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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who returned to his homeland after 14 years in a U.S. prison as part of a swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, said the West is bent on destroying Russia.
Bout, dubbed the “Merchant of Death” who provided arms for some of the world’s worst conflicts, was seen in Russia as unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation.
The Russian state media hailed his release, carrying the footage of him talking to his family from a private jet following a swap at Abu Dhabi's airport and then embracing his wife and his mother on a snowy tarmac in Moscow.
Speaking in an interview for RT channel with Maria Butina, who also served 18 months in a U.S. prison after being convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States, Bout said he was still struggling to control his emotions after his imprisonment.
He charged that the West's long-held objective was to destroy Russia.
“The West believes that it has failed to finish us off when the Soviet Union began to collapse,” Bout said. “And our efforts to live independently, be an independent power is a shock to them.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the swap was agreed between Russian and U.S. intelligence agencies, and that contacts were held exclusively to hammer out its specifics.
“It has no impact on the overall state of bilateral ties that looks sad," Peskov said in televised remarks.
Despite negotiating the swap for Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and the most high-profile American jailed abroad, the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan. Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive, has been imprisoned in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government have said are baseless.
U.S. officials said they did not see an immediate path to bringing about Whelan’s release, saying Russia has treated his case differently because of the “sham espionage” charges against him. Still, they said they believe communication channels with the Russians remain open for negotiations about his freedom.
Peskov said that “special services may continue their work if necessary,” and also noted the role of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in helping broker the swap.
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Bills introduced in Lok Sabha to revise ST lists in four states
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Four separate bills were introduced in Lok Sabha on Friday to revise the lists of Scheduled Tribes in as many states.
Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda introduced the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bills for Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh.
The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill seeks to to modify the list of Scheduled Tribes in Tamil Nadu.
Similarly, the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Third Amendment) Bill aims to provide for inclusion of certain communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Himachal Pradesh.
Another bill seeks to modify the list of Scheduled Tribes in Karnataka.
The fourth bill aims to include certain communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Chhattisgarh.
From time to time, the government brings such bills to give effect to modifications proposed by various states in relation to the ST list.
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For 16 years, a Mission farm has been a safe haven for unadoptables. The Senior Animals in Need Today Society (SAINTS) provides a home for animals either too old, too big, or too demanding to adopt.
“We’re an end of life animal sanctuary,” SAINTS operations manager Kate Lennan said. “The primary animals we take in are special needs, senior, or palliative care animals. This is really their last home and that is why we put so much effort into ensuring that they have not just their medical needs met, but their emotional and mental needs met.”
SAINTS partners with other shelters and organizations like the SPCA to take in animals deemed unadoptable in order to prevent euthanasia and live out the rest of their lives. The animals are usually unfit for adoption because of their age, medical background, housing requirements or behavioural needs.
Under the care of SAINTS, the animals receive appropriate medical attention and live in a safe and open environment. The staff is always assessing quality of life for the animals and each animal is provided with a comfortable space. However, the difficult side of animal care sometimes comes to the fore, especially because the staff becomes attached to the animals.
“It’s no different than losing a pet of your own — these animals become part of our families. So when we have to make that end of life decision for them, of course, it’s emotional. But the the reward that you get from having them in your lives for however long that is — whether that be a couple of weeks, month a year — it just balances it out.”
The organization has 13 staff on site providing 24 hour services with roughly 30 volunteers as well. Some volunteers have been working with SAINTS for upwards of 15 years.
“Without the volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to exist because our staff is quite small for the amount of animals that we have to care for. And all of them are have very high needs. It’s around the clock.”
In their first 15 years of operation, SAINTS provided $1.2 million in veterinarian care and has helped upwards of 950 animals. Per year, they receive 9360 volunteer hours and 1,444 paid staff hours. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, they had 388 monthly donors.
As a nonprofit organization, SAINTS relies exclusively on donations in order to function. Medication for the animals is a significant cost, Lennan says. Approximately 90 per cent of the on-site animals require medication one to four times daily, which increases the need for overnight staff.
