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By The Associated Press
The Kremlin has expressed “regret” and “concern” over U.S. officials’ reports that the Russian president is being misinformed by advisers about his military’s performance in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that “neither the State Department nor the Pentagon possess the real information about what is happening in the Kremlin.”
“They simply don’t understand what’s going on in the Kremlin, they don’t understand President Putin, they don’t understand the mechanism of decision-making, they don’t understand the way we work,” Peskov said.
“It is not just regrettable, it elicits concern, because this complete lack of understanding leads to erroneous decisions, tragic decisions that could have very bad consequences,” he added.
U.S. intelligence officials said Putin is being misinformed by advisers about his military’s poor performance in Ukraine, according to the White House. The advisers are scared to tell him the truth, the intel says.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Wednesday the U.S. believes Putin was being misled not only about his military’s performance but also “how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because, again, his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth.”
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Buses head to Mariupol in new evacuation attempt
— US intel determines Putin has been misled by advisers on Ukraine
— Poland to end Russian oil imports; Germany warns on gas
— UN agency says 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine
— UN food chief says Ukraine war’s food crisis is worst since WWII
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
LONDON — Britain has imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Russian media figures and organizations accused of spreading propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine.
The latest group subjected to asset freezes and travel bans includes Rossiya television anchor Sergey Brilev, who previously lived in the U.K., Gazprom-Media chief executive Aleksandr Zharov and Alexey Nikolov, managing director of Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT.
Sanctions have also been slapped on media organizations TV-Novosti, which owns RT, and Rossiya Segodnya, which controls the Sputnik news agency.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Thursday’s sanctions would hit “the shameless propagandists who push out Putin’s fake news and narratives.”
The U.K. also said it was sanctioning Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defence Command and Control Center, accusing him of orchestrating atrocities including the siege of Mariupol.
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on the spring draft, with 134,500 new conscripts to be added to the Russian army amid the country’s war on Ukraine.
Both Putin and Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu have said that conscripts will not be taking part in the operation in Ukraine. Earlier this month, however, the Russian military admitted that a number of conscripts ended up in Ukraine and were even captured there.
The decree signed on Thursday outlines the draft which will kick off on April 1 and last through July 15.
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BERLIN — The International Committee of the Red Cross says its teams are ready to facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of the besieged city of Mariupol.
The Red Cross said “for logistics and security reasons, we’ll be ready to lead the safe passage operation tomorrow, Friday, provided all the parties agree to the exact terms, including the route, the start time, and the duration.”
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukraine is sending out several dozen buses to collect civilians from Mariupol after Russia’s military said it committed to a localized cease-fire from the city to Ukraine-held Zaporizhzhia from Thursday morning.
“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it,” the Red Cross said.
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AMSTERDAM — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoke by video link to the Dutch parliament.
Zelenskyy, who delivered his speech in Ukrainian, called on the Netherlands to be prepared to stop importing Russian energy, to halt trade with Russia and to provide more weapons.
He also addressed Prime Minister Mark Rutte, saying “Our EU membership depends on you.”
Rutte had told Zelenskyy at an EU summit earlier this month that Ukraine’s EU accession can’t be sped up. “There isn’t something like a fast track, a fast procedure,” Rutte said at the March 11 summit in Versailles.
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BRUSSELS — European Union antitrust regulators have raided the offices of several companies in Germany involved in the supply, transmission and storage of natural gas amid concern over skyrocketing prices in Europe.
The European Commission, which polices EU competition policy, did not name the companies targeted in the March 29 “surprise inspections.” But anti-trust regulators have been probing the actions of Russian energy giant Gazprom, which has premises in Germany, in the European market. Gazprom could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Commission suspects that the companies “have violated EU competition rules that prohibit abuse of a dominant position” in the market. It says the inspections do not imply that those involved are guilty.
Russia is the biggest exporter of oil, natural gas and coal to the 27-nation EU. About 40% of the bloc’s gas imports come from Russia, much of it piped through Ukraine.
In January, the head of the International Energy Agency blamed Russia for Europe’s natural gas crisis, saying that high prices and low storage levels are largely due to Gazprom withholding supplies.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s top diplomat says Ankara is working to bring the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers together again for talks.
In an interview with Turkey’s A Haber channel, Mevlut Cavusoglu said the meeting could happen within two weeks.
His comments came days after Turkey hosted Ukrainian and Russian negotiators for face-to-face talks in Istanbul. Cavusoglu said decisions taken during the talks to reduce tensions had not fully been put into effect on the ground.
“We do not see these decisions being reflected on the field – for example, the removal of Russian soldiers from some areas,” he said.
Asked about the presence of sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in the negotiations, Cavusoglu said the businessman was engaged in “useful” efforts to end the fighting.
“Abramovich has been sincerely making efforts to end the fighting since the first day of the war,” he said.
During the talks in Istanbul Tuesday, Ukraine set out a detailed framework for a peace deal under which the country would remain neutral but its security would be guaranteed by a group of third countries, including the U.S., Britain, France, Turkey, China and Poland.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Red Cross warehouse in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has been struck amid intense Russian shelling of the area.
Satellite pictures from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press on Thursday show clear damage to the warehouse’s roof along the Kalmius River near its mouth on the Sea of Azov. A red cross had been painted on the top of the warehouse.
At least one hole from suspected shelling could be seen in an image taken March 21. Some four holes in the roof were clearly visible in images taken Wednesday. The red cross had been on the warehouse’s roof from at least late August 2021, according to satellite images.
The International Committee of the Red Cross distributed all the supplies from inside the warehouse earlier in March and no staff have been at the site since March 15, the aid group said in a statement.
The Special Forces Unit “Azov,” a Ukrainian National Guard unit fighting in Mariupol whose members include far-right activists, has accused Russian forces of firing on the building. Russia did not immediately acknowledge the allegation.
Mariupol, home to some 430,000 people before the war, has seen intense fighting for weeks amid Russia’s war on Ukraine. Russian attacks have struck a maternity hospital, fire department locations and civilian homes.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed directly to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine’s war against Russia including armored vehicles and tougher sanctions.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown Thursday to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him a standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
He called for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports. Zelenskyy specifically asked for Australian-manufactured Bushmaster four-wheel drive armored vehicles.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told Zelenskyy that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense ministry says Russia continues to pound Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, despite Moscow’s claim to have scaled back its offensive around that city and Kyiv.
The Ministry of Defense says “significant Russian shelling and missile strikes have continued.”
It said Thursday that “Russian forces continue to hold positions to the east and west of Kyiv despite the withdrawal of a limited number of units. Heavy fighting will likely take place in the suburbs of the city in coming days.”
The U.K. intelligence update also said heavy fighting continues in the southern port of Mariupol, which has been besieged by Russia for weeks, but that Ukrainian forces remain in control of the center of the city.
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Russia and Ukraine both say they are making efforts to help civilians evacuate westwards out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian military said it committed to a local cease-fire along the route from Mariupol to the Ukraine-held city of Zaporizhzhia from Thursday morning.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Thursday that Ukraine was sending 45 buses to collect people. She said the International Committee of the Red Cross was acting as an intermediary between the two sides.
Similar evacuation efforts have been planned before and collapsed amid recriminations over fighting along the route. Ukraine accused Russian forces last week of seizing bus drivers and rescue workers headed to Mariupol.
Civilians who have managed to leave the city for Ukraine-held territory have typically done so using private cars, but the number of drivable vehicles left in Mariupol has dwindled and fuel stocks are low.
Russia has operated its own evacuations from territory it has captured in Mariupol. Ukraine alleges Russia is sending its citizens to “filtration camps” in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine and then forcibly taking people to Russia.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recalled Ukraine’s ambassadors to Georgia and Morocco, suggesting they hadn’t done enough to persuade those countries to support Ukraine and punish Russia for the invasion.
“With all due respect, if there won’t be weapons, won’t be sanctions, won’t be restrictions for Russian business, then please look for other work,” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation Wednesday. “I am waiting for concrete results in the coming days from the work of our representatives in Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa.”
Zelenskyy also said he was expecting results from Ukraine’s military attaches in embassies abroad.
He said “the diplomatic front is one of the key fronts” in Ukraine’s battle to win the war against Russia.
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The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday by video, according to the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia.
The delegations met in-person on Tuesday in Istanbul, after two weeks of meeting by video, and the faint outlines of a possible peace agreement seemed to emerge.
The Ukrainian delegation offered a framework under with the country would declare itself neutral – dropping its bid to join NATO, as Moscow has long demanded – in return for security guarantees from a group of other nations.
Russian diplomats responded positively to Ukraine’s proposal.
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DUBLIN — An aircraft-leasing company has filed $3.5 billion in insurance claims for planes and aircraft engines that are stranded in Russia because of sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
AerCap said it had leased 135 planes to Russian airlines and has repossessed 22 of them outside of Russia.
The Dublin-based company said AerCap says it’s unclear whether it will recover more, and Russian airlines continue to use its planes even though it terminated the leases and demanded that the planes be returned.
After sanctions prohibited U.S. and European companies from leasing, selling or servicing planes and aircraft parts to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law letting his country’s airlines re-register foreign planes and use them for domestic flights.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Wednesday to meet Ukrainian officials and provide technical assistance.
Rafael Mariano Grossi said the IAEA is not involved in political talks with the Russians.
“We are trying to be very active in order to ensure that as soon as possible, the situation is regressed, and the facilities are back in the hands of the Ukrainians,” Grossi said.
Ukraine has 15 nuclear reactors at four plants, one of which (Zaporizhzia) is under the Russian military’s control.
Ukraine also is home to the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, the site of the 1986 nuclear accident, with the Russian military seized early in the war. As of Tuesday, eight reactors were operating and the rest were shut down for regular maintenance.
— From video published by Energoatom Press Service in Media Port –Mykolaiv region, Ukraine
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LONDON — A U.K. intelligence chief is warning that Russia is looking for cyber targets and bringing in mercenaries to shore up its stalled military campaign in Ukraine.
Jeremy Fleming, who heads the U.K.’s GCHQ electronic spy agency, said Russian President Vladimir Putin “massively misjudged” his chances for a swift military victory in Ukraine.
In a speech in Australia, Fleming praised Ukraine’s “information operation” for effectively countering Russia’s big disinformation campaign about the war.
While there were expectations that Russia would launch a major cyberattack as part of its military campaign, Fleming said such a move was never part of Moscow’s playbook.
But Fleming warns that Russia’s “cyber actors are looking for targets in the countries that oppose their actions.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the White House for pledging an additional $500 million in direct aid, but said he was open with U.S. President Biden about Ukraine needing more to resist the Russian invasion.
“If we really are fighting for freedom and in defense of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point,” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation Wednesday. “Tanks, aircraft, artillery systems. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny.”
Prior to Wednesday’s announcement of $500 million in aid, the Biden administration had sent Ukraine about $2 billion in humanitarian and security assistance since the start of the war last month. That’s all part of the $13.6 billion that Congress approved earlier this month for Ukraine as part of a broader spending bill.
Zelenskyy said the negotiations with Russia were continuing but for now, they were only “words without specifics.”
About the supposed withdrawal of Russian forces from Kyiv and Chernihiv, Zelenskyy said: “We know that this is not a withdrawal but the consequences of being driven out. But we also are seeing that Russia is now concentrating its forces for new strikes on Donbas and we are preparing for this.”
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Russia's RT says UK sanctions are death knell for media freedom
Russia's state-funded RT television channel said on Thursday that British sanctions on Russian state media organisations showed the imminent end of media freedom and the blinkered nature of officials who thought anything Russian was wrong. Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on 14 more Russian entities and people, including on state media organisations behind RT and Sputnik and some of their senior figures, saying it was targetting those who push out President Vladimir Putin's "fake news and narratives".
Russia's state-funded RT television channel said on Thursday that British sanctions on Russian state media organisations showed the imminent end of media freedom and the blinkered nature of officials who thought anything Russian was wrong.
Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on 14 more Russian entities and people, including on state media organisations behind RT and Sputnik and some of their senior figures, saying it was targetting those who push out President Vladimir Putin's "fake news and narratives". "With this action the UK government has sounded the death knell for media freedom in Britain," Anna Belkina, RT's deputy editor in chief, told Reuters.
"We will continue to bring the news to audiences that wish to seek it, and prevent a media echo chamber from being orchestrated by blinkered officials hell-bent on conflating anything remotely Russian with wrong," Belkina said. Belkina said Britain had tried to silence both RT and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"If you ever seek to reveal the truth and counter the UK government’s party line, whether you are Julian Assange or RT, they will come for you, and seek to silence you, and claim false legitimacy in doing so," she said.
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Food and gas prices likely to continue rising this year
(CNN) - If you are wondering when gas and grocery prices will come down, the answer is probably not anytime soon.
In fact, you might have to pay even more for those commodities in the coming months.
New federal forecasts show food prices likely will keep climbing, and the average cost of gas will say high or may even rise.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts grocery prices will increase up to 4% throughout this year, and the average cost of dining out could set a new record.
That is partly because Ukraine and Russia usually export a lot of the world’s wheat and corn.
“It will have global context, impact, beyond anything we’ve seen since World War II,” said David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program.
China’s new COVID-19 lockdowns are also making it hard for supply chains to recover from the pandemic.
Oil prices dipped a bit this week after Russia said it would ease up its assault on parts of Ukraine, but White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said, “No one shoud be fooled by Russia’s announcement.”
“It’s called rockets and feathers, meaning when the price goes up, price per barrel, that means your gas stations prices go up like a rocket. When the price goes down per barrel, the gas station prices come down like a feather,” U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said.
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By The Associated Press
BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia does not appear to be scaling back its military operations in Ukraine but is instead redeploying forces to the eastern Donbas region.
Russia promised during talks in Istanbul on Tuesday that it would de-escalate operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the West were skeptical.
Stoltenberg told reporters Thursday that “Russia has repeatedly lied about its intentions,” and must be judged on its actions alone, not the word of its leaders.
“According to our intelligence, Russian units are not withdrawing but repositioning. Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas region,” he said.
At the same time, he said pressure is being kept up on Kyiv and other cities and “we can expect additional offensive actions bringing even more suffering.”
The U.S. says Russia has begun to reposition less than 20% of its troops that had been arrayed around Kyiv. The Pentagon says that most moved north, although some crossed into Belarus where they could be resupplied and sent back into Ukraine.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Buses head to Mariupol in new evacuation attempt
— US intel determines Putin has been misled by advisers on Ukraine
— Poland to end Russian oil imports; Germany warns on gas
— UN agency says 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine
— UN food chief says Ukraine war’s food crisis is worst since WWII
— Go to https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine for more coverage
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
The Kremlin has expressed “regret” and “concern” over U.S. officials’ reports that the Russian president is being misinformed by advisers about his military’s performance in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that “neither the State Department nor the Pentagon possess the real information about what is happening in the Kremlin.”
“They simply don’t understand what’s going on in the Kremlin, they don’t understand President Putin, they don’t understand the mechanism of decision-making, they don’t understand the way we work,” Peskov said.
“It is not just regrettable, it elicits concern, because this complete lack of understanding leads to erroneous decisions, tragic decisions that could have very bad consequences,” he added.
U.S. intelligence officials said Putin is being misinformed by advisers about his military’s poor performance in Ukraine, according to the White House. The advisers are scared to tell him the truth, the intel says.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said Wednesday the U.S. believes Putin was being misled not only about his military’s performance but also “how the Russian economy is being crippled by sanctions because, again, his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth.”
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LONDON — Britain has imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Russian media figures and organizations accused of spreading propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine.
The latest group subjected to asset freezes and travel bans includes Rossiya television anchor Sergey Brilev, who previously lived in the U.K., Gazprom-Media chief executive Aleksandr Zharov and Alexey Nikolov, managing director of Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT.
Sanctions have also been slapped on media organizations TV-Novosti, which owns RT, and Rossiya Segodnya, which controls the Sputnik news agency.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Thursday’s sanctions would hit “the shameless propagandists who push out Putin’s fake news and narratives.”
The U.K. also said it was sanctioning Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defence Command and Control Center, accusing him of orchestrating atrocities including the siege of Mariupol.
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on the spring draft, with 134,500 new conscripts to be added to the Russian army amid the country’s war on Ukraine.
Both Putin and Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu have said that conscripts will not be taking part in the operation in Ukraine. Earlier this month, however, the Russian military admitted that a number of conscripts ended up in Ukraine and were even captured there.
The decree signed on Thursday outlines the draft which will kick off on April 1 and last through July 15.
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BERLIN — The International Committee of the Red Cross says its teams are ready to facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of the besieged city of Mariupol.
The Red Cross said “for logistics and security reasons, we’ll be ready to lead the safe passage operation tomorrow, Friday, provided all the parties agree to the exact terms, including the route, the start time, and the duration.”
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Ukraine is sending out several dozen buses to collect civilians from Mariupol after Russia’s military said it committed to a localized cease-fire from the city to Ukraine-held Zaporizhzhia from Thursday morning.
“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it,” the Red Cross said.
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AMSTERDAM — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoke by video link to the Dutch parliament.
Zelenskyy, who delivered his speech in Ukrainian, called on the Netherlands to be prepared to stop importing Russian energy, to halt trade with Russia and to provide more weapons.
He also addressed Prime Minister Mark Rutte, saying “Our EU membership depends on you.”
Rutte had told Zelenskyy at an EU summit earlier this month that Ukraine’s EU accession can’t be sped up. “There isn’t something like a fast track, a fast procedure,” Rutte said at the March 11 summit in Versailles.
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BRUSSELS — European Union antitrust regulators have raided the offices of several companies in Germany involved in the supply, transmission and storage of natural gas amid concern over skyrocketing prices in Europe.
The European Commission, which polices EU competition policy, did not name the companies targeted in the March 29 “surprise inspections.” But anti-trust regulators have been probing the actions of Russian energy giant Gazprom, which has premises in Germany, in the European market. Gazprom could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Commission suspects that the companies “have violated EU competition rules that prohibit abuse of a dominant position” in the market. It says the inspections do not imply that those involved are guilty.
Russia is the biggest exporter of oil, natural gas and coal to the 27-nation EU. About 40% of the bloc’s gas imports come from Russia, much of it piped through Ukraine.
In January, the head of the International Energy Agency blamed Russia for Europe’s natural gas crisis, saying that high prices and low storage levels are largely due to Gazprom withholding supplies.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s top diplomat says Ankara is working to bring the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers together again for talks.
In an interview with Turkey’s A Haber channel, Mevlut Cavusoglu said the meeting could happen within two weeks.
His comments came days after Turkey hosted Ukrainian and Russian negotiators for face-to-face talks in Istanbul. Cavusoglu said decisions taken during the talks to reduce tensions had not fully been put into effect on the ground.
“We do not see these decisions being reflected on the field – for example, the removal of Russian soldiers from some areas,” he said.
Asked about the presence of sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in the negotiations, Cavusoglu said the businessman was engaged in “useful” efforts to end the fighting.
“Abramovich has been sincerely making efforts to end the fighting since the first day of the war,” he said.
During the talks in Istanbul Tuesday, Ukraine set out a detailed framework for a peace deal under which the country would remain neutral but its security would be guaranteed by a group of third countries, including the U.S., Britain, France, Turkey, China and Poland.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Red Cross warehouse in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has been struck amid intense Russian shelling of the area.
Satellite pictures from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press on Thursday show clear damage to the warehouse’s roof along the Kalmius River near its mouth on the Sea of Azov. A red cross had been painted on the top of the warehouse.
