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Aligarh: Geetanjali Shree’s incredible literary conquest of winning the prestigious International Booker Prize has enraptured Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) fraternity.
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Tariq Mansoor said that the creative dexterity of famous Hindi fiction writer, Geetanjali has got international acclaim as she became the first ever Indian to get International Booker Prize for her novel ‘Ret Samadhi’ (Tomb of Sand).
In a congratulatory message, Prof Mansoor said it is rare that a novel from a non-European language got the highest honour and it is the acknowledgement of Indian cerebral power.
Prof Imtiyaz Hasnain, Dean Faculty of Arts, said that the students and academicians at AMU are deliriously happy that a gripping narrative of the scourge of partition and its indelible impact got the award.
Prof Shafey Kidwai (Sahitya Academy Awardee, 2019) said: “Geetanjali fashioned an enormously engaging and layered narrative on the unresolved trauma of the partition. Earlier the novels of U R Ananthamurthy and Intizar Hussain were shortlisted but the celebrated Hindi author carried the date”.
Prof Ashiq Ali (Chairman, Department of Hindi) while extending heartfelt congratulations said that now the West has started looking at India not only through the prism of Indian writers who write in English, but also through the rich and flourishing literary tradition in Hindi and it is a welcome step.
Prof Asim Siddiqui (Chairman, Department of English) said that Geetanjali’s writings nuancedly explore the whole gamut of life through the poignant tale of an 80-year-old female protagonist. It looks incredible that she was preferred over Olga Tokarcuzk, a Polish author who won the Nobel Prize in 2018.
Professor Azra Musavi (Director, Advanced Centre for Women Studies), pointed out that the feminist writing in Hindi has come of age and Geetanjali tried to reinvent life by poring over the deplorable and tragic events unfolded by the unfortunate partition.
Hindi critic, Ajay Bisariya (Department of Hindi) remarked: “Geetanjali is a prolific writer, who has published four novels and four collections of short stories. Her award winning novel meticulously maps poignant terrain of a topic on which much has been written. It is a family saga set in the partition”. | https://www.siasat.com/amu-rejoices-as-geetanjali-shree-receives-booker-2335845/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:09 | en | 0.963551 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majorities of U.S. adults think mass shootings would occur less often if guns were harder to get, and that schools and other public places have become less safe than they were two decades ago, polling shows.
Still, public attitudes on guns and gun policy are complicated, and the issue has seen little by way of federal legislative changes in more than a decade. In the wake of Tuesday's massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Democratic governors and lawmakers are pleading for gun restrictions. Reforms will meet Republican resistance both in Congress and state legislatures and are unlikely to advance.
While it’s not unusual for polling to show higher support for restrictions among the general public after a mass shooting, attitudes on gun regulation are overall rather stable over time, said John Roman, senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago.
In 2020, about half of voters in the presidential election said U.S. gun laws should be made stricter, according to AP VoteCast, compared with about a third saying they should be left as they are and only about 1 in 10 saying they should be made less strict.
WHAT ELSE DO AMERICANS THINK ABOUT GUN LAWS?
In March 2019, an AP-NORC poll showed a majority of U.S. adults — 58% — saying they thought there would be fewer mass shootings in the U.S. if it were harder for people to legally obtain guns. Many specific measures that would curb access to guns or ammunition also get majority support, according to polls.
There is widespread agreement on one measure in particular: making private gun sales subject to background checks.
Attitudes on other gun policies vary starkly by partisanship. For example, new data from an AP-NORC poll conducted earlier in May shows 51% of U.S. adults favor a nationwide ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, while 32% are opposed. An additional 18% say they hold neither opinion. Seventy-five percent of Democrats but just 27% of Republicans were in favor.
Erica Martinez, a 37-year-old in Lincoln, Nebraska, said she was “horrified” and “irate” after Tuesday's massacre and that there's obviously a gun problem in this country. Laws need to be stricter, she said, and it should be harder for someone to get a gun.
“These school shootings are becoming more prevalent now, and there’s just too many innocent little lives that are lost because this 18-year-old kid was able to just go and buy a gun," Martinez said. “I honestly and truly think that it could have been prevented.”
GUN OWNERSHIP IN THE U.S.
In April 2021, a Pew Research Center survey showed gun owners much more likely than those without guns to support expanding concealed carry and shortening waiting periods for legal gun purchases. Gun owners were much less likely to back bans on high-capacity ammunition magazines and assault-type weapons.
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults report living in a household with a gun, according to a March poll from NORC at the University of Chicago. Five percent said they purchased a gun for the first time during the pandemic, and those first time gun owners tend to share policy preferences with long term gun owners, NORC's Roman said.
Federal data also shows gun sales rose significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The number one reason why somebody buys a firearm is they feel like it puts them at less risk,” said Roman. “When you have an event like COVID, where people feel like the world is very unsafe in general, you see big spikes in people buying one.”
Mike Miller, a 68-year-old conservative in Woodland Park, Colorado, said he owns guns for home defense, along with hunting.
“I think it’s in our constitution, and I think we have the right to have our weapons," he said. "I don’t think that’s a problem with like the shooting that just happened. I think it’s bigger issues.”
WHO IS MORE MOTIVATED ON THE ISSUE?
Efforts to pass gun restrictions — even background checks — have been futile in Washington, met with opposition from Republican lawmakers.
Roman suggests people who own guns and oppose gun control have a louder voice in the political process because of their personal stake on the issue. Those who want stricter laws have strong opinions about the impact of guns on society, he said, but they often lack that personal connection.
“Your own costs and benefits are always more motivating, galvanizing, they create stronger preferences than the sort of conceptual, theoretical preferences,” he said.
The voices of those looking for restrictions tend to get louder after a mass shooting, Roman said, creating a window of opportunity for gun control policy before they recede again.
An AP-NORC poll conducted just after a shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan showed 24% of Americans — including 41% of Democrats — named gun laws in an open-ended question as a priority for the government for 2022, a sharp increase from just 5% for 2021 and 12% for 2020.
“Either there’s going to be a quick movement towards some gun regulation and new gun laws or this moment will pass and next year, we’ll be talking about something else,” he said.
MENTAL HEALTH
Many Republican lawmakers have focused on mental health as a key factor in preventing mass shootings at schools.
The 2019 AP-NORC poll showed bullying, along with the availability of guns, were considered most responsible for shootings in schools. About half of Americans said these were both “a great deal” to blame. In the poll, there was bipartisan agreement on bullying, but Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to blame the availability of guns.
Derek Lavarnway, a 44-year-old political independent in Chaumont, New York, said his main concern is mental health.
“I think there’s a balance between gun control and, you know, figuring out ways to get people feeling better about themselves and their lives," he said. “We desperately need to somehow find a way for a society that creates individuals that don’t do these sorts of things.”
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Bengaluru: Targeting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), senior Karnataka Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday questioned whether those who belonged to the outfit were “native Indians”, “Dravidians” or “Aryans”.
The Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly also blamed the lack of unity within Indian society for the invasion of Mughals and British and their rule for a long period.
Angered by comments against their ideological parent organisation, several BJP leaders have sharply reacted and have hit out at the former chief minister.
“Are these RSS people native Indians? Unnecessarily, we don’t want to discuss it and so are quite…are Aryans from this country? Are they Dravidians? We will have to go to their origins,” Siddaramaiah said, while speaking on a brewing controversy over a lesson regarding RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in school textbooks.
Speaking at the event commemorating former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s death anniversary here, he asked who was responsible for the Mughals to rule the country for 600 years.
“If you were all united, why would they (Mughals) have come (and invaded), who gave them the space? Who is responsible for the British to rule this country for 200 years? I don’t want to go further on this,” he added.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, who shared the stage along with Siddaramaiah and other Congress leaders, supported the former CM’s comments and said, he too had said the same thing in the Parliament in the past.
“When there was some controversy and calls for actor Shah Rukh Khan and his family to leave the country…I had told (Defence Minister) Rajnath Singh that you guys have come from central Asia, you are descendants of Hitler, you leave…” he said.
Reacting to Siddaramaiah’s comments, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said the Congress Legislature Party leader either doesn’t know the facts or was playing a “drama” to please party leader Rahul Gandhi and appease Muslims.
Pointing out that Hedgewar was initially with the Congress and was head of its Seva Dal, he said, “Several Congress leaders have written about his contribution to the freedom struggle and support he gave to revolutionaries. We (the Congress and BJP) may have ideological differences, but Hedgewar was a true patriot and he founded RSS in India.”
BJP national General Secretary C T Ravi said: “He (Siddaramaiah) often sees Bharat and Barateeyate (Indianness) with Macaulay’s viewpoint, when the spirit enters…” he said.
Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh said, “My only answer is those in RSS are Indians and followers of its philosophy, and not Italians or with Italian leadership.”
Senior BJP leader and MLA K H Eshwarappa said RSS members are those who do not follow a foreign leader, as he demanded that Siddaramaiah apologise to the people of the country for his comments.
“RSS is a patriotic organisation built by people who are sons of this soil, unlike Congress which is in the hands of (Congress president) Sonia Gandhi. Which country is she from?” he questioned.
Several other BJP leaders too have targeted Siddaramaiah. | https://www.siasat.com/are-rss-members-native-indians-or-asks-congress-siddaramaiah-2335857/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:15 | en | 0.97832 |
The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18, authorities say, when they bought the weapons used in the attacks — too young to legally purchase alcohol or cigarettes, but old enough to arm themselves with assault weapons.
The Buffalo suspect was taken to a hospital last year for a mental health evaluation, but the incident didn't trigger New York's “red flag” law and he was still able to purchase a gun. The Texas suspect’s mother told ABC he gave her an “uneasy feeling" at times and could “be aggressive ... If he really got mad." But authorities say he had no known criminal or mental health history. The state has no such red flag law.
They are just the latest suspected U.S. mass shooters whose ability to obtain guns has raised concerns. In some cases shooters got guns legally under current firearms laws, or because of background check lapses or law enforcement’s failure to heed warnings of concerning behavior.
After the shootings, which together left 31 people dead, President Joe Biden renewed calls for stronger gun laws and questioned whether people as young as 18 should be allowed to purchase firearms. In the past, Biden has called for banning assault weapons and expanding background checks. Many Republicans oppose the measures.
A look at how suspects in recent mass shootings obtained guns, based on police accounts, court documents and contemporaneous reporting:
UVALDE, TEXAS: MAY 24, 2022. 21 DEAD.
Salvador Ramos legally purchased two guns in the days before the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School — an AR-style rifle from a federally licensed gun dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. Ramos made the purchases just days after turning 18, the minimum age under federal law for buying a rifle. He also purchased several hundred rounds of ammunition. At least one of the rifles was a DDM4, made by Daniel Defense and modeled after the U.S. military's M4 carbine rifle, though without the M4's ability to switch to fully automatic or fire a three-round burst. "The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong," Biden said hours after the shooting Tuesday. "What in God's name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?" Ramos was killed at the school by a Border Patrol team.
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BUFFALO, NEW YORK: MAY 14, 2022. 10 DEAD.
Payton Gendron legally purchased the Bushmaster XM-15 E2S used in the attack on Tops Friendly Market from a federally licensed gun dealer near his home in Conklin, New York, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Buffalo. In a personal, online diary that surfaced after the attack, Gendron said he bought the AR-15-style weapon in January, bought a shotgun in December and received a rifle as a Christmas present from his dad when he was 16. Last year, Gendron was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation under a state mental health law after writing "murder-suicide" in response to a teacher's question. New York is one of 19 states with red flag laws that allow courts to take guns from people posing immediate danger, but that didn't happen with Gendron, who was 17 at the time. State police described his threat as "general in nature" and said it didn't "specifically mention shooting or firearms." After the shooting, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order underscoring the need for red flag interventions and said she would seek to bar people under 21 from buying some semi-automatic weapons in the state. A similar law in California was ruled unconstitutional. Gendron is charged with murder.
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BOULDER, COLORADO: MARCH 22, 2021. 10 DEAD.
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa bought a Ruger AR-556 pistol, a semi-automatic weapon with a capacity of up to 30 rounds, six days before the shooting at King Soopers grocery store, police said. Alissa was prone to sudden rage and was convicted of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to probation for attacking a high school classmate. Colorado has a universal background check law covering almost all gun sales, but that misdemeanor would not have prevented him from buying a weapon, experts said. Had it been a felony, federal law would've barred his purchase. Days before the shooting, a judge struck down city ordinances banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines in Boulder, citing a state law prohibiting local gun bans. The NRA backed the lawsuit challenging the ordinances. A judge ruled last month that Alissa is mentally incompetent to stand trial.
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ATLANTA: MARCH 16, 2021. 8 DEAD.
Robert Aaron Long purchased a 9 mm handgun just hours before going on a shooting rampage at three massage businesses in the Atlanta area, police said. A lawyer for the gun shop said it complies with federal background check laws. Georgia, like the majority of states, has no waiting period to obtain a gun. Long claimed to have a "sex addiction," police said, and he spent time at an addiction recovery facility last year. Federal law bans guns for people who are "unlawful users of or addicted to a controlled substance" or who've been court-ordered to a mental health or substance abuse treatment facility, but doesn't mention treatment for other compulsions as a barrier to ownership. Long is serving a sentence life without parole.
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MIDLAND, TEXAS, AUG. 31, 2019. 7 DEAD.
Seth Aaron Ator purchased an AR-style rifle through a private sale, allowing him to evade a federal background check, and fired it indiscriminately from his car into passing vehicles and shopping plazas. He also hijacked a mail truck, killing the driver. Ator had been blocked from getting a gun in 2014 after his background check was flagged because a court determined he was mentally ill, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the matter. Private sales, which account for up to 40% of all gun sales according to some estimates, are not subject to a federal background check and private sellers aren't required to determine if a buyer is eligible to own a gun. Ator was killed by police.
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DAYTON, OHIO: AUG. 4, 2019. 9 DEAD.
Connor Betts' classmates said he was suspended in high school for compiling a "hit list" and a "rape list," but authorities said nothing in his background prevented him from purchasing the AR-15-style pistol used in the shooting at Ned Peppers Bar. Ohio law requires that sealed records of any juvenile crimes be expunged either after five years or once the offender turns 23. Betts, who was 24 at the time of the shooting, bought the gun online from a Texas dealer. It was then shipped to a Dayton-area firearms dealer, in accordance with federal law. Betts was killed by police.
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EL PASO, TEXAS, AUG. 3, 2019. 23 DEAD.
Patrick Crusius bought an AK-47-style rifle and 1,000 rounds of hollow-point ammunition online 45 days before he walked into a Walmart store and opened fire, killing 23 people and injuring two dozen others, before confessing that he had been targeting Mexicans, according to prosecutors. A Crusius family lawyer said his mother raised concerns about the purchase in a call to police on June 27. Police said she asked if Crusius, who was 21 at the time, was old enough to buy a gun. Police said she was assured he was and that he'd qualify if he passed a background check. Police said she expressed concern only about his safety and said she'd seen no recent change in his behavior. Crusius posted a racist screed online just before the attack and appeared to target Mexicans. He's charged with capital murder in Texas and federal hate crimes and firearms offenses.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA: MAY 31, 2019. 12 DEAD.
Former Virginia Beach city employee DeWayne Craddock legally purchased six firearms in the three years before he opened fire on a municipal building, including the two .45-caliber pistols used in the attack. An independent review of the shooting, commissioned by the City of Virginia Beach, found that Craddock displayed no warning signs or "prohibited behaviors associated with a pathway to violence," and that he had no known history of mental health treatment. Craddock was killed by police. ___
THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA: NOV. 7, 2018. 12 DEAD.
Ian David Long, a former Marine machine gunner who served in Afghanistan, used a legally purchased .45-caliber pistol with an extended magazine in the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill. California tried to outlaw high-capacity magazines, but a federal judge reversed that after a pro-gun group sued. Months before the shooting, sheriff's deputies called to Long's home found him acting irrationally, but a mental health specialist didn't feel he needed to be involuntarily committed. California has a red flag law, but there's no indication authorities sought a court order to take away Long's guns. Long killed himself.
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PITTSBURGH: OCT. 27, 2018. 11 DEAD.
Robert Gregory Bowers had a carry license and legally owned the Colt AR-15 SP1 and three Glock .357 handguns police said he used to kill worshipers at Tree of Life synagogue. Bowers spent months posting rants against Jews on Gab, a social media site favored by right-wing extremists. He also posted photos of his "glock family." Just before the attack, he posted a screed against a Jewish organization that resettles refugees, saying: "I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in." None of the rhetoric appeared to raise red flags. His case is pending. ___
SANTA FE, TEXAS: MAY. 18, 2018. 10 DEAD.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old student, used a shotgun and a .38-caliber handgun that his father purchased legally and stored in a closet at their home, authorities said. It wasn't clear if his father knew he'd taken the guns. Prior to the attack, Pagourtzis posted a photo on social media of a T-shirt with the phrase "Born to Kill" and had writings indicating he planned to attack his high school. A judge sent him to a mental health facility after ruling he was incompetent to stand trial.
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PARKLAND, FLORIDA: FEB. 14, 2018. 17 DEAD.
Nikolas Cruz legally purchased a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle in February 2017 from a licensed dealer a few miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, authorities said. He'd been treated at a mental health clinic but hadn't been there in more than a year. Federal law prohibits gun purchases if a court declares a person a "mental defective" or commits that person to an institution, but not if the person seeks treatment voluntarily. Cruz was 19 at the time of the shooting. He pleaded guilty in October and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. ___
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, TEXAS: NOV. 5, 2017. 25 DEAD.
Devin Patrick Kelley's history of domestic abuse barred him from buying guns. He was able to because information about his crimes was never entered into a federal database used for background checks. The Air Force failed to follow rules requiring that it inform the FBI about his conduct. Kelley purchased four guns, including an AR-15-style rifle found at First Baptist Church, from licensed Texas and Colorado dealers over a four-year span. Kelley killed himself. ___
LAS VEGAS: OCT. 1, 2017. 58 DEAD.
Stephen Paddock purchased 33 of the 49 weapons found in his hotel room and at his homes in the year before he opened fire on a country music festival. Paddock passed all background checks. His gradual accumulation of guns went undetected because federal law doesn't require licensed gun dealers to alert the government about rifle purchases. Paddock killed himself. ___
ORLANDO, FLORIDA: JUNE 12, 2016. 49 DEAD.
Omar Mateen purchased an AR-15-style rifle, a Sig Sauer MCX, and a handgun from a licensed dealer on separate days about a week before the Pulse nightclub attack. He passed a background check and had a security license that allowed him to be armed while on duty. The FBI investigated Mateen in 2013 and 2014 over co-workers' concerns that he'd spoken about ties to terrorist groups. Neither inquiry led to charges. Even if he'd been placed on a terrorism watch list, Congress in 2015 rejected attempts to prevent people on the list from purchasing guns. Mateen was killed by police.
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SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA: DEC. 2, 2015. 14 DEAD.
Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, used weapons the FBI said his neighbor, Enrique Marquez, legally purchased from a licensed dealer in 2011 and 2012. Marquez pleaded guilty to charges he conspired to provide support to terrorists and made false statements to acquire a firearm. He told investigators Farook asked him to buy the weapons because he would draw less attention. Farook and Malik were killed by police.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON: OCT. 1, 2015. 10 DEAD.
Christopher Harper-Mercer and his family members legally purchased the handguns and rifle used in the Umpqua Community College shooting from a licensed dealer. Investigators found six guns at the college and eight at an apartment. Neighbors said Harper-Mercer and his mother went target shooting together. Harper-Mercer killed himself after he was wounded by police.
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CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: JUNE 17, 2015. 9 DEAD.
A drug arrest should've prevented Dylann Roof from purchasing the pistol he used at Emanuel AME Church, but a record-keeping error and background check delay enabled the transaction to go through. The FBI said a background check examiner never saw the arrest report because the wrong arresting agency was listed in state criminal history records. After three days, the gun dealer was legally permitted to complete the transaction. He was convicted and is on federal death row.
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WASHINGTON: SEPT. 16, 2013. 12 DEAD.
Aaron Alexis, a former reservist turned civilian contractor, passed background checks and legally purchased the shotgun used in the Washington Navy Yard shooting despite recent mental health treatment and a history of violent outbursts. He previously fired a gun in anger twice but wasn't prosecuted in either case. Alexis was killed by police.
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NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT: DEC. 14, 2012. 26 DEAD.
Adam Lanza used his mother's weapons, including a .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle, in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Lanza's mother, whom he fatally shot before going to the school, also purchased the ammunition. Lanza killed himself. ___
AURORA, COLORADO: JULY 20, 2012. 12 DEAD.