“Every organization has highs and lows throughout the year. We’re going into the Christmas season, which thankfully is a bit higher. But like every organization, the more support and the more donations you receive, the more you can do, the more animals we could save and take in.”
Some animals find foster homes to adopt them after joining SAINTS, but more can’t be fostered because their needs can’t be managed in foster care. Other shelters and organizations don’t have the space, funding or resources to maintain the animals either.
SAINTS was founded in 2004 by Carol Hine, an animal shelter volunteer discouraged by the number of animals who missed out on adoption because of their age. They started with 16 cats, 12 dogs and two rabbits. In 2006, the organization found their home in Mission. It was three acres of land that included a pond and four areas with space for the animals to roam. Hine retired last year and Lennan has since taken over administration of the nonprofit.
“It started as one woman’s dream to take in senior animals because they weren’t being adopted from the shelter system. Now it just snowballed into this huge organization. One of our goals here is to ensure that it’s a home environment, because this is unlike any other shelter — it’s a sanctuary. These guys are living their rest of their lives here. So we try to make this comfortable as possible.”
SAINTS currently has 127 animals in their care with 86 on-site and the rest in foster homes. Their roster of animals includes 27 cats, 13 rabbits, 10 dogs, 10 birds, nine pigs, five sheep, five horses, three goats, two donkeys, one llama and one turtle.
“All of the animals come from different backgrounds,” Lennan said. “We’re huge on bonding animals. Unless they want and need to live independently, we bond them up.”
The organization is located on Dlugosh Avenue and offers tours of the property.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s first female president is pushing to cement her hold on power, saying she expects to complete the term of her ousted predecessor and buck the trend of presidential failures blighting the Andean nation.
Yet, even as Dina Doluarte made the call Thursday, some politicians already were calling for early elections in an indication of continued political rancor.
Boluarte, who was elevated from vice president to replace leftist Pedro Castillo as the country’s leader Wednesday after he angered many by trying to dissolve the legislature before an impeachment vote, said she should be allowed to hold the office for the remaining 3 1/2 years of his term.
“The constitution is the magna carta that all Peruvians must obey,” and it calls for the presidential term to run until July 28, 2026, she said at her first news conference, held a day after Castillo was voted out of office and arrested on charges of rebellion just 17 months into his term.
After being sworn in as president Wednesday, Boluarte called for a truce with legislators who dismissed Castillo for “permanent moral incapacity,” a clause of the constitution that experts say is so vague it allows the removal of a president for almost any reason. It was also used to oust President Martín Vizcarra, who governed in 2018-2020.
“I know that there are voices that are calling for early elections. That is democracy,” Boluarte said. But she added that there is a need for stability in Peru, a strongly polarized country that has had six presidents in the last six years.
“In coordination with all organizations, we will be looking at alternatives to reorient the country’s course,” she said.
Seeking to avoid being added to the list of canned presidents, Boluarte quickly began to show herself in public working as Peru’s new head of state. She met with groups of conservative and liberal lawmakers at the presidential palace. Before that, she danced an Andean dance after watching a Roman Catholic procession of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.
Analysts, however, predicted a tough road for the new president, a 60-year-old lawyer and political neophyte.
Jorge Aragón, a political science professor at Peru’s Pontifical Catholic University, said a Boluarte government “is going to be very complicated, if not impossible.”
Noting that Boluarte has no legislative base of support, Aragón said she faces the hard task of trying to forge ties with numerous blocs in a fracious Congress.
A poll by the Institute of Peruvian Studies in November suggested most Peruvians might want a ballot before 2026, with 86% of those surveyed saying they preferred early presidential and congressional elections if Castillo should be removed.
But Patricia Zárate, head of the institute’s opinion studies area, said Thursday that Boluarte might be able to hold on if members of Congress don’t want to risk early elections
“If she can work with all the legislative blocs that are negotiating certain ministries or certain policies, she could last a little longer than President Castillo,” Zárate, said. “Since Congress wants to survive, maybe it can at least negotiate some issues to let them survive.”
Still, Zárate said, “reaching 2026 looks very distant.”