At least one hole from suspected shelling could be seen in an image taken March 21. Some four holes in the roof were clearly visible in images taken Wednesday. The red cross had been on the warehouse’s roof from at least late August 2021, according to satellite images.
The International Committee of the Red Cross distributed all the supplies from inside the warehouse earlier in March and no staff have been at the site since March 15, the aid group said in a statement.
The Special Forces Unit “Azov,” a Ukrainian National Guard unit fighting in Mariupol whose members include far-right activists, has accused Russian forces of firing on the building. Russia did not immediately acknowledge the allegation.
Mariupol, home to some 430,000 people before the war, has seen intense fighting for weeks amid Russia’s war on Ukraine. Russian attacks have struck a maternity hospital, fire department locations and civilian homes.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed directly to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine’s war against Russia including armored vehicles and tougher sanctions.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown Thursday to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him a standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
He called for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports. Zelenskyy specifically asked for Australian-manufactured Bushmaster four-wheel drive armored vehicles.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told Zelenskyy that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense ministry says Russia continues to pound Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, despite Moscow’s claim to have scaled back its offensive around that city and Kyiv.
The Ministry of Defense says “significant Russian shelling and missile strikes have continued.”
It said Thursday that “Russian forces continue to hold positions to the east and west of Kyiv despite the withdrawal of a limited number of units. Heavy fighting will likely take place in the suburbs of the city in coming days.”
The U.K. intelligence update also said heavy fighting continues in the southern port of Mariupol, which has been besieged by Russia for weeks, but that Ukrainian forces remain in control of the center of the city.
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Russia and Ukraine both say they are making efforts to help civilians evacuate westwards out of the besieged port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian military said it committed to a local cease-fire along the route from Mariupol to the Ukraine-held city of Zaporizhzhia from Thursday morning.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Thursday that Ukraine was sending 45 buses to collect people. She said the International Committee of the Red Cross was acting as an intermediary between the two sides.
Similar evacuation efforts have been planned before and collapsed amid recriminations over fighting along the route. Ukraine accused Russian forces last week of seizing bus drivers and rescue workers headed to Mariupol.
Civilians who have managed to leave the city for Ukraine-held territory have typically done so using private cars, but the number of drivable vehicles left in Mariupol has dwindled and fuel stocks are low.
Russia has operated its own evacuations from territory it has captured in Mariupol. Ukraine alleges Russia is sending its citizens to “filtration camps” in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine and then forcibly taking people to Russia.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recalled Ukraine’s ambassadors to Georgia and Morocco, suggesting they hadn’t done enough to persuade those countries to support Ukraine and punish Russia for the invasion.
“With all due respect, if there won’t be weapons, won’t be sanctions, won’t be restrictions for Russian business, then please look for other work,” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation Wednesday. “I am waiting for concrete results in the coming days from the work of our representatives in Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa.”
Zelenskyy also said he was expecting results from Ukraine’s military attaches in embassies abroad.
He said “the diplomatic front is one of the key fronts” in Ukraine’s battle to win the war against Russia.
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The talks between Ukraine and Russia will resume on Friday by video, according to the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia.
The delegations met in-person on Tuesday in Istanbul, after two weeks of meeting by video, and the faint outlines of a possible peace agreement seemed to emerge.
The Ukrainian delegation offered a framework under with the country would declare itself neutral – dropping its bid to join NATO, as Moscow has long demanded – in return for security guarantees from a group of other nations.
Russian diplomats responded positively to Ukraine’s proposal.
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DUBLIN — An aircraft-leasing company has filed $3.5 billion in insurance claims for planes and aircraft engines that are stranded in Russia because of sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
AerCap said it had leased 135 planes to Russian airlines and has repossessed 22 of them outside of Russia.
The Dublin-based company said AerCap says it’s unclear whether it will recover more, and Russian airlines continue to use its planes even though it terminated the leases and demanded that the planes be returned.
After sanctions prohibited U.S. and European companies from leasing, selling or servicing planes and aircraft parts to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law letting his country’s airlines re-register foreign planes and use them for domestic flights.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Wednesday to meet Ukrainian officials and provide technical assistance.
Rafael Mariano Grossi said the IAEA is not involved in political talks with the Russians.
“We are trying to be very active in order to ensure that as soon as possible, the situation is regressed, and the facilities are back in the hands of the Ukrainians,” Grossi said.
Ukraine has 15 nuclear reactors at four plants, one of which (Zaporizhzia) is under the Russian military’s control.
Ukraine also is home to the decommissioned Chernobyl plant, the site of the 1986 nuclear accident, with the Russian military seized early in the war. As of Tuesday, eight reactors were operating and the rest were shut down for regular maintenance.
— From video published by Energoatom Press Service in Media Port –Mykolaiv region, Ukraine
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LONDON — A U.K. intelligence chief is warning that Russia is looking for cyber targets and bringing in mercenaries to shore up its stalled military campaign in Ukraine.
Jeremy Fleming, who heads the U.K.’s GCHQ electronic spy agency, said Russian President Vladimir Putin “massively misjudged” his chances for a swift military victory in Ukraine.
In a speech in Australia, Fleming praised Ukraine’s “information operation” for effectively countering Russia’s big disinformation campaign about the war.
While there were expectations that Russia would launch a major cyberattack as part of its military campaign, Fleming said such a move was never part of Moscow’s playbook.
But Fleming warns that Russia’s “cyber actors are looking for targets in the countries that oppose their actions.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the White House for pledging an additional $500 million in direct aid, but said he was open with U.S. President Biden about Ukraine needing more to resist the Russian invasion.
“If we really are fighting for freedom and in defense of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point,” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation Wednesday. “Tanks, aircraft, artillery systems. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny.”
Prior to Wednesday’s announcement of $500 million in aid, the Biden administration had sent Ukraine about $2 billion in humanitarian and security assistance since the start of the war last month. That’s all part of the $13.6 billion that Congress approved earlier this month for Ukraine as part of a broader spending bill.
Zelenskyy said the negotiations with Russia were continuing but for now, they were only “words without specifics.”
About the supposed withdrawal of Russian forces from Kyiv and Chernihiv, Zelenskyy said: “We know that this is not a withdrawal but the consequences of being driven out. But we also are seeing that Russia is now concentrating its forces for new strikes on Donbas and we are preparing for this.”
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AAP deploys 'experienced leaders' to execute its nationwide expansion plan
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Keeping up with its nationwide expansion plan, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday appointed new office-bearers to strengthen its base in several states, including those going to polls this year and in 2023.
Releasing a list of the new office bearers, the party said senior leaders with ''proven electoral performances'' have been appointed as election in-charges for the states the AAP is ''looking to enter''.
The AAP has trusted its ''experienced leaders'' to drive its campaigns across the country, it added.
This comes days after the party took its first steps towards nationwide expansion and appointed new office-bearers for nine states.
According to the latest list released by the party, Delhi's Timarpur MLA Dilip Pandey has been made election in-charge for Karnataka, which will go to polls next year.
To expand the party's base in the BJP-ruled state, the party has appointed its leader Damodaran from Delhi as the 'sangathan mantri (organisation secretary)' for the Karnataka unit.
The AAP had contested in Karnataka for the first time in 2018, fielding candidates in 28 out of a total 124 assembly seats, but could not open its account.
Riding high on its stupendous victory in Punjab, the party has started early preparations for the assembly polls in the state, hoping to gain foothold in its second attempt.
The AAP has appointed its leader Dushyant Yadav from Delhi as its organisation secretary in Rajasthan to expand the party's base in the Congress-ruled state with an eye on the assembly polls there next year.
The party had contested in 142 out of 200 seats in the 2018 Rajasthan assembly elections but could not win any of them. With renewed vigour, the party is gearing up to join the fray once again.
Last week, the AAP's Dwarka MLA Vinay Mishra, son of Congress leader and former MP Mahabal Mishra, was made the election in-charge for the party in Rajasthan.
The party has appointed Dinesh Pratap Singh, associated with it since its inception, as co-in charge of the AAP's political affairs in Haryana and Prabhakar Gaur as organisation secretary, a week after the party's Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta was named in-charge of the AAP's political affairs in the state.
The AAP has increased its focus on expanding its footprints in BJP-ruled Haryana with an eye on the state assembly polls in 2024.
Several local leaders of the ruling BJP, Congress and other parties have joined the AAP since its landslide victory in Punjab, and the party hopes that it will be in a position to project itself as an alternative to the BJP and the Congress in the assembly polls.
Seeking to make inroads in Bihar, the AAP has assigned the task of building its organisation in the state to its leader Rahul Tanwar. Ajesh Tadav, another party leader from Delhi, has been made the AAP's election-in charge for the state.
Appointed as organisation secretary, AAP leader from Delhi Ajay Raj has been assigned the responsibility of expanding the base of the party in Kerala.
With immediate focus on the assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh this year, the party has appointed its leader from Delhi Deepak Chouhan as the organisation secretary for Gujarat.
This comes a week after the AAP's poll strategist and newly elected Rajya Sabha member Sandeep Pathak, a former IIT-Delhi faculty member, was appointed in-charge of the party's political affairs in Gujarat.
Pathak, touted as the AAP's 'Chanakya', has been working for the party from ''behind the scenes'' for many years, and he is credited for building the party's cadre in Punjab and also ensuring its landslide victory in the state.
''Most of those appointed as the party's election in-charges and organisation secretaries for various states have been associated with the AAP since its inception, and have made remarkable contributions in building the organisation while working for the party from behind the scenes,'' a senior AAP leader told PTI.
Many of them have also worked with the party's poll strategist, Pathak, he said.
''The party has given them responsibilities in states keeping in mind their dedication to the party's mission and expertise in organisation building,'' he added.
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Gladewater native living in Ukraine finds refuge in Poland, while husband remains in Ukraine
East Texas native on being apart from husband: ‘It’s not been easy’
POLAND (KLTV) - An East Texas native is among the Ukrainians finding refuge in Poland.
Mission work took Gladewater native Amanda Gage-Fetisova to Ukraine, where she has now lived for 15 years. About three weeks ago, Fetisova left her city of Kryvyi Rih in south-central Ukraine to board a train headed for Poland.
“I evacuated with 45 women and children from our church,” she said in an interview via Zoom.
Fetisova and her Ukrainian husband of five years, Max, pastor a church in Ukraine. Her husband also serves as the director of an organization that works with orphans.
“I grew up going to church at First Assembly of God in Gladewater,” she said. “I loved God and wanted to serve Him, and dedicate my life to helping others.”
With Russia’s attacks getting closer to their home and knowing civilians were being targeted, the East Texas native made the difficult decision to board a train headed for Poland along with women and children from their church.
“We quickly made the decision within a day,” she said. “And we got on a train with backpacks.”
And while Amanda left for Poland, her husband stayed behind in Ukraine.
“It’s not been easy. We call each other and text each other pretty much every day. But we have been busy. He’s serving the community there. And I’m here in Poland for now, trying to help the women that we’ve evacuated and then others that we’ve met along the way.”
The center the couple runs back in Ukraine is now a bomb shelter that’s also housing refugees from other Ukrainian cities.
Fetisova said their city is safe for now, but Ukrainian troops are fighting very hard to keep it that way.
“Russian troops are just miles away, so every night there’s a firefight. But we just continue to pray and believe that God’s going to protect our city and our families that are still there.”
Fetisova said she’s received messages and prayers from many East Texans since the start of the war, and has shared those messages of hope and support with those facing uncertainty.
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By ED WHITE
Associated Press
One of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified Thursday in his own defense and denied any role in a wild conspiracy to get her before the 2020 election.
Daniel Harris repeatedly said “absolutely not” when asked by his lawyer if he agreed to abduct Whitmer.
Harris, Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., and Brandon Caserta are accused of plotting to kidnap the Democratic governor at her vacation home in northern Michigan in fall 2020 because of their disgust with government and tough COVID-19 restrictions.
Prosecutors ended their side of the case Wednesday, the 13th day of trial. Jurors have seen and heard audio and video secretly recorded by FBI agents and informants as well as violent, profanity-filled posts from social media and messaging apps.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
One of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified in his own defense Thursday, a day after prosecutors rested their case and the trial moved closer to the finish line.
Daniel Harris’ attorney placed water on the witness stand before he settled into a seat and began telling jurors about graduating from a suburban Detroit high school in 2015 and joining the Marines.
Harris, Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., and Brandon Caserta are accused of plotting to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home in northern Michigan in fall 2020 because of their disgust with government and tough COVID-19 restrictions.
Prosecutors ended their side of the case Wednesday, the 13th day of trial. Jurors have seen and heard audio and video secretly recorded by FBI agents and informants as well as violent, profanity-filled posts from social media and messaging apps.
In addition, two men who were in the group, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty and were vital witnesses for the government.
Defense attorneys claim the men were engaged in a lot of crazy talk fueled by agents and informants but no conspiracy.
The first defense witness, Colleen Kuester of Baraboo, Wisconsin, said she was invited by an acquaintance to a “family fun day” in Cambria, Wisconsin, in July 2020. Cambria was a training site for the group and other self-styled militia members, according to evidence.
Kuester said she found nothing sinister — just swimming, target shooting and bratwursts.
But Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Roth played secretly recorded audio of men talking about making bombs.
“Did you hear that at Cambria?” he asked.
“Absolutely not,” Kuester replied.
At least five other defense witnesses bowed out Wednesday, saying they would assert their right to remain silent if called to testify. They included an informant, Steve Robeson of Oxford, Wisconsin, who switched sides during the investigation and tipped off Croft that the FBI wanted to arrest him, according to the government.
The others who invoked the Fifth Amendment had participated in training as well as discussions about the plot but have not been charged.
Croft’s longtime companion, Chastity Knight of Bear, Delaware, was among the final witnesses called by prosecutors.
“ He was antigovernment,” Knight of Bear, Delaware, said of Croft. “He just thought the government’s not for him. The government doesn’t help the people out. They like to line their own pockets.”
The men were arrested in October 2020 amid talk of obtaining an explosive that could blow up a bridge and hold back police from responding to a kidnapping at Whitmer’s second home, according to trial testimony.
Garbin said the group acted willingly and had hoped to strike before the election, cause national chaos and prevent Joe Biden from winning the presidency.
Whitmer, a Democrat, rarely talks publicly about the kidnapping plot, though she referred to “surprises” during her term that seemed like “something out of fiction” when she filed for reelection on March 17.
She has blamed former President Donald Trump for fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists like those charged in the case. Whitmer has said Trump was complicit in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial
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White reported from Detroit.
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PM assured action on TN's demands: CM Stalin
People now say that Stalin undertook the Delhi visit with the hope that the Prime Minister, forgetting the past, will save him and his family, Palaniswami said in a statement here.The AIADMK senior leader, who has criticised the Chief Ministers overseas trip as a family trip rather than one to attract foreign investments, said complaints have been sent to the Central government on the matter.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured that appropriate action will be taken on the issues raised on Thursday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said.
Expressing satisfaction and happiness over his meeting with the Prime Minister and other Central Ministers, Stalin said, ''I explained in detail the demands of Tamil Nadu, and the Prime Minister assured me of appropriate action.'' He took up the Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution seeking for the State NEET exemption. He had said the Governor delayed sending to the President the resolution for his assent. ''Apart from this, I requested the Central government's intervention in ensuring equal civil and political rights for Eelam Tamils,'' the Chief Minister told reporters after his meeting with the Prime Minister. During his meeting with the Home Minister Amit Shah, Stalin said he stressed on further modernisation of the police and fire service. He said he sought defence and infrastructural projects during his meeting with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.
''In addition to urging the Centre to set up Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) labs in Tamil Nadu, I sought several road infrastructural projects, including six laning of the Chennai- Kanyakumari national highway and Tambaram-Chengalpattu elevated expressway,'' he said.
He said he would meet Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday. Stalin said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would accompany the former to the Delhi Model School on that day.
Meanwhile, AIADMK co-coordinator K Palaniswami ridiculed Stalin and asked him to explain what the AIADMK leader said was a mystery behind the Delhi visit after his DMK flew ''Go back Modi'' black balloons in Chennai protesting against the Prime Minister's visit to Tamil Nadu during the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Wondering if it had anything to do with his recent trip to Dubai, Palaniswami mocked the DMK's change in stance and referred to the party's black balloon protest. ''Then, the DMK members stooped to a low level in criticising the Prime Minister. People now say that Stalin undertook the Delhi visit with the hope that the Prime Minister, forgetting the past, will save him and his family,'' Palaniswami said in a statement here.
The AIADMK senior leader, who has criticised the Chief Minister's overseas trip as a family trip rather than one to attract foreign investments, said complaints have been sent to the Central government on the matter. This probably prompted Stalin to go to the capital, Palaniswami added.
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By MATT OTT
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at historic lows.
Jobless claims rose by 14,000 to 202,000 for the week ending March 26, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The previous week’s tally of 188,000 claims was the fewest since 1969. First-time applications for jobless aid generally track the pace of layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, fell to 208,500 from 212,000 the previous week.
In total, 1,307,000 Americans were collecting jobless aid for the week ending March 19, the fewest since December 1969.
Employers added a robust 678,000 jobs in February, according to recent government data, the largest monthly total since July. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%, from 4% in January, extending a sharp decline in joblessness to its lowest level since before the pandemic erupted two years ago. The government reports March jobs data on Friday, and analysts forecast that the U.S. economy gained 477,500 jobs for the month.
Job openings hovered at a near-record level in February, little changed from the previous month, continuing a trend that Federal Reserve officials see as a driver of inflation. There were 11.3 million available jobs last month, matching January’s figure and just below December’s record of 11.4 million, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
The number of Americans quitting their jobs was also historically high, at 4.4 million, up from 4.3 million in January. More than 4.5 million people quit in November, the most on records dating back two decades.
The Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort two weeks ago in an effort to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to six additional rate hikes this year.
The Fed’s quarter-point hike in its key rate, which it had pinned near zero since the pandemic recession struck two years ago, marks the start of its effort to curb the high inflation that followed the recovery from the recession. The rate hikes will eventually mean higher loan rates for many consumers and businesses.
The central bank’s policymakers have projected that inflation will remain elevated at 4.3% through 2022.
Also Thursday, an inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, with sharply higher prices for food, gasoline and other necessities squeezing Americans’ finances.
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Installation on National Mall raises awareness about colorectal cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, colorectal cancer is now a leading cause of cancer death in both men and women ages 20-49 in the United States.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - More than 27,000 blue flags are flying in the wind on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Each one is a representation of the number of young adults predicted to be diagnosed with a battle that Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) is familiar with.
“My wife Shannon is a 23-year colon cancer survivor,” said Rep. Davis. “Luckily we found it at stage two.”
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. According to the National Cancer Institute, colorectal cancer is now a leading cause of cancer death in both men and women ages 20-49 in the United States. By 2030, diagnosis for young adults is expected to rise from 18,000 to 27,000 annually as estimated by medical researchers. While researchers have yet to fully understand what’s causing an increase in cases, the Institute says there’s been an uptick since 1995.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends adults begin screenings at 45 years old.
Anjee Davis is the President of the Fight Colorectal Cancer organization.
“One of the asks we have of our policy makers is to increase screenings and increase federal funding,” she said.
Rep. Davis said lawmakers are working to remove screening barriers.
“We’ve been working with the national institutes of health,” he said. “We funded the National Cancer Institute and the NIH with historic funding over the last few years.”
In Dec. 2020, the House passed the Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act. It’s now stalled in the Senate.
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Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba to visit BJP office Friday
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Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will visit the BJP office on Friday, the party's overseas affairs cell head Vijay Chauthaiwale said on Thursday.
