world will face more severe and accelerating environmental changes, which will cause long-term damage to ecosystems and human society that may never be reversed.
Sustainable environmental policies are essential to reduce pollution, which has direct and indirect consequences on public health and the integrity of biodiversity. Regulations on emissions from factories, vehicles, buildings, agriculture and other sources help reduce the release of pollutants that are harmful to both air and water quality. Sustainable environmental policies also support sustainable agricultural practices, local food systems and seek to reduce food waste. This all leads to cleaner air and water, which translates to healthier living conditions for us and entire ecosystems.
The environment has a profound impact on human health. Polluted air and water, exposure to toxic substances, and other climate-related health issues all affect the well-being and happiness of individuals. Sustainable environmental policies provide guarantees to reduce these health risks and their consequences. Perhaps the most important aspect of sustainable environmental policies is their impact on future generations. Decisions made today will determine the quality of life and environmental conditions in which our children and grandchildren will live. These sustainable environmental policies constitute a moral responsibility aimed at leaving our planet fit for life and providing abundant resources for future generations.
One of the most important roles of sustainable environmental policies is to preserve biodiversity. These policies create protected areas, regulate the frequency of hunting in the wild and fishing in the seas and oceans, control forest fires, encourage afforestation and green agricultural practices, as well as the expansion of green areas and environmentally friendly urban planning and reducing deforestation. It also supports the efforts of environmental reserves, helping to protect endangered species and maintain the delicate balance of all our interconnected ecosystems.
Wise management of natural resources is the cornerstone of sustainable environmental policies that contribute to reducing social disparities, promoting inclusivity, addressing societal injustice and achieving justice. Whether it is water, forests, biomass, or minerals, these policies ensure responsible use, sustainability, and regeneration. Without them, resource depletion and scarcity will be more severe, leading to conflicts, poor quality of life, reduced employment opportunities, and lack of jobs essential for the survival and prosperity of future generations. More generally, it explores strategies to ensure that policies provide equitable access to resources, opportunities, education, healthcare and social services.
Contrary to the belief that environmental policies hinder economic growth, they can actually foster creativity and prosperity. Green technologies, renewable energy, and sustainable practices create new job opportunities and open new markets, which ultimately contribute to economic development along with environmental protection. Sustainable policies can enhance economic stability by enhancing long-term growth and resilience. Economic shocks. It reveals the role of sustainable energy policies, such as supporting renewable sources, in the transition to clean energy systems. It also supports a sustainable economic system, including responsible consumption, circular and green economies and equitable distribution of wealth.
Sustainable environmental policies also promote international cooperation, as many problematic environmental issues, such as climate change, trans-boundary pollution, ocean pollution, etc., make it necessary for countries to work together. For example, international agreements and treaties establish frameworks to collectively confront global challenges, such as the Clean Development Mechanism, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife.
Sustainable environmental policies also promote international cooperation, as many problematic environmental issues, such as climate change, trans-boundary pollution, ocean pollution, etc., make it necessary for countries to work together. For example, international agreements and treaties establish frameworks to collectively confront global challenges, such as the Clean Development Mechanism, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, the Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife.
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Kazakhstan Secretary of State pays working visit to UAE
At the invitation of the Chairperson of the UAE Businesswomen Council, Farida Al Awadhi, the Secretary of State participated in the United Arab Emirates - Kazakhstan Businesswomen Forum. The event was also attended by representatives of government agencies, Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs, the UAE Businesswomen Council, and the women's business community.
In her speech, Gulshara Abdykalikova underlined that Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates are bridged by the friendly ties established by President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
"We have made significant progress in ensuring equal rights and opportunities in the economy. At the end of 2018, Kazakhstan, according to the World Economic Forum, ranked 32nd in terms of women's economic participation and opportunity. We need to deepen the business communities' economic, commercial, technological and other cooperation with the focus on digitalization," the Secretary of State said.
The Secretary of State highlighted that economic progress has been defined as one of the top priorities of the Year of Youth. Presently, Kazakhstani girls are actively engaged in business, establishing creative start-ups. Over 100 projects in 11 directions will be implemented within the framework of the Year of Youth.
On the sidelines of the Forum, Secretary of State Gulshara Abdykalikova met with Chairperson of the UAE Businesswomen Council Farida Al Awadhi. During the talks, the sides discussed issues regarding the further empowerment of women and the strengthening of the institution of female entrepreneurship.
In addition, the Secretary of State also met with Amal Al Qubaisi, President of the Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates, Amal al-Kubeysi. During the meeting, the sides considered issues of socio-economic and cultural-humanitarian interaction. It was underlined that Kazakhstan, as well as the UAE, is interested in the soonest establishment of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East. The parties noted with satisfaction that Astana and Abu Dhabi continue building close relations as part of bilateral cooperation. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-secretary-of-state-pays-working-visit-to-uae_a3495254/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:25Z |
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in North Carolina after witnessing a crime at a gas station and approaching the two suspects, officials said.
The police sergeant, Philip Dale Nix, was a 23-year veteran of the Greensboro Police Department, according to a Sunday news release from the agency.
Three men have been arrested in the case, including Jamere Justice Foster, 18, who is charged with first-degree murder and larceny, according to police.
During a news conference Saturday night, Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson didn’t specify what crime Nix witnessed or provide additional details about the events leading up to the shooting.
Police were searching for two men in their 20s and a black Chevrolet Equinox, according a statewide alert by the the Greensboro Police Department. The Blue Alert was sent about two hours after the shooting and canceled roughly two hours later. A Blue Alert is used when a law enforcement officer has been seriously injured, killed or gone missing.
Thompson said another off-duty Greensboro officer and a paramedic were on the scene when Nix was shot and immediately rendered aid. Nix was pronounced dead at a local medical facility.
“He was a loving husband, father, son and brother,” Thompson said in prepared remarks.
The department didn’t immediately respond to an email Sunday seeking an update on the investigation.
Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan, who also spoke to local media Saturday night, said the department needs time to complete its investigation and bring the suspects to justice.
“Words are inadequate right now,” she said. “There’s really nothing I can say that’s going to give the family or the officers any comfort. What happened today was a senseless act of violence.”
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, pledging “all available state resources to catch those who killed a Greensboro police officer.” ___ This story corrects the number of years Officer Philip Dale Nix served with Greensboro police based on updated information from the department. He served 23 years. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-off-duty-police-officer-is-killed-in-north-carolina-after-witnessing-a-crime-at-a-gas-station/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:28Z |
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) LOS ANGELES -“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”, starring Jason Momoa as a sea-dwelling superhero, splashed to the top of the three-day Christmas weekend boxoffice despite muted ticket sales for the DC Extended Universe offering, industry watchers reported on Tuesday.
The film took in $38.3 million in its debut weekend in the United States and Canada for the Friday-through-Monday period, according to Exhibitor Relations.
The DC comics sequel follows the king of Atlantis as he splits his time between the depths of the sea and the surface world, combining forces with his half-brother and former enemy as turmoil and climate change threatens the underwater realm.
Warner Bros.' fantasy musical“Wonka”, starring Timothee Chalamet as a younger version of Roald Dahl's famous chocolatier Willy Wonka - a character first played by Gene Wilder and then Johnny Depp - placed second for $28.4 million.