James Holmes was receiving psychiatric treatment when he passed required federal background checks and legally purchased the weapons he used in his movie theater assault. As in the Parkland and Navy Yard cases, treatment alone did not prevent him from buying guns. He was convicted and sentenced to 12 life terms and thousands of years in prison.
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Washington: Even as the US has united the rest of the world against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China poses the most serious long-term challenge to the international order, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday.
China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it, Blinken said in a major foreign policy speech on China.
Beijing’s vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years, he said.
Even as (Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin’s war continues, we will remain focused on the most serious long-term challenge to the international order, and that’s posed by the People’s Republic of China, Blinken said.
China is also integral to the global economy and to our ability to solve challenges from climate to COVID. Put simply, the United States and China have to deal with each other for the foreseeable future. That’s why this is one of the most complex and consequential relationships of any that we have in the world today, he said.
The Biden administration, Blinken said, does not seek to block China from its role as a major power nor to stop it, or any other country for that matter, from growing their economy or advancing the interests of their people.
But we will defend and strengthen the international law agreements, principles, and institutions that maintain peace and security, protect the rights of individuals and sovereign nations, and make it possible for all countries, including the United States and China, to co-exist and cooperate, he said.
Now, the China of today is very different from the China of 50 years ago when President (Richard) Nixon broke decades of strained relations to become the first US president to visit the country. Then China was isolated and struggling with widespread poverty and hunger. Now China is a global power with extraordinary reach, influence, and ambition, Blinken added.
Arguably, no country on earth has benefited more from that than China. But rather than using its power to reinforce and revitalise the laws, the agreements, the principles, the institutions that enabled its success so that other countries can benefit from them too, Beijing is undermining them. Under President Xi, the ruling Chinese Communist Party has become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad, he said.
We see that in how Beijing has perfected mass surveillance within China and exported that technology to more than 80 countries, how it’s advancing unlawful maritime claims in the South China Sea, undermining peace and security, freedom of navigation, and commerce, how it’s circumventing or breaking trade rules, harming workers and companies in the US but also around the world, and how it purports to champion sovereignty and territorial integrity while standing with governments that brazenly violate them, Blinken said. | https://www.siasat.com/china-poses-most-serious-long-term-challenge-to-international-order-says-blinken-2335821/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:21 | en | 0.950868 |
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The new president of the Italian Conference of Bishops on Friday said he would launch an independent inquiry on sex abuse by Catholic clergy in Italy, but the announcement disappointed victims advocates because it will only go back 20 years.
The Italian church is coming under mountain pressure to confront its legacy of clerical sexual abuse. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who was appointed this week by Pope Francis, said the investigation will limit its scope to two decades in order to be "more accurate and accountable."
Zuppi promised a report would be delivered by Nov. 18 by a panel of independent experts selected among university professors.
“We are starting from them (the victims),’’ Zuppi told a news conference. “It is clear that their suffering drives us, and it should stimulate us to give responses that are trustworthy and serious.”
Victims’ advocates say the initiative does not go far enough. They want investigations to span 50 years, and they want to be directly involved in drafting the report.
Francesco Zanardi, founder of Rete L’Abuso (Abuse Network), one of Italy’s main victims’ advocacy groups, said most of the victims report the abuse only after decades have passed.
“The maturation of a trauma takes between 30, 35 or 40 years, when it goes well,’’ Zanardi told reporters in Rome. “I, for example, spoke about my trauma (when I was) 40 years old ... more than 30 years went by ... this says that 20 years is not enough."
The Italian Catholic Church is one of the few in Western Europe that has not opened its archives to independent researchers to establish the scope of abuse and cover-up in recent decades.
Whether by government mandate, parliamentary investigation or church initiation, such reports in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France have shown systematic problems that allowed thousands of children to be abused by Catholic priests. The churches in Spain and Portugal have recently agreed to launch similar investigations.
By Zanardi’s count, 164 priests are under investigation for abuse in Italy and another 162 have been convicted. His group has gathered information another 161 new cases that have come to light this year.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nearly 20 officers stood for about 45 minutes in the hallway outside the adjoining Texas classrooms where the gunman killed students and teachers this week before U.S. Border Patrol agents unlocked the door to confront and kill him, authorities said Friday.
At least some of the 911 calls made during the Tuesday attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde came from inside one of the connected classrooms where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was holed up, Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said during a contentious news conference.
The commander at the scene believed Ramos was barricaded inside the and that the children were not at risk, McCraw said.
“It was the wrong decision,” he said.
McCraw released new details about the attack in which Ramos killed 19 children teachers, though his motive remains unclear.
The Border Patrol agents eventually used a master key to open the locked door of the classroom where they confronted and killed Ramos, he said.
There was a barrage of gunfire shortly after Ramos entered the classroom where officers eventually killed him, but that shots were “sporadic” for much of the 48 minutes when officers waited in the hallway, McCraw said. He said investigators do not know if or how many children died during that time.
Throughout the attack, teachers and children repeatedly called 911 asking for help, including a girl who pleaded: “Please send the police now,” McCraw said.
Questions have mounted over the amount of time it took officers to enter the school to confront the gunman.
It was 11:28 a.m. Tuesday when Ramos' Ford pickup slammed into a ditch behind the low-slung Texas school and the driver jumped out carrying an AR-15-style rifle.
Twelve minutes after that, authorities say, Ramos entered the school and found his way to the fourth-grade classroom where he killed the 21 victims.
But it wasn't until 12:58 p.m. that law enforcement radio chatter said Ramos had been killed and the siege was over.
What happened in those 90 minutes, in a working-class neighborhood near the edge of the town of Uvalde, has fueled mounting public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement's response to Tuesday's rampage.
"They say they rushed in," said Javier Cazares, whose fourth-grade daughter, Jacklyn Cazares, was killed in the attack, and who raced to the school as the massacre unfolded. “We didn’t see that.”
Friday's briefing came only after authorities spent three days providing often conflicting and incomplete information.
According to the new timeline provided by McCraw, After crashing his truck, Ramos fired on two people coming out of a nearby funeral home, officials said.
Contrary to earlier statements by officials, a school district police officer was not inside the school when Ramos arrived. When that officer did respond, he unknowingly drove past Ramos, who was crouched behind a car parked outside and firing at the building, McCraw said.
At 11:33 p.m., Ramos entered the school through a rear door that had been propped open and fired more than 100 rounds into a pair of classrooms, McCraw said.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Travis Considine said investigators haven’t yet determined why the door was propped open.
Two minutes later, three local police officers arrived and entered the building through the same door, followed soon after by four others, McCraw said. Within 15 minutes, as many as 19 officers from different agencies had assembled in the hallway, taking sporadic fire from Ramos, who was holed up in a classroom.
Ramos was still inside at 12:10 p.m. when the first U.S. Marshals Service deputies arrived. They had raced to the school from nearly 70 miles (113 kilometers) away in the border town of Del Rio, the agency said in a tweet Friday.
But the police commander inside the building decided the group should wait to confront the gunman, on the belief that the scene was no longer an active attack, McCraw said.
The crisis came to an end after a group of Border Patrol tactical officers entered the school at 12:45 p.m., said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine. They engaged in a shootout with the gunman, who was holed up in the fourth-grade classroom. Moments before 1 p.m., he was dead.
Ken Trump, president of the consulting firm National School Safety and Security Services, said the length of the timeline raised questions.
“Based on best practices, it’s very difficult to understand why there were any types of delays, particularly when you get into reports of 40 minutes and up of going in to neutralize that shooter,” he said.
The motive for the massacre — the nation's deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago — remained under investigation, with authorities saying Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history.
During the siege, frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the school, according to witnesses.
“Go in there! Go in there!” women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who watched the scene from outside a house across the street.
Carranza said the officers should have entered the school sooner: “There were more of them. There was just one of him."
Cazares said that when he arrived, he saw two officers outside the school and about five others escorting students out of the building. But 15 or 20 minutes passed before the arrival of officers with shields, equipped to confront the gunman, he said.
As more parents flocked to the school, he and others pressed police to act, Cazares said. He heard about four gunshots before he and the others were ordered back to a parking lot.
“A lot of us were arguing with the police, ‘You all need to go in there. You all need to do your jobs.’ Their response was, ‘We can’t do our jobs because you guys are interfering,’” Cazares said.
Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, which works to make schools safer, cautioned that it’s hard to get a clear understanding of the facts soon after a shooting.
“The information we have a couple of weeks after an event is usually quite different than what we get in the first day or two. And even that is usually quite inaccurate,” Dorn said. For catastrophic events, “you’re usually eight to 12 months out before you really have a decent picture.”
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New Delhi: Delhi on Friday reported a rise at Covid cases in last 24 hours, at 445, against 403 on the previous day, but there was no fresh death, as per the state government health bulletin.
Meanwhile, the Covid positivity rate has risen to 2.04 per cent, though the number of active cases has reported decline to 1,627.
With 479 patients recovering in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries has gone to 18,77,677. The number of patients being treated in home isolation stands at 1,113.
With new Covid cases, the total caseload of the city has jumped to 19,05,512, while the death toll is 26,209.
The number of Covid containment zones stand at 393 in the city.
A total of 21,816 new tests — 15,019 RT-PCR and 6,797 Rapid Antigen – were conducted in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 3,84,59,189, while 28,738 vaccines were administered – 4,253 first doses, 12,760 second doses, and 11,725 precaution doses.
The total number of cumulative beneficiaries vaccinated so far stands at 3,41,43,759, according to the health bulletin. | https://www.siasat.com/delhis-daily-covid-tally-rises-to-445-no-new-death-2335861/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:27 | en | 0.930547 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign hid his partisan interests from the FBI as he pushed “pure opposition research” related to Donald Trump and Russia in the weeks before the election, a prosecutor asserted Friday during closing arguments of the attorney's trial.
But Michael Sussmann's legal team denied prosecutors’ claims that he lied. And even if jurors believed Sussmann did lie, the defense said the alleged false statement did not matter because he was presenting national security information that the FBI would have looked into no matter the source. At the time of Sussmann's meeting in September 2016, the bureau was already investigating whether Russia and the Trump campaign were colluding to sway the election won by Trump that November.
“They wouldn’t have done anything different. And it makes sense: They were given actual data that had national security implications," Sussmann lawyer Sean Berkowitz said.
The case is the first courtroom test of special counsel John Durham's work since his appointment three years ago to search for government misconduct during the investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
A guilty verdict would be cheered by Trump and his supporters, who have looked to the Durham investigation to undercut the original Trump-Russia probe that have long seen as politically motivated. But the case against Sussmann is narrow in nature, involves a peripheral aspect of that probe and alleges misconduct by a tipster to the government rather than by anyone at the FBI.
Nonetheless, the two weeks of testimony in federal court in Washington have exposed the extent to which Democratic interests, opposition research, the media and law enforcement all came to be entangled in the run-up to the presidential election.
“It wasn’t about national security,” Jonathan Algor, a prosecutor on Durham’s team, said of Sussmann's concerns. “It was about promoting opposition research against the opposition candidate, Donald Trump.”
Sussmann is charged with a single count of making a false statement. That charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, though if convicted, Sussmann is likely to get far less — if any — prison time. He did not take the stand during the trial.
The criminal case turns on a Sept. 19, 2016 meeting in which Sussmann presented the FBI's top lawyer, James Baker, with computer data that Sussmann said suggested a secret communications back channel between a Russia-based bank and the Trump Organization, the candidate's company.
Such a back channel, if it existed, would have been explosive information at a time when the FBI was examining links between Trump and Russia. But after assessing the data, the FBI quickly determined that there was no suspicious contact at all.
Prosecutors say Sussmann lied to Baker by saying he was not participating in the meeting on behalf of a particular client. They say he was actually there on behalf of the Clinton campaign and another client, a technology executive whom the Durham team says tasked researchers with looking for internet traffic involving Trump aides and Russia.
Sussmann lied about his clients, prosecutors allege, to give the material extra credibility and because he figured that the information would not be investigated if the FBI thought it was being pushed by the Clinton campaign.
“The defendant knew he had to hide his clients if there was any chance of getting his allegations into the FBI — and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the defendant lied,” Algor said.
Algor said the fact that Sussmann repeatedly billed the Clinton campaign for his work on the Alfa Bank matters is proof that he was acting on the campaign's behalf when he met with the FBI. But Berkowitz noted that Sussmann billed his taxi ride to FBI headquarters for the meeting to his law firm, rather than the campaign.
Berkowitz also tried to cast doubt on what exactly was said in the meeting. Prosecutors showed jurors a text message Sussmann sent Baker the night before the meeting in which he requested a sit-down on a sensitive matter and said he would be coming by himself and not on behalf of a client.
But Berkowitz reminded jurors that the only false statement that was charged took place during the following day's meeting and that no one can be sure exactly what was said because Baker and Sussmann were the only participants and neither took notes.
Berkowitz also suggested that it was technically accurate if Sussmann suggested he was not acting on behalf of a client because he never asked the FBI do anything with the information he was providing.
“When you go somewhere on behalf of a client, you’re advocating for a client, you’re asking for something,” Berkowitz said. “Mr. Sussmann didn't ask Jim Baker for anything.”
Though Baker testified under questioning from a prosecutor that he was “100% confident” that Sussmann had told him that he was not acting on behalf of a client, Berkowitz cited 116 instances in which Baker suggested that he could not recall or remember the answer.
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Jaipur: After Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot downplayed the resignation offered by his Sports Minister Ashok Chandana, BJP state unit chief Satish Poonia on Friday said that it is a contradiction that the CM has deputed such a Sports Minister who is under pressure for organising sports event.
“This is hilarious and misfortune for the state government,” Poonia commented.
Chandna offered his resignation on Thursday and urged the CM to handover all his charges to Kuldeep Ranka who is the PS to CM.
“Honourable Chief Minister, I have a personal request to you. Free me from this cruel ministerial post and give the charge of all my departments to Kuldeep Ranka ji, because anyway, he is the minister of all the departments. Thank you,” he said.
However, the CM said that the minister might have resigned under pressure as he is organising rural sports olympics.
“Whenever a Minister takes oath, he always promises to serve all his obligations with honesty, so how come this ‘cruel ministerial post’ comes into discussion,” Poonia questioned while talking to the media.
Next, Poonia hit hard on the CM and said that he has a habit of trusting his bureaucracy and has less trust in his leaders.
“This internal protest is often seen in this Congress government. However, this tweet by the Sports Minister of the Congress government, is an example of internal politics in the Congress. In fact, many Congress MLAs have expressed their anguish in the last three and a half years,” he commented.
Reviving the political camping in Rajasthan due to rebellion earlier, Poonia said that, due to infighting within the Congress government, the Congress MLAs had to remain locked in the enclosure for 42 days. “The former PCC chief and ex-deputy CM had to be sacked. After that it seemed that everything would be fine in Congress. However, there is a long list of unresolved issues inside the Congress; sometimes MLA Bharat Singh writes letters, sometimes Ramlal Meena, Ganesh Ghoghra, and sometimes Bidhuri’s statement comes. The smell of discontent within the Congress is like smoke, but there is fire somewhere inside,” he added.
Mocking the Chintan Shivir, he said that it was a sham and did not benefit the party.
“It was decided to give leadership to Rahul Gandhi, which I am eagerly waiting for. The sooner Rahul is given the leadership of the Congress, the more entertainment the country will get. That is why the established leaders of the Congress have started leaving the party.”
“Congress became irrelevant in the politics of the country. Congress has no issues, leadership and direction left. That is why when a party stands at a crossroads, the confidence of the leaders is low. As a result, there is constant rhetoric, dissatisfaction growing inside the Congress,” he said. | https://www.siasat.com/discontent-in-congress-like-smoke-but-fire-somewhere-in-poonia-2335868/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:33 | en | 0.981079 |
Hamilton Lane Library is set to offer the community a new series of camp-themed programming for adults with the launch of Camp Lane this summer.
“We have done and still do adult programming in the summer, but for years and years, during the summer, we’ve done special things for kids with themes, and we’ve increased the programming, so I thought, well, what if we did something different for adults, too,” said Emmy Piatt, branch manager of the Hamilton Lane Library.
We came up with Camp Lane, which is an adult summer camp. We also partnered with several organizations in the community to get people outside and we’ll also use the space at Hamilton Lane Library, she said.
Camp Lane will kick off with a Party on the Plaza from 1-4 p.m. Saturday outside in the front of Hamilton Lane Library. Party on the Plaza will include live music from Gerhard Albinus, crafts, outdoor games, s’mores and more. Programming will continue throughout the summer with a series of camp-themed programs, including Book Lodge, Camp Time and Twilight Campfire.
“We wanted to do things that adults would like, that remind them of when you got to go to camp as a kid. So, we’ve got crafts, a movie in Marcum Park, which is a partnership with the Hamilton Parks Conservancy, and we’re going to get out on the river and do Rowing on the River with the Great Miami Rowing Center, an ice cream social and book reviews,” said Piatt.
We are trying to do things that people, ages 18 to 80, would like, to get outside and have some fun, she said.
Adults are invited to participate in any or all of the programs. The library is also promoting the events with a camp postcard. The series of Camp Lane events will conclude with a bonfire outside, in front of Hamilton Lane Library on Fri., July 29 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Attendees aren’t required to sign up. Those who are available can just show up and participate.
“One of our staff members did a camp program over the winter for children, and not only did they have so much fun doing all of the camp activities, all of the adults on our staff were a little jealous. They were looking at the campfire, and all of the activities, and they were like, ‘Oh, man, those are the kinds of things we want to do,’” Piatt said.
So, we thought if these are the kind of things adults are missing out on or nostalgic for, let’s think about doing something like this for our summer programming, she said.
“Here at the library, we do all kinds of programming, and people love to get together for things in the park, and we have adult craft programming here regularly, and adults love it. So, I thought, let’s amp up our adult offerings this summer,” Piatt said.
Other adult quarterly programming at the library includes a book club, and a rotating craft program as well as a variety of learning programs.
“I’m excited because I’m a Hamiltonian. I live here, I work here, and these are the kinds of things I would like to do with my friends and family. So, I’m hopeful that other adults will see these things and come out and have fun,” Piatt said.
At Camp Lane, adults will be able to get together and hang out, learn something, and have fun, Piatt said.
Registration for Camp Lane events is not required. Hamilton Lane Library is located at 300 N. Third St. in Hamilton. For more information about Camp Lane and other programs available at the Lane Libraries, call (513) 894-7156 or visit the Lane website at www.lanepl.org.
Camp Lane events will include:
Party on the Plaza
1-4 p.m. Saturday: Drop in to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge and celebrate the start of the season with a camp themed good time! Activities include live music from accordionist Gerhard Albinus, camp craft stations (including tie dye!), outdoor games, s’mores and more. Open to all ages.
Book Lodge
Noon-1 p.m. Tuesdays, June 14, 28, July 12 and 26: A summer series of book reviews and discussion live from the canteen. Refreshments will be served.
June 14 – Passing by Nella Larsen, Reviewer: Charla Hale
June 28 – The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont, Reviewer: Kelli Lyon Johnson
July 12 – The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, Reviewer: Ty Smallwood
July 26 – Autumn: A Novel by Ali Smith, Reviewer: Mike Busam
Camp Time
Thursdays, June 16, 23, July 14 and 21: Experience camp for adults.
June 16, 8:30 p.m. – Camp movie in Marcum Park featuring “Troop Beverly Hills” (Movie begins at dusk. Popcorn provided.)
June 23, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Arts & Crafts (nature journals, clay crafts and friendship bracelets) at the Hamilton Lane Library
July 14, 6-7:30 p.m. – Rowing on the River (Meet at the Great Miami Rowing Center, 110 North B St.)
July 21, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Outdoor Ice Cream Social at the Hamilton Lane Library. (Ice cream and snacks provided.)
Twilight Campfire
Fri., July 29, 8-9 p.m.: Held outside in front of the library. Spend an evening around the campfire with author, paranormal researcher and director of The Ghosts of Ohio paranormal research organization, James A. Willis, as he shares some chilling tales. Refreshments will be provided.
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San Francisco: Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite game, has challenged Apple for its stand that third-party app stores would compromise the iPhone’s security.
In a fresh court filing, Epic said if Apple can allow sideloading on Mac devices and still call those computers secure, then surely it could do the same for iPhone, reports TechCrunch.
“For macOS Apple relies on security measures imposed by the operating system rather than the app store, and ‘notarisation’ programme that scans apps and then returns them to the developer for distribution,” the new filing said.
“The operating system Apple uses in its Mac computers (macOS) does not include the challenged restraints found in the iPhone operating system (iOS), and Apple publicly touts the Mac’s security,” read the filing.
Apple also permits multiple alternative payment solutions in the App Store for apps selling physical goods, “confirming that the requirement to use Apple’s in-app payment solution, IAP, for digital goods serves no pro-competitive goal”.