Luis Mendieta, who was Castillo’s chief of staff, said he hoped Boluarte can build alliances in Congress that “will allow her to approve more than 64 important bills that the Castillo government is leaving.”
“She must also look for a Cabinet that guarantees governability — difficult but it can be achieved,” Mendieta said.
Former President Ollanta Humala, who governed in 2011-2016, was skeptical, nothing the new leader was not involved in politics or government before becoming vice president and has no base in Congress.
“She does not have the tools to govern,” Humala told N. television. He predicted that any truce with Congress “will last a month or perhaps more, but then the great problems of the country come upon her.”
The governor of Cusco, Jean Paul Benavente, demanded the new president call an early vote, saying that would offer a “solution to the political crisis of the country.”
In the streets, small demonstrations by Castillo supporters continued in the capital and others parts of Peru, including Tacabamba, the district capital closest to the rural home of Castillo. Protesters there demanded he be released, rejected Boluarte as president and called for Congress to be closed.
In Lima, several hundred protesters trying to reach the Congress building clashed with police, who used canes and tear gas to push them back.
“The only thing left is the people. We have no authorities, we have nothing,” said Juana Ponce, one of the protesters. “It is a national shame. All these corrupt congressmen have sold out. They have betrayed our president, Pedro Castillo.”
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Associated Press journalists Gisela Salomon in Miami and Mauricio Muñoz and César Barreto from Lima contributed to this report.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Russian opposition figure was on Friday sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison after being convicted on charges stemming from his criticism of the Kremlin’s action in Ukraine.
The sentence handed to Ilya Yashin, one of the few Kremlin critics to have stayed in Russia, offered the latest indication of an intensified crackdown on dissent by Russian authorities.
“With that hysterical sentence, the authorities want to scare us all but it effectively shows their weakness,” Yashin said in a statement through his lawyers after the judge passed the sentence. “Only the weak want to shut everyone's mouth and eradicate any dissent.”
Yashin was charged with spreading false information about the military — a new offense added to the country’s criminal law after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine.
Speaking Monday just before sentencing, Yashin addressed Putin directly, urging him to “immediately stop this madness, recognize that the policy on Ukraine was wrong, pull back troops from its territory and switch to a diplomatic settlement of the conflict.”
The charges against Yashin related to a YouTube livestream video in which he talked about Ukrainians being killed in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. He rejects the charges as politically motivated.
During the trial at Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court, Yashin argued that his case has been fabricated and “has all the markings of illegal political persecution.” He noted that in the video he cited Russian official sources along with Ukrainian statements to give his audience an objective view.
In his final remarks, Yashin emphasized that he considers it his duty to tell the truth, saying: “I will not renounce the truth behind bars."
“When the hostilities began, I didn't hesitate for a second," Yashin said. "I felt I should remain in Russia, loudly tell the truth and try to do all what I could to end the bloodshed. It's better to sit behind bars for a decade and remain an honest person than silently feel shame for the blood spilled by your government.”
Human Rights Watch denounced Yashin's sentencing as part of “continued efforts to dismantle and decapitate Russia’s peaceful political opposition” and demanded his immediate release.
“The verdict against Yashin is a travesty of justice and an act of cowardice, directed by a Kremlin that feels threatened by vocal and visible critics like him,” said Rachel Denber, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
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Be sympathetic to needs of deprived sections: Prez to IAS trainees
President Droupadi Murmu on Friday asked IAS trainees at Mussoorie to be sympathetic to the deprived sections when they play a role in policy-making as civil servants and asserted that real development is achieved only when all stakeholders are taken along.Addressing the trainee officers at the concluding ceremony of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy Of Administrations 97th foundation course, she said the trainee officers of the academy are in a position to translate India of their dreams into a reality.
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President Droupadi Murmu on Friday asked IAS trainees at Mussoorie to be sympathetic to the deprived sections when they play a role in policy-making as civil servants and asserted that real development is achieved only when all stakeholders are taken along.