The new musical version of“The Colour Purple”, which only debuted on Christmas Monday, meanwhile landed in third with $18.2 million in sales - the biggest Christmas Day opening since“Sherlock Holmes” in 2009.
The new reimagining is based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Alice Walker that then became a beloved movie before landing on Broadway as a musical. It follows the struggles and triumphs of a young Black woman in rural Georgia in the early 20th century.
The movie rounds out Warner Bros.' standing in the top three spots and stars Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, Danielle Brooks, H.E.R. and Colman Domingo, among others.
In fourth was animated comedy“Migration” about a family of mallard ducks out on adventure as they fly from New England to Jamaica, which earned $17.5 million in its debut weekend.
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Kazakhstan showcases its UNSC achievements during high-level London event
Symbolically, the event was held in one of London's most historic buildings, Church House Westminster, which played host to the first ever meeting of the UN Security Council on 17 January 1946, the press service of the Kazakh Embassy in the UK told Kazinform.
The event's speakers were the UK Minister of State for Europe and the Americas Sir Alan Duncan MP, Ambassador of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov and Ambassador Rizal Sukma, who officially represents Indonesia in the United Kingdom. Indonesia replaced Kazakhstan on the UNSC on 1 January 2019 as a representative of the Asia-Pacific Group. Other guests included leaders and senior staff from the British Foreign Office, members of the UK Parliament, ambassadors, business executives, international experts and journalists.
In his welcoming speech, Ambassador Idrissov summed up the results of Kazakhstan's work on the UN Security Council. In just two years, representatives of Kazakhstan took part in more than 1,000 open and closed UNSC meetings, 38 informal events, and contributed to 115 UNSC resolutions and 48 statements of the Council Presidency.
Achieving a nuclear-weapons-free world was one of the seven priorities of Kazakhstan's work on the UNSC. These priorities were outlined in the Policy Address of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the UN Security Council on 1 January 2017. The key event of Kazakhstan's UNSC chairmanship in January 2018 was the high-level thematic briefing "Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: confidence-building measures" chaired by President Nazarbayev. The debate resulted in the recognition of non-proliferation as the key element of a comprehensive conflict prevention strategy and the inclusion of this concept in a politically binding document - the Statement by the President of the UN Security Council.
The creation of a regional zone of peace, security, cooperation and development in Central Asia was another priority for Kazakhstan during its USNC membership. In this regard, Kazakhstan focused on providing diverse assistance to Afghanistan. During Kazakhstan's presidency, the members of the Security Council visited Afghanistan for the first time in several years in order to gain a greater understanding of the situation on the ground.
"I hope that Kazakhstan's obvious success in the UN over the last two years will encourage other states in the region to follow in your footsteps and become key players on the international stage in the way that you have been," Sir Alan said.
Among Kazakhstan's many achievements on the international stage, he highlighted the Caspian Summit in Aktau, which resolved many years of debate on the status of the Caspian Sea, efforts to restore peace in Afghanistan, and Kazakhstan's participation in international peacekeeping missions.
The Indonesian Ambassador Dr. Sukma informed guests about Indonesia's priorities for its non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council and noted his country would strive to follow the example of Kazakhstan and expand upon the results already achieved.
The briefing also included a photo exhibition, as well as a screening of historical videos about Kazakhstan's work within the UN, the UN Security Council, the country's efforts in conflict resolution, its participation in peacekeeping missions, as well as its provision of humanitarian assistance. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-showcases-its-unsc-achievements-during-high-level-london-event_a3493212/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:32Z |
Shimla records 50-60 per cent occupancy on New Year's Eve, 'lowest in 40 years'
Prediction of weekend snow and the chief ministers directions not to be harsh with drunk revelers on New Year failed to woo tourists to Shimla which recorded 50-60 per cent occupancy, the lowest in the last 40 years.
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Prediction of weekend snow and the chief minister's directions not to be harsh with drunk revelers on New Year failed to woo tourists to Shimla which recorded 50-60 per cent occupancy, ''the lowest in the last 40 years''. Last year, Shimla had recorded more than 80 per cent occupancy on New Year. The hotel and allied industries were pinning hopes on 'white New Year' but chances of snowfall appear very bleak. While, the Mall Road and The Ridge in the heart of the city are abuzz with tourists as winter carnival turned the place into a fair with lights and cultural bonanza being organised but tourist footfall has not converted in room occupancy in hotels, said Shimla Hotel and Tourism Stakeholders Association president M K Seth. The occupancy is about 50-60 per cent which is the lowest in the last 40 years and even during the Covid-19 pandemic, the tourist rush on New Year was more than this time, he told the PTI. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had directed to follow the slogan of 'Atithi Devo Bhava', facilitate the tourists and make adequate arrangements and proper plans in all districts for smooth flow of traffic.
Besides allowing food joints and pan shops to remain open 24x7, he had said that drunk tourists would not be arrested, but would be facilitated by the police to their hotels to ensure that their New Year experience is not spoiled.
The unregistered tourism units are eating into the sales of registered hotels, home stays and other such accommodations, said Seth adding that the tourists coming by train and luxury buses are ''captured'' by touts which take them to unregistered accommodations. ''We are surprised to see such a drop in tourist inflow when all the things are favourable. This is the lowest occupancy in my living memory'' said vice president of the association Prince Kukreja, hoping that the occupancy would pick up by late evening. A large number of tourists prefer isolated accommodations in the suburbs with forest cover and peace, and tourists planning private parties are also going beyond the city, said local hotelier Shishu, adding that even the hotels in the main town, which are normally packed during this time of the year, are not packed to the capacity.
About 7,600 tourists vehicles from other states have entered Shimla via the Shoghi barrier on the Shimla-Chandigarh Road from Saturday morning (8 am) to Sunday afternoon (12 pm), SP Shimla Sanjeev Kumar Gandhi told PTI on Sunday. The tourism stakeholders added that adverse publicity on social media and some electronic channels regarding traffic jams diverted tourists to other destinations. The local Met office had predicted snowfall and rainfall at isolated places in high-and-mid hills on Saturday and Sunday as a fresh Western Disturbance lies over the Himalayan region. However, no snowfall was witnessed in the key tourist resorts.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Israeli minister repeats call for Palestinians to leave Gaza, making way for settlers
- Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is in favour of Israeli resettlement of the Gaza Strip after the war
- Israel withdrew the last of its troops and settlers in 2005, ending a presence inside Gaza that began in 1967
One of the senior figures in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition called for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave the besieged enclave, making way for Israelis who could “make the desert bloom”.
The comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has been excluded from the war cabinet and discussions of day-after arrangements in Gaza, appear to underscore fears in much of the Arab world that Israel wants to drive Palestinians out of land where they want to build a future state, repeating the mass dispossession of Palestinians when Israel was created in 1948.
“What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” Smotrich told Army Radio on Sunday. “If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different.”
He said if the 2.3 million population were no longer there “growing up on the aspiration to destroy the state of Israel”, Gaza would be seen differently in Israel.
