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In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Summarize the common types of assets a business may have -Describe the importance of control over inventory -Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement -Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation. Course 1 Bookkeeper Basics, or the equivalent, is a recommended prerequisite for this course. | https://www.coursera.org/lecture/accounting-assets/journal-entry-set-up-MgxPi | 2022-10-20T17:12:18 | en | 0.927623 |
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So recently Air France decided to issue lots of new shares, to raise money, making its stock price plummet on the Paris exchance by more than 60%:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AF.PA?p=AF.PA&.tsrc=fin-srch
However a similar change in stock price is not reflected by its US listed ADR, that has fallen by only about 20%:
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AFLYY:OTCMKTS
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Angelo Moore: Avant Icons Light Up First Coast Living (FCL May 27, 2022)
Moving from the stage to the gallery, Musician Angelo Moore of Fishbone previews some of his visual art he will be sharing at Gallery 725 through May 29th. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/angelo-moore-avant-icons-light-up-first-coast-living-fcl-may-27-2022/77-cf763671-9db9-4cb4-9f60-d7aeb9160ddd | 2022-05-27T17:54:43 | en | 0.928328 |
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Duval Ford Supports Veterans (FCL May 27, 2022)
General Manager of Duval Ford, Jose Negron joins First Coast Living and shares his pride in hiring veterans and rebates and incentives available for our heroes. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/duval-ford-supports-veterans-fcl-may-27-2022/77-c1f50e25-999a-4fa1-b857-846e859f36d0 | 2022-05-27T17:54:49 | en | 0.87759 |
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Fashion Friday: The ever so popular backpack purse (FCL May 27, 2022)
Jordan wanted to find a replacement for her current backpack purse, and she did for under $3.00! | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/fashion-friday-the-ever-so-popular-backpack-purse-fcl-may-27-2022/77-c580bbe4-eb1a-4b6c-899b-22cf41631818 | 2022-05-27T17:54:55 | en | 0.938932 |
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Get Your Pool Ready and Safe for the Summer (FCL May 27, 2022)
Cullen Jones, Former Olympian and World Record Holder, shares his personal story of why there is no substitute for formal swimming lessons. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/get-your-pool-ready-and-safe-for-the-summer-fcl-may-27-2022/77-fb593bc8-fb26-40bf-9777-fab779fa1b7a | 2022-05-27T17:55:01 | en | 0.912196 |
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There are now more ways than ever to stay connected and ahead of this crazy market! It's just a click away and you can also watch Home Connect TV on seven days a week with hundreds of homes for sale on the First Coast.
HCTV: Looking at the Latest Listings is Now Just a Click Away! (FCL May 27, 2022)
Michael Anapolsky Managing Partner of Home Connect TV shares exciting news on why they are going digital thanks to the First Coast News App! | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/hctv-looking-at-the-latest-listings-is-now-just-a-click-away-fcl-may-27-2022/77-adf8007a-b54b-4cbc-b4ac-5ee286f0d6d1 | 2022-05-27T17:55:07 | en | 0.943578 |
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As obesity in America continues to rise, its risks become more well-known every day. The condition is linked to heart disease, strokes, type 2 diabetes, some cancers and an increased COVID-19 mortality rate. Learn how you can lose the weight and keep it off. Visit lapband.com for more information.
How to achieve long-term weight loss (FCL May 27, 2022)
Dr. Vafa Shayani addresses the risks of obesity and shares a hopeful course of action for the 106 million Americans carrying around unwanted weight. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/television/first-coast-living/how-to-achieve-long-term-weight-loss-fcl-may-27-2022/77-968e8c5c-37a3-4094-8c54-b07b83cbcad3 | 2022-05-27T17:55:13 | en | 0.95375 |
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The Berkshire Bach Society (BBS) returns with the six “Brandenburg” Concerti and Bach at New Years Live! in May. Nine-time Grammy award winner Eugene Drucker will lead the Berkshire Back Ensemble in three performances.
The BBS has to postpone these concerts at New Years because of the pandemic, so they are particularly excited to offer them now, said Adrian van Zon, longtime Chairman of the Berkshire Bach Society. This year’s concerts are dedicated in memoriam to Kenneth Cooper, Music Director Emeritus, who established the popular holiday tradition in 1993 and who passed away in March of 2021.
Eugene Drucker will be leading the Berkshire Bach Ensemble in three performances: May 27 at 6:00 p.m. at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, May 28 at 3:00 p.m. at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, co-presented with WMHT, and May 29 at 3:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music in Northampton, co-presented with New England Public Media.
Bach wrote and performed the six works that later became known as the “Brandenburg” Concerti at different times during his tenure in the city of Köthen, where he worked for a prince and built the court orchestra into an exceptional performing force. The manuscripts sat in the Brandenburg library undisturbed until their rediscovery in the 19th century. | https://www.news10.com/community/concerts-performances/bach-at-new-years-live-in-may/ | 2022-05-27T17:55:19 | en | 0.962756 |
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Something to Smile About: Memorial Day Weekend at Wild Adventures in Valdosta! (FCL May 27, 2022)
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College summer concert series lineup has been announced. “Upbeat on the Roof” will have performers each Thursday from July 7 through August 18.
This year marks the 21st season of “Upbeat on the Roof.” The concert series features gospel, folk, rock, bluegrass, traditional Cuban music, world music, and jazz throughout the summer.
New this year, the Tang is offering an art-making station for children 5-to-12-years-old at every concert starting at 5:30 p.m. Each week features a different art-making activity. The event is free and no registration is required.
The performances begin at 6 p.m. and will take place on the lawn outside the Tang. Visitors are invited to bring picnic blankets, camping chairs, and their own food and drink. In the case of inclement weather, art-making activities and concerts will be held inside the museum.
Lineup
- July 7: Heavenly Echoes, Southern-style gospel music with spirituals, hymns, traditional contemporary gospel, and originals.
- July 14: Carolyn Shapiro, folk music. Shapiro was the winner of the 2022 Capital Region’s Folk Artist of the Year for the Capital Region Music Awards. She released her debut album “Where I’m Supposed To Be” in 2021.
- July 21: Bruiser and Bicycle, rock music.
- July 28: The Pine Hills Band, bluegrass music.
- August 4: Alta Havana, Cuban music. The group was founded in 2018 by Jorge Gomez, music director and founder of multi-Grammy-nominated Cuban band Tiempo Libre, when he moved from Miami Beach to Saratoga Springs.
- August 11: Heard, jazz and world music.
- August 18: Henry Raker and the Fungi, jazz and pop music.
Admission is free and open to the public. | https://www.news10.com/community/concerts-performances/lineup-announced-for-skidmore-college-concert-series/ | 2022-05-27T17:55:25 | en | 0.953997 |
Discover and book the best campgrounds, RV parks, cabins, glamping, and more on Campspot and of course check out the new Campspot Outdoor Almanac with all the big events and dates including fun activities like stargazing. Go to https://www.campspot.com/about/outdoor-almanac for more information.
Take Inspiration and Turn It Into An Actual Camping Trip (FCL May 27, 2022)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Although the Department of Education (DOE) extended the student loan payment pause until Aug 3. A broader federal student loan debt forgiveness program for all borrowers has not been announced. DOE warns that student loan debt relief scammers are already on the rise.
According to the DOE, scammers are offering a promise of a loan forgiveness program that most people will not qualify for. They might say they will wipe out your loans by disputing them but in fact, can not get you into a qualifying forgiveness program they noted.
To steer clear of a student loan forgiveness scam, know this:
- There are specific federal loan forgiveness programs including Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and the Teacher Loan Forgiveness programs, and even a Public Service Loan Forgiveness limited waiver program going on right now with a deadline of October 31.
- Do not share your FSA ID. Scammers will claim they need your FSA ID to help you and can use that information to get into your account and steal your identity.
- You do not need to pay for help. There’s nothing a company can do that you cannot do for yourself for free.
If you have questions about qualifying for federal loan forgiveness, or how you will repay them after the pause ends in August, contact your loan servicer or the Department of Education directly. If there is eventually a broader federal student loan debt forgiveness plan, the official word will only come from the DOE, and not random calls, texts, emails, or social media messages. | https://www.news10.com/news/albany-county/how-to-avoid-student-loan-scams/ | 2022-05-27T17:55:31 | en | 0.957205 |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Storm surge happens when the strong winds of a hurricane blow over the ocean or Gulf waters literally forcing the water to pile up as it approaches the coast.
That can cause the water level to jump anywhere from one foot to well over 20 feet above normal levels.
Wind speed isn’t the only factor in determining a potential storm surge effect.
The storm’s size, intensity, shape, speed, and angle of approach all matter along with the coast and the slope of the ocean floor.
Remember this: The category ranking of a storm doesn’t always correlate to the storm surge threat. Weaker category 1 or 2 storms have been known to produce higher surges than their stronger counterparts.
In many cases, storm surge is more dangerous because of the power of moving water and the coastal flooding potential it brings.
One to three feet of water can knock you off your feet and stall your car. Above three feet? That water can actually carry your car away. If you’re still home when the water gets up to six feet, you and your family would have to seek higher ground like the second story or a roof. A 12-foot surge would fill the entire first floor of most homes and potentially knock your home off its foundation.
Therefore, it’s important to listen for and to understand those Storm Surge Warnings so you can react early and quickly to keep you and your family safe. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/hurricane-preparedness/what-is-storm-surge-and-how-could-it-affect-my-home/77-1143181e-a3bc-4011-a0a5-0ad550510b10 | 2022-05-27T17:55:32 | en | 0.94894 |
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ALBANY. N.Y. (NEWS10) – Calvin Strong, 30 of Watervliet, pled guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and John B. DeVito made the announcement.
As part of his guilty plea, Strong admitted that on November 23, 2021, he possessed a Glock .40 caliber handgun and 15 rounds of ammunition in his residence, said the Department of Justice. Strong’s prior felony convictions, including federal convictions for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon, and possessing and intending to distribute cocaine, crack, and heroin, prevented him from lawfully possessing the handgun said the DOJ.
Strong faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years, a maximum fine of $250,000, and a term of supervised release of up to three years. Sentencing is scheduled for September 26 before Senior United States District Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr.
This case was investigated by ATF with assistance from the United States Probation Office for the Northern District of New York, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Watervliet Police Department, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Belliss. | https://www.news10.com/news/albany-county/man-pleads-guilty-unlawful-firearm-possession/ | 2022-05-27T17:55:37 | en | 0.960901 |
WASHINGTON — An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, just below a four-decade high set in March and the first slowdown since November 2020.
Friday's report from the Commerce Department added to other recent signs showing that while high inflation continues to cause hardships for millions of households, it may finally be moderating, at least for now.
The report also showed that consumer spending rose by a healthy 0.9% from March to April, outpacing the month-to-month inflation rate for a fourth straight time. The ongoing willingness of the nation's consumers to keep spending freely despite inflated prices is helping sustain the economy. Yet all that spending is helping keep prices high and could make the Fed's goal of taming inflation even harder.
On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.2% from March to April, down from the 0.9% increase from February to March.
Still, inflation remains painfully high, and it's inflicting a heavy burden in particular on lower-income households, many of them Black or Hispanic. Surging demand for furniture, appliances and other goods, combined with supply chain snarls, began sending prices surging about a year ago.
Consumers are now increasingly shifting their spending from goods to services, like airline fares and entertainment tickets. That trend could help cool inflation in the months ahead, though it's unclear by how much. The cost of such services as restaurant meals, plane tickets and hotel rooms is also rising.
Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to keep ratcheting up the Fed's key short-term interest rate until inflation is “coming down in a clear and convincing way.” Those rate hikes have spurred fears that the Fed, in its drive to slow borrowing and spending, may push the economy into a recession. That concern has caused sharp drops in stock prices in the past two months, though markets have rallied this week.
Powell has said the Fed is aiming for a “soft or soft-ish” landing, in which wages, consumer spending and growth slow, but the economy avoids a downturn. Most economists say that while such an outcome is plausible, they doubt it can be achieved.
A better-known inflation gauge, the consumer price index, earlier this month also reported a slowing of still-high inflation. The CPI jumped 8.3% in April from a year earlier, down from a 40-year high in March of 8.5%.
Yet rising prices of gas and food, worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, will keep measures of inflation painfully high at least into the summer. The national average price of a gallon of gas has reached $4.60, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $3.04.
Other trends, however, suggest that core inflation may continue to slow in the coming months. Retailers have reported rising stockpiles of televisions, patio furniture and other goods for the home as consumers have shifted their spending more toward travel and services-related goods like luggage and restaurant gift cards.
Those stores will likely have to offer discounts to clear inventory in the coming months. And auto manufacturers have been ramping up production as some supply chain snarls untangle and as they have managed to hire more workers. Both trends could help lower the prices of goods.
At the same time, higher pay for many workers, particularly at restaurants, hotels, warehouses, will keep forcing up prices for services, which, in turn, would at least partly offset the benefit of less-expensive goods.
And most economists forecast that inflation, as measured by the Fed’s preferred gauge, will still be at about 4% or higher by the end of this year. Price increases at that level would likely mean that the Fed will still raise interest rates to lower inflation to its 2% target.
The inflation measure reported Friday, called the personal consumption expenditures price index, differs in some ways from the consumer price index that help explain why it shows a lower inflation level than the CPI does. Rents, which are steadily rising, are given less weight in the PCE than in the CPI.
The PCE price index also seeks to account for changes in how people shop when inflation jumps. In that way, it can capture, for example, any trend in which consumers switch from pricey national brands to cheaper store brands. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/key-inflation-gauge-slowed-still-high-over-past-year/507-646231a3-a77c-4386-8327-0a84f430f9ab | 2022-05-27T17:55:38 | en | 0.970796 |
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TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — An Albany man has been arraigned on a sealed indictment charging him with rape. The Rensselaer County District Attorney’s Office said Jevonte Osterhout, 30, was arraigned on Wednesday, May 25.