“If Epic prevails, the App Store would not be dismantled. No customer would ever be required to use any of the things Apple complains about an alternative app store, direct downloads for app distribution, or an alternative payment solution. The difference is that Apple would have to compete for its customers,” said the Fortnite game maker.
Last year, a US judge ruled in the Epic Games v. Apple district court case that Apple did not have a monopoly in the relevant market.
However, the court in California decided that Apple could not prohibit developers from adding links for alternative payment systems outside of App Store-based systems.
Apple has said that permitting sideloading could risk users’ “most sensitive and private information”.
“Supporting sideloading through direct downloads and third-party app stores would cripple the privacy and security protections that have made iPhone so secure, and expose users to serious security risks,” the company said in a paper. | https://www.siasat.com/epic-games-challenges-apple-again-in-app-store-anti-trust-case-2335893/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:39 | en | 0.945033 |
CLEVELAND (AP) _ These Ohio lotteries were drawn Friday:
Estimated jackpot: 157,000,000
0-3-0
(zero, three, zero)
0-8-5-4
(zero, eight, five, four)
3-8-5-2-2
(three, eight, five, two, two)
Estimated jackpot: 150,000,000
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New Delhi: Gold in the national capital on Friday jumped Rs 303 to Rs 50,939 per 10 grams in line with rally in international precious metal prices, according to HDFC Securities.
The precious metal settled at Rs 50,636 per 10 grams in the previous trade.
Silver also rallied by Rs 1,023 to Rs 62,365 per kg from Rs 61,342 per kg in the previous trade.
In the international market, gold was trading higher at USD 1,859 per ounce and silver gained marginally to USD 22.22 per ounce.
“Gold prices traded higher with spot gold prices at COMEX trading around half a per cent up at USD 1,859 per ounce on Friday,” said Tapan Patel, Senior Analyst (Commodities) at HDFC Securities. | https://www.siasat.com/gold-jumps-rs-303-silver-rallies-rs-1023-amid-firm-global-trends-2335851/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:45 | en | 0.92073 |
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-3-0
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Hyderabad: After a break, they are back again with different names! Instant loan apps which lend small sums of money targeting the low-income group mostly are back in business. Although, following requisition from the law enforcement agencies the Google play store removed around 220 apps, the business thrives and harassment continues.
More than the interest rate, the point of worry for the borrowers is the harassment of the recovery agents who resort to social shaming, pushing the victim to a spot where they find ending their lives as the only means to escape the social stigma.
The digital lending app has grown several folds in the country post demonetization. The instant loan app targets the lower class that does not have access to bank loans easily. Hence mostly these people are falling victims to such lending apps.
The recovery agents harass the victim by sending their morphed photographs to the borrowers’ family members, relatives, friends, and acquaintances if they fail to pay. Following around 20 persons ending their lives in Telangana in 2021 the police launched a crackdown against the loan app locally referred to as Chinese apps.
The Hyderabad police booked 22 cases and arrested 22 persons including China nationals in the fraud running into thousands of crores rupees.
Around 3,000 bank accounts were frozen. The Cyberabad police and Rachakonda police arrested a few foreign nationals and local people for the fraud too. The police raided call centres at Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Delhi and Hyderabad and seized electronic gadgets and other incriminating material.
As the 17th-century poet Jean de La Fontaine, said, “We risk all in being too greedy,” instant loan companies are back in business. Now the base is shifted to the Philippines and Nepal to hide the Chinese identity.
A senior official of Hyderabad police said that the suspects host loan apps in Google Play Store. “Whenever anyone downloads the app, the companies obtain consent for access to the gallery, contact list and locations before clearing loans and transferring the amount. Whenever the borrowers fail to repay, the harassment begins that includes social shaming,” he explained.
The police recently issued an advisory, asking people to stay away from instant loan apps and named at least 130 apps.
“It is a well-organized network involving crores of rupees. So if a handful of people are arrested, the main persons staying foreign land will resume the business by collaborating with other local persons in India,” another police official said.
The police also found profits generated through the business are sent via crypto-currency to different accounts suspected to be held by foreign nationals in different countries.
Investigations by police revealed that the companies are registering as fake entities and looting the customers who download the app from the Google play store.
According to an RBI official, if any consumer uses such an app or website, it would collect the user’s personally identifiable information (PII), and financial data and the details later be used to compromise the user’s accounts, carry out phishing attacks and identity theft.
According to the RBI officials, most of these apps are absolutely illegal. “As per prevailing laws any lending company needs to be registered as a bank or a non-banking financial company (NBFC) and obtain a license.
The Reserve Bank of India is shortly coming out with a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital lending soon. Separate legislation to prevent illegal digital lending activities as well as setting up of a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) covering the participants in the digital lending ecosystem is also likely to be proposed.
A few tips to safeguard from loan app companies:
- First, verify the physical address of the company; review the website and applications (App Store/Play Store) before applying for a loan;
- Don’t download DMZ or APK files from websites, social media or messaging platforms.
- Download only from App Store or Play Store
- Look for a Secure Payment (https://—URL with a Padlock Symbol)
- Never share OTP/PIN numbers in any form with the buyer or seller;
- Never do the payment transaction while you are on the call;
- Don’t click and fill short links provided by the scammer;
- Don’t fill in Google form links provided by the scammer
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CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-8-5-4
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Ahmedabad: Rajat Patidar (58) looked the only real threat as Rajasthan Royals pacers led by Prasidh Krishna (3/22) and Obed McCoy (3/23) restricted the dangerous Royal Challengers Bangalore to a respectable 157/8 in their 20 overs in the Qualifier clash here at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Friday.
Patidar looked like the only one in full control as the rest of the batters failed to provide him support for long. RR pacers looked in full control of the innings, especially towards the death overs.
Put to bat first by Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore got off a shaky start. After dispatching the final delivery off the first over bowled by Trent Boult for a six over square leg, Virat Kohli gave away his wicket to pacer Prasidh Krishna in the next over for just 7 off 8 after an outside edge landed into keeper Sanju Samson’s hands.
This brought the hero of the last match, Rajat Patidar to the crease, who had the responsibility to rebuild and repeat the heroics of the last game in this crucial game and be a support to captain Faf Du Plessis.
Du Plessis looked really good, smashing Boult for two fours in the third and fifth over. Patidar also looked in good rhythm, smashing Krishna for two consecutive fours in the sixth over before being dropped by Parag on the next ball.
At the end of the powerplay in the next over, RCB stood at a decent 46/1 in six overs with Du Plessis (17*) and Patidar (14) looking good.
RCB crossed the 50-run mark at the loss of one wicket in 6.4 overs.
Spin was introduced in the eighth over in form of Ravichandran Ashwin. The duo of Plessis-Patidar soon brought up their 50-run standoff 39 balls.
Patidar survived an LBW attempt off an Ashwin delivery in the 10th over. At the end of 10 overs, RCB stood at a solid 74/1 with Patidar (32) and Du Plessis (25).
McCoy delivered a breakthrough for his team in the 11th over, sending back Du Plessis for 25 off 27 after he was caught by Ashwin, ending the 70-run stand between the duo.
This brought Glenn Maxwell to the field, who hit Ashwin for a straight six in the 12th over. He brought RCB to the 100-run mark in the 13th over of the game, which ended up giving 15 runs thanks to a four and six by Maxwell.
Boult provided his side with another wicket at the final ball of the 14th over, sending back Maxwell for 24 off 13 after McCoy caught the batter at fine leg while he was attempting a pull shot.
This brought the southpaw Mahipal Lomror to the middle. At the final ball of the 15th over by Chahal, Patidar hit a six that relieved some pressure for RCB and brought his second IPL fifty this season off 40 balls.
At the end of 15 overs, RCB stood at 123/3, with Patidar (52) and Lomror (2). Patidar soon departed back to the pavilion for 58 off 42 after being caught by Jos Buttler off an Ashwin delivery.
Dinesh Karthik was the next one on the crease, with responsibility in his hands to accelerate in the death overs. McCoy sent back a struggling Lomror for 8 off 10 after Ashwin caught him, sinking RCB to 141/5.
Shahbaz Ahmed was up next, smashing McCoy for a four and easing some pressure for RCB. In the 19th over of the match, Krishna sent danger man Karthik back to the pavilion after he was caught by Parag while attempting to hit straight. Wanindu Hasaranga was sent back to pavillion the very next ball, with Krishna on a hat-trick, which he could not get.
Shahbaz hit a six at the second last ball of the 19th over to ease off some pressure. McCoy sent back Harshal Patel for just 1.
RCB ended at 157/8 in their 20 overs.
Krishna (3/22) and McCoy (3/23) were lead bowlers for RR. Ashwin and Boult got a scalp each.
Brief Scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore 157/8 (Rajat Patidar 58, Faf Du Plessis 25, Krishna 3/22) against Rajasthan Royals. | https://www.siasat.com/ipl-2022-rr-pacers-restrict-rcb-to-respectable-157-8-despite-patidars-58-2335874/ | 2022-05-27T18:00:57 | en | 0.96093 |
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Kalaburagi: A 25-year-old Dalit man who was in a relationship with a Muslim woman was killed in a suspected case of honour killing here and two persons, including her brother, have been arrested in connection with the crime, police said on Friday.
Vijay Kumar Kamble was allegedly stabbed and attacked with a rod on Wednesday night at Wadi here, with the incident reminding of a similar chilling murder of a Dalit man by his Muslim wife’s brother, who was opposed to their relationship, in broad public view in Hyderabad earlier this month.
Police said Kamble and the woman were in love and wanted to get married, and despite her family’s opposition to the relationship and warnings, he continued to stay in touch with her.
The arrested persons have been identified as Mohammed Shahabuddin, the girl’s elder brother and his friend Nawaz.
Shahabuddin is said to have assaulted the victim earlier too and had threatened him to stay away from his sister.
Based on the complaint filed by the victim’s mother, a case was registered against the arrested under Sections of IPC including 302 (murder) and the SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act.
In the Hyderabad incident, B Nagaraju was travelling on a motorbike with his wife and was confronted by his attackers — Syed Mobin Ahmed and Mohammed Masood Ahmed — who came on a scooter, stopped the couple on the road and attacked the man in full public view with an iron rod before stabbing him with a knife, killing him on the spot. Both persons were arrested. | https://www.siasat.com/karnataka-dalit-man-killed-over-interfaith-relationship-2-arrested-2335864/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:03 | en | 0.991663 |
Mumbai: The rupee inched 3 paise higher to close at 77.58 against US dollar on Friday, supported by positive domestic equities and weakness of the American currency overseas.
Forex traders said the rupee consolidated in a narrow range as elevated crude oil prices, fiscal deficit concerns and persistent FII outflows weighed on the local unit.
At the interbank forex market, the rupee opened at 77.60 against the greenback and moved in a range of 77.57 to 77.67 in the day’s trade.
The rupee finally ended at 77.58, higher by 3 paise over its previous close of 77.61.
“Rupee continued to trade in a narrow range and volatility remained despite gains in domestic equities. Dollar retraced after the US preliminary GDP number came in below estimates,” said Gaurang Somaiya, Forex and Bullion Analyst, Motilal Oswal Financial Services.
Euro and pound got support at lower levels and extended support, Somaiya said, adding that “we expect the USD-INR to trade sideways and quote in the range of 77.20 and 77.80.”
On the domestic equity market front, the BSE Sensex advanced 632.13 points or 1.17 per cent to end at 54,884.66, while the broader NSE Nifty jumped 182.30 points or 1.13 per cent to 16,352.45.
The dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, fell 0.05 per cent to 101.78.
Foreign institutional investors remained net sellers in the capital market on Friday as they offloaded shares worth Rs 1,943.10 crore, as per stock exchange data.
Brent crude futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.55 per cent to USD 118.05 per barrel.
Jigar Trivedi – Research Analyst – Commodities & Currencies Fundamental, Anand Rathi Shares & Stock Brokers, said the dollar index hit a 20-year peak above 105 mid-month, but started losing ground in the last few days as signs are emerging that aggressive US Fed action may already be slowing economic growth and Fed hawkishness has peaked out.
“Still, the rupee spot has been hovering near an all-time low of 77.79 touched on 17th May, amid weakness in equity markets, elevated crude oil prices and persistent FII outflows,” Trivedi said.
Meanwhile, the government’s recent cut on fuel excise duty and increased subsidies on food and fertilisers are set to widen the country’s fiscal balance further and we might see rupee heading to new lows going forward, Trivedi noted.
“The dollar index traded flat near USD 102. And crude rallied above USD 115 making the rupee weak,” said Jateen Trivedi, VP Research Analyst at LKP Securities, adding the “Rupee can be seen in a range of 77.25-77.75”. | https://www.siasat.com/rupee-inches-3-paise-higher-to-77-58-against-us-dollar-2335840/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:09 | en | 0.918131 |
Seoul: Samsung Electronics is expected to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a $17 billion chip fabrication plant in Taylor, Texas, next month, industry sources said on Friday.
Samsung’s Austin office has recently shared the photo of the construction site and the preparation works for the massive construction via its newsletter, according to the sources.
Leveling the ground for construction has almost finished, and workers are building the roads inside the 5 million-square-metre facility, which is around 1 1/2 times the size of Central Park in New York, reports Yonhap news agency.
A groundbreaking ceremony is widely expected to take place at the site next month, with dignitaries and company officials in attendance.
The company said it expected the facility to go fully operational in the second half of 2024.
The tech giant announced in November it will build an advanced chip facility in Taylor to “help boost production of advanced logic semiconductor solutions that power next-generation innovations and technologies.”
It considered multiple factors in choosing the site, such as “the local semiconductor ecosystem, infrastructure stability, local government support and community development opportunities,” on top of its proximity to its current manufacturing site in Austin, about 25 kilometers southwest of Taylor.
The new plant will “manufacture products based on advanced process technologies for application in areas such as mobile, 5G, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence,” the company said.
In a high-profile public event, U.S. President Joe Biden visited Samsung’s chip factory last week as his first stop on his inaugural trip to Asia since taking office last year.
Biden toured Samsung’s Pyeongtaek campus, the world’s largest chip facility located 70 kilometers south of Seoul, with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, in a symbolic gesture illustrating the two allies’ commitment to cooperating in key industries, like semiconductors. | https://www.siasat.com/samsungs-groundbreaking-ceremony-for-27-bn-us-chip-plant-next-month-2335889/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:15 | en | 0.948323 |
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Johnny Depp’s lawyers asked a jury Friday “to give Mr. Depp his life back” by finding that his ex-wife, Amber Heard, committed libel.
Heard “ruined his life by falsely telling the world she was a survivor of domestic abuse at the hands of Mr. Depp,” lawyer Camille Vasquez told the jury in closing arguments.
Depp is hoping the six-week trial will help restore his reputation, though it has turned into a spectacle of a vicious marriage, with broadcast cameras in the courtroom capturing every twist to an increasingly rapt audience as fans weighed in on social media and lined up overnight for coveted courtroom seats.
“This case for Mr. Depp has never been about money,” said Depp lawyer Benjamin Chew. “It is about Mr. Depp’s reputation and freeing him from the prison in which he has lived for the last six years.”
Heard’s lawyer, J. Benjamin Rottenborn, said the lawsuit is not about Depp’s reputation but is part of an ongoing smear campaign Depp launched after Heard filed for divorce.
“In Mr. Depp’s world, you don’t leave Mr. Depp,” he said. “If you do, he will start a campaign of global humiliation against you.”
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.
Heard filed a $100 million counterclaim against Depp after his lawyer called her allegations a hoax. Though the counterclaim has received less attention at the trial, Heard lawyer Elaine Bredehoft said it provides an avenue for the jury to compensate Heard for the abuse Depp has inflicted on her by orchestrating a smear campaign against her.
“We’re asking you to finally hold this man responsible,” she told the jury. “He has never accepted responsibility for anything in his life.”
Depp says he never struck Heard and that she concocted the abuse allegations to gain an advantage in divorce proceedings. He has said he was often physically attacked by Heard.
“There is an abuser in this courtroom, but it is not Mr. Depp,” Vasquez said.
Heard testified about more than a dozen episodes of physical and sexual assault that she said Depp inflicted on her.
Vasquez, in her closing, noted that Heard had to revise her testimony about the first time she said she was struck. Heard said Depp hit her after she inadvertently laughed at one of his tattoos. Heard initially said it happened in 2013 — after a fairy-tale year of courtship and romance — but later corrected herself to say it happened in 2012, very early in their relationship.
“Now in this courtroom she has suddenly erased an entire year of magic,” Vasquez said.
Jurors have seen multiple photos of Heard with marks and bruises on her face, but some photos show only mild redness, and others show more severe bruising.
Vasquez accused Heard of doctoring the photos and said evidence that Heard has embellished some of her injuries is proof that all her claims of abuse are unfounded.
“You either believe all of it, or none of it,” she said. “Either she is a victim of ugly, horrible abuse, or she is a woman who is willing to say absolutely anything.”
In Heard’s closing, Rottenborn said the nitpicking over Heard’s evidence of abuse ignores the fact there’s overwhelming evidence on her behalf and sends a dangerous message to domestic-violence victims.
“If you didn’t take pictures, it didn’t happen,” Rottenborn said. “If you did take pictures, they’re fake. If you didn’t tell your friends, they’re lying. If you did tell your friends, they’re part of the hoax.”
And he rejected Vasquez’s suggestion that if the jury thinks Heard might be embellishing on a single act of abuse that they have to disregard everything she says. He said Depp’s libel claim must fail if Heard suffered even a single incident of abuse.
“They’re trying to trick you into thinking Amber has to be perfect to win,” Rottenborn said.
When the jury deliberates, it will have to focus not only on whether there was abuse but also whether Heard’s op-ed piece can be considered legally defamatory. The article itself focuses mostly on policy questions of domestic violence, but Depp’s lawyer point to two passages in the article, as well as an online headline that they say defamed Depp.
In the first passage Heard writes that “two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath.” Depp’s lawyers call it a clear reference to Depp, given that Heard publicly accused Depp of domestic violence in 2016 — two years before she wrote the article.
In a second passage she states “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.”
The online headline reads “Amber Heard: I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath.”
“She didn’t mention his name. She didn’t have to,” Chew said. “Everyone knew exactly who and what Ms. Heard was talking about.”
Heard’s lawyers Heard can’t be held liable for the headline because she didn’t write it, and that the two passages in the article are not about the abuse allegations themselves but how Heard’s life changed after she made them.
Rottenborn told jurors that even if they tend to believe Depp’s claim that he never abused Heard, he still can’t win his case because Heard has a First Amendment right to weigh in on matters of public debate. | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/at-long-last-jury-gets-closing-arguments-in-depp-trial/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:20 | en | 0.979071 |
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the condition imposed by the Allahabad High Court directions to the District Magistrate to hold a measurement of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University as part of the condition of bail granted to Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan.
A vacation bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Bela Trivedi also issued notice on a plea filed by Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan against the impending threat of demolition of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University as part of the condition of his bail. The Court stayed the conditions till the next date of listing of the matter.
Azam Khan has apprehended that conditions imposed by the Allahabad High Court may be led to demolishing of buildings of Jauhar University.
The top court said that Allahabad High Court while imposing conditions for grant of bail has exceeded the settled parameters laid down in certain sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
The top court also said that prima facie conditions imposed for the grant of bail are disproportionate and have no reasonable link to the means to secure the presence of the accused.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear this week a plea filed by Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan against the impending threat of demolition of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University as part of the condition of his bail.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal on Tuesday, appearing for Azam, mentioned the matter for urgent hearing before a bench of Justices DY Chandracud and Bela M Trivedi. The bench said it will list the matter for hearing this week.
On May 10, the Allahabad High Court granted bail to Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan in a case related to wrongful possession of the land. The case is about wrongful possession of Waqf Board property.
The Allahabad High Court had imposed various conditions including directions to the District Magistrate, Rampur being a representative of Custodian/Administrator of Evacuee/Enemy Property, to hold a measurement of the landed property in dispute which is the centre dispute of this issue admeasuring area of 13.842 hectares village Singhan Khera, Pargana and Tehsil-Sadar, District Rampur and thereafter, raise a boundary wall and barbed wire around it to take the actual physical possession of the property in dispute on behalf of the administrator of evacuee property Mumbai latest by June 30, 2022.
Khan, who walked out of jail a few days ago, had been lodged in Sitapur jail since February 2020 last year as many cases are registered against him. | https://www.siasat.com/sc-stays-hcs-bail-condition-of-azam-khan-related-to-land-of-jauhar-university-2335824/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:21 | en | 0.958485 |
Patna: In wake of the Rashtriya Janata Dal nominating Misa Bharti and Fayyaz Ahmed as it nominess for the Rajya Sabha election from Bihar, Heena Shahab, the wife of late ‘Bahubali’ leader Mohammad Shahabuddin is not pleased with her party.