Addressing the trainee officers at the concluding ceremony of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy Of Administration's 97th foundation course, she said the trainee officers of the academy are in a position to translate India of their dreams into a reality. Civil service is the path to serving the nation. It is a principle-based career in which character plays a significant role the president said. ''You must always carry with you the academy's motto which says character is the highest virtue.'' ''You are going to play a vital role in the country's policy-making process over the next 25 years. If you are sensitive to the needs of the deprived sections you will achieve your goal. Real development comes about only when all stakeholders are taken along.
''Setting the country on the path of progress is both your Constitutional responsibility and moral duty,'' said the president, who is on her first visit to the hill state after assuming office.
Citing global warming and climate change as a problem with which the entire world is battling, Murmu said effective steps need to be taken immediately to deal with the challenge.
''So, I appeal to you to implement the government's environment conservation programmes with total dedication,'' she said.
She said the trainee officers have been asked to list what they want to do during their career as civil servants and put it in a time capsule which will be opened by them after 25 years. ''You should perform in such a manner that when you open your time capsule in 2047 you have the satisfaction of having achieved your targets,'' she added.
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In 2008, Alberta entrepreneur Don Friesen collapsed from a massive heart attack while on his morning walk near his summer home on Kalamalka Lake. He was kept alive at the scene by a passing anesthesiologist from Salmon Arm before being rushed to the ICU at Vernon Jubilee Hospital (VJH) to undergo life-saving treatment.
Friesen only had a one per cent chance of survival, but, thanks to the expert care he received at the hands of VJH and its doctors, he is now well.
“Several angels came to my rescue in many ways and I’m very grateful to them and to the people of B.C. The quality of service at VJH and of the medical staff here is second to none,” said Friesen.
He and his family spend a great deal of time in the North Okanagan and he had already been thinking about ways to help ensure others have access to life-saving care when he heard about the hospital’s urgent need for a second CT scanner.
CT scans are a critical early step in ensuring patients get faster access to diagnosis and treatment. In the past year, the average wait time at VJH — where one scanner serves all of the North Okanagan — has reached 68 days. With one of the busiest CT scanners in the province, the VJH Foundation recently launched a $6.3 million CT Scanner Expansion Campaign and they now have less than less than $300,000 left to raise.
That’s thanks in part to campaign champions such as Friesen, who hosted a fundraising event and helped spread the word among fellow Albertans with homes in and near Vernon.
“You may need these health services someday,” said Friesen. “If VJH has the best tools at hand, and the best people to deliver those services, there’s a better outcome for you and your loved ones.”
With nearly 2,000 people on a waitlist, dozens of Friesen’s peers have accepted the challenge, contributing to the CT scanner expansion that will shorten wait times.
“Getting involved with the CT scanner campaign is an opportunity for us to support both the Friesen family and to give back to the Vernon community,” said Larry Smith, who spends time in the Okanagan with his wife Betty. “We’ve spent many summers at our home in Vernon and it is comforting to know that state-of-the-art medical facilities are there should our family and friends ever need them.”
“These generous contributions have gone such a long way in helping to make this second CT scanner a reality so we can ensure everyone has access to more efficient care, less waiting and better outcomes,” said Kate McBrearty, executive director, VJH Foundation. “We’ve been so inspired by an amazing community of supporters that have brought us so close to reaching our goal.”
This season, all VJH Light a Bulb donations will go toward increasing access to life-saving scans in the North Okanagan. Learn more and donate at vjhfoundation.org/light-a-bulb.
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BERLIN (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official on Friday said Iran's first execution of a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests is “very troubling" and an attempt by Tehran to stifle further anti-government demonstrations.
The Iranian government's decision to carry out the death penalty was “clearly designed to send a chilling effect to the rest of the protesters,” Volker Türk told reporters at a news conference in Geneva.
“We will follow up with the authorities as well about this,” he said.
“I can only ... call on the authorities to immediately institute a moratorium on the death penalty, to release the ones who were arrested in connection with the protests and to work towards the abolition of the death penalty,” he added.
The execution of Mohsen Shekari was widely condemned abroad and comes as other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September.
Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday praised the protesters in Iran, and called on authorities in Tehran to end what he called their “inhumane” crackdown against their own population.
Steinmeier, who as Germany’s head of state holds a largely ceremonial role, cited reports that more than 500 people, including children, have been killed by government forces in recent months.