The DA’s Office said the incident allegedly happened in January 2022. According to East Greenbush Detective Sergeant Michael Guadagnino, Osterhout was employed as an EMT at the Bruen Rescue Squad and as an Albany firefighter at the time of the incident.
Charges
- Third-degree rape (felony)
- First-degree sexual abuse (felony)
- Endangering the welfare of a child (misdemeanor)
“The East Greenbush Police believe this is an isolated incident but are asking anyone who may have information relevant to this investigation to please contact the East Greenbush Police Detective’s Unit. We would like to that the START Center for their assistance in this investigation,” said Guadagnino.
Assistant District Attorney Antonia Edwards is prosecuting the case. | https://www.news10.com/news/crime/former-albany-firefighter-emt-indicted-on-rape-charges/ | 2022-05-27T17:55:43 | en | 0.962769 |
Travel has proven difficult for many Americans over the last several years, as coronavirus-related staffing shortages, technology problems and other issues have led to flight cancellations nationwide.
But what options do you have if your flight is canceled? In a viral TikTok with more than 1 million views, popular creator Erika Kullberg claims airlines will give you a full refund if your flight is canceled and you choose not to travel. Kullberg also claims that the type of ticket doesn’t matter – and you can get a refund even if your ticket is nonrefundable.
THE QUESTION
Can you get a full refund if your flight is canceled and you choose not to travel, including for nonrefundable tickets?
THE SOURCES
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Refund policies from Alaska, United, Delta, American and Southwest airlines
THE ANSWER
Yes, you can get a full refund if your flight is canceled and you choose not to travel. The same policies apply to nonrefundable tickets, though airlines can issue a credit or travel voucher instead of a refund.
WHAT WE FOUND
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) says customers are entitled to a refund if an airline cancels their flight, regardless of the reason, and the customer chooses not to travel. Customers can also get a refund if their flight is significantly delayed or there is a “significant schedule change.”
These same policies apply to nonrefundable tickets, though airlines can issue a credit or travel voucher as compensation instead of a refund.
Factors that determine refund eligibility for “significant” delays include the length of the delay and the length of the flight among other things, the DOT says. The DOT does not specify the exact time that constitutes a significant delay.
VERIFY also looked at refund policies of major airlines in the U.S., including United, Alaska, Delta, American, Southwest and Spirit.
United Airlines offers a travel credit or refund upon request for customers who choose not to travel after their flight is significantly delayed or canceled. Alaska Airlines also says customers can choose to reschedule their flight for another day or refund their ticket.
If you’re flying with Delta, the airline will rebook you on an alternative flight or convert your ticket into a credit for future travel in the event of a cancellation or significant delay. However, there are some instances where travelers can request a refund for their nonrefundable ticket, the airline’s policy says.
American Airlines says travelers are entitled to a refund if there is a same-day flight change or standby.
If you purchased a nonrefundable “Wanna Get Away” ticket from Southwest Airlines, it will be converted to a travel credit that you can use for a future flight, the airline says. “Business Select” and “Anytime” flights on Southwest are refundable in the event of a cancellation.
Spirit Airlines says on its website that under federal law, travelers are “entitled to a full refund if your flight is canceled by the airline and you are rebooked on a later date or if you opt not to fly.”
Those who are entitled to a refund and want to request one should do so in writing or with a ticket agent, the DOT says. If an airline or ticket agent refuses to give you a required refund, you can file a complaint with the DOT online.
So how long will it take for you to receive a refund? Under federal regulations, airlines and ticket agents are “required to make refunds promptly,” according to the DOT. For airlines, that is defined as seven business days if the passenger paid with a credit card and 20 days if they paid by cash or check.
Major U.S. airlines, including American and Southwest, also have information about the timeline for issuing refunds on their websites. | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/verify/travel-verify/flight-canceled-refund-choose-not-to-travel/536-c9562283-f8df-4553-84dd-dc37ed26ee4f | 2022-05-27T17:55:44 | en | 0.949644 |
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(NEWS10) – This week on Empire State Weekly we’re digging into new efforts by the state to tackle gun violence and domestic terrorism. Solomon Syed is joined by Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jackie Bray to discuss a newly formed Domestic Terrorism Unit formed in the wake of the shootings at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo.
Commissioner Bray lays out the three-pronged approach this new unit will employ to tackle the issue of radicalized domestic terror in New York. The first portion is creating behavioral threat assessment and management teams. Bray says these are essentially interdisciplinary groups charged with connecting the dots between someone who is being radicalized toward violence. Secondly, there will be a group dedicated to the analysis and reporting on domestic threats. Finally, the Unit will deploy evidence-based tools online in an attempt to deradicalize people who are being exposed to hateful content online.
We also take a closer look at the discussion surrounding School Resource Officers (SROs) currently in place in New York’s school districts. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple and Montgomery County Sheriff Jeff Smith join Solomon to discuss how they are staffing positions in their counties. They also discuss efforts and resources that could further improve safety inside classrooms.
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The war between Ukraine and Russia marked its third month on May 24. As of May 26, the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) reported 3,998 Ukrainian civilians killed and at least 4,693 injured.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the country has suffered more than half a trillion dollars in losses, tens of thousands of facilities have been destroyed and entire cities will need to be rebuilt.
Since Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine in February, social media posts claiming to show scenes from the war have gone viral.
On May 21, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt tweeted a photo, saying: “In the occupied areas there are now reports and pictures of [Russian] occupiers burning the books about [Ukraine] history they can find. And Putin has been clear that he wants to erase the [Ukraine] nation.”
The tweet had more than 3,800 retweets and over 9,000 likes. Bildt has more than 763,000 followers on Twitter. The British Ambassador to Ukraine also tweeted the photo; her tweet has more than 14,000 likes and 4,200 retweets.
THE QUESTION
Was the photo of burning books taken during the current war between Russia and Ukraine?
THE SOURCES
- Yandex, a reverse image search tool
- KP Ukraine, a Ukrainian news agency
- Voice of America, an international news agency
- UNIAN, a Ukrainian news agency
- Google Maps
THE ANSWER
No, a photo of books being burned was not taken during the current war in Ukraine. It dates back to a March 2010 rally in Crimea during which Russian protesters burned Ukrainian books.
WHAT WE FOUND
Using reverse image search tool Yandex, which searches primarily through Russian-language sites, VERIFY was able to trace this photo to March 14, 2010, when pro-Russia demonstrators marched through the streets of the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine.
According to a 2010 article published by KP Ukraine, a Ukrainian news agency, the books were burned in the Crimean town of Simferopol in Lenin Square. VERIFY confirmed the location depicted in the viral image using Google Maps.
“Representatives of one of the political forces brought books on a cart, doused them with kerosene and set them on fire,” the KP Ukraine news report (written in Russian and translated via Google Translate) said.
Using Yandex, VERIFY could also trace the photos to a blog post published by UNIAN, a Ukrainian news agency, in March 2010. The photos were credited to a UNIAN photographer.
In March 2010, Voice of America, an international news agency, reported the books were being burned in order to prevent “distortions of the past by the administration of former President Viktor Yushchenko.” These books were promoted by Yushchenko, who was the Ukrainian president from 2005 through January 2010.
The article said the books that were burned promoted fascism and destroyed the relationship between Russians and Ukrainians.
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(KTLA) — A man suspected of carjacking an 81-year-old woman who was feeding homeless people in California has been arrested, police said Thursday.
The incident was reported at about 3:30 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of a Stater Bros. store in Redlands.
Nina Steinman told Redlands police she had been in the parking lot to provide meals to homeless people in the area, something she’s been doing since January.
While Steinman was handing out the last of the food she’d made herself from her open trunk, the suspect allegedly forcefully took the keys from her and got into the driver’s seat of her vehicle, police said.
Video released by police showed that Steinman managed to open the door after the carjacker got in, but the man shut it and she was not able to open it again.
“Let me tell you, I’m not afraid,” Steinman told KTLA. “I was going to grab his shirt and just drag that little puppy right out of the front seat, but I couldn’t get the door open.”
The suspect then drove off while Steinman was still holding onto the driver’s door, and she was knocked to the ground.
She was not injured but was left with bruises on her arm and without her wallet and purse.
Steinman said she had to change her locks because she was afraid the man would break into her home.
The man was then seen entering the westbound 10 Freeway, with the rear hatch of the stolen vehicle still open, police said.
Los Angeles Police Department officers spotted the stolen vehicle, a 2015 Kia Sportage, in a parking structure in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.
The driver was identified as 24-year-old Roberto Carlos Sanchez Jr. and he was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a stolen vehicle, police said.
Redlands police later confirmed that Sanchez is suspected of a carjacking at the parking lot in Redlands.
He was transported to West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino, California, where he was being held on suspicion of carjacking and elder abuse. His bail was set at $250,000.
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Steven C. McCraw, director of Texas DPS, answers questions at a press conference about Uvalde school shooting and why officers did not breach the school.
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(NEXSTAR) – Daniel Defense, the company that manufactured the AR-15-style rifle used by the shooter at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has pulled out of this week’s NRA convention in Houston.
In a statement shared with Nexstar, the manufacturer said it didn’t feel the present time was “appropriate” to promote its guns.
“Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association (“NRA”) meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas where one of our products was criminally misused,” the company wrote. “We believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the NRA meeting.”
The company, founded in Savannah, Georgia, had earlier confirmed its belief that the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary had used a Daniel Defense firearm, Nexstar’s WSAV reported.
“We will cooperate with all federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities in their investigations,” the company said, while offering “thoughts and prayers” to the community in Uvalde.
Daniel Defense has also made its social-media channels private following criticism of a recent tweet which reportedly showed a young boy holding an AR-15-style, The Washington Post reported. Just eight days before the tragedy in Uvalde, Daniel Defense tweeted the photo along with a verse from the Book of Proverbs, which read, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” according to an archived version of the tweet shared by the outlet.
A Daniel Defense representative who shared a company statement with Nexstar on Friday morning did not respond to inquiries concerning the Twitter post.
In addition to Daniel Defense, several other guests and performers at the NRA convention in Houston have canceled their appearances, including “American Pie” singer Don McClean, who said it would be “disrespectful and hurtful” to perform. Joining him in canceling performances are “God Bless the U.S.A.” singer Lee Greenwood, as well as performers Larry Gatlin and Larry Stewart. Danielle Peck and T. Graham Brown have also cancelled, Billboard reported, leaving Jacob Bryant as the only remaining performer as of Friday morning. Billboard reported that the NRA was expected to announce the cancellation of all concert activity sometime on Friday, citing a source with knowledge of the event.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has also canceled plans to attend the convention after facing criticism for his scheduled appearance in the wake of the school shooting. He and will instead hold a press conference in Uvalde, The Hill reported.
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(NEXSTAR) – Americans on the move are largely heading to the South and West, especially to areas in Texas and Arizona, newly recently data from the Census Bureau has found. Yet while many cities and towns were growing, some of the nation’s largest were suffering population losses.
Between the summers of 2020 and 2021, Census data found cities in these regions – eight in the West, seven in the South – had the greatest rate of population growth. Seeing the largest increase was Georgetown, Texas, with a rate of 10.5%. Found about 30 miles north of Austin, Georgetown’s population could double in less than seven years if its growth continues at the same rate, researchers found.
Roughly 12 miles west of Georgetown is Leander, the country’s second-fastest-growing city. A third Texas city, New Braunfels, which is found between Austin and San Antonio, also landed in the top five fastest-growing.
Five Arizona cities ranked in the top 15 fastest-growing, while Idaho, Texas, and Florida each had three.
Here are the 15 fastest-growing cities in the U.S.:
When comparing the total number of people moving in, the Census Bureau found cities in the South and West still had the greatest increase. Again, a Texas city topped the list: San Antonio, with an increase of 13,626 people. Close behind was Phoenix at 13,224.
Seven cities had both high rates of growth and numeric growth: Port St. Lucie, Buckeye, New Braunfels, Georgetown, Meridian, Leander, and Fort Myers.
These 15 cities welcomed the most new residents between 2020 and 2021:
Among the nation’s most populous cities, more than half saw their population decrease between 2020 and 2021: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, and Indianapolis.
New York City, which suffered the greatest population decrease at 305,465, still held onto its title as the most populous. The Big Apple edged out Los Angeles and Chicago, with the rankings throughout the list remaining the same as they were in 2020.
Here are the U.S.’s 15 most populous cities:
Seven U.S. cities surpassed a major milestone in 2021 and recorded a population of 50,000 or more. Among those are three from Texas – Kyle, Burleson, and Little Elm. Also in that select group are the Indiana cities of Westfield and Jefferson, as well as Lincoln, California, and Newark, Ohio. Another six cities saw their population surpass 100,000 in 2021. Among those are Bend, Oregon; Fishers and Carmel in Indiana; and three in Arizona – Tuscaloosa, Goodyear, and Buckeye.
The majority of cities and towns in the U.S. have a population under 5,000, according to Census data, yet they are home to less than 1% of Americans. Cities with a population of 50,000 and more – of which there are less than 800 – hold more than 60% of the country’s people.
Reasons for population changes vary from city to city, driven by housing costs, jobs, births and deaths. The pandemic and the lockdown that followed in spring 2020 made living in a crowded city less appealing for a time, and those who could leave — workers who could do their jobs remotely, for example — sometimes did.
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(The Hill) — An 11-year-old student who survived the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday says she covered herself in a classmate’s blood and played dead to protect herself from being shot.
Miah Cerrillo told CNN on Friday that she dipped her hands in the blood of a dead classmate after the shooter left her classroom and wiped it on herself to play dead in case he came back.
Cerrillo was treated in the hospital for wounds caused by bullet fragments, and her mother, Abigale Veloz, says the girl is “traumatized.”