“We are discussing the matter with our people. People of Bihar are like my family and I will discuss it with every supporter before taking any decision. At present, I am not leaving the RJD,” Heena Shahab told media persons in Siwan.
Following the demise of Mohammad Shahabuddin, his family members have blamed Lalu Prasad family for maintaining distance with them. Even Tejashwi Yadav or Tej Pratap Yadav did not go to the grave of Shahabuddin in New Delhi to pay thier respects, as per Heena Shahab and her other family members.
Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav, however, attended the wedding function of her son Osama Sahab in Siwan in the past.
On Friday, Heena Shahab appeared in a meeting of RJD workers in a private hotel in Siwan where the supporters of Shahabuddin shouted slogans against Lalu Prasad Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav over the decision not to send her to the Rajya Sabha.
The meeting was called by district level RJD leaders and RJD MLAs Awadh Bihari Chaudhary of Siwan, Baccha Pandey of Badharia in Siwan, Harishankar Yadav of Raghunathpur in Siwan and MLC Vinod Jaiswal were not present. | https://www.siasat.com/shahabuddins-wife-not-pleased-with-rjd-leadership-over-rs-choices-2335841/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:27 | en | 0.968493 |
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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For more Cannes Film Festival coverage, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/cannes-film-festival. | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/director-kore-eda-returns-to-cannes-with-film-about-baby-box/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:27 | en | 0.976892 |
San Francisco: A Twitter shareholder has sued Elon Musk, alleging that the Tesla CEO actively manipulated the company’s stock for personal gain.
The lawsuit alleged that Musk proceeded to make statements, send tweets, and engage in conduct designed to create doubt about the deal and “drive Twitter’s stock down substantially in order to create leverage that Musk hoped to use to either back out of the purchase or re-negotiate the buyout price”.
The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of Twitter shareholders in federal district court in San Francisco, The Verge reported late on Thursday.
“Musk’s conduct was and continues to be illegal, in violation of the California Corporations Code, and contrary to the contractual terms he agreed to in the deal,” the complaint read.
It focused on Musk’s recent tweet that the $44 billion Twitter deal “cannot move forward” without more information about fake accounts and bots on the platform.
The complaint asked for injunctive relief by the court, which could potentially force Musk to purchase Twitter at the agreed-upon price, the report said.
In a fresh filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk has announced the expiration of a series of margin loans against Tesla stock.
He has now committed to provide an additional $6.25 billion in equity financing for his $44 billion Twitter takeover, bringing his total equity commitment to $33.5 billion.
Musk’s original plan was to acquire Twitter with a combination of $21 billion in personal equity and $25.5 billion in loans and $12.5 billion of those loans were secured against Tesla shares owned by Musk.
According to the new SEC filing, “(Elon Musk has) committed to increase the aggregate principal amount of the equity commitment there to $33.5 billion”.
However, it is not clear where the additional $6.25 billion will come from. | https://www.siasat.com/shareholder-sues-musk-for-manipulating-twitter-stock-for-personal-gains-2335885/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:33 | en | 0.962113 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Quentin Tarantino’s next book is a nonfiction dispatch from a lifelong movie fanatic.
“Cinema Speculation,” to be published Oct. 25, will center on “The Getaway” and other films from the 1970s that influenced him during childhood. The book, announced Friday by Harper, comes a year after his best-selling novelization of his movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Harper is calling “Cinema Speculation” a combination of “film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history.” Tarantino, 59, is also known for such movies as “Pulp Fiction,” “Reservoir Dogs” and “Django Unchained.” He has previously cited such ’70s films as “Jaws,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Carrie” as among his favorites. | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/quentin-tarantino-book-cinema-speculation-to-land-oct-25/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:34 | en | 0.978698 |
United Nations: Indian peacekeepers, as well as Blue Helmets from other nations, pushed back an attack by an armed group in Congo, a top UN official has said, lauding the peacekeepers’ efforts and proactive role in countering these assaults on the civilian population.
India is the second-highest military (1,888) and fifth-highest (139) police-contributing country to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). India has been among the largest troop-contributing countries to the UN peacekeeping missions.
The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the attack on (MONUSCO) and Forces arm es de la R publique d mocratique du Congo (FARDC) positions by the Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) on May 22 in the area of Shangi, North Kivu.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, responding to a question by PTI on the attack on the UN mission and peacekeepers from India and other nations, said the M23 armed group has been active in the last couple of weeks in an area in eastern Congo.
Indian peacekeepers, together with others coming from many other countries are involved in responding to the group and “we appreciate that, he said. Lacroix said MONUSCO has been playing a very proactive role in countering the offensive of the M23.
This is in keeping with our vision of a proactive peacekeeping, one that acts decisively to fulfill its mandate, particularly its protection of civilian mandate because the activities of the armed group have major consequences on the civilian population, he said.
Lacroix said the UN is following the situation very closely.
We’re also very much appreciative of the fact that in that particular area of eastern DRC, as well as in another region where the armed group Coop rative pour le d veloppement du Congo (CODECO) is also active, MONUSCO has been “reacting in a way that has been proactive and that has resulted in protecting civilians, saving lives and also pushing back these armed group offensives, he said.
The Security Council stressed the importance of MONUSCO having the necessary capacities to fulfil its mandate and promote, including by taking additional measures as appropriate, the safety and security of the United Nations peacekeepers and its operations, pursuant to relevant Security Council resolutions.
The Council members underscored that the primary responsibility for the safety and security of United Nations personnel and assets rests with host States and highlighted the importance of engagements and communications between MONUSCO and the Congolese Government.
The Security Council had also reiterated its strong condemnation of all attacks and provocations against MONUSCO. Council members underlined that the deliberate attacks targeting peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law.
They called on the Congolese authorities to swiftly investigate such attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice, and keep the relevant troop-contributing country informed of the progress.
The members of the Security Council expressed concern at the increase of armed group activity in the eastern provinces of Congo. They reiterated their condemnation of all armed groups operating in the country, including the M23, CODECO, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), and the Forces d mocratiques de lib ration du Rwanda (FDLR) and several other domestic and foreign armed groups.
They called on all actors to end violence and their violations and abuse of international human rights and international humanitarian law.
The members of the Security Council welcomed the commitment of the signatories of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework to address the threat posed by all armed groups operating in the eastern Congo.
They called on all armed groups operating in the eastern Congo to participate unconditionally in the political process initiated by the Regional Heads of State Conclave on Congo in Nairobi, Kenya, and on eligible armed groups to lay down their weapons through the Disarmament, Demobilization, Community Recovery and Stabilization Programme (PDDRC-S).
The members of the Security Council expressed concern at the current humanitarian situation in eastern Congo, marked by a significant increase in the number of people in need of protection and humanitarian assistance.
They called on the government in Congo to address the underlying drivers of the current humanitarian situation and on partners to step up their support to the country in tackling these challenges.
The members of the Security Council recognised the efforts of the FARDC, including with the support of MONUSCO, in addressing the threat posed by armed groups in Congo.
They reiterated their full support for the stabilising action of MONUSCO and expressed their deep appreciation for MONUSCO’s troop-and police-contributing countries. | https://www.siasat.com/un-official-praises-indian-peacekeepers-for-thwarting-attack-in-congo-2335829/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:39 | en | 0.949329 |
LONDON (AP) — “ABBA Voyage” is certainly a trip.
Four decades after the Swedish pop supergroup last performed live, audiences can once again see ABBA onstage in an innovative digital concert where past and future collide.
The show opens to the public in London on Friday, the day after a red-carpet premiere attended by superfans, celebrities and Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. The guests of honor were pop royalty — the four members of ABBA, appearing in public together for the first time in years.
They were in the audience, though. Onstage at the specially built 3,000-seat ABBA Arena next to east London’s Olympic Park were a 10-piece live backing band and a digital ABBA, created using motion capture and other technology by Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects firm founded by “Star Wars” director George Lucas.
The voices and movements are the real Agnetha Faltskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — choreographed by Britain’s Wayne McGregor — but the performers onstage are digital avatars, inevitably dubbed “ABBA-tars.” In unsettlingly realistic detail, they depict the band members as they looked in their 1970s heyday — beards on the men, flowing locks on the women, velour pantsuits all around.
The result is both high tech and high camp, a glittery supernova of stupefying technology, 1970s nostalgia and pop music genius.
For many in the audience, it was almost like being taken back in time to watch ABBA perform classics including “Mamma Mia,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “SOS” and “Dancing Queen.” The peppy 90-minute set also includes tracks from “Voyage,” the reunion album the band released last year.
It’s a fusion of tribute act and 3D concert movie that transcends that description. At times it was possible to forget this wasn’t a live performance, though when the backing singers stepped forward to belt out “Does Your Mother Know,” a surge of live-music energy shot through the arena.
The four band members — two married couples during ABBA’s heyday, though now long divorced — got a rapturous ovation when they took a bow at the end of Thursday’s show, 50 years after they formed ABBA, and 40 years after they stopped performing live.
Watching one’s younger self perform must be a strange sensation, but the band members, now in their 70s, said they were delighted by the show.
“I never knew I had such amazing moves,” Ulvaeus said.
Lyngstad agreed: “I thought I was quite good, but I’m even better.”
Ulvaeus said the audience reaction was the most gratifying part of the experience.
“There’s an emotional connection between the avatars and the audience,” he said. “That’s the fantastic thing.”
Producers bill the show as “revolutionary.” Time will tell. Like the first audiences to watch a talking motion picture a century ago, attendees may leave wondering whether they are watching a gimmick, or the future.
The Times of London reviewer Will Hodgkinson judged the show “essentially an ABBA singalong with added sound and light show,” though he called the effect “captivating.” Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis called the concert “jaw-dropping” and said “it’s so successful that it’s hard not to imagine other artists following suit.”
Gimmick or genius, “ABBA Voyage” is booking in London until May 2023, with a world tour planned after that.
The fans who attended Thursday’s show are just delighted ABBA is back.
“I’m so excited,” said Kristina Hagman, a Swede who has been a fan since the 1970s.
“I was bullied so much because you were not allowed to like ABBA at that time, because it was so commercial,” she said. “But now we are taking revenge.” | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/stars-and-royalty-watch-abbas-return-in-digital-stage-show/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:41 | en | 0.962302 |
Washington: White House Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk and State Department Energy Envoy Amos Hochstein visited Saudi Arabia to review the Biden administration’s engagement with the Kingdom on a range of issues, including energy supplies, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina reported a case of the monkeypox virus on Friday in a man who recently traveled to Spain. It also reported a suspected case of the rare virus in another person.
A man from the province of Buenos Aires has monkeypox, Argentina’s health ministry said in a statement.
An official in the ministry earlier confirmed the positive case but said health authorities were waiting to finish sequencing the virus before making the official announcement.
It is the first time the presence of the virus has been confirmed in Latin America during this latest outbreak in countries around the world that are not usually known to have outbreaks.
The sequencing of the virus revealed a high degree of similarity with monkeypox from western Africa, as has been the case with the new infections around the world, Argentina’s Health Ministry said.
Authorities have revealed little about the patient beyond saying he traveled to Spain from April 28 through May 16 and had symptoms compatible with monkeypox, including lesions and a fever, on Sunday.
The man is being treated for his symptoms. All of his close contacts are being monitored and none have presented any symptoms to date, the Health Ministry said.
Health authorities in Argentina also reported an additional suspected case of the virus in a resident of Spain who is currently visiting the province of Buenos Aires and has no ties to the first case.
The man presented lesions compatible with monkeypox on Thursday, a day after arriving in the country.
“The patient is in good general health, isolated and receiving symptomatic treatment,” the Health Ministry added. None of his close contacts have yet to present any symptoms.
Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have recently been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the disease, the World Health Organization said on Friday. But that looked to be an undercount.
Spain has emerged as an epicenter of this recent outbreak and health authorities confirmed on Friday there were 98 confirmed cases in the country. The United Kingdom has reported 106 confirmed cases while Portugal said Friday the number of people with monkeypox had increased to 74.
Cases have also been reported in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, France and Italy, among others.
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New Delhi: Dropping the drugs charges against Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan on Friday, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), SN Pradhan said WhatsApp chats without physical evidence hold “no value”.
He said that a person can talk about anything on WhatsApp, but without physical existence, it’s not complete evidence.
“There should be physical corroboration of WhatsApp chat. Courts have clarified that WhatsApp chat, in itself, holds no value. You can talk about anything on WhatsApp but if not corroborated with physical evidence, it’s not complete evidence,” the NCB head told media persons.
The NCB chief further clarified that there should be beyond a reasonable doubt, that the officials did not find.
“The principle of preponderance and probability is not applicable to NDPS Act. There should be beyond a reasonable doubt, that we did not find such evidence,” he added.
NCB has not filed any complaint against Aryan Khan and five others in the alleged cruise drug bust case due to a lack of “sufficient” evidence.
“A complaint against 14 persons under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act is being filed. Complaint against rest six persons is not being filed due to the lack of evidence,” the Deputy Director-General (DDG) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said.
Apart from Aryan and five others, the NCB has submitted a complaint against all the 14 persons accused in the case.
An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea on October 2 night. Eight persons were arrested 20 people including Aryan Khan, along with other accused Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha the case.
Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha were granted bail by the Bombay High Court on 28 October 2021. | https://www.siasat.com/whatsapp-chats-hold-no-value-says-ncb-chief-as-aryan-khan-gets-clean-chit-in-drugs-case-2335855/ | 2022-05-27T18:01:51 | en | 0.963307 |
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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.
“Our top priority is ensuring a smooth transition, maintaining the strong relationships ENSTAR has in its communities, and to fully support ENSTAR as they continue to provide customers with safe, reliable and affordable service,” Green said in the statement. | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/alaskas-largest-natural-gas-utility-being-sold-for-800m/ | 2022-05-27T18:02:03 | en | 0.960296 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday, keeping the market on track for its first weekly gain after seven weeks of losses.
The S&P 500 rose 1.8% as of 1:11 p.m. Eastern and is headed for a 5.9% gain for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 358 points, or 1.1%, to 32,995 and the Nasdaq rose 2.5%.
The gains were broad, led by technology stocks. Apple rose 3.3% and Microsoft rose 2.2%. Retailers also made solid gains as Wall Street continues reviewing the latest round of earnings to get a better sense of just how much pain rising inflation is inflicting on businesses and consumers. Beauty products company Ulta Beauty surged 10.5% after raising its profit forecast for the year. Amazon rose 2.1%.
European markets were higher and Asian markets closed higher overnight.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which helps set mortgage rates, held steady at 2.75% from late Thursday.
Disappointing financial updates and earnings weighed on several companies. Clothing retailer American Eagle fell 4.8% after reported weak first-quarter earnings.
Investors also received potentially encouraging news about inflation. The Commerce Department said that inflation rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now.
The report was released as Wall Street looks for any signal that inflation could be easing, while trying to figure out just how low stocks might sink.
“At this point that’s all the market needs,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at Baird. “It’s definitely one of the signs you would want to see.”
The broader market has been in a slump for nearly two months as concerns about inflation and rising interest rates pile up. Investors were spooked last week by disappointing reports from key retailers, including Walmart and Target, which stoked fears about rising inflation hitting profit margins and crimping consumer spending.
Trading remained choppy throughout the week, though the market has mostly pushed higher, as retailers including Macy’s and Dollar General released encouraging earnings reports and financial updates.
Inflation is at a four-decade high and has been persistently squeezing businesses. Higher costs prompted companies to raise prices on everything from food to clothing to protect their margins and consumers remained resilient. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine worsened the inflation picture by pushing global energy and food prices even higher.
U.S. crude oil prices were relatively stable, but are up more than 50% in 2022. Wheat prices are up about 50% and corn prices are up 30% this year.
Supply chain problems at the heart of rising inflation were worsened in the wake of China’s lockdown for several major cities.
The extra inflation squeeze has made it even more difficult for businesses to offset costs and is seemingly prompting a shift in consumer spending away from expensive items and toward necessities. It has also raised concerns that the Federal Reserve may have an even more difficult time trying to temper the impact from inflation.
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MIAMI (AP) — The Biden administration has renewed a license partially exempting Chevron from sanctions on Venezuela so it can keep operating in the oil-rich, socialist-run nation.
The license issued Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department allows the California-based Chevron and other U.S. companies to perform only basic upkeep of wells it operates jointly with state-run oil giant PDVSA, dashing the hopes of those who wanted to see a resumption of exports to ease pricing pressure at American pumps.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and ensuing international sanctions targeting Russia’s oil industry have led the Biden administration to reconsider longstanding policies isolating two other oil powers: Venezuela and Iran.
In March, three senior Biden officials traveled to Caracas to meet with President Nicolás Maduro to try to lure him back to negotiations with the U.S.-backed opposition and release several Americans imprisoned for years. Their carrot: the possible lifting of crippling oil sanctions imposed in 2019 after Maduro breezed into a second term following elections considered undemocratic by the U.S. and dozens of allies.
While Maduro has welcomed the surprise outreach, joking that he wanted to soon travel to New York to attend a salsa festival, there’s been little progress since.
Meanwhile, opposition hardliners and even some Democrats in Congress have accused the administration of bending over backward to appease an oil despot for little gain because of Venezuela’s diminished importance in global energy markets.
Venezuela sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves but due to mismanagement, and more recently U.S. sanctions, production has been declining steadily from the 3.5 million barrels per day when Hugo Chávez took power in 1999. In April, output stood at barely 700,000 barrels per day — the lowest level in decades.
Chevron, which has been operating in Venezuela since the 1920s, had been pushing for an expanded license that would allow it to resume exports and stem the growing influence of oil companies from China, Russia, Iran and other U.S. adversaries.
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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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An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now.
The inflation figure the Commerce Department reported Friday was below the four-decade high of 6.6% set in March. While high inflation is still causing hardships for millions of households, any slowing of price increases, if sustained, would provide some modest relief.
The report also showed that consumer spending rose at a healthy 0.9% annual rate 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 Federal Reserve’s goal of taming inflation even harder.
“Inflation is finally slowing, but it’s a little early for high-fives,” said Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank.
Adams noted that gas and food prices have risen in May and that Russia’s war against Ukraine and COVID-19-related lockdowns in China could further disrupt supply shortages and send prices accelerating again.
Consumers’ resilience in the face of sharply higher prices suggests that economic growth is rebounding in the current April-June quarter. The economy shrank at a 1.5% annual rate in the first quarter, mostly because of an increase in the trade deficit. But analysts now project that, on an annual basis, it’s growing as much as 3% in the current quarter.
Americans have been able to keep spending, despite higher inflation, because of rising wages, a stockpile of savings built up during the pandemic and a rebound in credit card use. Economists say those factors could bolster spending and support the economy for much of this year.
Incomes rose 0.4% from March to April, Friday’s report showed, slightly faster than inflation. Still, high inflation is forcing consumers, on average, to save less. The savings rate fell to 4.4% last month, the lowest level since 2008. Overall, though, Americans have built up an additional $2.5 trillion in savings since the pandemic, and economists calculate that that pile is eroding only slowly.
Friday’s report showed that on a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.2% from March to April, down from the 0.9% increase from February to March. The April increase was the smallest since November 2020.
Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called core prices rose 0.3% from March to April, matching the previous month’s rise. Core prices climbed 4.9% from a year earlier, the first such drop since October 2020.
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 have shifted some of 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.
Goods prices, which were the major drivers of inflation last year, fell 0.2% from March to April after having jumped the previous month. Used car prices dropped 2.3% in April, though they’re still much more expensive than a year ago. The cost of clothing, appliances, and computers also declined.
And retailers like Target 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 keep reducing the cost of manufactured items.
Yet the cost of such services as restaurant meals, plane tickets and hotel rooms is still rising, offsetting much of the relief from cheaper goods. And the 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.
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 signaled that the Fed will likely raise its benchmark rate by a half-point in both June and July — twice the size of the usual rate increase.
Most economists have 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.
A better-known inflation gauge, the consumer price index, earlier this month also reported a slowing in price gains. The CPI jumped 8.3% in April from a year earlier, down from a 40-year high in March of 8.5%.
The inflation measure reported Friday, called the personal consumption expenditures price index, differs in several ways from the consumer price index that help explain why it shows a lower inflation level than the CPI does.
The PCE is a broader measure of inflation that includes payments made on behalf of consumers, such as medical services covered by insurance or government programs. The CPI covers only out-of-pocket costs, which in recent years have risen more. Rents, which are steadily rising, are also given less weight in the PCE than in the CPI.
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Close call: Car barrels into Arizona beauty shop, driver arrested on unrelated warrant
TEMPE, Ariz. - Miraculously, no one was seriously hurt Thursday when a car crashed through a beauty store in Tempe.
According to police, the incident happened on May 26 near Mill and Southern Avenues when a driver unintentionally left the car in drive. When the driver got back into the car to put it in park, they accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake, causing the car to crash into the store.
