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Turkey's Erdogan: Russian grain could be exported as flour to Africa via Turkey
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Russian grain exports could be processed into flour in Turkey and then shipped to Africa to help relieve food shortages there. Speaking on his flight back from the G20 summit in Bali, Erdogan said Russian grain was meant to be delivered to countries such as Mali, Djibouti, Sudan and Somalia free of charge. "We will also contribute to the free delivery of this (Russian grain)... It will offer a significant relief to them (countries in Africa)," Erdogan said.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Russian grain exports could be processed into flour in Turkey and then shipped to Africa to help relieve food shortages there.
Speaking on his flight back from the G20 summit in Bali, Erdogan said Russian grain was meant to be delivered to countries such as Mali, Djibouti, Sudan and Somalia free of charge.
"We will also contribute to the free delivery of this (Russian grain)... We already have such an agreement. Hopefully, this wheat will come to us (Turkey) and be turned into flour in our country and sent (to Africa) in this form. It will offer a significant relief to them (countries in Africa)," Erdogan said.
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UN Secretary General says Black Sea grain deal extended
The agreement, initially reached in July, created a protected sea transit corridor and was designed to alleviate global food shortages by allowing exports to resume from three ports in Ukraine, a major producer of grains and oilseeds. "I welcome the agreement by all parties to continue the Black Sea grain initiative to facilitate the safe navigation of export of grain, foodstuffs and fertilisers from Ukraine," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on Thursday.
A deal aimed at easing global food shortages by facilitating Ukraine's agricultural exports from its southern Black Sea ports was extended for 120 days on Thursday. The agreement, initially reached in July, created a protected sea transit corridor and was designed to alleviate global food shortages by allowing exports to resume from three ports in Ukraine, a major producer of grains and oilseeds.
"I welcome the agreement by all parties to continue the Black Sea grain initiative to facilitate the safe navigation of export of grain, foodstuffs and fertilisers from Ukraine," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on Thursday. Guterres said the UN was also "fully committed to removing the remaining obstacles to exporting food and fertilisers from the Russian Federation" - a part of the deal Moscow sees as critical.
The export of Russian ammonia via a pipeline to the Black Sea has not yet been agreed as part of the renewal, a source familiar with discussions told Reuters. "The renewal of the Black Sea grain initiative is good news for global food security and for the developing world," Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development said on Twitter, calling it a "beacon of hope".
"Solving the fertilizer crunch must come next," she added. The 120 day extension was less than the one-year sought by both the United Nations and Ukraine.
GLOBAL FOOD PRICE CRISIS A drop in shipments from Ukraine following Russia's invasion in February has played a role in this year's global food price crisis but there have also been other important drivers including the COVID-19 pandemic and continued climate shocks such as droughts in both Argentina and the United States.
Since July, some 11.1 million tonnes of agricultural products have been shipped under the grain deal, including 4.5 million tonnes of corn and 3.2 million tonnes of wheat. Wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade fell following the news that the agreement would be extended with the benchmark contract down 2.75% at $7.95 a bushel while corn prices fell 1.3% to $6.60-1/2 a bushel.
"This is bearish for the market because it removes remaining doubts and we have something clear for the coming four months," one French trader said. "However, the fact that it is only for four months instead of the one year Ukraine had been asking for means that uncertainty will resume in four months, with people wondering whether Russia will sign an extension or not."
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India enters into deal for export of 35 lakh tonnes sugar so far in 2022-23 season: ISMA
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India has entered into a contract for export of about 35 lakh tonnes of sugar so far in the ongoing 2022-23 season, out of which 2,00,000 tonnes have been shipped last month, industry body ISMA said on Thursday.
The 2022-23 sugar export policy announced on November 5 allowed exports of 60 lakh tonnes of the sweetener on a quota-basis till May 31. Further quantities for export would be allowed after assessing the domestic production.
Sugar season begins from October to September.
According to Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), ''As per port information and market reports, about 35 lakh tonnes of contracts for export of sugar have already been entered into so far.'' Out of this, about 2,00,000 tonnes sugar have been physically exported out of the country in October, when compared to about 4,00,000 tonnes in the corresponding month last year, it said in a statement.
ISMA noted several traders entered into export contracts for the 2022-23 season much before the export policy was announced by the government.
''Since then, there has been upward trend in international prices of sugar, as a result of which sugar mills are renegotiating export contract prices,'' it said.
The crushing operation has begun in the current 2022-23 season. Mills have produced 19.9 lakh tonnes of sugar till November 15 of the current season, slightly lower than 20.8 lakh tonnes in the year-ago period.
Several sugar mills in West started their operations late this season, because of which the sugar production till November 15 was slightly lower, it added.
In the 2021-22 season, the country had exported 11 million tonnes of sugar.
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Britain's budget: What you need to know
* Britain's economy is still below its pre-COVID size and is probably already in recession, with 11% inflation creating a cost-of-living crisis. * Hunt will outline tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at saving more than 50 billion pounds a year - equivalent to about 2% of annual economic output - by five years' time.
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Finance minister Jeremy Hunt will bury Britain's failed "Trussonomics" experiment on Thursday by cutting spending and raising taxes, moves that he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak say are needed to restore investor confidence. Following is a snapshot of latest developments.
* Hunt will speak at around 1130 GMT. He has warned of "tough but necessary" measures in the budget on top of the reversal of most of the unfunded tax cuts promised by former Prime Minister Liz Truss and which rapidly brought her down. * Britain's economy is still below its pre-COVID size and is probably already in recession, with 11% inflation creating a cost-of-living crisis.
* Hunt will outline tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at saving more than 50 billion pounds a year - equivalent to about 2% of annual economic output - by five years' time. How soon they come will be key for the short-term economic outlook. * Hunt says that to slow a rise in borrowing costs, he must show investors that Britain's 2.45 trillion-pound ($2.91 trillion) debt mountain will start to fall as a share of GDP.
* "We need fiscal and monetary policy to work together" to beat inflation, Hunt will say. * The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) will report on the state of public finances after Hunt speaks.
WHAT MIGHT HUNT ANNOUNCE? Newspaper reports have suggested Hunt is considering measures including:
* Inflation-linked rises in welfare and pensions payments, after worries about a smaller increase. * Help for the poorest households to pay their energy bills when an existing cap expires and is replaced with a less-generous one in April.
* Extending a freeze on the thresholds for starting to pay income tax, dragging more people into the net. * Reducing the threshold for paying the higher rate of income tax by 16% to 125,000 pounds a year.
* Measures to boost revenue from dividend and capital gains taxes. * Increasing a windfall tax on oil and gas firms and extending it to power generators.
* Allowing insurance firms to invest billions of pounds in green energy and other infrastructure projects. * Hunt has said he will address a shortage of workers which is dragging on growth and fuelling inflation.
MARKETS * Sterling, which hit a record low $1.0327 after Truss's Sept. 23 mini-budget, was trading at about $1.19 and 87.02 pence per euro on Thursday.
* Benchmark 10-year gilt yields were around 3.2%, their lowest since mid-September. * UK shares slipped close to one-week lows.
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Tiger enters hut-like structure in MP's Morena, injures photographer; may have moved in from Rajasthan
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A tiger that possibly crossed over from Ranthambore Reserve in Rajasthan into Madhya Pradesh entered a hut-like structure in Morena district on Thursday morning and injured a photographer present at the site, an official said.
Confirming the development on the basis of reports provided to him by local officials, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) Subharanjan Sen told PTI in the afternoon the tiger may have strayed in from Ranthambore, adding ''from where else will it come''.
Forest officials said the tiger entered a ''pathore'', a place close to which cattle are tried in agricultural fields, in Runipur village in Joura tehsil, which is some 35 kilometres away from the district headquarters.
Incidentally, officials of the Rajasthan forest department had alerted their MP counterparts about the movement of T-136 in Morena two days ago.
Asked if it could be tiger 'Mohan', officially called T-136, Sen said he was yet to see photographs of the big cat.
''I have been informed that a tiger entered a hut-like structure there. As you say, it might be from Ranthambore, from where else will it come. However, I cannot confirm whether it is from Ranthambore,'' Sen said.
Ranthambore Tiger Reserve is located in Sawai Madhopur district of south-eastern Rajasthan, some 130 kilometres away from Jaipur and 239 kilometres from here.
''I have been told the tiger has injured a person who was trying to photograph it. After the crowd in the vicinity thins, the tiger will move into the nearby thicket. We are 99 per cent sure it will move out as big cats don't live in such houses or huts. They love the wild,'' he added.
A senior official had recently told a media house tiger movement was recorded in Dholpur in Rajasthan for a week and forest teams were monitoring it. He had said the tiger had crossed over into the forests of MP and local officials had been alerted.
Dholpur is around 30 kilometres away from Morena.
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S Korea's leader discusses megaprojects with Saudi prince
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol hoped for greater cooperation with Saudi Arabia — including on its USD 500 billion futuristic desert city project — as he met the kingdom's powerful crown prince on Thursday, Seoul officials said.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman flew to South Korea earlier on Thursday for talks with Yoon and business tycoons in his first visit to South Korea since June 2019.
During talks attended by senior officials from both countries, Yoon said he hopes that South Korean companies will participate in megaprojects in Saudi Arabia such as Neom, a futuristic, carbon-free city planned along the kingdom's Red Sea coast, Yoon's office in a statement.
Yoon also wanted the two countries to cooperate on defense industries and the development of hydrogen and other new energies and promote tourism and cultural exchanges, the statement said.
Prince Mohammed said he wants to drastically expand bilateral cooperation on the areas of infrastructure construction, energy and defense industries, Yoon's office said.
The prince's trip to South Korea spawned hopes that South Korean companies' active participations in the Neom city project would greatly invigorate the country's economy, like a previous construction boom in the Middle East backed up South Korea's rapid economic rise in the 1970s.
"There are political and geopolitical risks in Middle East and it's true that there are questions about the Neom city project. … But the Neom city can still be a new breakthrough for the South Korean economy," the Maeil Business newspaper said on Wednesday in an editorial.
"The (South Korean) government must support a possible second Middle East boom by reforming regulations." The Neom project envisions flying cars and a 170-kilometre (105-mile) -long, zero-carbon emissions city that's entirely enclosed and powered by Artificial Intelligence.
In 2017, when Prince Mohammed announced plans to build the city, he said that "this will be a place for the dreamers of the world." Some observers say Prince Mohammed hopes the city will become a skyline-studded Saudi version of Dubai that will offer the kingdom jobs and cement a future beyond its vast crude oil reserves.
It also would reframe a rule so far coloured by the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the kingdom's grinding war in Yemen.
"Some people say the idea of the Neom city project is too utopian and doubt whether it can be really established," said Paik Seunghoon, principal researcher at the Institute of Middle East Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul.
"But it's one of the projects that Prince (Mohammed) is pushing hard so that he will try to have (the Neom project) running to some extent." Joo Won, deputy director at the Seoul-based Hyundai Research Institute, noted that there have been "more negative views toward the project" than positive ones.
"It's a matter of financial resources. Saudi Arabia needs money to build such a city. During the period of high oil prices like these days, they can afford it. But oil prices would go down one day and the project could stop," Joo said
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Russian missiles damage Ukrainian gas production facilities - Naftogaz CEO
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Russian missile strikes on Thursday damaged or destroyed some of Ukraine's gas production facilities, state energy company Naftogaz said.
Naftogaz chief executive Oleksiy Chernyshov said Russia had carried out a "massive attack" on the infrastructure of gas producer Ukrgazvydobuvannia in eastern Ukraine.
"Currently, we know of several objects that have been destroyed. Others have suffered damage of varying degrees," Cherynshov said.
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China to speed up vaccinations, build more designated COVID hospitals
China plans to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations and will release information to the public in due course, the head of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. Shen Hongbing made the comments at a regular National Health Commission (NHC) news conference when asked if foreign vaccines would become available.
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China plans to speed up COVID-19 vaccinations and will release information to the public in due course, the head of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
Shen Hongbing made the comments at a regular National Health Commission (NHC) news conference when asked if foreign vaccines would become available. He did not elaborate on exactly how vaccinations would be sped up. China, which has pursued a strict zero-COVID policy that results in frequent snap lockdowns, has recently seen a surge in cases with more than 23,000 new infections reported on Thursday - the most since April.
The country has begun to loosen some curbs related to mass-testing and quarantine for overseas arrivals, boosting optimism that China is moving towards a re-opening and economic activity could pick up again. Authorities highlighted the need to build more designated COVID hospitals and increase the number of beds in intensive care units.
"ICU beds need to account for 10% of total beds," NHC official Guo Yanhong said. Several cities where cases are rising like Guangzhou and Beijing are conducting mass-testing but other cities have pulled back on testing.
The NHC said it was not expanding the scope of who should be tested but was rather "increasing the number of people conducting tests and the number of testing sites in busy areas."
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Devotees swarm temples in TN to start pilgrimage to Sabarimala shrine
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Thousands of devotees on Thursday flocked various temples across Tamil Nadu to receive a ritualistic initiation from gurus to embark on a pilgrimage to the Sabarimala hill shrine of Lord Ayyappa Swamy in Kerala.
People thronged temples here including the popular Mahalingapuram Swami Ayyappa temple and the Raja Annamalaipuram shrine to adorn the 'Maalai,' provided by gurus following prayers, which signified the beginning of the pilgrimage and all its associated rituals and practices.
In this context, 'Maalai' in Tamil means a string of small round pieces of wood-like material, similar to a rosary bead and worn by devotees marking the start of their pilgrimage. People remove it after completing the spiritual trip.
Across the State, people thronged temples in keeping with the tradition to begin the pilgrimage prayers and initiation on the first day of Tamil month 'Karthigai' (November-December).
Devotees made a beeline to noted temples in Kanyakumari, Rameswaram, Tiruchirappalli, Coimbatore, Madurai, Salem, Kancheepuram and Courtallam to get initiated on the pilgrimage.
After two years of restrictions in view of the Coronavirus pandemic, devotees said they now also have the option of choosing the traditional forested route to the hill shrine.
The Tamil Nadu government said on Wednesday that special buses would be operated to Kerala in view of the annual Mandala and Makaravilakku poojas in the Lord Ayyappa Swamy temple.
The Mandala pooja is from November 16 to December 27. The Makaravilakku pooja is from December 30 to January 19, 2023.
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NCW seeks revocation of doctors' licenses for performing tubectomy sans anaesthesia
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The NCW has sought revoking the medical license of doctors who reportedly conducted a surgery without giving anaesthesia to women at a Bihar hospital.
According to media reports, around 24 women who had opted for tubectomy at two state-run public health centres in Bihar's Khagaria district over the weekend were allegedly made to undergo the surgical procedure to prevent pregnancy without anaesthesia.
Taking cognisance, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma has written to the Bihar chief secretary to take strict action against the NGOs, doctors and all those involved. ''NCW has asked that the doctors' registrations be revoked for medical negligence & not following due procedure,'' the NCW said in a tweet.
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Country fast emerging as Medical Tourism Hub of the world: Dr Jitendra Singh
The Minister also pointed out that India has almost 600 globally and nationally accredited hospitals that provide world-class treatment in cost-effective manner.
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Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said, India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become one of the world's most cost-effective healthcare destination, with the latest technology tools deployed, across care delivery.
Addressing the Healthcare Leaders Summit-2022 of the Economic Times, Dr Jitendra Singh said, more than 10 lakh medical visas were issued to foreigners between 2019 and 2022 and the country is fast emerging as the Medical Tourism Hub of the world. He said, this number is quite significant as there was almost complete ban on international travel during the pandemic. The Minister also pointed out that India has almost 600 globally and nationally accredited hospitals that provide world-class treatment in cost-effective manner.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, healthcare sector in India is expected to grow to reach a size of $50 billion by 2025, while the global medical tourism market is estimated to be worth about $72 billion. He said, India's share in medical tourism is expected to be around 10 billion dollars by 2023. Moreover, the country is the world's largest supplier of generic drugs, the Minister added.
Dwelling on the topic of the summit, "Building a Cohesive Healthcare Ecosystem in India through Proactive Government Initiatives" Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out that only last month, while inaugurating health facilities in Gujarat, Prime Minister Modi said, "If the heart and intention of the government are not filled with concern for the people's problems, then the creation of suitable health infrastructure is not possible". The Minister emphasised that the intention and policies of the government are in perfect alignment for creating affordable healthcare for all.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, ever since 2014, Modi Government is hand-holding in harnessing the enthusiasm of scientific brilliance and addressing the most pressing healthcare challenges of the current generation and being future-ready. He said, massive efforts are also on in building a robust life sciences ecosystem through science and research, which will in turn reduce health inequalities and build a clear road map on the continuing successes of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. He said, the action plan laid out by the government to support healthcare stakeholders to create a vibrant healthcare ecosystem in the country is happening through funding, incentives, government and industry-academia partnership and incubation.
Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out that the whole world recognised India's leadership role during COVID-19, as it achieved the rare feat of delivering over 220 crore vaccinations through a fully digital platform – COWIN and the process continues. Underlining the importance of vaccines as one of the most cost-effective health interventions for combating infectious, the Minister pointed out that during the pandemic, India played a crucial role in the rapid development and distribution of vaccines globally. Going forward, what are the evolving mechanisms for supporting end-to-end development and testing pipeline for vaccines by strengthening engagement between industry, academia and government, he added.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Proactive Government Initiatives as the topic of the Summit suggests can be best illustrated, as it was Modi again, who launched the StartUp India from the ramparts of Red Fort in 2015, and today we have more than 80,000 start-ups from 400 odd start-ups in 2014. He said, Prime Minister's special focus on Science, Technology and Innovation has fired the imagination of the youth in the country to innovate and solve problems with new ideas and we have startups fast emerging in the fields like IT, agriculture, aviation, education, energy, health and space sectors.
Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out that at present there are over 4,000 healthtech startups in India spanning from platforms helping to monitor health conditions, apps using AI to detect illnesses and diseases, platforms connecting patients with doctors, and much more and hoped that this ecosystem will grow further and become the leading sector in the world.
Dr. Jitendra Singh concluded by saying that one can't visualize India @2047 through the prism of 2022. He said Narender Modi's 8 years as Prime Minister gave India vision for 2047 and laid the roadmap for the next 25 years of Amrit Kal which would witness the ascent of India as a front-rank nation in the world in terms of best healthcare system.
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COVID-19 infection may reactivate several latent viruses in body: Study
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COVID-19 can reactivate several latent viruses lurking in the body's cells following previous infections, particularly in people with chronic fatigue syndrome, according to a study.
The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, contribute to our understanding of the causes of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME/CFS, and prospects of reaching a diagnosis.
Severe, long-term fatigue, post-exertional malaise, pain and sleep problems are characteristic signs of the disease.
The causes of the condition are not known with certainty, although it has been established that the onset in most cases follows a viral or bacterial infection.
''Our study now shows that objective measurements are available that show physiological differences in the body's reaction to viruses between ME patients and healthy controls,'' said Anders Rosen, a professor at Linkoping University, Sweden, and leader of the study.
The extensive spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic gave researchers a unique opportunity to study what happens in people with ME/CFS during a mild virus infection and compare this with what happens in healthy controls.
The research team, in collaboration with the Bragee Clinic in Stockholm, initiated a study early in the pandemic, involving 95 patients who had been diagnosed with ME/CFS and 110 healthy controls. They provided blood and saliva samples on four occasions during one year.
The researchers analysed samples for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and latent viruses, and found a special fingerprint of antibodies against common herpes viruses in saliva.
One of these viruses was the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which has infected nearly everybody. Most people experience a mild infection during childhood.
People who are infected with EBV in the teenage years can develop glandular fever, also known as ''kissing disease''.
The virus then remains in a latent condition in the body.
The EBV virus may proliferate in situations in which the immune system is impaired, causing fatigue, autoimmune responses, and increased risk of lymphoma, if allowed to continue, the researchers said.
Around half of the participants were infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the first wave of the pandemic and developed mild COVID-19, they said. In more than one third of cases, infection had been asymptomatic, so the person had not been aware of the infection.
After the SARS-CoV-2 infection had passed, however, the researchers detected specific antibodies in the saliva that suggested that three latent viruses had been strongly reactivated, one of them being EBV.
The reactivation was seen both in patients with ME/CFS and in the control group, but was significantly stronger in the ME/CFS group. This can have negative consequences, one of which is that the immune system attacks certain tissues, such as nerve tissue, in the body, the researchers said.
Previous studies have also shown that the mitochondria, which produce energy in the cells, are affected, which suppresses the energy metabolism of people with ME/CFS, they said.
"Another important result from the study is that we see differences in antibodies against the reactivated viruses only in the saliva, not in the blood. This means that we should use saliva samples when investigating antibodies against latent viruses in the future,'' said Rosen.
He noted that there is a great deal of overlap between the symptoms of ME/CFS and those of long COVID, which is experienced by around one third of patients who contract COVID-19.
Exhaustion after light exercise, brain fog and unrefreshing sleep are common symptoms, while impaired lung capacity and abnormal senses of smell and taste are more specific for long COVID.
The findings can contribute to developing immunological tests to diagnose ME/CFS, and possibly also long COVID, the researchers added.
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Chinese leaders face anger over 2nd child's quarantine death
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- China
Chinese authorities faced more public anger on Thursday after a second child's death was blamed on overzealous anti-virus enforcement, adding to frustration at controls that are confining millions of people to their homes and sparked fights with health workers.
The 4-month-old girl died after suffering vomiting and diarrhea while in quarantine at a hotel in the central city of Zhengzhou, according to news reports and social media posts.
They said it took her father 11 hours to get help after emergency services balked at dealing with them and she finally was sent to a hospital 100 kilometres (60 miles) away.
The death came after the ruling Communist Party promised this month that people in quarantine wouldn't be blocked from getting emergency help following an outcry over a 3-year-old boy's death from carbon monoxide in the northwest.
His father blamed health workers in the city of Lanzhou, who he said tried to stop him from taking his son to a hospital.
Internet users expressed anger at the ruling Communist Party's "zero-COVID" strategy and demanded that officials in Zhengzhou be punished for failing to help the public.
"Once again, someone died because of excessive epidemic prevention measures," one user wrote on the popular Sina Weibo platform. "They put their official post above everything else." The ruling party promised last week to ease quarantine and other restrictions under its "zero-COVID" strategy, which aims to isolate every infected person.
But Chinese leaders are trying to dispel hopes the measures are about to end as other governments ease controls and try to live with the virus.
"Zero-COVID" has kept China's infection numbers lower than those of the United States and other major countries but shuts down neighbourhoods, schools and businesses for weeks at a time. Residents of some areas complain they are left without food and medicine.
A spike in infections over the past two weeks has led officials in areas across China to confine families to their cramped apartments or order people into quarantine if a single case is found in their workplace or neighbourhood.
On Thursday, the government reported 23,276 new cases in areas throughout the country; 20,888 of them with no symptoms.
That included a total of 9,680 in this week's biggest hot spot, the southern business center of Guangzhou, near Hong Kong.
The government is trying to deal with "simple and crude" over-enforcement in response to public complaints, the deputy director of the National Bureau of Disease Control, Shen Hongbing, said at a news conference.
The government has received 130,000 complaints including local officials improperly isolating visitors arriving from low-risk areas, according to Shen.
"We have sorted out the problems reported by the masses," Shen said. He didn't mention the girl's death in Zhengzhou.
Local governments are being given more flexibility in possible preparation for gradual reopening of the country, but a timetable is unclear, said economists Helen Qiao, Benson Wu and Xiaoqing Pi of Bank of America in a report.
They pointed to the major cities of Guangzhou, Chongqing and Shijiazhuang, which all are coping with an uptick in infections.
"Their responses and reopening paths will be useful for other cities to prepare for their reopening," they said.
"No matter what measures they undertake, we do expect a short term shock on the local economic activities.'' Economists and health experts have said "zero-COVID" might stay in place for up to another year because the government needs to vaccinate millions of elderly people before it can lift curbs that keep most foreign visitors out of China.
Videos on social media this week that said they were shot in Guangzhou showed angry residents knocking over barriers set up by white-garbed health workers.
The 1.8 million residents of the city's Haizhu district were confined to their homes last week but some restrictions were lifted Monday.
A total of 1,659 cases were reported in Henan province, another hot spot where Zhengzhou is located.