Speaking after a 90-minute meeting Friday with Iranians living in Germany, Steinmeier accused Iran's government of bringing “fear and terror” on its people and paid respect to the protesters in Iran.
“I admire your bravery,” he said. “We see your suffering. We see the crimes being done to you.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has also slammed Iran's first execution linked to the anti-government protests, saying the death penalty was being used “as an instrument of terror.”
Baerbock said late Thursday at a news conference in Dublin that the European Union would react with further “hard measures” against Iran.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday that the Iranian ambassador in Berlin was summoned for talks following the execution of Shekari.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday, nearly 10 months after the basketball star’s detention in Russia made her the most high-profile American jailed abroad and set off a political firestorm.
Griner’s status as an openly gay Black woman, her prominence in women’s basketball and her imprisonment in a country where authorities have been hostile to the LBGTQ community heightened concerns for her and brought tremendous attention to the case. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after her arrest complicated matters further.
The deal announced Thursday that saw Griner exchanged for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout achieved a top goal for President Joe Biden. But the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan, who has been jailed for nearly four years.
Biden’s authorization to release Bout, the Russian felon once nicknamed “the Merchant of Death,” underscored the heightened urgency that his administration faced to get Griner home, particularly after the recent resolution of her criminal case on drug charges and her subsequent transfer to a penal colony.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and Phoenix Mercury pro basketball star, was seen getting off a plane that landed Friday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.
“So happy to have Brittney back on U.S. soil. Welcome home BG!” tweeted Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs.
The WNBA star, who also played pro basketball in Russia, was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February after Russian authorities said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. The U.S. State Department declared Griner to be “wrongfully detained” — a charge that Russia has sharply rejected.
Griner pleaded guilty in July but still faced trial because admitting guilt in Russia’s judicial system does not automatically end a case. She was sentenced to nine years.
She acknowledged in court that she possessed canisters with cannabis oil but said she had no criminal intent and accidentally packed them. Her defense team presented written statements that she had been prescribed cannabis to treat pain.
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday’s swap, saying in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that the exchange took place in Abu Dhabi and Bout had been flown home.
Biden spoke by phone with Griner. U.S. officials said she would be offered specialized medical services and counseling.
In releasing Bout, the U.S. freed a former Soviet Army lieutenant colonel whom the Justice Department once described as one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers. He was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and extradited to the U.S. in 2010.
Bout was serving a 25-year sentence on charges that he conspired to sell tens of millions of dollars in weapons that U.S officials said were to be used against Americans.
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Too many visits to the tanning bed in your 20s will likely result in wrinkles, spots, and other skin issues by your 60s.
Dr. Ben Wiese from the Kelowna Skin Cancer Clinic says there is no safe number when it comes to frequency of visits to tanning beds and your best bet for healthier skin is to skip it completely.
“It’s that ultra-violet radiation from tanning beds that causes skin cancer,” Wiese says. “The tanning beds are designed to mimic sunlight, specifically the UVA and UVB rays. What is interesting is that UVA from tanning beds are typically 10 to 15 times greater than the sun and that usually would equal a UV index of 13.”
Wiese says that level is considered extreme, meaning every visit to a tanning bed is well above safe levels.
“What is even more alarming is especially when a tanning bed gets new bulbs. That equals to a UV index of 36, so way, way, way stronger compared to just a regular day.”
This is the time of year people are eager to get rid of their pasty complexion.
Wiese says the safest way to darken the skin is with tanning lotions.
“At least we’ve got good news there that we have very good evidence to show that our artificial tanning that we get from a bottle is safe. There’s no risk of it causing skin cancer. And lucky these days, the formulations, it has changed quite significantly. You’re not going to be the typical yellow or orange or all the stripes and all those kind of things… There are really good products available.”
Wiese also says sunscreen with a minimum sun protection factor (SPF) of 50 on a daily basis, even in the winter.
“The culprit is daylight, not sunshine.”
At the end of the day though, Wiese says the best way to protect your skin is with clothing.
Learn more about UV rays and other risk factors at kelownaskincancer.com.