Deuba is on a three-day visit to India. This is his first visit to India after becoming prime minister of Nepal.
''The prime minister of Nepal is visiting BJP office on the invitation of party chief J P Nadda Ji. He will be welcomed by the party president,'' Chauthaiwale told PTI.
He further said Deuba will be accompanied by his party's leaders and will meet other BJP leaders as well.
Sources in the BJP said the discussion will revolve around strengthening party-to-party relations.
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By MATT OTT
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at historic lows.
Jobless claims rose by 14,000 to 202,000 for the week ending March 26, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The previous week’s tally of 188,000 claims was the fewest since 1969. First-time applications for jobless aid generally track the pace of layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, fell to 208,500 from 212,000 the previous week.
In total, 1,307,000 Americans were collecting jobless aid for the week ending March 19, the fewest since December 1969.
Employers added a robust 678,000 jobs in February, according to recent government data, the largest monthly total since July. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%, from 4% in January, extending a sharp decline in joblessness to its lowest level since before the pandemic erupted two years ago. The government reports March jobs data on Friday.
Job openings hovered at a near-record level in February, little changed from the previous month, continuing a trend that Federal Reserve officials see as a driver of inflation. There were 11.3 million available jobs last month, matching January’s figure and just below December’s record of 11.4 million, the Labor Department said Tuesday.
The number of Americans quitting their jobs was also historically high, at 4.4 million, up from 4.3 million in January. More than 4.5 million people quit in November, the most on records dating back two decades.
The Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort two weeks ago in an effort to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to six additional rate hikes this year.
The Fed’s quarter-point hike in its key rate, which it had pinned near zero since the pandemic recession struck two years ago, marks the start of its effort to curb the high inflation that followed the recovery from the recession. The rate hikes will eventually mean higher loan rates for many consumers and businesses.
The central bank’s policymakers have projected that inflation will remain elevated at 4.3% through 2022.
Earlier this month, the government reported that consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week fell to its lowest level in 52 years as the U.S. job market continues to show strength in the midst of rising costs and an ongoing virus pandemic.
Jobless claims fell by 28,000 to 187,000 for the week ending March 19, the lowest since September of 1969, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications for jobless aid generally track the pace of layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, also fell to levels not seen in five decades. The Labor Department reported that the four week moving average tumbled to 211,750 from the previous week’s 223,250.
In total, 1,350,000 Americans were collecting jobless aid the week that ended March 12, another five-decade low.
Earlier this month, the government reported that employers added a robust 678,000 jobs in February, the largest monthly total since July. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%, from 4% in January, extending a sharp decline in joblessness to its lowest level since before the pandemic erupted two years ago.
U.S. businesses posted a near-record level of open jobs in January — 11.3 million — a trend has helped pad workers’ pay and added to inflationary pressures.
The Federal Reserve launched a high-risk effort last week to tame the worst inflation since the early 1980s, raising its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaling up to six additional rate hikes this year.
The Fed’s quarter-point hike in its key rate, which it had pinned near zero since the pandemic recession struck two years ago, marks the start of its effort to curb the high inflation that followed the recovery from the recession. The rate hikes will eventually mean higher loan rates for many consumers and businesses.
The central bank’s policymakers have projected that inflation will remain elevated, ending 2022 at 4.3%.
Earlier this month, the government reported that consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982.
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Lynching is now a federal hate crime under bill President signed Tuesday
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act is named after a 14-year-old who became a civil rights icon after his brutal murder following a racist attack
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Sixty-seven years after the death of Emmett Till, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that makes lynching a federal hate crime.
“To the Till family we remain in awe of your courage to find purpose through your pain,” said President Biden.
Till’s cousin, Rev. Wheeler Parker, was among those in attendance at the event.
“It shows how America is willing to change. We’ve come a long way. We have a lot of work to do. But it tells me that there’s hope and I can see it in the people who have the fire in their belly and the guts to do what’s right,” said Parker.
Parker witnessed Till’s abduction in Mississippi in 1955. Till had been accused of flirting with a white woman inside a store. Till’s body was recovered from a river after he had been tortured and shot. The two white men accused in the crime were found not guilty by an all white male jury.
Till’s mother insisted on an open casket so the nation could see the brutality of the crime.
The Equal Justice Initiative reports that there have been more than 200 attempts since 1900 to pass federal anti-lynching legislation. The group claims, between 1865 and 1950 alone there were nearly 6500 lynchings.
When the Washington Bureau asked Parker how he stayed focused during the long debate to pass the bill, he said he followed a key piece of advice that he now gives to other civil rights advocates.
“Never give up,” he said. “There is hope.”
The Emmitt Till Anti-lyncing law will make lynching a federal hate crime with penalties ranging from a fine to up to 30 years of prison.
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LONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia decided Thursday to stick to a modest increase in the amount of crude they pump to the world, a step that supports higher prices even as the Biden administration plans to try to lower them by releasing oil from strategic reserves.
The group, known as OPEC+, said it would add 432,000 barrels per day in May, as it works to gradually restore production cuts made during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s slightly up from 400,000 barrels in previous months, with officials saying they’re revising baseline production levels.
The alliance has been unmoved by pleas from oil-consuming countries to pump more oil as energy prices soar, fueling inflation worldwide. High prices have helped Russia — the world’s largest exporter with 12% of the global market — offset some of the economic pain from Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. and European sanctions have dealt a severe blow to Russia’s economy but contain exceptions for energy payments. That is a U.S. concession to European allies who are much more dependent on Russian energy than the U.S., which has banned the import of Russian oil. Europe by contrast gets 40% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, and officials there have shied away from a boycott, instead aiming to reduce dependency through conservation and boosting wind and solar energy as fast as they can over the next several years.
Oil prices have risen as global demand rebounded for fuel for cars, trucks and airplanes. The war pushed them ever higher over fears Russian oil might be lost to the market if sanctions tighten.
They have a major influence on how much U.S. drivers pay at the pump, with crude oil accounting for about half the price of a gallon of gas. To combat high gasoline prices — averaging $4.24, up $1.38 from a year ago — U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels per day from strategic petroleum reserves, with an announcement expected as soon Thursday.
Diesel fuel for trucks, farm equipment and factories has also jumped in price, to a U.S. average of $5.25 per gallon, up $2.02 from a year ago, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In November, the White House announced the release of 50 million barrels in coordination with other countries, and after the war began, the U.S. and 30 other countries agreed on an additional release of 60 million barrels.
Oil prices slumped on expectations of a new release, but analysts at UniCredit bank said the impact of such moves on prices “is usually short-lived.” That’s because reserves are finite, and the production shortfall is open-ended. Once reserves fall below a certain level, the market might fear they would be insufficient to combat a further shortfall and prices would go up.
U.S. oil prices were down 6.3%, to $100.99, while international benchmark Brent crude dropped 5.6%, to $107.50.
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Russia says jailed American on hunger strike, but denies he caught TB
Russia said on Thursday that imprisoned ex-U.S. Marine Trevor Reed had declared a hunger strike to protest at disciplinary action taken against him, but denied he had contracted tuberculosis and said that his health was "satisfactory".
Russia said on Thursday that imprisoned ex-U.S. Marine Trevor Reed had declared a hunger strike to protest at disciplinary action taken against him, but denied he had contracted tuberculosis and said that his health was "satisfactory". The 30-year-old Texan's parents met U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday, having raised fears that their son had caught tuberculosis in the jail in Russia's Mordovia region where he is serving a nine-year sentence.
They said their son had been exposed to an inmate with active tuberculosis in December, had not been tested or received proper medical care despite his health worsening, and had been put in solitary confinement and begun a hunger strike. The White House voiced concern about reports of the hunger strike on Wednesday and called on Russia to provide Reed with adequate medical care immediately.
Reed was convicted of endangering the lives of two police officers while drunk on a visit to Moscow in 2019. He denied the charges and the United States called his trial a "theater of the absurd." In a written statement to Reuters on Thursday, Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service denied that Reed had been in contact with anyone suffering from tuberculosis and said that repeated tests for the illness had come back negative.
It described his health as satisfactory and said that medical workers were constantly monitoring him. "T. Reed declared a hunger strike on Monday ... because he disagreed with a punishment imposed on him by the facility's disciplinary commission in view of the circumstances of an offence and the previous behaviour of the convict," he said.
It did not say what the punishment was or why exactly it was imposed. Washington has called on Moscow to release him as well as Paul Whelan who was jailed for spying and also denied the charges against him.
Speaking after Biden's meeting with Reed's parents, the White House said "the President reiterated his commitment to continue to work to secure the release of Trevor, Paul Whelan, and other Americans wrongfully held in Russia and elsewhere."
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LONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia have decided to stick to a modest increase in the amount of crude it pumps to the world.
The move Thursday supports higher prices even as the Biden administration readies an attempt to lower them by releasing oil from strategic reserves.
The group, known as OPEC+, chose to stay on its schedule of gradual increases to restore production cuts made during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
In May, OPEC said it would add 432,000 barrels per day. That’s slightly up from 400,000 barrels in previous months, with officials saying they’re revising baseline production levels.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
LONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia are deciding how much crude to pump to the world Thursday, with expectations for only a modest increase despite pleas for more. High oil prices are fueling inflation in the U.S. and other countries and cushioning the blow of Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Analysts expect the group, known as OPEC+, to stay on its schedule of gradual increases to restore production cuts made during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
So far, that steady pace has meant adding 400,000 barrels per day at the start of each month. Beginning in May, the level is to be adjusted slightly upward to 432,000 barrels because of revised baseline production levels, according to the August edition of OPEC’s official monthly bulletin.
The modest monthly increases have not helped ease spikes in the price of oil tied to rebounding global demand for fuel for cars, trucks and airplanes. The war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, the world’s largest oil exporter with some 12% of global supply, have also fed higher prices over fears its flows might be disrupted.
Oil prices have a major influence on how much U.S. drivers pay at the pump for gasoline. To combat high gas prices — averaging $4.24, up $1.38 from a year ago — U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels per day from strategic petroleum reserves, with an announcement expected as soon Thursday.
In November, the White House announced the release of 50 million barrels in coordination with other countries, and after the war began, the U.S. and 30 other countries agreed on an additional release of 60 million barrels.
Oil prices slumped on expectations of a new release, but analysts at UniCredit bank said the impact of such moves on prices “is usually short-lived.” That’s because reserves are finite, and the production shortfall is open-ended. Once reserves fall below a certain level, the market might fear they would be insufficient to combat a further shortfall and prices would go up.
Higher oil prices also mean more export earnings and tax revenue for the Russian government, cushioning to some extent the crushing sanctions imposed on Russian banks and companies as well as the impact of foreign companies shuttering their businesses in the country.
Some buyers are avoiding Russia’s oil even though Western sanctions permit banks to process energy payments. Buyers don’t want to be associated with the war or are afraid a sudden tightening of sanctions could leave them with Russian oil they can’t sell.
Also boosting prices is the inability of some OPEC+ members to fulfill their production quotas. OPEC’s de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates have spare production capacity but have held off increasing their output and upsetting the group’s agreed-upon allotments.
Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE voted for a U.N. resolution calling for Russia to withdraw from Ukraine but have stressed that they see the role of OPEC+ as stabilizing world oil markets and separate from international politics.
The United Arab Emirates’ energy minister doubled down on OPEC’s alliance with Russia. He said Russia, with its 10 million barrels of oil a day, is an important member of OPEC+.
“And leaving the politics aside, that volume is needed today,” Suhail al-Mazrouei said Monday. “Unless someone is willing to come and bring 10 million barrels, we don’t see that someone can substitute Russia.”
The United States, European nations, Japan and others have been calling on Gulf Arab oil producers to do more to help bring down oil prices. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson this month visited the UAE and Saudi Arabia, where he raised the issue.
The Brent crude international benchmark rose to nearly $140 — from $90 before the start of the war — before falling back. On Thursday, U.S. oil traded down 4.5%, at $102.90, while Brent slipped 3.7%, to $109.28.
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Men’s use of diabetes drug linked to raised risk of birth defects, study says
(CNN) - Men who take a popular diabetes drug are 40% more likely to conceive a child with birth defects, according to a study.
The study was published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
It showed that men who used metformin in the three-month period before they conceived a child had a 40% higher risk of birth defects in their offspring.
The research followed more than 1 million births between 1997 and 2016, comparing the risk of major birth defects in babies based on paternal exposures to diabetes medications.
The study observed only children who were born to women younger than 35 and men younger than 40, and babies born to women with diabetes were excluded.
The researchers considered men exposed to metformin if they filled a prescription for it in the three months before conception, which is how long it takes the fertilizing sperm to fully mature.
Researchers said more studies are needed to determine if men taking metformin should make any considerations.
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Federal gasoline rebates to consumers weighed-U.S. House Speaker Pelosi
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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she would consider legislation providing American consumers with rebates on gasoline purchases as a way of helping them cope with high prices at the pump.
During her weekly press conference, Pelosi also said that she would await decisions from President Joe Biden on ways to address high gasoline prices.
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By ISABEL DEBRE
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s fair in Dubai, a tech-saturated site teeming with talking robots and solar canopies, sought to be the future.
Now, it’s history.
The pandemic-delayed Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates closes on Thursday after eight years of anticipation, over $7 billion in investment, 240 million hours of labor and six months of festivities.
The fate of the fairgrounds is clear. Some national pavilions will be demolished. A few will remain, like an enormous lacework dome and the UAE’s soaring falcon-shaped pavilion. Other buildings will be rebranded for a new business district soon to rise from the site.
But the deeper legacy of the event proves more elusive.
When Dubai won the bid to host Expo in 2013, it felt like a rebirth. Just four years earlier, the glitzy city-state suffered a real-estate crash in the Great Recession, rescued by a $20 billion bailout from oil-rich Abu Dhabi.
As property prices roared back, the Expo — the first world’s fair in the Middle East — appeared to signal Dubai’s troubles were behind it. Officials offered bright predictions. The “world’s greatest show” would draw 25 million visitors. It would generate $33.4 billion in investment until 2031. It would help Dubai push into the top tier of global financial centers.
But, in the end, the billions of dollars, frenzy of fantastical construction projects and barrage of publicity proved powerless against the coronavirus pandemic, which forced Dubai to postpone the event a year.
“It definitely fell short of what officials would have wanted,” said James Swanston, an economist at Capital Economics. “There were extremely optimistic assessments about Expo driving the next five to 10 years of growth in real estate and business, and COVID disrupted that.”
Dubai raced to widespread vaccination so it could open its borders and relax virus restrictions — earning it a reputation as a party haven for tourists escaping lockdowns back home.
The fair since has logged a staggering, albeit murky, total of 23 million visits — fueled by repeated visits of those already living in the city. Public sector employees got six days paid leave to visit. Schoolchildren regularly descended on Expo for field trips.
While concert lineups included just a few starry names, such as Coldplay and Alicia Keys, culturally specific crowd-pleasers succeeded in drawing diverse and rabid fan bases. K-pop stars, Bollywood singers and a beloved Iranian pop diva lured thousands.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all of us,” said 37-year-old Samiya Awan, a Pakistani resident of Dubai and Expo fanatic who volunteered at three national pavilions. “I am coming here every day, even if I’m not volunteering, I’m coming with my kids.”
But the event brought scrutiny as well.
As the FIFA World Cup has for host Qatar, Expo has shined a light on the troubles of migrant laborers. Many low-paid Expo workers have told of plunging into debt to cover recruitment fees, having their passports confiscated and struggling to afford food while toiling at the multibillion-dollar fair.
However, no companies or countries ultimately heeded calls by the European Parliament to withdraw their involvement in Expo over human rights concerns. Dubai has counted on the event to raise its international profile and offer a jolt to its economy as it bounces back from the pandemic.
“Bringing the world to Dubai and showcasing Dubai to the world has been one of the successes of this event,” said Tarek Fadlallah, chief executive at Nomura Asset Management Middle East.
Other analysts note that while Dubai increasingly has elbowed its way onto the world stage in recent months, that may have less to do with Expo’s allure than the government’s pandemic response and major reforms.
The UAE has changed its weekend to align with the West, allowed unmarried couples to legally live together and eased visa restrictions and foreign investment rules. Gambling appears to be next. As hordes of well-heeled foreigners flock to the emirate, the prices of luxury properties and villas have surged.
“I wouldn’t give Expo all the credit for residential property price increases,” said Sapna Jagtiani, a director at S&P Global Ratings. “It was mostly driven by how the UAE managed the pandemic and high net-worth individuals moving to the country.”
Dubai may no longer have a major global event but observers say the city’s business-friendly rules and absence of sanctions and politics will buoy the emirate in its Expo comedown. That’s especially true as Russia’s war on Ukraine has pushed oil prices to multi-year highs and stirred economic turmoil in the region.
“We have a lot of oil money that finds its way to Dubai real estate,” Jagtiani added. “It’s considered a safe haven where investment flows whenever there’s conflict.”
However, concerns linger that the end of Expo could aggravate Dubai’s debt and oversupply problems if demand fails to materialize for the expected flood of new hotel and housing construction. Rising interest rates loom as well.
“It may not blow up in the same way as 2009, but it could raise concerns about debt repayments where Abu Dhabi has to step in again,” Swanston said.
But while uncompleted white elephant projects still litter Dubai, others more successful have propelled growth and transformed swaths of its vast deserts into gleaming new developments.
Whether the Expo site has a lasting impact remains to be seen, even as crowds rushed in for the final few hours of the party.
“I’ve heard a lot of mixed feedback about how good or how bad the Expo was, how it didn’t meet certain expectations,” said Khaled Iskandar, a Palestinian architect visiting the site for the fourth time this week. “Personally … I was in awe.”
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East Texas (KLTV/KTRE) - Good morning, East Texas! A line of thunderstorms is making its way into East Texas this morning. Expect heavy rainfall and gusty winds. A few storms could become strong to severe with damaging winds being the main threat. Temperatures will be warm in the 70s ahead of the line of storms and then drop into the lower 60s as the rain moves out. Sunshine returns this afternoon and temperatures rebound back to the lower to mid 70s with windy conditions until this evening. The wind finally calms down overnight and cooler temperatures are on the way briefly for Thursday. Light winds continue Friday with a quick warm-up and then a nice, warm weekend is ahead with only a slight chance for rain on Saturday.
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Maoists failed due to sustained ops, coordination among forces: Ex-IPS officers
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As many as 14 former IPS officers on Thursday said CPI-Maoists' military strategy of ''protracted people's war'' through an ''armed liberation struggle'' appears to have failed and the decades-old Naxal insurgency could be checked by sustained, painstaking and long-term intelligence operations and coordination among forces.
In a statement, the top police officers, most of them who retired as DGP of different forces, said in their long years of experience in various theatres of conflict in India, intelligence agencies and security forces could never have achieved such success without decisive political will and implementation of a clearly delineated path of development, welfare and intelligence-led operations.
The signatories include former DGPs of Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir Vikram Singh and S P Vaid respectively.
''The past year is a milestone in containing India's decades-old Maoist insurgency. In what appears to be sustained, painstaking and long-term intelligence operations, culminating in well-coordinated action by security forces, the number of Maoist-affected police stations has reduced significantly in the past decade from almost 450 to about 200 and districts from about 100 to 50. We have also read several reports of surrenders of senior leadership and disenchantment of tribal youth with Maoism,'' said the statement.
The retired police officers said it is clear that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision in extending social welfare initiatives like PM Kisan, PM Ujjwala, PM Awas, Ayushmann Bharat, PM Garib Kalyan and DBT to hitherto neglected regions were game-changing in Maoist-affected areas as well.