Miguel Cerrillo, her father, confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that she has been discharged from the hospital, but added that she is “freaking out” after being in “survival mode” during the shooting.
The shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, walked into Miah’s classroom — where the fourth-grade students had been watching “Lilo and Stitch” — just as a teacher was walking toward the door to lock it.
Miah said that Ramos looked one of the teachers in the eye and said “Goodnight” before shooting her and then opening fire on the class.
Ramos allegedly then went into an adjoining classroom where Miah said she heard gunfire, screaming and downbeat music, which she described as “I want people to die” music.
The girl and a friend dialed 911 from the phone of their dead teacher and asked the police for help.
According to CNN, Miah began crying as she talked about the police waiting outside the school, saying she didn’t understand why the officers did not come inside and rescue them.
According to her aunt Blanca Rivera, Miah was deeply shaken when the reality of the shooting hit her on Tuesday night, hours after the incident.
“Around midnight, my sister-in-law called me and she was just crying like, ‘I think it just hit Miah. I think everything came to reality. We’re home, and she’s just crying and having a panic attack,’” Rivera told Click2Houston on Tuesday.
Miah asked not to speak on camera because of her trauma.
Veloz has organized a GoFundMe to pay for Miah’s medical expenses and therapy, writing, “she will need a lot of help with all the trauma that she is going through. my daughter is amazing person and is a very good sister to her siblings. we will need help with her medical expenses that were caused by the bullet fragment on her back.”
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Several staff members in the Rochester City School District are currently on leave after they exchanged “racist and demeaning” text messages about students, according to RCSD Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small on Friday.
According to Myers-Small, the district will “use all forms of available discipline up to and including termination.”
“On Tuesday I was made aware of text messages sent by our staff,” Myers-Small said at a Friday afternoon press conference. “I was horrified by the demeaning references used to describe our children.”
Myers-Small said the the teachers were put on leave Thursday.
According to a press release from the district, the staff members are teachers. The district did not indicate which school the teachers work at, and officials did not say The contents of the text messages in question were not immediately made available.
Rochester Teacher Association President Adam Urbanski told News 8 Friday that the investigation remains ongoing and he added “everyone deserves due process.”
Superintendent’s full statement:
“I am aware of images of text messages that were exchanged by several staff about students at one of our schools. I am horrified at the racist and demeaning references and language used to describe children…our children! The staff members have been put on leave and the District will use all forms of available discipline up to and including termination.
Our scholars have experienced tremendous trauma, specifically over the past two years. I want to remind all RCSD staff that words indeed matter and how we speak about our scholars is extremely important. Behaviors and mindsets that humiliate and devalue our scholars and their families are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
In our District Strategic Plan, there are eight core beliefs. Two of them state: ‘We embrace diversity and commit to the eradication of racism and all forms of discrimination and oppression, and we respect and honor the dignity of all individuals.’
It is vitally important that our District community, which includes the Board of Education, staff, unions, and families, stand together. Anything that does not lift our students up and harness their potential has no place in our classrooms.”
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that New Yorkers will have the option to choose “X” as gender on their driver license, learner permit, or non-driver ID card at all Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) offices statewide. This change is being implemented in accordance with the State’s Gender Recognition Act, which goes into effect on June 24.
This legislation provides expanded protections for transgender and non-binary New Yorkers. It will now be easier for people to change their names, change their sex designation, and change their birth certificates to reflect their identity, says Hochul.
New Yorkers who have an existing driver license, learner permit, or non-driver ID will have the option to change the gender marker on their photo ID from “M” or “F” to “X”, and those who are applying for an NYS photo ID for the first time will also have the option to choose “X”. This can be done by completing the Application for Permit Driver License or Non-Driver ID Card. Customers who do not want to visit a DMV office to change their existing ID document can change their gender designation through an online transaction beginning in July, according to Hochul.
This advancement comes as part of what Hochul has fought for and secured for LGBTQ+ in the Enacted Fiscal Year 2023 State Budget. The Budget includes $13.5 million for the Department of Health to support the LGBTQ+ community and more than doubles annual LGBTQ+ Health and Human Services funding according to Hochul. | https://www.news10.com/news/ny-news/x-gender-markers-on-nys-driver-license-and-id-cards/ | 2022-05-27T17:56:33 | en | 0.957709 |
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HARTFORD, N.Y. (NEWS10) – This week, a battle of the barbeque broke out at a Washington County school district. The outcome? Superintendent Andrew Cook knows how to cook.
Cook squared off against School Lunch Director Patrick Kenneally on Thursday, the pair of them smoking pulled pork from their own recipes and giving Hartford students a fun competition in one of their final weeks of school. Students voted for their favorite at lunchtime – and they came in droves.
“It was one of our highest-selling lunch days in a number of years,” said Cook on Friday. “They really got into the spirit. It was a lot of fun.”
Cook and Kenneally both brought their own smokers from home, and had them ready to go as of 7 p.m. the night before the competition. Each kid and adult received two pulled pork sliders – one of each contestant’s creation. They were given tickets to use to vote for their favorite.
Cook took home that prestigious honor, and has the experience to back up the award. The superintendent’s family loves barbeque cooking – enough that they cook at fundraiser events regularly. Kenneally, not to be outdone, has participated at his share of competitions in the past, too.
Thursday’s competition was more than just a cook-off. It was also a way to educate Hartford students about cooking, and show them something they may not have seen before – namely, the two smokers hard at work cooking the two types of pork outside.
“The kids came out to us in the morning, almost like a little field trip, to check out the cookers, and we told them about the smoking the meat process, and the difference between barbecuing and grilling,” Cook described. “It was a very fun day.”
Kenneally has had years of experience in the foodservice industry prior to working at Hartford. He used that experience on Thursday to teach students about the skills that go into cooking food well – just the kind of skills that Cook says are important to encourage kids to develop.
Cook wasn’t willing to share his pulled pork recipe – a NEWS10 exclusive not to be – but he said that he’s hoping this won’t be the last time that he and Kenneally clash at the school cafeteria. The pair are floating ideas for next year that include competitions for the best sauce, brisket or ribs.
All of the pork used on Thursday was donated to Hartford by Clifton Park-based vendor CORE Foodservice. Earlier in the school year, Tyson and Sweet Baby Ray’s donated their respective barbeque sauces to the district for a sauce-off, where students were given popcorn chicken, a cup of each sauce, and a similar prompt: Choose the superior BBQ flavor. The Hartford jury has spoken, and will speak – and eat – again. | https://www.news10.com/news/school-staff-square-off-for-the-best-bbq-in-hartford/ | 2022-05-27T17:56:39 | en | 0.983167 |
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COLTON, N.Y. (WWTI) — A man was rescued after kayaking in the Adirondacks Wednesday night in the Town of Colton.
According to the St. Lawrence County Director of Emergency Service Matthew R. Denner, on May 25 at 9:11 p.m., 911 operators received a call from a man in his 40s who said he was exhausted and could not move his legs as he had been kayaking all day on the Raquette River.
The man said he was wearing a black suit and black shirt and possessed a whistle and cell phone with 53% battery life. His location was pinged by 911 and the location was relayed to first responders and Colton and Cranberry Lake Volunteer Fire departments were dispatched.
Over the phone, the victim asked dispatchers if he should start a fire, and then dispatchers told the victim it was a “good idea” to start a controlled fire.
A command post was set up on the side of State Highway 56 in the Town of Colton south of State Highway 3 under a joint incident command of the Colton and Cranberry Lake fire chiefs. Forest Rangers were also requested and after a joint conference, a fire truck from St. Lawrence County was requested.
Once communication was made with first responders and the victim, responders decided to make an immediate extrication as the victim’s health was rapidly deteriorating.
After first responders were unable to rescue the victim, the 10th Mountain Division’s 10th Combat Aviation Brigade was called in for support. A Fort Drum Black Hawks and two Apache helicopters were in the air by 11 p.m. and were sent to the scene.
Potsdam Rescue was then put on standby and Canton-Potsdam Hospital was that the team from Fort Drum would possibly be transporting the patient to Potsdam Airport.
At 11:35 p.m., three of the helicopters passed over the command post, heading to the victim’s location. Pilots in the Apache helicopters were able to locate the victim in minutes, and the Black Hawk moved into position to perform a rescue.
Soldiers in the Black Hawk helicopter communicated with the victim via text and was asked to extinguish his fire. A crew was then lowered down 175 feet to package and hoist the victim back up to safety.
Once in the helicopter, Fort Drum medics made the decision to transport the patient to Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown for treatment, of dehydration, hypothermia and shock.
The rescue was deemed successful at 12:04 a.m.
“I would like to personally thank our two 911 dispatch shifts that were involved,” St. Lawrence County EMS Director Denner said in a press release. “They did an amazing job and a great line of communication with all involved were established. Both Colton and Cranberry Lake Fire and Rescue units, their training, professionalism, and dedication never goes unnoticed. NYS Forest Rangers with their support to our local first responders. Fort Drum their continued support to the neighboring communities, this successful rescue would not have happened last night and this morning without them.”
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(WHNT) — Will the mail run on Memorial Day? The short answer is no. Just like all other federally-recognized holidays, regular mail from the United States Postal Service (USPS) will not run on the day honoring fallen U.S. military personnel.
This year, Memorial Day is recognized on Monday, May 30. Post offices will also be closed for retail transactions on Memorial Day, according to the USPS.
Despite no regular mail service for residential or business addresses, the USPS says its Priority Mail Express service will continue to operate for deliveries, just as it does “365 days a year.” Regular mail services will resume Tuesday, May 31.
Memorial Day is recognized every year on the last Monday of May and commemorates the sacrifice made by those who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. The day is also considered to be the unofficial start of summer in the United States.
Like all federal holidays, government offices and banks will be closed. According to the Office of Personnel Management, this year’s remaining federal holidays are:
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(NewsNation) — BREAKING UPDATE: Even as children called 911 and begged for help, the gunman at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school was treated as a barricaded subject, and not an active shooter, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Friday.
DPS Director Steven McCraw said the on-site commander during the shooting believed the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was barricaded in a classroom but that “there were no more children at risk.”
“A decision was made, that this was a barricaded subject. There was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door to take on the subject at that point” McCraw said.
Nineteen officers were in Robb Elementary School for more than 40 minutes before Ramos was killed. Meanwhile, 911 calls were being made from inside classrooms by both teachers and students, begging for help.
“Obviously, you know, based upon the information we have there were children in that classroom that were at risk, and it was in fact still an active shooter situation,” McCraw said.
Despite acknowledging the “wrong decision” made during the shooting response, McCraw declined to issue an apology for it during the press conference.
“If I thought it would help, I’d apologize,” he said in response to a reporter’s question.
Here’s what we know of the timeline:
11:27 a.m.: Video evidence showed the backdoor through which Ramos entered the school was propped open by a teacher. Ramos had crashed his vehicle in a ditch near the school the teacher came out and check on the driver, as did two people from a nearby funeral home, McCraw said.
11:28 a.m.: Ramos got out of the passenger side of the vehicle with a gun and the teacher ran back inside to get her phone and call 911.
11:30 a.m.: The teacher called 911 and reports the crash and that the driver had a gun.
11:31 a.m.: Ramos began shooting into school windows as he made his way towards the open back door.
11:33 a.m.: The gunman entered the school and began shooting in two classrooms. McCraw said Ramos had fired “at least 100 rounds,” in the first four minutes of entering the school. A school resource officer was not on site.
“The bottom line is that (school resource) officer was not on scene, not on campus, but had heard the 911 call with a man with a gun, drove immediately to the area, sped to what he thought was the man with a gun. (The officer went) to the back of the school which turned out to be a teacher and not the suspect,” McCraw said.
11:35 a.m.: Three Uvalde police officers entered the school through the same door as the gunman. Two of the officers received “grazing wounds,” McCraw said.
11:37 a.m.: About 16 more rounds were fired by Ramos who was barricaded inside a classroom.
12:03 p.m.: As many as 17 more officers arrive and are inside the school including the commanding officer. At the same time, an unidentified person called 911 from inside a classroom and whispered that they in room 1-11 where the gunman was shooting. The call lasted for 1 minute and 23 seconds.
12:10 p.m.: The same person called 911 again and said there were multiple people dead.
12:15 p.m.: A tactical team enters the school building and joins the officers who are already there.
12:16 p.m.: The caller from Room 1-11 calls again and reports that there are “eight or nine” people who are still alive.
12:20 p.m.: Another 911 call is made by a child and three shots are heard on the call. The child says “he shot the door.”
12:46 p.m.: A caller tells 911 that they could hear police.
12:50 p.m.: Officers enter the classroom after getting keys from the janitor.
12:51 p.m.: A caller tells the 911 operator that it sounded like officers were inside the room.
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Mangalore University, which had earlier allowed headscarves matching the colour of uniforms, has decided that the Karnataka High Court order upholding the hijab ban in pre-university colleges will apply to degree colleges as well and that religious attire will therefore not be allowed inside classrooms.
“Our college initially used to allow girls to wear headscarves matching the colour of the uniform. But after the Karnataka High Court order, and following the meeting with CDC (college development council) president and the MLA of the Mangalore South constituency, Vedavyas Kamath, the student welfare officer, and members of the syndicate, it has been decided that hijab and other religious outfits will not be allowed inside classrooms. There was confusion about whether the high court order would apply to degree colleges. However, according to the advisory of the state government, the higher education council, and the court order, all colleges will have to comply with the uniform,” said vice-chancellor Subrahmanya Yadapadithaya. The meeting was convened after students of a constituent college protested on Thursday against girls wearing the hijab despite the college having a uniform.
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According to Yadapadithaya, girls are allowed to wear the hijab on campus but must remove it before entering classrooms, the library and the canteen.