Access to a Zhengzhou industrial zone that is home to the world's biggest iPhone factory was suspended this month following outbreaks. Apple Inc. said deliveries of its new iPhone 14 model would be delayed.
Last month, thousands of employees walked away from the factory operated by Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group after complaints that coworkers who fell ill received no treatment.
News reports say the ruling party has ordered "grassroots cadres" to take the place of missing workers and Foxconn is offering bonuses to others who stay.
Foxconn has not responded to requests for confirmation or details.
The 4-month-old girl in Zhengzhou and her father were sent into quarantine Saturday, according to news reports and social media.
An account on social media that said it was written by the father, identified as Li Baoliang, said he started calling the emergency hotline at noon on Monday after she suffered vomiting and diarrhea.
It said the hotline responded the girl wasn't sick enough to need emergency care.
The account said health workers at the quarantine site called an ambulance but the crew refused to deal with them because the father tested positive for the virus.
The girl finally arrived at a hospital at 11 pm but died despite efforts to revive her, the account said.
The account attributed to the father complained the emergency hotline acted improperly, nearby hospitals weren't ready to help and the hospital where they ended up failed to provide "timely treatment" and gave him "seriously false" information.
"Epidemic prevention and control people, do you not have a heart?" said another posting on Sina Weibo.
The Zhengzhou city government said the incident was under investigation, according to news reports.
A report on the social media account of news outlet China News Weekly was reposted 11,000 times and received 45,000 "likes,'' according to Sina Weibo.
In the capital, Beijing, access to elite Peking University was suspended on Wednesday.
People who visited a vegetable market in the city's southeast where a case was found were ordered into quarantine in a hotel at their own expense.
Some shopping malls and office buildings have been closed.
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Study: Antibiotic-resistant microbes in the gut make C. difficile more infectious
Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness and, as its name suggests, can be difficult to study and treat. Approximately 1 in 6 patients infected with C. difficile will be reinfected within two months. Yet scientists have not figured out why C. difficileinfection is more difficult to treat in some patients versus others. The human gut is filled with trillions of microbes, and these microbes influence the virulence of various pathogens, but until now, scientists had little understanding of how C. difficile cooperates with the rich collection of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract.
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Clostridioides difficile, often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff, is a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness and, as its name suggests, can be difficult to study and treat. Approximately 1 in 6 patients infected with C. difficile will be reinfected within two months. Yet scientists have not figured out why C. difficileinfection is more difficult to treat in some patients versus others. The human gut is filled with trillions of microbes, and these microbes influence the virulence of various pathogens, but until now, scientists had little understanding of how C. difficile cooperates with the rich collection of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract. In a new study in Nature, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that Enterococcus -- an antibiotic-resistant, opportunistic pathogen -- works together with C. difficile, reshaping and enhancing the metabolic environment in the gut so that C. difficile can thrive.
"When we talk about bacterial infections, we often just think of the pathogen itself, but the 'bystanders' in the gut can have a huge impact on the course of infection," said senior author Joseph P. Zackular, PhD, Investigator and Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This study reveals that the coincidence of two pathogenic organisms -- Enterococcus and C. difficile -- is more than a coincidence; they truly take advantage of each other. Understanding this relationship, as well as other factors that contribute to clinical outcomes of C. difficile infection, is essential for combating this urgent public health challenge." Prior studies have shown that adults infected with C. difficile also have high levels of Enterococcus in their gut and that vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) frequently co-infects patients with C. difficile. However, the effect of Enterococcus on susceptibility to C. difficile infection and clinical outcomes has not been established.
To further define the association between Enterococcus and C. difficile during infection, the researchers analyzed stool samples from 54 pediatric patients infected with C. difficile. Consistent with studies in adults, the researchers found the stool of these patients had high levels of Enterococcus, as well as a positive correlation between enterococcal and C. difficile burdens. Having confirmation that enterococci are highly abundant in the gut of children with a C. difficile infection and that this positively correlates with C. difficile burden, the researchers then validated the mechanism of how these two pathogens work together. Using both in vitro and in vivo experimental models, they found that enterococci increase C. difficilevirulence by enhancing its production of toxins.
Then, using data ranging from transcriptomics to metabolomics -- that is, the study of the RNA transcripts and metabolites related to these pathogens -- the researchers found that enterococcireshape the gut environment, effectively remodeling the house the C. difficile pathogen walks into and making it more conducive for the pathogen to thrive. They found that enterococci use arginine, an amino acid, for energy and that in the process of doing so, the pathogen exports ornithine, another amino acid. Further analysis showed that enterococci modulate levels of arginine and ornithine in the gut during C. difficile infection and that arginine depletion plays a central role in C. difficile virulence. Finally, the researchers explored whether their findings in the lab correlated with findings in human patients. Analyzing the microbiome of children with C. difficile infection and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), they found that these children had high levels of fermentable amino acids, including ornithine. They also observed a positive correlation between C. difficile burdens and ornithine, supporting a key role for this amino acid in C. difficile infection.
"Collectively, these data suggest that enterococci and C. difficile interact during C. difficile infection through metabolic cross-talk to support increased colonization, pathogenesis and persistence in the gut," Dr. Zackular said. "Future research should explore targeting enterococcal metabolism -- and the resulting amino acid landscape in the gut -- as a way of altering the pathogenesis of C. difficile." (ANI)
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COP27 deal still needs "tremendous amount of work" - EU's Timmermans
A tremendous amount of work is needed to turn a draft COP27 text into something all parties can agree on, European Union Climate Policy Chief Frans Timmermans told Reuters on Thursday. "The cover text still needs a tremendous amount of work.
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A tremendous amount of work is needed to turn a draft COP27 text into something all parties can agree on, European Union Climate Policy Chief Frans Timmermans told Reuters on Thursday. "The cover text still needs a tremendous amount of work. We are not in a position to say that this is enough common ground that we could agree upon," he said at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit.
"So, we will continue the discussions and will give our input and hope that we can find this common ground before the end of the COP." The U.N. climate agency earlier published the first draft of a hoped-for final agreement from the summit, repeating many of last year's goals while leaving contentious issues still to be resolved.
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HC upholds man’s life term for kidnapping and murdering child for ransom
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- India
The Delhi High Court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a man for kidnapping a 10-year-old child for ransom and murdering him after getting money, saying the modus operandi adopted by the convict was ''diabolical''.
The high court, after examining the evidence and contention of the parties, said the guilt of appellant Sidharth Jeitley has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecution.
A bench of Justices Mukta Gupta and Anish Dayal said there was clearly a deliberate attempt to mislead the parents of the child and those assisting them to different locations to ensure whoever comes in his way was sufficiently distracted.
The high court dismissed the appeal filed by Jeitley challenging his conviction and life imprisonment awarded by the trial court for the offences of kidnapping for ransom and murder that took place in October 2007. The trial court had also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the convict.
"The modus operandi adopted by the appellant (Jeitley) was clearly diabolical considering that he picked up the child of a known family from the residential society at specific point of time which was known to him and then while demanding ransom murdered the child and pursuant to that misled the parents, ensured that someone would deliver the ransom amount to him, and thereafter disposed of not only the SIM which was being used for ransom but also the mobile handset in/near the Yamuna river," the bench said.
In October 2007, the minor boy's father lodged a complaint at Prashant Vihar Police Station that his son was kidnapped. Initially, the kidnapper demanded Rs 1.5 crore but later the ransom was finalised at Rs 33 lakh.
According to the prosecution, the child was kidnapped by Jeitley, who was known to the victim's family, when he was returning home from school on October 15, 2007.
The child was dropped by the school bus at the gate of the society in Rohini where he was residing. He was kidnapped after he entered the housing comples.
The kidnapper made ransom calls to the child's father and said while he would receive the money in Delhi, the boy will be handed over to the family in Meerut, it had said.
After analysing the call detail records and IMEI numbers of the mobile phone and the recorded conversation, the police arrested the accused from his house in Old Rajinder Nagar and the ransom money was recovered from his bedroom.
The next day, at the instance of the accused, the police recovered the child's body from bushes near a village in Sonipat's Murthal area.
The man challenged the trial court's verdict contending that the entire case was based on circumstantial evidence and the lower court ignored many broken links and unexplained circumstances leading to the order of conviction and sentence.
The high court, however, said, "This court finds that the guilt of the appellant for the murder of the deceased has been proved beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecution. Consequently, this court finds no error in the impugned judgment of conviction and order on sentence by the trial court. The appeal is accordingly dismissed." The high court said it was clear from the evidence on record that the appellant had procured a SIM in someone else's name and used it to make the ransom calls using an imitation voice, kidnapped the child and murdered him the same day on October 15, 2007.
It noted the convict left the child's body along the highway and threw his bag and other belongings at another location.
"He constructively misled the parents of the deceased by stating in his calls that he would be taking the boy to Muzaffarnagar/ Meerut and in fact did misdirect prosecution witness 20 (child's father) to come to Meerut to collect the child, which did not fructify even though he did go to Meerut along with another prosecution witness," the bench said.
The high court also rejected the convict's contention that his wife had been put through a lie detector test, was questioned, and that she had denied having any knowledge of the incident and found not to be lying.
''…. (this) cannot support the case of the prosecution in any manner, for the reason that it would be quite and totally possible that the wife had no knowledge of what her husband the appellant was conspiring to do in order to acquire money from illegal means of kidnapping," it said.
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SC to hear plea of Gautam Navlakha, NIA on Friday in Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case
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- India
The Supreme Court agreed to list for hearing on Friday a fresh plea of activist Gautam Navlakha, who has not been put under house arrest despite the apex court's direction in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on Thursday took note of the submissions of senior lawyer Nitya Ramakrishnan, appearing for Navlakha, that the apex court's November 10 direction to shift him from Navi Mumbai's Taloja prison to house arrest owing to his deteriorating health has not been compiled with so far.
Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, appearing for the NIA, said the accused, instead of giving the address of his house, has given the address of the library-cum-office of the Communist Party and moreover, a separate plea would also be filed during the day. "The Communist Party, in any case, is not a banned organisation," Ramakrishnan said.
The SG said the probe agency was also in the process of filing an application and both the pleas can be listed together.
The CJI suggested that the plea of Navlakha be listed on Friday and the probe agency can mention its application before the bench.
The law officer, referring to some facts of the case, said both the applications needed to be heard together on Friday. The submissions were allowed. On November 15, the top court cleared the hurdle for the release of Navlakha from Navi Mumbai's Taloja prison by waiving the requirement of a solvency certificate for availing the benefit of house arrest. Prior to this, the top court had on November 10 allowed the 70-year-old Navlakha to be placed under house arrest owing to his deteriorating health.
It had said that to avail the facility of house arrest, Navlakha will provide local surety of Rs 2 lakh by November 14. While ordering that Navlakha be placed under house arrest, the bench comprising Justice K M Joseph and Justice Hrishikesh Roy had noted that the activist has been in custody since April 14, 2020, and prima facie there was no reason to reject his medical report. It had said that Navlakha does not have any criminal background except this case and even the Government of India had appointed him as interlocutor to hold talks with Maoists.
Putting a number of conditions, it had also said Navlakha will not be allowed to use a computer and Internet during his house arrest.
''Petitioner will not use a computer, Internet or any other communication device while under house arrest. He will, however, be permitted to use a mobile phone without Internet, provided by police personnel on duty, once a day for 10 minutes in the presence of the police,'' the bench said.
The apex court had also said that Navlakha shall not be allowed to leave Mumbai and he will not attempt, in any manner, to influence witnesses during his house arrest.
Television and newspapers will be allowed, but these cannot be Internet-based, it had said.
It had allowed the Maharashtra Police to search and inspect the residence and said the accommodation would be under surveillance.
Navlakha would not be allowed to leave the house except for walks in the company of police personnel, it said. He would also be permitted to meet his lawyers as per Jail Manual rules and intimate police personnel in case of a medical emergency, the apex court had said.
The activist had appealed to the apex court against the April 26 order of the Bombay High Court dismissing his plea for house arrest over apprehensions of lack of adequate medical and other basic facilities in Taloja jail near Mumbai, where he is lodged.
The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches made at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017, which the police claim triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial on the outskirts of the western Maharashtra city.
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'Fertiliser crunch' needs addressing after Black Sea deal's renewal - U.N. official
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A senior U.N. official involved in the Black Sea grain initiative negotiations on Thursday welcomed an agreement to extend the deal, adding that work needed to continue on easing fertiliser exports.
"The renewal of the Black Sea grain initiative is good news for global food security and for the developing world," Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development said on Twitter, calling it a "beacon of hope".
"Solving the fertilizer crunch must come next," she added, in an apparent reference to Russian demands that the global body help ease Russia's food and fertiliser exports.
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Family of Egyptian-British activist hope to visit him in jail
Relatives of Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah went to his jail outside Cairo on Thursday, hoping to see him for the first time since his protest against conditions in prison drew the attention of world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt.
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Relatives of Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah went to his jail outside Cairo on Thursday, hoping to see him for the first time since his protest against conditions in prison drew the attention of world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt. His family said this week he had broken a hunger strike, which he first launched in April and then escalated at the start of the COP27 climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden raised his case with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during the talks. Family members including his mother, aunt and sister headed to Wadi al-Natrun jail northwest of Cairo for a regular monthly visit on Thursday, the day before his 41st birthday.
"I'm sure we will visit him, there's no issue there," his mother Laila Soueif told Reuters. "It's just a matter of what I will discover when I visit, what state Alaa will be in." An activist and blogger who rose to prominence in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Abd el-Fattah became a symbol for the tens of thousands of Egyptians - from liberals to Islamists - who were swept up in later crackdowns.
In protest against his detention and treatment in prison, Abd el-Fattah began a hunger strike on April 2. He had recently obtained British citizenship, a move his family hoped would help secure his release and draw attention to the plight of other prisoners. In a rare official statement on the case, Egypt's public prosecution said last week his condition was good, shortly after his family reported being told by prison authorities that medical intervention had been carried out to sustain him.
Sisi, who led the military overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2013 after huge national protests against the government, says security and stability are paramount and denies there are political prisoners in Egypt.
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Kuwait executes seven convicted of murder
Kuwait executed seven people convicted of murder and other crimes on Wednesday for the first time since 2017, drawing criticism from the European Commission which said that Kuwait's envoy to the EU in Brussels had been summoned. Three Kuwaiti men and one woman, a Syrian man, a Pakistani man and an Ethiopian woman were executed at the Gulf Arab state's Central Prison, the Public Prosecution said in a statement posted on Twitter.
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Kuwait executed seven people convicted of murder and other crimes on Wednesday for the first time since 2017, drawing criticism from the European Commission which said that Kuwait's envoy to the EU in Brussels had been summoned.
Three Kuwaiti men and one woman, a Syrian man, a Pakistani man and an Ethiopian woman were executed at the Gulf Arab state's Central Prison, the Public Prosecution said in a statement posted on Twitter. "It is regrettable that despite raising this yesterday and having received assurances to the contrary, Kuwait went ahead with 7 executions today," Margaritis Schinas, European Commission vice president for promoting the European way of life, said in statement on Twitter.
Schinas said the European Union strongly opposes the death penalty and that the EU's diplomatic service has summoned Kuwait's ambassador to the EU in Brussels. The executions would be raised in discussions on the Commission's proposal to put Kuwait on the visa free list, Schinas added. Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah al-Sabah, in remarks carried by the state news agency KUNA on Thursday, rejected any interference "from anyone and especially our friends" in Kuwait's internal affairs or judicial process.
"The decisions of our judicial apparatus are independent without any interference from inside or outside Kuwait," KUNA quoted him as saying. Kuwait's Public Prosecution said murder warranted the "strongest punishment of execution" which also acts as a "deterrent" to others.
In January 2017, Kuwait hanged a prince in the ruling Al-Sabah family for premeditated murder alongside six other prisoners, in what appeared to be the first execution of a member of the royal family in the Gulf Arab state. Those executions had been the first in Kuwait since 2013.
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Polls for IOA must go on as per schedule, says SC
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The Supreme Court said on Thursday the election of the office bearers of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) must go ahead as scheduled and it will hear on December 7 the issues relating to the sports body, including the amendments sought to be made to the draft constitution.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Hima Kohli and J B Pardiwala rejected the plea for urgent listing of the case which was sought on the ground that three "minor amendments" to the draft constitution have to be decided prior to the polls.
"Election for the office bearers (of the IOA) is set to begin from December 10. Three minor amendments have taken place in the constitution prepared by former Supreme Court judge Justice L Nageswara Rao. The hearing is needed to hear the issue related to amendments in the constitution," a lawyer said.
The plea was opposed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre and senior advocate Rahul Mehra.
"We will hear it on December 7. The election must go on as per the schedule," the bench said.
The top court has approved holding of IOA elections on December 10 Earlier, it had on Tuesday directed that its orders of October 10 and November 3 on adoption of a new constitution and polling for electing an executive committee of the IOA shall be scrupulously followed.
The law officer had said the IOA constitution, as drafted by the former judge of the top court, has been adopted at the annual general meeting (AGM) of the sports body and any amendments to it can be made only with the express permission of the court.
On November 3, the top court had approved a fresh timeline submitted by the Justice L N Rao committee for the election of the IOA executive panel to be held on December 10.
The top court had also allowed circulation of the draft amended constitution among members of the IOA so it could be adopted at the general body meeting on November 10.
The SC had noted that the judge had interacted with all stakeholders, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the IOA and its state associations.
On September 22, in a bid to ensure a fair and development-oriented approach for the future of Olympics in India, the top court had appointed Justice Rao for amending the IOA constitution and preparing its electoral college.
All these came after the IOC on September 8 issued a ''final warning'' to the IOA to resolve its governance issues and hold elections by December, failing which the world sports body will ban India.
The executive board of the IOC, which met in Lausanne, Switzerland, had also decided not to recognise any ''acting/interim president'' after Narinder Batra's ouster as Indian Olympic Association chief, and said it would deal with secretary general Rajeev Mehta as the main point of contact.
In May this year, Batra was removed as IOA chief after the Delhi High Court struck down the post of 'life member' in Hockey India through which he had contested and won the apex body elections in 2017.
Batra later officially resigned as IOA president.
The IOC had also earlier threatened to suspend the IOA if it failed to conduct its election at the earliest.
The IOA elections were due in December last year but could not be held due to amendments in the poll process.
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WRAPUP 5-Russia launches more missile strikes, fighting rages in east Ukraine
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- Ukraine
Russia launched more missile strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Thursday and its forces pressed attacks in the eastern Donetsk region, reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Kyiv recaptured last week. NATO and Poland concluded that a missile that crashed in Poland on Tuesday, killing two people, was probably a stray fired by Ukraine's air defences. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy contested this view in a rare public disagreement with his Western allies.
As the winter's first snow fell in Kyiv, authorities said they were working hard to restore power nationwide after Russia earlier this week unleashed what Ukraine said was the most intense bombardment of civilian infrastructure of the nine-month war. Explosions were heard again on Thursday morning in several parts of Ukraine, including the southern port of Odesa, the capital Kyiv and the central city of Dnipro, and civilians were urged to take shelter as air raid warnings were issued.
Local officials said two people were killed in a missile attack overnight on the southeastern region of Zaporhizhzhia, three were wounded in an attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv and three were hurt in Odesa. "Missiles are flying over Kyiv right now," Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal as saying at a conference. "Now they are bombing our gas production, they are bombing our enterprises in Dnipro and Yuzhmash (missile factory)."
On a brighter note, Ukraine's infrastructure ministry said agreement had been reached on extending by 120 days a deal that allows for the export of food and fertilisers from Ukraine's Black Sea ports via a protected sea transit corridor. The Black Sea grain initiative, first agreed in July, has helped to alleviate global food shortages and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed Thursday's announcement.
MISSILE BLAST IN POLAND NATO ambassadors held emergency talks on Wednesday to respond to Tuesday's blast at a grain facility in Poland, near the Ukrainian border, the war's first deadly extension into the territory of the Western alliance.
"From the information that we and our allies have, it was an S-300 rocket made in the Soviet Union, an old rocket and there is no evidence that it was launched by the Russian side," Polish President Andrzej Duda said, however. "It is highly probable that it was fired by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defence."
Russia and Ukraine both use the Soviet-era missile. Nevertheless, NATO's chief said Russia, not Ukraine, was still to blame for starting the war with its February invasion and launching scores of missiles on Tuesday that triggered Ukrainian defences.
"This is not Ukraine's fault. Russia bears ultimate responsibility as it continues its illegal war against Ukraine," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels. Stoltenberg also said the missile was likely to have originated from Ukrainian air defence.
Ukraine's Zelenskiy demurred, saying, "I have no doubt that it was not our missile", Ukrainian media said on Wednesday. He said he based his conclusion on reports from Ukraine's military which he "cannot but trust". U.S. President Joe Biden disputed Zelenskiy's assertion that the missile was not Ukrainian in comments to reporters at the White House on Thursday following his return from a trip to Asia. "That's not the evidence," Biden said.
Moscow had denied responsibility, and Russia's Foreign Ministry said the "mayhem" around accusations of Russian involvement in the missile were "part of a systematic anti-Russian campaign by the West". DONETSK FIGHTING
Following the latest wave of Russian missile attacks, Zelenskiy said late on Wednesday that technicians were working nonstop to restore electricity. "We are talking about millions of customers. We are doing everything we can to bring back power. Both generation and supply," he said.
Fighting was heavy in the eastern Donetsk region, including the towns of Pavlivka, Vuhledar, Maryianka and Bakhmut, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in an online video. Ukrainian forces repelled attacks on the Donetsk towns of Avdiivka and Bilohorivka, Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhadnov said in comments posted on YouTube.
Moscow's forces retreated from the southern city of Kherson last week after a Ukrainian counteroffensive. It was the only regional capital Russia had captured since its Feb. 24 invasion, and the pullback was the third major Russian retreat of the war. Investigators in the Kherson region uncovered 63 bodies bearing signs of torture after Russian forces left the area, Ukraine's interior minister was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted the minister, Denys Monastyrsky, as telling national television: "The search has only just started, so many more dungeons and burial places will be uncovered." Russia denies its troops target civilians or have committed atrocities. Mass burial sites have been found in other parts previously occupied by Russian troops, including some with civilian bodies showing signs of torture.
Redeployed Russian forces have also gone on the attack in the southern Zaporizhzhia region as well as in the east, and may also be planning to launch another offensive in Kharkiv in the north, where they were pushed back by Ukraine earlier in the conflict, Arestovych said. Vladimir Rogod, a Russian-installed official in the Russian-controlled part of Zaporizhzhia, said a Ukrainian missile struck a village there, killing two people and wounding nine.
The top U.S. general, Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, played down chances of any outright military victory for Kyiv in the near term, saying Russia still had significant combat power in Ukraine despite setbacks.
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SC reserves judgement on issue of summoning additional accused after pronouncing verdict
In Khairas matter, while the trial was going on against 10 accused in the narcotics case, the prosecution had filed an application for summoning five additional accused, including him.The Supreme Court had in December 2017 stayed the trial court proceedings.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on the issue of whether a lower court has the power to summon additional accused even after having decided a criminal case against the others involved. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice S A Nazeer heard submissions from Additional Solicitor General S V Raju, amicus curiae S Nagamuthu and others on questions of reference.
''Arguments heard, Judgment reserved,'' the bench, also comprising justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna, V Ramasubramanian and B V Nagarathna said. The top court had in 2019 framed three questions of law on the scope and ambit of section 319 (power to proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty of offence) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and referred the matter to a larger bench for adjudication.
The three issues framed by the bench included whether the trial court has the power under section 319 of CrPC for summoning additional accused when the trial with respect to other co-accused has ended and the verdict of conviction rendered on the same date before pronouncing the summoning order.
The apex court, while referring the matter to a larger bench, had said it was of the view that the power under section 319 of CrPC being extraordinary in nature, the trial courts should be cautious while summoning the accused to avoid complexities and to ensure fair trial.
The apex court's decision came while dealing with a plea filed by then Leader of Opposition in the Punjab assembly Sukhpal Singh Khaira challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court order dismissing his plea to quash summons in a 2015 trans-border drug smuggling case.
A court in Fazilka had issued summons to Khaira to appear before it in the case. In Khaira's matter, while the trial was going on against 10 accused in the narcotics case, the prosecution had filed an application for summoning five additional accused, including him.