''Distribution of land titles to tribals and quality education to tribal youth at central government's Eklavya Model Residential Schools have raised hopes and aspirations, weaning youth further away from Maoists and therefore reducing fresh recruitment to PLGA.
''Coupled with a conducive and clear policy environment, sustained inter-agency and inter-state coordination by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah's hands-on and persuasive style of working must have been a key motivating factor,'' said the statement.
As a result, the former police officers said, of all these initiatives, several high-level Maoist leaders were neutralised in the past year. As per newspaper reports, these include 8 politburo (PBM) and central committee (CCM) members. In 2004, when the People's War Group (PWG) and Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) merged to form the CPI-Maoist there were 56 PBM/CCMs in all. In all these years, 36 have been neutralised, while 20 are still absconding.
''Devoid of realistic ideology, the terrorist outfit has increasingly been viewed by locals as anti-development, given its strident opposition to construction of roads, bridges and mobile towers in areas under its control. The decimation of the Maoist terrorist movement was a matter of time, given that its leadership is ageing fast, recruitment has reduced significantly and security forces are spreading deeper into Maoist strongholds.
''In our collective assessment, the CPI Maoist's military strategy of 'protracted people's war' through an 'armed liberation struggle' appears to have failed,'' the statement said.
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By ISABEL DEBRE
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s fair in Dubai, a tech-saturated site teeming with talking robots and solar canopies, sought to be the future.
Now, it’s history.
The pandemic-delayed Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates closes on Thursday after eight years of anticipation, over $7 billion in investment, 240 million hours of labor and six months of festivities.
The fate of the fairgrounds is clear. Some national pavilions will be demolished. A few will remain, like an enormous lacework dome and the UAE’s soaring falcon-shaped pavilion. Other buildings will be rebranded for a new business district soon to rise from the site.
But the deeper legacy of the event proves more elusive.
When Dubai won the bid to host Expo in 2013, it felt like a rebirth. Just four years earlier, the glitzy city-state suffered a real-estate crash in the Great Recession, rescued by a $20 billion bailout from oil-rich Abu Dhabi.
As property prices roared back, the Expo — the first world’s fair in the Middle East — appeared to signal Dubai’s troubles were behind it. Officials offered bright predictions. The “world’s greatest show” would draw 25 million visitors. It would generate $33.4 billion in investment until 2031. It would help Dubai push into the top tier of global financial centers.
But, in the end, the billions of dollars, frenzy of fantastical construction projects and barrage of publicity proved powerless against the coronavirus pandemic, which forced Dubai to postpone the event a year.
“It definitely fell short of what officials would have wanted,” said James Swanston, an economist at Capital Economics. “There were extremely optimistic assessments about Expo driving the next five to 10 years of growth in real estate and business, and COVID disrupted that.”
Dubai raced to widespread vaccination so it could open its borders and relax virus restrictions — earning it a reputation as a party haven for tourists escaping lockdowns back home.
The fair since has logged a staggering, albeit murky, total of 23 million visits — fueled by repeated visits of those already living in the city. Public sector employees got six days paid leave to visit. Schoolchildren regularly descended on Expo for field trips.
While concert lineups included just a few starry names, such as Coldplay and Alicia Keys, culturally specific crowd-pleasers succeeded in drawing diverse and rabid fan bases. K-pop stars, Bollywood singers and a beloved Iranian pop diva lured thousands.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all of us,” said 37-year-old Samiya Awan, a Pakistani resident of Dubai and Expo fanatic who volunteered at three national pavilions. “I am coming here every day, even if I’m not volunteering, I’m coming with my kids.”
But the event brought scrutiny as well.
As the FIFA World Cup has for host Qatar, Expo has shined a light on the troubles of migrant laborers. Many low-paid Expo workers have told of plunging into debt to cover recruitment fees, having their passports confiscated and struggling to afford food while toiling at the multibillion-dollar fair.
However, no companies or countries ultimately heeded calls by the European Parliament to withdraw their involvement in Expo over human rights concerns. Dubai has counted on the event to raise its international profile and offer a jolt to its economy as it bounces back from the pandemic.
“Bringing the world to Dubai and showcasing Dubai to the world has been one of the successes of this event,” said Tarek Fadlallah, chief executive at Nomura Asset Management Middle East.
Other analysts note that while Dubai increasingly has elbowed its way onto the world stage in recent months, that may have less to do with Expo’s allure than the government’s pandemic response and major reforms.
The UAE has changed its weekend to align with the West, allowed unmarried couples to legally live together and eased visa restrictions and foreign investment rules. Gambling appears to be next. As hordes of well-heeled foreigners flock to the emirate, the prices of luxury properties and villas have surged.
“I wouldn’t give Expo all the credit for residential property price increases,” said Sapna Jagtiani, a director at S&P Global Ratings. “It was mostly driven by how the UAE managed the pandemic and high net-worth individuals moving to the country.”
Dubai may no longer have a major global event but observers say the city’s business-friendly rules and absence of sanctions and politics will buoy the emirate in its Expo comedown. That’s especially true as Russia’s war on Ukraine has pushed oil prices to multi-year highs and stirred economic turmoil in the region.
“We have a lot of oil money that finds its way to Dubai real estate,” Jagtiani added. “It’s considered a safe haven where investment flows whenever there’s conflict.”
However, concerns linger that the end of Expo could aggravate Dubai’s debt and oversupply problems if demand fails to materialize for the expected flood of new hotel and housing construction. Rising interest rates loom as well.
“It may not blow up in the same way as 2009, but it could raise concerns about debt repayments where Abu Dhabi has to step in again,” Swanston said.
But while uncompleted white elephant projects still litter Dubai, others more successful have propelled growth and transformed swaths of its vast deserts into gleaming new developments.
Whether the Expo site has a lasting impact remains to be seen, even as crowds rushed in for the final few hours of the party.
“I’ve heard a lot of mixed feedback about how good or how bad the Expo was, how it didn’t meet certain expectations,” said Khaled Iskandar, a Palestinian architect visiting the site for the fourth time this week. “Personally … I was in awe.”
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Associated Press writer Malak Harb in Dubai contributed to this report.
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North Texas man survives tornado by holding onto porch
SHERWOOD SHORES, Texas (KXII) - It has been a week since deadly storms ripped through Texas and Oklahoma but the stories of what happened that night keep coming to light.
Donny Young’s porch is the only thing still standing on the Young family home after it got hit last week in the deadly tornado.
Young said he was holding onto for dear life a pole on the porch as his body was flying in the air as he was trying to get inside to his family.
“Right here would be the living room and kitchen area,” Young said.
Young said he was outside checking on his dog in his barn when the EF-2 tornado came through Shorewood Shores.
“Right here was the barn it was a carport and a barn and I had ran through here that’s where the dog was and it had a back door and the trailer was right here, we are probably standing about in the living room,” Young said.
Young said moments later, a neighbor’s trailer was in his barn, and their boat flew into his house, where his wife and 2 kids were.
“The wind took my legs out and it was kind of muddy and I flew onto my back and I was like I’m gonna get my babies,” Young said.
Young said, as he was trying to get inside to his family, he was holding on to the porch with his legs flying in the air, for roughly 10 seconds, he said he thought that was it.
“As soon as the storm was done I ran around trying to find them, throwing off all the walls and finally they screamed and I found them in a tiny space where the wall had fallen over and they were there,” Young said.
Young said they’ve been staying at their family’s home in Sherwood Shores that was luckily untouched.
Now, they’re looking for a new place, counting their blessings.
“It’s just time to clean up and then we will try to rebuild something and try to move on from this, we are just glad to be alive,” Young said.
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Severe storms pummel South killing at least 2 in Florida
A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.In Florida, the Washington County Sheriffs Office said Thursday morning that two were killed and two injured when a tornado touched down in the western Florida Panhandle.The sheriffs office also said the tornado destroyed homes there.
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A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight — killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.
In Florida, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said Thursday morning that two were killed and two injured when a tornado touched down in the western Florida Panhandle.
The sheriff's office also said the tornado destroyed homes there. Its Facebook page showed at least one home that was obliterated, as well as trees down on another home. No other details were immediately available.
At least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after earlier storm caused damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
About 185,000 customers were without electricity Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
The worst of the weather Thursday morning appeared to be at the southern end of the storm front, which was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds all along the US East Coast later in the day. Much of the Florida Panhandle was under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
Widespread damage was reported in the Jackson, Tennessee, area as a tornado warning was in effect. "Significant damage" occurred to a nursing home near Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and the Madison County Sheriff's Office in Jackson, said Madison County Emergency Management Director Jason Moore.
In Nashville, Tennessee, paneling fell five stories from the side of a downtown hotel Wednesday evening and onto the roof of a building below. The fire department warned that debris could become airborne as high winds continued, and some hotel guests were moved to other parts of the building due to concerns the roof would become unstable. No injuries were immediately associated with the collapse.
Daylight revealed widespread wind damage across Alabama.
One person was hurt when a storm hit the University of Montevallo campus south of Birmingham, damaging a dormitory, officials said, and a woman was injured when a manufactured home rolled over in rural Bibb County. A school bus was flipped at a high school in south Alabama, and part of the roof was missing from a church in northwest Alabama.
Elsewhere, a warehouse roof collapsed as the storms moved through Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, police said. The building had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The Mississippi Senate suspended its work Wednesday as weather sirens blared during a tornado watch in downtown Jackson. Some employees took shelter in the Capitol basement.
Rander P. Adams said he and his wife, Janice Delores Adams, were in their home near downtown Jackson when severe weather blew through during a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. He said their lights flashed and a large window exploded just feet from his wife as she tried to open their front door.
"The glass broke just as if someone threw a brick through it," he said. "I advised her then, Let's go to the back of the house.'" Adams said the storm toppled trees in a nearby park, and a large tree across the street from their house split in half. "We were blessed," he said. "Instead of falling toward the house, it fell the other way." Earlier Wednesday, a tornado that struck Springdale, Arkansas, and the adjoining town of Johnson, about 145 miles (235 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, shortly after 4 am injured seven people, two critically, according to Springdale Mayor Doug Sprouse.
Sprouse said in a statement that one of those critically injured had improved and was in stable condition and the other five were released from a hospital.
"Our first responders have completed door-to-door searches, and we believe everyone has been accounted for," Sprouse said.
The National Weather Service in Tulsa said Thursday that the tornado has been rated an EF-3, up from an initial assessment of EF-2, with wind speeds between 136-165 mph (219-265 kph). The tornado reached a peak speed of about 145 mph (233 kph) and 5 miles (8 kilometers) while on the ground for about eight minutes, according to the weather service.
In northwest Missouri, an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 90 mph (145 kph) struck St. Joseph on Tuesday night, damaging two homes.
A small tornado also touched down briefly on the eastern edge of Dallas, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The tornado struck just after 4:30 am Wednesday near McClendon-Chisolm with top winds of about 100 mph (161 kph) and damaged homes, but no injuries were reported, according to the weather service.
The storms come a week after a tornado in a New Orleans-area neighbourhood carved a path of destruction during the overnight hours and killed a man.
Strong winds in Louisiana overturned semitrailers, peeled the roof from a mobile home, sent a tree crashing into a home and knocked down power lines, according to weather service forecasters, who did not immediately confirm any tornadoes in the state.
Firefighters, meanwhile, have been trying to get handle on a wildfire spreading near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, amid mandatory evacuations as winds whipped up ahead of the approaching storm front.
The fire, which was not contained, had expanded to about 250 acres (more than 100 hectares) as of Wednesday afternoon. One person was injured, and a plume of smoke rose above one community not far from where 2016 wildfires ravaged the tourism town of Gatlinburg, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying about 2,500 buildings.(AP) RUP
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Arsenal may have Bukayo Saka and Takehiro Tomiyasu available to face Crystal Palace on Monday, but goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale looks likely to miss out.
Ramsdale, who has been one of Arsenal’s standout performers this season, missed the 1-0 win over Aston Villa before the international break with a hip injury and was forced to withdraw from the England squad as a result.
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“Aaron is a doubt, he’s still feeling not great, he hasn’t trained yet and we don’t know what he’ll be able to do on Monday,” said Gunners manager Arteta on Thursday.
“He wanted to play against Villa but it was a significant injury. He had to take his time. The physios are doing everything they can to make him available but we will see in the next few days when he starts to do real training.”
Saka also missed out on international duty with England after testing positive for Covid-19.
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However, he has been training and is expected to be available to face Palace as Arsenal aim to strengthen their top-four position.
“Bukayo is feeling good, he’s training today, hopefully he is still feeling as he was yesterday,” said Arteta.
“I don’t know how much he would have played (with England). Sometimes when a player is in a good moment, you don’t want to stop it.
“It’s what it is, he had Covid and we had to take him out of the national team. He had some time to rest and to recover, but he will be training in the next few days to again hit the form he was in.”
Arsenal have won six of their last seven league matches to move up to fourth, three points ahead of Tottenham and four ahead of Manchester United, having played a game less than both.
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - MARCH 19: Bukayo Saka of Arsenal celebrates after scoring their team's first goal during the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Arsenal at Villa Park on March 19, 2022 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Michael Regan/Getty I
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Defender Tomiyasu has not featured since the second leg of Arsenal’s Carabao Cup semi-final defeat to Liverpool on January 20 due to injury, but Arteta said he could be in contention to return against Palace.
“I think it will be close. He’s been training more and more. He has the boys back now, so he will be joining some sessions this week and let’s see how it is.
“He had a recurring injury, but in the other calf, which was strange and difficult to predict. He’s been through a lot in the last two years with all the Covid and the amount of games that he’s played.”
Arteta was also asked about rumours that Santi Cazorla could return to Arsenal in a coaching role.
Cazorla, 37, spent six years at Arsenal from 2012-2018 and is currently playing for Qatari side Al Sadd.
“I haven’t discussed anything like that with Santi,” said Arteta about a possible return to Arsenal.
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“Of course, if you ask anybody at this football club or any supporter about Santi, they will have a smile on their faces. He’s still playing, I don’t know what he wants to do but I’m sure it will be related to football because I know him well.
“I spoke with him on my birthday but we didn’t discuss that [joining Arsenal].”
Arteta also backed the decision by the Premier League to introduce five substitutes per match from next season.
“I'm glad at the end we have unified a criteria for the whole of Europe. It's now how we do it, how we manage it.
“There will be some changes because that gives you other opportunities and I think the game will have some changes, tactically some changes and the most important thing is that you can manage much better the load of the players.
“[We need to make sure] we don't slow the game down too much and I think it's good. It gives players the opportunity to be on the pitch, which is what they want to do.”
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By SUZAN FRASER
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi made a surprise request Thursday that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case be transferred to Saudi Arabia.
The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s request but decided that a letter should be sent to Turkey’s Justice Ministry seeking its opinion on the possible transfer of the file to the Saudi judicial authorities, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Trial was adjourned until April 7.
The private DHA news agency reported that the prosecutor told the court that in a letter dated March 13, the Saudi chief public prosecutor’s office requested that the proceedings in Turkey be transferred to the Kingdom and that international warrants issued by Ankara against the defendants be lifted.
Arguing for the transfer, the prosecutor said that because the arrest warrants cannot be executed and defense statements cannot be taken, the case would remain inconclusive in Turkey.
The development, comes as Turkey has been trying to normalize its relationship with Saudi Arabia, which reached an all-time low following Khashoggi’s grisly killing. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview on Thursday that Saudi authorities were more cooperative on judicial issues with Turkey, but did not elaborate.
Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, 2018, after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking documents that would allow him to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish national who was waiting outside the building. He never emerged.
Turkish officials allege that the Saudi national who was a United States resident was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw inside the consulate. His body has not been found. Prior to his killing, Khashoggi had written critically of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in columns for the Washington Post.
Turkish authorities said he was killed by a team of Saudi agents. Those on trial in absentia include two former aides of the prince.
Saudi officials initially offered conflicting accounts concerning the killing, including claims that Khashoggi had left the consulate building unharmed. But amid mounting international pressure, they stated that Khashoggi’s death was a tragic accident, with the meeting unexpectedly turning violent.
Turkey decided to try the defendants in absentia after Saudi Arabia rejected Turkish demands for their extradition.
The slaying had sparked international condemnation and cast a cloud of suspicion over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Western intelligence agencies, as well as the U.S. Congress, have said that an operation of this magnitude could not have happened without his knowledge.
Some of the men were put on trial in Riyadh behind closed doors. A Saudi court issued a final verdict in 2020 that sentenced five mid-level officials and operatives to 20-year jail terms. The court had originally ordered the death penalty, but reduced the punishment after Khashoggi’s son Salah, who lives in Saudi Arabia, announced that he forgave the defendants. Three others were sentenced to lesser jail terms.
On Thursday, Khashoggi’s fiancee Cengiz appeared to criticize the prosecutor’s request, in a tweet in English. “It is an exemplary situation in terms of showing the dilemma facing humanity in the modern era,” she wrote. “Which of the two will we choose? To want to live like a virtuous human being or to build a life by holding material interests above all kinds of values.”
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Police: 6 killed in Pennsylvania pileup of 80 vehicles
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — State police said a deadly pileup involving 80 vehicles on a Pennsylvania interstate during a snow squall killed six people.
Police at the Frackville station said Wednesday morning that identities of the victims would be released “once death notifications have been made to their families.”
Police also said the crash during “an active snow squall” shortly after 10:30 a.m. Monday involved 39 commercial vehicles and 41 passenger vehicles, for a total of 80 — greater than earlier estimates of 40 to 60 vehicles.
The stretch of 1-81 opened at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Authorities say the crash took place in poor visibility.
It was captured in videos posted on social media that showed drivers and passengers lining the snowy road and jumping out of the way as the cascade of crashes unfolded.
Some vehicles were mostly burned and others melted onto the highway.
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Face masks to be no more mandatory in Delhi, Maharashtra
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With the COVID-19 cases declining significantly over the past few weeks, several states have decided to lift all the pandemic-related restrictions, including the mandatory wearing of face masks.
Maharashtra, one of the worst-hit states, and West Bengal on Thursday announced that all curbs related to the viral disease would be lifted, while Delhi decided to do away with the mandatory wearing of face masks at public places.
The withdrawal of the COVID-19 curbs came almost two years after the pandemic struck in March 2020. It is expected that some other states may follow suit in the coming days.
At a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) chaired by Lt Governor Anil Baijal, it was decided that there will be no fine for not wearing face masks at public places in the national capital, officials said.
They added that the DDMA, however, is likely to issue an advisory for people, asking them to use masks at crowded places. Currently, there is a fine of Rs 500 for not wearing masks at public places in Delhi.
In Maharashtra, the state government announced that all Covid-related curbs, including the wearing of masks, would be lifted from April 2.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Health Minister Rajesh Tope told reporters.
''From Gudhi Padwa (Marathi New Year which falls on April 2 this time), all COVID-19 related restrictions under the Epidemic Diseases Act and Disaster Management Act will be withdrawn,'' Tope said.
Wearing of face mask will be voluntary from April 2, he said.
Similarly, the West Bengal government said that all curbs related to the contagion would stand withdrawn from midnight.
In a notification, the government, however, stressed the use of masks and hygiene maintenance.
''Accordingly, it is hereby notified that restrictions as currently in force by aforesaid orders are hereby withdrawn. However, advisory in respect of health and hygiene protocols, including wearing of masks at all times, hand hygiene and sanitisation of public places shall continue to be strictly observed until further order,'' it stated.
Meanwhile, with 1,225 new coronavirus infections reported in a day, India's Covid tally rose to 4,30,24,440, while the active cases dipped to 14,307, the Union health ministry said.