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The university is also making alternative arrangements for those who insist on wearing the hijab. “We have learned that about 15 girls are firm about wearing the hijab to class. We are ready to counsel these girls and make them understand the Karnataka high court order. If counselling does not work, we will help them get admission in educational institutions where the hijab is allowed or where there are no uniforms,” said Yadapadithaya, adding that the syndicate’s May 16 order called for strictly following the advisory to adhere to uniforms.
The hijab row began in December last year, when six students of a government pre-university girls college in Udupi protested demanding they be allowed to attend classes in the hijab. In February this year, the government issued an order that the hijab could not be allowed in schools and pre-university colleges with uniforms or dress codes. Dismissing petitions filed by a group of Muslim students, a three-judge bench of the high court on March 15 ruled that the prescription of uniforms was only a constitutionally permissible and reasonable restriction, which students could not object to.
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The crime branch of the Pune city police has registered an offence against a man who allegedly extorted money from a garments shop owner by threatening to file a Copyright Act violation case against him for selling “first copy” of branded clothes.
Police have identified the accused person as Chetan Motiram Ganatra (48), resident of Nigdi. A first information report (FIR) against him has been lodged at the Market Yard police station under sections 384 and 385 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
According to a press release issued on Friday, Ganatra went to a garment shop and told its owner that he was granted the “power of attorney” by “R D B Professional Services Company” to file a case of copyright violation against those selling duplicate garments with names of reputed brands.
Ganatra showed the supposed power of attorney documents to the shop owner and then allegedly demanded “hafta” of Rs 15,000 per month in lieu of not filing a copyright case against him.
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Police said that from July 1, 2018 till March 2020, Ganatra allegedly extorted Rs 2.65 lakh from the shop owner. After receiving a complaint in the regard from the shop owner, the anti-extortion cell of the Pune city police initiated a probe and then booked Ganatra on charges of extortion.
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By Charly Wilder
It wasn’t a situation in which I ever expected to find myself: crouched in a Romanian meadow at the edge of a primeval forest, listening for bison footsteps. “Sit spot” is what our guide called it. You spread out and triangulate the area where you know the bison have recently been, listening over the heathery din of insects, birds and wind-rustled flora for auditory traces of Europe’s largest land animal, which, until recently, hadn’t been seen in these parts for hundreds of years. I heard something moving behind me, the crunch of fallen foliage, turning just in time to see a flash of what I knew by then was most likely a red deer.
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It was my second day tracking bison in Romania’s Tarcu Mountains, so far without a glimpse. But I knew by now how to read their movements from a tangle of hoofprints. I knew where to find the abandoned orchards they favor, vacated when local farmers could no longer compete with the low-cost German supermarkets that colonized the market after Romania joined the European Union in 2007. Now the orchards were overgrown and reclaimed — by the bears who come out at night to plunder the fruit trees and the bison who devour their branches, leaving rain-filled prints for yellow-bellied toads, and plowing corridors through thick vegetation for wild boar, badgers and other small herbivores to expand their terrain, be fruitful and multiply.
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I was witnessing a process known as rewilding, a progressive approach to conservation that aims to restore ecosystems by stripping away human interventions, like dams and dikes, in places that have been depopulated and economically marginalized. Essential to rewilding is the reintroduction of “keystone species” like wolves, vultures and bison, animals that have an outsize influence on their habitat, significantly reshaping the landscape and promoting biodiversity through grazing, spreading seeds and predatory population control.
Creating a new wilderness
Over the past nine years, more than 60 bison have been released from captivity in this part of the Southern Carpathians, also called the Transylvanian Alps, a densely forested mountain range in southern Romania that holds some of the highest concentrations of animal and plant species on the continent. The Southern Carpathians are one of nine “rewilding landscapes” managed by Rewilding Europe, a nonprofit that was founded in the Netherlands in 2011 by two Dutchmen, a Swede and a Scot. The concept has since exploded in popularity, inspiring organizations like Rewilding Britain, Rewilding Scotland and Rewilding Australia, and moving the dial on mainstream discourse around conservation.
Despite criticism (most notably after an early experiment at a Dutch reserve called Oostvaardersplassen developed into a wasteland of animal corpses), the rewilding movement has overall been a huge success. Elk, wolves, bison and bears are once again growing in numbers across the continent, enhancing biodiversity and carbon capture. Last year, the United Nations acknowledged rewilding as one of several recommended methods of ecosystem restoration.
“I think one of the major surprises is how resilient nature really is,” said Dr. Liesbeth Bakker, Europe’s first professor of rewilding at the Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. “We often hear the stories about how biodiversity is declining, species are threatened to extinction,” she said. “But you see that as soon as you provide enough room, nature comes back almost instantly.”
Core to the rewilding concept is the idea that this “new wilderness,” as it’s sometimes called, will also create new economic opportunities in depopulated rural areas. This was the impetus behind the European Safari Company, a travel enterprise founded in 2016 by Rewilding Europe that partners with local guides and tour operators to provide wilderness experiences in rewilding areas, with a percentage of profits going toward local conservation.
Travelers can go on safari in the Greater Côa Valley of northern Portugal, a landscape of river gorges, rocky cliffs and oak forests where the reintroduction of wild horses has helped reduce wildfires and improve conditions for other wildlife, like the endangered Iberian ibex. They can track Marsican brown bears in Italy’s Central Apennines, where wolves, bears, eagles and vultures are now thriving only an hour and half from Rome. Or they can take a luxury safari replete with floating sauna in Swedish Lapland, where vast herds of reindeer and elk traverse snow-capped mountains, glaciers and unbroken taiga forest.
Setting off on a European safari
Five years ago, the idea of a European safari might have seemed like a long shot, but in a world shaken by COVID and threatened by climate change, the prospect of a wilderness experience with a positive environmental impact in a remote, beautiful part of the world in need of tourism holds obvious appeal. That was my feeling, at least, as I set off in September with my partner for a bison tracking safari in the Southern Carpathians.
Although we traveled months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February sent war refugees flooding into Romania, the rewilding area in the Southern Carpathians is in the far west of the country, more than 370 miles from the Ukrainian border. A representative from the European Safari Company told me that so far, the war “hasn’t had any influence” on operations there.
I traveled by train to Romania from our home in Berlin, stopping overnight in Budapest before continuing to Timișoara, a culturally vibrant city in western Transylvania with a profoundly unpleasant Soviet train station. After waiting there for more than an hour for our driver, who eventually showed up speaking not a word of English, hectically pantomiming for us to follow him to his car parked half a mile away, I got a sense of why the agent from the European Safari Company kept warning me that, in contrast to some of their other destinations, this part of Romania “is still not really set up for international tourism.” But the train station was a distant memory by the time we arrived two hours later at a 100-year-old farmhouse in the wooded mountain village of Sat Bătrân.
Waiting for us in the grassy courtyard was Matei Miculescu, a 30-year-old local guide and bison ranger who would accompany us for the rest of the trip. Soft-spoken, with closely cropped black hair and a wiry physique, Matei grew up on a farm in a nearby village. His parents once supported themselves through farming, but like almost everyone in the area, Matei explained, they now travel for seasonal work and farm only for subsistence to offset the price of groceries. Matei lives with his wife, their small child and his grandmother. His father works for the railroad, and his mother spends most of the year in Austria caring for the elderly.
There was a lot of local skepticism when the rewilding program first came here in 2014, Matei said. But opinion shifted once the ecotourism project began a few years later. “We released these bison into the wild, and the locals accepted them living on their land basically, and now we have to give them something back,” Matei said, explaining that every aspect of our trip, from meals to transports to the family renting out the guesthouse, would be handled by villagers.
Matei left for the evening, and soon after, a middle-aged couple arrived, pulling foil-wrapped ceramic dishes from their car. We sat at a long wooden table in the courtyard as they unveiled a steaming spread of grilled meat, local cheese, tomatoes in vinegar and a delicious local specialty similar to matzo ball soup. Before we started, they insisted we take shots of their homemade plum brandy and then waited expectantly for us to signal our enjoyment, a not-unpleasant procedure that would be repeated at virtually every meal we had in the Romanian countryside.
Early the next morning, Matei and a driver picked us up in a huge battered pickup and we drove up to the base camp, an idyllic hillside farmstead scattered with blossoming apple trees and camping tents, where we were greeted by about 100 sheep and a handful of enthusiastic sheepdogs. We dropped our bags while Matei chatted with the shepherd, a youngish, tough-looking chain-smoker in waders leaning on a wooden walking stick. Then we headed into the mountains.
The forest closed in around us, huge beech trees and pines, many of them hundreds of years old. The Carpathians encompass the largest area of unbroken forest on the continent, as well as the highest concentrations of brown bears, wolves and lynxes and more than a third of all European plant species.
For thousands of years, the European bison, a close relative of the American bison, roamed these mountains — part of a habitat that extended from southern France to the Volga River and the Caucasus. Its ancestor, the steppe bison, appears in cave paintings dating back more than 35,000 years.
As human populations expanded and cut down forests, the bison’s range decreased, and by the turn of the century it had been hunted to near extinction. The last wild European bison was killed by poachers in the Russian Caucasus in 1927. By then, fewer than 50 remained, all held in zoos. Projects aimed at saving the bison began almost immediately in Germany and Poland, where the first bison reintroduction took place in the Białowieża Forest in 1952. Breeding programs and reintroductions continued through the rest of the century, and by 2010, there were more than 2,000 free-roaming bison in Europe.
But no wild bison had been seen in the Southern Carpathians for more than 200 years when the rewilding initiative arrived in 2014. “They were thought of almost as mythical creatures,” said Matei, who has worked as a bison ranger since the project began. With support from the European Union and the Dutch Postcode Lottery, Rewilding Europe and the World Wildlife Fund began shipping in bison to release from captivity. In the beginning they purchased them from nature reserves and zoos, but few of the bison from zoos survived.
“The stress was too much for them, of finding enough food, living with the herd,” Matei said. “So we said OK, we will not take bison from zoos anymore, only large reserves.” After that, they were more successful, and the population has grown to upwards of 100, with more than 38 calves born in the Southern Carpathians.
We were visiting in the peak of mating season, Matei explained in a whisper as we made our way up a steep mountain pass. Like elephants and lions, bison are matriarchal, living in large, mostly female herds led by one “alpha female.” Weighing up to a ton, mature males live alone or in pairs, approaching the herd only during mating season. The males then fight for dominance, butting heads in a brutal face-off that can end in death. Only the winner stays with the herd.
We followed Matei up through dense forest and meadows of alpine grass, rock jasmine, silver thistle and edelweiss as he pointed out ways the reintroduced bison have impacted the environment: creating corridors through thick undergrowth and eating the bark off young trees, which allows meadows to form. Matei pointed out a “dust bath” where bison had wallowed in the dirt, a process that cleans and protects their fur, and creates surfaces for insects and reptiles to sunbathe and lay eggs.
“Bison being the biggest mammal in Europe, of course there’s a huge impact, much more than we can see,” said Matei as we watched yellow-bellied toads swimming in bison hoofprints filled with rainwater. “We see lots of small things happening, like the birds collecting their fur and putting it in their nests because it’s much better insulated.”
These nature tours are just a small part of Matei’s job, the bulk of which consists of tracking bison, taking samples for a DNA project in collaboration with a German university, reading GPS data and reviewing footage from cameras hidden throughout the woods. But the most important task seems to be inspecting their dung. We certainly did a lot of it — to the point where I began to ask myself whether I’d traveled across Europe to walk around in the woods looking for feces.
An old way of life
In the afternoon, we crossed barefoot through an ice-cold stream and ascended on the other side of a ravine, hiking until we reached a summit and looked for bison on the opposite massif.
We saw only vast blue-green peaks stretching out for miles, echoing with the sound of the shepherd screaming at his flock in a deranged singsong that Matei confirmed was laced with profanity. There used to be many shepherds, he explained, but now there’s only one responsible for the sheep of all the families in the area — making a tough and lonely job even tougher and lonelier. “They are the ones who don’t really have a family,” Matei said. “There are not many shepherds left.”
Everywhere we went, we saw ruins of the old way of life. For countless generations, the people of the Southern Carpathians lived off the land — through shepherding, hunting and agriculture. But now the big game had been hunted to scarcity or extinction, and globalization had made farming untenable. Rewilding could create new ways to live off the land, hopes Matei, who is helping to develop plans to expand tourism, establish a community kitchen and a shop selling artisanal products.
“We have to show people that there’s a benefit,” Matei said, “because in the future, the locals will be the ones who will take care of the bison and their habitat.”
We descended to the base camp for dinner, then shared a bottle of local red around a campfire as the sky filled with stars. We decided to set off before dawn the next day, a decision we regretted all through our freezing breakfast in total darkness. It was only while hiking up the mountain under the first blue light of morning that we began to come alive.
We followed the route from the day before, but pushed farther, tracking bison prints and other traces until we entered an older part of the forest. Ancient hardwoods soared overhead, letting sunlight trickle down to the forest floor, which was thick with vegetation and lushly decaying fallen trees. The air smelled of moss and fog and fungus. There were no trails, and the three of us spread out, lost in our own private worlds.
As the forest thinned, I saw Matei coming toward me from up ahead, gesturing wildly and signaling to be quiet. “It’s the herd!” he shout-whispered, motioning toward a clearing. Unnecessarily, we dropped to the ground and crawled to the edge of the meadow, where we could hide in the brush and see down into the clearing.
Not 20 feet in front of us, a herd of around 15 bison, shaggy and magnificent, grazed on tall bushes in the meadow. One of them — probably the alpha — clocked us immediately. She stood motionless, staring directly at us as the others, all female except for a calf and two young males, continued to graze. We hid there in the bushes watching them, enrapt for the better part of an hour. Finally, the alpha called out in a deep bellow and the herd stampeded away in a cloud of dust, back into the woods that were once again theirs.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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Rafael Nadal hammered Dutch 26th seed Botic van de Zandschulp 6-3 6-2 6-4 in the French Open third round on Friday to remain on course for a potential mouth-watering showdown against world number one Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals.