The Supreme Court had in December 2017 stayed the trial court proceedings.
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PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Caroline Jurevicius
NDCL, senior
A two-time Crown Conference player of the year finished her high school checklist with an elusive state title. The No. 1 opposite hitter in the country, Caroline Jurevicius did a little bit of everything for the Lions as well as a six-rotation player. She led the attack for NDCL with her 445 kills on the season with an average of 4.9 per set, including a career-high 27 in the Division II state title match. Was second on the team in digs with 224 (2.5 per set) while she added 44 blocks (0.5) and 41 aces. Her leadership also helped the Lions through the postseason where they dropped just three sets, two of which were in the state final. The Nebraska signee ended her career also earning first-team All-Ohio.
COACH OF THE YEAR
Kara Oster, Lake Catholic
In her first two years on the job, Oster had led the Cougars to back-to-back state round appearances, compiled a record of 49-8, been named back-to-back Crown Conference coach of the year, was named the Division III coach of the year and won a state championship this year. Lake spent all of the season as the No. 1 team in the state poll and didn’t drop a set in the postseason until the state semifinals. With a large number of her players back for another season, Oster and Lake have a chance to go back-to-back.
FIRST TEAM
(in alphabetical order)
S Annabel Frieden, Sr., Chardon
Finished 18th in the state with a total of 905 assists on the year and averaged 10.4 per set. Also added 244 digs (2.8), 80 kills and 49 aces. Maine Maritime Academy signee.
OH Natalie Glowe, Sr., Kirtland
Led the Kirtland attack with 363 kills (4.4) on the season and finished with more than 1,000 in her career. Also led the team in aces with 54 and was second with 50 blocks (0.6) and digs with 214 (2.6) to earn honorable mention All-Ohio.
L Ava Golem, Sr., Kirtland
Was fourth in the state for digs this season with 628 digs (7.6) to anchor the Hornets’ defense. Was also second on the team with 42 aces. Third-team All-Ohio and a Wittenberg signee.
DS/L Maria Insana, Sr., Kenston
Anchored a very strong back line for the Bombers, led the way with 229 digs (3.1), and had 27 aces.
S Ella Jackson, So., Gilmour
Distributed the ball around to a wide range of Lancers attackers with her 833 assists (8.9) on the season. Was also second on the team with 54 aces and 266 digs (2.8).
L Laney Klika, Sr., Gilmour
Just ahead of Jackson for aces was Klika with her 78 aces on the season while anchoring the defense with 578 digs (6.2) to finish 17th in Ohio. Second-team All-Ohio and Wofford signee.
OH Emma McCartney, Jr., Chardon
Lad the Hilltoppers with 425 kills (4.9) and 327 digs (3.8) this season as a six-rotation player. Also added in 43 aces and 40 blocks (0.5).
OH Madison Miner, So., Perry
Finished atop The News-Herald coverage area with 400 kills (5.0). Was also second for the Pirates with 52 aces and 53 blocks (0.7). She also had 105 digs (1.3).
S Hannah Pattie, Jr., Lake Catholic
Was the top setter in the state with 1,014 assists (11.5) on the season and the 20th player in OHSAA history to reach 1,000 on the season. Also had 195 digs (2.2), 89 kills and 35 aces to earn first-team All-Ohio.
OH Anna Rarick, Sr., Gilmour
Was the leader for a young Gilmour attack, as she recorded 245 kills (3.3). Was also strong on the serve as she recorded 30 aces. Honorable mention All-Ohio.
OH Katie Sowko, Jr., Lake Catholic
Emerged as the lead attacker for the Cougars with her 355 kills (4.1). Was also second on the team with 292 digs (3.4) and had 30 aces as she developed into a six-rotation player and was second-team All-Ohio.
MH Natalie Zemba, Sr., Chardon
A strong force in the middle as she racked up 106 blocks (1.2) this season. Turned a lot of those into kills as she had 205 (2.4) and led the Hilltoppers with 54 aces.
SECOND TEAM
(in alphabetical order)
MH Emma Blankenship, Jr., NDCL: Led the Lions in blocks with 80 (0.9) and was clutch during the state round. Also led the Lions with 54 aces and had 142 kills (1.5).
L Emma Briganti, Sr., Lake Catholic: Anchored a veteran defensive group with 382 digs (4.3). Also led the Cougars with 57 aces.
MB Kayla Channell, So., Gilmour: A strong middle for the Lancers, Channell recorded 242 kills (2.8) to go with 63 blocks (0.7).
OH Kaitlyn Danszczak, Sr., West Geauga: Led the Wolverines with 236 kills (3.5) and was second in digs with 152 (2.3). Was also second in aces with 27. Slippery Rock signee.
OH Marlie Davis, So., Gilmour: Found her swing as the season went and finished with 285 kills (3.3) to lead the Lancers. Also had 38 aces and 228 digs (2.6), both third on the team.
L Skylar Ehrhardt, Sr., Cardinal: Finished 23rd in the state with 510 digs (6.1) on the season. Also had 26 aces.
S Sam Hartman, Jr., Mentor: Led the Cardinals with 351 assists (4.4) and set the aces in a career record, currently at 146. Also had 182 digs (2.3). Honorable mention All-Ohio.
S Courtney Johnson, So., Riverside: In her first varsity season, had 702 assists (8.6) with a variety of Beavers attackers. Added in 161 digs (2.0) as well as 21 aces.
OH/S Emily Monachino, So., Hawken: Did it all for the Hawks, as she led them with 207 kills (3.2) and 44 aces. Finished second with 170 assists (2.6), 169 digs (2.6) and was third in blocks with 30 (0.5).
MH Holly Nadinic, Sr., Perry: Her 130 blocks (1.6) led the area. Also had 143 kills (1.8) which was third on the team.
S Katie Reynolds, Jr., Kirtland: Finished with 628 assists (8.5) this season for the Hornets. Also had 37 aces.
RS Madeline Smetana, Jr., Berkshire: Led the Badgers with 286 kills (3.6) and was second with 238 digs (3.0) as well. Added in 40 aces and 39 blocks (0.5).
THIRD TEAM
(in alphabetical order)
S Jaiden Anderson, Jr., North: A strong showing with 528 assists (7.5) to go with 205 digs (2.9). Also had 40 aces.
OH Natalya Bergant, So., Lake Catholic: Finished second on the team with 237 kills (2.7). Was also strong on the block with 48.
L Samanthan Cantrell, Jr., North: Led North with 318 digs (4.5) for a strong defensive group. Also had 22 aces.
OH Jillian Gdovin, Jr., Mayfield: Led the Wildcats with 253 kills (3.8) and 28 aces. Was second with 37 blocks (0.6) and third with 101 digs (1.5).
DS/L Brianna Herman, Sr., Riverside: Led the Beavers’ defense with 350 digs (4.2) and had 16 aces.
OH/RS Lauren Janosy, Sr., NDCL: The second-leading attacker for NDCL, as she recorded 166 kills (1.9). Honorable mention All-Ohio.
MH Kylie Maxwell, Sr., Mentor: Had 61 blocks (0.9) along with 172 kills (2.4), both of which led the Cardinals. Lake Erie signee.
DS Sophia Morano, Sr., NDCL: Guided the Lions defensive half with 313 digs (4.4). Anchored the D-II state title run.
OH Riley Rosneck, Jr., Kenston: Was the leading attacker with 234 kills (3.3). Also had 35 blocks.
L Mikaela Sandstrom, Sr., Fairport: Recorded 562 digs (8.6) which put her 11th in the state. Also had 42 aces.
OH Skylar Toth, Jr., Chardon: Racked up 257 kills (3.0) and 290 digs (3.3), which were second and third for the Hilltoppers.
L Kearsten Woleben, Sr., Madison: Finished with 355 digs (4.7) for the Blue Streaks. Also had 22 aces.
HONOR ROLL
Andrews Osborne: Lucia Palmiero; Beachwood: Sepanta Entezari; Beaumont: Delia Miklowski, Aria Payne; Berkshire: Marissa Rish, Sierra Berman; Brush: Niyah Lester; Cardinal: Ali Purucky; Chagrin Falls: Grace Svette, Kendall Guddy; Chardon: Grace Legan; Cornerstone: Tamarra Talbert, Gabby Colquitt; Euclid: Jameecia Johnson, Tatiana Maddox; Fairport: Madisen McFadden; Geneva: Alex Nugent, Brooke Richmond, Sydney Park; Gilmour: D’Aria Whitner; Harvey: Jada Coffee, Faith Overbey; Hawken: Olivia Myers, Zoey Cosgrove; Kenston: Janie Kerchenski, Emma Brownfield; Kirtland: Marissa Carmosino; Lake Catholic: Kyra Walnsch, Mia Slogar; Madison: Jadeyn Zepeda; Mayfield: Chloe Gerbasi, Jada Colvin; Mentor: Gwyneth Gil, Jessi Kerul; North: Madison Jablonski; NDCL: Caitlyn Cvitkovic; Perry: Kayla D’Astolfo, Sarah Heffernan; Richmond Heights: JaShaunna Shaw; Riverside: Hannah Creveling, Samantha Volpe; South: Chloe Costello; VASJ: Nikiya Schady; West Geauga: Malory Lear, Grace Laster; Wickliffe: Sophia Veri
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J-K govt cancels land allotment of 586 units for failing to respond
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- India
Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday issues final notices for cancellation of land allotment to 586 entities which failed to set up units under the much-touted 'new industrial development scheme. Notices have been issued as these units failed to deposit the land premium and execute lease deed, according to a top official. The step has been taken to provide opportunity to others in the long queue.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration in January 2021 announced a new industrial development scheme (IDS) with a total outlay of Rs 28,400 crore to encourage new investment and take industrial development to the block level.
Approved by the Government of India, the new IDS for was not only meant for ushering in an era of socio-economic development of the region, but also take development to the block level and far-flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir.
The final notice was issued by Jammu & Kashmir State Industrial Development Corporation (SIDCO) Managing Director Smita Sethi on Thursday. These allotted units include 462 in Kashmir valley and 124 in Jammu region.These units were granted 500 to 600 acres of land in dozens of industrial estates set up by J&K government.
Of these 423 units were given allotment of lands by J&K Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Limited (SICOP) and 163 by SIDCO.
''As per record 586 allottees (of Industrial units) have not given any response and are liable for cancellation in terms of Jammu & Kashmir Industrial Land Allotment Policy 2021-30 despite repeated notices'', Sethi said in final and show-cause notice for cancellation of the allotment order.
The notice further said that as per the directions of administrative department of Industries and Commerce on November 4, 2022, a final notice of 15 days is being served to all the (389) allottees from the date of issuance of this notice, who did not respond to earlier notices, to deposit the payment and complete formalities.
''Failing which it shall be presumed that they have nothing to say in their defence and the allotment order shall be deemed to have been cancelled or withdrawn ab-initio, if no convincing response is received during this period'', Sethi said.
She further said that in accordance procedural guideline to the Jammu & Kashmir industrial land allotment policy, 30 days notice was served upon the unit holders, who failed to deposit the payment and complete the requisite formalities.
''Additionally a show cause notice of seven days and final notice of five days was also served through email. They again failed to deposit the due amount and complete the necessary formalities'', MD said.
''There are 4500 applications in queue for grant of allotment in setting up units in J&K. If they don't respond, there are others in the queue'', Sethi told PTI.
These units are bringing an investment of over Rs 3,000 crores and generating a job market of 7,000.
As per the notice SIDCO and SICOP issued land allotments or letter of intent (LOIs) in terms of Industrial Policy 2021-30 in compliance to the approval accorded by high level land allotment committee in its first meeting held on July 1, 2021 & December 30, 2021.
As per terms and conditions of allotment orders, the allottees were required to deposit the land premium, execute lease deed and complete other formalities within 60 days time frame from the date of issuance of said allotment order. However some unit holders have failed to deposit the due amount & complete the necessary formalities within the stipulated time period, Sethi said.
Jammu & Kashmir Land Allotment Policy, 2021-30 provides land allotment process and envisages that in case of non-execution of lease deed, including non-payment of payable premium, even after the expiry of notice period, the land allotment shall be cancelled by the concerned industrial development corporation immediately, she said.
As per the procedural guidelines, allotment policy provide that in case of failure on the part of allottees to make total payment towards premium within stipulated time from the date of allotment letter, violation of any condition of the lease deed, failure to come into production within stipulated time, among others, the concerned estates officer shall immediately take necessary action for determination of the lease deed and eviction of the allottees under the said act and rules made there under.
Jammu and Kashmir has received investment proposals worth Rs 31,000 crore and has notified a new central sector scheme worth Rs 28,400 crore which is likely to provide employment to over 4.5 lakh people, the Rajya Sabha was informed in December last year.
MoS Home Nityanand Rai said that the government has received investment proposals worth approximately Rs 31,000 crore.
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Two more suspected shooters arrested in Dera follower murder case
Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda follower Pardeep Singh, an accused in the 2015 Bargari sacrilege case, was shot dead by six assailants in his shop at Kotkapura in Faridkot on November 10. Yadav further said, Faridkot Police have arrested Baljit Manna for providing logistics to 3 Haryana-based shooters. The DGP said Canada-based gangster Golgy Brar was the mastermind in the murder of the Dera follower.
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Two more suspected shooters involved in the killing of a Dera Sacha Sauda follower have been arrested, Punjab Police said on Thursday. Another person was also arrested for his alleged involvement in providing logistics to the three shooters from Haryana, they said. Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda follower Pardeep Singh, an accused in the 2015 Bargari sacrilege case, was shot dead by six assailants in his shop at Kotkapura in Faridkot on November 10. Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said two shooters identified as Manpreet alias Mani and Bhupinder alias Goldy have been arrested from Hoshiarpur in the murder case of Pardeep. ''In the targeted killing of Pardeep Singh on 10 Nov in #Kotkapura, CI Jalandhar, @PP_Hoshiarpur & @FaridkotPolice arrested 2 shooters from #Hoshiarpur in joint operation:Manpreet@ Mani & Bhupinder@ Goldy,'' said Yadav in a tweet. Yadav further said, ''#Faridkot Police have arrested Baljit @ Manna for providing logistics to 3 #Haryana-based shooters.'' The DGP said Canada-based gangster Golgy Brar was the mastermind in the murder of the Dera follower. ''#Canada-based Gangster Goldy Brar is the mastermind of this conspiracy,'' he said. Earlier, three suspected shooters were nabbed within hours of the murder from Patiala by the special cell of the Delhi police. One of the suspects was identified as Jitender while two others were minors. While four shooters were from Haryana, two were from Punjab, police said. Despite Punjab Police protection, Pardeep was killed by six assailants in his dairy shop in Kotkapura in Faridkot. His security man and another person had sustained bullet injuries in the incident. Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar had then claimed responsibility for the killing in a purported social media post. Brar is the main accused in the murder case of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, who was shot dead in May.
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Daily Devotional: The greater miracle
"And all ate and were filled, and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children." — Matthew 14: 20-21
There is an ongoing argument about the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. Many adamantly declare that Jesus performed a miracle, a God-sign, and in a way that is beyond our understanding, multiplied a few fish and some bread to feed 5,000 with the leftovers.
Others, less inclined to the supernatural, take the “Stone Soup” approach. They believe that as Christ began to share what little was available, the hearts of the people were changed and warmed. The food they had been hoarding, they now shared and there was an abundance.
Me? I have zero problems with the miraculous, having been brought up in an age of human-designed miracles. The idea that God can do things outside my understanding is easy for me.
But in my later years, I’ve come to know that the greatest miracle is the changing of hearts. Especially my own.
Prayer: Lord, this Season of Thankfulness, open my heart to the needs around me, and change my heart where there’s room for growth.
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Hong Kong leader John Lee has arrived at a regional economic summit in Bangkok in the first appearance by the city’s chief executive at an international event in nearly three years – as the Asian financial hub angles for a comeback.
Lee, a US-sanctioned official who has guided Hong Kong through a recent, significant easing of its Covid-19 controls, is expected to use the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting to pitch the city as open for business, following more than two years of stringent international border controls.
“We will walk the talk and tell Hong Kong’s good stories in order to attract enterprises and talents to the city for business and development,” Lee said after arriving in Bangkok on Thursday, referring to his plan to lead a Hong Kong business delegation in meetings with Thai counterparts following the summit.
But first, Lee will join Chinese leader Xi Jinping and representatives from 19 other economies on both sides of the Pacific for the two-day APEC leaders’ meeting in the Thai capital, which begins Friday and will focus on regional trade and integration, as well as addressing global economic threats like inflation and rising food costs.
Lee held a pull-aside meeting with Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at Bangkok’s international airport after arriving Thursday afternoon. Lee was also at the airport to greet Xi on his arrival, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.
For Lee, who took office in July, the summit offers a chance to try and win back the approval of the international business community after three years that have transformed the city. Prior to the pandemic, the former British colony was rocked by large-scale pro-democracy protests in 2019, which were followed by a sweeping Beijing-backed crackdown on civil society and opposition politicians.
Lee was sanctioned by the US in 2020 for his role in “restricting the freedom of expression or assembly of the citizens of Hong Kong,” as part of the former US President Donald Trump administration’s response to Beijing’s imposition of restrictive national security legislation in the city. At the time, Lee was the city’s Secretary for Security. The city’s then Chief Executive Carrie Lam was also sanctioned.
While US President Joe Biden will not attend APEC, Lee will find himself in the company of Vice President Kamala Harris and other US officials.
But Lee’s focus will be economics not politics, as the Hong Kong government seeks to revive a flagging economy that’s only recently seen a significant easing of Covid-19 controls.
In September, city officials announced they would end a system of formal Covid-19 quarantine for international travelers that at one point required arrivals to spend as many as three weeks in a designated hotel at their own expense.
The changes followed considerable pressure from the Hong Kong business community and some public health officials to loosen restrictions amid a faltering economy, an outflow of foreigners and concerns that the financial hub, once known as “Asia’s World City,” was being left behind as the rest of the world moved on from the pandemic.
This marked a departure from policy in mainland China, which continues to mandate border quarantine and pursue a policy of stamping out all infections.
Hong Kong, instead, has sought to balance limiting the spread of the virus with opening up for international events, including earlier this month hosting a financial leaders’ summit and the Hong Kong Sevens, its biggest annual sporting event, which had been suspended since 2019 due to political unrest, and, later, Covid-19.
“We’re working on specific and dedicated plans to ensure major events and economic activities can be held smoothly, to open up Hong Kong, to bring a world of business back to Hong Kong as quickly and as safely as we can,” Lee said at a Hong Kong-based health summit last week, according to public broadcaster RTHK.
Lee will have bilateral meetings on the sidelines of APEC and also lead a delegation of more than 20 high-level representatives from different sectors to visit corporations and meet business leaders with the aim of “strengthening Hong Kong’s connections as well as economic and trade exchanges with Thailand,” the government said ahead of the trip. | https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/asia/john-lee-apec-hong-kong-recovery-intl-hnk/index.html | 2022-11-17T11:07:14 | en | 0.973514 |
Parents shopping for their kids this holiday season need to be alert and carefully examine toys before they buy them because recalled and counterfeit toys are being sold online, a consumer report said Thursday.
The 37th annual “Trouble in Toyland” toy safety report by Washington-based US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) warned parents to be especially mindful of this hidden danger.
PIRG said that in October it was able to buy more than 30 recalled toys from several US-based online sellers, noting that it is illegal for retailers and online marketplaces to sell toys that have been recalled.
The report also said counterfeit toys that don’t necessarily meet mandatory US safety standards continue to be sold in stores and online.
The group was able to buy close to a dozen different types of toys that had been recalled — for reasons that ranged from choking hazards to laceration risk to potential poisoning — from sellers on Facebook Marketplace and eBay, as well as several online toy shops.
The toys included stuffed animals, action figures, activity balls for infants, musical toys, bath toys and a toddler’s riding toy, and a majority of them were bought new in the original packaging or new with tags.
“None of the other sellers flagged, stopped or sent a warning about any of our other purchases of recalled toys,” the report said.
The recalled toys that PIRG said it was able to purchase online included:
– DigitDots 3mm and 5mm Magnetic Balls from HD Premier: These were recalled in March 2022 for injury to the digestive system if two or more magnets are swallowed.
– Kidoozie Play Tents and Playhouses by Epoch Everlasting Play: These were recalled in July 2022 because the fabric playhouses and play tents fail to meet industry flammability standards.
– Forky 11” Plush Toys from Pixar’s Toy Story: The toy was recalled in July 2019 because the googly plastic eyes on the toy can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.
– Early Learning Centre Little Senses Lights & Sounds Shape Sorter Toys from Addo Play: The toy set was recalled in October 2022 because the red cube can come apart and release a small white ball, posing a choking hazard.
– 6-inch Aflac plush promotional ducks from Communicorp: The plush ducks were recalled in June 2022 because components contain excessive levels of toxic phthalates, which are dangerous because they can negatively impact brain and physical development in young children. The recall covered a variety of the plush duck characters, including Accident Duck, Business Duck, Fishing Duck, Police Duck, PGA Duck, One Day Pay Duck, Heisman Duck and Lifeguard Duck.
– Blue’s Clues Foot to Floor Ride-on Toys from Huffy Corp: The toy was recalled in August 2022 because the ride-on toy can tip forward when a young child is riding it, posing fall and injury hazards.
When the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and a toy manufacturer announce a recall, that means the toy must immediately be removed from store shelves and online marketplaces. Federal law prohibits the sale of products subject to a recall ordered by the CPSC or a voluntary recall by the company in consultation by the CPSC, the report said.
PIRG offered this advice regarding the best way to avoid counterfeit toys: If the only place to buy a popular, hard-to-find toy is a website you’ve never heard of or that looks sketchy, there may be a reason for that.
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More than 2,000 employees at 112 Starbucks locations are set to go on a one-day strike Thursday, according to the union which has been organizing stores for the last year.
The union says it is striking to protest the retaliation taken against union supporters nationwide. It is also protesting what it characterizes as the company’s refusal to bargain with the union on a first labor deal. There are 264 stores that have voted in favor of union representation. But no contracts have yet been negotiated even at stores which voted nearly a year ago.
“This is to show them we’re not playing around,” said Tyler Keeling, a 26-year old union supporter who has worked at a Starbucks in Lakewood, California — near Los Angeles — for the last six years. “We’re done with the their anti-union retaliation and them walking away from bargaining.”
Keeling and other union supporters say that it was up to each individual store as to whether or not to participate in the nationwide strike. Many stores have staged brief strikes already over specific issues. But this is the first nationwide action.
“There’s a lot of fear before a store decides to go on strike,” said Michelle Eisen, an organizer of the first Starbucks store to vote in favor of the union last December. “Starbucks has been retaliating against union leaders across the country. But despite that fear, over 2,000 workers across the country are striking today and standing up for one another.”
When Keeling’s store staged a one-day strike in August, Starbucks (SBUX) workers from nearby non-union stores joined the picket line, he said, and some customers brought food and drinks to the strikers.
It’s not clear how many of the stores affected by Thursday’s action will be able to stay open during the strike.
The protest comes on “Red Cup” day at Starbucks, when it gives out reusable holiday cups with certain drink purchases that entitle customers to discounts and extra bonus points on future purchases.
“Culturally Red Cup Day is an important day at Starbucks. People do go crazy over it,” said Keeling. He said holding the strike on a day that has such a heavy volume of customers is a great way call attention to anti-union activities.
The union is calling its strike a “Red Cup Rebellion” and is handing out red Starbucks Workers United union cups to customers instead.
The company was not immediately available for comment on the strike early Thursday. In the past it has denied it has retaliated against any employee for their support of the union, and it has blamed the union for lack of progress at the negotiating table. Starbucks has defended the firings of union supporters that have taken place as proper enforcement of rules that apply to all of its employees, who it refers to as “partners.”
“Interest in a union does not exempt partners from following policies and procedures that apply to all partners,” Starbucks said in an earlier statement.
But this week, the National Labor Relations Board — which oversees union representation votes — filed in federal court for a national cease and desist order to prevent Starbucks from retaliating against union supporters.
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Editor’s Note: Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of “Practical Solutions for Back Pain Relief.”
For many people, travel is a necessary part of celebrating the holidays with loved ones. This means enduring all the stressful hiccups that can come with traveling and spending time away from the comforts of your own home.