"We don't know how it happened, honestly," said a young woman who was inside the car as a passenger during the incident. "It happened so fast."
Surveillance video released by Tempe Police shows the car crashing through the store and into two people inside. Akiana Jones was working in the back of the store when the car hit.
"I’m not OK, because my boss was like my dad, and have to pick him up out of the wreckage," said Jones.
The sights and sounds sent people scurrying over, who saw the store showered in glass.
"The car just went into the wig store, and we’re like ‘there’s a wig store over there?’" said one of the witnesses.
"We all looked outside from the window back there, and thought ‘that’s not a parking spot,’" said another witness.
"Good thing I woke up late this morning, because I would’ve been sitting right there in that chair or that stool right where the impact happened. I think I’m pretty lucky today," said Raymond Woolfolk, a security guard at the store.
One person was hospitalized with minor injuries. Tempe Police officials say the driver of the car involved in the incident was arrested on an outstanding warrant. The driver was not arrested in connection with the crash, which was considered an accident.
As for the store, there is no word as to when the store will reopen.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday that 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.
Delegations from the two Nordic countries have returned home with documents detailing Turkey’s concerns, like information on terror groups, after a visit this week and Ankara is awaiting their answers, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
Sweden and Finland submitted their written applications to join NATO last week. The move represents one of the biggest geopolitical ramifications of Russia’s war in Ukraine and could rewrite Europe’s security map.
The countries’ membership bids require support from all NATO countries, but Turkey, which commands the second-largest military in the alliance, 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.” Turkey was requesting that NATO include combating terrorism in its “Strategic Concepts,” the minister said.
Turkey’s top diplomat was speaking in a joint news conference with his Polish and Romanian counterparts in Istanbul.
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said: “There is no doubt that we do need the accession of Sweden and Finland to the NATO alliance in order to make it stronger.” Romania’s foreign minister, Bogdan Aurescu, agreed, saying their membership would “consolidate the collective defense and our security.”
Turkey this week listed five “concrete assurances” it was demanding from Sweden, including what it said was “termination of political support for terrorism,” an “elimination of the source of terrorism financing,” and the “cessation of arms support” to the banned PKK and a Syrian Kurdish militia group affiliated with it.
The demands also called for the lifting of arms sanctions against Turkey and global cooperation against terrorism.
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- Shiba Inu burn portal revealed a burn of 410.3 trillion SHIB tokens, of which 226 million were burned overnight.
- SHIB added 30,000 new holders, as the Dogecoin-killer’s token burn continued, reducing its circulating supply.
- Analysts have a negative outlook on Shiba Inu for the near term, as selling pressure on the Dogecoin-killer increases.
Dogecoin-killer Shiba Inu has witnessed a spike in the number of holders of SHIB tokens after s spike in its burn rate. Despite the rising on-chain activity on SHIB, analysts are bearish on the meme coin price.
Shiba Inu adds 30,000 new holders
Shiba-Inu-themed meme coin SHIB has added 30,000 new holders within the past month. Shiba Inu burn rate has climbed consistently, hitting 171% level within the past 24 hours. According to data from Shibburn portal, 203.4 million Shiba Inu tokens were burned overnight.
410.3 trillion Shiba Inu tokens have been burned so far, reducing the meme coin’s circulating supply drastically.
Shibburn portal
Despite a reduction in Shiba Inu price, there is a spike in its burn rate and number of holders. In the past 24 hours, Ethereum whales have accumulated $1.53 million worth of Shiba Inu tokens.
Merchants in the Shiba Inu community have come up with new ways of burning SHIB. The ShibSuperStore has been accepted in the Amazon affiliate program, therefore, on every purchase, there is a burn of 1% to 20% of the price, in SHIB.
***NEW WAYTO BURN SHIB***https://t.co/d0goxr6sys has been accepted into the Amazon affiliate program!
— SHIB Super Store (@shib_superstore) May 26, 2022
Use the Amazon link on the front page!
You can buy literally anything! By using the link provided, depending on item, between 1% and 20% of purchase price will be burned! pic.twitter.com/mrU0jxM97N
Shiba Inu price could plummet in the long term
Shiba Inu has 1,169 million token holders on the Ethereum blockchain. More Ethereum holders have joined the Shiba Inu network over the past month. Analysts evaluated the Shiba Inu price trend and predicted a rise in selling pressure.
Analysts have identified s descending triangle formation in the Shiba Inu price chart. A sustained push from bears could trigger a downtrend in Shiba Inu. Antonio Smith, leading crypto analyst has identified $0.000015 as the resistance for Shiba Inu price.
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Federal judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against NY Attorney General James
NEW YORK - A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
In a 43-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes said she based her decision on case law that, in most cases, bars federal judges from interfering in state-level investigations.
Sannes’ ruling 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.
"In a big victory, a federal court has dismissed Donald Trump’s baseless lawsuit to stop my office’s investigation into his and the Trump Organization’s financial dealings," James said in a tweet. "Frivolous lawsuits won’t stop us from completing our lawful, legitimate investigation."
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Trump sued James in December, just after she issued a subpoena for his testimony, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy in an attempt to end the three-year investigation.
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Through his lawyers, the Republican former president alleged that the probe was political in nature and that James, a Democrat, had violated his constitutional rights in a "thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates."
James responded that Trump’s lawsuit was a sudden "collateral attack" on her investigation and that there was no legal basis for it and no evidence to support his claim that the probe is purely political.
"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," added James.
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.
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BERLIN (AP) — Officials from the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced Friday that they will aim to largely end greenhouse gas emissions from their power sectors by 2035, making it highly unlikely that those countries will burn coal for electricity beyond that date.
Ministers from the G-7 countries meeting in Berlin also announced a target to have a “highly decarbonized road sector by 2030,” meaning that electric vehicles would dominate new car sales by the end of the decade.
And in a move aimed at ending the recurring conflict between rich and poor nations during international climate talks, the G-7 recognized for the first time the need to provide developing countries with additional financial aid to cope with the loss and damage caused by global warming.
The agreements, which will be put to leaders next month at the G-7 summit in Elmau, Germany, were largely welcomed by climate activists.
“The 2035 target for power sector decarbonisation is a real breakthrough. In practice, this means countries need to phase out coal by 2030 at the latest,” said Luca Bergamaschi, director of Rome-based campaign group ECCO.
Coal is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that’s responsible for a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans. While there are ways to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, experts say it is almost impossible to reduce it to zero, meaning it will likely have to be the first fossil fuel to be phased out.
G-7 members Britain, France and Italy have already set themselves deadlines to stop burning coal for electricity in the next few years. Germany and Canada are aiming for 2030; Japan wants more time; while the Biden administration has set a target of ending fossil fuel use for electricity generation in the United States by 2035.
A common target would put pressure on other major polluters to follow suit and build on the compromise deal reached at last year’s U.N. climate summit, where nations committed merely to “phase down” rather than “phase out” coal — with no fixed date.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry called the agreements reached in Berlin “very comprehensive and forward-leaning.”
“I think it will help lay the groundwork for what has to happen at the G-20,” he told The Associated Press, referring to a meeting later this year of the broader Group of 20 leading and emerging economies, who are responsible for 80% of global emissions.
Getting all G-20 countries to sign on to the ambitious targets set by some of the most advanced economies will be difficult, as countries such as China, India and Indonesia remain heavily reliant on coal.
Under pressure to step up their financial aid to poor nations, the G-7 ministers in Berlin said they recognized that “action and support for vulnerable countries, populations and vulnerable groups need to be further scaled up.”
This includes governments and companies “providing enhanced support regarding averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse impacts of climate change,” they said.
Developing countries have for years demanded a clear commitment that they will receive funds to cope with the destruction wrought by climate change. Wealthy nations have resisted the idea, however, for fear of being held liable for costly disasters linked to their emissions.
“After years of roadblocks, the G-7 finally recognize that they need to financially support poor countries in addressing climate-related losses and damages,” said David Ryfisch of the Berlin-based environmental campaign group Germanwatch.
“But that recognition is not enough, they need to put actual money on the table,” he added. “It is now up to (German Chancellor Olaf) Scholz to mobilize significant financial commitments by leaders at the Elmau summit.”
Germany’s energy and climate minister, Robert Habeck, said the 40-page communique couldn’t hide the fact that G-7 countries had long been laggards on combating global warming.
“But we’re trying to make up for those things that didn’t go so well in the past,” he said. “Including on climate finance.”
Speaking at a former coal depot, later converted into a gas storage facility and now home to clean energy startups, Habeck also highlighted the pledge by G-7 countries to end what he called the “absurdity” of fossil fuel subsidies in the coming years.
Separately, the United States and Germany signed an agreement Friday to deepen their bilateral cooperation on shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy. The deal will see the two countries work together to develop and deploy technologies that will speed up that clean energy transition, particularly in the area of offshore wind power, zero-emissions vehicles and hydrogen.
The U.S. and Germany pledged to also collaborate on promoting ambitious climate policies and energy security worldwide.
Kerry said both countries aim to reap the benefits of shifting to clean energy early, through the creation of new jobs and opportunities for businesses in the growing market for renewables.
Such markets depend on common standards of what hydrogen can be classified as “green,” for example. Officials will now work on reaching a common definition to ensure that hydrogen produced on one side of the Atlantic can be sold on the other side.
Habeck said the agreement reflected the urgency of tackling global warming. Scientists have said steep emissions cuts need to happen worldwide this decade if the goals set in the 2015 Paris climate accord are to be met.
“Time is literally running out,” Habeck said, calling climate change “the challenge of our political generation.”
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Georgia childhood cancer survivor becomes pediatric cancer nurse
ATLANTA - At home in Alpharetta, Georgia, Julia York is studying for her nursing boards.
The 22-year-old, who recently graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), already has a job lined up.
She starts in July.
Julia York, 22, poses outside the UAB School of Nursing. (UAB School of Nursing)
"I will be working at the hematology, oncology, bone marrow transplant unit at Children's of Alabama," York smiles.
Much of what York is studying, she has lived.
"I was diagnosed when I was 12-years-old with a brain tumor," she says.
Within days, York began radiation at Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
"The prognosis for me was about 11 months, when I was diagnosed," she says. "So, I wasn't supposed to make it to 13-years-old."
Fortunately, York didn't know how bleak things were at the time.
Dr. Natia Esiashvili, an oncologist with Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, explained to York's parents privately the cancer was aggressive, and surgery was not an option because of where the tumor was located.
"Obviously the most challenging parent, at least emotionally, is when we have to discuss prognosis," Dr. Esiashvili says. "Typically, this has to be very frank, as hard as this is.vWe need to explain to them that these tumors are very hard to cure and chances were very slim for Julia."
York pushed through 33 radiation treatments.
"I remember we were leaving radiation one day, and I looked at my mom and I said, 'I hate doctors," she says. "Because I was so tired. There were definitely times when I was scared, or I felt broken by treatments, just because I was so exhausted."
But, as the months passed, something unexpected happened.
The tumor starting shrinking, dying.
Ten years later, she still gets yearly brain scans, but there is no sign of cancer.
"I technically still have a brain tumor; it's just dead tissue," she says.
Holly's York feels Julia has come full circle.
"It's amazing that she is where she is, when you're looking at, is she going to be a teenager, is she going to drive a car, is she going to graduate from high school, much less graduate from college with a nursing degree," her mother says.
When Julia met Alabama Children's oncology team at a job fair, she realized that was where she needed to be.
"They were telling me about their patients, and I said, 'I hate to cut you off, but you don't need to tell me about your patients, because I was one," she says. "I think having friends who haven't survived their journey and already experiencing that kind of loss kind of gives me just that extra resiliency."
Holly York says Julia knows her story will give others hope.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The United States on Friday 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.
As part of its ruling, the appeals court ordered that its judgment not take effect for seven days, presumably to give time for any appeals to be filed.
The U.S. argues that its investigation has found that behind various fronts, the Cayman Islands-flagged luxury yacht is really owned by the sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, an economist and former Russian politician.
Kerimov made a fortune investing in Russian gold producer Polyus, with Forbes magazine putting his net worth at $16 billion. The U.S. first sanctioned him in 2018 after he’d been detained in France and accused of money laundering there, sometimes arriving with suitcases stuffed with 20 million euros.
The FBI linked the Amadea to the Kerimov family through their alleged use of code names while aboard and the purchase of items like a pizza oven and a spa bed. The ship became a target of Task Force KleptoCapture, launched in March to seize Russian oligarchs’ assets to pressure Russia to end the war.
The 106-meter (348-foot) long vessel, about the length of a football field, features a live lobster tank, a hand-painted piano, a swimming pool and and a large helipad.
Haniff, who represents paper owner Millemarin Investments, argues the owner is another wealthy Russian who doesn’t face sanctions, Eduard Khudainatov. He’s the former chairman and chief executive of Rosneft, the state-controlled Russian oil and gas company.
The U.S. acknowledges that paperwork appears to show Khudainatov is the owner but say he’s also the paper owner of a second and even larger superyacht, the Scheherazade, which has been linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. question whether Khudainatov could really afford two superyachts worth a total of more than $1 billion.
“The fact that Khudainatov is being held out as the owner of two of the largest superyachts on record, both linked to sanctioned individuals, suggests that Khudainatov is being used as a clean, unsanctioned straw owner to conceal the true beneficial owners,” the FBI wrote in a court affidavit.
The U.S. claims Kerimov secretly bought the Amadea last year through shell companies. The FBI said a search warrant in Fiji turned up emails showing that Kerimov’s children were aboard the ship this year and that the crew used code names — G0 for Kerimov, G1 for his wife, G2 for his daughter and so on.
The FBI said crew members discuss a possible “upcoming G0 guest trip” noting he wants the quickest jet skis available — so they’ll need to buy new jet skis.
In his appeal, Haniff argues the U.S. case is based on hearsay and rumors spread by unnamed crew members, and there’s no evidence that Khudainatov couldn’t afford an investment in two superyachts.
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Georgia WWII veteran celebrates 103rd birthday
WOODSTOCK, Ga. - A World War II veteran in Georgia is celebrating his 103rd birthday this week.
"Yeah, today is my birthday, 103," Charlie O. Duncan said during a party on Wednesday at the Semper Fi Bar & Grille in Woodstock.
Duncan was born on May 27, 1919. At age 25, after two deferments, he was drafted into the U.S. Army as a combat engineer. In 1944, he was given the weekend to report to Fort McPherson in Atlanta. From there he would go through basic training in Virginia and Texas. He was then shipped out from New York to England.
Duncan said his most memorable part about serving was seeing the countries. From England, he landed in France, drove through Belgium and on to Germany. He said he got lucky as he only got into one battle. He said he was just outside of Berlin when the war ended.
During his time, he would deliver temporary bridges to the frontline. He drove a bailey bridge and a pontoon bridge up to the line where soldiers would assemble it. He then would work to reconstruct the destroyed bridges using scrap and former pieces.
In 2017, he reflected with the Marietta Daily Journal about seeing the concentration camps in Germany and his other experiences.
Duncan grew up on a farm in Georgia and said he had never even heard of Pearl Harbor before the attack. He came back home to that farm after about six months of service. He faced being redeployed in Japan, but never was.
Over the past century, he would try to live right, eat right and stay active.
"Look at the hair on my head," Duncan said, adding a comment about his lack of wrinkles on his face.
He said he will get tired out, but is still going strong.
"I don’t know how you're supposed to feel (at 103)," Duncan said.
He said he works out every day in the pool doing aerobics and walks a quarter mile.
Duncan did warn about living too long. He said he survived his wife who died in February and has been lonesome ever since. He said he’d like to see her again someday in the hereafter.
Still, his many friends, family, and admirers said they hope to have a celebration for him every year for the near future.
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DJIBO, Burkina Faso (AP) — African leaders gathered for a summit Friday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to address growing humanitarian needs on the continent, which is also facing increased violent extremism, climate change challenges and a run of military coups.
Leaders called for increased mobilization to resolve a humanitarian crisis that has left millions displaced and more than 280 million suffering from malnourishment.
For people in Djibo, a town in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Mali, any help can’t come soon enough.
The city in the Sahel region — the large expanse below the Sahara Desert — has been besieged since February by jihadis who prevent people and goods from moving in or out and cut water supplies. Few truckers want to run the jihadist gauntlet. Residents are suffering with no food or water, animals are dying and the price of grain has spiked.
“The goods are not arriving anymore here. Animal and agricultural production is not possible because the people cannot go back to their villages,” U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator Barbara Manzi told The Associated Press from Djibo this week. “Unless (a solution) is found, it’s going to be really a tragedy for the entire group of people that are here.”
Djibo has been at the epicenter of the violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that has killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people. While Djibo — and Soum province where the town is located — experienced periods of calm, such as during a makeshift ceasefire between jihadis and the government surrounding the 2020 presidential election, the truce didn’t last.
Since November, insecurity in the region has increased. Jihadis have destroyed water infrastructure in the town and lined much of Djibo’s perimeter with explosives, blockading the city, say locals.
The town’s population has swollen from 60,000 to 300,000 over the last few years as people flee the countryside to escape the violence.
Blockading cities is a tactic used by jihadis to assert dominance and could also be an attempt to get Burkina Faso’s new military junta, which seized power in January, to backtrack on promises to eliminate the jihadis, said Laith Alkhouri, CEO of Intelonyx Intelligence Advisory, a group that provides intelligence analysis.
“Militants resort to blockading when they see an opportunity to gain incentives in negotiating with the government and simultaneously send a message to their base that they are in control. It’s a bargaining card and a winning one,” he said.
A U.N. team flew in briefly to assess the situation. The AP was the first foreign media to visit the town in more than a year.
“Today there is nothing to buy here. Even if you have cash, there is nothing to buy. We came here with four donkeys and goats and some of them died because of hunger. We were forced to sell the rest of the animals and unfortunately prices of animals have decreased,” said cattle owner Mamoudou Oumarou.
The 53-year-old father of 13 fled his village in February and said the blockade in Djibo has prevented people from coming to the market to buy and sell cattle, decreasing demand and lowering prices for the animals by half.
Before the violence, Djibo had one of the biggest and most vital cattle markets in the Sahel and was a bustling economic hub. Some 600 trucks used to enter Djibo monthly, now it’s less than 70, said Alpha Ousmane Dao, director of Seracom, a local aid group in Djibo.
Burkina Faso is facing its worst hunger crisis in six years, more than 630,000 people are on the brink of starvation, according to the UN.
As a result of Djibo’s blockade, the World Food Program has been unable to deliver food to the town since December and stocks are running out, said Antoine Renard, country director for the World Food Program in Burkina Faso.
Efforts to end the blockade through dialogue have had mixed results. At the end of April, the emir of Djibo met with Burkina Faso’s top jihadist, Jafar Dicko, to negotiate lifting the siege. However, little progress has been made since then.
Locals say the jihadis have eased restrictions in some areas allowing freer movement, but that the army is now preventing people from bringing food out of Djibo to the surrounding villages for fear it will go to the jihadis.
The army denied the allegations.
Meanwhile residents in Djibo say they’re risking their lives just trying to survive.
Dadou Sadou searches for wood and water in the middle of the night outside of Djibo, when she says the jihadis are not around.
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Harrison Ford reveals ‘Indiana Jones 5’ release date during Star Wars Celebration
LOS ANGELES - Christmas came early for "Indiana Jones" fans after Harrison Ford made a surprise appearance Thursday at the Lucasfilm panel at Star Wars Celebration to announce the release date for the latest installment in the iconic franchise.
"Indiana Jones 5" will hit theaters June 30, 2023, according to Ford, 79, who was approached the stage as composer John Williams and a live orchestra played the "Indy" theme from the beloved film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ford took a moment to honor Williams who will celebrate his 90th birthday in February.
"It’s a special honor for me to be able to congratulate John on his 90th birthday," Ford told the audience. "I told John on another occasion that we had the chance to be together, and that music follows me everywhere I go. And you know what? I’m happy about it."
The upcoming fifth installment features the heroic American archaeologist whose search for mythological artifacts lands him in the midst of potentially world-altering conflicts.
James Mangold, best known for films like "Logan" and "Ford v Ferrari," will direct the upcoming film, replacing Steven Spielberg, who directed the first four movies.
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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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Housekeepers struggle as US hotels ditch daily room cleaning
HONOLULU - After guests checked out of a corner room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort on Waikiki beach, housekeeper Luz Espejo collected enough trash, some strewn under beds, to stuff seven large garbage bags.
She stripped the linens from the beds, wiped built-up dust off furniture and scrubbed away layers of grime on the toilet and bathtub. She even got on her hands and knees to pick confetti from the carpet that a heavy-duty vacuum failed to swallow up.
Like many other hotels across the United States, the Hilton Hawaiian Village has done away with daily housekeeping service, making what was already one of the toughest jobs in the hospitality industry even more grueling.