Nadal has 13 Roland Garros titles among his 21 majors — the highest among men — but the Spaniard was denied last year when he went down in the semi-finals to eventual champion Djokovic.
Around the same time on nearby Court Philippe Chatrier, the Serb also put on a prolific display to book his spot in the fourth round with a 6-3 6-3 6-2 win over Slovenia’s Aljaz Bedene to stay in the hunt for a record-equalling 21st major.
While Djokovic will next meet Argentine Diego Schwartzman, Nadal will take on Canadian ninth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime before their potential clash in the last eight.
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Business as usual 💼@RafaelNadal defeats Botic Van De Zandschulp 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 to reach the fourth round at #RolandGarros for the 17th time. pic.twitter.com/WL0vnf4LTo
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Van de Zandschulp began the match on a strong footing, breaking Nadal’s serve in the first game, but the Spaniard’s delivery looked almost impregnable for the remainder of the contest on Court Suzanne Lenglen.
In his first career meeting against the Dutchman, Nadal dictated terms from way behind the baseline, absorbing his opponent’s power and then bringing out his venomous forehand when required.
Van de Zandschulp, currently at a career-high ranking of 29th, staged a brief fightback in the third set when he won three games in a row from 4-0 down but Nadal, who will turn 36 next week, had the cushion to not be threatened.
Nadal broke the 26-year-old’s service twice in each of the three sets, hit 25 winners while keeping a lid on his unforced errors. The left-hander closed out the contest with an overhead smash down the middle on his second match point.
“I had my chance with a break point for 5-0 then match was over but he made a great second serve,” Nadal said on court.
“Then I played a bad game with my serve and he started to play aggressive and you feel a bit of nerves to finish the match.
“Straight sets, it was my best match of the tournament for two sets and a half.”
Djokovic advances
Defending champion Novak Djokovic recorded another straight-set victory and will face Diego Schwartzman for a spot in the quarterfinals at the French Open.
Smooth sailing ⛵@DjokerNole is through to his 13th consecutive fourth round at#RolandGarros defeating Bedene 6-3, 6-3 6-2. pic.twitter.com/wVOz9Brcfm
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 27, 2022
The top-ranked Djokovic beat Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 at Court Philippe Chatrier in 1 hour, 44 minutes — the quickest of his three wins.
Schwartzman’s 0-6 record against Djokovic includes a five-setter in the third round at the 2017 French Open. The Argentine is seeded 15th.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion hasn’t lost in the third round at Roland Garros since 2009.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The owner of the largest natural gas utility in Alaska said it is selling the company to Canada-based TriSummit Utilities Inc. for $800 million.
AltaGas Ltd. announced Thursday that the sale includes Anchorage-based ENSTAR Natural Gas, associated pipelines and ENSTAR's majority ownership in a gas storage facility, the Anchorage Daily News reported. AltaGas, also based in Canada, acquired Enstar in 2012.
TriSummit has about 133,000 customers in Canada. ENSTAR, which has about 150,000 customers in Anchorage and parts of south-central Alaska, has had about 1% annual growth in customers in recent years, AltaGas has reported.
AltaGas said the sale, in part, will allow the company to reduce debt and make “higher growth investments” in other operations, the company's president, Randy Crawford, said in a statement.
The sale is subject to regulatory approval. The companies expect it to close by early next year.
TriSummit in a statement said it plans to “retain all of ENSTAR’s dedicated employees and hire new Alaska employees to perform certain functions currently performed out of state.” ENSTAR Natural Gas has about 200 employees.
TriSummit President and CEO Jared Green once ran ENSTAR.
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The president told graduates that they will “defend the international rules of the road,” particularly in the Indo-Pacific region where they will be called on to “ensure freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and beyond.”
“These longstanding maritime principles are the bedrock of a global economy and of global stability," he said. “You’re going to help knit together our allies in Europe with our allies in the Indo-Pacific.”
Biden did not address two mass shootings in as many weeks in his remarks. He, along with first lady Jill Biden, will visit Uvalde, Texas on Sunday to console grieving families after Tuesday's shooting at an elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, the White House said.
Biden's remarks to the Naval Academy marked his first commencement address of the year. He is also set to deliver remarks at Saturday’s graduation ceremony at the University of Delaware, his alma mater.
The president opened his speech by paying tribute to the class of 2022's resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and with a customary pardoning of any minor infractions made by midshipmen during their time in the academy.
He also paid tribute for former Republican Sen. John McCain, who is interred on the grounds of the academy, saying, “Being here I can’t help think of John and how the naval academy meant so much to him.”
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Caption President Joe Biden speaks to the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2022 graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Caption Graduating U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen raise their right hands as they are commissioned at the graduation and commission ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Caption Graduating U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen raise their right hands as they are commissioned at the graduation and commission ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Caption A U.S. Naval Academy graduate is congratulated and receives their diploma from President Joe Biden during the U.S. Naval Academy graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Caption A midshipman reacts as President Joe Biden recognizes them during the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Caption Undergraduate midshipmen salute as they watch the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The biggest convoy of aid since Ethiopia's government declared a unilateral "humanitarian cease-fire" in the country's long-encircled Tigray region two months ago has departed for Tigray, a U.N. official told The Associated Press, as the conflict gripping Africa's second most populous nation continued to ease.
A convoy of 215 trucks of food aid left the capital of the neighboring Afar region on Friday and is due to arrive in the Tigray capital on Saturday. An AP witness observed many of the trucks lining the road outside Semera on Thursday as they waited for clearance to leave.
But aid workers say much more is needed. The U.N. World Food Program estimates that 500 trucks a week are required to feed the 5.2 million people in Tigray who need food, medicine and other humanitarian assistance but have been largely denied it for almost a year.
Ethiopia’s government in March declared the humanitarian cease-fire to allow aid to reach Tigray, whose leaders have been engaged in a war against federal forces and their allies since November 2020, with thousands of people killed. In response, the Tigray forces said they would observe a cessation of hostilities.
Initially, aid was slow to arrive, with a handful of trucks reaching Tigray in the first weeks of the truce, prompting the Tigray side to accuse the government of reneging. But the number of aid trucks has increased sharply since the Tigray forces announced their withdrawal from parts of Afar in late April.
Humanitarian workers say federal authorities have now eased restrictions previously imposed on aid to the region. Tigray has been largely cut off from the world since Tigray forces recaptured the regional capital, Mekele, in June 2021, a situation the European Union’s humanitarian chief likened to a “siege.”
The United States has warned that 700,000 people in Tigray could face famine because of restrictions on aid. A survey by Tigray’s regional health bureau recently found that at least 1,900 children under age 5 died from malnutrition between June last year and April 1.
Tigray’s banking services, road links and telecommunications remain down.
But for humanitarian aid, the only delivery issues that remain are operational ones including the number of trucks available and how quickly partners can organize aid, the U.N. official said on condition of anonymity because the person wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Darren Walker, Ford Foundation president and preeminent connector and advocate for artists and art institutions, joined the exclusive company of global superstars like Stevie Wonder, T.S. Eliot and Meryl Streep, in receiving France's highest cultural honor.
Walker was named commander of France’s Order of Arts and Letters for his work as a benefactor of the arts on Tuesday at a Gilded Age mansion in New York owned by the French embassy.
“Being in this firmament is absolutely humbling,” Walker told The Associated Press. “I’m simply a servant to the idea of art and justice in the world, because we can’t have justice without art.”
Walker became president of the Ford Foundation, one of the largest in the U.S., in 2013. He came in with a vision to shape the organization's giving to support social justice in part through funding the arts.
To symbolize that mission, Walker arranged to sell the foundation’s art collection of works almost exclusively from white male artists. Starting in 2017, the collection displayed at the foundation’s buildings was rebuilt with some 350 works of newer artists, many of whom are people of color, women and queer people.
Walker has steadily built a connection with French institutions in part because of what he described as the country's parallel journeys to live up to their founding ideals of freedom or liberty for all, equality and fellowship.
“France, just like America, unfortunately, has engaged in the exclusion of especially the art and culture and stories of people of African descent," Walker said. And just like in America, "France is on a journey" toward great inclusion and recognition of the contributions of Black artists, he said.
Under his leadership, the Ford Foundation funded an exhibition in New York at Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery in 2018 that explored the participation of Black models painted by modernists like Edouard Manet in the creation of those works. The exhibition curated by Denise Murrell, who was a fellow at the Ford Foundation at the time, traveled to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris where it made a big impression.
Laurence des Cars, who is now president-director of the Louvre Museum, partnered with Walker and Murrell to bring the exhibit to Paris when she was leading the Musée d’Orsay.
On Tuesday, she bestowed the honor to Walker on France’s behalf in front of 50 guests in a room shimmering with mirrors that overlooks Central Park. Des Cars recalled Walker's unwavering support of the exhibition that they were told over and over would cause problems.
“You see what others do not see or refuse to see, and you see what could be,” she said before placing a medal on a green and white stripped ribbon around Walker's neck.
French ambassador Philippe Etienne listed off projects that the Ford Foundation and Walker have supported, including art residencies both in France and the U.S., and a planned exhibition highlighting the many Black American artists who spent time in France especially after World War II.
“As president of the Ford Foundation, he brings the foundation, of course, but he brings himself too," Etienne said, referring to Walker's expertise and knowledge, "but also a real passion, a real energy.”
Walker sits on the board of the National Gallery of Art, the first Black man to do so, as well as the boards of many other arts institutions and companies.
The Washington-based organization, Americans for the Arts, invited Walker in 2017 to give an annual address where he made the case for public funding of the arts, tracing his own journey as a child in Texas raised by a single mother to a banker and now leading voice in philanthropy.
Nolen V. Bivens, the organization's president and CEO, said Walker believes deeply in the power of cultural diplomacy and the power of art.
“Darren Walker is the most influential arts policy grant maker and I would say thought leader in America, especially in the area of diversity and equity,” he said, adding that Walker's “dedication to the support of the arts and certainly artists is exceptional.”
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Travelers to Cyprus will no longer be required to show either a valid COVID-19 vaccination or a recovery certificate and won’t need to produce a negative recent COVID-19 test of June 1, the Cypriot government said Friday.
The government also decided to abolish a requirement to wear face masks in all indoor areas in Cyprus as of June 1 with the exception of hospitals, nursing homes and other indoor medical facilities.
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said the decision to lift COVID-19 screening requirements at airports signals the tourism-reliant island nation is ready to return to normality.
Over 10% of the island’s gross domestic product comes directly from tourism. Authorities are hopeful that a post-pandemic desire for travel will boost arrivals to Cyprus significantly, despite the loss of a significant number of Russian and Ukrainian holidaymakers as a result of the war in Ukraine.
Karousos said the estimate of travelers arriving in Cyprus in May will be more than three-quarters of the same month in 2019, when arrivals hit a record yearly high.
“Not only will we meet the target we had set regarding flight capacity and overall passenger numbers, we will surpass it,” he said.
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Robb Elementary School had measures in place to prevent this kind of violence. A fence lined the school property. Teachers were ordered to keep classroom doors closed and locked. Students faced regular lockdown and evacuation drills.
But when an 18-year-old man arrived Tuesday at the school in Uvalde, Texas, intent on killing children, none of it stopped him.
Security failures allowed the shooter to massacre 19 students and two teachers, school safety experts say. The shooting already has led to calls to fortify schools further, on top of millions spent on equipment and other measures following earlier shootings. But more security offers drawbacks, with no guarantee of an end to mass violence. In the worst case, as in Uvalde, it could backfire.
“You can do the best job you can to prevent a school crisis, but we cannot read the minds of all the criminals who are out there,” said Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center, a nonprofit that works with schools across the country. “We cannot prevent all crime.”
According to a district safety plan, Uvalde schools had a wide range of measures in place to prevent violence. The district had four police officers and four support counselors, according to the plan, which appears to be dated from the 2019-20 school year. The district had software to monitor social media for threats and software to screen school visitors.
Yet when the gunman arrived at the school, he hopped its fence and easily entered through an unlocked back door, police said. Behind the locked door of a fourth-grade classroom, he gunned down children and teachers.
Amid the attack, nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway because the on-site commander believed the gunman was barricaded in the classroom and children were not at risk, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a Friday news conference, saying “it was the wrong decision."
The case underscores that even the strongest security plans can be undermined by a seemingly simple lapse, said Curtis Lavarello, executive director of the School Safety Advocacy Council, which provides training on school safety. The Texas school appeared to be doing many things right, he said, but none of that mattered once the gunman was able to walk unobstructed into the building and into a classroom.
“All those things on paper mean nothing if they’re not followed in practice. And there seemed to be a number of gaps,” he said.
In the aftermath of the shooting, some Republicans have been calling for further investments in school safety to prevent more attacks. Some have pushed for more armed police in schools, along with metal detectors and measures to make it harder to enter schools.
Among those promoting physical security measures is Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday, he brought up 2013 legislation that created grants to help schools install bulletproof doors and hire armed police officers among other measures.
If those grants had gone to Robb Elementary, Cruz said, “the armed police officers could have taken him out and we would have 19 children and two teachers still alive.”
Security experts say the Uvalde case illustrates how fortifying schools can backfire. A lock on the classroom door — one of the most basic and widely recommended school safety measures — kept victims in and police out.
U.S. Border Patrol agents eventually used a master key to open the locked door of the classroom where they confronted and killed the gunman, McCraw said at the Friday news conference.
Some argue that investments in school security have come at the expense of student welfare. Lockdown drills that have become routine for a generation of American students have traumatized students and added to strains on mental health, educators say.
Schools need more counselors and psychologists to help troubled students, not stronger buildings, said Dewey Cornell, a psychologist and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia.