The death toll climbed to 5,21,129 with 28 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. The active cases comprise 0.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.
A reduction of 397 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The country's daily Covid positivity rate was recorded at 0.20 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 0.23 per cent.
India's COVID-19 tally had surpassed the three-crore mark on June 23 last year.
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In case you missed it, on Wednesday evening Eredivise side PSV confirmed that club legend Ruud van Nistelrooy will take over as the new manager.
Van Nistelrooy spent three seasons with PSV where he scored 77 goals in 90 games, lifting the league title twice before moving on to Manchester United.
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Now he will step up to the senior team at the end of the season to replace Roger Schmidt, who will reportedly take over Benfica.
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In order to find out more about the move to appoint Van Nistelrooy we got in touch with Kevin van Nunen from Eurosport Netherlands.
Has this always been the plan?
As soon as Van Nistelrooy discovered that being back was fun and he was good at coaching at a lower level, it has been the plan to appoint him as PSV manager. When you look at the short term, maybe it’s a different story.
The past couple of months Van Nistelrooy said ‘no’ twice when PSV approached him to become head coach. Van Nistelrooy rejected an offer in December and again in January. But then there were some regrets and as PSV still didn’t have a new manager, the position was still vacant.
Van Nistelrooy is backed by assistant Fred Rutten, who has a lot of experience as head coach, also at PSV. Rutten didn’t win a single trophy at PSV, which is quite remarkable, but he’s still valued quite highly in the Netherlands.
Van Nistelrooy said that becoming head coach of PSV was always a target and he was intensively supervised by the club. He was convinced to fully direct his own coaching career, which required an extra season of experience of Jong PSV, but as always in football: it turns out you can’t direct your own career path.
It’s worth pointing out, Van Nistelrooy is being appointed in by Marcel Brands, who is the new general manager after a spell as sporting director at PSV and later Everton. He now returns to Eindhoven in a new job.
Has this job come too early for him?
In Van Nistelrooy’s own words… It's at least one year too early. Of course he has some experience: he coached the youth of PSV and was assistant at the national team. It’s quite a popular route to take for Dutch coaches: start with youth and a role as assistant of the national team. Frank de Boer did it, Phillip Cocu as well, sort of.
The thing is, the national team didn’t enjoy a lot of success when Van Nistelrooy was involved. As an assistant that’s not his fault of course, but the Dutch squad played a World Cup final when De Boer was involved as an assistant.
Does this say anything about future success or failure? No, not at all. The story of Frank de Boer is well known by now: successful at Ajax but he left when the wonder drink stopped working and then failure after failure followed.
My point is: De Boer wasn’t very versatile as a manager. He played 4-3-3 and that was it. Mark van Bommel experienced more or less the same problem. He inherited a good team and during his first half season PSV won literally everything. But then it turned sour, very sour… He didn’t manage to turn this around and was fired eventually. As an icon of the club, Van Bommel left with his status very much crumbled.
Van Nistelrooy follows in the footsteps of Cocu and Van Bommel. Both Cocu and Van Bommel experienced some initial success at PSV, but sooner or later they failed. Cocu won some titles, Van Bommel didn’t even manage that and when they went abroad, it was really, really bad.
So, Van Nistelrooy is taking a risk. How big? I don’t know, difficult to say. Like I explained in the Gakpo article, it could work for Van Nistelrooy that expectations are not that high at PSV. Ajax are the so-called Bayern Munich of the Netherlands and PSV can’t really compete.
Also, Van Nistelrooy has the popular vote. Van Bommel didn’t, current manager Schmidt doesn’t. I think a lot of PSV supporters are happy to see him go. Van Nistelrooy has sympathy, also from supporters of rival clubs. It’s the first time in many, many years PSV will have a manager the whole country feels sympathy for!
Whether all this will help him succeed? Impossible to predict!
What sort of manager is he?
This is the trickiest question on the list. I find it difficult to say, but if I look at Van Nistelrooy as a person he must be a man-manager. He’s smart, doesn’t do crazy things and has a good relationship with the media. All things Schmidt doesn't really possess, so this means progress for PSV image wise, although Van Nistelrooy of course has to deliver on the pitch too.
Schmidt has had some arguments with PSV players, but I think Van Nistelrooy will do better in this regard. The Brabant province (farmers) is a lot more jovial than the highbrow Amsterdam area and this suits Van Nistelrooy, I think better than Schmidt who’s not really the PSV prototype. He will probably bring in some more attacking football, as he did with Jong PSV.
How is he with the media/how is he perceived by the media?
See my explanation about the popularity vote! His beard does wonders as well!
Slightly off-topic but this is a funny thing that’s worth noting: believe it or not, Van Nistelrooy and Patrick Kluivert share the same day of birth (July 1, 1976). In their playing days Kluivert was the superstar from 18-25 but afterwards, Van Nistelrooy rose to shine while Kluivert’s star faded. The same can maybe be said from their managerial careers, although we have to wait and see. But while Kluivert hops from PSG to Barcelona and his spells didn’t last long, Van Nistelrooy took the gradual approach again and may outlast him again.
How have the PSV fans reacted to this appointment?
Extremely positive!
Van Nistelrooy is still very much loved, although this was also the case with Van Bommel, but this relationship has pretty much been damaged during his stint as manager. Cocu was also quite popular, but the timing was right to leave before everything ended in shambles.
In general how are PSV doing?
This is an easy question, but the answer is rather difficult. PSV are like Borussia Dortmund in comparison to Bayern Munich/Ajax. Ajax have won the title the last few years and are out to dominate the Eredivisie, but that’s the big difference between Bayern and Ajax: Bayern are ruthless, Ajax aren’t. As soon as Ajax start to dominate, sooner or later mental issues come into play. Ajax think they can win the title again on half strength, thought in November they were champions already this season, but this has come back to haunt them although they’re still in the lead.
PSV are still very much in the title race and becoming champions isn’t out of the question… far from it. But Ajax should walk the Eredivisie really. Until a few weeks ago they only had conceded five goals, but the train has derailed and things look way more insecure. The last three matches Ajax won 3-2 three times, sometimes after falling behind or letting a 2-0 advantage slip. Ajax fans are really scared about their fading title hopes.
PSV are still in it, thanks to Ajax. They played some wonderful football earlier in the season and scored a lot of goals in the Eredivisie and on European nights, but it is tough right now.
PSV have scored 12 goals fewer and have conceded 18 goals more than Ajax this season, yet they still have a proper title chance as they have won exactly as many matches. And PSV know how to hijack a championship or two, where Ajax are almost sublime in throwing certain championships away.
Why did they make the change?
PSV really had to do something. Schmidt is whining all the time, having arguments with referees and so on. He’s also rotating players and systems over and over again, to the point no one is able to follow him anymore. No one is able to predict his next starting XI or tactics. When Schmidt came in he and the club promised power football as Schmidt was said to be a mix of Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola, but this has been a big joke.
PSV played like they always do: a bit boring, not really attractive. But when asked in case of a negative score, they will accelerate to do just enough to win. They do get more games over the line this year in comparison with last seasons.
He used up his credits and fans are not sad to see him go. More relieved, I would say. Schmidt didn’t bring PSV much if you look back on his reign over two years, he didn’t really build up anything. He ‘watched the store’, so to say. Maybe Van Nistelrooy is able to strengthen the core foundation again for the coming years.
After crashing out of the Champions League and Europa League, PSV are still in the Conference League, reached the Cup final (last won in 2012) and are hunting down Ajax in hopes of their first title since 2018, yet everyone is cheering the appointment of Van Nistelrooy and are not sad about Schmidt who’s leaving. That tells all…
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Texas A&M study finds about one-third of adults 18-64 put off medical care during early pandemic stages
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - A recent study authored by Texas A&M researchers shows roughly one-third of adults between ages 18 and 64 put off medical care during the earlier stages of the pandemic.
COVID-19 put major strains on the American healthcare system that extend far beyond directly battling the virus. Overcrowded hospitals and other factors caused many Americans to delay or forgo other medical procedures important to keeping them healthy.
A Texas A&M study looked at three different 13-day periods in the second half of 2020 (one in August, one in October, and one in December). Benjamin Ukert is an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Texas A&M School of Public Health and one of the study’s co-authors.
“We can estimate that about 36 million have forgone care and about 50 million people have delayed care,” Ukert said.
When patients were asked why they made these decisions, researchers say poor health, mental health issues, and type of insurance were significant factors.
“We saw that women tended to be more likely to delay and forgo care than men,” Ukert said. “We saw that this was concentrated generally among people who had some difficulty or high levels of difficulty paying for usual household expenses. Older individuals, those who are 55 to 64, were more likely to have delayed care and forgone care compared to individuals who are younger.”
St. Joseph Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kia Parsi estimates their hospital has seen a roughly 10% reduction in care from these decisions over the entire two years of the pandemic. He says due to delays in regular care, they have seen patients with more severe diseases, and in some cases, they’ve progressed to stages where it’s too late to administer curative treatments.
“I think, in general, preventive measures such as screenings, chest x-rays, mammograms, colonoscopies, blood tests, many of these preventive type of evaluations have seemed to have a decrease, and that can lead to more severe cases,” Parsi said.
Parsi says at this point in time of the pandemic, St. Joseph Hospital has plenty of capacity for patients to make all their regular appointments and schedule procedures like elective surgeries.
“There shouldn’t be any reason right now to delay the care that you may have been planning on,” Parsi said. “The sooner people feel more comfortable to seeking their routine care that they had prior to COVID, the more likely we can prevent the aftereffects of delayed care.”
Researchers say it will still take another year or two before we know how these medical care decisions will have an effect on the healthcare system as a whole.
“This could also translate to changes in behavior in terms of labor force participation and other things that are ongoing, but it’s all a little bit more speculative on that end because data is only trickling in over time,” Ukert said.
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A Norwegian soccer official delivered a scathing criticism of World Cup host Qatar and FIFA to an audience of executives on Thursday on the eve of the tournament’s draw.
Qatar’s record of protecting the rights of migrant workers — who have built tens of billion of dollars of projects needed for the World Cup — and its criminalization of homosexuality was aired by Lise Klaveness, the newly elected head of soccer in Norway and one of the few women ever to lead a FIFA member federation.
It was a rare show of dissent and tension in the typically tightly scripted annual meeting of soccer’s 211 member countries, and targeted issues that have dogged Qatar and FIFA’s controversial choice of the Middle East country for more than a decade.
“In 2010, the World Cup was awarded by FIFA in unacceptable ways with unacceptable consequences,” Klaveness, who is gay, said in a six-minute speech. “There is no room for employers who do not secure the freedom and safety of World Cup workers. No room for hosts that cannot legally guarantee the safety and respect of LGBTQ+ people coming to this theater of dreams.”
FIFA had worked this week in Doha to keep the Norwegian’s speech off the main Congress agenda, and then gave the floor to rebuttals from a Latin American soccer official and the head of Qatar’s organizing committee.
“This is not the right forum and not the right moment,” Honduras soccer federation general secretary Jose Ernesto Mejia said in translated comments.
Klaveness was chided by Hassan Al-Thawadi, who fronted Qatar’s bid more than 12 years ago and has led the organizing committee ever since.
“You did not attempt to contact us and did not attempt to engage in dialogue before addressing congress today,” he said.
Al-Thawadi said Qatar’s door was always open for people to “educate themselves before passing judgement.”
Qatar and FIFA have consistently said taking the World Cup to the country has accelerated positive changes in the nation’s laws and society.
The war in Ukraine then took center stage as a three-minute video message was aired from the head of the country’s soccer federation, Andriy Pavelko.
Pavelko wore an armored vest as he spoke from Kyiv while behind him people packed sandbags several meters high to protect a monument.
He said children in Ukraine were suffering from “terrible psychological injuries” during the war and that maybe soccer would help them in the future.
The Russian delegation watching in the room including Alexey Sorokin, a former FIFA Council member who led the organization of the 2018 World Cup in his country.
Although FIFA has banned Russian teams, including the men’s national team from World Cup qualifying, the soccer federation has not been suspended.
“We are not hiding,” Sorokin said before the meeting. “We have every right to be here.”
On Friday, the World Cup draw ceremony will be held at the same conference center.
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Delhi registers max temp of 39.5 deg C, six notches above normal
The minimum temperature was recorded at 20.1 degrees Celsius, two notches above the normal.Humidity levels oscillated between 80 per cent and 28 per cent.IMD officials said a prolonged dry spell has led to severe hot weather conditions in northwest India.
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It was a hot day in the national capital on Thursday as the maximum temperature settled at 39.5 degrees Celsius, six notches above the season's average.
Parts of Delhi sweltered under a severe heatwave on Thursday with the maximum temperature crossing the 41-degree mark at three places, the India Meteorological Department said.
The mercury settled at 41.4 degrees Celsius, 41.6 degrees Celsius and 41.1 degrees Celsius at Gurgaon, Narela and Pitampura stations respectively.
The Safdarjung observatory, considered the official marker for the city, recorded a high of 39.5 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature was recorded at 20.1 degrees Celsius, two notches above the normal.
Humidity levels oscillated between 80 per cent and 28 per cent.
IMD officials said a prolonged dry spell has led to ''severe'' hot weather conditions in northwest India. The weather department has predicted severe heatwave conditions at isolated places between April 3 and 6.
For the plains, a ''heatwave'' is declared when the maximum temperature is over 40 degrees Celsius and at least 4.5 notches above normal. A ''severe'' heatwave is declared if the departure from normal temperature is more than 6.4 notches, according to the IMD.
The weatherman has predicted strong surface winds on Friday with the maximum and minimum temperatures likely to settle at 39 degrees Celsius and 20 degrees Celsius respectively.
The capital had recorded a maximum temperature of 40.1 degrees Celsius on March 30 last year. The all-time highest maximum temperature in this month -- 40.6 degrees Celsius -- was recorded on March 31, 1945.
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Premier League clubs will be allowed to make five substitutions each game from next season, mirroring what most other competitions are doing throughout Europe.
The switch from three to five subs was made when games restarted during the Covid-19 pandemic, but English top-flight teams voted against keeping it for this campaign, despite strong protests from several managers, including Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp and Manchester City's Pep Guardiola.
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It will be a relief for managers like Klopp - who recently said it did not make sense that the FA Cup, Carabao Cup and European matches all had five subs, but the Premier League did not - but Burnley’s Sean Dyche has been among those who have criticised the move, believing it benefits clubs with deeper squads.
The change follows confirmation from rule makers the International Football Association Board (IFAB) that five subs will become a permanent option across the game.
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta also backed the permanent change: "I’m glad that, at the end of this, we'll have a unified criteria for all of Europe," he said.
"It is now how we do it and how we manage it. The most important thing is it can manage the workload of players better.
"It means you don’t slow the game down too much and it gives players the opportunity to be on the pitch and gives options to change and refresh the game.
"It also means you can change in many different positions, but then at the same time it changes the timings of when thinking about subs."
The change was agreed at a meeting of Premier League shareholders, where a number of other decisions were also made.
There was an agreement that the summer transfer window will open on June 10 and close at 2300 BST on September 1, in line with other major European leagues.
Routine coronavirus testing will also be removed from Monday, to be replaced by only testing players and staff who have symptoms, but organisers say they will continue to monitor the situation and will make changes if required.
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Texas to review prayer, touch requests in executions by case
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas prison officials said Tuesday they don’t plan to formally update their rules after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that indicated states must accommodate the requests of death row inmates who want to have their spiritual advisers pray aloud and touch them during their executions.
But the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that such requests by inmates will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and unless they present a substantial security risk or are “outrageous,” they would work to grant them.
However, an attorney for death row inmate, John Ramirez, whose case the Supreme Court ruled on last week, said leaving it on a case-by-case basis and not outlining specific rules, won’t resolve this issue.
“By not changing the protocol as to what the pastor can and can’t do, they’re just inviting some future federal judge to stay an execution,” said Seth Kretzer, Ramirez’s attorney.
Ramirez is on death row for killing a Corpus Christi convenience store worker during a 2004 robbery. Ramirez stabbed the man, Pablo Castro, 29 times and robbed him of $1.25.
In an 8-1 opinion issued last week, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that it was possible to accommodate Ramirez’s request to have his pastor touch him and pray out loud during his execution without posing an increased security risk or being a disruption as Texas had argued.
Roberts suggested states “adopt clear rules in advance” on touching inmates and praying aloud to avoid any execution delays and ensure “the prisoner’s interest in religious exercise.”
In a statement issued Tuesday afternoon, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said, “Our execution protocol (actual policy) will not change. When a spiritual adviser is chosen and requests to pray and/or touch the inmate, we will review each on a case-by-case basis.”
When asked for clarification of the statement, an agency spokesman said officials would work to accommodate and grant most reasonable requests.
“Unless there’s just something ridiculously outrageous ... we feel like we can, talking one on one with the spiritual adviser, accommodate them if they need to be touched and pray,” the spokesman said.
The high court’s ruling came after the Texas prison system in April 2021 reversed a two-year ban on spiritual advisers in the death chamber but limited what they can do. Texas instituted the ban after the Supreme Court in 2019 halted the execution of Patrick Murphy, who had argued his religious freedom was being violated because his Buddhist spiritual adviser wasn’t allowed to accompany him. Murphy remains on death row.
The ruling in Murphy’s case came after the court was criticized for declining to halt the 2019 execution of Alabama inmate Domineque Ray over his request to have his Islamic spiritual adviser in the death chamber.
The Texas prison system agency spokesman said officials believe outlining specific rules about touching and praying would lead to more lawsuits and execution delays.
But Kretzer said that by not outlining specific rules on what spiritual advisers can and can’t do, Texas prison officials were not fully considering the Supreme Court’s ruling.
“Their statement sounds to me like they are humming the words but they’re not singing the tune that Chief Justice Roberts gave them last week,” Kretzer said.
Kretzer pointed to a case in Alabama of death row inmate Willie B. Smith III, who was executed in October after an agreement was reached that set specific rules about what Smith’s pastor could do in the death chamber, as an example of how rules related to spiritual advisers can be specific.
“They were able to get this done,” Kretzer said.
Kretzer predicted that unless Texas created specific rules for what spiritual advisers can and can’t do in the death chamber, “we will be right back where we were before the ruling last week: litigation, stays.”
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice “always wants to keep it a little ambiguous so they can keep the enemy on their toes. They always want to keep you guessing,” Kretzer said. “Unfortunately, lawyers and more specifically federal courts don’t like guessing. They like specifics.”
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JONATHAN MATTISE
Associated Press
A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.
In Florida, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday morning that two were killed and two injured when a tornado touched down in the western Florida Panhandle.
The sheriff’s office also said the tornado destroyed homes there. Its Facebook page showed at least one home that was obliterated, as well as trees down on another home. No other details were immediately available.
At least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after earlier storm caused damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
About 185,000 customers were without electricity Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
The worst of the weather Thursday morning appeared to be at the southern end of the storm front, which was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds all along the U.S. East Coast later in the day. Much of the Florida Panhandle was under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
No deaths had been reported from the storms as of early Thursday, authorities said. But widespread damage was reported in the Jackson, Tennessee, area as a tornado warning was in effect. “Significant damage” occurred to a nursing home near Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office in Jackson, said Madison County Emergency Management Director Jason Moore.
In Nashville, Tennessee, paneling fell five stories from the side of a downtown hotel Wednesday evening and onto the roof of a building below. The fire department warned that debris could become airborne as high winds continued, and some hotel guests were moved to other parts of the building due to concerns the roof would become unstable. No injuries were immediately associated with the collapse.