“Most of Israeli society will say ‘why not, it’s a nice place, let’s make the desert bloom, it doesn’t come at anyone’s expense’.”
Smotrich, whose hard-right Religious Zionism party draws support from Israel’s settler community, has made similar comments in the past, setting himself at odds with Israel’s most important ally, the United States.
Israel-Gaza war in 2024: signs of more devastation, open-ended occupation
But his views do not reflect the official government position that Gazans will be able to return to their homes after the war against the Islamist movement Hamas which controls Gaza, now nearing the start of its fourth month.
“Contrary to false allegations, Israel does not seek to displace the population in Gaza,” an official in the prime minister’s office said in a statement to Associated Press later on Sunday. “Subject to security checks, Israel’s policy is to enable those individuals who wish to leave to do so.”
Smotrich’s party, which helped Netanyahu secure the majority he needed to become prime minister for the sixth time almost exactly a year ago, has seen its approval ratings slump since the start of the conflict.
Opinion polls also indicate that most Israelis do not support the return of Israeli settlements to Gaza, after they were moved out in 2005 when the army withdrew, ending a 38-year occupation.
The United Nations still sees the Gaza Strip as territory occupied by Israel as it controls all but one border crossing.
Palestinians and leaders of Arab countries have accused Israel of seeking a new “Nakba” (catastrophe), the name given to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the wake of the 1948 war that accompanied the founding of the state of Israel.
Most ended up in neighbouring Arab states, and Arab leaders have said any latter-day move to displace Palestinians would be unacceptable.
In a speech on Sunday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected any move to force Palestinians to leave their homes. “We will not allow displacement, whether from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank,” he said.
Hamas condemned Smotrich’s comments as a “vile mockery and a war crime”.
Gazans “will stand firm and steadfast in the face of all attempts to displace them from their land and homes”, the group said in a statement.
The stated goal of Israel’s military is to eliminate Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that launched a surprise cross-border assault on Israeli towns on October 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and grabbing 240 hostages.
Israeli military expresses regret for air strike on Gaza refugee camp
Israel’s air and artillery bombardment has killed more than 21,800 people according to health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza, with many more feared dead in the rubble, and pushed nearly all its 2.3 million people from their homes.
Palestinian health ministry casualty figures do not differentiate between fighters and civilians but the ministry has said 70 per cent of Gaza’s dead are women and under-18s. Israel disputes Palestinian casualty figures and says it has killed 8,000 fighters.
Washington is clearly against Israel reoccupying the Gaza Strip and also opposes the forced expulsion of Palestinians living there.
The US is calling for a reformed Palestinian Authority to take control of the Gaza Strip after the war, though Netanyahu is against this. He wants the army to retain security control even after the war and is calling for Gaza to be demilitarised.
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- Jordan's national football team is set to play three friendlies in the next two weeks as they prepare for the 2023 Asian Cup in Qatar kicking off on January 12, 2024 where the Kingdom will play in Group E alongside Malaysia, Bahrain and South Korea.
As national sides start the countdown to the Asian Cup, Jordan faces Lebanon in Tripoli on Thursday where the lineup is set to be joined by some pros playing abroad. Montepellier's Mousa Ta'mari, Yazan Arab and Yazeed Abu Laila will miss the first friendly following which the squad will return home to play the U-23 national side ahead of coach Hussein Amouta's final lineup list for the Asian Cup. The team then leaves to Qatar where they will play their hosts on January 5 and Japan on January 9 in the final two friendlies.
In six matches played so far, Jordan is yet to score a victory under coach Amouta, who took over the job in summer. Interviewed by Al Mamlaka TV on Wednesday, the Moroccan coach acknowledged,“The team lost many scoring chances, had individual mistakes
and players had been inconsistent with their clubs which clearly reflected on their performance, especially in the official matches.”
It will be vital for Jordan to alter their performance and start to score wins. In their first friendlies under Amouta, Jordan lost 6-0 to Norway, 2-1 to Azerbaijan, 3-1 to Iran and tied Iraq 2-2 before losing on penalties. Many players noted the lineup was getting more coherent and adapting to new coach's strategy and style who has announced his eventual aim would be“to have a younger competitive group who can serve the national team for upcoming years”.
As official matches kicked off, Jordan had a lackluster start in Group G qualifiers for the 23rd World Cup 2026, tying Tajikistan 1-1 before losing 2-0 to Saudi Arabia. Jordan is now 3rd in the World Cup qualifying group after Saudi beat Pakistan 4-0 while Tajikistan beat Pakistan 6-1. The Kingdom's third qualifier against Pakistan is set for March 26. The qualifiers also advance teams to the 2027 Asian Cup.
A total of 36 Asian teams are playing in 9 groups with the top two teams from each group advancing to Round 3. Jordan is now ranked 87th, Saudi 56th, Tajikistan 106th and Pakistan 195th.
In a candid interview, Amouta told Al Mamlaka's Muhannad Mahadeeen, a former national squad star, that a local coach will be assigned to assist him soon, adding the team needed a“leader figure on the field”.
Amouta added he“was hopeful and ambitious for an advanced spot in the upcoming Asian Cup, as well as qualifying to the 2026 World Cup”, Amouta, with Asia allotted 8 slots in the next edition in additional to a zonal qualifier after expanding the number to include 48 nations.
The Asian Cup will see 24 teams playing in 6 Groups with Qatar the defending champs:
Group A: Qatar, China, Tajikistan, Lebanon
Group B: Australia, Uzbekistan, Syria, India Group C: Iran, UAE, Hong Kong, Palestine Group D: Japan, Indonesia, Iraq, Vietnam Group E: Jordan vs Malaysia (Jan 15),
vs South Korea (Jan 20), vs Bahrain (Jan 25) Group F: Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, Oman
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Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Russia’s “united society” in his prerecorded New Year’s address to the nation, the country’s state news agencies reported Sunday.
Putin addressed Russians in a video that ran under four minutes long, significantly shorter than the New Year’s speech he gave last year, according to state news agency RIA Novosti. Millions of people were expected to watch the new address when it airs on TV as each Russian time zone region counts down the final minutes of 2023 on Sunday.
The first to see it were residents of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Chukotka region in Russia’s Far East, some nine hours ahead of Moscow.
Returning to tradition after speaking flanked by soldiers last year, Putin delivered his address to the nation against the backdrop of a snowy Kremlin. In remarks carried by RIA Novosti, he described 2023 as a year marked by high levels of unity in Russian society.
“What united us and unites us is the fate of the Fatherland, a deep understanding of the highest significance of the historical stage through which Russia is passing,” the president said. He also lauded Russian citizens’ “solidarity, mercy and fortitude.”
The nearly 2-year-old war in Ukraine was front and center in the address, with Putin directly addressing Russia’s armed forces involved in what the Kremlin has termed its “special military operation” in the neighboring country.
“We are proud of you, you are heroes, you feel the support of the entire people,” the president said. According to state media, he emphasized that Russia would never retreat and asserted there was no force that could divide Russians and stop the country’s development.
The address’ broadcast comes a day after shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 24 people, including three children. Another 108 people were wounded, Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said Sunday, making the attack one with the most casualties on Russian soil since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine 22 months ago.