“We have systemically reduced the number of support staff in our schools, and focused too much on installing metal detectors and surveillance cameras and electronic door locks, which are very short term and reactive and very expensive," he said.
In the wake of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, schools across the country began spending huge sums of money on fortifications including bulletproof glass, metal detectors and armed security.
But such measures can create an atmosphere where students feel uncomfortable and less trusting, and it does not necessarily prevent attacks, said Matthew Mayer, a Rutgers associate professor who works on issues related to school violence.
“You’ll go down these sort of endless rabbit holes of how much security is enough. And when it comes to someone who’s coming in heavily armed, you’re not going to stop them,” Mayer said. “So the idea is you need to figure out why people do this in the first place and have ways — multi-level systems of prevention — to prevent it from happening.”
He advocates for a multi-faceted prevention approach that also includes steps such as improving mental health services, assessing threats more effectively and building trust so students and families are not afraid to speak up if they’re concerned someone has the means or intent to cause harm.
Still, schools can only do so much, he said, and he isn’t optimistic that public outrage over Uvalde will lead to significant change.
“The problem is that a lot of this public reaction, you know, sort of rises like a wave and then recedes over time, and the politicians have been accustomed to riding that out. You know, they make speeches and so forth, and sometimes there’s a commission that gets appointed, and they issue reports,” Mayer said. “But substantive change is lacking.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, rejecting the former president’s claim that she targeted him out of political animus and allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
In a 43-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes wrote that case law bars federal judges from interfering in state-level investigations, with limited exceptions, and that there wasn’t evidence to support the Republican’s contention that James, a Democrat, was proceeding in bad faith because of their differing political views.
Sannes, who was appointed in 2014 by former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, said James had a legitimate basis for investigating Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, and that Trump failed to show that recent court proceedings seeking to enforce subpoenas on him were “commenced for the purpose of retaliation.”
James’ public statements about Trump “make clear that she disagrees vehemently with Mr. Trump’s political views,” Sannes wrote, but Trump and his lawyers failed to demonstrate any connection between her opinions and how the investigation has played out.
“The fact that (James’) public statements reflect personal and/or political animus toward (Trump) is not, in and of itself, sufficient,” Sannes wrote.
James heralded Friday’s ruling as a “big victory” over a “frivolous” lawsuit. Sannes’ decision came a day after a New York appeals court ruled that Trump must answer questions under oath in James’ probe, upholding a lower-court ruling requiring him to sit for a deposition.
“Time and time again, the courts have made clear that Donald J. Trump’s baseless legal challenges cannot stop our lawful investigation into his and the Trump Organization’s financial dealings,” James said in a written statement. “No one in this country can pick and choose how the law applies to them, and Donald Trump is no exception. As we have said all along, we will continue this investigation undeterred.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, questioned Sannes’ justification for dismissing the lawsuit — singling out, by name, the legal precedent at issue — and said they would take the matter to the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals.
“There is no question that we will be appealing this decision,” Habba said. “If Ms. James’s egregious conduct and harassing investigation does not meet the bad faith exception to the Younger abstention doctrine, then I cannot imagine a scenario that would.”
Trump sued James in December, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy of litigation in an attempt to end the three-year investigation, which James has said uncovered evidence Trump’s company misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for more than a decade.
Trump filed the lawsuit just after James issued subpoenas for him and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., to give deposition testimony in James’ probe.
Trump sought an injunction barring James from investigating him and preventing her from being involved in any “civil or criminal” investigations of him and his company, such as a parallel criminal probe being led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Although the civil investigation is separate, James’ office has been involved in both. Trump also wanted a judge to declare that James violated his free speech and due process rights.
“We are sitting with our hands tied. We are simply dodging subpoenas at this point,” Habba said at a May 13 hearing.
Trump has long contended that the New York investigations are part of a politically motivated “witch hunt.” In the lawsuit, his lawyers alleged that James had violated his constitutional rights in a “thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates.”
The lawsuit described James as having “personal disdain” for Trump, pointing to numerous statements she’s made about him, including her boast that her office sued his administration 76 times and tweets during her 2018 campaign that she had her “eyes on Trump Tower” and that Trump was “running out of time.”
James’ office responded that the lawsuit was a “collateral attack” on her investigation and a “complete about-face” after Trump previously agreed to turn over his 2014-2019 income tax returns to her office and his company provided more than 900,000 documents and testimony from more than a dozen current and former employees.
Trump and his company never challenged the underlying legal basis for the investigation or the attorney general’s office’s legal authority to conduct it until her office issued a subpoena for his testimony, James’ office said.
James’ office started investigating Trump in 2019 after his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits.
At a May 13 hearing that precipitated Sannes’ ruling Friday, a lawyer for James’ office said the probe is winding down and that evidence from it could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.
The lawyer, Andrew Amer, said “there’s clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding,” although a final determination on filing such an action has not been made.
All of that, Amer said, “really shuts the door on any argument” by Trump’s lawyers that the James’ office was proceeding in bad faith.
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CANNES, France (AP) — “Shoplifters” director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the Cannes Film Festival with “Broker,” another tale of misfits from society’s margins.
This time, the film centers on the use of a “baby box,” a controversial method of anonymously dropping off newborns to be cared for by others used in Japan, South Korea and other parts of the world.
“In Japan, the biggest criticism was that the baby box was making it too easy for the mothers to give up on their responsibility to raise the child. But, on the other hand, some people said that these boxes were actually saving lives because otherwise, the children might die,” he said. “I just thought that was an interesting argument to base a film on.”
The director says his interest in the issue dates back to 2013. “When I was making ‘Like Father, Like Son.’ I researched the Japanese adoption system and it was then that I learned that Kumamoto Prefecture had Japan’s only baby box. So I got interested in that and started to research it. And I learned that Korea had the same kind of baby box, but that they had about 10 times as many babies put in baby boxes in Korea as in Japan,” he said.
“And then in 2016, I came up with the idea for a short plot based on the Korean baby box with Song Kang-ho, starring as a broker.”
Alongside Song (“Snowpiercer,” “Parasite,” “The Throne”), the South Korean drama also stars Bae Doona (“The Host,” “Jupiter Ascending,” “Cloud Atlas”), Gang Dong-won (“Secret Reunion,” “The Priests”), and South Korean singer-songwriter Lee Ji-eun, known as IU.
“Broker” marks the director’s sixth time competing for the Palme d’Or. He was first nominated for Cannes’ top prize in 2001 for “Distance,” then again in 2004 for “Nobody Knows,” in 2013 and for “Our Little Sister” in 2015.
The Japanese director won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2013 for “Like Father, Like Son” and won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 festival for his highly-acclaimed movie, “Shoplifters.”
Single mothers have long faced stigma in South Korea because pregnancy when out of wedlock is considered inappropriate. They are often pressured and shamed into giving up their children because of deeply sexist and conservative culture, birth registration laws stacked against them, and a largely privatized adoption industry.
“They can find themselves disadvantaged by the system,” he said. “And the mother is the easiest one to criticize because the father isn’t there anymore. So he escapes the criticism.”
When asked whether the film poses a question about what it means to be a family today, Kore-eda called the tale “the story of a pseudo-family.”
“But more important in this case is the two women who have chosen not to be mothers. They are at the center of the story, as well as this life that has been thrown away. So, for me, in this case, life was more central to the film than the family.”
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Teichmann amassed 53 winners and 58 unforced errors against the 15th-seeded Azarenka.
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6:05 p.m.
No. 5 Rafael Nadal moved into the fourth round at Roland Garros by beating Botic van de Zandschulp 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.
The 13-time champion said it was the best of his three wins this week, at least up until Van de Zandschulp crept back into the third set. Nadal in his on-court interview said he was disappointed to miss a break point that would have put him up 5-0.
Nadal's 301st win at Grand Slams means he will face ninth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime for a spot in the quarterfinals.
The Canadian advanced by beating Filip Krajinovic 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2), 7-5.
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5:40 p.m.
A French Open player has been fined $10,000 by the tournament after she threw her racket and it bounced off the clay and into the stands during a match.
Irina-Camelia Begu, a 31-year-old Romanian who is ranked 63rd, was cited for unsportsmanlike conduct during the third set of her victory against 30th-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova in the second round at Court 13.
The match was Thursday. The fine was announced Friday.
After dropping a point, Begu walked to the sideline and chucked her racket, which flew behind chair umpire Anis Ressaissi’s seat, landing among spectators sitting courtside. There were gasps from fans and a child could be heard crying.
Tournament referee Remy Azemar said the equipment “brushed a young spectator,” who “turned out to be OK.”
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5:10 p.m.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic recorded another straight-set victory and will face Diego Schwartzman for a spot in the quarterfinals at the French Open.
The top-ranked Djokovic beat Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia 6-3, 6-3, 6-2 at Court Philippe Chatrier in 1 hour, 44 minutes — the quickest of his three wins.
Schwartzman’s 0-6 record against Djokovic includes a five-setter in the third round at the 2017 French Open. The Argentine is seeded 15th.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion hasn’t lost in the third round at Roland Garros since 2009.
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3:45 p.m.
Aliaksandra Sasnovich eliminated a Grand Slam champion for the second straight match to reach the fourth round at the French Open.
The 47th-ranked Belarusian beat three-time major champion Angelique Kerber 6-4, 7-6 (5) at Court Simonne Mathieu.
Sasnovich had defeated reigning U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu in the second round.
She next faces Italian player Martina Trevisan, whose best result at a Grand Slam was the quarterfinals at Roland Garros two years ago.
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3:20 p.m.
Coco Gauff reached the fourth round at the French Open by beating Kaia Kanepi.
The 18-year-old Gauff, the youngest remaining woman in the draw, defeated the 36-year-old Kanepi, the oldest remaining woman, 6-3, 6-4.
The young American is trying to improve on her quarterfinal run at Roland Garros a year ago.
Gauff had six aces — and five double-faults — while her Estonian opponent made 29 unforced errors. The teenager has not dropped a set in her first three matches.
Gauff next faces No. 31 Elise Mertens.
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3 p.m.
U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez has reached the fourth round at the French Open for the first time.
The 19-year-old Canadian beat Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 at Court Philippe Chatrier.
The 17th-seeded Fernandez broke Bencic in the 11th game of the deciding set and served out the match. She had saved two set points in the opener.
Fernandez next faces 20-year-old Amanda Anisimova, who reached the Roland Garros semifinals in 2019.
The best result by a Canadian woman at the French Open was Eugenie Bouchard making the semifinals in 2014.
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1:35 p.m.
Amanda Anisimova moved into the fourth round of the French Open when Karolina Muchova stopped playing after hurting her right ankle.
The 27th-seeded Anisimova, an American who reached the Roland Garros semifinals at the age of 17 in 2019, was leading 6-7 (7), 6-2, 3-0 when Muchova walked to the net to concede the match.
Muchova twisted her right foot while serving at 2-all in the second set. She went to the sideline during that game to get checked on by a doctor and a trainer, who taped up the ankle.
When play resumed after the medical timeout, Muchova dropped seven games in a row before retiring from the match.
Anisimova eliminated four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka in the first round.
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1:30 p.m.
Diego Schwartzman advanced to the fourth round of the French Open and a potential showdown with defending champion Novak Djokovic.
The 2020 Roland Garros semifinalist beat Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 at Court Simonne Mathieu. The 18th-seeded Bulgarian made 59 unforced errors.
The 15th-seeded Schwartzman will next face either Djokovic or Aljaz Bedene. Schwartzman is 0-6 against Djokovic.
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11 a.m.
The big favorites in the men’s draw have third-round matches on Day 6 at the French Open.
Novak Djokovic continues his title defense at Court Philippe Chatrier against Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia.
Fifth-seeded Rafael Nadal faces Botic van de Zandschulp.
In the nightcap on center court, sixth-seeded Carlos Alcaraz plays Sebastian Korda in what could be a tricky matchup for the 19-year-old Spaniard.
Alcaraz’s only loss in 19 matches on clay this season was to Korda. The 21-year-old American beat Alcaraz last month in Monte Carlo.
In the women's draw, the youngest player remaining is 18-year-old Coco Gauff and she'll face the oldest in 36-year-old Kaia Kanepi.
U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez plays Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic of Switzerland.
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Caption Switzerland's Jil Teichmann celebrates winning her third round match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Caption Switzerland's Jil Teichmann celebrates winning her third round match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Caption Spain's Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Netherlands' Botic van de Zandschulp during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Spain's Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Netherlands' Botic van de Zandschulp during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption FILE - Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania returns the ball to Maria Sakkari of Greece during the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy tennis tournament semi-final match in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. at the French Open was allowed to continue her match -- and ended up winning it -- after she threw her racket and it bounced into the stands, the latest in a series of episodes involving professional tennis players who take their anger out on their equipment. (AP Photo/Elena Ignatyeva, File)
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Caption FILE - Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania returns the ball to Maria Sakkari of Greece during the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy tennis tournament semi-final match in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. at the French Open was allowed to continue her match -- and ended up winning it -- after she threw her racket and it bounced into the stands, the latest in a series of episodes involving professional tennis players who take their anger out on their equipment. (AP Photo/Elena Ignatyeva, File)
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Caption Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Caption Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Caption Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus serves the ball to Germany's Angelique Kerber during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Caption Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus serves the ball to Germany's Angelique Kerber during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Caption Coco Gauff of the U.S. returns the ball to Estonia's Kaia Kanepi during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Coco Gauff of the U.S. returns the ball to Estonia's Kaia Kanepi during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Estonia's Kaia Kanepi returns the ball to Coco Gauff of the U.S. during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Estonia's Kaia Kanepi returns the ball to Coco Gauff of the U.S. during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Canada's Leylah Fernandez returns the ball to Belinda Bencic of Switzerland during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Caption Canada's Leylah Fernandez returns the ball to Belinda Bencic of Switzerland during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Caption Belinda Bencic of Switzerland celebrates winning a point as she plays Canada's Leylah Fernandez during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Caption Belinda Bencic of Switzerland celebrates winning a point as she plays Canada's Leylah Fernandez during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Caption Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. falls as she plays Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. falls as she plays Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic gets medical assistance after falling as she plays Amanda Anisimova of the U.S.during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic gets medical assistance after falling as she plays Amanda Anisimova of the U.S.during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Caption Argentina's Diego Schwartzman smiles at the net as he plays Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Caption Argentina's Diego Schwartzman smiles at the net as he plays Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov during their third round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Friday, May 27, 2022 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Caption Spain's Carlos Alcaraz celebrates winning against Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas in five sets, 6-1, 6-7 (9-7), 5-7, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, during their second round match at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
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Caption Spain's Carlos Alcaraz celebrates winning against Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas in five sets, 6-1, 6-7 (9-7), 5-7, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, during their second round match at the French Open tennis tournament in Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged in Idaho with killing her two youngest children and her new husband’s previous wife will be tried alongside her husband and their trial has been delayed until early next year because the judge says that will give her lawyers enough time to effectively prepare a defense.