Daylight revealed widespread wind damage across Alabama.
One person was hurt when a storm hit the University of Montevallo campus south of Birmingham, damaging a dormitory, officials said, and a woman was injured when a manufactured home rolled over in rural Bibb County. A school bus was flipped at a high school in south Alabama, and part of the roof was missing from a church in northwest Alabama.
Elsewhere, a warehouse roof collapsed as the storms moved through Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, police said. The building had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The Mississippi Senate suspended its work Wednesday as weather sirens blared during a tornado watch in downtown Jackson. Some employees took shelter in the Capitol basement.
Rander P. Adams said he and his wife, Janice Delores Adams, were in their home near downtown Jackson when severe weather blew through during a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. He said their lights flashed and a large window exploded just feet from his wife as she tried to open their front door.
“The glass broke just as if someone threw a brick through it,” he said. “I advised her then, ‘Let’s go to the back of the house.’”
Adams said the storm toppled trees in a nearby park, and a large tree across the street from their house split in half. “We were blessed,” he said. “Instead of falling toward the house, it fell the other way.”
Earlier Wednesday, a tornado that struck Springdale, Arkansas, and the adjoining town of Johnson, about 145 miles (235 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, shortly after 4 a.m. injured seven people, two critically, according to Springdale Mayor Doug Sprouse.
Sprouse said in a statement that one of those critically injured had improved and was in stable condition and the other five were released from a hospital.
“Our first responders have completed door-to-door searches, and we believe everyone has been accounted for,” Sprouse said.
The National Weather Service in Tulsa said Thursday that the tornado has been rated an EF-3, up from an initial assessment of EF-2, with wind speeds between 136-165 mph (219-265 kph). The tornado reached a peak speed of about 145 mph (233 kph) and 5 miles (8 kilometers) while on the ground for about eight minutes, according to the weather service.
In northwest Missouri, an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 90 mph (145 kph) struck St. Joseph on Tuesday night, damaging two homes.
A small tornado also touched down briefly on the eastern edge of Dallas, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The tornado struck just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday near McClendon-Chisolm with top winds of about 100 mph (161 kph) and damaged homes, but no injuries were reported, according to the weather service.
The storms come a week after a tornado in a New Orleans-area neighborhood carved a path of destruction during the overnight hours and killed a man.
Strong winds in Louisiana overturned semitrailers, peeled the roof from a mobile home, sent a tree crashing into a home and knocked down power lines, according to weather service forecasters, who did not immediately confirm any tornadoes in the state.
Firefighters, meanwhile, have been trying to get handle on a wildfire spreading near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, amid mandatory evacuations as winds whipped up ahead of the approaching storm front.
The fire, which was not contained, had expanded to about 250 acres (more than 100 hectares) as of Wednesday afternoon. One person was injured, and a plume of smoke rose above one community not far from where 2016 wildfires ravaged the tourism town of Gatlinburg, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying about 2,500 buildings.
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NHRC notice to Delhi govt, DPCC over Ghazipur landfill site fire, allege slow pace of cleaning
The fire was put out on Wednesday evening, over 50 hours after it began.The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report on the alleged slow pace of cleaning garbage heaps at Ghazipur and Bhalaswa landfill sites in Delhi.Reportedly, these catch fire every summer causing air pollution in the national capital, the NHRC said in a statement.
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The NHRC on Thursday sent notices to the Delhi government and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee over the fire at Ghazipur landfill site and the reported slow pace of cleaning garbage there and at Bhalaswa, officials said.
A major fire had broken out at the Ghazipur dumping yard on Monday with the billowing smoke enveloping the area. The fire was put out on Wednesday evening, over 50 hours after it began.
''The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report on the alleged slow pace of cleaning garbage heaps at Ghazipur and Bhalaswa landfill sites in Delhi.
''Reportedly, these catch fire every summer causing air pollution in the national capital,'' the NHRC said in a statement. Expressing serious concern, the panel has issued notices to the Delhi chief secretary and chairperson of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), seeking a detailed report within four weeks, it said.
''Issuing the notices, the commission has observed that every human being has the basic right to breathe clean air and live in a pollution-free environment. ''Inhalation of toxic air and living in the polluted environment is a serious threat to people's right to life and right to health,'' the statement said.
The panel has also observed that the ''state is duty-bound to take all appropriate steps to alleviate the sufferings of the common man by controlling and minimising the pollution levels in Delhi, which does not appear to have been done as yet''.
Reportedly, going by the present pace of clearing the garbage, the local population will be exposed to serious health hazards in the years to come. The hot winds will aggravate the fire and polluted air spread the adjoining areas leading to breathing problems, it added.
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Liverpool return from the international break in the unique position of being able to challenge on three fronts with a trophy already in the bag.
Victory over Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final saw them secure the first major domestic honour of the season following a dramatic penalty shootout win.
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While even now the idea of a quadruple seems unthinkable, the Reds have lost just one match in their last 16 in all competitions, winning 14 as well as the shootout against Chelsea, so are in the kind of form where the impossible now looks slightly more plausible.
Manchester United’s Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup treble of 1999 and City’s Premier League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup hat-trick in 2019 are the closest any team in England has come to a clean sweep and Liverpool are determined to become the first team to complete the awesome foursome.
Of course, it will be no means be easy with a number of obstacles to overcome on the road to record-breaking history.
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Straightforward home wins over Shrewsbury Town, Cardiff City and Norwich City set up a quarter-final against rivals from a previous era in Nottingham Forest – a team that effectively stood in the way of possible trebles and quadruples for Liverpool back in the late 1970s.
History wasn’t to repeat itself however, as Diogo Jota’s late goal at the City ground set up a semi-final clash with modern day rivals Manchester City at Wembley in April.
This tasty-looking clash is sandwiched between the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals and a huge league match against Manchester United.
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Klopp has so far opted to field mostly second-string sides for the earlier rounds of cup games but with a chance to get one over on City as well as reach his first final in this competition, the temptation to go as close to full strength as possible will undoubtedly be there. That said, the United match just days later could well factor into his thinking when picking his team.
Should they come through that, the final will see Liverpool face a rematch against Chelsea or underdogs Crystal Palace – both of whom the Reds would see themselves as favourites against.
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Benfica have confounded expectations to reach the last eight, qualifying from their group with Bayern Munich and ahead of an at-the-time out-of-sorts Barcelona.
Their last 16-win over Ajax was also seen as something of a surprise but another shock against Liverpool will be a big ask.
Klopp’s side, who lifted the trophy in 2019, eased through their group with a perfect record and although they suffered a minor scare in their last-16 second leg defeat at home to Inter, were largely untroubled by the Italians over 180 minutes.
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With the second leg of the quarter-final at home, any unlikely slip-ups in Lisbon should be rectified in front of the Anfield crowd a week later.
After that comes the likely challenge of Bayern who will be expected to beat Villarreal in their last eight encounter.
If they get past the German champions – as they did on their way to winning the trophy in 2019 – the final would then throw up the possibly of Premier League rivals City or Chelsea, or either Real or Atletico Madrid.
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Just two months ago, this looked a distant dream, but with City’s stuttering form and the Reds' winning run, Klopp’s side sit just a point behind the champions with their destiny in their own hands.
Liverpool just have the straightforward task of winning all of their remaining nine fixtures to guarantee a second title in three years, including against Pep Guardiola’s team. Simple, right?
That the showdown with City is at the Etihad might make things slightly more tricky and there are undoubtedly one or two other banana skins along their remaining games.
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Manchester United may be out of sorts but will look to do something about their poor recent record against their rivals when they travel to Anfield. Top-four chasing Tottenham can also ill-afford to drop points and with Harry Kane back in fine form, things wont be easy when they visit either.
Merseyside rivals Everton are fighting for their lives and will hope the cliché about the form book going out the window comes to pass when they cross Stanley Park.
Resurgent Newcastle might also be a tricky away trip while the Reds also have to visit Villa Park with all the narrative surrounding former midfielders Steven Gerrard and Phillippe Coutinho, and the small matter of that incredible 7-2 defeat on the same ground last season.
Should Liverpool reach the FA Cup final, the penultimate league game against Southampton will also be rearranged.
Liverpool’s remaining fixtures/possible fixtures
April 2 – Watford (H) – Premier League
April 5 – Benfica (A) – Champions League
April 10 – Manchester City (A) – Premier League
April 13 – Benfica (H) – Champions League
April 16 – Manchester City (N) – FA Cup
April 19 – Manchester United (H) – Premier League
April 24 – Everton (H) – Premier League
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April 30 – Newcastle United (A) – Premier League
*May 3/4 - Villarreal/Bayern Munich – Champions League
May 7 – Tottenham (H) – Premier League
*May 14 – Chelsea/Crystal Palace (N) – FA Cup
May 15 – Southampton (A) – Premier League – to be rearranged in event of reaching FA Cup final
May 22 – Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) – Premier League
*May 28 – Chelsea/Manchester City/Real Madrid/Atletico Madrid – Champions League
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Toddler goes home after spending whole life in hospital
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (WCVB) - After spending her entire life in a hospital, a 19-month-old girl from Massachusetts is finally home with her family.
Bradi Foster’s parents say it’s been a long and emotional roller coaster, but the family of six is finally together at home Monday after a special sendoff from Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Boston.
“All her doctors and her nurses and her respiratory therapist – everybody was there, blowing bubbles and cheering for her,” said Bradi’s mother, Darlene Foster. “The light at the end of the tunnel after 19 months.”
Bradi was born at 25 weeks and had a series of serious health problems. She had to undergo cardiac surgery, and for a while, she needed a ventilator and oxygen.
“Franciscan’s has gotten her so far with her physical therapist and coming here on complete IV nutrition. Now, she’s completely off of IV nutrition,” Foster said.
Bradi is starting to eat some pureed food by mouth, but she still needs a gastrostomy tube. She is being sent home with an adaptive backpack, provided by The Kid Fund, which is an employee-sponsored group at Franciscan Children’s.
“What they do for kids like Bradi is they put all their feeding equipment in their backpack, and there’s a little tube that goes to them and it gives them full mobility,” said Amanda Voysey, a member of Kid Fund.
A smiling Bradi is now beginning her new life at home in Plymouth with her parents, family dog and three older sisters, ages 6, 4 and 3.
“She’s just happy to be alive and happy to love everyone,” Foster said. “She has never met the dog, so that’s a big deal. She hasn’t seen her sisters since July, so this is a huge deal, that they finally get to see her.”
The family says Bradi’s 6-year-old sister is talking about becoming a pediatrician after seeing what doctors did to save her little sister.
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By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JONATHAN MATTISE
Associated Press
A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.
In Florida, the Washington County said Thursday morning that two were killed and two injured when a tornado touched down in the western Florida Panhandle.
The sheriff’s office also said the tornado destroyed homes there. Its Facebook page showed at least one home that was obliterated, as well as trees down on another home. No other details were immediately available.
At least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after earlier storm caused damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
About 185,000 customers were without electricity Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
The worst of the weather Thursday morning appeared to be at the southern end of the storm front, which was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds all along the U.S. East Coast later in the day. Much of the Florida Panhandle was under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
No deaths had been reported from the storms as of early Thursday, authorities said. But widespread damage was reported in the Jackson, Tennessee, area as a tornado warning was in effect. “Significant damage” occurred to a nursing home near Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office in Jackson, said Madison County Emergency Management Director Jason Moore.
In Nashville, Tennessee, paneling fell five stories from the side of a downtown hotel Wednesday evening and onto the roof of a building below. The fire department warned that debris could become airborne as high winds continued, and some hotel guests were moved to other parts of the building due to concerns the roof would become unstable. No injuries were immediately associated with the collapse.
Daylight revealed widespread wind damage across Alabama.
One person was hurt when a storm hit the University of Montevallo campus south of Birmingham, damaging a dormitory, officials said, and a woman was injured when a manufactured home rolled over in rural Bibb County. A school bus was flipped at a high school in south Alabama, and part of the roof was missing from a church in northwest Alabama.
Elsewhere, a warehouse roof collapsed as the storms moved through Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, police said. The building had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The Mississippi Senate suspended its work Wednesday as weather sirens blared during a tornado watch in downtown Jackson. Some employees took shelter in the Capitol basement.
Rander P. Adams said he and his wife, Janice Delores Adams, were in their home near downtown Jackson when severe weather blew through during a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. He said their lights flashed and a large window exploded just feet from his wife as she tried to open their front door.
“The glass broke just as if someone threw a brick through it,” he said. “I advised her then, ‘Let’s go to the back of the house.’”
Adams said the storm toppled trees in a nearby park, and a large tree across the street from their house split in half. “We were blessed,” he said. “Instead of falling toward the house, it fell the other way.”
Earlier Wednesday, a tornado that struck Springdale, Arkansas, and the adjoining town of Johnson, about 145 miles (235 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, shortly after 4 a.m. injured seven people, two critically, according to Springdale Mayor Doug Sprouse.
Sprouse said in a statement that one of those critically injured had improved and was in stable condition and the other five were released from a hospital.
“Our first responders have completed door-to-door searches, and we believe everyone has been accounted for,” Sprouse said.
The National Weather Service in Tulsa said Thursday that the tornado has been rated an EF-3, up from an initial assessment of EF-2, with wind speeds between 136-165 mph (219-265 kph). The tornado reached a peak speed of about 145 mph (233 kph) and 5 miles (8 kilometers) while on the ground for about eight minutes, according to the weather service.
In northwest Missouri, an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 90 mph (145 kph) struck St. Joseph on Tuesday night, damaging two homes.
A small tornado also touched down briefly on the eastern edge of Dallas, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The tornado struck just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday near McClendon-Chisolm with top winds of about 100 mph (161 kph) and damaged homes, but no injuries were reported, according to the weather service.
The storms come a week after a tornado in a New Orleans-area neighborhood carved a path of destruction during the overnight hours and killed a man.
Strong winds in Louisiana overturned semitrailers, peeled the roof from a mobile home, sent a tree crashing into a home and knocked down power lines, according to weather service forecasters, who did not immediately confirm any tornadoes in the state.
Firefighters, meanwhile, have been trying to get handle on a wildfire spreading near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, amid mandatory evacuations as winds whipped up ahead of the approaching storm front.
The fire, which was not contained, had expanded to about 250 acres (more than 100 hectares) as of Wednesday afternoon. One person was injured, and a plume of smoke rose above one community not far from where 2016 wildfires ravaged the tourism town of Gatlinburg, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying about 2,500 buildings.
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Luca Brecel holds a healthy 6-2 lead over Judd Trump heading into the evening session of their Tour Championship best-of-19 quarter-final.
With John Higgins awaiting the winner, Scottish Open champion Brecel is well placed to book his spot in the last four, needing just four more frames for victory.
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The first frame was edgy, lasting over half an hour. Brecel looked set to take control of it until he missed a red when well placed. It handed Trump a great chance to race into a 1-0 lead, but after landing a difficult shot to pot the green, he missed a straightforward effort to sink the brown - the ball sitting on the edge of the pocket - and Brecel took the early advantage.
Brecel started the second frame well, racing to a 63-0 lead, but both players then got involved in an exchange of safety shots, before Trump began his attempt to clear the rest of the table. He started with a solid shot to sink a red, but missed his chance when he failed to pot the black in the centre pocket. Only a big mistake would stop Brecel from wrapping up the frame and he sealed it 91-1 to double his lead.
Trump had not settled and still looked haunted by missing the brown in the opening frame. Again it was Brecel who was in first in the third, which followed a similar pattern to the previous frame as he moved into a 59-0 lead. Trump had a half-chance to get back into it but missed a difficult red, allowing Brecel to once again return to the baize to wrap up the frame.
Trump was out of sorts and Brecel looked virtually unshakeable. The fourth frame felt huge and the world No.3 looked to be showing signs of turning a corner by going 35-0 up in the early stages, before he missed a red.
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With Brecel in the form he was in, it looked like he was in again to dominate but a relatively straightforward red rattled the corner pocket, and Trump added to his opponent’s disappointment by sinking the same ball, going on to take a 37-point lead. Brecel failed with a safety, and Trump returned to the table to take the fourth frame and get on the board heading into the mid-session interval.
Brecel was not to be deterred though and he stamped out a revival with a first century break of the match in the fifth frame to take a 4-1 lead, meaning he was guaranteed to go into the evening session level with Trump at the very worst.
Come the next frame Brecel ensured he would have the advantage heading into the evening. Trump could only post 27 before returning to his seat, with Brecel then putting together 54 and winning the subsequent safety exchange when sinking a fine long red.
It was then a case of how big a lead Brecel would hold, and though Trump was still looking out of sorts early in the seventh frame, after a couple of poor positional shots with the reds open, he sunk a crucial long pink to kickstart a valuable 81 break – his first half-century of the day.
In the final frame of the session, Brecel hesitated over a tricky pink but had the confidence to take it on and pot it into middle. He then opened the pack with a fine shot on the black, and a break of 78 was enough to make it a four-frame lead.
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Ukraine's battle fronts are shifting - interior ministry adviser
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The southern city of Mariupol and a "corridor" between two eastern towns, Izyum and Volnovakha, are becoming the key battlefronts in Ukraine, an interior ministry adviser said on Thursday.
"(Russia) is withdrawing forces in the Kyiv region, but it's too early to say that the same is happening in the Chernihiv region," adviser Vadym Denysenko said.
Russia said on Tuesday it would scale down operations in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. NATO's chief said on Thursday this was a regrouping rather than a withdrawal.
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Training to help volunteers become certified sitters for East Texas foster families
SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - For families who aren’t in the position to consider adoption or fostering, babysitting certification is one way to lend a big hand during the ongoing foster crisis in Texas.
For many parents, finding a babysitter could be as simple as asking a family member or friend. That’s not the case for parents who take on the responsibility of fostering children in state care.
The state requires anyone looking over a child in foster care to receive specific education before they’re left alone with them as a temporary caretaker.
“You don’t get to send the kids next door so you can run to Brookshire’s to pick up a loaf of bread,” Christi Sowell of The Fostering Collective explained to us in a January 2020 interview. “Taking care of yourself is honestly the first and the very best thing that you can do for your child. So just to give yourself a moment to get in check so you can ‘handle the hard’ is important.”
As an adoptive mom, Sowell stressed the importance of state-certified babysitters after highlighting the fact that nearly half of all foster families quit after the first year. Many cite a lack of available support.
The next training event takes place 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 2nd at New Beginnings Church in Longview. It costs $10 to attend. A CPR/First Aid certification course will follow for a fee of $45.
You must at least 21 years old to participate.
For more information on how to sign up for The Fostering Collecting April Babysitting training, click here.
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BERLIN (AP) — Investigators said Thursday they have identified a 32-year-old student as the suspect in the poisoning of seven people at a university in western Germany last year.
In August, prosecutors opened an investigation after employees and students at the Technical University in Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt, received medical treatment for symptoms of possible poisoning. Police said at the time that milk cartons and water containers in a building on the campus appeared to have been contaminated.
On Thursday, they said the 32-year-old from the German city of Mainz, a materials science student at the university since 2017, has been sent to a psychiatric hospital. She is suspected of attempted murder, but officials believe she can’t be held criminally responsible because of a psychiatric illness. Police said the suspect hasn’t yet responded to the allegations.
They said information from over 1,000 witnesses helped firm up their case against the suspect, and that forensic analysis pointed to her having been in the building the night before the victims’ symptoms appeared.
Some of the affected employees were mentioned in notes written by the woman, and the investigation found indications that she felt persecuted by them, police said. They didn’t identify the “harmful substances” that were used.