As last year, New Year’s celebrations were toned down in Moscow, with the traditional fireworks and concert on Red Square canceled. After the shelling in Belgorod, local authorities in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok and other places across Russia also canceled their usual New Year’s firework displays.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council and former Russian president, also congratulated Russians on the New Year. In video remarks posted to Telegram, he said that “thoughts and hearts are with those at the front” and that the past year had required “a special stability and unity, and true patriotism” from Russia.
Medvedev also called on Russians to “make 2024 the year of the final defeat of neo-fascism,” repeating Putin’s claims of invading Ukraine to fight “neo-Nazis.” The Holocaust, World War II and Nazism have been important rhetorical tools for Putin in his bid to legitimize Russia’s military actions in Ukraine, but historians see their use as disinformation and a cynical ploy to further his aims.
Analysts are describing 2023 as largely a positive year for Putin.
“It’s been a good year; I would even actually call it a great year” for the Russian leader, said Mathieu Boulegue, a consulting fellow for the Russia-Eurasia program at Chatham House think tank in London.
Moscow in May won the fight for the bombed-out Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after the longest and bloodiest battle of the war. In june, Putin defused a revolt against him and reasserted his hold on the Kremlin. A Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia started with high hopes but ended in disappointment.
As he enters 2024, Putin is wagering that the West’s support for Ukraine will gradually crumble due to political divisions, war fatigue and other diplomatic demands, such as China’s menacing of Taiwan and war in the Middle East.
Putin is seeking reelection in a March 17 presidential election that he is all but certain to win. Under constitutional reforms he orchestrated, the 71-year-old leader is eligible to seek two more six-year terms after his current term expires, potentially allowing him to remain in power until 2036. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-putin-lauds-russian-unity-in-his-new-years-address-as-ukraine-war-overshadows-celebration/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:36Z |
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Vegetable vendor designs clock, gifts it to Ram Mandir trust
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A vegetable vendor here has has gifted a clock, which he has designed to denote the time in eight countries at the same time, to the Ram mandir trust. Anil Kumar Sahu (52) said that recently he gifted a clock measuring 75 cm in diameter to Champat Rai, the general secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, ahead of the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. ''I started working on this clock (75 cm) in October during the Navratras, and recently gifted one such clock to Champat Rai jee,'' he said.
Earlier, he had gifted such clocks to the Khatu Shyam temple in Lucknow and Kotwa Dham and Kunteshwar Mahadev in Barabanki. The clock designed by Sahu has become the centre of attraction at the vegetable market near the Hahnemann crossing. The clock denotes the time of India, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Tokyo (Japan), Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Singapore, Mexico City (Mexico), Washington DC and New York (USA).
Sahu said that he first made the clock in 2018, and it was given the 'certificate of registration of design' by the Patent Office, Government of India. It displayed the times of India, China, Dubai, Moscow and Tokyo.
Sahu plans to design in the future clocks which can denote timings of 25 countries.
Sahu said he got the inspiration for this idea during a discussion about the time zone with his landlord from Oman, and added that he wants to gift one such clock to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Himanshu Varma, a resident of Vastu Khand in Gomtinagar, who was buying garlic from Sahu, was curiously looking at the novel clock.
He said, ''I have seen different clocks put up at the reception counters of various hotels in Lucknow, showing the current time of different prominent cities of the world. However, this is the first time that I have seen a clock, which is showing the time of different places across the world at the same time.'' Sahu also said that he plans to commercially manufacture such clocks, but his hands are tied due to paucity of funds. He also said that on an average, the cost of making the 75-centimetre-long diameter clock is around Rs 3,000; and it takes around one-and-half hour to make it.
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(MENAFN- Jordan Times) LONDON - The UK government said on Wednesday it had dropped its plan to start selling in imperial measures after a consultation revealed 99 per cent support for keeping the metric system.
Ministers had looked at changing the law after the UK's departure from the European Union in 2020 to allow traders to use Britain's traditional weighing system - which measures in pounds and pints - only alongside the metric one.
But they decided against the move after 98.7 per cent of the 100,938 respondents to an official consultation said they were happy using metric units when buying or selling a product.
"The government has analysed all consultation responses received and reviewed the arguments for and against expanding the use of imperial units in domestic consumer transactions," a statement from the department of business and trade said.
"After careful consideration, the government has decided against any legislative changes at this time."
The department said the UK had "a long and proud history" of using imperial measures and that their use is "closely associated with our culture and language".
Distances in Britain are still measured in miles, while beers and milk are also sold in pints.
The department also announced that rules would be altered to allow a 568 ml "pint" size of wine to be stocked on Britain's supermarkets, pubs, clubs and restaurant for the first time.
The move, it said, that was "ever thanks to new freedoms from leaving the European Union".
The 568 ml size would sit alongside the 200 ml and 500 ml measures already available, it said.
The department said the reforms were thanks to "new Brexit freedoms" obtained via the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023.
"Our exit from the EU was all about moments just like this, where we can seize new opportunities and provide a real boost to our great British wineries and further growing the economy," enterprise, markets and small business minister Kevin Hollinrake said.
During the UK's 2019 general election campaign, former UK prime minister Boris Johnson pledged that he would bring back imperial units in shops.
The former UK leader claimed that measuring in pounds and ounces was an "ancient liberty" and promised a "new era of generosity and tolerance" towards traditional measurements.
The United States, Myanmar and Liberia are the only other countries that use the imperial system on a daily basis.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a fresh drone assault on Ukraine after promising that strikes on the Russian border city of Belgorod that killed 24 people Saturday “would not go unpunished.”
The Ukrainian Air Force said Sunday that it had shot down 21 of 49 drones launched by Russian forces overnight.
The retaliatory Russian attack wounded 28 people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. A hotel, kindergarten, apartment buildings, shops and administrative buildings sustained damage, according to the regional prosecutor’s office.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had targeted “decision-making centers and military facilities” in Kharkiv. The ministry said the hit on the Kharkiv Palace Hotel had “destroyed representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate and Ukrainian Armed Forces” involved in the “terrorist attack” in Belgorod.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a British journalist was among the wounded, while public German broadcaster ZDF said Sunday that one of its television crews had been in the hotel. A Ukrainian translator was hit by debris and seriously wounded, and one of the team’s security guards also was injured, ZDF said in a statement.
“This is another attack by Russia on the free press,” ZDF Editor-in-Chief Bettina Schausten said.
In the Kyiv region that surrounds Ukraine’s capital, a Russian drone attack caused a fire at a critical infrastructure facility, local officials said. They did not identify the nature of the facility.
Russian troops additionally shelled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Sunday, killing a 14-year-old boy and leaving a 9-year-old boy hospitalized in critical condition with a brain injury, according to regional Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin.
On Saturday, shelling in the center of Belgorod killed two dozen people, including three children. Another 108 people were wounded in the strike, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Sunday, making the attack one with the most casualties on Russian soil since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine 22 months ago.
Russian authorities accused Ukraine of carrying out the attack, which took place the day after an 18-hour Russian aerial bombardment across Ukraine killed at least 41 civilians.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it identified the ammunition used in the strike as Czech-made Vampire rockets and Olkha missiles fitted with cluster-munition warheads. It provided no additional information, and The Associated Press was unable to verify its claims.