Judge Steven Boyce on Thursday ruled that delaying Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial another 90 days to Jan. 9 would not violate her rights for a speedy trial.
Vallow and her husband Chad Daybell have pleaded not guilty and could face the death penalty if they are convicted.
The Daybells are charged with murder, conspiracy and grand theft in connection with the deaths of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan.
Idaho law enforcement began investigating the Daybells in November 2019 after extended family members reported the children were missing. While the children were missing, police said the couple lied about the children’s whereabouts. Their bodies were found buried later on Chad Daybell’s property in rural Idaho.
Chad and Lori Daybell married just two weeks after his previous wife, Tammy Daybell, died unexpectedly. Tammy Daybell’s death was initially reported as “natural causes,” but investigators had her body exhumed after growing suspicious when Chad Daybell quickly remarried.
Lori Vallow Daybell is also charged with conspiracy to commit murder in Arizona in connection with the death of her previous husband. Charles Vallow was shot and killed by Lori Daybell’s brother, Alex Cox, who claimed it was self-defense. Cox later died of what police said was natural causes.
Vallow in April entered a “not guilty” plea and invoked her right to a speedy trial, which legally needed to take place by October. That complicated plans for a combined trial for her and her husband.
On May 19, prosecutors asked that Vallow’s trial be postponed until Jan. 9. Prosecutors expressed concern that if Vallow was separately in October that an “improper severance” would happen with the couple’s cases.
Boyce also expressed concern whether Vallow’s recently appointed attorneys had enough time to prepare for the trial and said the 90-day delay would give them more. He noted that prosecutors have worked on the case since 2020. | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/idaho-trial-for-chad-and-lori-daybell-delayed-to-january/SQFUWFRPCVB27KCT4CTH56Q34Q/ | 2022-05-27T17:59:51 | en | 0.987625 |
Washington: According to a new Virginia Tech Study, Sticky with sediment, the bottom waters of lakes are more than their deepest, darkest layer. They bury massive portions of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus found in runoff rolling in from the land.
As one of nature’s critical nutrient sinks, lakes earn their recognition as “sentinels” of their surroundings, said freshwater scientist Cayelan Carey.
“We think of lakes as sentinels because they truly integrate all of the changes that happen on land,” said Carey, an associate professor of biological sciences at the Virginia Tech College of Science and an affiliated scientist with the Fralin Life Sciences Institute. “Lakes do this really great job of receiving and processing all of this carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, preventing them from going downstream and reaching the ocean.”
But that work could be dismantled by anoxia, the loss of oxygen availability, Carey’s team found in a study published this week in Global Change Biology. Dreaded by scientists for years and recently confirmed as widespread by data from hundreds of lakes, anoxia is sucking oxygen from the world’s freshwaters.
It’s a phenomenon linked to the warming of waters brought on by climate change and to excess pollutant runoff from land use. Warming waters diminish fresh water’s capacity to hold oxygen, while the breakdown of nutrients in a runoff by freshwater microbes gobbles up oxygen.
In a seven-year field experiment that manipulated oxygen levels in the bottom waters of a nearby reservoir, Carey’s team found that with anoxic conditions came effects they had expected: the sediments release a lot of nutrients and carbon. But they weren’t as prepared for the extent of the changes. They observed the lake going from a sink — which retains more nutrients and carbon than it exports — to a source of nutrients downstream, starting a cycle in which anoxia in one lake could beget anoxia in another.
“I had no expectation that there would be this much change in water chemistry,” Carey said. “And to see it consistently and to see it over the seven years of the study — the effect of anoxia was multiple orders of magnitude greater than what I originally predicted.”
Fusing freshwater and data science
Making those discoveries relied on the team’s design of an experiment that was novel in a few ways. It had to be done at a whole-ecosystem scale, conducted not just with samples tested in a lab or in small enclosures of a lake’s bottom waters, but with access to the whole body of water. Carey’s team did a field experiment in the Falling Creek Reservoir in Vinton, Virginia, where team members manipulated oxygen levels in the lake’s bottom waters using an engineered oxygenation system that could withdraw water from the bottom, inject dissolved oxygen into it at super-saturated concentrations onshore, and return the oxygenated water to the bottom without altering water temperature.
Manipulating only the oxygen levels in bottom waters, thus disentangling the effects from those of changing temperature, is crucial to understanding anoxia’s impact, said Carey, a Roger Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Faculty Fellow in the College of Science. “By manipulating oxygen without altering temperature, we can understand and isolate what its effects will be. We can truly say that what we’re seeing is a result of changing oxygen and not due to other extraneous factors happening in the lake.”
But analyzing anoxia’s effects doesn’t stop at upping or lowering oxygen levels and monitoring water chemistry. With a field experiment, there’s always data you need but can’t collect, Carey said. It’s difficult to sample and measure “those nitty-gritty sediment-water interactions” without disturbing them in the field. There’s also the issue of logistics: Carey couldn’t send someone to collect data every single day for seven summers.
So the team fed the data it had collected into a model Carey describes as a “video game of a lake,” which simulated those important but tricky interactions. “Underlying the video game was a bunch of equations we could manipulate to understand which processes were most important when the reservoir had low versus high oxygen levels,” she said.
The model also enabled the team to get data every hour. “That allowed us to be able to really understand how quickly the lake responded to changes in oxygen,” Carey said.
A role reversal
The researchers observed huge changes to the concentrations of nutrients released from bottom waters with anoxia, including a six-fold increase in nitrogen export. Over time, the lake went from a net sink of phosphorus and carbon to a net source of both nutrients to downstream water bodies.
“What we saw was that the lake was unable to do its important job of serving as this sink of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, as it would have done if there was oxygen there,” Carey said. “The changes were really remarkable for all three of the elements individually, but we saw that in aggregate, the lake’s ability to serve as this sink was really changing.”
All of that carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, once buried at the bottom, was not only released up into the water column — which potentially feeds toxic algal blooms, harms freshwater wildlife, and compromises reservoirs as drinking water sources – but the nutrients moved downstream, Carey explained. Herein lies the vicious cycle of anoxia begetting anoxia: As more nutrients reach other lakes, rivers, and streams, each waterbody’s microbes will consume more and more oxygen to break them down.
Knowing the severity of this impact should move us to act on land use, Carey believes. “Our study reveals this mechanism by which upstream lakes are harming downstream lakes, and if this is going on broadly, then we basically have to do everything we can to protect lakes from receiving even more phosphorus, fertilizers, and sediments,” she said. “I’m hoping we can light a fire with folks. These processes are happening that we didn’t even know about.”
Co-authors of the study include several graduate students in the Carey Lab, as well as Madeline Schreiber, a professor in the Department of Geosciences, and Quinn Thomas, a joint faculty member of the Department of Biological Sciences and Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, the latter part of the College of Natural Resources and Environment. Thomas is also a Data Science Faculty Fellow in the College of Science. | https://www.siasat.com/a-vicious-cycle-of-oxygen-loss-threatens-water-quality-in-lakes-study-2335871/ | 2022-05-27T17:59:57 | en | 0.958697 |
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers on Friday in the Persian Gulf, just after Athens assisted the U.S. in seizing an Iranian oil tanker over alleged sanctions violations in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Guard's announcement comes as tensions remain high between Iran and the West over stalled negotiations regarding its rapidly advancing nuclear program. And while the Persian Gulf has seen a series of attacks since former President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018, there has not been a major incident at sea in months.
The Guard issued a statement on its website, accusing the unnamed tankers of unspecified violations.
Greece's Foreign Ministry said it made a strong demarche to the Iranian ambassador in Athens over the “violent taking over of two Greek-flagged ships” in the Persian Gulf.
“These acts effectively amount to acts of piracy,” a ministry statement said.
The ministry called for the immediate release of the vessels and their crews, and said these acts would have “particularly negative consequences” in bilateral relations and in Iran’s relations with the European Union, of which Greece is a member.
The ministry's statement said that earlier Friday, an Iranian helicopter landed on the Greek-flagged Delta Poseidon in international waters some 22 nautical miles off the coast of Iran.
“Armed men then took the crew captive,” it said, adding that two Greek nationals were among the crew.
“A similar incident has been reported on another Greek-flagged vessel, that was carrying seven Greek citizens, close to the coast of Iran,” the ministry said.
A Greek official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the attack with a journalist, identified the second ship as the Prudent Warrior. Its owner, Polembros Shipping in Greece, earlier said the company was “cooperating with the authorities and making every possible effort to address the situation effectively.”
Greek officials did not identify the nationalities of the other crew onboard the vessels.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said it appeared the two ships had come close to — but not in — Iranian territorial waters Friday before drifting off into Iranian waters. The ships also had turned off their tracking devices, another red flag, the official said. However, neither had issued a mayday or a call for help, the official said.
Iran had threatened to take “punitive action” earlier Friday over Athens being involved in the U.S. seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in Greek waters.
Iran's Nour News website, close to its security services, made the threat just as shipping news site Lloyd's List said it believed two Greek tankers had been seized in the Persian Gulf. Quoting anonymous industry sources, Lloyd's reported that the two ships had been boarded after Iranian military helicopters approached them on Friday afternoon. It said both tankers had just been loaded with Iraqi crude oil.
The crude oil cargo of an Iranian-flagged tanker that was stopped in Greek waters last month has been seized and is being transferred to another vessel following a request from the United States, a Greek official said Thursday.
The official said following a “judicial intervention by U.S. authorities concerning the ship’s cargo” the process is currently underway, at U.S. government expense, for the oil “to be handed over” off the port of Karystos on the Aegean Sea island of Evia.
The official, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the case, did not provide further details. A Justice Department spokesman in Washington and the U.S. Embassy in Athens declined to comment Thursday.
Iran’s seizure on Friday was the latest in a string of hijackings and explosions to roil a region that includes the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all traded oil passes.
The U.S. Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.
Iranian hijackers also stormed and briefly captured a Panama-flagged asphalt tanker off the United Arab Emirates last year, as well as briefly seizing and holding a Vietnamese tanker in November.
Tehran denies carrying out the attacks, but a wider shadow war between Iran and the West has played out in the region’s volatile waters. Meanwhile, the Guard is building a massive new support ship near the strategic Strait of Hormuz as it tries to expand its naval presence in waters vital to international energy supplies and beyond, according to satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press.
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Paphitis reported from Athens, Greece. Associated Press writer Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report. | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/iran-seizes-2-greek-tankers-in-persian-gulf-tensions-spike/ENUMWCD6EJBPFFOYGGQQSEHDJA/ | 2022-05-27T17:59:57 | en | 0.971724 |
Beijing: China, which is holding the rotating Presidency of BRICS bloc this year, said on Friday that it actively supports the expansion of the five-member group, a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Saudi Arabia and Argentina desired to join the grouping.
Riyadh and Buenos Aires have shown interest in BRICS activities, Russia’s state-run Tass news agency quoted Lavrov as saying in an interview on Thursday.
“The interest in it (BRICS) is shown by our Saudi friends and Argentina, which stated the desire to become a full-fledged BRICS member, coming from the mouth of its (Argentina) Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero,” Lavrov said.
The next BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit is being prepared, Lavrov said. “The outreach format will be established within its framework, where around a dozen developing economies will participate,” he added.
Responding to Lavrov’s BRICS expansion comments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here that as the BRICS Chair this year, China actively supports the start of the BRICS expansion process and broadens ‘BRICS Plus’ cooperation .
Wang said the recently-held meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs reached consensus on the BRICS expansion process and held the first-ever ‘BRICS Plus’ foreign ministers’ meeting, “which fully shows that the BRICS cooperation is open and inclusive .
China will work on BRICS-related parties to continue to have in-depth discussions on BRICS expansion and determine the standards and procedures for that on the basis of consensus.
We look forward to more like-minded partners joining the big family of BRICS, he said.
Foreign Ministers and top officials of Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, the UAE and Thailand took part in the foreign ministers meeting of the five-member group held virtually on May 19 under Beijing’s ‘BRICS Plus’ initiative.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar took part in the BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting convened by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
China is making preparations to hold this year’s BRICS summit, dates for which are yet to be announced.
BRICS’ New Development Bank (NDB) has already admitted Bangladesh, the UAE, Egypt and Uruguay as its members.
Russian foreign minister Lavrov in his interview to TASS had also indicated that many countries of the Arab world are showing interest in establishing partner relations with the eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in which India and Pakistan are members besides China. The other members are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
“These are processes of building up meaningful and positive, non-antagonistic alliances, not aimed against anyone,” Lavrov said.