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The 2022 FIM Speedway Grand Prix begins this spring with 12 thrilling rounds of action to decide who will be crowned champion by the season’s conclusion.
The season kicks off in Gorican, Croatia on April 30 with the final race on November 5 taking place in a yet to be decided venue in Oceania.
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Speedway Grand Prix 2022 - what it is, how to watch, race calendar, who is taking part
Format and scoring
Each round will feature 16 riders racing against each other in 20 heats, every heat consisting of four riders completing four laps of the track.
The winning rider in each heat will be awarded four points, two points for second, one for third and zero for fourth.
The eight riders with the most points at the end of the heats stage then move on to two semi-finals, with the top two from each of these semis then facing off in the final.
The winning rider earns 20 championship points, with 18 for second, 16 for third and 14 for fourth.
The riders who finish third in each semi-final are awarded 11 or 12 points depending on who scored higher in the heats, and the same applies to the fourth-placed semi-finalists with nine or 10 points awarded.
The riders ranked ninth and below after 20 heats are awarded championship points from each race on a sliding scale, with eight points going to the ninth place rider, down to one point for the rider who comes 16th.
The rider with the most points at the end of the season is the world champion.
Tiebreaks
To separate riders on equal points, most race wins are first taken into account, but if these are also the same then second, third and fourth places are factored in.
Bikes
Speedway bikes have 500cc engines running on pure methanol and have no brakes, meaning riders take corners and turns by sliding into the dirt of the track.
The bikes have one fixed gear and teams are able to make adjustments during a race for better performance.
Riders can bring as many bikes as they wish to a SpeedwayGP round.
Qualifying
Qualifying takes place on the same day as the race and allows the rider to secure first choice of starting number.
Every rider will start from each of the four gates at least once, but will start from one gate twice. Qualifying practice provides the opportunity to ensure they have the right starting positions at the right time.
Riders take to the track in groups of three, trying to clock the fastest laps in three blocks of two minutes. The rider who records the fastest lap is rewarded with first choice of starting number for the event. Second place chooses next and this continues right down to 16th place selecting last.
Race rules
Four riders, each wearing a red, blue, white or yellow helmet, line up in each race. The rider in red starts on the inside in gate one, blue from gate two, white on gate three and yellow on the outside in gate four.
All riders must be at the tapes ready to race by the time the referee’s two-minute countdown clock reaches zero or face being disqualified.
The green light puts them under starter’s orders and once the tapes are then released it’s time to race!
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When the tapes are up, the four riders battle it out over four blistering laps in around a minute of hardcore racing.
The race is stopped if a rider falls. If this occurs on the first turn, the referee can invite everyone back for the restart if they believe no-one was at fault.
If a rider crosses the white inside line fully with both wheels or leaves the circuit, they are deemed to have retired from the race – unless they left the track to take essential avoiding action (e.g. to avoid a fallen rider).
Disqualifications
- Failing to be race ready by the time the two minute clock reaches zero
- Touching the starting tape before it is released (Official warning for movement but not touching the tape)
- Being at fault for a fall of another rider
Who is taking part in 2022?
The 16 riders consist of the top six riders from the previous year’s series who qualify automatically – however, 2021 champion Artem Laguta and third place Emil Sayfutdinov will not be taking part due to an FIM ban on Russian athletes. Both have been replaced.
The top six are joined by three riders from the Grand Prix Challenge series and the previous year’s Speedway European Championship winner is also guaranteed a place.
Five more riders are nominated by the competition organisers and the main 16-rider line-up is completed by one wild card.
Five further riders are nominated as substitutes in case of illness, injury or other absences from the main group, with two of these nominated as track reserves for each round of racing.
Full line-up
- Bartosz Zmarzlik (Poland)
- Fredrik Lindgren (Sweden)
- Maciej Janowski (Poland)
- Tai Woffinden (United Kingdom)
- Leon Madsen (Denmark)
- Jason Doyle (Australia)
- Robert Lambert (United Kingdom)
- Anders Thomsen (Denmark)
- Martin Vaculík (Slovakia)
- Paweł Przedpełski (Poland)
- Max Fricke (Australia)
- Patryk Dudek (Poland)
- Mikkel Michelsen (Denmark)
- Jack Holder (Australia)
- Dan Bewley (United Kingdom)
Substitute riders
- Andžejs Ļebedevs (Latvia)
- Jakub Miśkowiak (Poland)
- Mads Hansen (Denmark)
- Luke Becker (United States)
- David Bellego (France)
Speedway Grand Prix 2022 race calendar
As it stands, 12 events are scheduled to take place. However, owing to the political situation involving Russia and Ukraine, FIM Speedway have announced the event due to take place on July 9 will not be held in Togliatti, Russia. A new location is yet to be decided.
Round
- 1 30 Apr Croatia - Stadium Milenium, Gorican
- 2 14 May Poland - Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw
- 3 28 May Czech Republic - Markéta Stadium, Prague
- 4 4 Jun Germany - Bergring Arena, Teterow
- 5 25 Jun Poland - Edward Jancarz Stadium, Gorzow
- 6 9 Jul TBA
- 7 13 Aug United Kingdom - Principality Stadium, Cardiff
- 8 27 Aug Poland - Olympic Stadium, Wrocław
- 9 10 Sep Denmark - Vojens Speedway Center, Vojens
- 10 17 Sep Sweden - G&B Arena, Malila
- 11 1 Oct Poland - Rose Motoarena, Torun
- 12 5 Nov Oceania – TBA
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Sri Lanka to tour Bangladesh for two-match Test series in May
Sri Lanka is all set to tour Bangladesh for a two-match Test series, which will be played in the month of May, the Test series will also be a part of the ICC Test Championship 2021-23.
Sri Lanka is all set to tour Bangladesh for a two-match Test series, which will be played in the month of May, the Test series will also be a part of the ICC Test Championship 2021-23. The two Test matches will form part of each team's ICC World Test Championship campaign, with Bangladesh currently eighth and Sri Lanka mid-table after two wins from four matches.
The Sri Lankan touring party will arrive in Bangladesh on May 8 and play a two-day practice match in Chattogram three days after landing. The first Test is scheduled to be held in Chattogram starting from May 15.
And the players will move to Dhaka for the second Test, with the first day scheduled for May 23. Bangladesh will hope to take confidence from an away series in South Africa, with the Tigers currently playing the first Test against the Proteas in Durban.
Sri Lanka have yet to win away from home in the latest WTC cycle, losing both Tests against India earlier this month. But Dimuth Karunaratne's side does have two wins to their name in the WTC thanks to a 2-0 series win at home against West Indies, declaring in both matches before bowling the visitors out for 187 and 164-run victories. (ANI)
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — As the number of people leaving Ukraine for points west slows, authorities in Poland and other neighboring nations are encouraging refugees from the war to find jobs, especially in health care and education.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR reported Thursday that the daily number of arriving refugees recorded by the countries that border Ukraine dropped below 40,000 on Wednesday, the fewest s ince Russian troops invaded five weeks ago.
Poland’s Border Guard registered more than half of the new arrivals, maintaining a pattern seen since the start of the war. Of the conflict’s more than 4 million refugees, almost 2.4 million went to Poland, according to the country’s border agency.
Humanitarian organizations and other observers have attributed the slowing of the Ukrainian exodus in recent days to several possible factors, including residents of surrounded and besieged cities having no way to safely evacuate. Others may be reluctant to leave their homes and hope to wait out the hostilities, observers say.
A spokesperson for Poland’s Border Guard, Anna Michalska, said the numbers could pick up again, if Russian attacks in Ukraine continue.
Recent legislation passed in Poland allows refugees from Ukraine to obtain ID numbers that entitle them to free medical care, education, social benefits and the right to work for 18 months.
Refugees in Warsaw have submitted about 700 applications and some 100 have been hired for jobs in the Polish capital’s medical centers and schools, according to city officials.
To boost the employment drive, Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska met Thursday with the director of the Bielanski Hospital and some Ukrainian and Polish staff members.
Kaznowska said employment and professional activity were the best way to integrate the adults who have fled Ukraine into Polish society.
Educators are also needed to help refugee children adjust to their new school environment, where lessons are taught in Polish and where the curriculum is largely different from the one in Ukraine.
Two nurses who are in the hiring process, speaking in Ukrainian mixed with Polish, said they appreciated the chance to continue their careers.
Hospital director Dorota Galczynska-Zych said the new job recruits have provided valuable skills and that language has not been a barrier.
Some 570,000 refugees have reached Warsaw, a city of some 1.8 million, and some 300,000 remain in the capital for now, Trzaskowski said.
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Wednesday’s Weather: Morning thunderstorms, afternoon sunshine
EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - Good morning, East Texas! A line of thunderstorms is making its way into East Texas this morning. Expect heavy rainfall and gusty winds. A few storms could become strong to severe with damaging winds being the main threat. Temperatures will be warm in the 70s ahead of the line of storms and then drop into the lower 60s as the rain moves out. Sunshine returns this afternoon and temperatures rebound back to the lower to mid 70s with windy conditions until this evening. The wind finally calms down overnight and cooler temperatures are on the way briefly for Thursday. Light winds continue Friday with a quick warm-up and then a nice, warm weekend is ahead with only a slight chance for rain on Saturday.
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Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Odisha win in HI Junior Women National Championship
Hockey Haryana, Hockey Jharkhand, Hockey Maharashtra and Hockey Association of Odisha registered victories in their respective Quarter-Final matches at the 12th Hockey India Junior Women National Championship 2022 here at the Kakinada Hockey Stadium.
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Hockey Haryana, Hockey Jharkhand, Hockey Maharashtra and Hockey Association of Odisha registered victories in their respective Quarter-Final matches at the 12th Hockey India Junior Women National Championship 2022 here at the Kakinada Hockey Stadium. In the first Quarter-Final of the day, Hockey Haryana defeated Hockey Karnataka 6-2. Sakshi Rana (20', 42') scored a brace, while Pinki (37'), Neelam (43'), Ishika (51') and Disha (54') scored one goal each for Hockey Haryana. Meanwhile, Seema Anandrao Pawar (33') and Jeevitha BG (60') scored one goal each for Hockey Karnataka.
Hockey Jharkhand defeated Uttar Pradesh Hockey 4-0 in their Quarter-Final match. Deepika Soreng (13'), Rajni Kerketta (18'), Pramodni Lakra (56') and Elin Dungdung (60') scored one goal each for Uttar Pradesh Hockey. Hockey Maharashtra booked a place in the Semi-Final after defeating Hockey Punjab 4-2. Shivani Sahu (18', 34') scored a brace, while Oshin Bansod (13') and Captain Himanshi Gawande (49') scored the other goals for Hockey Maharashtra. Meanwhile, Sweena Rani (41') and Sukhpreet Kaur (47') found the back of the net for Hockey Punjab.
In the last Quarter-Final match of the day, the Hockey Association of Odisha defeated Hockey Chandigarh 2-1 via a penalty shootout after the teams were locked at 0-0 at the end of regular time. Jyoti Chhatri and Munmuni Das scored for the Hockey Association of Odisha during the shootout whereas Namsi Jarika was the star with 4 saves. Meanwhile, Gurmail Kaur scored the only goal for Hockey Chandigarh in the shootout. (ANI)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airport security procedures will become more gender-neutral, with changes to scanners used for screening and the use of an “X” for travelers going through Precheck who do not identify as male or female, the Biden administration said Thursday.
Transportation Security Administration officers will also receive new instructions on screening intended to make procedures less invasive, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
They are among a series of travel-security measures announced by the department in conjunction with Transgender Day of Visibility. President Joe Biden is marking the day by advocating against what his administration terms “dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks” that have passed in statehouses across the country.
“DHS is committed to protecting the traveling public while ensuring that everyone, regardless of gender identity, is treated with respect,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in the statement.
The use of the “X” pronoun in the TSA Precheck advanced security program will begin April 11 and is intended to keep pace with identity documents that already include that option, DHS said. A new “X” gender marker on U.S. passport applications also begins April 11.
Later this year, TSA will begin using scanners with new technology that will replace gender-based systems and are intended to “advance civil rights and improve the customer experience.”
The TSA will work with airlines to promote the acceptance of the “X” gender marker and will also update the guidance for airport security screening officers to remove gender considerations when validating documents, DHS said.
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WHO: COVID-19 deaths jump by 40%, but cases falling globally
GENEVA (AP) — The number of people killed by the coronavirus surged by more than 40% last week, likely due to changes in how COVID-19 deaths were reported across the Americas and by newly adjusted figures from India, according to a World Health Organization report released Wednesday.
In its latest weekly report on the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said the number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere, including in WHO’s Western Pacific region, where they had been rising since December.
About 10 million new COVID-19 infections and more than 45,000 deaths were reported worldwide over the past week, following a 23% drop in fatalities the week before.
The jump in reported deaths, up from 33,000 last week, was due mainly to an accounting change; WHO noted that countries including Chile and the United States altered how they define COVID-19 deaths.
In addition, more than 4,000 deaths from Maharashtra state in India that initially weren’t included among the COVID-19 death toll were added last week, according to WHO.
WHO has said repeatedly that COVID-19 case counts are likely a vast underestimate of the coronavirus’ prevalence. The agency cautioned countries in recent weeks against dropping their comprehensive testing and other surveillance measures, saying that doing so would cripple efforts to accurately track the spread of the virus.
“Data are becoming progressively less representative, less timely and less robust,” WHO said. “This inhibits our collective ability to track where the virus is, how it is spreading and how it is evolving: information and analyses that remain critical to effectively end the acute phase of the pandemic.”
The agency warned that less surveillance would particularly harm efforts to detect new COVID variants and undermine a potential response.
Numerous countries across Europe, North America and elsewhere recently lifted nearly all their COVID-19 protocols, relying on high levels of vaccination to prevent another infection spike even as the more infectious omicron subvariant BA.2 is causing an uptick in new cases.
British authorities have said that while they expect to see more cases, they have not seen an equivalent rise in hospitalizations and deaths.
Despite the global decline in reported cases, China locked down Shanghai this week to try to curb an omicron outbreak that has caused the country’s biggest wave of disease since the virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019.
U.S. officials expanded the use of vaccine boosters Tuesday as regulators said Americans ages 50 and older can get a second booster at least four months after their last vaccination.
An AP-NORC poll, meanwhile found that less than half of Americans now regularly wear face masks, avoid crowds and skip non-essential travel.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. markets were uneven in premarket trading Thursday, while global markets fell after Chinese manufacturing weakened and Russian shelling around Ukraine’s capital shook hopes for progress in peace talks.
On Wall Street, futures for the Dow Jones Industrials ticked down about 0.1% while the same for the benchmark S&P 500 index wavered between small gains and losses a day after falling on weaker-than-forecast U.S. economic growth.
Oil prices fell more than 5% in New York following reports that President Joe Biden would release U.S. reserves to cool surging prices amid anxiety about possible disruption to Russian supplies.
OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia will be deciding Thursday how much crude to pump to the world. Analysts expect the group, known as OPEC+, to stay on its schedule of gradual increases to restore production cuts made during the depths of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Russian forces were shelling areas near Kyiv and another city after Moscow said it would scale back operations there to promote trust. Virtual talks on trying to end the five-week-old war are expected Friday.
Russia is “pouring cold water on headlines of constructive cease-fire talks,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a report.
In early trading, London’s FTSE 100 lost 0.2%, Frankfurt’s DAX slipped 0.4% and the CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.6%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.4% to 3,252.20 after an index of Chinese manufacturing activit y fell to a five-month low following the shutdown of much of Shanghai and two smaller industrial cities to fight coronavirus outbreaks.
The Hang Seng in Hong Kong sank 1.1% to 21,996.85.
“The near-term outlook remains highly uncertain,” Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics said in a report. “Even if the outbreak is brought under control soon, it will still take a while for the economy to get back on track.”
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo shed 0.7% to 27,821.43 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 lost 0.2% to 7,499.60.
The Kospi in Seoul gained 0.4% to 2,757.65 after data showed February industrial production improved.
India’s Sensex shed 0.2% to 58,560.02. New Zealand and Jakarta gained while Singapore and Bangkok declined.
Despite losses Wednesday, markets have mostly gained ground this week as talks between Russia and Ukraine seemed to show progress.
Investors already were worried about higher U.S. interest rates and a Chinese economic slowdown.
On Thursday, the Commerce Department is due to release its personal income and spending report for February. The Labor Department will release U.S. employment data for March on Friday.
Benchmark U.S. crude tumbled $5.68 to $102.14 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was down more than $7 at one point. The contract rose $3.58 on Wednesday to $107.82.
Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, fell $5.51 to $105.93 per barrel in London.
Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from U.S. reserves, according to two people familiar with the decision. That would come near to closing the U.S. production gap compared with February 2020 before the coronavirus caused a steep decline.
However, that supply is “simply not enough to offset Russian losses,” Francesco Pesole and Frantisek Taborsky of ING said in a report. “It does not seem likely that U.S. reserves will be able to drive oil prices structurally lower.”
The dollar declined to 121.61 yen from Wednesday’s 121.78 yen. The euro fell to $1.1104 from $1.1159.
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PREVIEW-Soccer-Fading Inter look to rediscover Serie A form at resurgent Juve
Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri has repeatedly said their ultimate aim is a top-four finish, dismissing talk of being involved in the title race, but a 16-match unbeaten run since November has put them within touching distance of their rivals. Leaders Milan will look to extend their winning streak to four games when they host Bologna while Napoli, who have lost only one away fixture this season, travel to fifth-placed Atalanta.
As Italy struggles to come to terms with failing to qualify for the World Cup for the second time in a row, the focus quickly shifts back to domestic action as Inter Milan travel to Juventus for a stern test of their Serie A title ambitions.
Champions Inter led the standings at the turn of the year but have let their advantage slip by collecting only seven points from seven games, a run including only one victory. They sit third in the standings with a game in hand, six points behind leaders AC Milan and three adrift of Napoli ahead of a daunting trip to Turin on Sunday.
Lack of goals away from home has been a problem for Inter but coach Simone Inzaghi called on his players to hold their nerve. "I don't think we're afraid, I think the lads feel the weight of responsibility. We were close to perfect in November, December and the start of January," Inzaghi said after their last game, a 1-1 home draw with Fiorentina.
"We're experiencing a lull but we need to stay calm and work even harder to get back to winning ways... I'd be worried if we weren't creating anything. Perhaps we're rushing things a bit too much and maybe the results are starting to get to us." Returning to winning ways in Turin is easier said than done, however, as Inter have not won a league game at the Allianz Stadium in nearly a decade.
A resurgent Juve, meanwhile, have reeled in the title contenders to sit a point behind Inter. Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri has repeatedly said their ultimate aim is a top-four finish, dismissing talk of being involved in the title race, but a 16-match unbeaten run since November has put them within touching distance of their rivals.
Leaders Milan will look to extend their winning streak to four games when they host Bologna while Napoli, who have lost only one away fixture this season, travel to fifth-placed Atalanta. Jose Mourinho's AS Roma, level with Atalanta on 51 points and riding high after a memorable 3-0 derby win over Lazio, travel to Sampdoria in a bid to extend their unbeaten run to 10 games.
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Top seed Sai Praneeth knocked out of men's singles in Orleans meet
Praneeth lost his round of 16 match 12-21 11-21 in 35 minutes.He had advanced to the round of 16 after beating Czech Republics Jan Louda on Wednesday.Ira Sharma lost her womens singles match 11-21 17-21 to Australias Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen, but the seventh seeded Indian duo of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto carved out a win over the Netherlands Ties Van Der Lecq and Debora Jille 21-18 22-20.