Industry insiders say the move away from daily cleaning, which gained traction during the pandemic, is driven by customer preferences. But others say it has more to do with profit and has allowed hotels to cut the number of housekeepers at a time when many of the mostly immigrant women who take those jobs are still reeling from lost work during coronavirus shutdowns.
Many housekeepers still employed say their hours have been cut and they are being asked to do far more work in that time.
"It's a big change for us," said Espejo, a 60-year-old originally from the Philippines who has cleaned rooms at the world's largest Hilton for 18 years, minus about a year she was laid off during the pandemic. "We are so busy at work now. We cannot finish cleaning our rooms."
Before the pandemic there were 670 housekeepers working at Espejo’s resort. More than two years later, 150 of them haven’t been hired back or are on-call status, spending each day from 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. waiting for a phone call saying there’s work for them. The number not hired back or on call stood at 300 just a few weeks ago.
"This is all about more money in the owners’ pocket by putting a greater workload on the frontline workers and eliminating jobs," said D. Taylor, president of UNITE HERE, a union representing hotel workers.
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While some hotels started experimenting with less frequent cleaning in the name of sustainability, it became far more widespread early in the pandemic, when to promote social distancing and other safety protocols, many hotels switched to offering room cleaning only if a guest requested, and sometimes only after staying a certain number of days. Guests were instructed to leave trash outside their door and call the front desk for clean towels.
But even as safety restrictions fade and demand picks up as the country enters peak travel season, many hotels are keeping their new cleaning policies in place.
A spokesperson for the Hilton Hawaiian Village said no Hilton representative was available for an interview about such policies at any Hilton property. Representatives for several major hotel chains, including Marriott and Caesars Entertainment, either declined to be interviewed or didn't respond to Associated Press requests for comment.
Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, a trade group whose members include hotel brands, owners and management companies, said it was the demands of guests — not hotel profits — that guided decisions about pandemic housekeeper services.
"A lot of guests, to this day, don't want people coming into their room during their stay," he said. "To force something onto a guest that they don't want is the antithesis of what it means to work in the hospitality industry."
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The pandemic changed the standard of most hotel guests wanting daily cleaning, he said, adding it's not yet clear if that will result in a permanent shift.
Housekeeping policies vary based on the type of hotel, Rogers said, with luxury hotels tending to provide daily housekeeping unless guests opt out.
Ben McLeod, of Bend, Oregon, and his family didn’t request housekeeping during a four-night stay at the Westin Hapuna Beach Resort on Hawaii’s Big Island in March.
"My wife and I just have never really understood why there would be daily housekeeping ... when that’s not the case at home and it’s wasteful," he said.
He said he expects his kids to tidy up after themselves.
"I’m a Type-A, so I get out of bed and I make my bed, so I don’t need someone else to make my bed," he said.
Unionized hotel workers are trying get the message out that turning down daily room cleaning is hurting housekeepers and threatening jobs.
Martha Bonilla, who has spent 10 years working at the Caesars Atlantic City Hotel & Casino in New Jersey, said she wants guests to ask for daily cleaning, noting it makes her job less difficult. Even though hotels in New Jersey are required by law to offer daily cleaning, some guests still turn it down.
"When I come home from work now, the only thing I want to do is go to bed," said Bonilla, originally from the Dominican Republic and a single mother of a 6-year-old daughter. "I am physically exhausted."
It's not just partying guests like the ones who threw confetti around in Hawaii that leave behind filthy rooms, housekeepers say. Even with typical use, rooms left uncleaned for days become much harder to restore to the gleaming, pristine rooms guests expect when they check in.
Elvia Angulo, a housekeeper at the Oakland Marriott City Center for 17 years, is the main breadwinner in her family.
For the first year of the pandemic, she worked a day or two a month. She has regained her 40 hours a week, but with rooms no longer cleaned daily the number of people working each shift has been cut in half, from 25 to 12.
"Thank God I have seniority here so I now have my five days again, and my salary is the same," said Angulo, 54, who is from Mexico. "But the work really is now harder. If you don’t clean a room for five days you have five days of scum in the bathrooms. It’s scum over scum."
Many housekeepers still aren’t getting enough hours to qualify for benefits.
Sonia Guevara, who has worked at a Seattle Hilton for seven years, used to really enjoy the benefits at her job. But since returning to work after being laid off for 18 months, she hasn't qualified for health insurance.
"At first I was thinking to get a new job, but I feel like I want to wait," she said. "I want to see if my hours change at the hotel."
She said there are few other job options with hours conducive for having two children in school.
Now politicians are picking up on the issue, including Hawaii state Rep. Sonny Ganaden, who represents Kalihi, a Honolulu neighborhood where many hotel workers live.
"Almost every time I talk to people at their doors, I meet someone who works in a hotel and then we talk about how they are overworked and what is happening and working conditions," he said. "You've got a lot of first- and second-generation immigrant folks that are kind of left high and dry by these non-daily room cleaning requirements."
Ganaden is among the lawmakers who introduced a resolution requesting Hawaii hotels "immediately rehire or recall employees who were laid off or placed on leave" because of the pandemic.
If that's not enough, Ganaden said he would be open to more forceful measures like some other places have taken.
Washington, D.C.’s city council in April passed emergency legislation requiring hotels in the district to service rooms daily unless guests opt-out.
Amal Hligue, an immigrant from Morocco, hopes the rules mean more hours at the Washington Hilton where she has worked for 22 years. She needs them so her husband can get health insurance.
"I hope he has this month because I worked last month," she said.
At 57 years old, she doesn't want to find a new job. "I'm not young, you know," she said. "I have to stay."
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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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Patricia Krenwinkel: Parole recommended for Charles Manson follower
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time, a California parole panel on Thursday recommended the release of Patricia Krenwinkel more than five decades after she and other followers of cult leader Charles Manson terrorized the state.
Krenwinkel, 74, was convicted in the slayings of pregnant actor Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969. She helped kill grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary the next night in what prosecutors say was an attempt by Manson to start a race war. Krenwinkel wrote "Helter Skelter" on a wall using the blood of one of their victims.
She was previously denied parole 14 times.
The new parole recommendation will be reviewed by the state parole board's legal division before likely going to Gov. Gavin Newsom for a decision within five months. He has previously rejected parole recommendations for other followers of Manson, who died in prison in 2017.
New laws since Krenwinkel was last denied parole in 2017 required the parole panel to consider that she committed the murders at a young age and is now an elderly prisoner.
Also, for the first time, Los Angeles County prosecutors weren’t at the parole hearing to object, under District Attorney George Gascón’s policy that prosecutors should not be involved in deciding whether prisoners are ready for release.
However, Krenwinkel’s attorney, Keith Wattley, said relatives of her victims offered the same objections at the hearing as prosecutors have in the past.
What was different this time was that the parole panel was willing to follow the law, he said, recognizing that she has had no disciplinary violations and is no longer a danger to society.
"She's completely transformed from the person she was when she committed this crime, which is all that it's supposed to take to be granted parole," he said.
"I’m hopeful that the governor recognizes that he shouldn’t be playing political games with people’s lives," Wattley said. "The governor would be blocking her parole not because he’s afraid of her, but because he doesn’t like her. And the law doesn’t allow that."
Susan Denise Atkins, (left), Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten (right), laugh after receiving the death sentence for their part in the Tate-LaBianca killing at the order of Charles Manson. (Credit: Getty Images)
Krenwinkel remains incarcerated at the California Institution for Women east of Los Angeles, where she first arrived in 1971. She became the state’s longest-serving female inmate when fellow Manson follower Susan Atkins died of cancer in prison in 2009.
Krenwinkel’s attorney said he understands she is also the longest-serving woman in the United States.
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The Manson family murders
Charles Manson, a small-time career criminal who had reinvented himself as a hippie guru, dispatched a band of disaffected young followers on a deadly weekend rampage that would terrorize Los Angeles.
On that first night, Aug. 8, 1969, Manson sent a handful of his young, mostly female followers to the palatial hilltop estate of actress Sharon Tate with orders to kill everyone there. The 26-year-old actress and four friends were bludgeoned, shot and stabbed scores of times. Their blood was used to scrawl the words "Pigs" and "Helter Skelter" on the walls.
Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski, was 8½ months pregnant, and her killers later testified that she pleaded in her last moments for her unborn baby’s life. Others killed were coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring and Wojciech Frykowski, an aspiring screenwriter and friend of Polanski, who was out of town.
On the way into the estate, the attackers crossed paths with 19-year-old Steven Parent, who was leaving after visiting an acquaintance who lived in the guesthouse. Parent was shot to death.
The next night, Manson himself led a handful of followers to the home of wealthy grocer LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, tying up the couple and leaving the others to butcher them with knives.
Authorities would say later that it was part of a plot Manson hatched to persuade gullible young followers to launch a race war that only he could hide them from. He’d gotten the premonition, they said, from a twisted interpretation of the Beatles song "Helter Skelter."
Manson died in 2017 of natural causes at a California hospital while serving a life sentence.
How did Patricia Krenwinkel meet Charles Manson?
Krenwinkel was a 19-year-old secretary living with her older sister when she met Manson, then age 33, at a party. She testified in 2016 that she soon left everything behind to follow him because she thought they might have a romantic relationship.
But Krenwinkel said Manson abused her physically and emotionally and trafficked her to other men for sex. She said she fled twice only to be brought back and that she was rarely left alone and usually was under the influence of drugs.
At her last parole hearing, Krenwinkel told how she repeatedly stabbed Abigail Folger, 26, heiress to a coffee fortune, at Tate’s home on Aug. 9, 1969.
The next night, she said Manson and his right-hand man, Charles "Tex" Watson, told her to "do something witchy," so she stabbed La Bianca in the stomach with a fork, then took a rag and wrote "Helter Skelter," ″Rise" and "Death to Pigs" on the walls with his blood.
She and other participants were initially sentenced to death. But they were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole after the death penalty in California was briefly ruled unconstitutional in 1972.
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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.”
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Police investigating robbery caught on camera at North Philadelphia Popeyes
PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating a robbery at a North Philadelphia Popeyes that was caught on surveillance video.
According to police, the robbery happened on May 6 at the Popeyes restaurant located at 314 W Lehigh Avenue.
Authorities say a man pried open the restaurant's back door and took cash from both registers.
Video released by police shows the suspect dismantling the cash registered before carrying them out of the store.
Police say the suspect managed to take $200 before fleeing in an unknown direction.
Anyone with information on the robbery is urged to contact police at 215-686-8477 or submit an anonymous tip.
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BERLIN (AP) — Two climbers were killed Friday and nine others injured by falling blocks of ice in the Alps in southern Switzerland, police said.
Police in Valais canton (state) were alerted shortly after 6 a.m. to the emergency in the Grand-Combin massif. Seven rescue helicopters were dispatched.
Seventeen climbers, in different groups, were in the area when the ice blocks broke off at an altitude of 3,400 meters (11,150 feet). Two people — a 40-year-old French woman and a 65-year-old Spanish man — died at the scene.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A mother and sister known for baking decadent pastries. A restaurant worker buying his 3-year-old’s birthday cake. A father of six who worked as a school bus aide.
These three victims of the racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket will be laid to rest Friday, in a week filled with goodbyes for family and friends.
Funeral services are scheduled for Geraldine Talley, 62, of Buffalo, Andre Mackniel, 53, of Auburn, and Margus Morrison, 52, of Buffalo.
They’re among the 10 people killed and three wounded when a white gunman opened fire on afternoon shoppers and employees at a Tops Friendly Market on May 14. Authorities said he chose the grocery store because it’s in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
For many Black Americans, this latest example of targeted racial violence stirred the same feelings they faced after earlier attacks.
“It’s like Groundhog’s Day. We’ve seen this over and over again,” said Mark Talley, son of Geraldine Talley, at a news conference after the shooting. “I constantly think about what could have been done.”
Friends and family of Talley say she was an expert baker who treated them to apple crisp, cakes and pastries. She was with her fiancé at Tops when the shooting started. Her fiancé was in a different aisle and made it to safety.
“Gerri will be remembered for her beautiful spirit, her dimpled smile and immense love for her family,” her online obituary said. Veteran civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to memorialize Talley on Friday.
Mackniel was picking up a birthday cake for his young son when he was killed. He was a cook and stay-at-home father to his son, his obituary said.
“He loved basketball, playing the guitar, writing poems, listening to music, but most of all Andre was a very family oriented man,” it said.
Morrison, a father of six, had worked as a security guard and was a bus aide with Buffalo Public Schools since 2019. He was buying snacks for a family movie night, his stepdaughter Cassandra Demps told WIVB.
Frederick Morrison said he’ll remember his brother who he often played basketball with as comical and full of energy.
“All his jokes weren’t good,” Frederick told The Buffalo News, laughing, “but he was funny.”
Funerals for store security guard Aaron Salter, 55, of Lockport and Pearl Young, 77, of Buffalo were held Wednesday. In previous days, 32-year-old Roberta Drury, 72-year-old Katherine Massey, 67-year-old Heyward Patterson, and 65-year-old Celestine Chaney, were also laid to rest.
A funeral for the oldest victim, 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, will be held Saturday.
The country was still mourning the violence in Buffalo when yet another mass shooting left 19 students and two teachers dead inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. Authorities say the shooters in both attacks were 18-year-old men with semi-automatic rifles.
The suspect in the Buffalo shooting was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail. His lawyer, at his initial court appearance, entered a plea of not guilty. In Texas, the suspected gunman was killed by law enforcement.
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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Four Albanian women and nine children, all related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, are being repatriated from a Syrian camp, a Kurdish official from northeast Syria said Friday.
Abdul-Karim Omar, an official who negotiates with countries on the return of their citizens, tweeted that, “13 Albanians (4 women and 9 children) of the families of ISIS organization were handed over to an official Albanian government delegation.”
He also posted a photo with Albania’s anti-terror department chief Alban Dautaj.
The Albanian government did not confirm the report, but an official, speaking anonymously due to the sensitivity of the issue, said the repatriated Albanians were expected to land late Friday night.
Twenty-five other Albanian women and children whose husbands and fathers joined Islamic State terror group and most often have been killed in the fighting have been brought back home in three previous missions, the last one in July 2021.
Authorities have not specified the number of Albanians still in detention camps in Syria, only saying they have been identified. Their relatives in Albania say 52 children are still in Syria, including the 13 being repatriated Friday.
A few hundred Albanians joined the Islamic State and other groups fighting in Syria and Iraq in the early 2010s. Many were killed, and their widows and children are stuck in Syrian camps.
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Agilix Solutions Hires David Armstrong for VP of South Region Role
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Agilix Solutions, a leading distributor of automation, electrical, datacom, safety and industrial products and services, announced today the addition of David Armstrong to their team as Vice President of South Region. Armstrong will join the company in its Memphis location.
As a regional VP, Armstrong will lead the company's efforts to grow the Agilix Solutions brand across the south region where the company has seven branches in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
He joins the organization with more than 25 years of experience in the electrical distribution industry, and a strong track record of relationship building with customers and manufacturers to capitalize on sales and market growth opportunities. Prior to joining the Agilix Solutions team, Armstrong served as Vice President of Sales for Atlas Lighting Products in Burlington, NC.
"We're excited about the addition of David as a sales leader to our team," said Agilix Solutions President Darrell Smith. "His experience aligns perfectly with our expectations for this position, and we look forward to the leadership and expertise he will bring to this new role."
Agilix Solutions was formed in 2021 by the merger of St. Louis-based French Gerleman and Memphis-based IAC Supply Solutions, two family-owned companies each with their own rich history as market leaders in wholesale distribution. The newly formed company now ranks among Electrical Wholesaling Magazine's 50 largest electrical supply distributors in the United States and is poised for even greater growth.
"Agilix Solutions is positioned well as an established company that puts exceptional service at the top of its priority list," Armstrong said. "I am looking forward to assuming this role and helping the organization capitalize on the opportunities in front of it in the years ahead."
For more information on Agilix Solutions visit www.goAgilix.com.
About Agilix Solutions:
Agilix is one of the 50 largest electrical supply distributors in the United States, and a leading distributor of products and services to the industrial, commercial and construction markets. Founded in 2021 through the merger of French Gerleman and IAC Supply Solutions, the firm has longstanding partnerships with manufacturers such as Rockwell Automation, nVent Hoffman, Panduit, ABB, Southwire, Siemens, Hubbell, Acuity Brands, 3M, Mersen, and many other top manufacturers of automation, electrical, datacom, power transmission, safety, industrial supply, lighting and solar solutions.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a series of “Peanuts” comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be known in the long-running strip as the “kite-eating tree.”
In one episode that week, a frustrated Charlie Brown declines an offer from nemesis Lucy for her to yell at the tree.
“If I had a kite caught up in a tree, I’d yell at it,” Lucy responds in the last panel.
The simplicity of that interaction illustrates how different “Peanuts” was from comics drawn before its 1950 debut, said Lucy Shelton Caswell, founding curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University in Columbus, the world’s largest such museum.
“The idea that you could take a week to talk about this, and it didn’t have to be a gag in the sense of somebody hitting somebody else over the head with a bottle or whatever,” Caswell said. “This was really revolutionary.”
New exhibits on display at the Billy Ireland museum and at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of “Peanuts” cartoonist Schulz, born in Minnesota on Nov. 26, 1922.
Schulz carried the lifelong nickname of Sparky, conferred by a relative after a horse called Sparky in an early comic strip, Barney Google.
Schulz was never a fan of the name “Peanuts,” chosen by the syndicate because his original title, “Li’l Folks,” was too similar to another strip’s name. But the Columbus exhibit makes clear through strips, memorabilia and commentary that Schulz’s creation was a juggernaut in its day.
At the time of Schulz’s retirement in 1999 following a cancer diagnosis, his creation ran in more than 2,600 newspapers, was translated into 21 languages in 75 countries and had an estimated daily readership of 355 million. Schulz personally created and drew 17,897 “Peanuts” strips, even after a tremor affected his hand.
The strip was also the subject of the frequently performed play, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” as well as “Snoopy: The Musical,” dozens of TV specials and shows, and many book collections.
Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes,” described in a 2007 Wall Street Journal review of a Schultz biography the difficulty of looking at “Peanuts” with fresh eyes because of how revolutionary it was at the time.
Benjamin Clark, curator of the Schulz museum, describes that innovation as Schulz’s use of a spare line that maintains its expressiveness.
Schulz “understood technically in drawing that he could strip away what was unnecessary and still pack an emotional punch with the simplest-appearing lines,” Clark said. “But that simplicity is deceptive. There’s so much in these.”
The exhibit in Columbus displays strips featuring 12 “devices” that Schulz thought set Peanuts apart, including episodes involving the kite-eating tree, Snoopy’s doghouse, Lucy in her psychiatry booth, Linus’ obsession with the Great Pumpkin, the Beethoven-playing Schroeder, and more.
“Celebrating Sparky” also focuses on Schulz’s promotion of women’s rights through strips about Title IX, the groundbreaking law requiring parity in women’s sports; and his introduction of a character of color, Franklin, spurred by a reader’s urging following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
In addition, the display includes memorabilia, from branded paper towels to Pez dispensers, part of the massive “Peanuts” licensing world. Some fellow cartoonists disliked the way Schulz commercialized the strip.
He dismissed the criticism, arguing that comic strips had always been commercial, starting with their invention as a way to sell newspapers, Caswell said.
While 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is one of the most famous cartoon TV specials of all time, the characters have also returned in dozens of animated shows and films, most recently in original shows and specials on Apple TV.
Those Apple programs introduced new viewers to the truth of what Schulz drew, his wife, Jean Schulz, told The Associated Press last year. She described that truth this way:
“A family of characters who live in a neighborhood, get along with each other, have fun with each other, have arguments sometimes with each other, but end up always in a good frame hugging each other or resolving their arguments,” she said.
Caswell, who first met Schulz in the 1980s, said one of the exhibit’s goals was to surprise people with things they didn’t know about the man. In that, “Celebrating Sparky” succeeds admirably.
Who knew, for example, that Schulz, a hockey and ice-skating lover, is in both the U.S. Figure Skating and U.S. Hockey halls of fame? (Perhaps that isn’t surprising, given multiple strips that featured a hockey-playing Snoopy or Zambonis driven by the little yellow bird, Woodstock.)
By focusing on Schulz, the exhibit also aims to show he worked hard to perfect his drawing style before “Peanuts” was launched and was intentional about what he wanted the strip to be, Caswell said.
“This was a person of genius who had a very clear, creative focus to his life, and enjoyed making people laugh,” she said.