“This crime will not go unpunished,” the ministry said in a statement on social media.
In an emergency Saturday night meeting of the U.N. Security Council demanded by Russia, envoy Vasily Nebenzya accused Kyiv of a “terrorist attack.” In comments carried by Russian state media, Nebenzya claimed Ukraine had launched “a deliberate act of terrorism directed against civilians.”
Ukrainians are bracing for further attacks. A blistering New Year’s Eve assault by Russia last year killed at least three civilians.
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Kirsten Grieshaber contributed from Berlin and Elise Morton from London. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-russia-launches-fresh-drone-strikes-on-ukraine-after-promising-retaliation-for-belgorod-attack/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:44Z |
JKSET Results 2023 Declared At jujkset.in- Steps To Check Scores
Jammu and Kashmir state eligibility test and Ladakh state eligibility test results are out now, scroll down for the steps to download scorecard.
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JKSET Results 2023: The University of Jammu has declared the results for the Jammu and Kashmir State Eligibility Test (JKSET) 2023. Individuals who participated in the written exam can now access and download their JKSET 2023 results from the official website, jujkset.in. The written exam for JKSET 2023 took place on October 1. Starting from January 1, candidates can obtain their JKSET scorecards for 2023 by using their roll number and password. Additionally, the University of Jammu has announced the results for the Ladakh State Eligibility Test (LASET) 2023.
JKSET 2023 Results: Steps To Download
- Go to the official website at jujkset.in.
- On the homepage, go to the result tab.
- Clink on the link that reads “ JKSET 2023 results” or “LASET 2023 results”
- The result PDF will open on your screen.
- Search for your name and roll number.
- Download and take a printout of JKSET results 2023 for future reference.
Conducted to assess eligibility for the assistant professor position in various colleges and institutions across Jammu and Kashmir, JKSET plays a crucial role in the selection process. Candidates who successfully passed the entrance examination will undergo document verification at JKSET and LASET offices situated at the Universities of Jammu (Jammu), Kashmir (Srinagar), and Ladakh (Leh). The timetable for verifying eligibility documents, category certificates, and domicile will be posted on the official website in due course by the exam authorities. | https://zeenews.india.com/education/jkset-results-2023-declared-at-jujkset-in-steps-to-check-scores-2704836.html | 2024-01-01T05:29:46Z |
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Kazakhstan-Tajikistan agrt on coop in migration ratified
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev ratified the Agreement between the Government of Kazakhstan and the Government of Tajikistan, Kazinform reports citing Akorda press service.
The text of the law ‘On ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan on cooperation in migration' will be published in print media. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-tajikistan-agrt-on-coop-in-migration-ratified_a3491767/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:47Z |
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KINSHASA, Congo — Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has won reelection with more than 70% of the vote, the country's election commission said Sunday as opposition candidates and their supporters questioned the validity of the results.
The preliminary results of the Dec. 20 election were announced in the capital, Kinshasa, amid demands from the opposition and some civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to massive logistical problems that they said had undermined the balloting.
Tshisekedi's overwhelming declared victory was likely to fuel those concerns. The second-place candidate was businessman Moise Katumbi, who received 18% of the vote, and Martin Fayulu, who received 5%, finished third. Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, a physician renowned for treating women brutalized by sexual violence in eastern Congo, got less than 1%.
Speaking from his headquarters in the capital after the results were announced, Tshisekedi thanked his supporters for giving him another five-year term.
"You believed in my commitment so that our country can find its place in the concert of nations," he said. "You have embraced my vision of society. I will spare no effort for more jobs, more purchasing power, more access to basic services at all levels."
About 18 million people voted in the election, which had a turnout of more than a 40%, according to the election commission. The results will be sent to the constitutional court for confirmation, election chief Denis Kadima said.
Candidates opposing the results have two days to submit their claims, and the constitutional court then has seven days to decide. The final results are expected on January 10, and the president is scheduled to be sworn in at the end of that month.
Congo has a history of disputed elections that can turn violent, and there's little confidence among many Congolese in the country's institutions. Before the results were announced Sunday, opposition candidates, including Katumbi, said they rejected the results and called on the population to mobilize.
The logistical problems included many polling stations being late in opening or not opening at all. Some lacked materials, and many voter cards had smudged ink that made them illegible.
Voting in the election had to be extended into a second day— something local observers and civil society organizations have called illegal — and parts of the country were still casting ballots five days after election day.
"If a foreign country considers these elections to be elections, there's a problem," Fayulu said at a news conference in the capital Sunday before the results were announced. "It's a farce, don't accept (the results)."
Violence was already flaring in parts of the country before the results were announced. In the eastern city of Goma, youth barricaded some main streets demanding a revote. Earlier this week, clashes erupted between some of Fayulu's supporters and police officers who fired tear gas at protesters who threw rocks and barricaded themselves inside the opposition headquarters.
"These elections are an example of fraud and ballot-box stuffing, flouting any transparent and credible electoral process and, moreover, democracy," said Bienvenu Matumo, a member of LUCHA, a local rights group.
Leading up to and during the vote, the election commission was accused of not being transparent enough. The East African Community said its election observer mission was not granted access to Congo, and the European Union canceled its mission after authorities did not authorize the use of satellite equipment by EU monitors.
Congo analysts say the thousands of observers that were in the country were unable to say whether the irregularities had an impact on the overall integrity of the results, leaving it to the election commission.
Tshisekedi already has spent much of his time in office trying to gain legitimacy after a disputed 2018 election that some observers said Fayulu had actually won.
Overall, Tshisekedi's track record has been spotty. He's struggled to stem violence in the east, a goal he campaigned on.
Conflict in eastern Congo has raged for decades, with more than 120 armed groups fighting for power, resources and to protect their communities. But the violence has spiked during Tshisekedi's term with the resurgence of the M23 rebels, who have displaced millions of people and seized swaths of land. The fighting prevented 1.5 million people from registering to vote.
Attempts to quell the violence with an East African Force comprised of troops from neighboring countries have failed. The force is pulling out, along with a U.N. peacekeeping mission that has been in Congo for decades.
Still, Tshisekedi's initiatives creating free health care for pregnant mothers and babies and providing free primary education has changed the lives of some people living in remote villages.
"My brothers can go to school now without my parents paying, which allows my father to put that money to buying food for the family," John Nlaza, a resident of a small village in Kongo Central province told The Associated Press.
Congolese analysts said it's important to view Tshisekedi's win with caution given the significant uncertainty of the presidential election's validity.
"The opposition's contesting of the results is not only a predictable reaction, but it also highlights the persistence of a deeper crisis of legitimacy at the top of the state," Tresor Kibangula, a political analyst at the Congolese research institute Ebuteli, said. "This battle will depend on (the opposition's) ability to mobilize the Congolese people for its cause, with a view to reversing the balance of power."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.kunc.org/npr-news/2023-12-31/congos-president-is-declared-winner-of-election-that-opposition-wants-redone | 2024-01-01T05:29:48Z |
2023 was Austin’s hottest year on record
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The unofficial numbers are in and Austin looks set to claim 2023 as it’s hottest year ever. Based on our preliminary calculations, 2023 will end up slightly hotter than 2017, our previous hottest year on record.