Every year, my family kicks off the season by watching the classic comedy “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” starring Steve Martin and the late John Candy. In it, the two men are strangers who end up stuck together, dealing with a comically inordinate number of travel-related issues while trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
There’s a good chance your holiday travel won’t get as complicated as Martin’s and Candy’s, but you may face delays, diversions and many hours of sitting that can take a toll on you mentally and physically. So, whether you’re driving to Grandma’s for Thanksgiving or flying to see family in another country, try the five tips below to reduce stress and tension so you can enjoy the holidays.
Take control of your posture and breathing
When you sit for long periods while traveling, your posture often suffers. Given the intimate relationship of your breathing pattern and your posture, slumping while seated leads to shallow, rapid breathing, which incites your body’s stress response. It’s a vicious cycle that increases physical and mental tension.
That’s why it’s important to take control of your breathing at least once an hour while traveling to help restore your posture and cultivate a sense of calm. Taking just five or six long, deep breaths while focusing on getting your low ribs to move as demonstrated in this video can make a big difference!
Just 90 seconds of deep breathing elicits a relaxation response that decreases your heart rate, blood pressure and stress hormone production, according to research.
Drink enough nonalcoholic fluids
Those muscle cramps and achy joints you experience on the road may have a lot to do with your fluid intake. Considering that our bodies are mostly water, hydration is important for proper joint lubrication and circulation. But your hydration level doesn’t just affect you physically. When you’re dehydrated, it increases your body’s cortisol (primary stress hormone) levels, which can lead to feelings of anxiety, exhaustion and overall irritability.
Your access to drinking water may be limited while traveling, so it’s important to plan ahead. You can’t bring bottled water through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, and no one likes to pay the exorbitant prices for bottles of water at the airport. Thankfully, most airports have filtered water stations to refill bottles for free. So pack a reusable water bottle and, if you’re driving, don’t forget to bring a cooler with water.
Even when you aren’t traveling, the holidays make it easy to become dehydrated. With all the festivities, we often forget to drink as much water as normal, especially when cocktails are flowing. But alcoholic beverages are no substitute for water because they’re dehydrating.
Alcohol suppresses natural production of the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin, which keeps us from urinating too much. Without it, we find ourselves in the bathroom more often. Counter the dehydrating impact of alcohol by drinking one glass of water for every cocktail.
Stand and walk every opportunity you can
Studies abound regarding the health dangers of prolonged sitting, yet few people seem to make an effort to avoid it while traveling. Looking around the airport, you’ll find most everyone sitting at the gate waiting to get on their plane, where they will inevitably remain seated for at least a couple of hours or more.
Break up bouts of sitting by taking advantage of opportunities to stand and walk around whenever possible. At the airport, take a walk around your terminal. Some airports even have yoga rooms with public access. When traveling by car, find a park or even a mall on your route where you can get out and take a 10-minute walk.
Stretch out the tension
Lots of sitting during travel also means compressed side waist muscles, overused hip flexors and tight low-back muscles. If you want to be more comfortable and avoid pain when traveling, you need to stretch out those muscles whenever possible.
My go-to travel stretch is the warrior hip flexor release.
Here’s how to do it:
Stand to the right of a wall, chair or other stable surface. Place your left hand on it for support.
Step your right foot back into a short lunge position, dropping your back heel and pointing your toes out slightly, as shown.
Bend your front knee to align above your ankle, while your back leg remains straight.
Inhale as you lift your right arm up and over your head.
Exhale as you side bend to the left, feeling your left lower ribs rotate inward.
Avoid arching your lower back.
Hold for three long, deep breaths. Repeat on the other side.
Check out the video at the top of this story for more exercises to combat the negative impact of sitting.
Take recovery seriously
You might be so relieved to get to your destination that you think plopping down in a comfy chair is all you need. But it’s even more beneficial to get your legs up above your heart, which promotes venous blood flow and helps reduce lower-body swelling.
A great way to accomplish this is with the popular restorative yoga pose known as “legs up the wall.” You can do this on the floor with your straight legs up the wall or with your knees bent and calves resting on a chair seat. If you don’t want to lie on the floor, you can lay backward on your bed and put your legs up the headboard. Feel free to place a pillow or folded blanket under your head.
Once in the position, stay there a few minutes, taking some long, deep relaxing breaths.
In addition to changing your relationship with gravity to relieve tension, it’s important to get enough sleep. This is especially true if you have traveled to a different time zone. Work in naps, if necessary, to make up for any sleep deficits that could negatively affect your health and wellness.
Despite all the joys the holidays bring, it’s important not to overlook the ways seasonal trips can inadvertently drag you down. Using the five tips above will help keep travel tension at bay and your holiday spirits high.
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Turkey's Erdogan says he believes neither Russia, nor U.S. will use nuclear weapons
Threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine war have fueled worries about escalation.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he was informed following the U.S. - Russia talks held earlier this week in Ankara that neither party would use nuclear weapons, according a readout of his comments to reporters.
In remarks Erdogan made on the way back from the G20 Summit, Erdogan said the two countries should meet frequently so that a new world war could be prevented.
Ties between Washington and Moscow have fallen to their worst in decades since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February. Threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine war have fueled worries about escalation.
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Alabama plans to execute on Thursday an inmate whose jury’s 11-1 vote for a life sentence was overridden by the trial judge who opted instead for the death penalty, a practice the state has since repealed.
Kenneth Smith, convicted of capital murder for his role in the 1988 killing of Elizabeth Sennett, should not be executed, his attorneys argued in a filing before the US Supreme Court. If he was tried today and his jury came to the same conclusion, they said, Smith would not be qualified for execution – not in Alabama or anywhere else, because no jurisdiction today allows the practice of judicial override.
Putting Smith to death despite the jury’s verdict, they say, would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, violating his constitutional protection under the Eighth Amendment.
Smith is one of four death row inmates set to be executed this week. Stephen Barbee in Texas and Murray Hooper in Arizona were both executed Wednesday, while Smith and Richard Fairchild in Oklahoma are scheduled for execution on Thursday.
Smith’s slated execution comes as juries’ sentencing recommendations in death penalty cases are in the national spotlight. A jury failed to issue a unanimous recommendation in the sentencing trial of the Parkland school shooter, resulting in a life sentence.
Alabama became the last US state in 2017 to repeal judicial override, which allowed judges to disregard a jury’s decision for either life or death in capital cases and impose the alternative sentence. The new law, however, was not retroactive, and inmates like Smith, whose juries rendered what was then an “advisory” verdict for life, remain on death row.
While the practice was previously allowed in three other states – Indiana, Florida and Delaware – Alabama judges routinely overrode juries’ votes for life, per a 2011 report by the Equal Justice Initiative. At the time, judicial override accounted for about 20% of the death sentences among the state’s death row inmates, the report said.
The Supreme Court has visited the issue of judicial override in Alabama since it was repealed. In 2020, the court denied the petition of another inmate, Calvin McMillan, who argued for his death sentence to be vacated, saying it was unconstitutional since his jury had voted for life.
The murder of Elizabeth Sennett
Smith was convicted of capital murder in 1996, court documents show, for his role in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Sennett, the wife of a local minister who was having an affair and had taken an insurance policy out on his wife so he could pay off his debts.
Sennett’s husband, Charles Sennett, recruited an individual to kill his wife, court records state. That man then recruited two others, one of whom was Smith, and Sennett agreed to pay each $1,000 to kill his wife and make it look like she was killed in a burglary.
In March 1988, the men carried out the killing as planned, and Smith took from the Sennett home a video cassette recorder, which he stored in his own residence.
Charles Sennett killed himself a week after his wife’s murder, the records state, as the investigation began to focus on him. But Smith was arrested after authorities, having received an anonymous tip, executed a search warrant at his home and found the Sennett’s VCR.
He was convicted and sentenced to death, but an appeals court overturned that initial outcome and ordered a new trial, finding the state had based peremptory challenges to prospective jurors on their race.
Smith was again convicted in the retrial. But the jury was apparently swayed during the penalty phase, which takes place after the guilt phase in trials for capital crimes. During the penalty phase, prosecutors and defense attorneys traditionally argue over aggravating and mitigating circumstances – reasons why they say the defendant should be executed or put to death.
This time, the jury voted 11-1 for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after, his attorneys write, hearing evidence about Smith’s “character and life circumstances.”
The judge, however, felt that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating circumstances, Smith’s attorneys write, and overrode the jury’s vote, sentencing Smith to death.
The fall of judicial override
Judicial override was intended to allow judges to essentially serve as a check on juries, preventing them from handing down death sentences in arbitrary or discriminatory ways, attorneys for the Innocence Project wrote in a 2020 brief at the Supreme Court in support of McMillan’s case.
Florida, Delaware and Indiana outlined specific standards for when a judge could override a jury’s vote for life, they wrote. In Florida and Delaware, for example, the facts supporting a death sentence needed to be so convincing that no “reasonable person” would disagree.
As a result, judicial override to impose a death sentence rarely took place – or a large bulk of the cases where it was used were later overturned. Additionally, Florida, Delaware and Indiana judges frequently used it to impose life sentences where juries had decided on death.
Alabama instituted no such safeguards, the attorneys’ brief says, and judges there were required only to “consider” the jury’s verdict.
The state did away with the practice in 2017 by amending the law to specify that juries’ verdicts were no longer “advisory” but final.
“You are entitled to a trial of a jury of your peers, and that ought to apply to sentencing too,” state Sen. Dick Brewbaker, who sponsored the bill, told CNN affiliate WSFA in February 2017, before the passage of his bill.
“One of the most important things about our democracy is our laws are derived from the common law,” Brewbaker, a Republican, said. “That’s why a crime of violence is a crime against a community. That’s why we have a trial in the community. That’s why we pick a jury of the community and they decide guilt, innocence, and punishment.” | https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/us/kenneth-smith-alabama-execution/index.html | 2022-11-17T11:07:21 | en | 0.980548 |
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Company tasked with renovating Morbi bridge reopened it in without informing municipality, sans approval: Civic body tells HC
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The Morbi municipality has told the Gujarat High Court that the company tasked with renovating the bridge, which collapsed killing 135 people, reopened it without any prior approval and without informing the civic body about the repair work carried out.
In an affidavit submitted to the HC on Wednesday, the municipality also formed that condition 4 of the March 8, 2022 agreement (between the civic body and the company) said ''it is for Ajanta (OREVA Group) to appropriately renovate and it is only thereafter that they would open it (the bridge) for the public at large, which would take minimum 8 to 12 months from the date of the agreement.'' The civic body submitted the affidavit before a division bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh Shastri which is hearing a suo motu (on its own) case on the collapse of the bridge.
The British-era suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Morbi town collapsed on October 30, five days after it was reopened following renovation, killing 135 people.
The HC had sought to know the reasons for allowing Ajanta Manufacturing Private Ltd (OREVA Group) to use the bridge despite there being no approval for utilisation.
The Ahmedabad-based Oreva group had been maintaining and managing the ill-fated suspension bridge The Morbi municipality in its affidavit said as per a condition in a new agreement made on March 8, 2022 between the civic body and Ajanta Manufacturing, the latter was required to ''appropriately renovate'' the bridge before opening it for the public at large.
Even when the 2007 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Rajkot collector (when Morbi was part of Rajkot) and the company had expired on August 15, 2017, the suspension bridge continued to be maintained and managed by the company, ''in the absence of there being any new agreement,'' till it was closed for repair on March 8, 2022 when the new agreement was signed, the civic body said.
The company had started reminding the civic body of renewing the terms since January 2020 when it said it would ''completely close down the suspension bridge from January 26, 2020 and thereafter, the company would not be responsible for any unfortunate accident with reference to the said suspension bridge,'' the affidavit stated.
The bridge continued to remain in operation and on December 29, 2021, the company informed the then chief officer of Morbi municipality that the condition of the suspension bridge was ''critical,'' while requesting it to take a decision on the renewal of the 2007 MoU which expired way back in 2017, the affidavit said.
''On October 26, 2022, without any prior approval, the company reopened the suspension bridge for the public at large and that too without informing the Morbi Nagarpalika know about the kind of repairing work which was stated to have been carried out by the company, as well as without providing any independent third party certificate/s relating to material testing, structure fitness, holding capacity and its stability,'' the affidavit said. While continuing to manage the bridge despite the expiry of the MoU terms on August 16, 2017, the company had flagged the issue of its condition, the civic body said.
In a communication dated January 9, 2020, the company intimated the authority that they would completely close down the suspension bridge from January 26, 2020 and thereafter, ''the company would not be responsible for any unfortunate accident with reference to the said suspension bridge,'' it said.
The company also expressed its readiness to continue to manage the bridge and wrote to the Morbi collector on five occasions that it would ''not start the permanent repairing work of the suspension bridge'' unless the agreement is executed, the civic body said.
''On December 29, 2021, the company informed the Chief Officer of Nagarpalika, that the condition of the suspension bridge is critical and hence, request was made to take a decision at the earliest,'' stated the affidavit.
The Morbi municipality's then Chief Officer S V Jhala executed an agreement dated March 8, 2022 with the company, entrusting them ''the entire management of the suspension bridge for a period of 15 years,'' it said.
On October 30, 2022, due to the Diwali holidays, the company had issued tickets to many visitors during the day. Out of them, about 300 people were reportedly allowed by ticket window operators and security personnel of the company to visit the said bridge around 6.30 pm from both the ends, it added.
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The suspected gunman in Sunday’s shooting at the University of Virginia – killing three students and wounding two others – legally purchased firearms on two separate occasions after being prevented from doing so years earlier, according to the gun shop that made the sales.
Suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., 22, attempted to buy a firearm in 2018 and 2021, but neither of the sales or transfers were completed, Dance’s Sporting Goods owner Marlon Dance told CNN.
Jones was under the legal purchasing age of 21 to buy a handgun in 2018 and failed a background check trying to buy a rifle in 2021 due to a pending criminal charge. “Jones DID NOT receive either of the firearms he attempted to purchase, and both attempted purchases were forwarded to the Virginia State Police for further action,” Dance said in a statement.
The suspect was able to purchase a rifle in February and a 9mm pistol in July, according to the statement, and there was “nothing noteworthy” about the 2022 purchases.
The circumstances behind the shooting that has shattered the Charlottesville community and taken the lives of three Virginia Cavaliers football players remains under police investigation.
Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry were on a field trip with Jones – a one-time UVA football player in 2018 – and other students to see a play in Washington, DC, according to a university spokesperson.
When the bus returned to UVA’s main campus in Charlottesville Sunday night, Jones allegedly opened fire, killing the three and wounding two others, identified by authorities as Michael Hollins and Marlee Morgan.
Hollins, a running back for the Cavaliers, has undergone two successful surgeries, his family said in a statement Wednesday.
Without specifying which individual, UVA Health spokesperson Eric Swensen said Wednesday that one person wounded is in fair condition while another had been released from medical care. CNN has reached out to Morgan’s family for comment.
It is unclear whether either of the weapons purchased by Jones this year were used in Sunday’s shooting, but police confirmed that a prior hold on his ability to buy firearms due to an ongoing legal matter in 2021 was dropped.
A pending charge Jones faced “was reduced to a misdemeanor by the court in October 2021, thereby removing the prohibition against future purchases,” Virginia State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller said in a statement.
Jones was also the subject of a gun-related probe by the university’s judicial council prior to the shooting, in which a student reported Jones “made a comment to him about possessing a gun,” according to university spokesperson Brian Coy. Jones “repeatedly refused to cooperate with University officials” and his case was escalated for further review and possible disciplinary action, Coy said.
In Sunday’s shooting, Jones faces three charges of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, UVA Police Chief Timothy Longo Sr. said. He also faces two counts of malicious wounding, each accompanied by a firearm charge.
Jones’ first court appearance Wednesday resulted in him being held without bond, the court ordered. He remains in custody in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, online records show, and his next court hearing will be in December, according to Albemarle County Commonwealth’s attorney Jim Hingeley.
How the shooting started
Student Ryan Lynch told CNN affiliate KYW-TV she was on the bus where the shooting took place and saw Jones push one of the victims.
“Chris got up and pushed Lavel,” Lynch said. “After he pushed him, he was like ‘You guys are always messing with me.’ Said something weird like that, but it was very bizarre because they didn’t talk to him the whole trip.”
Lynch then heard gunfire, she told KYW.
“They just kept coming, more and more gunshots,” she said. “We thought he was going to shoot everyone on the bus.”
But “the shooter just kind of walked or, like, skipped off the bus,” Lynch said.
According to Hingeley at Wednesday’s court appearance, a witness to the shooting said Devin Chandler, one of the three killed, was shot while sleeping.
After a campus lockdown and manhunt for the suspected shooter, Jones was spotted driving a vehicle and apprehended by police Monday about 80 miles east of Charlottesville in Henrico County.
Loss of 3 killed felt by many
Students, faculty and the community at large gathered Monday night at a candlelight vigil on campus on commemorate the lives of Perry, Davis and Chandler.
“We are all fortunate to have them be a part of our lives,” Cavaliers head coach Tony Elliott said of the three. “They touched us, inspired us and worked incredibly hard as representatives of our program, university and community.”
Davis was described as a gentle giant whose smile would light up the room, Elliott said at a news conference Tuesday. It resonated “how much he loved his teammates and would do anything for his teammates,” Elliott added.
Perry was “a delightful, respectful, hardworking person who was one of the best overall young men our community’s had to offer,” said his high school football coach, Earl Sims, Jr., who described Perry on Wednesday as “like a son.”
Perry’s family in a statement said he “made his family proud” through his faith and good deeds.
“Football and art was his passion, but the love that he had for his family, friends and his community was proven time and time again through his candid dedication. We truly appreciate the outpouring of love and support from so many people. We continue to keep the families of the other victims of this senseless tragedy in our prayers,” they said.
Adam Sykes, Chandler’s former high school coach, said Chandler “just wanted to make those around him as happy as he was” and often put others first.
“Even during his junior year when his dad passed away in the middle of the season, he came to me and said, ‘Coach, I want to play this week. My dad would want me to play this week.’ That was his character: always thinking of others,” Sykes said.
The Cavaliers’ upcoming game Saturday against Coastal Carolina has been canceled. A memorial service at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville will be held Saturday afternoon.
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Corbett forest guard killed tigress which entered village: official
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A tigress, whose carcass with a bullet wound was found in the Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand three days ago, was shot by a forest guard after the animal entered a village, an official said on Thursday.
The tigress had entered the residential area of Marchula bazar area of Almora late on Monday night, triggering panic in the area.
Forest personnel first fired several rounds in the air to scare away the big cat. But, instead of moving back into the forest, the animal began to move closer towards houses and shops, Chief Wildlife Warden Samir Sinha said.
A forest guard named Dhiraj Kumar then fired two rounds and the pellets hit the tigress on its right thigh, causing its death.
Kumar has been booked under Wildlife Conservation Act and attached to the plain range office of the Kalagarh forest division, Sinha said.
Corbett Director Dheeraj Pandey had said the tigress was apparently unable to hunt in a natural habitat and ventured into a populated area in search of easy prey.
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(CNN) — Grace Migliaccio decided at the last minute not to get on the plane.
It was summer 1984. Grace, a recent college graduate in her early 20s, had put all her savings towards a long distance flight from her home in Washington DC to visit her Australian boyfriend, John Hiron.
The couple met at a party earlier that year, a few days before John was supposed to be leaving town. The early days of their relationship were a whirlwind -- after falling for Grace, John extended his trip for as long as possible.
They were, as Grace puts it, "super head-over-heels madly in love." But eventually John's visa ran out, and he had to go home. After that, Grace and John's relationship was confined to letters. Their snail mail took weeks to travel overseas, and the physical distance between them created an emotional distance that was hard to bridge.
As her departure date approached, Grace started to worry.
"I had a dream that I was making a huge mistake," Grace tells CNN Travel today. "I just had a really bad gut feeling I shouldn't go."
It didn't help that Grace, "was not an adventure taker," as she puts it. Looking for reassurance, Grace spontaneously called John. The couple rarely spoke on the phone due to the hefty long distance charges, but she was feeling increasingly desperate.
"I needed him to say, 'You're doing the right thing,'" she recalls. "But he wasn't home."
Grace and John, pictured here in 1984, struggled to navigate a long-distance relationship.
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Instead, John's mother answered and said she'd pass on the message. It was over 36 hours before John phoned Grace back. In the interim, Grace's anxiety only increased.
"Should I come?" Grace asked, when John eventually returned the call.
"If you want to," was John's response.
For Grace, this apparent nonchalance sealed the deal.
"I didn't get on the plane," she says. "And so he went to the airport to get me, to pick me up, and I didn't get off -- I wasn't on the plane."
"I said the wrong thing, without a doubt," says John, who blames his immaturity. He wanted her to come, he says now, he just didn't know how to express it and the long distance was tough.
When Grace didn't turn up, John and his friends went straight from the airport to the pub. Over beers, his friends told John he'd meet someone else and move on. But John knew he'd lost something not easily replaced.
A few days later, he called Grace to ask her what went wrong. Over the grainy connection, Grace and John both struggled to articulate how they felt. Achieving a sense of closure felt impossible.
"I know we're going to date other people, but we shouldn't marry anyone else," said Grace eventually, sensing the call -- and their relationship -- was coming to an end.
"Why?" asked John, thousands of miles away in his parent's house in Perth.
"Because we're never going to love someone the way we love each other," said Grace.
Different directions
Grace and John, pictured here in 1984, went their seperate ways after she decided not to get on the plane to be with him.
John Hiron and Grace Migliaccio
For months afterward, Grace says she felt "devastated." But she tried not to imagine what life would be like if she'd boarded her flight. Instead, she "set about trying to move forward."
"I bought a car with the money that I was going to go to Australia with, so that I couldn't be tempted to change my mind later," she says.
Months turned into years and John and Grace remained on the periphery of each other's lives.
"I would call periodically," says John. "One year I called, and she got married. And then I called again and her parents had died."
Sometimes, John would phone and wouldn't get through -- Grace would have moved, and he'd struggle to track her down. There was no social media or email to aid this quest, and one time John phoned an international directory in the US to find Grace.
For Grace, these intermittent calls were bittersweet.
"I would swear, 'l am not going to talk to him anymore. What is the point?' along the way. Because it would stir up emotions," she says.
"But every time he would call, I would take the call, of course. But I would swear this is the last time we're going to talk."
Grace kept all of John's letters.
John Hiron and Grace Migliaccio
The decades rolled on. Grace and John dated and then married other people, and later had children.
"Twenty-two years later, I'd long moved on from this relationship," says Grace.
Even so, she'd kept all of John's letters.
"I always had them wherever I went, whoever I was with, however many times I moved, the things that he gave me came along with me."
Then, one day in January 2007, John called Grace out of the blue. The two hadn't been in touch for some time. In the interim, they'd both been going through trying times -- by coincidence, Grace had recently separated from her husband and John and his wife had also recently split.
"I said, 'We've broken up and I'm not married anymore.' And Grace said the same thing," recalls John.
"That was really surprising that we were both separated," says Grace.
The two talked for a short while, sharing how they were both feeling about their marriage breakdowns.
John mentioned a device called a webcam was becoming more commonplace -- maybe they could video call sometime?
"I went to the local Staples, and I bought an external webcam, and I plugged it in and had to figure out how to use it," says Grace. "And we saw each other for the first time in 22 years."
The image was slightly pixelated, Grace took a moment to adjust to John's gray hair -- but despite the years, they both recognized one another right away.
"It's funny how your mind tricks your eye, and you see the person from age 22, you don't see the person who's 45, in your mind, you see the young person," says Grace. "And so from the minute we actually saw each other, it was super emotional -- this almost visceral reaction."
It was also a bit awkward.
"We didn't really have a lot to talk about at first because what is there to talk about?" says Grace. "Just -- 'how are you doing with the divorce? How are the kids? How are you handling it?' And helping each other through that, and kind of catching up on our lives and where we were and what was going on."
Still, they arranged to speak again and over the next few months, they connected frequently by video call. Grace and John felt drawn to one another and their calls became a bright spot in both their lives.
"I'd get home from work, and we'd sit down and I'd be watching TV and the webcam was on and we'd talk for the night," says John.
After a while, John suggested he could come to the US and they could reunite in person.