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Cyclonic storm 'treasure box' brings rainfall in TN
Several parts of Tamil Nadu witnessed light to moderate rainfall and some places heavy showers as the cyclonic storm Mandous continued to move closer to the States coastline, and it is set to cross coast near here starting midnight, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday.
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Several parts of Tamil Nadu witnessed light to moderate rainfall and some places heavy showers as the cyclonic storm 'Mandous' continued to move closer to the State's coastline, and it is set to cross coast near here starting midnight, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday. Under the influence of the cyclonic storm, several areas here witnessed heavy rainfall (including Nungambakkam--7 CM) and it was light to moderate in other regions.
The IMD said Doppler weather radars are monitoring the cyclone which weakened into a cyclonic storm on December 9 after being a severe cyclonic storm for less than 24-hours and it now lay at about 260 km south-southeast of Chennai and 180 km east-northeast of Karaikal.
Mandous, pronounced 'man-dous' is an Arabic word and it means treasure box and the name was reportedly picked by the United Arab Emirates. The cyclonic storm is very likely to move nearly northwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puducherry and Sriharikota near Mamallapuram as a cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph, during midnight and early hours of Saturday. Starting from 6 PM today and till midnight the departure of at least five flights from here have been cancelled. Trains including suburban services were operated and there was some disruption in bus services in view of water logging in a string of areas. Schools and colleges were closed in several districts.
In neighbouring Puducherry, the territorial administration declared holiday for all schools and colleges in Puducherry and Karaikal regions on Friday and Saturday after the IMD issued a cyclone warning.
Puducherry Home and Education Minister A Namassivayam said in a release that the government took note of the warning issued by the IMD that a strong cyclone would hit Puducherry and Karaikal regions under the influence of the storm in the Bay of Bengal. All schools and colleges would remain closed for two days from Friday, he added.
The Department of Revenue and Disaster Management geared up all departments concerned with relief works and deployed rescue teams to respond to any exigency.
A storm warning signal flag Number Five has been hoisted at the Puducherry port and fisherfolk had been asked not to venture into the sea.
Chief Minister N Rangasamy held discussions with officials of Revenue and Disaster Management Department officials.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 7.4% in November from a year earlier, a fifth straight slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures across the economy are continuing to cool.
The latest year-over-year figure was down from 8% in October and from a recent peak of 11.7% in March. On a monthly basis, the government said Friday that its producer price index, which measures costs before they reach consumers, rose 0.3% from October to November for the third straight month.
Rising prices are still straining Americans' finances, particularly for food, rent and services such as haircuts, medical care and restaurant meals. Yet several emerging trends have combined to slow inflation from the four-decade peak it reached during the summer. Gas prices have tumbled after topping out at $5 a gallon in June. Nationally, they averaged $3.33 a gallon Thursday, according to AAA, just below their average a year ago.
And the supply chain snarls that caused chronic transportation delays and shortages of many goods, from patio furniture to curtains, are unraveling. U.S. ports have cleared the backlog of ships that earlier this year took weeks to unload. And the cost of shipping a cargo container from Asia has fallen sharply back to pre-pandemic levels.
As a result, the prices of long-lasting goods, from used cars and furniture to appliances and certain electronics, are easing.
Friday's producer price data captures inflation at an early stage of production and can often signal where consumer prices are headed. Next week, the government will report its highest-profile inflation figure, the consumer price index. The most recent CPI report, for October, showed a moderation in inflation, with prices up 7.7% from a year earlier. Though still high, that was lowest year-over-year figure since January.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, in a speech last week, pointed to the decline in goods prices as an encouraging sign. Powell suggested that housing costs, including rent, which have been a major driver of inflation, should also start to slow next year.
The Fed chair also signaled that the central bank will likely raise its benchmark interest rate by a smaller increment when it meets next week. Investors foresee a half-point Fed hike, after four straight three-quarter-point increases.
Yet Powell noted that services prices, which reflect the largest sector of the U.S. economy, are still increasing at a historically fast pace. Rapidly rising wages are a key driver of services inflation, he noted. That’s because as wages rise, many businesses pass on their higher labor costs to their customers through higher prices, which drives up inflation.