Final numbers should be available early January to confirm the temperatures to the tenth degree.
Of the 10 hottest years in Austin, nine of them have occurred since the year 2000 with the remaining year being 1999.
Climate change, caused primarily by human activity, is the main cause for the recent warmth in Austin and worldwide.
The highlights (or lowlights) of the heat in 2023
Austin experienced the second highest number of triple digit days on record in 2023 with 80. 2011 holds the title for most number of triple digits with 90.
Austin experienced 45 consecutive days with triple digit highs, the most ever recorded.
In 2023, Austin had its highest count of days with high temperature of 105º or hotter with 42. The previous highest count was in 2011 with 26 days.
Austin had its highest count of days with low temperatures of 80º or warmer with 15. The previous highest count was 10 in the year 2020.
Austin had the third warmest average nighttime low temperatures in record keeping history. Our average low temperature for 2023 was 61.0º. Only 2016 and 2017 averaged warmer nights.
Austin had the 2nd warmest average daytime high temperatures in record keeping history. Our average high temperature for 2023 was 83.4º. Only 2011 had an average high temperature hotter than that with 84.0º.
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Climate change sceptics will point to the development and growth in Austin as the primary reason for recent record warmth, but climate scientists have several counter-arguments to this go-to argument from naysayers. Cities have always been hotter than rural areas, but rural areas are warming too. Oceans are warming rapidly and you can’t blame the urban heat island effect for that.
Is Austin’s growth making the city hotter?
How will 2024 begin?
January 2023 looks to be a mix between near-normal west of I-35 and leaning wetter than normal near and east of I-35.
January temperatures look near normal for Central Texas, but colder northwest.
January is typically our coldest month of the year with average highs in the low to mid 60s and average lows in the low 40s.
For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin. | https://news.yahoo.com/2023-austin-hottest-record-023937089.html | 2024-01-01T05:29:48Z |
World News Roundup: Congo opposition candidates call for street protests and election rerun; Israeli government approves appointment of new foreign minister; North Korea to launch new satellites, build drones, calling war inevitable and more
Kharkiv officials had said that at least six missiles hit Ukraine's second city, injuring at least 28 people and damaging residential buildings, hotels and medical facilities, followed by waves of drone attacks on housing blocks.
Following is a summary of current world news briefs.
Struggling Caracas restaurants, bars offer tour to boost sales
Several bars and restaurants in Venezuela's capital Caracas are offering an eight-hour tour where customers visit each establishment in a bid to boost low sales at a time of persistent inflation. The so-called "Route of Pagan Temples" takes diners through two restaurants and seven bars in the city in a tour which has been organized by the businesses involved.
Congo opposition candidates call for street protests and election rerun
A group of opposition presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo asked supporters on Sunday to take to the streets to protest after provisional results of the disputed election are released. Congo's election commission is due on Sunday to release full provisional results from the Dec. 20 presidential election. The opposition has alleged widespread irregularities, which they say have enabled fraud.
Israeli government approves appointment of new foreign minister
The Israeli government on Sunday approved the appointment of a new foreign minister to replace Eli Cohen, who will become energy minister as part of a pre-arranged ministerial rotation, a government statement said. The appointments are subject to Israeli parliamentary approval.
Final bodies found after China's most serious earthquake in a decade
The bodies of the two remaining people missing in the aftermath of China's most serious earthquake in nearly a decade were found on Sunday, a tragedy that has renewed concern over exposed populations in seismically active zones. That raises official fatalities from the magnitude 6.2 quake that rocked the northwestern provinces of Qinghai and Gansu almost two weeks ago to 151. The final bodies were found in Qinghai at 1:16 a.m. (1716 GMT Saturday), state media reported.
Israeli jets pound central Gaza as Netanyahu indicates longer war
Israeli jets intensified attacks on central Gaza on Sunday, residents and medics said, as battles raged through the rubble of towns and refugee camps in a war that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would take "many more months" to end. Netanyahu's comments signal no let up in a campaign that has killed many thousands and levelled much of Gaza, while his vow to restore Israeli control over the enclave's border with Egypt raises new questions over an eventual two-state solution.
Israel ready to let ships bring aid to Gaza's shores - minister
Israel is prepared to let ships deliver aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip "immediately" as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, the Israeli foreign minister said on Sunday, naming four European countries as potential participants. Under the arrangement first suggested by Nicosia in November, cargo would undergo security inspection in the Cypriot port of Larnaca before being ferried to the Gaza coast, 370 km (230 miles) away, rather than through neighbouring Egypt or Israel.
North Korea to launch new satellites, build drones, calling war inevitable
North Korea vowed to launch three new spy satellites, build military drones, and boost its nuclear arsenal in 2024 as leader Kim Jong Un said U.S. policy is making war inevitable, state media reported on Sunday. Kim lashed out at Washington in lengthy remarks wrapping up five days of ruling party meetings that set economic, military and foreign policy goals for the coming year.
Australia thunderstorms raise risk of flash flooding
Parts of Australia's east face severe thunderstorms for the second straight day on Sunday, the weather bureau warned, with heavy rains raising the risk of dangerous flash flooding. In the last 24 hours, a wild weather system across the southeastern regions of Queensland and northern New South Wales has produced torrential rains, hailstones as big as 5 cm (2 inches) and wind gusts close to 100 kph (62 mph).
Russia pounds Kharkiv with missiles and drones, Ukraine says
Russia pounded the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with missiles and drones in the hours leading into New Year's Eve, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow accused Kyiv of carrying out a deadly air assault just across the border on nearby Belgorod. In the first wave of Russia's attacks, at least six missiles hit Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Sunday, injuring at least 28 people and hitting residential buildings, hotels and medical facilities.
Kharkiv strikes were retaliation for Ukraine's Belgorod attack, Russia says
Russia on Sunday said it attacked military facilities in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, including a hotel housing military commanders and "foreign mercenaries", in response to Ukraine's strikes on Belgorod the previous day. Kharkiv officials had said that at least six missiles hit Ukraine's second city, injuring at least 28 people and damaging residential buildings, hotels and medical facilities, followed by waves of drone attacks on housing blocks.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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(MENAFN- Jordan Times) SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged his party to "accelerate" war preparations including its nuclear programme, state media said on Thursday.
The comments came just a week after Kim warned Pyongyang would not hesitate to launch a nuclear attack if "provoked" with nukes.
Kim made the comments at the North's ongoing year-end party meeting, where he is expected to unveil key policy decisions for 2024.
Kim asked the party to "further accelerate the war preparations" across sectors, including nuclear weapons and civil defence, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported.
He also stressed that the "military situation" on the Korean Peninsula had become "extreme" due to "unprecedented" anti-North confrontations with Washington.
Seoul, Tokyo and Washington have ramped up defence cooperation in the face of a record-breaking series of weapons tests by Pyongyang this year and recently activated a system to share real-time data on North Korean missile launches.
Earlier this month, a US nuclear-powered submarine arrived in the South Korean port city of Busan, and Washington flew its long-range bombers in drills with Seoul and Tokyo.