Grace was hesitant -- was this a terrible idea? She raised the question with her marriage counselor, who suggested seeing John could bring about some much needed closure.
"She said, 'This will be good for you to see each other, and you'll never see each other again. So it's kind of a very safe thing to do. You're not going to get into something complicated, because how could you? You're so far away.' That was her advice. And that backfired..."
Reunited in the US
Here's Grace and John in 2008, when they were reunited in the US.
John Hiron and Grace Migliaccio
Grace picked John up from Newark Airport in March 2008. Waiting in a taxi with a bottle of champagne and chocolate covered strawberries, she found herself thinking about the day, all those years ago, that she didn't get on the airplane.
When she saw John again, Grace says "it was like getting back a missing piece of myself that I hadn't realized was lost for so long."
"It was amazing. Very emotional," says John of their reunion. "It was just about like no time had passed, it was all very familiar and comfortable."
Before John's arrival, Grace was worried there would be awkward silences. She'd prepared conversation topics, but these prompts turned out to be unnecessary. After just a few days together, the decades did seem to melt away. Grace and John started to discuss maybe meeting again in a year's time.
But as they spent more time together, the two realized they were more than just old friends. The connection they'd felt in 1984 was still there, and waiting a year to reunite felt impossible.
"We were like, 'Well, what are we going to do? Because now we can't ever be apart again. We made a mistake -- maybe we were young, maybe it was the right mistake and things worked out the way they were supposed to. But we can't just go back to now being apart again,'" says Grace.
One evening, they reread the letters Grace had kept for all those years.
"It literally made us cry, to see the depth of emotion then, and that we could have let it slip away," says Grace.
Then they found themselves recalling the phone conversation they'd had in 1984, right after Grace didn't get on the plane.
"I said, 'Wow, 22 years ago, I said we shouldn't marry someone else.' And he finished the sentence '....because we'll never love somebody the way we love each other,'" says Grace,
"He remembered that -- and that was like a stab in the heart of, 'Okay, now, what are we going to do?' This is going to be difficult and complicated."
Grace and John lived on opposite sides of the globe. They were both going through divorces. They both had children they loved, and they wanted to be part of their lives. Following their hearts was complicated.
Still, several months later, Grace visited John in Australia, and less than a year after that, John moved to the US and the couple eloped.
"I was very emotional because we waited a lifetime, really, to say those words," says Grace of their wedding day.
The couple eloped, and 10 years later celebrated their wedding anniversary in Hawaii, pictured.
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Falling in love again, 23 years later, was as bittersweet and complicated, as much as it was "euphoric."
Some loved ones were hurt by their reunion. Some friends thought they were both going through midlife crises. For John, moving across the world from his children was particularly tough.
"It was extremely hard, extremely emotional," he says.
"It was a couple of years of really difficult times with that move," says Grace.
But as the dust settled, John and Grace were able to spend significant time in Australia, as well as in the US.
They became a cross-continental blended family, bringing their children together whenever they could. Some of John's children have since studied and worked in the US.
"What's amazing is all the five kids get on pretty well together," says John. "We can take them on a vacation and everyone gets on well, we have a good time."
"We like to think that in the end, when you get past the pain, we made all of our kids' lives so much bigger, and set a great example for love," says Grace.
Making up for lost time
Grace and John say they are trying to make the most of every day together, and travel a lot -- including to the Taj Mahal in India, pictured here.
John Hiron and Grace Migliaccio
Today, 15 years since their reunion, John and Grace still live together in the US, where they're "making up for lost time."
"It almost feels like we'd never been apart," says John.
They try to enjoy, as Grace puts it, "a lot of traveling and adventures and experiences to create a lifetime of memories in a shorter, compressed period of time."
Loved ones who were originally naysayers have come round in the interim. And as for Grace and John, they've both come to believe things happened the way they should have.
"It's worked out the way it was meant to work out," says John, who says the decision to be together wasn't easy, but it's always been worth it.
"If we tried to carry on from 1984, we probably wouldn't have been mature enough to get through that period to get to where we are now," says Grace. "So I feel sad, but I know that I have the best of it now. So it can't really be sad, because it all worked out the way it was supposed to -- despite all of our mistakes that we made, including me not getting on the plane." | https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chance-encounters-reunited-couple/index.html | 2022-11-17T11:07:40 | en | 0.993933 |
Mehrauli murder: Police to produce accused before court virtually
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A Delhi court on Thursday allowed police's application to produce Mehrauli killing accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala before a court through video conferencing.
Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla said according to the application submitted by police, the accused faced threat from miscreants and religious groups. ''I am aware of the sensitivity of the matter, media coverage...Public traction...,'' the judge said while allowing the application.
Poonawala will be produced before the court through video conferencing at 4 pm.
Twenty-eight-year-old Poonawala allegedly strangled Shradha Walkar and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi's Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days past midnight.
Police said the couple used to have frequent arguments over financial issues and it is suspected that there was also a fight between them that resulted in Poonawala killing 27-year-old Walkar on the evening of May 18.
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Ukraine controls 1% of Luhansk region - Russian-installed official
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Ukrainian forces control around 1% of territory in the eastern region of Luhansk, the RIA Novosti news agency cited the Russian-installed head of the area as saying on Thursday.
The Moscow-backed administrator Leonid Pasechnik said Ukraine controlled the village of Belogorovka and two other settlements in the region.
Russia has declared the Luhansk region its own after holding what it called referendums in occupied areas of Ukraine. Western governments and Kyiv said the votes breached international law and were coercive and non-representative.
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Mortal remains of eight Indians killed in Maldives garage fire repatriated
The mortal remains of the eight Indian nationals who were killed in the deadly garage fire in the Maldivian capital here last week have been repatriated to India, the Indian High Commission said on Thursday. The eight Indians were among 10 people who died on November 10, when a major fire broke out in the garage below a cramped living quarters that housed foreign workers here.
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The mortal remains of the eight Indian nationals who were killed in the deadly garage fire in the Maldivian capital here last week have been repatriated to India, the Indian High Commission said on Thursday. The eight Indians were among 10 people who died on November 10, when a major fire broke out in the garage below a cramped living quarters that housed foreign workers here. The fire broke out in the M. Nirufehi area near the Maaveyo Mosque, and is reported as the worst-ever recorded in Male city in terms of lives claimed and damage to property. ''Mortal remains of all 8 Indian nationals, who lost their lives in this unfortunate incident, have been repatriated to India.We thank Maldivian authorities for their support in this regard,'' the Indian High Commission in Maldives tweeted. It did not provide their identities and other details. The garage is located on the ground floor of the building, while the first-floor housed migrant workers. The living quarters had only a single window, according to news portal SunOnline international. There were 38 migrant workers from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka living in the building, with a gas cylinder next to each bed, the Maldives National Defence Force said. Maldives President Ibrahim Mohammed Solih ordered a probe into the fire.
Foreign workers constitute about half of Male's 250,000-strong population, who are mostly from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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Amend laws for stricter punishment in 'love jihad' cases: BJP MLA to UP CM after Mehrauli killing
BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh on Thursday urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to amend the state laws dealing with heinous crimes and proposed stricter punishment for love jihad in view of the gruesome killing of a woman by her inter-faith partner in Delhi recently.
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BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh on Thursday urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to amend the state laws dealing with heinous crimes and proposed stricter punishment for 'love jihad' in view of the gruesome killing of a woman by her inter-faith partner in Delhi recently. He also recommended changes, including fast-track trial, no bail to accused, automatic special protection to witnesses besides death penalty for rape and murder, and life imprisonment for rape in such (love jihad) cases. Love jihad is a term used by right-wing groups and activists to allege a concerted effort by Muslim men to convert Hindu women to Islam through marriage. Demanding amendments to the criminal procedural law, Singh said there is a need to broaden the definition of allurement in cases of 'love jihad' and it must include marriage, or a promise of marriage or conjugal relationship or live in relationship. A copy of the MLA's letter has also been marked to Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju. “The bone-chilling incident of a Muslim man brutally murdering and then chopping the body of the Hindu girl into 35 odd pieces, in the city of Delhi, is reminiscent of the 'love jihad' crimes that have been reported recently from across the nation,” the ruling party legislator stated in the letter. The police officer-turned-politician said a series of such similar events have led to a scenario of “perpetual fear and profound distrust bordering on a sense of alarm in the community” and is, therefore, definitely a “cause of great concern” for all legislators across the country. “These hate crimes perpetuated by radicalised members of a certain community do not deserve to be treated as regular criminal acts, necessitating a fast-track approach to investigations, charge-sheet and trial, within the framework of our rule of law, thereby ensuring that the trust reposed by the common man on our criminal justice system is not impacted adversely,” Singh said. He said he has personally engaged with different sections of the society and compiled their thoughts for the chief minister's consideration. The MLA said there is consensus amongst his constituents that it is necessary to carry out amendments to the statute through the state legislature, as has been done in the past “to ensure the safety of women and thereby maintain public order”. Singh was referring to the killing of Shraddha Walkar (27) allegedly by her partner Aftab Poonawala (28) in Delhi's Mehrauli area in May this year. Poonawala had allegedly strangled Walkar and sawed her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence before dumping them across the city over several days past midnight, according to police.
In the proposed legislative amendments in the letter, the BJP MLA stated, “In order to ensure that such offences are not repeated in the future, it is necessary that we adopt a time-bound schedule for investigations and trial such that the investigation is completed within 60 days of the registration of the offence and the trial within 60 days thereafter.” “It is also necessary to consider stricter punishment for the offences relating to 'love jihad', including mandatory death penalty for offences of 'rape' and 'murder' and life imprisonment for those involving rape,” Singh said. He also lauded the state government for bringing the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act (UPPCRA), 2021, but added that there is a necessity to widen its scope to deal with heinous offences. PTI KIS SRY SRY
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Russia's war on Ukraine latest news: Fighting rages in the east
* NATO's secretary-general said Tuesday's blast in Poland was probably caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile but Russia was ultimately responsible because it started the war. * Ukraine is likely to get access to the site in southeastern Poland where a missile killed two people, the Polish president's top foreign policy advisor said.
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Ukraine said it faced fierce attacks in the east from Russian forces reinforced with troops withdrawn from Kherson in the south, while NATO and Poland concluded a missile that crashed in Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine's air defences. EXPLOSION IN POLAND
* Villagers in Przewodow in southeastern Poland, where the missile killed two people, struggled with the realisation that the war on their doorstep could reach them at any time. * NATO's secretary-general said Tuesday's blast in Poland was probably caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile but Russia was ultimately responsible because it started the war.
* Ukraine is likely to get access to the site in southeastern Poland where a missile killed two people, the Polish president's top foreign policy advisor said. Ukrainian defence official Oleg Danilov said Ukraine had evidence of a "Russian trace" in the incident, without giving any details. FIGHTING
* Russia pounded gas production facilities and a major missile factory in new missile strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said. * Ukrainian forces control around 1% of territory in the eastern region of Luhansk, the RIA Novosti news agency cited the Russian-installed head of the area as saying.
* Investigators in Ukraine's recently liberated southern region of Kherson have uncovered 63 bodies with signs of torture after Russian forces left, Ukraine's interior minister was quoted as saying. * The top U.S. general said Ukraine's chances of any near-term, outright military victory were not high, cautioning that Russia still had significant combat power inside Ukraine.
GRAIN DEAL * A deal aimed at easing global food shortages by facilitating Ukraine's agricultural exports from its southern Black Sea ports and due to expire on Nov. 19 was extended for 120 days. The agreement, initially reached in July, created a protected sea transit corridor and was designed to alleviate global food shortages by allowing exports to resume from three ports in Ukraine, a major producer of grains and oilseeds.
* A senior U.N. official involved in the Black Sea grain initiative negotiations welcomed an agreement to extend the deal, adding that work needed to continue on easing fertiliser exports. DIPLOMACY
* Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said he met U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Burns. Burns also met Russian President Putin's spy chief in Turkey this week. * French President Macron said G20 leaders agreed to push Russia towards defusing the conflict and expressed hope China could play a bigger mediation role in coming months.
* Russia hailed the G20 leaders' declaration, which mentions the "immense human suffering" caused by the war, as a "balanced text" that Russian diplomats worked hard to influence.
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U.S. climate envoy Kerry meets Chinese counterpart Xie at COP27
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U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua on Thursday at the COP27 summit in Egypt, a Reuters witness said.
Asked about the progress of the talks as he left the meeting, Kerry said: "We're making progress. Let's let the talks continue."
The first draft of a deal being hashed out at the summit, published on Thursday, would keep a target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but left many of the most contentious issues unresolved ahead of a Friday deadline.
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CEC Rajiv Kumar invited as International Observer for forthcoming elections in Nepal
During his visit Shri Kumar would be visiting Polling stations at Kathmandu and areas around.
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Chief Election Commissioner of India Shri Rajiv Kumar has been invited by Election Commission of Nepal as International Observer for the forthcoming elections to Nepal's House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly. Elections are scheduled in Nepal on 20th November, 2022 for the Federal and Provincial elections to elect 275 members of the Federal Parliament and 550 seats of the seven Provincial Assemblies.
Shri Rajiv Kumar will be leading a delegation of ECI officials as State guest in Nepal from 18th November to 22nd November 2022. During his visit Shri Kumar would be visiting Polling stations at Kathmandu and areas around.
ECI also has a similar International Election Visitors Program where members from other Election Management Bodies are invited to experience firsthand our General and Assembly Elections held periodically.
The Election Commission of India has always been at the forefront with fellow Election Management Bodies (EMBs) and relevant international organizations/associations in promoting the cause of democracy worldwide, through bilateral as well as multilateral interactions and has always endeavored to promote contacts, facilitate exchange of knowledge and sharing of best practices with a view to strengthen democratic institutions and processes. ECI's India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) has by far trained more than 2200 officers from 109 countries of whom 70 officers from Nepal have also been trained as part of capacity building initiatives. A capacity building program for 25 officials from Election Commission of Nepal is also scheduled to be held from 13th to 24th March 2023 at IIIDEM.
Representatives from Election Commission of Nepal participated in the recently held International Conference hosted by ECI on Conference on 'Role, Framework & Capacity of EMBs' as a follow on to the Summit for Democracy' ECI would be hosting two more International conferences on the theme of "Inclusive and Accessible elections" as also "Technology in elections" as part of Cohort activities under "Summit for Democracy – Year of Action".
ECI had been chairing the Association of World Election Bodies, which is the world's largest international organization in the field of election management - since Sept 2019 to October 2022. A-WEB currently comprises 119 Election Management Bodies (EMBs) from 109 countries. ECI has now been unanimously elected as the new Chair of the Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) for the term 2022 to 2024 thus globally acknowledging ECI's presence and efficient conduct of Elections in world's largest democracy.
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Russia launches new Ukraine barrage as grain deal extended
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Russian airstrikes inflicted more damage on Ukraine on Thursday, with the latest barrage smashing into energy infrastructure, apartment buildings and an industrial site.
At least four people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in drone and missile strikes around the country, authorities said.
Separately, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced an extension of a four-month-old deal to ensure the safe delivery of export of grain, foodstuffs and fertilisers from Ukraine through the Black Sea just days before it was set to expire.
Guterres said in a statement the United Nations is also "fully committed" to removing obstacles that have impeded the export of food and fertiliser from Russia, which is one of two agreements struck between the two countries and Turkey in July. The deals signed in Istanbul are aimed to help bring down prices of food and fertiliser and avoid a global food crisis.
There was no immediate confirmation of the agreement from Russia.
Air raid sirens sounded all across Ukraine early Thursday amid fears that Moscow was unleashing its latest large-scale missile attack as the war approaches its nine-month milestone.
In Kyiv, the city's military administration said air defences shot down at least two cruise missiles and five Iranian-made exploding drones.
With the Kremlin's forces on the ground being pushed back, Russia has increasingly resorted in recent weeks to aerial onslaughts aimed at energy infrastructure and other civilian targets in parts of Ukraine it doesn't hold.
Ukrainian air defences this week appear to have had far higher rates of successful shoot-downs than during previous barrages last month, analysts say. The improvement results in part from Western-supplied air defence systems.
But some missiles and drones still get through.
The Russian strikes hit Dnipro and Ukraine's southern Odesa region for the first time in weeks. Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, said a large fire erupted in Dnipro after the strikes on the city hit an industrial target.
The attack wounded at least 14 people, among them a teenage girl, and all were being treated in city hospitals, Reznichenko said.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Telegram a video that he said was one of the blasts in Dnipro. The video from a vehicle dashcam shows a fiery blast engulfing a rainy road.
"This is another confirmation from Dnipro of how terrorists want peace," Zelenskyy wrote, referring to the Kremlin's forces. "The peaceful city and people's wish to live their accustomed lives. Going to work, to their affairs. A rocket attack!" Elsewhere, a Russian strike that hit a residential building killed at least four people overnight in Vilnia in the Zaporizhzhia region. Rescuers were combing the rubble for any other victims, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior official in the Ukrainian presidential office.
Critical infrastructure was also hit in the northeast Kharkiv region, in the area of Izyum, wounding three workers, the regional administration said.
Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov said in a Facebook post that one of his staff was among the wounded and showed a photo of what he said was her coat pierced by a piece of shrapnel.
An infrastructure target was hit on the Odesa region, Gov. Maksym Marchenko said on Telegram, warning about the threat of a "massive missile barrage on the entire territory of Ukraine." Officials in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions urged residents to stay in bomb shelters.
Thursday's blasts followed the huge barrage of Russian strikes on Tuesday. That was the biggest attack to date on Ukraine's energy infrastructure that also resulted in a missile hitting Poland.
Russia has increasingly targeted Ukraine's power grid as winter approaches. The most recent barrage followed days of euphoria in Ukraine sparked by one of its biggest military successes — the retaking last week of the southern city of Kherson.
The head of Ukraine's presidential office, Andriy Yermak, called the strikes on energy targets "naive tactics of cowardly losers" in a Telegram post on Thursday.
"Ukraine has already withstood extremely difficult strikes by the enemy, which did not lead to results the Russian cowards hoped for," Yermak wrote, urging Ukrainians not to ignore air raid sirens.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the extension of the grain deal a "key decision in the global fight against the food crisis."
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Girl killed in crude bomb blast in Bengal
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- India
A nine-year-old girl died in a crude bomb explosion in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said on Thursday.
The blast occurred when she picked up the bomb out of curiosity at her maternal uncle's house in Bakchora village in Minakhan area on Wednesday evening, a senior police officer said.
Minakhan Sub-division Police Officer (SDPO) Aminul Islam said that the class 2 student hails from Basanti area of South 24 Parganas district and had come to visit her maternal uncle's house two days before the incident.
The crude bomb was kept beside a carom board on the first floor of the house of the deceased's maternal uncle, who works as a construction worker and also runs a grocery store, he said.
The explosion took place as the girl picked up the crude bomb out of curiosity. She was taken to Minakhan Rural Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries, the officer said.
The occupants fled the house after the incident, and the maternal uncle was arrested from a nearby area on Thursday morning and will be produced before a court in Basirhat, where police will seek his custody, Islam said.
A forensic team visited the spot and collected samples, but no other bomb or bomb-making materials were found there, he said.
A police picket has been set up near the house, and further investigation is underway, the officer added.
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COVID-19: HC asks Delhi govt to consider 49-yr-old widow's plea for ex-gratia
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the city government to decide within two months whether it will grant ex-gratia to the 49-year-old widow of an assistant traffic inspector died of COVID-19 after contracting the disease while performing his duties during the second wave of the pandemic.
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The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the city government to decide within two months whether it will grant ex-gratia to the 49-year-old widow of an assistant traffic inspector died of COVID-19 after contracting the disease while performing his duties during the second wave of the pandemic. The petitioner submitted as per government policy, if any government employee deployed for COVID-19 duty dies due to the viral disease, the grieving family is entitled to a compensation of Rs 1 crore, but authorities have not entertained her request for it. "Bearing in mind the limited nature of the issues that arise, the court finds no justification to retain the petition on its board at this stage and ends of justice would warrant the first respondent (Delhi government) to be called upon to examine the representation of the petitioner and take an appropriate decision on the same with expedition and preferably within a period of two months from today," said Justice Yashwant Varma.
The court disposed of the petition but clarified the contentions of the parties will be kept open. The Delhi government counsel said the Delhi Transport Corporation had earlier reverted to the petitioner on the issue saying they have not received a "certificate of death by COVID-19".
The court nonetheless asked the authority concerned under the city government to decide the representation as DTC may be the recommending body.
"Let them (the authority concerned) decide it," the court said. The petitioner was represented by advocates Shiv Dutt Bakshi and Kushika Chachra. In her plea, the petitioner said she has the right to claim the compensation as her deceased husband contracted COVID-19 while performing his government duties and passed away on May 2, 2021 leaving behind a grieving family of his wife and two children. The plea said pursuant to the government policy, 31 corona warriors were given an ex-gratia of Rs 1 crore each which includes healthcare professionals, teachers, civil defence, and DTC personnel.
"The petitioner's husband was continuously attending his duty from 19.04.2021 to 27.04.2021 and by that time he had already contracted this deadly coronavirus. On 28.04.2021, the Petitioner became really unwell and was suffering from high fever. He was then taken to Respondent no.3 (the doctor) for examination and further treatment, whereby he was suspected of contracting covid and he was advised immediate hospitalization," the petition said. The court was told the petitioner's husband was unable to find a proper bed with ventilator and other necessary facilities, and was taken to Sujanpur, Aligarh, where he died.
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Italy cracks down on high-speed migrant traffickers
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- Italy
Italian police issued 18 arrest warrants on Thursday for Italians and Tunisians accused of operating a migrant-trafficking route on high-speed boats between Tunisia's coast and Sicilian ports.
The suspects are alleged to have demanded payment of 3,000-5,000 euros (USD 3,100-USD 5,200) in cash per person, packed the boats with 10 to 30 passengers at a time, and pocketed 30,000-70,000 euros for each four-hour journey, police said in a statement.
The investigation was launched in February 2019 after a fisherman in Sicily's port of Gela noticed a 10-meter glass fibre boat with two 200-horsepower motors.
Investigators discovered the boat had been stolen 10 days previously in Catania, Sicily.
Arrest warrants were issued for 11 Tunisians and seven Italians.
They face charges of illegal cross-border trafficking of more than five people, with the aggravating circumstance of inhuman treatment and endangering the lives of migrants and committing crimes for profit.
A Tunisian couple already jailed on a people-trafficking conviction were identified as the presumed masterminds of the scheme.
Two Tunisians based in Sicily were accused of having managed the money, while five Italians allegedly organized housing for the migrants and transfer of the traffickers to and from ports.
The warrants also target four other alleged traffickers, one Italian and three Tunisians, and four Tunisians who made connections with the migrants in northern Africa.
Also sought is the owner of a small farm with a private airfield that allegedly functioned as a base for the operation.
The farmer was accused of providing employment documents for some of the Tunisian operatives to legitimize their presence in Italy.
While the new Italian government has cracked down on humanitarian rescue ships that pick up migrants departing Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea, the majority of migrants arriving in Italy travel along routes from Tunisia.
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NCLAT rejects plea against approval of Alpha Corp's bid for Earth Infrastructure
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- India
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has declined the plea of a batch of homebuyers who challenged the NCLT's approval of Alpha Corp Development's bid to acquire debt-ridden realty firm Earth Infrastructure.
National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) had on June 8, 2021, approved the resolution plan from Alpha Corp Development. The Committee of Creditor (CoC) of Earth Infrastructure had voted in favour of Alpha Corp with a majority of 99 per cent.
This was challenged before the appellate body NCLAT by a group of 15 financial creditors (homebuyers), claiming that the resolution plan was non-compliant with the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).
These 15 homebuyers had alleged that the plan suffers from serious irregularities and is fraught with surreptitious amendments and insertions which are prejudicial to the genuine and legitimate interests of the members of the Committee of Creditors.
However, a two-member NCLAT bench said the appellants, the dissenting home buyers, who have exercised their right to vote or not cared to exercise their right to vote, form a ''miniscule minority'' opposing the approval of the resolution plan of Alpha Corp Development.
''Having done so, they now do not possess an independent right to challenge the majority vote (99.97 per cent) of the homebuyers,'' said NCLAT.