Pay is still rising quickly and could continue to fuel higher inflation through most of next year. In last week's jobs report for November, the government reported that average hourly pay jumped 5.1% from a year earlier, far above the pre-pandemic pace. Powell said wage gains closer to 3.5% would be needed to bring inflation down toward the Fed's 2% annual target.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — As the school bell rings, dozens of children begin filing into the canteen at Hillstone Primary School. The day’s offering, a roast dinner, is a popular one, and many are eager to tuck into their plates of turkey slices, roasted potatoes, broccoli and gravy.
For some children in this area of suburban Birmingham, central England, where many families are low income, it may be the only nutritious hot meal in a day.
Some students eating sandwiches from their lunchboxes instead say they get one hot lunch a week, but they would like more. “My mum says it costs a bit more,” one girl said last week.
Free school lunches are provided for all 4- to 7-year-olds in England, but most parents of older children have to pay about 2.20 pounds ($2.70) a day for their child to have a cooked meal. That may sound like a small amount, but charities and teachers say it’s becoming increasingly unaffordable for hundreds of thousands of families struggling to cope with the United Kingdom’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
Whether Britain’s government should spend to feed more schoolchildren is a hot-button issue as more families fall into poverty and cannot afford basics after paying their skyrocketing energy and food bills. The government said it will keep reviewing meal eligibility and pointed to other relief given to needy families.
Inflation in the U.K. has hit a 41-year high of 11.1%, driven in large part by gas and electricity costs, which have almost doubled from last winter amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. Prices for staples like milk, butter and pasta also have shot up by some 30%.
To qualify for free school lunches, England’s households have to receive government benefits and earn less than 7,400 pounds ($9,021) a year. That’s below the threshold in parts of the U.S., Europe and even elsewhere in the U.K.
The Food Foundation, a charity leading a campaign to extend the free school lunch program, argues the income level is too low. It estimates that 800,000 children in England are living in poverty but not eligible for free meals.
“It’s those children who we are really worried right now during the cost-of-living crisis, because those families are having to make really tough choices about where to spend their money,” said Anna Taylor, the charity’s executive director.
To save cash, many parents don’t pay for a school meal and pack their kids a lunch, which often isn’t as nutritious, Taylor said.
“We’ve been hearing from teachers that children are going to school with empty lunchboxes or with stuff that they’re very ashamed to show to their friends,” she added.
During the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Food Foundation and soccer star Marcus Rashford persuaded Britain’s government to provide free meals to children in poverty over the school holidays. Rashford, who spoke of his mother struggling to put food on the table, helped sway the government to change its policies that allowed 1.3 million children to claim free meals.
Taylor said many Britons are now even worse off because some never recovered from pandemic job losses before being hit with massively higher bills. Monthly surveys conducted by her charity suggested that the number of families saying they have had to skip or have smaller meals because they couldn’t afford food has doubled over the course of January to October.
“It’s unprecedented levels of food insecurity right now,” she said.
The Department of Education said the government understands the “pressures” many households face and that it is already giving cost-of-living subsidies to millions of the poorest families, supporting “more children and young people than ever before.” It added that officials will “keep all free school meal eligibility under review.”
At Hillstone Primary, 51% of children qualify for free lunches, and headteacher Jason King says many of the others also need financial help. Some parents even approached the school for food.
“When I started here 27 years ago, there were no food banks in the area. It wasn’t heard of,” King said. The school recently put together food parcels for a parent who said he had no money left for food. “They’ve got no food at home. They come to us — we’re not going to turn them away.”
Louise Glew, a parent who volunteers at the school, said she was getting by but knew plenty of others struggling. She said she didn’t understand why the government couldn’t find the money to extend free school meals to all elementary students.
“Parents are prideful, they don’t want to go, ‘I need help.’ But if the dinner was free for all (schoolchildren) they wouldn’t need to,” Glew said. “They would get a warm meal every day, and the parent wouldn’t have to panic, thinking, ‘Oh, have they had something warm? Have they eaten enough?’”