“Celebrating Sparky: Charles M. Schulz and Peanuts” at the Billy Ireland museum runs through November and was mounted in partnership with the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum has two exhibits commemorating Schulz’s birth: “Spark Plug to Snoopy: 100 Years of Schulz,” which explores comic strips and artists who influenced Schultz (running through Sept. 18); and “The Spark of Schulz: A Centennial Celebration,” exploring cartoonists and artists influenced by Schulz (from Sept. 25, 2022, through March 12, 2023).
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Asieris to present a study protocol of APL-1202 in combination with BeiGene's tislelizumab as neoadjuvant therapy（NAC）for muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) patients at 2022 ASCO annual meeting
SHANGHAI, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asieris Pharmaceuticals (688176.SH), a global innovative biopharma company specializing in discovering and developing innovative drugs for the treatment of genitourinary tumors and other major diseases announced that ANTICIPATE Study will be presented at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting (3-7 June) in Chicago. This is a study of oral APL-1202 in combination with BeiGene's tislelizumab compared to tislelizumab alone as NAC in patients with MIBC.
Bladder cancer is the 10th most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with approximately 573,000 new cases and 213,000 deaths annually[1]; of these, muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) represents approximately 20% of newly diagnosed cases [2].
The recommended standard of care for MIBC is radical cystectomy (RC) with bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection, preceded by the administration of NAC in patients who are eligible to receive cisplatin[3]. However, approximately 50% of the patients are cisplatin-ineligible because of pre-existing contraindications, and some refuse to receive any chemotherapy[4,5]. APL-1202 is a reversible and orally available MetAP2 inhibitor with anti-angiogenic and anti-tumor activities[6,7]. Synergistic effects of APL-1202 and tislelizumab have been shown in various model systems of cancer including bladder cancer[8,9].
The presented protocol is an open-label, multi-center Phase I/II clinical study with the following objectives: evaluate the safety in MIBC patients; determine the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D), and to assess efficacy as neoadjuvant therapy for MIBC.
The investigational new drug (IND) application has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)in June 2021(NCT04813107) and by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the National Medical Products Administration of China in October 2021.The world's first patient dose was administered in January this year.
[1] Sung H, et al. CA Cancer J Clin 2021; 71: 209-49.
[2] Patel VG, et al. CA Cancer J Clin 2020; 70: 404-23.
[3] Alfred Witjes J, et al. Eur Urol 2017; 71: 462-75.
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[5] Burger M, et al. Eur Urol 2012; 61: 1070-1.
[6] Shim JS, et al. J Natl Cancer Inst 2010; 102: 1855-73.
[7] Sfakianos J, et al. ASCO 2020.
[8] Xu N, et al. Int J Biol Sci 2019; 15: 919-28.
[9] Xu N, et al. J Cancer 2020; 11: 6633-41.
About Asieris
Asieris Pharmaceuticals (688176.SH), founded in March 2010, is a global innovative pharma company specializing in new drugs for the treatment of genitourinary tumors and other major diseases. We strive to improve human health and help people live a more dignified life. We aim to become a global pharma leader that integrates R&D, manufacturing and commercialization in our areas of focus, as we provide best-in-class integrated diagnosis and treatment solutions for patients in China and worldwide.
The company has been developing its proprietary R&D platform and core technologies, exploring new mechanisms of action, and efficiently screening and evaluating drug candidates. With a well-established in-house R&D system and expertise in global drug development, Asieris is committed to launching first-in-class drugs and other innovative products to address huge unmet needs in its areas of focus.
Asieris is also enhancing its pipeline for genitourinary diseases via proprietary R&D and strategic partnerships, while closely following cutting-edge technologies and therapeutics. The company strives to discover and identify unmet medical needs, and adopts a forward-looking approach in product planning and life-cycle management. We aim to establish an outstanding portfolio that covers diagnosis and treatment in a bid to benefit more patients in China and globally.
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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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Boqii Further Revises its ADS to Class A Ordinary Share Ratio and Extends the Effective Date
SHANGHAI, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reference is made to Boqii Holding Limited's ("Boqii" or the "Company") (NYSE: BQ) announcement made on May 20, 2022 with regard to plans to change the ratio of its American depositary shares ("ADSs") to Class A ordinary shares ("Prior Announcement").
After further consideration, the Company announced today that it will void the purposed ratio change disclosed in the Prior Announcement and adopt a revised ratio. Under the revised ratio, Boqii will change its ratio from one (1) ADS representing three fourths (0.75) Class A ordinary shares to one (1) ADS representing four and a half (4.5) Class A ordinary shares (the "Revised ADS Ratio Change").
The Revised ADS Ratio Change is expected to become effective on or about June 3, 2022 (U.S. Eastern Time).
For Boqii's ADS holders, the Revised ADS Ratio Change will have the same effect as a one-for-six reverse split on the existing ADSs. Each ADS holder of record at the close of business on the date when the Revised ADS Ratio Change is effective will be required to surrender and exchange every six (6) existing ADSs then held for one (1) new ADS. The Bank of New York Mellon ("BNY Mellon"), as the depositary bank for Boqii's ADS program, will arrange for the exchange of current ADSs for new ADSs (subject to receipt of applicable ADS fees from the exchanging ADS holders). No action is required by holders of uncertificated ADSs to effect the Revised ADS Ratio Change, as the change will be effected on the books of the ADS depositary.
No fractional new ADSs will be issued in connection with the Revised ADS Ratio Change. Instead, BNY Mellon will attempt to sell any fractional entitlements to new ADSs and the net cash proceeds from the sale of the fractional ADS entitlements (after deduction of fees, taxes and expenses) will be distributed to the applicable ADS holders by BNY Mellon. Boqii's ADSs will continue to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "BQ".
As a result of the Revised ADS Ratio Change, our ADS price is expected to increase proportionally, although the Company can give no assurance that the ADS price after the ADS Ratio Change will be equal to or greater than six (6) times the ADS price before the change.
About Boqii Holding Limited
Boqii Holding Limited (NYSE: BQ) is a leading pet-focused platform in China. We are the leading online destination for pet products and supplies in China with our broad selection of high-quality products including global leading brands, local emerging brands, and our own private label, Yoken and Mocare, offered at competitive prices. Our online sales platforms, including Boqii Mall and our flagship stores on third-party e-commerce platforms, provide customers with convenient access to a wide selection of high-quality pet products and an engaging and personalized shopping experience. Our Boqii Community provides an informative and interactive content platform for users to share their knowledge and love for pets.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands in April it raised concerns from the U.S. and its allies that Beijing may be seeking a military outpost in the South Pacific, an area of traditional American naval dominance.
But China upped the ante further this week, reaching out to the Solomon Islands and nine other island nations with a sweeping security proposal that, even if only partially realized, could give it a presence in the Pacific much nearer Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and on the doorstep of the strategic American territory of Guam.
China insists its proposals are targeted at regional stability and economic growth, but experts and governments fear that beneath the surface, it is a brazen attempt to expand its influence in a strategically critical area.
David Panuelo, the president of Micronesia, one of the nations targeted by China, warned the others against signing on, saying it “threatens to bring a new Cold War at best, and a world war at worst.”
“Aside from the impacts on our sovereignty … it increases the chances of China getting into conflict with Australia, Japan, the United States and New Zealand on the day when Beijing decides to invade Taiwan,” Panuelo warned in a letter obtained by The Associated Press, noting China has not ruled out using force to take the self-governing island, which it claims as its own territory.
A draft of the proposal obtained by The Associated Press shows that China wants to train Pacific police officers, team up on “traditional and non-traditional security” and expand law enforcement cooperation.
China also wants to jointly develop a marine plan for fisheries, and raises the possibility of a free trade area with the Pacific nations.
It targets Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands, Niue and Micronesia — and pointedly leaves out the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Tuvalu, all of which recognize Taiwan as a country.
Like many other nations, the U.S. has a “one China” policy, which does not recognize Taiwan, but also opposes any unilateral changes to the status quo.
The islands dot a vast area of ocean between the continental United States and Asia, and were a center of the Pacific Theater fighting during World War II following the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
After the U.S. fleet decisively beat Imperial Japan’s navy at the Battle of Midway in 1942, it embarked upon a campaign to take them back from Japan, starting with the invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and including fierce battles for the Tarawa atoll, now part of Kiribati, Peleliu, which is one of the Palau islands, and Guam.
Though the nearest is thousands of kilometers (miles) from Taiwan, they are nonetheless strategically important to China, should it invade the island.
From a military perspective, a Chinese presence on some of the Pacific islands would mean a better ability to delay U.S. naval assets and disrupt supply lines in case of a conflict, said Euan Graham, a senior fellow with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.
“You only have to look at a map to deduce the basic logic of what China is up to,” he said.
“This is prime real estate. Most of it is water, but if you connect up those islands, archipelagos, that’s an island chain that runs between Australia and the United States, between Australia and Japan.”
China dispatched its top diplomat, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, this week to visit seven of the island nations and hold virtual talks with the other three in the hope they will endorse the agreement on May 30 at a meeting in Fiji.
The diplomatic blitz comes just after regional powerhouse Australia ushered in a new government, and Beijing may have decided to act now to try to catch new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese off guard, Graham said.
“This follows a period of shadowboxing between Australia and the United States and China for the last few years, in which there were clear suspicions that China was indirectly trying to make inroads through dual-use and infrastructure investment deals, but not doing so in an overt government-to-government way,” he said.
“Now this is China in the most visible, high-level way literally on a door-knocking tour of the region to try and lock in whatever gains it can.”
Albanese, however, was sworn into office in record time so he could take part in meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of India and Japan in Tokyo, and swiftly dispatched Foreign Minister Penny Wong to Fiji in her first week on the job.
“We need to respond to this because this is China seeking to increase its influence in the region of the world where Australia has been the security partner of choice since the Second World War,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Albanese said that “Australia dropped the ball” in its relations with the islands, largely over outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s stance climate change, and pledged to reengage with them. Many of the low-lying Pacific islands consider climate change their most pressing and existential threat, while Morrison continued to be a big supporter of Australia’s coal industry.
“We need to be offering more support and, otherwise, we can see the consequences with the deal that was done with the Solomons,” he said. “We know that China sees that as the first of many.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin defended his country’s proposal this week, saying it “is based on the principle of mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, openness and inclusiveness.”
“Our relations are not exclusive or posing a threat to any third party, and should not be interfered with by third parties,” he said.
Wang started his tour Thursday in the Solomon Islands, where a news conference was restricted to selected media and only one question was permitted of him, from China’s state-owned CCTV broadcaster.
On Friday he was in Kiribati, where the government announced in November it plans to end a commercial fishing ban in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Already, there are fears that China’s proposal may give its massive commercial fishing fleet unfettered access to the fragile grounds, said Anna Powles, a senior lecturer in security studies at New Zealand’s Massey University.
There are also concerns that any kind of base for Chinese commercial fishing fleets in Kiribati could also be used as an additional hub for Beijing’s surveillance activities, she said.
The Solomon Islands and Kiribati both shifted their allegiances from Taiwan to mainland China in 2019, and are seen as among the most amenable to China’s proposal. Vanuatu is also seen as likely in that camp, having just signed a contract with China for a runway extension at its Pekoa airport.
But Powles said Panuelo’s letter echoed strong overall concerns about the Chinese proposal, and that there are “significant areas of concern” about many areas, including the increased engagement in fisheries and the security cooperation agreements.
“It will only change things if countries agree to adopt this communique, and it doesn’t sound like people are particularly happy about it,” she said.
Graham said he did not think any country would see the Chinese proposal as a need to choose either Beijing or the West, but that even if a few countries signed on it could have significant effects.
“If they could get the Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Vanuatu, that right there is some pretty important real estate,” he said. “From a purely geostrategic point of view that would change the odds, that would dramatically alter Australia’s future defense planning.”
In his letter, Panuelo stressed to the others that Micronesia would reject the proposal.
“Geopolitics like these are the kind of game where the only winning move is not to play,” he said.
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NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Computer Accessories Market size is expected to grow by USD 4.28 billion with a YOY growth of 5.45% during the forecast period. One of the key factors driving the computer accessories market growth is the growing popularity of e-sports. The report offers an up-to-date analysis of the current market scenario and information from several leading manufacturers.
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This market research report extensively covers Computer Accessories Market segmentations by the following:
- Product - External HDDs, gaming accessories, portable speakers, pointing devices, and others
- The external HDDs segment's market share will expand significantly over the projection period, from 47.00 percent of the entire market in 2020 to 41.84 percent of the worldwide computer accessories market in 2025. The global computer accessories market's greatest revenue contributor in this sector. The rise in external HDD sales is attributed to increased data usage and the requirement for backup in the event that a system's internal HDD fails. This was the primary driver of the external HDDs segment's growth in 2020.
- Geography - North America, APAC, Europe, South America, and MEA
- APAC will account for 51 percent of market growth. The primary markets for computer accessories in APAC are China, Japan, and South Korea (Republic of Korea). The market in this region will expand quicker than the market in other regions.
- The increase in shipment volume is owing to increased demand for PCs from both the consumer and commercial sectors, which would aid the expansion of the computer accessories market in APAC throughout the forecast period.
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Computer Accessories Market Dynamics
Market Driver
The growing popularity of e-sports is one of the primary reasons driving the computer accessories market. With the introduction of e-sports leagues, the gaming environment has changed dramatically. As more gamers turn to gaming as a job, purchasing gaming gear has become a need for many games. The E-sports league began as a way to turn video games' entertainment value into a global sports craze.
Market Trend
Another important element driving the growth of the computer accessories market is replacement sales outnumbering new product sales, as well as a rising desire for assembly. Customers' reasons for acquiring PC peripherals are changing, according to the computer accessories market. Customers are increasingly purchasing PC peripherals as replacements for their current systems rather than for first use. This market is rapidly expanding as customers replace their outdated peripherals with newer, more technologically advanced models.
Market Challenge
One of the major obstacles to the computer accessories market's growth is the declining demand for standalone devices and the rise of the smartphone and tablet markets. Smartphones and tablets are becoming increasingly popular because they offer nearly all of the features found on a computer. Smartphones and tablets make surfing the internet and viewing the web more convenient. As a result, non-business users prefer smartphones and tablets to PCs since they are more portable.
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Computer Accessories Market Segmentation
- Product
- External HDDs
- Gaming accessories
- Portable speakers
- Pointing devices
- Others
- Geography
- North America
- Europe
- APAC
- The Middle East And Africa
- South America
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Computer Accessories Market Vendor
The growing competition in the market is compelling vendors to adopt various growth strategies such as promotional activities and spending on advertisements to improve the visibility of their services. Some vendors are also adopting inorganic growth strategies such as M&As to remain competitive in the market.
The report analyzes the market's competitive landscape and offers information on several market vendors, including:
- AZIO Corp.
- Corsair Components Inc.
- COUGAR
- KYE Systems Corp
- Mad Catz Global Ltd.
- Mionix
- Seagate Technology Public Ltd. Co.
- SteelSeries ApS
- Turtle Beach Corp.
- Western Digital Corp.
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Product Insights and News
AZIO Corp.
The company offers keyboards, mice, mousepads, BlueTooth dongles, and other accessories. The company also offers audio products, accessories, and support services.
HP Inc.
The company offers commercial and consumer desktop and notebook personal computers, workstations, thin clients, commercial mobility devices, retail point-of-sale systems, displays and other related accessories, software, support, and services. The company offers printers, batteries, chargers, adapters, mouse, keyboards, and others.
Logitech International SA
The company focuses on the design, manufacture, and marketing of peripherals for PCs, tablets, and other digital platforms. The company offers mouse, keyboards, headsets, speakers, webcams, and others.
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Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary
2 Market Landscape
- 2.1 Market ecosystem
- Exhibit 01: Parent market
- Exhibit 02: Market characteristics
- 2.2 Value chain analysis
- Exhibit 03: Value chain analysis: Technology hardware, storage, and peripherals market
3 Market Sizing
- 3.1 Market definition
- Exhibit 04: Offerings of vendors included in the market definition
- 3.2 Market segment analysis
- Exhibit 05: Market segments
- 3.3 Market size 2020
- 3.4 Market outlook: Forecast for 2020 - 2025
- Exhibit 06: Global - Market size and forecast 2020 - 2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 07: Global market: Year-over-year growth 2020 - 2025 (%)
4 Five Forces Analysis
- 4.1 Five forces analysis 2020 & 2025
- 4.2 Bargaining power of buyers
- Exhibit 09: Bargaining power of buyers
- 4.3 Bargaining power of suppliers
- Exhibit 10: Bargaining power of suppliers
- 4.4 Threat of new entrants
- Exhibit 11: Threat of new entrants
- 4.5 Threat of substitutes
- Exhibit 12: Threat of substitutes
- 4.6 Threat of rivalry
- Exhibit 13: Threat of rivalry
- 4.7 Market condition
- Exhibit 14: Market condition - Five forces 2020
5 Market Segmentation by Product
- 5.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 15: Product - Market share 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.2 Comparison by Product
- Exhibit 16: Comparison by Product
- 5.3 External HDDs - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 17: External HDDs - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 18: External HDDs - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.4 Gaming accessories - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 19: Gaming accessories - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 20: Gaming accessories - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.5 Portable speakers - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 21: Portable speakers - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 22: Portable speakers - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.6 Pointing devices - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 23: Pointing devices - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 24: Pointing devices - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.7 Others - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 25: Others - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 26: Others - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 5.8 Market opportunity by Product
- Exhibit 27: Market opportunity by Product
6 Market Segmentation by End-user
- 6.1 Market segments
- Exhibit 28: End-user - Market share 2020-2025 (%)
- 6.2 Comparison by End-user
- Exhibit 29: Comparison by End-user
- 6.3 Business sector - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 30: Business sector - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 31: Business sector - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 6.4 Consumer sector - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 32: Consumer sector - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 33: Consumer sector - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 6.5 Market opportunity by End-user
- Exhibit 34: Market opportunity by End-user
7 Customer landscape
- 7.1 Overview
- Exhibit 35: Customer landscape
8 Geographic Landscape
- 8.1 Geographic segmentation
- Exhibit 36: Market share by geography 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.2 Geographic comparison
- Exhibit 37: Geographic comparison
- 8.3 North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 38: North America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 39: North America - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.4 APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 40: APAC - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 41: APAC - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.5 Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 42: Europe - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 43: Europe - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.6 South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 44: South America - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 45: South America - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.7 MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025
- Exhibit 46: MEA - Market size and forecast 2020-2025 ($ million)
- Exhibit 47: MEA - Year-over-year growth 2020-2025 (%)
- 8.8 Key leading countries
- Exhibit 48: Key leading countries
- 8.9 Market opportunity by geography
- Exhibit 49: Market opportunity by geography ($ million)
9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
- 9.1 Market drivers
- 9.2 Market challenges
- Exhibit 50: Impact of drivers and challenges
- 9.3 Market trends
10 Vendor Landscape
- 10.1 Competitive scenario
- 10.2 Vendor landscape
- Exhibit 51: Vendor landscape
- 10.3 Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 52: Landscape disruption
- Exhibit 53: Industry risks
11 Vendor Analysis
- 11.1 Vendors covered
- Exhibit 54: Vendors covered
- 11.2 Market positioning of vendors
- Exhibit 55: Market positioning of vendors
- 11.3 AZIO Corp.
- Exhibit 56: AZIO Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 57: AZIO Corp. - Product and service
- Exhibit 58: AZIO Corp. - Key offerings
- 11.4 Corsair Components Inc.
- Exhibit 59: Corsair Components Inc. - Overview
- Exhibit 60: Corsair Components Inc. - Product and service
- Exhibit 61: Corsair Components Inc. - Key news
- Exhibit 62: Corsair Components Inc. - Key offerings
- 11.5 COUGAR
- Exhibit 63: COUGAR - Overview
- Exhibit 64: COUGAR - Product and service
- Exhibit 65: COUGAR - Key offerings
- 11.6 KYE Systems Corp
- Exhibit 66: KYE Systems Corp - Overview
- Exhibit 67: KYE Systems Corp - Product and service
- Exhibit 68: KYE Systems Corp - Key offerings
- 11.7 Mad Catz Global Ltd.
- Exhibit 69: Mad Catz Global Ltd. - Overview
- Exhibit 70: Mad Catz Global Ltd. - Product and service
- Exhibit 71: Mad Catz Global Ltd. - Key news
- Exhibit 72: Mad Catz Global Ltd. - Key offerings
- 11.8 Mionix
- Exhibit 73: Mionix - Overview
- Exhibit 74: Mionix - Product and service
- Exhibit 75: Mionix - Key offerings
- 11.9 Seagate Technology Public Ltd. Co.