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Top seeded Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth suffered a shocking straight-game defeat to France's Christo Popov and bowed out of the men's singles competition at the Orleans Masters 2022 Super 100 badminton tournament here on Thursday. Praneeth lost his round of 16 match 12-21 11-21 in 35 minutes.
He had advanced to the round of 16 after beating Czech Republic's Jan Louda on Wednesday.
Ira Sharma lost her women's singles match 11-21 17-21 to Australia's Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen, but the seventh seeded Indian duo of Ishaan Bhatnagar and Tanisha Crasto carved out a win over the Netherlands' Ties Van Der Lecq and Debora Jille 21-18 22-20. Earlier, the Indian troika of Kiran George, Meiraba Luwang Maisnam and Mithun Manjunath progressed to the men's singles pre-quarterfinals after contrasting wins in the second round of the tournament.
While George stunned Netherland's third seed Mark Caljouw 19-21 21-16 23-21, qualifier Meiraba got rid of eighth seed Toby Penty of England 21-16 21-16 and Manjunath prevailed over compatriot Siddharth Pratap Singh 21-14 21-10 in another second round match.
George, who had won the Odisha Super 100 event in January, will face Indonesian qualifier Christian Adinata, Meiraba will meet Hong Kong's Chan Yin Chak and Manjunath will taken on second seeded Dane Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus next.
Ashwini Bhat K and Shikha Gautam eked out a 21-23 21-12 21-10 win over Danish pairing of Amalie Schulz and Christine Busch to set up a fight against French duo of Flavie Vallet and Emilie Vercelot.
The men's doubles pair of PS Ravikrishna and Sankar Prasad Udayakumar also made it to the pre-quarterfinals with a 19-21 21-11 21-12 win over German pairing of Marvin Datko and Patrick Scheiel.
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Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports releases funds worth Rs 112.07 cr to NSFs in current financial year
Renewal of annual recognition of the National Sports Federations (NSFs) is done after examination of its Constitutions/Memorandum of Associations, with respect to its compliance with the provisions of the National Sports Development Code of India, 2011, and based on suo moto disclosure of requisite information by the NSFs on its websites.
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Renewal of annual recognition of the National Sports Federations (NSFs) is done after examination of its Constitutions/Memorandum of Associations, with respect to its compliance with the provisions of the National Sports Development Code of India, 2011, and based on suo moto disclosure of requisite information by the NSFs on its websites. So far, the renewal of 10 NSFs namely, Archery Association of India, Wrestling Federation of India, Indian Weightlifting Federation, All India Tennis Association, Wushu Association of India, Squash Racket Federation of India, Amateur Soft Tennis Federation of India, Kudo International Federation of India Association, National Yogasana Sports Federation and Indian Pencak Silat Federation has been done. Till date, the Ministry has released funds amounting to Rs 112.07 crore for the current financial year under the Scheme of Assistance to the NSFs.
The timely conduct of the National Championships and other domestic events is the responsibility of the respective NSFs. No recognized NSF has filed any legal case against the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS). This information was given by the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. (ANI)
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Cricket-Bavuma leads South Africa to 233 for four at close v Bangladesh
Temba Bavuma scored an unbeaten half-century as South Africa reached 233 for four at the premature close on a stop-start opening day of the first test against Bangladesh at Kingsmead on Thursday. Play was called off with 76.5 overs bowled as the umpires deemed the light not good enough despite the sun shining down on the ground, a curious end to a day that had started with a 30-minute delay due to a problem with the sight screen.
Temba Bavuma scored an unbeaten half-century as South Africa reached 233 for four at the premature close on a stop-start opening day of the first test against Bangladesh at Kingsmead on Thursday.
Play was called off with 76.5 overs bowled as the umpires deemed the light not good enough despite the sun shining down on the ground, a curious end to a day that had started with a 30-minute delay due to a problem with the sight screen. The steady Bavuma was 53 not out having put on the same number for the fifth wicket with Kyle Verreynne, who was not out on 27.
The pair will hope to push on to a big first-innings score on day two after the home side were sent into bat, another interesting decision at a ground where spin is very much in play in the latter stages of the match. South Africa made a bright start, reaching 113 before captain Dean Elgar (67) was the first player dismissed, gloving a Khaled Ahmed delivery to wicketkeeper Litton Das.
Fellow opener Sarel Erwee (41) dragged the ball onto his stumps from spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz shortly afterwards as the visitors pegged back their hosts. It got better for Bangladesh when Mehidy produced a remarkable gather and throw to run out Keegan Petersen (19).
Debutant Ryan Rickelton (21) looked in command until he tried a pull shot off seamer Ebadot Hossain and was caught at mid-on by the tourists’ skipper Mominul Haque. South Africa are without a number of their regular players. Seamers Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen, and top-order batsmen Aiden Markram and Rassie van der Dussen are all missing after opting to play in the Indian Premier League over this series.
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India drawn to meet Norway in Davis Cup, away tie dates clash with Asian Games
Lets see. India and Norway, who have world number eight Casper Ruud in their ranks, have never clashed in the history of Davis Cup.Their next best player is Viktor Durasovic, who is placed 329 in singles ATP chart.Every tie at this level is tough and when it is an away tie, it is a different challenge.
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The Indian Davis Cup team was on Thursday drawn to meet Norway in its next World Group I tie, an away contest which will clash with the Asian Games in September. The Davis Cup tie will be held either on September 16-17 or 17-18 while tennis event at the Asian Games are scheduled to be held from September 10-14.
Even if the Indian players complete their Asian Games engagement by April 14, it will be practically difficult to reach Norway for the tie since the players need to acclimatise before they take to the courts. It is going to be a challenge for the All India Tennis Association (AITA) to ensure that the country is represented in both the events.
''We and the Asian Tennis Federation had spoken to ITF about his since 12 Asian countries are going to be affected by this. We had asked for a change in date but they did not agree, so we are filing an appeal to the ITF,'' AITA Secretary General Anil Dhupar told PTI.
''We want to play both the events and so do other nations. Pakistan is also filing a separate appeal. Let's see.'' India and Norway, who have world number eight Casper Ruud in their ranks, have never clashed in the history of Davis Cup.
Their next best player is Viktor Durasovic, who is placed 329 in singles ATP chart.
''Every tie at this level is tough and when it is an away tie, it is a different challenge. It is too early to see if the draw is good for us. There is still a lot of time before the tie,'' said India coach Zeeshan Ali.
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A Norwegian soccer official delivered a scathing criticism of World Cup host Qatar and FIFA to an audience of executives on Thursday on the eve of the tournament’s draw.
Qatar’s record of protecting the rights of migrant workers — who have built tens of billion of dollars of projects needed for the World Cup — and its criminalization of homosexuality was aired by Lise Klaveness, the newly elected head of soccer in Norway and one of the few women ever to lead a FIFA member federation.
It was a rare show of dissent and tension in the typically tightly scripted annual meeting of soccer’s 211 member countries, and targeted issues that have dogged Qatar and FIFA’s controversial choice of the Middle East country for more than a decade.
“In 2010, the World Cup was awarded by FIFA in unacceptable ways with unacceptable consequences,” Klaveness, who is gay, said in a six-minute speech. “There is no room for employers who do not secure the freedom and safety of World Cup workers. No room for hosts that cannot legally guarantee the safety and respect of LGBTQ+ people coming to this theater of dreams.”
FIFA had worked this week in Doha to keep the Norwegian’s speech off the main Congress agenda, and then gave the floor to rebuttals from a Latin American soccer official and the head of Qatar’s organizing committee.
“This is not the right forum and not the right moment,” Honduras soccer federation general secretary Jose Ernesto Mejia said in translated comments.
Klaveness was chided by Hassan Al-Thawadi, who fronted Qatar’s bid more than 12 years ago and has led the organizing committee ever since.
“You did not attempt to contact us and did not attempt to engage in dialogue before addressing congress today,” he said.
Al-Thawadi said Qatar’s door was always open for people to “educate themselves before passing judgement.”
Qatar and FIFA have consistently said taking the World Cup to the country has accelerated positive changes in the nation’s laws and society.
The war in Ukraine then took center stage as a three-minute video message was aired from the head of the country’s soccer federation, Andriy Pavelko.
Pavelko wore an armored vest as he spoke from Kyiv while behind him people packed sandbags several meters high to protect a monument.
He said children in Ukraine were suffering from “terrible psychological injuries” during the war and that maybe soccer would help them in the future.
The Russian delegation watching in the room including Alexey Sorokin, a former FIFA Council member who led the organization of the 2018 World Cup in his country.
Although FIFA has banned Russian teams, including the men’s national team from World Cup qualifying, the soccer federation has not been suspended.
“We are not hiding,” Sorokin said before the meeting. “We have every right to be here.”
On Friday, the World Cup draw ceremony will be held at the same conference center.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The world’s fair in Dubai, a tech-saturated site teeming with talking robots and solar canopies, sought to be the future.
Now, it’s history.
The pandemic-delayed Expo 2020 in the United Arab Emirates closes on Thursday after eight years of anticipation, over $7 billion in investment, 240 million hours of labor and six months of festivities.
The fate of the fairgrounds is clear. Some national pavilions will be demolished. A few will remain, like an enormous lacework dome and the UAE’s soaring falcon-shaped pavilion. Other buildings will be rebranded for a new business district soon to rise from the site.
But the deeper legacy of the event proves more elusive.
When Dubai won the bid to host Expo in 2013, it felt like a rebirth. Just four years earlier, the glitzy city-state suffered a real-estate crash in the Great Recession, rescued by a $20 billion bailout from oil-rich Abu Dhabi.
As property prices roared back, the Expo — the first world’s fair in the Middle East — appeared to signal Dubai’s troubles were behind it. Officials offered bright predictions. The “world’s greatest show” would draw 25 million visitors. It would generate $33.4 billion in investment until 2031. It would help Dubai push into the top tier of global financial centers.
But, in the end, the billions of dollars, frenzy of fantastical construction projects and barrage of publicity proved powerless against the coronavirus pandemic, which forced Dubai to postpone the event a year.
“It definitely fell short of what officials would have wanted,” said James Swanston, an economist at Capital Economics. “There were extremely optimistic assessments about Expo driving the next five to 10 years of growth in real estate and business, and COVID disrupted that.”
Dubai raced to widespread vaccination so it could open its borders and relax virus restrictions — earning it a reputation as a party haven for tourists escaping lockdowns back home.
The fair since has logged a staggering, albeit murky, total of 23 million visits — fueled by repeated visits of those already living in the city. Public sector employees got six days paid leave to visit. Schoolchildren regularly descended on Expo for field trips.
While concert lineups included just a few starry names, such as Coldplay and Alicia Keys, culturally specific crowd-pleasers succeeded in drawing diverse and rabid fan bases. K-pop stars, Bollywood singers and a beloved Iranian pop diva lured thousands.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all of us,” said 37-year-old Samiya Awan, a Pakistani resident of Dubai and Expo fanatic who volunteered at three national pavilions. “I am coming here every day, even if I’m not volunteering, I’m coming with my kids.”
But the event brought scrutiny as well.
As the FIFA World Cup has for host Qatar, Expo has shined a light on the troubles of migrant laborers. Many low-paid Expo workers have told of plunging into debt to cover recruitment fees, having their passports confiscated and struggling to afford food while toiling at the multibillion-dollar fair.
However, no companies or countries ultimately heeded calls by the European Parliament to withdraw their involvement in Expo over human rights concerns. Dubai has counted on the event to raise its international profile and offer a jolt to its economy as it bounces back from the pandemic.
“Bringing the world to Dubai and showcasing Dubai to the world has been one of the successes of this event,” said Tarek Fadlallah, chief executive at Nomura Asset Management Middle East.
Other analysts note that while Dubai increasingly has elbowed its way onto the world stage in recent months, that may have less to do with Expo’s allure than the government’s pandemic response and major reforms.
The UAE has changed its weekend to align with the West, allowed unmarried couples to legally live together and eased visa restrictions and foreign investment rules. Gambling appears to be next. As hordes of well-heeled foreigners flock to the emirate, the prices of luxury properties and villas have surged.
“I wouldn’t give Expo all the credit for residential property price increases,” said Sapna Jagtiani, a director at S&P Global Ratings. “It was mostly driven by how the UAE managed the pandemic and high net-worth individuals moving to the country.”
Dubai may no longer have a major global event but observers say the city’s business-friendly rules and absence of sanctions and politics will buoy the emirate in its Expo comedown. That’s especially true as Russia’s war on Ukraine has pushed oil prices to multi-year highs and stirred economic turmoil in the region.
“We have a lot of oil money that finds its way to Dubai real estate,” Jagtiani added. “It’s considered a safe haven where investment flows whenever there’s conflict.”
However, concerns linger that the end of Expo could aggravate Dubai’s debt and oversupply problems if demand fails to materialize for the expected flood of new hotel and housing construction. Rising interest rates loom as well.
“It may not blow up in the same way as 2009, but it could raise concerns about debt repayments where Abu Dhabi has to step in again,” Swanston said.
But while uncompleted white elephant projects still litter Dubai, others more successful have propelled growth and transformed swaths of its vast deserts into gleaming new developments.
Whether the Expo site has a lasting impact remains to be seen, even as crowds rushed in for the final few hours of the party.
“I’ve heard a lot of mixed feedback about how good or how bad the Expo was, how it didn’t meet certain expectations,” said Khaled Iskandar, a Palestinian architect visiting the site for the fourth time this week. “Personally … I was in awe.”
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Sent into bat, Chennai Super Kings scored 210 for seven against Lucknow Super Giants in their Indian Premier League match here on Thursday. Opening the innings, the seasoned Robin Uthappa smashed a 27-ball 50 at the Brabourne Stadium, while Shivam Dube struck an aggressive 49 off 30 balls.
Brief Scores: Chennai Super Kings: 217/7 in 20 overs (Robin Uthappa 50, Shivam Dube 49, Moeen Ali 35; Ravi Bishnoi 2/24, Avesh Khan 2/38, Andrew Tye 2/41).
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U.S. targets Russia's technology sector in fresh sanctions
The United States on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, targeting operators in the technology sector in an effort to prevent Moscow from evading sanctions and expanding Washington's sanctions authorities. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on 21 entities and 13 people, including Joint Stock Company Mikron, the largest Russian manufacturer and exporter of microelectronics and Russia's largest chipmaker.
The United States on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, targeting operators in the technology sector in an effort to prevent Moscow from evading sanctions and expanding Washington's sanctions authorities.
The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on 21 entities and 13 people, including Joint Stock Company Mikron, the largest Russian manufacturer and exporter of microelectronics and Russia's largest chipmaker. The Treasury also expanded sanctions authorities to include the aerospace, marine and electronics sectors of the Russian economy. The move allows Washington to impose sanctions on any person or entity determined to operate in those sectors, the Treasury said.
Thursday's move also targeted "malicious cyber actors," the Treasury said. "We will continue to target Putin’s war machine with sanctions from every angle, until this senseless war of choice is over," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in the statement.
The measures are the latest in a series of sanctions imposed on Moscow by Washington and its allies since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two. Moscow calls the assault a "special operation."
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Blue Origin makes 4th flight, successfully lands after 10-minute voyage
Blue Origin, the space tourism venture launched by entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, completed its fourth flight with a crew on Thursday, landing successfully in rural west Texas after taking a half dozen passengers for a 10-minute suborbital joyride.
Blue Origin, the space tourism venture launched by entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, completed its fourth flight with a crew on Thursday, landing successfully in rural west Texas after taking a half dozen passengers for a 10-minute suborbital joyride. The New Shepard spacecraft blasted off at 8:59 a.m. CDT (1359 GMT), and the crew capsule separated from the six-story-tall rocket a short time later as it soared to an altitude of 66 miles (106 km).
The crew members experienced a few minutes of weightlessness at the very apex of their brief ride before the capsule fell back to Earth to the desert floor under a canopy of three parachutes, landing safely outside the west Texas town of Van Horn. "What an amazing mission from Launch Site One. Congrats to all of Team Blue on executing and supporting today’s flight," Blue Origin said on Twitter.
The flight came two days after it was initially scheduled, with poor weather conditions forcing the mission to be postponed on Tuesday. Unlike Blue Origin's first three crewed flights, which featured passenger rosters including "Star Trek" actor William Shatner, morning TV host Michael Strahan and Bezos himself, nobody on Thursday's flight was particularly famous.
"Saturday Night Live" comic Pete Davidson had been confirmed as a non-paying promotional guest on the latest flight. But he dropped out earlier this month when the planned launch was postponed from its original March 23 date to allow time for additional pre-flight tests. Days later the company announced that Davidson, 28, the boyfriend of reality TV star Kim Kardashian, had been replaced on the latest "crew" manifest by veteran Blue Origin designer Gary Lai, architect of the New Shepard reusable launch system.
Lai flew for free. He joined five previously announced paying customers - angel investor Marty Allen, real estate veteran Marc Hagle and his wife Sharon Hagle, entrepreneur and University of North Carolina professor Jim Kitchen and George Nield, founder and president of Commercial Space Technologies. Bezos, the billionaire founder of online retail giant Amazon , was part of Blue Origin's inaugural crewed flight to the edge of space last July. He accompanied his brother, Mark Bezos, trailblazing octogenarian female aviator Wally Funk and an 18-year-old Dutch high school graduate.
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U.S. to issue gender neutral passports, take steps to combat anti- transgender laws
In October, it issued the first American passport with an "X" gender marker, designed to give nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people an option other than male or female on their travel document. "Starting on April 11, U.S. citizens will be able to select an X as their gender marker on their U.S. passport application, and the option will become available for other forms of documentation next year," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
Americans will be allowed to choose an X for gender on their passport applications and select their sex on Social Security cards, the Biden administration said on Thursday in announcing measures to support transgender Americans against wave of state laws targeting them. The State Department in June said U.S. citizens could select their gender on applications without having to submit medical documentation. In October, it issued the first American passport with an "X" gender marker, designed to give nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people an option other than male or female on their travel document.
"Starting on April 11, U.S. citizens will be able to select an X as their gender marker on their U.S. passport application, and the option will become available for other forms of documentation next year," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Americans will also be able to select and add their gender to U.S. Social Security cards without medical documentation, beginning in the fall, the Social Security Administration said. The cards currently do not include gender indicators.
The changes were among several measures announced by the Biden administration to mark a "Transgender Day of Visibility," a day after the Republican governors of Oklahoma and Arizona signed bills banning transgender athletes from girls' sports in schools. They joined a growing list of states that have passed or enacted similar laws on a contentious election-year issue. Transgender rights have been pushed to the forefront of the culture wars playing out in parts of the United States in recent years, together with issues such as reproductive rights.
"The administration once again condemns the proliferation of dangerous anti-transgender legislative attacks that have been introduced and passed in state legislatures around the country," the White House said in a statement on initiatives it would take aimed at taking down barriers for transgender people. They include easing travel, providing resources for transgender children and their families, improving access to federal services and benefits and advancing inclusion and visibility in federal data.
The Transportation Security Administration will implement gender-neutral screening at its checkpoints with changes in imaging technology, reducing the number of pat-down screenings, removing gender identification from checkpoint screenings and updating TSA PreCheck to include an "X" gender marker on its application. The Department of Health and Human Services released a new website https://www.hhs.gov/programs/topic-sites/lgbtqi/index.html that offers resources for transgender and LGBTQI+ youth, their parents, and providers.
Other agencies will announce new actions to expand the collection and use of sexual orientation and gender identity data, the White House said. "Every American deserves the freedom to be themselves. But far too many transgender Americans still face systemic barriers, discrimination, and acts of violence," the White House said.
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