The appellate tribunal said: ''We are of the clear opinion that even if some of the homebuyers have not voted in favour of the plan, but the majority (more than 50 per cent) have voted in favour of the resolution plan approving the same, the dissenting homebuyers who are in minority have to go along with the views of the majority.'' NCLAT order pointed out that out of these 15 appellants, the name of one homebuyer does not appear in the record of CoC.
Out of the rest 14 appellants, 8 homebuyers participated in the voting held by the authorised representative. Their votes are thus recorded in the voting whereas 6 have not voted at all.
''Thus, it is clear that a minuscule number of homebuyers have come before us as applicants and out of this small number, six have not even cared to cast their vote, and have to sail with the decision of the majority of homebuyers. This is the scheme of IBC,'' NCLAT said.
In July last year, Alpha Corp had said it would invest around Rs 900 crore to complete three stalled projects of Earth Infrastructure that it acquired through insolvency process.
The three projects, comprising developable and saleable area of around 4.5 million square feet, are located in Gurugram and Greater Noida.
These projects were launched during 2010-12, but not completed in the stipulated time period.
Approximately 2,900 units are to be developed in these projects.
Ananta by Alpha Corp (erstwhile Earth Copia) - Sector 112, Gurugram is a housing project launched in February 2011; Earth Sapphire Court, Greater Noida, is a commercial project launched in July 2010; and Earth Techone, located on Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida, is a mixed use project launched in June 2012.
Alpha Corp is currently developing many projects in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat.
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Chhattisgarh: 10-month-old boy dies during cold-cough treatment in pvt hosp; 4 doctors, 3 paramedics booked
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- India
Four doctors and three paramedical personnel of a private hospital in Durg in Chhattisgarh were booked for alleged negligence after a 10-month-old boy died during treatment for cold and cough, a police official said on Thursday.
The district health authority has also cancelled the registration of the hospital and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on its management following the incident, other officials said.
Shivansh Verma was admitted in Siddhi Vinayak Hospital in Sirsa Gate in Old Bhilai area on October 17 for treatment of cold and cough and he succumbed on October 31 during treatment, they said.
''The child's grandfather Mahesh Verma, a native of Devbaloda village, lodged a complaint the next day of negligence against the doctors and staff. Subsequently, Durg Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) JP Meshram constituted a team of health officials to probe the incident,'' said Chhawani City Superintendent of Police Prabhat Kumar.
''The probe by the health officials found negligence on the part of Dr Samit Raj Prasad, Dr Durga Soni, Dr Hariram Yadu and Dr Girish Sahu and three paramedical staff Vibha Sahu, Aarti Sahu and Nirmala Yadav of Siddhi Vinayak hospital,'' the CSP said.
Based on the probe report, the seven persons will be booked under Indian Penal Code section 304A (causing death by negligence), the CSP said, adding that no one has been arrested in the matter as yet.
''The registration of the hospital has been cancelled and a fine of Rs 20,000 has been imposed on its management,'' CMHO Dr Meshram said.
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Maha: Man tries to end life by jumping from Mantralaya's sixth floor
A man allegedly tried to commit suicide by jumping off the sixth floor of Mantralaya, the headquarters of the Maharashtra government in south Mumbai on Thursday, but survived due to the safety net, police said. Bapu Mokashi 43 jumped from the sixth floor of the building around 3 pm.But he landed on the net which covers the open space below.
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A man allegedly tried to commit suicide by jumping off the sixth floor of Mantralaya, the headquarters of the Maharashtra government in south Mumbai on Thursday, but survived due to the safety net, police said. Bapu Mokashi (43) jumped from the sixth floor of the building around 3 pm.
But he landed on the net which covers the open space below. The safety net was installed specifically to foil such attempts after similar incidents in the past. Mokashi was rescued from the net by the police and taken to a hospital. He had not received any serious injury, said the police official, adding that Marine Drive police are conducting probe in the matter.
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ANALYSIS-Unmasked and in charge, China's Xi puts personal diplomacy back in play
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- China
President Xi Jinping, conspicuously absent from the main stage of diplomacy during China's COVID isolation, has been mostly smiles and handshakes on his return this week with a flurry of meetings that Beijing hopes will begin to mend frayed relations.
But in an exchange that went viral, a mask-less Xi was also captured on-camera giving Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a dressing-down at the Group of 20 (G20) summit over media leaks, apparently from their bilateral meeting a day previously. It was a rare, candid glimpse of the Chinese leader and a reminder of Beijing's testy relations with the West. China's absence from face-to-face interactions during the pandemic has been costly, diplomats and other experts say, as ties with the United States and some Asian neighbours have badly deteriorated over a range of disputes.
With other leaders having so little recent access to top Chinese officials, Xi's presence this week on the Indonesian island of Bali for the G20 followed by an APEC summit in Bangkok is magnified by its scarcity value. The resumption of dialogue, including Xi's first meeting with Joe Biden as U.S. president and the first direct talks with an Australian leader since 2016, is itself a positive, China-watchers said, even if it doesn't immediately yield concrete results.
Besides Biden, Trudeau and Australia's Anthony Albanese, Xi also met the leaders of South Korea, Italy, Argentina, Holland and France for bilateral talks in Bali. A meeting with Britain's Rishi Sunak was cancelled because of scheduling issues, Downing Street said, while Xi is set to hold talks with Japan's Fumio Kishida amd New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern in Bangkok. Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha University in Seoul, described Xi's busy schedule as a "charm offensive" after China shut its borders for nearly three years and after Xi consolidated power last month by clinching a third term at the ruling Communist Party's congress.
"The meetings are probably not enough to make progress on thorny economic and security issues but could prevent diplomatic relations from getting worse," Easley said. BIDEN, AND MANY MORE
Xi's week has been headlined by his three-hour session with Biden, which showed signs of a thaw in frosty bilateral relations and led to plans for U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit Beijing early next year. Daniel Russel, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia under former President Barack Obama, said signs China might be willing to take preliminary steps toward cooperation on some global issues "should be treated as an experiment, not a done deal."
And while Biden returned to Washington after the G20 and is to be represented at the APEC meeting by Vice President Kamala Harris, Xi is participating in both events, which are taking place in a region that China considers its backyard. Ja Ian Chong, a political scientist at the National University of Singapore, said other leaders this week were trying to gauge the state of their China relationships, "especially now that the system is much less accessible and a lot more opaque than it was before."
Xi was ferried around Bali in his own Hongqi (Red Flag) limousine - Mao Zedong used an earlier model - China's version of the U.S. presidential "Beast" limo. Unlike Biden, Xi even attended the G20 group dinner, after skipping the ceremonial meal during a September summit of a regional security group in central Asia that was his only other trip abroad during the COVID era.
'MAJOR POWER DIPLOMACY' For China, the outreach is an opportunity to retake initiative in an increasingly heated competition for influence with the United States, whose assertiveness in the Pacific through its support for Taiwan and its AUKUS partnership with Australia and Britain has increasingly alarmed Beijing.
China is also squeezed by U.S. efforts to cut it off from advanced semiconductor technology, prompting Xi to speak out against "decoupling" and the politicisation of economic and trade issues with Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands, home to chip equipment giant ASML. "It's in China's interest to pick away at the United States' partners as much as possible," said Masafumi Iida, fellow at the National Institute for Defence Studies in Japan.
"That thinking shows in the way Xi has held summits with Australia's Albanese and South Korea's Yoon (Suk-yeol), in hopes to forge better relationships with them," he said. Returning to in-person diplomacy also gives Xi a platform to push Chinese initiatives that further cement its stature as leader of the emerging world. He made a plug for his Belt & Road Initiative in his session with Argentina's Alberto Fernandez.
Domestically, where COVID outbreaks are resurgent and where Xi's decade in power has been increasingly authoritarian, the week of summit meetings conveys global stature and a sense of normalcy, although coverage is limited mostly to state media. Before COVID, Xi was an enthusiastic practitioner of in-person diplomacy as China expanded its presence on the world stage through initiatives such as Belt & Road, generating goodwill in particular among developing countries, whose leaders were honoured with a one-on-one meeting and photos with Xi.
Li Mingjiang, associate professor of international relations at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies said perceived pressure in Beijing from Washington's global assertiveness may have been "extra incentive" to hurry back. "I think in the coming years you'll see China indeed making a serious effort to implement its major power diplomacy," he said.
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Asia-Pacific leaders tackle trade, sustainability in Bangkok
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The war in Ukraine, great power rivalry Asia, inflation and food and energy shortages are on the agenda as leaders prepare for the third back-to-back gathering this week, a Pacific-Rim summit taking place in a heavily guarded venue in Thailand's capital.
Leaders from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will meet formally in closed-door sessions Friday and Saturday. For some, it will be at least the third such opportunity for face-to-face talks in the past two weeks. However, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is attending instead of President Joe Biden, who will be hosting his granddaughter's wedding at the White House.
APEC's official mission is to promote regional economic integration. Most of the business conducted happens on the summit's sidelines in meetings such as a planned meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
The two Asian powers have a legacy of frictions over Japan's World War II aggression, territorial disputes and China's growing military might. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, said the encounter would "carry great importance." Xi, Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron will also speak at a business conference, held just ahead of the summit meetings, that is mostly closed to media apart from outlets sponsoring the event.
The APEC meetings are being held in downtown Bangkok's main convention center, which is cordoned off with some streets in the area completely closed to all traffic. Rows of riot police stood guard behind barbed wired barricades at a major intersection nearby, underscoring host Thailand's determination to ensure the summit suffers no disruptions.
A small but noisy group of protesters scuffled briefly with police demanding to deliver a letter to leaders attending the summit. The demonstrators back various causes including demanding the removal of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and abolition of Thailand's strict royal defamation laws.
In recent years, Bangkok has seen a wave of large-scale protests aimed both at the government and at the powerful monarchy, though they have faded under the pressures of the pandemic and targeted arrests of key figures.
Before the summit, Thai officials said they were hoping to steer APEC toward long-term solutions in various areas, including climate change, economic disruptions and faltering recoveries from the pandemic.
"The APEC meeting this year takes place amidst a dual jeopardy,'' Don Pramudwinai, Thailand's foreign minister, said in opening a meeting of foreign ministers and commerce ministers who were working on draft statements due to be issued after the summit. Apart from conflicts, "the world is staring at hyperinflation married to recession, a broken supply chain and scarcity and climate calamities.'' Apparently alluding to Russia and recent condemnation of its war on Ukraine, Don also said there was a growing "cancel mentality'' that makes "any compromise appear impossible." U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a tweet that the ministers had "reaffirmed the need to work together to promote balanced, inclusive, and sustainable growth in the Asia Pacific region.'' Thailand hoped to have all members agree on a set of targets for meeting the challenges of climate change, promoting sustainable trade and investment and environmental goals, said Cherdchai Chaivaivid, director-general of Thailand's Department of International Economic Affairs.
The wording of any statement on Ukraine would be the "most challenging element of our negotiations,'' he told reporters Tuesday after talks in the morning.
"I am cautiously optimistic that we should be able to reach a good level of consensus. The thing is, are we going to reach consensus on every single issue in the draft or not? That remains to be answered by all senior officials working around the clock during the next few days.'' APEC members account for nearly four of every 10 people and almost half of world trade. Its official mission is to promote regional economic integration, which means setting guidelines for long-term development of a free trade area. Most of its work is technical and incremental, carried out by senior officials and ministers, covering areas such as trade, tourism, forestry, health, food, security, small and medium-size enterprises and women's empowerment.
Leaders from the 21 economies on both sides of the Pacific Ocean often take the opportunity to conduct bilateral talks and discuss side deals. The Latin American contingent comes from Chile, Mexico and Peru. Other members are Australia, Brunei, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been avoiding international forums where he would be showered with criticism over the invasion of Ukraine and will not attend.
That leaves Chinese leader Xi as the star attendee in Bangkok, where he also is making an official visit to Thailand just after obtaining a rare third term as top leader at a once-in-five years Communist Party congress.
Biden is giving ground to China in the competition for friends and influence in Southeast Asia by skipping the APEC meetings. But U.S. officials say Washington has demonstrated its seriousness in relations with the region through frequent visits by Cabinet members including Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and other key senior officials.
As host, Thailand invited three special guests to the meeting: the French president Macron; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the prime minister of Saudi Arabia; and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who was to represent the Association of Southeast Asian Nations but will not attend after getting COVID-19.
For Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the most welcome visitor may well be the Saudi leader, whose visit may help restore friendly relations they soured due to a theft of Saudi royal jewelry in 1989 and unsolved murders of Saudi diplomats in Bangkok.
The war in Ukraine is a challenge for APEC's consensus-oriented efforts. None of the earlier APEC meetings this year issued statements due to disagreements over whether to mention the conflict.
Like Indonesia, which hosted the Group of 20 summit in Bali this week, and Cambodia, which hosted the ASEAN meetings, Thai officials have put the best possible face on the situation, contending that agreement on other points will allow APEC to move forward regardless.
Skeptics doubt the meeting, following two others, will accomplish much.
"This APEC is only a photo opportunity for leaders. Its agenda has drawn much less attention than the ASEAN summit and G-20," Virot Ali, a political scientist at Thailand's Thammasat University, told The Associated Press.
"I don't think we will see any progress from APEC. The current geopolitics, trade war, COVID-19, and Russia-Ukraine war are the issues that people are paying more attention to and feeling more impact from," he said.
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Nainital advocates, politicians oppose decision to shift high court to Haldwani
Joshi said the move would only lead to increased migration from the hills.Calling the decision a useless waste of funds, advocate Niranjan Bhatt said the money could have been used for poverty alleviation and development.
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The Uttarakhand Cabinet's in-principle nod to a proposal to shift the high court from the city has not gone down well with a large section of lawyers and politicians, including BJP MLA Sarita Arya.
The state cabinet on Wednesday gave its in-principle nod to a proposal to shift the High Court of Uttarakhand from Nainital to Haldwani at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. Calling the move ''impractical'', Arya said the decision was taken without taking the opinion of advocates and businessmen in the city. The Nainital MLA added that the high court provided employment to local residents and shifting it out of the city would be an attack on their livelihood. ''I will oppose the decision at every level,'' she said. Former MLA and lawyer Mahendra Pal said the move would trigger migration from the hills, while advocate RS Sambal said the decision did not solve any problem.
Shailendra Naudiyal, another advocate, said, ''We will strongly oppose the decision and turn it into a 'jan andolan' (people's movement).'' Advocate Bhuvnesh Joshi said, ''The government is showing it is working against the interests of the people of the hills. While the chief minister pretends to be a son of the hills, this decision reveals his anti-hill mentality,'' Joshi said. Joshi said the move would only lead to increased migration from the hills.
Calling the decision ''a useless waste of funds'', advocate Niranjan Bhatt said the money could have been used for poverty alleviation and development. ''The 'pahad virodhi' (anti-hill) government has made a mountain out of a molehill. The funds used for a new high court will be recovered from public money in another blow to the common man,'' Bhatt said.
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Akhilesh Yadav meets uncle Shivpal ahead of Mainpuri bypoll
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Ahead of the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday met PSPL chief and his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav along with his wife and party candidate Dimple Yadav. The bypoll on the seat has been necessitated due to the demise of Samajwadi Party (SP) patron Mulayam Singh Yadav and the area is considered to be the party's stronghold.
In a tweet after the meeting, Akhilesh Yadav said, ''Along with the blessings of Netaji and elders of the family, the people of Mainpuri are also with us.'' Akhilesh Yadav also shared a picture with Shivpal Singh.
Shivpal Yadav on Wednesday held a meeting with party workers and exhorted them to ensure the victory of the SP candidate in the bypoll.
Shivpal Singh Yadav's role in the election is important as his assembly constituency Jaswantnagar comes under the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. Shivpal has a close relationship with the people of Mainpuri and used to go as Mulayam's representative in various programmes held in the area when the SP patriarch was unavailable.
Shivpal Yadav's campaigning in favour of Dimple is also considered important as the BJP has nominated Raghuraj Singh Shakya, who was once a close aide of Shivpal Yadav, as its candidate from this seat.
Shivpal Singh, who heads the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) and the SP chief had come together during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in March to take on the BJP but after the elections, the relationship saw a dip and they again parted ways. The bypoll will be held on December 5 while the result will be announced on December 8.
Dimple Yadav filed her nomination papers last Monday. At that time neither Shivpal Singh Yadav nor his son Aditya Yadav were present.
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Geopolitics to stay in focus at APEC summit in Thailand
Leaders gathering for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Thailand should "rise above differences", the host said on Thursday, after a series of summits in the region were dominated by geopolitical tension over the war in Ukraine. Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said the meeting of the 21-member bloc, which starts Friday, "takes place at a pivotal juncture" with the world facing multiple risks.
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Leaders gathering for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Thailand should "rise above differences", the host said on Thursday, after a series of summits in the region were dominated by geopolitical tension over the war in Ukraine.
Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said the meeting of the 21-member bloc, which starts Friday, "takes place at a pivotal juncture" with the world facing multiple risks. "Cancel mentality... permeates every conversation and action, (and) makes any compromise appear impossible," he said in a statement after a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers ahead of the main summit.
"That's why APEC this year must rise above these challenges and deliver hope to the world at large." Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha at a pre-summit business event said the focus of meetings would be "new trade and investment narratives... the need to reconnect supply chains and travel, and the global sustainability agenda".
On the APEC sidelines, Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to have talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida later in the day. Xi had been due to give an address to a business forum but canceled, organizers said. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are among those also attending the main meeting, while French President Emmanuel Macron is a special guest.
The APEC meeting comes on the heels of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Bali where countries unanimously adopted a declaration saying most members condemned the war in Ukraine, but that also acknowledged some countries saw the conflict differently. Host Indonesia said the Ukraine war had been the most contentious issue.
The war also figured prominently at the East Asia Summit and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summits in Cambodia at the weekend, as did the crisis in Myanmar, whose ruling generals were barred from attending due to failure to follow a peace process. On Thursday, as leaders prepared for the APEC meeting, the junta in neighbouring Myanmar announced it would free 5,774 political prisoners, among them a Japanese filmmaker, a former British ambassador and an Australian economist and former adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi,
Activists and the military's opponents welcomed the amnesty, but warned the world not to be tricked by the junta, which they said was using people as bargaining chips. Tensions also simmered elsewhere at the G20 summit in Bali when Xi criticised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in person over alleged leaks of their closed-door meeting, a rare public display of annoyance by the Chinese leader.
Russia is a member of both G20 and APEC but President Vladimir Putin has stayed away. First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov will stand in for him at APEC.
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Cong dissolves all panels of UP unit formed ahead of assembly polls
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday dissolved all committees formed in Uttar Pradesh for the assembly elections this year, and the state unit of the party is likely to be reconstituted.
Party sources said office-bearers of the unit would be replaced under the leadership of state Congress president Brijlal Khabri.
''The Congress president has approved a proposal to dissolve all the committees formed for the purpose of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, with immediate effect,'' as per an official communication from the party.
The Congress won just two out of 403 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and managed to secure 2.33 per cent of the total votes polled in the elections held in March 2022. The BJP came back to power in the state led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
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Karnataka: Congress alleges voters' data theft, seeks CM Bommai's resignation
Surjewala demanded a high-level probe in the matter and claimed a private agency named "Chilume" was authorised by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) - the urban local body of Bengaluru, to carry out a door-to-door survey of voters in the city.
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The Congress on Thursday launched an attack against Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai alleging that he was directly involved in electoral fraud that has come to light in Bengaluru. "Shocking expose reveals that those in citadels of power, including Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai, are responsible for theft of voters data, fraud and impersonation," said Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala, while addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on Thursday.
Surjewala demanded a high-level probe in the matter and claimed a private agency named "Chilume" was authorised by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) - the urban local body of Bengaluru, to carry out a door-to-door survey of voters in the city. He claimed that the agency collected their personal details, a breach of privacy, and a fraud played up on Bengalurians.
"CM Bommai, his officials, govt officers, BBMP people and State Election authority are partners in crime in trampling democracy," he alleged. The Congress leader also claimed there was no intimation given about the door-to-door survey, and CM Bommai was responsible for electoral fraud.
"CM Bommai is BBMP in-charge minister, and its Chief Commissioner is Bengaluru's electoral officer. A private entity, Chilume Edu Institute applies for permission for voter awareness. On being permitted they commit the fraud of collecting voter data by impersonating booth-level officers," he alleged. An FIR should be filed against him and he should be arrested, he said.
Surjewala also claimed that the agency had a freehand and its staff were given booth level officer (BLO) cards. "The agency did not even upload voters' information on Garuda - ECI app - but on Digital Sameeksha app - owned by a private company for use by MPs, MLAs, and political parties," said Surjewala. (ANI)
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Refrain from making sensational statements on illegal mining without assessing facts, Soren tells ED
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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday urged the Enforcement Directorate to refrain from making ''sensational statements'' on illegal mining ''without ascertaining facts and figures''.
In a letter to the ED, Soren, who appeared before the officials of the agency during the day for his questioning in a mining lease case in Sahebganj, also said that former JMM member Ravi Kejriwal has made false allegations to ''implicate him'' in the case at the behest of the BJP.
The CM stated that Kejriwal who was removed from his party, ''has become my sworn enemy and I would not be surprised if he has made false allegations against me to settle personal scores''.
The ED summoned Soren at its regional office here for interrogation in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal mining in Sahebganj.
The agency said it has ''identified'' proceeds of crime related to the case to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore till now.
''In order to evade royalty of ₹1,000 crore… over 8 crore MT of stone is required to be illegally mined in Sahebganj, that is more than four times the legally mined quantity,'' the CM pointed out.
Soren, in the letter, stated that the ''aggregate royalty income from stone mining in the entire state of Jharkhand for the last two years has been around Rs 750 crore against which you (ED) claim that illegally mined stone in Sahebganj alone is Rs 1000 crore".
The CM requested the agency to carry out a fair and impartial investigation without ''any hidden agenda or motive''.
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Hello Crypto traders, today we will talk about Kyber Network cryptocurrency with ticker KNCUSD, where we see nice and clean bullish setup formation from Elliott wave perspective.
KNCUSD sold-off in the second part of 2022, but in three legs A-B-C only, which means that correction can be coming to an end if we consider an impulsive five-wave rally from the lows since 2019 till 2022. Ideal support we see here around 0.60 – 0. 40 area and from where we should be aware of a bullish continuation in 2023. First bullish evidence would be above trendline connected from the highs and above 1.0 level, while bullish confirmation is only above 2.0 region.
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Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday interacted with chairpersons of various department-related parliamentary standing committees at his Parliament House complex.
Among those present were BJP leaders Sushil Kumar Modi, Radha Mohan Singh, Rama Devi, Jagdambika Pal, Bhubaneswar Kalita and Brijlal, BJD MP Sujeet Kumar, YSRCP leader V Vijayasai Reddy and the Congress' Shashi Tharoor.
The department-related standing committees are formed to cover various central ministries to strengthen accountability of the government to Parliament.
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Market picture
Bitcoin moved between $16.3K and $17.0K on Wednesday and is changing hands Thursday morning closer to the lower bound of yesterday's range. Some pressure on crypto comes from more wary financial markets, where major indices are down. The total capitalisation of the crypto market has fallen by 1.7% to $830bn in the last 24 hours. However, the overall quieter trading pattern should be noted after the surge in volatility in recent days.
Crypto Fear and Greed Index was down 3 points to 20 by Thursday and remains in a state of "extreme fear".
On the technical analysis side, Bitcoin's failure to cross $17.0K looks like a corrective rebound to lock in profits before a new round of declines. This scenario will only become main after the price approaches local lows near $15.8K, opening the way to $12K.
Ethereum is under more pressure, forming a sequence of declining intraday extremes. At the current price near $1200, we can see the dam-breaking effect at levels below $1100.
A similar pattern is seen in the overall cryptocurrency market capitalisation chart, where we see local reversals from lower levels.
News background
According to The Wall Street Journal, crypto lending platform BlockFi is preparing to file for bankruptcy. The company has acknowledged significant exposure to the FTX exchange. Last week BlockFi suspended customer withdrawals.
The collapse of FTX affected too many companies, which could extend the crypto winter to the end of 2023, according to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Many institutional funds are stuck on FTX, causing increased distrust in the industry. Stablecoins dominance has reached a new high of 18%.