- Exhibit 76: Seagate Technology Public Ltd. Co. - Overview
- Exhibit 77: Seagate Technology Public Ltd. Co. - Business segments
- Exhibit 78: Seagate Technology Plc- Key news
- Exhibit 79: Seagate Technology Public Ltd. Co. - Key offerings
- 11.10 SteelSeries ApS
- Exhibit 80: SteelSeries ApS - Overview
- Exhibit 81: SteelSeries ApS - Product and service
- Exhibit 82: SteelSeries Aps - Key news
- Exhibit 83: SteelSeries ApS - Key offerings
- 11.11 Turtle Beach Corp.
- Exhibit 84: Turtle Beach Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 85: Turtle Beach Corp. - Business segments
- Exhibit 86: Turtle Beach Corp. - Key news
- Exhibit 87: Turtle Beach Corp. - Key offerings
- Exhibit 88: Turtle Beach Corp. - Segment focus
- 11.12 Western Digital Corp.
- Exhibit 89: Western Digital Corp. - Overview
- Exhibit 90: Western Digital Corp. - Business segments
- Exhibit 91: Western Digital Corp. - Key news
- Exhibit 92: Western Digital Corp. - Key offerings
12 Appendix
- 12.1 Scope of the report
- 12.2 Currency conversion rates for US$
- Exhibit 93: Currency conversion rates for US$
- 12.3 Research methodology
- Exhibit 94: Research Methodology
- Exhibit 95: Validation techniques employed for market sizing
- Exhibit 96: Information sources
- 12.4 List of abbreviations
- Exhibit 97: List of abbreviations
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- The global die-cut lids market is projected to gain a valuation of US$ 852.2 Mn by 2025
- Rising use of metal packaging solutions by numerous end-use industries is expected to drive the sales growth in the die-cut lids market
ALBANY, N.Y., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Analysts of a research report by Transparency Market Research (TMR) estimate the global die-cut lids market to attract growth at a CAGR of 6.2% during the forecast period, 2022-2025. Moreover, the global market for die-cut lids is expected to be valued at US$ 852.2 Mn by 2025.
Die-cut lids are gaining immense popularity across varied end-use industries owing to their many features including attractive printing abilities. In order to carry out printing process on die-cut lids, flow and gravure techniques are used as they deliver advanced aesthetics and high level of finishing to lids. Companies from different industry verticals are utilizing the space present on die-cut lids in order to print barcodes, QR codes, and promotion codes. Hence, these lids are being increasingly seen as an opportunity for brand promotion of end-products. Therefore, rising use of technologically advanced tools in the packaging industry is generating profitable opportunities in the die-cut lids market, specifically for die-cut lids manufacturers and suppliers in the USA.
Enterprises operating in the global die-cut lids market are expanding their businesses in newer regions. For this motive, die-cut lids producers are using different strategies such as mergers, collaborations, and acquisitions. Furthermore, several players are focusing on gaining advantage of expanding food retail industry and rising adoption of ready-to-eat food in several developing nations from Asia pacific region including India and China, states a study by TMR.
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- Increasing popularity of die-cut lidding for flexible packaging is resulting into profitable prospects in the global die-cut lids market. Die-cut lids manufacturers are focusing on improving the quality of their products. For instance, several players are focusing on the production of die-cut lids that are thinner and with improved capability to provide protection to products. Moreover, they are creating die-cut lids that are cost-effective. Such efforts are estimated to favor the growth of the die-cut lids market during the forecast period.
- Due to extremely perishable nature of dairy products, they are required to be consumed immediately. At the same time, the manufacturers of these products need to follow strict food safety measures. Several features of die cut lids such as their ability to offer 100% barrier against light, moisture, & oxygen transmission, these lids are in high demand in the dairy industry. Moreover, these products are gaining popularity among diary product manufacturers due to their ability to maintain freshness and aroma of a product. Hence, die-cut lids are increasingly utilized in the dairy industry. Thus, companies operating in the die-cut lids market are estimated to gather lucrative prospects from the dairy industry during the forecast period.
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Die-cut Lids Market Segmentation
By Material
- Paper
- Aluminum
- Plastic
- Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)
- Polyethylene (PE)
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Others
By Application
- Cups
- Trays
- Bottles
- Jars
- Others
- By Form
- Reel
- Pre-Cut
By Sealing Type
- Heal Seal
- Sealant Seal
By Print Type
- Printed
- Un-Printed
By End Use
- Food Products
- Dairy & Dairy Products
- Milk
- Ice-Cream
- Custard
- Yoghurt
- Cheese & Sour Cream
- Margarine & Butter
- Sauces, Dips & Dressings
- Meat, Poultry & Sea-Food
- Ready-to-eat Meals
- Coffee
- Others
- Beverages
- Juices
- Flavored Drinks
- Water
- Others
- Health Care
- Other (Chemicals)
Regions
- North America
- Latin America
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- Middle East & Africa
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Tuesday should have been a day of triumph for 10-year-old Maite Rodriguez. Instead, it was the day she died.
Maite was among 19 grade school students who, along with two teachers, were shot to death at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde. The 18-year-old gunman also died.
Maite liked and excelled at physical education — after her death, her teacher texted her mother to say she was very competitive at kickball and ran faster than all the boys.
She had always been a straight-A student until the COVID-19 pandemic forced the school to cancel in-person classes. Zoom didn’t work well for Maite — she got all Fs. But with school back in session, Maite rebounded — all As and Bs. She was among the honor roll students recognized at an assembly Tuesday morning.
“She worked hard, I only encouraged her,” her mother, Ana Rodríguez, said in an interview Thursday at her dining room table, which displayed a bouquet of red roses, the honor roll certificate and photos of Maite.
Hours later, Maite was gone. Her mother described her as “focused, competitive, smart, bright, beautiful, happy.”
As a kindergartner, Maite said she wanted to be a marine biologist and held firmly to that goal. She researched a program at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi and told her mother she was set on studying there.
“She was just so driven. She was definitely special. She was going to be something, she was going to be something very, very special,” Rodríguez said.
Jacklyn Cazares, who would have turned 10 on June 10, was a tough-minded “firecracker” who wanted to help people in need, her father said. Jacklyn and her second cousin, Annabelle Rodriguez, were especially tight with three other classmates at Robb Elementary School.
“They are all gone now,” Javier Cazares said. “All her little best friends were killed too.”
Despite her young age, Jacklyn was tough-minded and compassionate.
“She had a voice,” her father said. “She didn’t like bullies, she didn’t like kids being picked on. All in all, full of love. She had a big heart.”
“She was a character, a little firecracker.”
Cazares drove his daughter to school Tuesday for the awards ceremony. About 90 minutes later, the family got a call about an active shooter.
“I drove like a bat out of hell,” he said. “My baby was in trouble.”
“There was more than 100 people out there waiting. It was chaotic,” he said of the scene at the school. He grew impatient with the police response and even raised the idea of rushing inside with other bystanders.
Cazares said his niece followed an ambulance to the hospital and saw Jacklyn being taken inside. The entire family soon arrived and pressed hospital officials for information for nearly three hours. They begged, cried and showed photos of Jacklyn. Finally, a pastor, police officer and a doctor came to them.
“My wife asked the question, ‘Is she alive or is she passed?’” Cazares said. “They were like, ‘No, she’s gone.’”
Ryan Ramirez also rushed to Robb Elementary when he heard about the shooting, hoping to find his daughter, Alithia, and take her home, KTRK-TV reported. But Alithia, too, was among the victims.
Ramirez’s Facebook page includes a photo, now shown around the world, of the little girl wearing the multi-colored T-shirt that announced she was out of “single digits” after turning 10 years old. The same photo was posted again Wednesday with no words, but with Alithia wearing angel wings.
The grief only grew Thursday with confirmation that the brokenhearted husband of one of the slain teachers, 48-year-old Irma Garcia, had died.
Joe Garcia, 50, had dropped off flowers at his wife’s memorial on Thursday morning, The New York Times reported. He “pretty much just fell over” after returning home and died of a heart attack, his nephew John Martinez told the newspaper.
The Archdiocese of San Antonio and the Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary confirmed Joe Garcia’s death to The Associated Press. AP was unable to independently reach members of the Garcia family on Thursday.
Married for 24 years, the couple shared four children. In a post on the school’s website at the start of the school year introducing herself to her class, Irma Garcia wrote of her love of barbecue, listening to music and taking “country cruises” to the nearby town of Concan.
The school year, scheduled to end Thursday, was Irma’s 23rd year of teaching — all of it at Robb Elementary School. She had been previously named the school’s teacher of the year and was a 2019 recipient of the Trinity Prize for Excellence in Education from Trinity University.
For five years, Irma had co-taught with Eva Mireles, who also was killed.
Mireles also posted on the site as the school year began, noting she had been teaching 17 years. She cited her “supportive, fun, and loving family.”
“Welcome to the 4th grade! We have a wonderful year ahead of us!” she wrote.
Two of the victims had hoped to skip school that day.
Carmelo Quiroz’s grandson, Jayce Luevanos, 10, had begged to go along with his grandmother on Tuesday as she accompanied her great-granddaughter’s kindergarten class to the San Antonio Zoo. But, he said, the family told Jayce it didn’t make sense to skip school so close to the end of the year. Besides, Jayce liked school.
“That’s why my wife is hurting so much, because he wanted to go to San Antonio,” Quiroz told USA Today. “He was so sad he couldn’t go. Maybe if he would have gone, he’d be here.”
Jayce’s cousin, 10-year-old Jailah Nicole Silguero, also wanted to miss school that day. Jailah’s mother, Veronica Luevanos, tearfully told Univision that Jailah seemed to sense something bad was going to happen.
Jailah’s friend, Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, also was killed and her aunt noted Neveah’s first name is heaven spelled backward. In a Facebook posting, Yvonne White described Nevaeh and Jailah as “Our Angels.”
Two men who responded to the shooting discovered their own children among the victims.
Uvalde County Sheriff’s Deputy Felix Rubio and his wife had been at the school Tuesday morning to celebrate with their daughter, 10-year-old Alexandria “Lexi” Rubio, since the fourth-grader had made honor roll with all A’s and received a good citizen award.
In a Facebook post, Kimberly Rubio wrote: “We told her we loved her and would pick her up after school. We had no idea this was goodbye.”
Medical assistant Angel Garza also hurried to the school and immediately found a girl covered in blood among the terrified children streaming out of the building.
“I’m not hurt. He shot my best friend,” the girl told Garza when he offered help. “She’s not breathing. She was just trying to call the cops.”
Her friend was Amerie Jo Garza — Angel Garza’s stepdaughter.
Amerie was a happy child who made the honor roll and loved to paint, draw and work in clay. “She was very creative,” said her grandmother Dora Mendoza. “She was my baby. Whenever she saw flowers she would draw them.”
GoFundMe pages were set up for many of the victims, including one on behalf of all victims that has raised more than $3.7 million.
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This story has been corrected to show Lexi’s last name is Rubio, not Aniyah.
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Groves reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press writer Stefanie Dazio contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
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NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SpendEdge has the fastest growth rate in number of reports and client base, with over 200 Forbes 2000 companies relying on our actionable insights.
The Global Financial Advisory and Consulting Services has been added to SpendEdge's offering. The Financial Advisory and Consulting Services market is expected to grow by USD 20.88 Billion, at a CAGR of over 5.02% by 2026.
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Leading global suppliers can assist buyers in realizing high-cost savings through their efforts on areas such as forward integration, reducing total ownership cost, manage ad hoc spend, negotiate on pricing and contractual terms, conference participation, managing labor price volatility, level of automation, quality management, and reduction in ad-hoc spend. Collaborations with global suppliers will also help buyers in cost-saving and ensure high-quality procurement in the dynamic market.
Financial Advisory and Consulting Services Market in India: Key Price Trends
- The pressure from substitutes and a high level of threat from new entrants has resulted in the moderate bargaining power of suppliers. This makes it extremely important to get the pricing and pricing model right. Buyers should align their preferred pricing models for Financial Advisory and Consulting Services with the wider industry and identify the cost-saving potential.
- Per-user licensing pricing, subscription-based pricing, and single-license plus service fee pricing are the most widely adopted pricing models in Financial Advisory and Consulting Services. Each pricing model offers optimum benefits and fitment in specific situations. Buyers should identify the model that suits their operations in the best manner and link supplier performance to the pricing models.
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- Top Financial Advisory and Consulting Services suppliers and their cost structures
- Top Financial Advisory and Consulting Services suppliers in the US and their cost structures
- Financial Advisory and Consulting Services market spend analysis in the US
- Financial Advisory and Consulting Services price trends, and forecasts
- Cost drivers influencing the Financial Advisory and Consulting Services prices
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Table of Content
- Executive Summary
- Market Insights
- Category Pricing Insights
- Cost-saving Opportunities
- Best Practices
- Category Ecosystem
- Category Management Strategy
- Category Management Enablers
- Suppliers Selection
- Suppliers under Coverage
- US Market Insights
- Category scope
- Appendix
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HONOLULU (AP) — Navy Seaman 2nd Class George David Payne was just 17 years old when a Japanese submarine torpedoed his ship in the last weeks of World War II, sinking the vessel and killing him along with more than 800 other U.S. sailors.
For decades, his family thought he was missing in action. But now the Navy says newly analyzed documents show he was actually buried at sea.
The teenager from the town of Wyoming, Michigan, is one of 13 sailors from the USS Indianapolis recently discovered to have been given Navy committal ceremonies 77 years ago. In response, the Navy changed their status from “unaccounted for” to “buried at sea.”
“It’s reassuring that he was found and hopefully he didn’t suffer much,” his brother, David Payne, said in an interview from Sparta, Michigan.
Payne said it was a “shock” to hear the news. He first thought it was a prank because his family always believed George’s body was never found.
Two Japanese torpedoes hit the USS Indianapolis on July 30, 1945, when the heavy cruiser was on its way to the Philippines from Guam. The ship sank in just 12 to 15 minutes. The Navy estimates about 300 sailors were trapped inside and went down with the vessel.
The remaining 800 sailors abandoned ship, but rescue vessels didn’t arrive for four days. Hundreds of sailors died in the interim from injuries, dehydration and shark attacks. Only 316 survived. It’s known as one of the biggest tragedies in U.S. naval history.
“Survivors said it was terrible to be in the water and the sharks were just taking these young guys and older guys one at a time and eating them, and hauling them under and taking them away,” said Payne. “And so that’s what we always envisioned. You know, we hoped that maybe if he was on the ship maybe he was killed outright — instead of suffering.”
Payne, who was born a year after the war ended, never met George, who was the third of 12 children. Payne said his older brother was known as a “quiet, well-behaved kid.”
Rick Stone, retired chief naval historian a the Naval History and Heritage Command, said researchers found the names of the 13 sailors in deck logs, commanders’ reports and war diaries kept by the seven ships that recovered bodies.
These ships gave sea burials to 91 identified men, but for unknown reasons the names of only 40 of them were reported by the military. Another 51 names were not. The 13 newly identified come from this latter group. Stone said researchers have open cases on the remaining 38 and have “good clues” for the identities of five.
Stone suspects the names fell through bureaucratic cracks and were never followed up on.
It didn’t help that the Navy announced the loss of the ship on the same day the war ended.
“The sinking of the Indy, which would have been front page news a week earlier, was kind of relegated to one of the midsections of the newspaper,” he said.
Researchers with Stone’s private foundation began looking for the records in January 2021. Stone said he started a file on the Indianapolis while working at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Agency and seeing hints that some sailors listed as missing had actually been found.
“Giving their loved ones and their families some kind of closure — I mean frankly and in all sincerity — it’s the greatest gift I can imagine,” Stone said.
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DUBLIN, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "EV Charging Infrastructure Market Forecast to 2028 - COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Platform, Hardware, Charger Type, and IEC Mode" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The EV charging infrastructure market was valued at US$ 8,805.35 million in 2021 and is projected to reach US$ 23,395.77 million by 2028; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15% from 2021 to 2028.
The electric vehicle business is quickly expanding across the world, particularly in China and the US. The electric vehicle charging market is a fast-paced industry with a diverse set of applications. The growth of automobile charging stations is aided by government programs in a number of nations. The construction of fast-charging stations has been approved by China's central government through national regulations. Similarly, the government in the US plays an important role by establishing obligatory regulations and funding for the development of electric vehicle charging stations. However, in a few countries/regions, there are very few commercial charging stations, forcing consumers to rely on charging options available at their offices and residences.
Large-scale construction of EV charging infrastructure in China, growing demand for affordable EVs for everyday usage, and governments pushing EVs are projected to drive the Asia Pacific market. China's fast-growing economy will stimulate the spread of sophisticated technologies to boost electrification during the projection period.
Until 2020, China committed roughly US$ 2.4 billion to develop its charging infrastructure. In the years to come, Japan and South Korea have announced plans to significantly increase the number of electric vehicle charging stations in their respective countries.
Over the forecast period, North America is expected to lead the market in terms of growth. The market in North America is predicted to grow owing to increased government regulations for car emissions, a rapid acceptance rate of new technologies, and a significant investment in product innovation.
The onset of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 led to a slowdown in the automotive and its infrastructure activities worldwide. All the regions reported in the analysis suffered a significant downturn in workloads during the first half of 2020. However, the pandemic accelerated the need for emission-free mobility, especially in the developed regions. According to estimations by IEA, the global electric car sales rose to more than 3 million, reaching a market share of over 4%. Notably, electric vehicle sales rose by a significant 160% in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020, representing 26% of total new sales in the global automotive market.
As the sales of EV worldwide sore to exceptional heights, major global EV charging infrastructure players have been implementing smart charging solutions in various countries to create a supporting ecosystem complementing the development of future-ready connected, hassle-free, and safer mobility. For instance, during the pandemic period of 2020-2021, EV charging infrastructure companies, such as EVBox and Tritium, entered into partnerships, acquired several significant players, and have strongly focused on the research and development of smart EV charging infrastructure solutions.
Furthermore, the systems supporting EV charging infrastructure reduces the operational costs and environmental impact for agencies and government departments compared to present ICE vehicle scenario, thereby amplifying the growth prospects of major global players. For instance, the US government released an EV Charging Action Plan to lay down steps for the federal agencies to support the development and deployments of chargers in American communities across the country. Therefore, there has been no major impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the EV charging infrastructure market, and it is witnessing steady progressive growth in major parts of the world.
Market Dynamics
Market Drivers
- Surge in Global Production and Sales of Electric Vehicles
- Support from Government Policies
Market Restraints
- Lack of Uniformity in Charging Standards
Market Opportunities
- Demand for EV Charging in Commercial Buildings
Future Trends
- Smart Charging and Connected Infrastructure
- Impact Analysis of Drivers and Restraints
Reasons to Read this Report
- Save and reduce time carrying out entry-level research by identifying the growth, size, leading players and segments in the global EV charging infrastructure market
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- Develop/modify business expansion plans by using substantial growth offering developed and emerging markets
- Scrutinize in-depth global market trends and outlook coupled with the factors driving the market, as well as those hindering it
- Enhance the decision-making process by understanding the strategies that underpin commercial interest with respect to client products, segmentation, pricing and distribution
Companies Profiles
- Tritium
- Blink Charging Co.
- ChargePoint, Inc.
- BP plc
- EVBox
- EVgo Inc.
- Tesla, Inc.
- Webasto Group
- RWE AG
- Delta Electronics, Inc.
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The new Affordable Dentures & Implants practice in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, located at 2298 Wilkes-Barre Township Boulevard, is now open. The practice joins the nation's largest provider network of dental practices – supported by Affordable Care – that focus exclusively on tooth replacement services.
From extractions and partial dentures to full dentures and dental implants, including implant-secured dentures, Affordable Dentures & Implants in Wilkes-Barre offers high-quality, affordable tooth replacement care to create a new smile that not only looks great, but has the potential to transform a patient's life, allowing them to eat, speak and smile with confidence again. The practice features an on-site dental lab, along with the latest state-of-the-art technology, including a CBCT scanner for a more accurate image of a patient's mouth. In addition, Affordable Dentures & Implants practices provide a variety of sedation options.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A former employee with the Danish police has been charged with hacking and attempted hacking of 140 employees’ mobile phones, and accessing more than 100 cases of investigative material, investigators said Friday.
The material included images of child pornography and photos belonging to a large number of private citizens, police on the central Denmark island of Funen said in a statement. It was unclear how he accessed the material and whether the man was a police officer or a civilian employee.
The man faces charges of sexual harassment, hacking, abusing his position and possessing child pornography. If found guilty, he faces fines or up to six years in jail.
His victims include former colleagues, friends and acquaintances and random individuals from whom he bought used hard drives “from which he recovered and acquired private and humiliating content,” police said.
On top of that, police said that about 140 employees had their mobile phones hacked at least once. Some cell phones were hacked up to 30 times. He also took pictures of a female colleague through a keyhole to a changing room at the police station.
The man, who was not named in line with Danish policy, allegedly committed the offenses from both his workplace and his home, over a long period of time before he was arrested on March 29, police said in a statement.
No date for a trial was announced.
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