The North has previously described the participation of US strategic assets, such as B-52 bombers, in joint drills on the Korean peninsula as the "intentional nuclear war provocative moves of the US".
Pyongyang this year successfully launched a reconnaissance satellite, enshrined its status as a nuclear power in its constitution, and test-fired the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile in its arsenal.
Kim earlier this week defined 2023 as a“year of great turn and great change” in which Pyongyang saw“eye-opening victories”.
Last week, the United Nations atomic agency said a second reactor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility appeared to be operational, calling it“deeply regrettable”.
'Nuclear confrontation'
At last year's year-end party meeting, Kim had called“for an exponential increase of the country's nuclear arsenal”.
The United States and South Korea earlier this month held the second meeting of their Nuclear Consultative Group in Washington, where they discussed nuclear deterrence options in the event of conflict with the North.
They warned that any nuclear attack from Pyongyang on the United States or South Korea would result in the end of the Kim regime.
A spokesperson for North Korea's defence ministry then slammed the allies' plans to expand annual joint military exercises next year to include a nuclear operation drill, calling it“an open declaration on nuclear confrontation”.
Pyongyang declared itself an“irreversible” nuclear power last year and has repeatedly said it will never give up its nukes programme, which the regime views as essential for its survival.
The United Nations Security Council has adopted many resolutions calling on North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes since it first conducted a nuclear test in 2006.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shecky Greene, the gifted comic and master improviser who became the consummate Las Vegas lounge headliner and was revered by his peers and live audiences as one of the greatest standup acts of his generation, has died. He was 97.
His widow, Marie Musso Green, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that her husband died early Sunday at their home. She said her husband of 41 years died of natural causes.
Those who saw Greene in his decades of comedy dominance on the Vegas Strip in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s said that with a mic in his hand he could roam a room and work a crowd like no other.
He couldn’t wait to abandon written jokes for the shared thrill of improv.
“I’ve never had an act,” Greene told the Las Vegas Sun in 2009. “I make it up as I go along.”
Greene made huge fans of his fellow entertainers including Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, and, most famously, Frank Sinatra, who hand-picked him as his opening act for a stretch. Greene couldn’t resist the gig with the biggest star in America at the time, but the two big personalities butted heads frequently, and the relationship ended with the comic taking a beating from the singer’s cronies at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach.
It led to his most famous joke:
“Frank Sinatra once saved my life,” Greene would say. “A bunch of guys were beating on me and Frank said, ‘OK that’s enough.’”
Sinatra wasn’t actually there, Greene later said, but the beatdown was real. Also true was the oft-repeated story of Greene driving his Oldsmobile into the fountains at Caesars Palace in 1968, a consequence of what he conceded was a serious alcohol problem and a dangerous desire to go for a drive when he was a few drinks in.
He got a famous joke out of that moment too, later saying that when the cops arrived at his submerged car, whose windshield wipers running, he told them, “No spray wax please!”
With a body like a linebacker’s, a wit as quick as lightning and a voice that suggested he could’ve been a lounge singer instead of a lounge comic, Greene in the course of a night would plow through dozens of impressions, do extended riffs at audience members’ tables and turn musical standards into parody songs on the spot.
Tony Zoppi, who for decades was entertainment director of the Riviera Hotel, said Greene was the finest comic mind he ever saw.
“He’ll walk out on a stage and do an hour off the top of his head,” Zoppi told the Los Angeles Times. “A waitress dropped a glass — he did 15 minutes.”
He made appearances in films including 1967’s “Tony Rome” with Sinatra, 1981’s “History of the World Part I” with Mel Brooks, and 1984’s “Splash” with Tom Hanks, showed-up on network sitcoms including “Laverne & Shirley” and “Mad About You,” and was a constant guest on talk and variety shows.
But he never really clicked on the screen. He needed a crowd he could interact with, and a whole night to woo them. That meant never becoming as famous as comic contemporaries like Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett or Carson. But he pulled the same six-figure-a-week paychecks as they did for live shows.
Born Fred Sheldon Greenfield, Greene took to singing, acting, making jokes and doing mock accents while growing up on the North Side of Chicago.
He served in the Navy in World War II in the Pacific.
On returning to Chicago, he went to community college and thought he might become a gym teacher, but started doing comedy nightclub gigs for money.
An offer of a two-week gig at the Prevue Lounge in New Orleans turned into a six-years stint.
He did his first show in Las Vegas in 1953. He found he and the Strip were a perfect match, and within a few years he owned the town. In 1956, he opened for a young Elvis Presley at the New Frontier.
“The kid should never have been in there,” Greene told the L.A. Times in 2005. “He came out in a baseball jacket. Four or five musicians behind him had baseball jackets on. It looked like a picnic. After the first show they switched the billing, and I headlined.”
Greene would remain a Vegas mainstay, his playgrounds places like the Riviera and the Tropicana, for the next 30 years.
From 1972 to 1982 Greene was married to Nalani Kele, a dancer whose show, the Nalani Kele Polynesian Revue, was a long-running nightclub hit. And in 1985, he married Marie Musso, daughter of jazz saxophonist Vido Musso.
Greene gained his share of national fame eventually. He could fill Carnegie Hall, and guest-hosted both Carson’s “Tonight Show” and “The Merv Griffin Show.”
He grappled with addictions to both drinking and gambling, neither ideal for a man who spent most of his time in Las Vegas. He also struggled with what were later diagnosed as severe depression and panic attacks, both of which made it increasingly difficult to perform as he got older.
Greene moved to Palm Springs in an attempt at retirement in his late 70s in 2004, but the stage still had appeal, and he returned for a stint in Las Vegas at the Suncoast Hotel and Casino in 2009.
Returning to a city now dominated by the likes of Celine Dion and Cirque du Soleil, Greene found he could stroll through casinos anonymously.
“I’m a legend,” he told the Sun in 2009, “but nobody knows me in Vegas anymore.” | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-shecky-greene-legendary-standup-comic-improv-master-and-lord-of-las-vegas-dies-at-97/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:51Z |
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Kazakhstan-Tajikistan readmission agreement ratified
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The Head of State has ratified the Agreement on the Readmission of Persons between the Governments of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, Kazinform has learned from the press service of Akorda.
The text of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On the Ratification of the Agreement on the Readmission of Persons between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Executive Protocol on the Procedure of Implementation of the Agreement on the Readmission of Persons between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan" is to be published in the press. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-tajikistan-readmission-agreement-ratified_a3491770/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:53Z |
3-year-old struck by stray bullet, critically injured
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after police say a stray bullet went through a window, striking him in northeast Memphis Sunday evening.
According to reports, officers responded to the shooting at the Edgewater apartments just before 6 p.m.
Southeast Memphis shooting leaves man severely injured
Officers found a child on the scene with an apparent gunshot wound. He was transported to Le Bonheur in critical condition, Memphis Police say.
Police say the child was home with his family celebrating New Year’s Eve when a stray bullet came through the window and struck him. They believe the shots may have been celebratory gunfire for NYE.