Bitcoin will fall heavily in November and hit "the bottom", forecasts Pantera Capital's crypto fund. BTC will then rise to $36,000 ahead of the next halving in March 2024 and continue to grow to a new record peak of $149,000.
According to the average results of a survey conducted by BDC Consulting among 53 cryptocurrency executives, bitcoin will stop the decline at $11,479. Meanwhile, over half of top executives intend to increase their investments in cryptocurrencies and have no plans to cut back.
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President Tayyip Erdogan expects issues around Turkey's purchase of U.S. F-16 jets to be resolved soon, following a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of a G20 summit.
In an interview with reporters on his way back from the summit in Bali, Erdogan said Biden had told him the issue was "in his hands", a readout of his comments on the plane showed.
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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said he could revisit relations with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad following the presidential and parliamentary elections set for June next year.
When asked about a possible meeting with the Syrian leader, Erdogan said, there was no eternal resentment or quarrelling in politics, according to a readout of comments he made during his flight back from Bali.
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Nadda, Union ministers, CMs to address 89 BJP rallies in Gujarat on Friday
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Senior BJP leaders, including its national president J P Nadda besides Union ministers and chief ministers, are expected to address public meetings on Friday in the 89 Gujarat assembly constituencies going to the polls in the first phase of elections on December 1.
With the BJP intensifying its campaign, party sources said Nadda will hold rallies in three places -- Navsari, Ankleshwar and Rajkot East -- while Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Narendra Singh Tomar and Anurag Singh Thakur will speak at three, four and four meetings, respectively.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan will address three and four rallies, respectively.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union ministers V K Singh and Faggan Singh Kulaste are among other party leaders who will be addressing rallies, they said.
Saurashtra, Kutch and south Gujarat are the regions going to the polls in the first phase while 93 seats in north and central parts of the state will have polls on December 5.
The Bharatitya Janata Party (BJP) won assembly polls in the state for six consecutive times since 1995 and is pulling out all the stops to keep its winning streak uninterrupted in the traditionally bipolar poll involving the Congress, spiced up this time by the entry of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
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Veer Savarkar helped the British, betrayed leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, alleges Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday raked up Veer Savarkar again and alleged that he betrayed leaders like MK Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel by signing a letter of apology to the British before independence.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday raked up Veer Savarkar again and alleged that he betrayed leaders like M.K Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel by signing a letter of apology to the British before independence. Addressing the media here during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi said, "Veer Savarkar, in a letter written to the British, said "Sir, I beg to remain your most obedient servant" and signed on it. Savarkar helped the British. He betrayed leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel by signing the letter out of fear."
Hitting out at the BJP, the Congress leader said that the youth are not being given the assurance of getting jobs. "I see two big problems- youths don't have the assurance of getting jobs and farmers don't get support from anywhere. The third is interlinked- people are paying for education and health as govt schools, colleges and hospitals are shutting, so where is the money going?" he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi attended Tribal Convention during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Hingoli on the occasion of Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas. Rahul Gandhi said that Hindutva ideologue, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar used to take a pension from Britisher and worked against Congress.
"In Andaman jail, Savarkar wrote a letter and told the British to forgive him and release him from jail. Veer Savarkar took a pension from the British, he worked against Congress. After coming out of jail he accepted the British proposal and joined their force. The difference between Savarkar and Birsa Munda is, he fought against the British when he was 24 years old," he said. Following this, Ranjit Savarkar, the grandson of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, had said that he would file a complaint at Shivaji Park Police Station in Mumbai against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for "insulting" Veer Savarkar.
Savarkar talking to ANI said, "It is not the first time Rahul Gandhi and Congress have insulted Savarkar. In the past too, they have insulted Savarkar, so I have decided to file a complaint against Rahul Gandhi at Shivaji Park police station." "I will file a complaint for insulting our leader freedom fighter. Rahul Gandhi is a serial offender in this regard. In the past in 2017 also he did the same thing," Ranjit Sarvarkar also added, "Congress is trying to play vote bank politics and uses the same agenda of insulting Veer Savarkar," he concluded.
Earlier today, Rahul Gandhi and others resumed the Maharashtra leg of the Yatra from Patur. The Yatra has already covered parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana before entering Maharashtra. Rahul Gandhi will travel through 15 Assembly and 6 Parliamentary Constituencies in Five districts of Maharashtra and would cover a distance of 382 Kms.
Bharat Jodo Yatra, which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari, will cover a further distance of 2,355 km in its 3,570-km march. It will end in Kashmir next year. It is the longest march on foot by any Indian politician in the history of India, the Congress claimed earlier in a statement. Bharat Jodo Yatra is getting support from various political parties and social organizations across the country and the response is increasing day by day. Notably, all the party MPs, leaders and workers along with Rahul Gandhi are staying in containers. Sleeping beds, toilets and ACs are also installed in some of the containers. The arrangements have been made keeping in view the intense heat and humidity with the change of places. The Congress suffered a debacle in the assembly polls held earlier this year and the Yatra is seen as an attempt to rally the party rank and file for the upcoming electoral battles. (ANI)
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Nepal may have hung parliament; political stability unlikely after general elections: analysts
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Ahead of Nepal's parliamentary and provincial assembly elections, political analysts here are predicting a hung parliament and a government that is unlikely to provide much-needed political stability in the Himalayan nation, sandwiched between India and China.
There are two major political alliances fighting it out for the November 20 general elections - the Nepali Congress-led democratic and leftist alliance and the CPN-UML-led leftist and pro-Hindu-pro-monarchy alliance.
The Nepali Congress-led ruling alliance includes CPN-Maoist Centre, CPN-Unified Socialist, and Madhes-based Loktantrik Samajwadi Party while the CPN-UML-led alliance includes pro-Hindu Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Madhes-based Janata Samajwadi Party.
Political observers closely watching the November 20 elections have predicted that the ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will become victorious in the parliamentary elections with the Nepali Congress emerging as the single largest party. K P Sharma Oli-led CPN-UML (the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) will emerge as the second largest party though the alliance he is leading is unlikely to get a major share in the new Parliament, they argue.
Several new political parties and many independent candidates are in the fray this time, posing a tough challenge to some of the heavyweights from established political parties that have failed to deliver.
''As things start moving now, one of the two pre-poll alliances is likely to emerge as the largest group after the election. However, the government to be formed by these groups is unlikely to provide the political stability that Nepal badly needs,'' senior journalist and political analyst Dhruba Adhikay said.
There is less enthusiasm in people regarding the election this time, said Rajesh Ahiraj, a political analyst closely watching the Madhes politics in Nepal.
''Intellectuals opine that the elections may produce a strong government but it will make the country weaker,'' he pointed out.
''The much-needed peace and political stability are far away even after the election.'' Madhes-based political parties such as Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) led by Upendra Yadav and Loktantrik Samajwadi Party led by Mahantha Thakur both are unlikely to gain much in the upcoming election, he said.
''Among the two key Madhesi parties, comparatively speaking, the JSP will be in a better position after the election,'' he said. ''The majority of the voters are familiar with the character of their leaders and the weaknesses of political parties, through different social media sites. Thus, the election result will be very much unexpected this time,'' he pointed out.
No party is likely to get a majority in the election and it will take them a long time to form a new government and even after the formation of the government through negotiations, stability is far away, he added.
On the new government's foreign policy priorities, Adhikay said: ''So far as foreign policy is concerned, Nepal's political geography requires the incoming government to continue to have a balanced relationship with both of our immediate neighbours (India and China)''.
''Chances of major changes in existing policy priorities are minimal,'' he said. However, Daman Nath Dhungana, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, feels that Nepal's relations with the neighbouring countries will largely depend upon how the new government will be formed and who will lead it. ''If the present ruling alliance continues, it will have certain priorities regarding the foreign policy and if the UML-led alliance emerges victorious it will have other priorities,'' he argued, adding ''some time back, the UML-led government was working towards establishing a Xi Jinping school in Nepal.'' ''The Nepali Congress and the Maoists are united just for power, though they have different ideologies. Neither the foreign policy nor the economic policy of the two parties match. Therefore, I fear that the new government will not be able to pursue a foreign policy that is suitable for Nepal.'' ''In the past, our relations with India were more important, and in a way, India had the monopoly to have leverage over Nepal affairs, but now the monopoly has ended with world power China becoming active in regional affairs,'' Dhungana said. ''The US, a superpower, has also come into the scenario and in this situation, we should have a balanced and effective foreign policy,'' he said.
''Though India and China both are equally important to us, India is much closer to Nepal due to cultural and religious proximity and economic integrity,'' he said.
Nepal needs to attract more foreign investment by using economic diplomacy to make the country prosperous, he added.
Voting for the twin elections in the Himalayan country will take place in a single phase.
More than 17.9 million people are eligible to vote in seven provinces across the country.
Out of a total of 275 members of the federal Parliament, 165 will be elected through direct voting while the remaining 110 will be elected through a proportionate method. Similarly, out of a total of 550 members of the Provincial Assembly, 330 will be elected directly and 220 will be elected through a proportionate method. The Nepali Congress became the second-largest party in the 2017 general elections with 63 seats and the Maoist Centre emerged as the third-largest party with 53 seats, according to The Kathmandu Post. The CPN-UML was the largest party in the previous election with 94 seats. The party split in 2021.
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I-T officials raid premises linked to Bihar minister's kin
The personnel also visited the ministers home in the state capital to enquire about his relative in a case pertaining to alleged tax evasion.Talking to PTI, Mahaseth, the Bihar industries minister and RJD MLA from Madhubani, said, Yes, I-T officials visited my house in Patna today as part of an investigation against a distant relative of mine.
Income Tax (I-T) personnel on Thursday conducted searches at multiple premises linked to a relative of Bihar minister Sameer Mahaseth in Patna and some other districts, officials said. The personnel also visited the minister's home in the state capital to ''enquire'' about his relative in a case pertaining to alleged tax evasion.
Talking to PTI, Mahaseth, the Bihar industries minister and RJD MLA from Madhubani, said, ''Yes, I-T officials visited my house in Patna today as part of an investigation against a distant relative of mine. I have come to know that searches are being conducted at the premises of my relative in Patna and other places. ''Let me tell you one thing very clearly that neither the case is related to me nor my premises are being searched. They (IT officials) simply visited my house and enquired about my relative.'' However, the minister refused to divulge details about the nature of the case. ''Let the I-T officials complete their investigation. We are fully cooperating with them in their investigation. And, we don't indulge in any sort of tax evasion act,'' Mahaseth said.
Reacting to the development, Bihar BJP spokesperson Arvind Kumar Singh alleged that almost all ministers of the Nitish Kumar government are involved in corrupt activities.
''Those who have failed to pay tax will have to face action,'' Singh added.
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ANALYSIS-Libya's festering crisis risks slide back to war
As its political stalemate festers, Libya risks sliding back towards civil war with diplomacy at a standstill, politicians thwarting progress towards elections and military leaders including eastern commander Khalifa Haftar threatening violence. A move by forces aligned with the Tripoli government this week to blockade a meeting by a legislative body, a bout of deadly fighting in August and Haftar's warnings of a new war all underscore the risks.
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As its political stalemate festers, Libya risks sliding back towards civil war with diplomacy at a standstill, politicians thwarting progress towards elections and military leaders including eastern commander Khalifa Haftar threatening violence.
A move by forces aligned with the Tripoli government this week to blockade a meeting by a legislative body, a bout of deadly fighting in August and Haftar's warnings of a new war all underscore the risks. With the new U.N. envoy Abdoulaye Bathily warning in a first report this week that "some institutional players are actively hindering progress towards elections" there seems little prospect of any real move towards a settled peace.
"No one is talking about elections any more. The game playing that political leaders are doing is always to obstruct. It's all delaying tactics," said Otman Gajiji, a former Libyan electoral commission head. In Tripoli, many people fear that continued gridlock raises the chances of violence, which has flared several times in the capital this year and always risks escalating into wider conflict.
"The crisis is mainly getting prolonged because those in power seek their own interests, not those of Libyans," said Adel al-Sheikh, 39, a Tripoli shop owner. Fair national elections were the only solution, he said. "Otherwise we won't have a stable country and for sure there will be more wars," he added.
The prospect of more conflict would not only create misery for ordinary Libyans: the stakes are also high for an inattentive world. War could mean a new theatre for Russia-Western friction on the Mediterranean, cuts to Libya's 1.2 million barrels-per-day oil output during a global energy shortage, a space for Islamist militants to prosper and fuel for a global migration crisis.
Libya has had little open warfare since the 2020 ceasefire that ended Haftar's last assault on Tripoli, the culmination of years of division between factions who emerged during a 2011 NATO-backed uprising and split between east and west in 2014. OBSTRUCTION
On the surface, Libya's political standoff seems defined by disputes over an eventual constitution, the rules of a future election, regional divisions of wealth and the shape of a transitional government. However, many Libyans suspect that behind the public facade of each faction's avowed support for elections, none has much interest in a long-term resolution because each benefits from the messy status quo.
National elections could sweep away most of the squabbling political forces that have dominated Libya through years of institutional division, outright warfare and unstable peace. In Tripoli, Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah runs the Government of National Unity, installed early last year through a U.N.-backed process to oversee a short transition that was meant to culminate in elections last year.
His government's direct access to oil revenue through the Central Bank and spending on development projects run by political allies has drawn repeated accusations of widespread corruption, which Dbeibah denies. The eastern parliament has rejected his legitimacy since last year's election process fell apart amid disputes over the rules. It backs a separate administration under Fathi Bashagha, urging its own plan for an election.
However, the parliament's own term formally expired years ago and critics of the speaker, Aguila Saleh, accuse him of playing loose with legislative rules to issue laws aimed at consolidating his power base, something he also denies. Another legislative body, the High State Council, whose legitimacy stems from a 2012 election and a political agreement that was never fully implemented, has moved back and forth on the issues, furthering hindering any prospect of a deal.
THREATS However, even if elites are unwilling to upset the status quo through a long-term political settlement, there is no guarantee they will not upset it by returning to arms.
Haftar remains entrenched in eastern and southern Libya and his recent speeches, appearing to threaten a new war if the political stalemate persists, reveal a man again chafing to expand his influence to the capital. "We are waging the decisive battle for liberation, whatever the price and however long it takes," he said on October 31, adding that unnamed corrupt leaders "will not escape punishment - the armed forces will not allow it."
In Tripoli itself, and the rest of the northwest, two years of ceasefire have scrambled the military coalition of armed factions that had fought off Haftar's assault. That was brought home in August when rival factions fought in the worst battle in the capital for years as Bashagha attempted to enter the city. He turned back and groups aligned with him were pushed out of Tripoli, leaving Dbeibah more firmly ensconced there.
Recent fighting in Tripoli has allowed one powerful group to consolidate its hold over territory, but its rivals still exist and could mount new attempts to win sway. With Turkish forces still present around Tripoli and able to fend off any major assault there with drone strikes, battles between rival groups in the northwest present the most likely trigger for any wider conflict involving Haftar.
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Benin's self-styled 'garbage collector' takes aim at plastic waste
Beninese activist Anas Seko, known on social media as "the garbage collector", is on a mission to raise awareness about plastic waste and environmental protection in his home country in West Africa. Through clean-up campaigns, one-man performances and comical videos on social media, the 25-year-old encourages youths to pick up the plastic bags that litter streets and beaches in his city, Abomey-Calavi, near Benin's commercial capital Cotonou.
Beninese activist Anas Seko, known on social media as "the garbage collector", is on a mission to raise awareness about plastic waste and environmental protection in his home country in West Africa.
Through clean-up campaigns, one-man performances and comical videos on social media, the 25-year-old encourages youths to pick up the plastic bags that litter streets and beaches in his city, Abomey-Calavi, near Benin's commercial capital Cotonou. "In the African perception... it's a bit frowned upon to see someone picking up litter. It seems a bit shameful," said Seko, who has thousands of followers on Facebook and Twitter.
"So by calling myself "The Garbage Collector," first of all, it's to say that I'm not ashamed to pick up trash."
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UP CM orders to construct new court buildings in 10 districts
The buildings must be constructed keeping in view the requirements in the next 25 to 30 years in mind, Adityanath said.Directions have been issued that the new court buildings should have clean and airy rooms for judges, good chambers for advocates, a sizable library, a canteen, a parking area and a seminar hall, the release said.The new court buildings should be developed as a model for the state and the nation as a whole, by making them fully equipped, it said.The chief minister also directed the officials to construct residential colonies for judges and other judicial officers and employees.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday ordered the construction of court buildings equipped with state-of-the-art and advanced facilities in 10 districts of the state, according to an official release. The chief minister has asked officials of the Public Works Department and the Planning Department to submit a detailed presentation for the construction of the new buildings within 15 days.
The ten districts where the new court building will be built include Agra, Auraiya, Hapur, Kaushambi, Mahoba, Bahraich, Chandauli, and Hathras among others, the release said.
He also gave instructions to the officials to ensure strict security arrangements are made in all the courts and also directed the District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police of every district to hold meetings with the District Judges regularly.
These meetings will be held under the chairmanship of the District Judge while the presence of the DM and SP/SSP is mandatory, the release said.
The CM said the court buildings need to be both aesthetically pleasing and vertically oriented to save land. The buildings must be constructed keeping in view the requirements in the next 25 to 30 years in mind, Adityanath said.
Directions have been issued that the new court buildings should have clean and airy rooms for judges, good chambers for advocates, a sizable library, a canteen, a parking area and a seminar hall, the release said.
The new court buildings should be developed as a model for the state and the nation as a whole, by making them fully equipped, it said.
The chief minister also directed the officials to construct residential colonies for judges and other judicial officers and employees. All courts and registrar offices should be upgraded to 'e-offices', it said.
He has also given orders to finish the land acquisition process as soon as possible, adding that the newly purchased land should be free of any patches or other issues.
Directing the officials to visit courts in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh to observe their designs, Adityanath asked them to incorporate attractive architectural features found anywhere in the country into the design of the new court buildings.
He said the design of the new court buildings can be divided into three categories -- districts with a population of less than 25 lakhs, 25-40 lakhs, and districts with a population of 40 to 70 lakhs.
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COP27 deal needs 'tremendous amount of work' - EU's Timmermans
A tremendous amount of work is needed to turn a draft COP27 text into something all parties can agree on, European Union Climate Policy Chief Frans Timmermans told Reuters on Thursday.
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A tremendous amount of work is needed to turn a draft COP27 text into something all parties can agree on, European Union Climate Policy Chief Frans Timmermans told Reuters on Thursday. "The cover text still needs a tremendous amount of work. We are not in a position to say that this is enough common ground that we could agree upon," he said at the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
"So, we will continue the discussions and will give our input and hope that we can find this common ground before the end of the COP." The U.N. climate body earlier published a draft document laying out what could be included in a hoped for final agreement from the summit, repeating many of the goals from last year's U.N. talks while leaving contentious issues still to be resolved.
The summit is due to end Friday, but some participants expect it will extend into the weekend. Countries are still at odds over the issue of "loss and damage", or how to provide financial support for countries hit by huge economic loss and irreparable damage as a result of climate-driven disasters.
Developing and climate-vulnerable countries are demanding that countries agree at the COP27 summit to form a new fund to address these losses. Rich countries including the European Union and United States have blocked past attempts to launch such a fund or even discuss compensation for climate-linked losses - fearing spiralling liabilities for their high-emitting economies' role in fuelling climate change.
Timmermans said the EU was now willing to discuss a new fund, but wanted to first explore how existing financial instruments could be retooled to tackle loss and damage. "A fund might also be a result of that. But that's not a foregone conclusion," Timmermans said.
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COP27 draft climate deal retains 1.5C limit, but many issues unresolved
"Instead of a reference to phasing out all fossil fuels we have an even weaker version of the language around coal and fossil fuel subsidies than we got last year," she said. Other unresolved issues include calls for boosting a global goal for finance to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of a warmer world, and plans for ratcheting up targets for cutting climate-warming emissions.
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The first draft of a deal being hashed out at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt would keep a target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but left many of the most contentious issues in the talks unresolved ahead of a Friday deadline. Egypt's COP27 president urged negotiators to speed up the pace on overcoming their differences, while poor nations slammed the draft for failing to address their need for funds to cope with damage already being wrought by climate-driven storms, droughts and floods.
"Time is not on our side, let us come together now and deliver by Friday," COP27 President Sameh Shoukry said in a letter to delegates dated Wednesday and published on Thursday. The 20-page draft for a hoped-for final agreement repeats the goal from last year's Glasgow Climate Pact to limit warming to 1.5C, and asks countries "to accelerate measures towards the phase down of unabated coal power and phase out and rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies."
It also "welcomes" the fact that delegates had begun discussions on launching a so-called loss and damage fund for countries being ravaged by climate impacts, but did not include details for launching it. Climate-vulnerable countries including tiny island nations want the agreement to lead to a fund, and soon, but wealthy countries have resisted the idea over fear such a deal could open them up to endless financial liability for their historical contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.
Delegates have worried the sticking point could stymie agreement at COP27, this year's edition of the annual United Nations meeting that aims at global action to slow climate change and the damage it causes. "The main thing missing from the cover decision is a clear commitment for financial support for loss and damage for the most vulnerable, and a facility to deliver it," said a Henry Kokofu of Ghana, a spokesperson for the Climate Vulnerable Forum of climate-vulnerable nations.
"If the text is not corrected, COP27 will fail the world's most vulnerable," he said. EU climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said the first draft left a lot to be desired.
"The cover text still needs a tremendous amount of work," he told Reuters. "So, we will continue the discussions and will give our input and hope that we can find this common ground before the end of the COP." TEMPERATURE TARGET
On limiting the global temperature rise, the document mirrors language included in last year's COP26 agreement, stressing "the importance of exerting all efforts at all levels to achieve the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels." U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry had said last week that a few of the nearly 200 countries gathered for the talks in Sharm el-Sheikh had been resisting language around 1.5C, but declined to name them.
Scientists say limiting average planetary warming to 1.5C is important to averting the worst effects of climate change. Temperatures have already increased by 1.1C. While last year's climate summit had also agreed to call on countries to outright phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, this year's draft encourages efforts to "phase out and rationalize inefficient fossil fuel subsidies."
Catherine Abreu of the E3G non-profit worried that tweak to the language could represent a weakening of the goal. "Instead of a reference to phasing out all fossil fuels we have an even weaker version of the language around coal and fossil fuel subsidies than we got last year," she said.
Other unresolved issues include calls for boosting a global goal for finance to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of a warmer world, and plans for ratcheting up targets for cutting climate-warming emissions. "I think the problem is that there's a lot in here, and lots of it will be shot down by parties on all sides", said Tom Evans, a climate policy analyst at E3G.
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INSIGHT-Bankers bet billions on new wave of debt-for-nature deals
Yet it could eventually be trumped by others, including Sri Lanka, which has been discussing a deal of up to $1 billion according to people familiar with those talks. Cape Verde, an archipelago nation off West Africa, is meanwhile close to a nature swap that could be worth up to $200 million, said Jean-Paul Adam, a former Seychelles government official who now works for the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), providing financing advice to governments.
The Galapagos Islands, whose thousands of unique species inspired Darwin's theory of evolution, have incalculable ecological value. But what are they worth? Perhaps around $800 million, judging by the size of a "debt-for-nature" swap deal that could see Ecuador's debts cut in exchange for protecting its offshore territory's fragile ecosystem, according to people with knowledge of the talks.
These kind of agreements are part of efforts to address an intractable quandary facing world leaders at the U.N. COP27 summit underway in Egypt: who will pay the bill for the global fight against biodiversity loss and climate change? "There's now a big push to get nature into sovereign debt markets," said Simon Zadek, executive director at NatureFinance, which advises governments on debt-for-nature swaps and other types of climate-focused finance.
"The tragedy of debt distress offers a real opportunity," he added, pointing to nature-rich countries who look like ideal debt swap candidates following big drops in their bond prices this year. Ecuador isn't among the world's richer nations. It's a serial defaulter and its sovereign bonds are again trading at "distressed" levels, or a deep discount to their face value. But it does have a wealth of biodiversity that it could leverage in a wider region where much of the wildlife has been wiped out.