The joint statement issued after the May 19 BRICS’ foreign ministers meeting said, The ministers recalled the BRICS efforts of extending its cooperation to other developing countries and emerging markets and supported further promoting the BRICS Outreach and BRICS Plus Cooperation, in line with the updated Terms of Reference adopted by the BRICS Sherpas in 2021through inclusive and equal-footed and flexible practices and initiatives.
The ministers supported promoting discussions among BRICS members on the BRICS expansion process. They stressed the need to clarify the guiding principles, the standards, criteria and procedures for this expansion process, according to the joint statement posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website. | https://www.siasat.com/actively-supports-russias-move-to-expand-brics-bloc-says-china-2335836/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:03 | en | 0.943126 |
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, rejecting the former president’s claim that she targeted him out of political animus and allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
In a 43-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes wrote that case law bars federal judges from interfering in state-level investigations, with limited exceptions, and that there wasn't evidence to support the Republican's contention that James, a Democrat, was proceeding in bad faith because of their differing political views.
Sannes, who was appointed in 2014 by former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, said James had a legitimate basis for investigating Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, and that Trump failed to show that recent court proceedings seeking to enforce subpoenas on him were “commenced for the purpose of retaliation.”
James' public statements about Trump “make clear that she disagrees vehemently with Mr. Trump’s political views,” Sannes wrote, but Trump and his lawyers failed to demonstrate any connection between her opinions and how the investigation has played out.
“The fact that (James') public statements reflect personal and/or political animus toward (Trump) is not, in and of itself, sufficient,” Sannes wrote.
James heralded Friday's ruling as a "big victory" over a "frivolous" lawsuit. Sannes' decision came a day after a New York appeals court ruled that Trump must answer questions under oath in James' probe, upholding a lower-court ruling requiring him to sit for a deposition.
“Time and time again, the courts have made clear that Donald J. Trump’s baseless legal challenges cannot stop our lawful investigation into his and the Trump Organization’s financial dealings,” James said in a written statement. “No one in this country can pick and choose how the law applies to them, and Donald Trump is no exception. As we have said all along, we will continue this investigation undeterred.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, questioned Sannes’ justification for dismissing the lawsuit — singling out, by name, the legal precedent at issue — and said they would take the matter to the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals.
“There is no question that we will be appealing this decision,” Habba said. “If Ms. James’s egregious conduct and harassing investigation does not meet the bad faith exception to the Younger abstention doctrine, then I cannot imagine a scenario that would.”
Trump sued James in December, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy of litigation in an attempt to end the three-year investigation, which James has said uncovered evidence Trump’s company misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for more than a decade.
Trump filed the lawsuit just after James issued subpoenas for him and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., to give deposition testimony in James’ probe.
Trump sought an injunction barring James from investigating him and preventing her from being involved in any “civil or criminal” investigations of him and his company, such as a parallel criminal probe being led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Although the civil investigation is separate, James’ office has been involved in both. Trump also wanted a judge to declare that James violated his free speech and due process rights.
“We are sitting with our hands tied. We are simply dodging subpoenas at this point,” Habba said at a May 13 hearing.
Trump has long contended that the New York investigations are part of a politically motivated “witch hunt.” In the lawsuit, his lawyers alleged that James had violated his constitutional rights in a “thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates.”
The lawsuit described James as having “personal disdain” for Trump, pointing to numerous statements she’s made about him, including her boast that her office sued his administration 76 times and tweets during her 2018 campaign that she had her “eyes on Trump Tower” and that Trump was “running out of time.”
James' office responded that the lawsuit was a “collateral attack” on her investigation and a “complete about-face” after Trump previously agreed to turn over his 2014-2019 income tax returns to her office and his company provided more than 900,000 documents and testimony from more than a dozen current and former employees.
Trump and his company never challenged the underlying legal basis for the investigation or the attorney general’s office’s legal authority to conduct it until her office issued a subpoena for his testimony, James’ office said.
James’ office started investigating Trump in 2019 after his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits.
At a May 13 hearing that precipitated Sannes’ ruling Friday, a lawyer for James’ office said the probe is winding down and that evidence from it could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.
The lawyer, Andrew Amer, said “there’s clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding,” although a final determination on filing such an action has not been made.
All of that, Amer said, “really shuts the door on any argument” by Trump’s lawyers that the James' office was proceeding in bad faith.
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The Kremlin-backed leader of Russia’s southern province of Chechnya has posted a video in which he warns that Poland could be next after Ukraine.
Ramzan Kadyrov, who is famous for his bluster, said in the video he posted to his official Telegram page that Ukraine was “a done deal” and that “if an order is given after Ukraine, we’ll show you (Poland) what you’re made of in six seconds.”
Poland, which borders Ukraine, has provided its neighbor with weapons and other aid since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. It has also welcomed in millions of Ukrainian refugees.
Kadyrov later urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “finally come to his senses and accept the conditions offered by our president (Vladimir Putin)."
Kadyrov has repeatedly used social media to boast about Chechen fighters’ alleged performance against Ukrainian troops and to make other unconfirmed statements about the war in Ukraine.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— 'Relentless': Russia squeezes Ukrainian strongholds in east
— West mulls having Russian oligarchs buy way out of sanctions
— Russia blames the West for global food crisis as it blocks Ukraine ports
— US wins latest legal battle to seize Russian yacht in Fiji
— US general: No need to add ground forces in Sweden, Finland
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Ukraine should remove sea mines from areas near its ports to allow safe shipping.
Putin made the statement in Friday’s call with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, according to the Kremlin readout of the conversation. It said that Putin and Nehammer “had a detailed exchange of views on issues regarding food security” with Putin rejecting Western claims that Russia’s action that exacerbated a global food crisis.
The Kremlin noted that “Putin emphasized that attempts to blame Russia for difficulties regarding shipments of agricultural products to global markets are unfounded.” It added that the Russian leader “gave a detailed explanation of the real roots behind those problems that emerged, in particular, because of the U.S. and the EU sanctions against Russia.”
The U.S. and other Western allies have rejected the Russian demand for the sanctions to be lifted and accused Moscow of blocking grain supplies from Ukraine to global markets — accusations the Kremlin has denied.
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Russian forces are making “palpable progress” in eastern Ukraine, and Kyiv’s forces need long-range rocket launchers and other military support.
Britain’s defense ministry said Friday that Moscow’s troops have recently captured several villages as they attempt to surround Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in the eastern Donbas region, but do not yet have full control of the region.
Johnson told news agency Bloomberg that Russian President Vladimir Putin “at great cost to himself and Russian military is continuing to chew through ground in Donbas, he’s continuing to make gradual, slow but I’m afraid palpable progress.”
He said that “therefore it is absolutely vital that we continue to support the Ukrainians militarily.”
Johnson said long-range multiple-launch rocket systems, or MLRSs, “would enable them to defend themselves against this very brutal Russian artillery.”
Britain possesses some of the systems, but Johnson did not say whether the U.K. would send any to Ukraine.
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PRAGUE — The U.K.’s top diplomat says countries supporting Ukraine have to be “ready for the long haul” and there should be no talk of “appeasing” Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said after meeting her Czech counterpart in Prague Friday that “we need to make sure that Ukraine wins and that Russia withdraws and that we never see this type of Russian aggression again.”
She said that “there should be no talk of cease-fires, or appeasing Putin.”
Truss says that Ukraine needs to receive more heavy weapons and gradually get upgraded to get “NATO-standard equipment.” She said that “at the moment, they’re using a lot of ex-Soviet equipment. We need to make sure they’re able to defend themselves into the future.”
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BUDAPEST, Hungary -- A U.S. lawmaker is urging the Biden administration to consider imposing sanctions on some Hungarian companies in an effort to pressure Budapest to agree to a European Union embargo on Russian oil.
In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday, Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi urged him to “consider all tools including sanctions” to ensure that Hungary -- a member of the EU and NATO -- gets on board with the proposal.
The EU has for weeks has sought to forge a consensus on a new sanctions package that would phase out Russian oil imports by the end of 2022. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has held up negotiations and threatened a veto of the plan, arguing it would devastate Hungary’s economy and lead to energy insecurity.
In his letter to Blinken, Krishnamoorthi wrote that the EU’s proposed embargo would “significantly increase financial pressure on Russia’s economy and Putin’s war machine.”
If Orban continues to stall EU negotations, he wrote, “the Biden Administration should consider implementing sanctions against companies in Hungary that continue to do business with Russian oil exporters.”
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ISTANBUL — Turkey’s foreign minister says Sweden and Finland must now take “concrete steps” to alleviate his country’s security concerns to overcome Ankara’s objections to their NATO membership bid.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Friday that delegations from the two Nordic countries have returned home with Turkey’s demands after a visit this week and Ankara is awaiting their answers.
The countries’ membership bids require support from all NATO countries, but Turkey is objecting to them. It has cited alleged support for Kurdish militants that Turkey considers terrorists and restrictions on weapons sales to Turkey.
Cavusoglu said that “an approach of ‘we’ll convince Turkey in time anyway, we are friends and allies’ would not be correct.” He insisted that “these countries need to take concrete steps.”
He added that “we understand Finland and Sweden’s security concerns but ... everyone also needs to understand Turkey’s legitimate security concerns.”
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ROME — Italian Premier Mario Draghi has discussed the emerging food crisis in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Draghi’s office said that the call Thursday “focused on the situation in Ukraine and ... efforts to find a shared solution to the ongoing food crisis and its serious repercussions on the world’s poorest countries.”
Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but the war and a Russian blockade of its ports have halted much of that flow, endangering world food supplies. Many of those ports are now also heavily mined.
Russia also is a significant grain exporter. Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions against Russia, seeking to shift the blame for the food crisis.
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BERLIN -- Germany’s development minister has traveled to Ukraine to pledge further civilian support and discuss the country’s rebuilding.
Svenja Schulze is the second German minister to visit Ukraine since the Russian invasion started. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited on May 10 and reopened the country’s embassy in Kyiv.
Schulze’s ministry said she planned to meet Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and other senior officials in Kyiv on Friday.
It said the talks will address immediate aid to address the problems Ukraine faces now and “strategic questions” related to rebuilding the country.
Schulze said in a statement that “we must already lay now the foundations for internationally coordinated support for the rebuilding of a free and democratic Ukraine” and Germany will contribute.
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MOSCOW -- Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine claim to have taken control of Lyman, a town in the Donetsk region. There has been no confirmation yet from Ukrainian officials.
The military of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic said on Telegram that rebel forces, supported by the Russian troops, as of Friday “have liberated and taken full control of 220 settlements, including Lyman.”
Lyman, which had a pre-war population of over 20,000, is a large railway hub in the Donetsk region, north of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, cities that remain under Ukrainian control.
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MOSCOW -- Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced that it is expelling five Croatian diplomats in response to “unfriendly steps” taken by Zagreb to reduce the size of Russia’s diplomatic mission there.
The ministry said in an statement that it summoned Croatian ambassador Tomislav Car on Friday. It said it “expressed a strong protest in connection with the groundless attempts of the Croatian authorities to blame Russia for war crimes in Ukraine and the provision of military assistance by the Croatian side to the neo-Nazi Kyiv regime.”
Last month, Croatia expelled 18 Russian diplomats.
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KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine’s foreign minister is pleading with Western nations to provide Kyiv with heavy weapons to enable it to push Russian forces back.
Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday night tweeted a video of himself answering questions submitted on Twitter and said: “We need heavy weapons. The only position where Russia is better than us it’s the amount of heavy weapons they have. Without artillery, without multiple launch rocket systems we won’t be able to push them back.”
Kuleba said that the situation in the east of the country, where the Russian forces are on the offensive, “is as dire as people say.”
He added: “I would even say it’s even worse than people say. We need weapons. If you really care for Ukraine, weapons, weapons and weapons again,” the minister stressed.
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KYIV, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian regional governor says that four people have been killed in the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk over the past 24 hours by Russian shelling. One more person was killed by a Russian shell in the village of Komushuvakha.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, wrote in a Telegram post Friday that “the residents of Sievierodonetsk have forgotten when was the last time there was silence in the city for at least half an hour.” He said that “the Russians are pounding residential neighborhoods relentlessly.”
Sievierodonetsk Mayor Oleksandr Striuk said on Thursday that 60% of the city’s residential buildings have been destroyed, and about 85-90% have been damaged and require major repairs.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The United States has won the latest round of a legal battle to seize a $325-million Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji, with the case now appearing headed for the Pacific nation’s top court.
The case has highlighted the thorny legal ground the U.S. finds itself on as it tries to seize assets of Russian oligarchs around the world. Those intentions are welcomed by many governments and citizens who oppose the war in Ukraine, but some actions are raising questions about how far U.S. jurisdiction extends.
Fiji’s Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed an appeal by Feizal Haniff, who represents the company that legally owns the superyacht Amadea. Haniff had argued the U.S. had no jurisdiction under Fiji’s mutual assistance laws to seize the vessel, at least until a court sorted out who really owned the Amadea.
Haniff said he now plans to take the case to Fiji’s Supreme Court and will apply for a court order to stop U.S. agents sailing the Amadea from Fiji before the appeal is heard.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. general nominated to take over European Command has told senators that Sweden and Finland’s push to join NATO won’t require adding more U.S. ground forces into either country. But Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli said Thursday that military exercises and occasional American troop rotations will probably increase.
Cavoli, who currently serves as head of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, said the increased military focus will probably continue to be on eastern Europe — where nations are more worried about potential Russian aggression and any spillover of the war on Ukraine.
Cavoli told the Senate Armed Services Committee during his nomination hearing that “The center of gravity of NATO forces has shifted eastward." He said that “depending on the outcome of the conflict, we may have to continue that for some time.”
Cavoli was asked about the U.S. troop presence in Europe, which has grown from fewer than 80,000 to about 102,000 since the buildup to Russia’s invasion. He said the increase had no ties to the more recent move by Finland and Sweden to seek NATO membership.
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