“Celebratory gunfire is illegal in the city of Memphis,” said Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe. “Do not shoot guns for celebration. The bullets will come down somewhere, and if those bullets come down and hit a person, it will injure a person. It is a crime to shoot a gun in celebratory gunfire.”
If you have any information regarding this incident, call Crime Stoppers at 901-528-CASH.
For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WREG.com. | https://news.yahoo.com/3-old-shot-critically-injured-010105304.html | 2024-01-01T05:29:54Z |
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) NAIROBI - The leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday visited Djibouti, which is leading regional efforts to broker a ceasefire after more than eight months of war.
The Horn of Africa nation is the latest stop on Mohamed Hamdan Daglo's first trip abroad since fighting erupted between the RSF and the Sudanese army in mid-April.
His regional tour, which has also taken him to Ethiopia and Uganda - comes as diplomats scramble to broker a meeting between Daglo and his rival, Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah Al Burhan.
The warring generals have not met face-to-face since the outbreak of the conflict that has killed more than 12,000 people by some conservative estimates, and forced millions to flee.
Daglo said on X, formerly Twitter, that he discussed with Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh the latest developments in the war.
“I outlined our unwavering commitment to ending the conflict and working towards a substantive solution that finally halts the historic suffering of our resilient Sudanese people.
“I emphasised our readiness to participate in negotiations aimed at achieving a swift, just, and comprehensive peace in Sudan.”
In another post on X, Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said the visit was part of his country's efforts, as head of regional grouping IGAD, to try to forge a ceasefire in Sudan.
“Next week, as chair of IGAD, Djibouti will also prepare the ground for Sudanese dialogue and will host a critical meeting,” Youssouf had said on X on Saturday, without giving further details.
Daglo on Thursday met in Addis Ababa with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, after holding talks with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni the day before.
IGAD, a bloc representing eight countries in the East Africa region, has been trying to bring Burhan and Daglo together since the war erupted.
On Wednesday, Djibouti's foreign ministry said a meeting between the rivals planned for December 28 had been“postponed to early January for technical reasons”.
The UN Security Council earlier this month voiced alarm at the growing violence in Sudan and the spread of fighting to areas previously considered a haven for those displaced by the conflict.
By the end of November, at least 12,190 people had been killed, according to a conservative estimate from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project.
The United Nations says more than seven million people have been internally displaced by the war, while another 1.5 million have fled into neighbouring countries.
Both sides have been accused of war crimes.
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Shimla records over 60 per cent occupancy on New Year's Eve, 'lowest in 40 years'
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Prediction of weekend snow and the chief minister's directions not to be harsh with drunk revelers on New Year failed to woo tourists to Shimla which recorded more than 60 per cent occupancy till Sunday evening, ''the lowest in the last 40 years''.
Last year, Shimla had recorded more than 80 per cent occupancy on New Year.
The hotel and allied industries were pinning hopes on 'white New Year' but chances of snowfall appear very bleak.
While, the Mall Road and The Ridge in the heart of the city are abuzz with tourists as winter carnival turned the place into a fair with lights and cultural bonanza being organised but tourist footfall has not converted in room occupancy in hotels, said Shimla Hotel and Tourism Stakeholders Association president M K Seth.
The occupancy is about 60 per cent which is the lowest in the last 40 years and even during the Covid-19 pandemic, the tourist rush on New Year was more than this time, he told the PTI on Sunday.
He said vehicles without prior bookings were being diverted from Shoghi by police, not realising that a majority of the revelers on the New Year are on the tourist spots, which also affected tourists' rush to the main city. However, the issue was resolved after he spoke with the SP, Seth added.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had directed to follow the slogan of 'Atithi Devo Bhava', facilitate the tourists and make adequate arrangements and proper plans in all districts for smooth flow of traffic.
Besides allowing food joints and pan shops to remain open 24x7, he had said that drunk tourists would not be arrested, but would be facilitated by the police to their hotels to ensure that their New Year experience is not spoiled.
The unregistered tourism units are eating into the sales of registered hotels, home stays and other such accommodations, said Seth adding that the tourists coming by train and luxury buses are ''captured'' by touts which take them to unregistered accommodations.
''We are surprised to see such a drop in tourist inflow when all the things are favourable. This is the lowest occupancy in my living memory'' said vice president of the association Prince Kukreja, hoping that the occupancy would pick up by late evening.
A large number of tourists prefer isolated accommodations in the suburbs with forest cover and peace, and tourists planning private parties are also going beyond the city, said local hotelier Shishu, adding that even the hotels in the main town, which are normally packed during this time of the year, are not packed to the capacity.
About 9,770 tourist vehicles from other states crossed the Shoghi barrier on city suburbs on the Shimla-Chandigarh Road from Saturday morning (8 am) to Sunday afternoon (4 pm), said SP Shimla Sanjeev Kumar.
The tourism stakeholders added that adverse publicity on social media and some electronic channels regarding traffic jams diverted tourists to other destinations.
The local Met office had predicted snowfall and rainfall at isolated places in high-and-mid hills on Saturday and Sunday as a fresh Western Disturbance lies over the Himalayan region. However, no snowfall was witnessed in the key tourist resorts.
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LS Polls 2024: Congress Wants To Contest On 290 Seats Independently, Sources
The Congress has sought 85 seats from the INDIA bloc parties for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.z
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New Delhi: In a strategic move, the Congress party has decided to independently contest elections on approximately 290 seats in the upcoming 2024 polls. The decision comes after a consensus was reached during the two-day meeting of the Alliance Committee held on December 29 and 30, said sources.
The committee, responsible for orchestrating alliance strategies, will formally submit its comprehensive report to Congress President Kharge. In anticipation of this, Kharge has scheduled a crucial meeting on January 4, where he will convene with all state presidents and CLP (Congress Legislative Party) leaders to finalize the seat-sharing arrangement.
The report indicates that the Congress party is inclined to ask for 85 seats from its alliance partners across India. This move is aimed at creating a collaborative and formidable front for the upcoming elections.
Post the internal discussion, Congress plans to engage in further negotiations with its alliance partners to solidify the seat-sharing agreements. The party aims to foster a united front that maximizes its electoral prospects while accommodating the interests and strengths of each alliance member. | https://zeenews.india.com/india/ls-polls-2024-congress-wants-to-contest-on-290-seats-independently-sources-2704855.html | 2024-01-01T05:29:59Z |
PAIA, Hawaii (AP) — A surfer in Hawaii has died after being injured in a shark encounter off Maui’s northern shore, according to the Maui Police Department. Authorities stopped short of calling the event an attack and didn’t describe the man’s injuries.
Ocean Safety Officers grabbed and transported the man by jet ski to shore, where responders performed life-saving measures until medical personnel arrived and took the victim to a hospital for further treatment, police said in a news release.
The man’s identity was not immediately released pending the notification of extended family and friends. Authorities did say the man was from Haiku, a small community on Maui’s north side.
There were no initial signs of foul play. The investigation is ongoing and an autopsy is scheduled, according to the police department.
The man was injured on Paia Bay, near Haiku, and shark warning signs were placed on beaches one mile on either side of the bay, according to Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources. | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-surfer-dies-after-shark-encounter-in-hawaii/ | 2024-01-01T05:29:59Z |
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