The country is holding talks with banks and a nonprofit group in an attempt to reach a deal that would see about $800 million of its debt refinanced more cheaply, freeing up the savings for conservation efforts, according to the three people with knowledge of the deal, who declined to be named as the discussions are confidential. At that level, it would be the biggest debt-for-nature swap struck to date. Yet it could eventually be trumped by others, including Sri Lanka, which has been discussing a deal of up to $1 billion according to people familiar with those talks.
Cape Verde, an archipelago nation off West Africa, is meanwhile close to a nature swap that could be worth up to $200 million, said Jean-Paul Adam, a former Seychelles government official who now works for the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), providing financing advice to governments. The Ecuadorian, Sri Lankan and Cape Verde governments didn't respond to requests for comment for this story, although Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso said in an local newspaper on Oct. 12 that its Galapagos swap deal could be wrapped up in four or five weeks.
VANISHING ANIMALS The potential deals for Ecuador, Sri Lanka and Cape Verde, reported here in detail for the first time, point to a jump in interest for this form of financial alchemy, which was conceived decades ago but has remained something of a niche area until recently.
Only three of over 140 or so swaps struck over the past 35 years - the first in 1987 - had a value of more than a quarter of a billion dollars, according to global data published by the African Development Bank. The average size was $26.6 million. The combined value of swap deals to date is $3.7 billion, according to the data. That's a fraction of the $400 billion of emerging market sovereign debt analysts at Capital Economics recently estimated had fallen to distressed levels.
Advocates say that those current debt problems, combined with the growing political will and the recent successful swap deals in the Seychelles, Belize and Barbados, mean a swathe of other countries are now exploring the model. Indeed, Adam at UNECA said four African countries were now exploring potential swaps. He declined to name them, saying he wasn't sure if they were ready to go public.
Patricia Scotland, secretary-general of the Commonwealth of 56 countries, told Reuters: "Lots of my members are looking at it and we're looking at it with them". The ecological stakes could barely be higher.
The global populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians have declined by almost 70% on average since 1970, while Latin America has seen a drop of more than 90%, according to this year's Living Planet Index compiled by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London. CULTIVATING PORTFOLIOS
Such swaps are often compromises. Should a country default, its bondholders lose money or at least have to wait a lot longer to recoup it.
Debt-for-nature deals can help as they can produce so-called green, or blue bonds in the case of those that focus on ocean conservation, which appeal to a rapidly growing number of investors who want to meet ESG and net-zero goals. Veteran debt crisis fund manager Carl Ross at GMO said Belize's pledge to protect its sprawling barrier reef - the largest in the western hemisphere - helped get its restructuring "over the hump" last year in a deal he was involved with.
At their simplest, these deals see expensive bonds or loans written down and replaced with cheaper financing, usually with the help of a credit guarantee from a multilateral development bank. Ecuador, for example, is in talks with the Pew Charitable Trusts plus the Inter-American Development Bank and U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, two of the people with knowledge of the planned deal said.
Pew and the banks declined to comment. Securing the buy-in of development banks is usually key for the economics of a deal. But as the banks must closely guard their capital and credit ratings to preserve their ability to borrow cheaply, that hurdle has long restricted the growth of swaps.
The World Bank's managing director of operations, Axel van Trotsenburg, told Reuters on the sidelines of COP27 that it supports debt-for-nature swaps, as did African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, who said his bank would "absolutely" start providing credit guarantees. G7 governments and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley's "Bridgetown initiative" have all demanded the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ramp up climate-focused funding.
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva spoke at COP27, saying swaps were a worthwhile part of the toolkit albeit no "silver bullet" in global efforts to fund conservation. BELIZE'S $550 MLN DEAL
Indeed, debt-for-nature deals are dwarfed by the scale of the funding challenge: developing countries will need to secure $1 trillion a year in external financing by the end of the decade to take effective climate action and restore nature, a report released at COP27 said. Nonetheless, those involved in such swaps say they are having an impact.
Belize's $553 million swap last year provided money to protect the world's second-largest coral reef and reduced its debt level by more than 10% of GDP, the government estimates. The Seychelles' 2015 deal, which created the world's first blue bond after eight years of talks, saw the government commit to protect 30% of its waters - an area the size of Germany - from overfishing and development and bought back $22 million of its debt on favourable terms, former environment minister Ronny Jumeau said.
Swap proponents are pushing for the dozen or so major development banks to come together with expanded and standardized support to drive widespread use of the instruments. "That's the limiting factor that keeps us from just scaling this to trillions of dollars," added Kevin Bender at The Nature Conservancy, who leads the NGO's sovereign debt teams and worked on the Belize swap.
Esteban Brenes, the WWF's U.S. director of conservation finance, said improvements were also needed in how wildlife pledges are monitored and verified so that creditors are satisfied that countries are meeting their commitments. Monitoring can be creative.
The WWF has projects in Central and South America where they are monitoring deforestation by tracking jaguars, said Brenes, who has worked on debt-for-nature swaps for the last 25 years. The big cats need around 50 square kilometers of good forest to hunt and reproduce, so are a good indicator of forest health. More data showing swaps work should encourage international institutions to become involved, Brenes added.
"No planet, no business - that is what we need the IMFs of this world to understand," he said.
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Lashu advances into QFs; four Indians progress on second day
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Indian boxer Lashu Yadav made her way into the women's 70kg quarterfinals after thrashing Poland's Marta Czerwinska by unanimous decision in the Youth men's and women's World Boxing Championships in La Nucia, Spain.
Besides Lashu's commanding 5-0 win, Preeti Dahiya and the country's two male pugilists also progressed into the next stage.
Preeti blanked Colombia's Claudia Daniela 4-0 in the women's 57kg round of 32 bout.
In the men's section, Harsh exhibited an equally dominant display against Hungary's Levente Olah to pocket the 60kg opening round match comfortably by 5-0 margin.
Ashish, on the other hand, was given a walkover in his 54kg round of 32 contest against Nima Bayati of Iran.
Meanwhile, India's unbeaten run in the prestigious event came to a halt after the Asian youth bronze medallist Pranjal Yadav endured a close 2-3 loss against Uzbekistan's Oltinoy Sotimboeva in a hard-fought women's 81kg last-16 encounter.
Six Indian male boxers will be seen in action on the third day of the competition. While Asian youth champion Vanshaj (63.5kg), Jadumani Singh Mandengbam (51kg), Aman Rathore (67kg), Rockey Chaudhary (80kg) and Bharat Joon (92kg) will fight in their respective round-of-32 matches, Rhythm (+92kg) will play in the pre-quarterfinals.
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Haas cuts Mick Schumacher and replaces him with Hulkenberg
Setbacks only make you stronger. The announcement regarding the last undecided seat on F1s 2023 grid was hardly a surprise as Gene Haas told The Associated Press in October that Schumacher needed to score points in the final four races of the season to keep his job.
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Mick Schumacher, son of seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, is out at Haas and Nico Hulkenberg will return to the grid fulltime next season in his place. "I would like to thank Mick Schumacher for his contribution to the team over the past couple of years," Haas team principal Günther Steiner said in a statement. "Mick's pedigree in the junior categories was well known and he has continued to grow and develop as a driver in his time with Haas F1 Team. While choosing to go in separate directions for the future the entire team wishes Mick well for the next steps in his career path and beyond." Minutes after the announcement was made, Schumacher tweeted that he was disappointed with the decision but hoped to soon return to Formula 1.
"It was at times bumpy but I steadily improved, learned a lot and now know for sure that I deserve a place in Formula One,'' Schumacher said. "The subject is anything but closed for me. Setbacks only make you stronger.'' The announcement regarding the last undecided seat on F1's 2023 grid was hardly a surprise as Gene Haas told The Associated Press in October that Schumacher needed to score points in the final four races of the season to keep his job. "Mick's future is going to be decided by Mick. If he wants to stay with us, he's got to show us that he can score some more points. That's what we are waiting for," Haas told The AP. ''I think Mick has got a lot of potential, but you know he costs a fortune and he's wrecked a lot of cars that have cost us a lot of money that we just don't have. ''Now, if you bring us some points, and you are (Max) Verstappen and you wreck cars, we'll deal with it. But when you are in the back and you wreck cars, that's very difficult." In the three races since Haas made clear the job requirements, the 23-year-old German has failed to score any points with a best finish of 13th last week in Brazil. Schumacher missed the second race of the season after a brief hospitalization following a crash in Saudi Arabia, and with 12 points scored this season ranks 17th of the 20 full-time drivers. In two seasons with Haas, where Schumacher was placed by the Ferrari Driver Academy, Schumacher has yet to live up to the hype set by his father's legacy. He and fellow rookie Nikita Mazepin combined for the worst team on the F1 grid last season, and he's been outrun all year by Kevin Magnussen, who was brought back to the team when Mazepin was fired followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Haas, the only American-owned team on the F1 grid, has a technical alliance with Ferrari and Schumacher's contract with the Driver Academy is up after Sunday's season finale at Abu Dhabi — removing any obligation on Haas to keep Schumacher in the car. Schumacher could land in a reserve role with Mercedes — a job Australian Daniel Ricciardo is also chasing — and Esteban Ocon had pushed for Schumacher to get the open Alpine seat before it went to Pierre Gasly. Mercedes head Toto Wolff admitted the team has interest in the young German after last week's race. "I don't know what the status is with Mick and Haas," Wolff said after the Brazilian Grand Prix. "But I make no secret of the fact that the Schumacher family belongs with us and that we value Mick very highly." Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel is retiring after Sunday's race and Schumacher is out, which put F1 in jeopardy of not having a German driver on the grid next season. But Haas replaced one German with another in Hulkenberg, a veteran of 181 F1 starts. Hulkenberg last raced a full season in 2019 with Renault, then was a substitute driver for two races in 2020 and another two races this year. He was a fill-in this year for Vettel, who missed the first two races of the season with COVID-19, and Hulkenberg finished 12th in Saudi Arabia. Hulkenberg, who is 35, scored a pole in his 2010 rookie season but has never had a podium finish in F1. "I'm very happy to move into a fulltime race seat with Haas F1 Team in 2023," Hülkenberg said in a team statement. "I feel like I never really left Formula 1. I'm excited to have the opportunity to do what I love the most again and want to thank Gene Haas and Günther Steiner for their trust. "
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No harm in having new T20 captain, and if his name is Hardik Pandya, so be it: Shastri
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri on Thursday said there is ''no harm'' in appointing a separate T20 captain and identified premier all-rounder Hardik Pandya as the ideal candidate.
In the absence of regular skipper Rohit Sharma, Hardik will lead India in the three-match T20Is series in New Zealand, starting Friday.
''For T20 cricket, there is no harm in having a new captain,'' Shastri told reporters ahead of the first T20I here.
''Because the volume of cricket is such, that for one player to play all three formats of the game is never going to be easy.
''If Rohit is already leading in Tests and ODIs, there is no harm in identifying a new T20I captain, and if his name is Hardik Pandya, so be it.'' Stand-in head coach VVS Laxman on Thursday said India will be looking to identify T20 specialists as it seeks course correction after yet another World Cup failure, and Shastri agreed with the NCA head.
''That's the way forward, VVS is right. They'll identify specialists, especially among the youngsters.
''That should be the mantra, two years from now identify and make that team into a terrific fielding side and identify roles for these youngsters who could be fearless and play that kind of cricket without any baggage.'' For the T20Is against New Zealand the likes of Shubman Gill, Umran Malik, Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson have been given a chance as senior players have been rested.
The 60-year-old feels that the Indian team management should groom the youngsters and emulate England's white-ball template that has resulted in them being holders of the ODI as well as the T20 World Cup.
''There's an opportunity with this team in the future to identify roles for players, identify match-winners, and go pretty much on the template of England.
''They are one team that really caught the bull by the horns after the 2015 World Cup. They sat down and said they are going to identify the best players for that format of the game - whether it's T20 or 50-over cricket.
''Which meant that if they are some senior players, and have to sit out, so be it. And they got in youngsters who were fearless, and could adapt to that pattern of the game.
''It's a template that can be followed easily, India has got a wealth of resources and it can start from this tour. It's a fresh young side, you can identify, groom this team.'' No need for Indian players to play in foreign T20 leagues =================================== Since the emergence of the IPL in 2008, many countries have started their own T20 leagues including Australia's Big Bash League (BBL), Pakistan Premier League (PSL), Caribbean Premier League (CPL) etc.
However, while the overseas players are welcomed in the IPL, the BCCI doesn't allow any active Indian cricketer to participate in these foreign leagues.
After the semifinal loss to England, where skipper Jos Butller and opener Alex Hales utilised their extensive experience of playing in the BBL to hand India a 10-wicket drubbing, there were calls for the BCCI to allow its players to participate in different T20 leagues around the globe.
However, Shastri and former India pacer Zaheer Khan don't agree.
''I feel there are a lot of processes in place. It's not about playing only franchise cricket, it's about going to different countries to learn things.
''That is very important and BCCI with its shadow tours, that process is well in place. I don't see any other reason for players to go and play in a particular tournament,'' Zaheer said.
''You already have robust structure, why depend on others. We have more than enough means to produce good players and you look at our bench strength. You can virtually play three line ups and they can compete at any level.
Shastri added that ''there is enough domestic cricket for all these players to get absorbed in the system and get an opportunity.
''Plus you get India A tours and all other tours where at one given time two Indian teams will be playing in the future and the opportunity will come for the other lot to go somewhere else whilst India is in some other country to go play.
''There is no need, they are absolutely fine playing IPL and focusing on domestic cricket, we need them to play domestic cricket in India as well.'' No substitute to genuine pace, opportunity for Umran to learn ====================================== Both Zaheer and Shastri feel that the tour of New Zealand is a great opportunity for pace sensation Umran Malik.
''Umran has been an exciting talent and this kind of exposure will help him. It's about how he takes things forward and how quickly he understands that this stage is going to be crucial if he wants to grab that spot in the playing XI and cement his place,'' Zaheer said.
''He's one of the fastest bowlers in India and you saw what happened in the World Cup, genuine pace rattled opposition whether it was Haris Rauf or Naseem Shah, Anrich Nortje,'' Shastri added.
''There is no substitute to genuine pace even while defending small scores. It's an opportunity for him and hopefully he will learn from this experience.'' Why do you need so many breaks, coaches should be hands on ======================================= Besides Rohit, star batter Virat Kohli and opener KL Rahul have also been rested for the tour. The entire coaching staff, including head coach Rahul Dravid, has also been given a break after the T20 World Cup.
However, Shastri is not in favour of coaches taking breaks.
''I dont believe in breaks. Because I want to understand my teams and player and then be in control of the team.
''What do you need that many breaks for? You get 2-3 months of break during the IPL that's enough to rest. I feel coach should be hands on.'' India's tour of New Zealand will be aired on Prime Video.
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Spain's steely roller derby skaters championing inclusivity in sport
The blockers try to stop the jammer while making room for their own jammer. "I love roller derby because it's a community around the world, where no matter your body, your gender, your sexual orientation you are welcome," said Steel Groin's Marina Quer, aka "Marinaker," who plays as a jammer.
Boasting names like "Femina Morte" and "Mad, Mad Chica," the skaters of Barcelona's Steel Groin (Ingles de Acero) roller derby team are as tough as their names sound.
The fast-paced, full-contact sport played on quad skates and divided into two 30-minutes halves of "jams", each lasting up to two minutes, is growing in popularity around the world and drawing players with its LGBT+ friendly and inclusive ethos. Roller derby sees teams play five players a side, one of whom is a "jammer", who seeks to pass four blockers from the opposing team as they skate at high speed around an oval track. The blockers try to stop the jammer while making room for their own jammer.
"I love roller derby because it's a community around the world, where no matter your body, your gender, your sexual orientation you are welcome," said Steel Groin's Marina Quer, aka "Marinaker," who plays as a jammer. Steel Groin is a team for women and individuals who self-identify as women, in contrast to many sports run on strict gender binary terms.
"Women can be strong, can be violent, can be competitive, can be strategic… and I love that," said Quer, a 30-year-old marketing director. There are about 25 roller derby teams in Spain and over 1,200 leagues worldwide, mostly in the United States.
The sport's international association, the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) states it is "committed to inclusive and anti-discrimination practices in relation to all transgender women, intersex women, and gender expansive participants, and aims to ensure that all skaters', volunteers', and employees' rights are respected and protected." Roller derby was developed in the United States in the 1930s. Practiced mainly by women, it enjoyed a revival in the 2000s.
The Barcelona team began playing on the streets of the coastal city in 2010 and registered as a club in April 2011. Any new member or "fresh meat", as newbies are nicknamed, needs to pass a trial based on skating skills and strategic skills to block the jammer.
"I think all sports should integrate all people, obviously, but it is also cool to find identity and community in different places," said transgender maths teacher Diana Toboso, 31, during her trial session for Steel Groin. "I'm able to be myself in roller derby".
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Right backs, left backs are Brazil's weak spots at World Cup
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When Brazil coach Tite uttered the name of veteran Dani Alves in his call for the World Cup squad, reactions around the country spanned from anger to disappointment.
The Brazil coach, who has faced little criticism in his six years on the job, described his pick in a paused, not-so-confident tone.
''The criteria for Daniel Alves is the criteria for all,'' Tite said. ''It is about rewarding individual skill, his fitness and his mental aspect. Just like the others.'' Alves himself, however, recognized that many didn't want him in the squad for Qatar.
''I am not here to please everyone,'' he said in a video.
The rancor has nothing to do with the right back's brilliant past, but the presence of a 39-year-old player who has struggled to play for any club in the past year laid bare the lack of options Brazil has on both flanks of the defense.
Tite's most likely options to start at the World Cup are right back Danilo, who has become more of a central defender at Juventus, and Alex Sandro, a player with little background as a typical Brazilian left back that runs from box to box.
Neither Danilo nor Alex Sandro are regarded as two of the best in the world in their positions, such as predecessors Cafu, Roberto Carlos, Marcelo and the peak Alves of 10 years ago were. At the same time, the duo has not caused Brazil much defensive trouble, being part of a team that conceded only five goals in South American qualifying.
Alves and Alex Telles are expected to be on the bench in Qatar, with Eder Militão also capable of playing as a right back and midfielder Fabinho as a left back.
''They are OK,'' former Brazil left back Junior, now a TV commentator, said this month about Tite's options. ''They are not players who will be up front all the time. They are more cautious. But I don't see any other choices that would be better to start at this time.'' Over the last year, Tite lost another two options that could have helped.
Fagner, a 33-year-old right back who replaced an injured Alves four years ago in Russia, had a poor season at Corinthians. Former Sevilla left back Guilherme Arana picked up a knee injury in September, ruling him out of the World Cup.
Brazil's coach also found little reason to bring back Renan Lodi, who was loaned to Nottingham Forest after struggling at Atletico Madrid.
Lodi was blamed for Brazil's 1-0 loss to Argentina in the 2021 Copa America final, with goal scorer Ángel di Maria saying he knew the Brazilian ''slept a little'' during matches. The left back didn't find any sympathy from Tite after he missed a callup earlier in the year because he wasn't vaccinated against COVID-19.
Brazil's right back at the World Cup, whoever he may be, could also face increased pressure playing alongside 38-year-old defender Thiago Silva.
Silva has been less consistent than usual at Chelsea, highlighted by a dreadful performance in the 4-1 loss to Brighton in the Premier League last month. A right back that can also run for an aging Silva could be key to avoid conceding goals in Qatar.
Cafu, who was on Brazil's World Cup-winning team in 2002, said protecting Silva is one of the reasons why Tite will eventually use Militão as a starting right back during the World Cup. He also trusts Brazil to do well in Qatar regardless of the lack of options at the back.
''I don't know why we have this shortage of players for those positions. But it is not only for the national team, we see that in clubs, too,'' Cafu said in an interview last month. ''Coaches are adapting midfielders to that position because they don't know how to specifically work with right and left backs.
''Also, it is unfair to compare these players with us. Anyone playing as a right or left back today has a lot of responsibility. They have to replace people who made history for Brazil.''
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Rooney, Figo, Pires, Campbell and Silva form all-star experts panel for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
'The Invincibles' teammates Sol Campbell, Robert Pires and Gilberto Silva will add star power to the expert's panel.
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For the first time ever, the most prestigious football competition in the world FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will be brought to viewers in India by an extraordinary group consisting of Wayne Rooney, Luis Figo, Robert Pires, Sol Campbell, and Gilberto Silva. For the first time ever, Indian viewers will revel in the expertise of legends who have created extraordinary memories in the hearts of football fans with the ball at their feet. Rooney, one of the most prolific strikers to have ever played the game and England's all-time top goal-scorer, will be joined by Portuguese legend and Ballon d'Or winner Luis Figo, who led his country to the semifinals in 2006, their best finish at a FIFA World Cup since 1966.
'The Invincibles' teammates Sol Campbell, Robert Pires and Gilberto Silva will add star power to the expert's panel. Campbell is the only player to have represented England in six consecutive major tournaments, playing in 1996, 2000 and 2004 Euros; and 1998, 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups, while Pires was an integral part of France's 1998 World Cup-winning team and Silva was Brazil's defensive rock in the 2002 World Cup winning campaign. "Delighted to be in India for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. It is my first opportunity to visit the country and get a chance to speak to many of the Indian football fans who supported me during my playing career. I am also excited to be a part of the country's World Cup experience and excitement," said Wayne Rooney in an official press release by Viacom18 Sports.
"I have been fortunate to experience the love for football in India previously and can only imagine how excited the fans will be during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Not only am I coming back to India, but I will also give the fans a taste of the world's greatest show," said Luis Figo. "From my experience of playing in India, I can safely say that fans know and love football to bits. I am excited to return to India and present the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 with my beloved former teammates," said Robert Pires.
"India's passion for football is contagious and heartening simultaneously. I can't wait to join the panel for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in what will also be a mini-reunion with my 'Invincible' teammates," said Sol Campbell. "I have read and heard a lot about Indian football and the fan stories, and it is exciting to travel to a country that loves the world's most beautiful sport.NI can't wait to share my knowledge and insights with fans for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022," said Gilberto Silva.
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ISL: High-flying Mumbai City FC host desperate Bengaluru FC
After scoring heavily in their 6-2 come-from-behind win over Chennaiyin FC in their last game, Mumbai City FC have now scored 16 goals in six games, the highest in the ISL this season.
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The Indian Super League (ISL)'s Matchweek 7 begins with two former champions - Mumbai City FC and Bengaluru FC - locking horns at the Mumbai Football Arena in Mumbai on Thursday. The Islanders are unbeaten in the league so far, while the Blues are sitting in ninth place, looking to avoid a fourth straight defeat this season.
After scoring heavily in their 6-2 come-from-behind win over Chennaiyin FC in their last game, Mumbai City FC have now scored 16 goals in six games, the highest in the ISL this season. Averaging 2.7 goals per match, the Islanders have also kept the ball better than any other team in the league this season with 2131 completed passes. MCFC head coach Des Buckingham was pleased with his side's determination in the last game, but he still finds room for improvement in the upcoming games. "We want to achieve things this year and are aware that we cannot give away goals the way we did in the last game. Chennaiyin started better than we did in the last game. We did not start poorly; they were just better. But as soon as we scored, we were back in it, and I was happy with that performance," said Buckingham.
"We still have a lot of work to do, and if we want to be successful this year, then we need to make sure we come away with more results in the next couple of games," he added. Bengaluru FC are currently struggling in attack - the Blues have failed to score in three successive ISL games for the first time in their history, and have only two goals on the board in five games. The last time they lost four games in a row was in the ISL 2020-21 season.
In the goals scored per match chart, the Blues are placed tenth, averaging just 0.4 goals per match. The onus of being clinical in the final third will be on the shoulders of Roy Krishna and skipper Sunil Chhetri. "Since the game on Friday, we have worked hard in training, trying to do some different things. Speaking of the Mumbai game, it's all about what we have to do to win football matches again," said Grayson. "We intend to tweak a few aspects that take us from being very close to winning games to actually winning games. The end product has been missing so far, so we need to be more clinical," he added.
Only one out of the total ten ISL encounters between these two sides has ended in a draw. The Islanders have nabbed five wins, while the Blues have been victorious on four occasions. In their last meeting, Bengaluru FC beat Mumbai City FC 2-1 to lift the Durand Cup. (ANI)
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/sports-games/2255070-isl-high-flying-mumbai-city-fc-host-desperate-bengaluru-fc | 2022-11-17T11:13:41 | en | 0.981104 |
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