The government said over one-third of students in England receive free school meals, including all 4- to 7-year-olds and about 1.9 million older children who qualify based on family income.
England lags other parts of the U.K. The Welsh government, for example, says it will provide free school lunches for all elementary school students by 2024.
Some European countries, like Sweden and Finland, provide free lunches almost entirely through school life. Others, like France and Germany, have varied policies including subsidies that depend on parents’ income.
In the U.S., the states decide. A federal law made meals free for all schoolchildren during the pandemic, but those benefits expired before this school year. The experience has sparked local efforts to make universal free school lunch permanent, with California and Maine passing bills last year.
In the U.K., Taylor acknowledged that the government has little spare cash for public spending but argued that the cost — an estimated 477 million pounds a year — is a long-term investment needed now more than ever.
“This is not a sort of a ‘nice to have,'” she said. “Children will wear the effects of these decisions in their bodies and in their achievements in life.”
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BUTLER COUNTY — A Ross Twp. resident, who is an area businessman, and his wife are using what may be the Cincinnati Bengals’ second consecutive Super Bowl run this season to raise charity money through raffling off game tickets and a trip package.
Among the causes they hope to support with the Super Bowl raffle is Ross High School athletics.
Phil Amrein and his wife Shelley have lived in the Ross school community for more than three decades.
Amrein has been chosen as the Cincinnati Bengals “Fan of the Year” by the team’s ownership but then found himself with more Super Bowl tickets — and trip/hotel package — than the couple needed.
“We came up with this idea after the (Titans) game. We called the Bengals and they agreed to sell us two tickets,” said Amrein.
“We set the price at $20 so more could afford hoping that those that would by $100 ticket would buy more than one. We are just regular people and we want others to have same opportunity,” said Amrein.
The fund-raising goal is to garner $100,000 for various local causes by Jan. 15.
He told Journal-News’ media partner WCPO: “We’re the luckiest people in the world. So if we can help people, that’s what we want to do.”
Every year, the Amreins are diehard fans with faith that the Bengals will get to the Super Bowl. So much so that, for the past 20 out of 21 years, they’ve secured plane tickets and lodging in the Super Bowl city.
In fact, they’ve already got a condo in Phoenix reserved and plane tickets from CVG, reported WCPO-TV.
But here’s the problem — if you can call it that: The Bengals “Fan of the Year” gets airfare, lodging and two tickets to the Super Bowl when their title is announced. So Amrein doesn’t need the airfare and lodge he already secured.
That’s when he and his wife decided to raffle off the package and donate the proceeds to charity.
Amrein worked out all the detail with the Bengals, who agreed to allow him to buy two tickets to the Super Bowl and package combining that with his already-booked four-night stay in the condo and plane tickets.
Raffle tickets are $20 each. Amrein is hoping to sell 5,000 tickets in order to raise $100,000, which he plans to donate to several different local organizations in the Greater Cincinnati area: The Ken Anderson Alliance, Sam Hubbard Foundation, Elder High School, Ross High School, Evans Scholar Foundation, Anthony Munoz Foundation and ‘Be Concerned’ Food Pantry.
Amrein said Thursday “we have raised $18,000 in the first seven days. We would really like to impact the (benefitting) organizations in a big way.”
Raffle tickets can be purchased - with cash or check - from Amrein Diamond’s store at 9632 Colerain Ave. or via Venmo @Phil-SBTrip.
Journal-News media partner WCPO contributed to this story.
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KCR lays foundation stone for Rs 6,250 Cr Hyderabad Airport Metro Rail Project
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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday laid the foundation stone for 31 km-long Hyderabad Airport Metro Rail project construction.
The project, starting at Mindspace junction to Shamshabad (Hyderabad International Airport) Airport, would cost approximately Rs 6,250 crore, Rao said.
The project entails 27 km elevated route and 2.5 Km underground passage, he further said.
It is a 100 per cent State Government, GMR group, which manages Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here and HMDA (Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority) funded project , KCR said in a public meeting after laying the foundation stone.
''Mass Transport and Metro Rail are the only traffic and pollution-free systems in the world. There is a need to expand this in Hyderabad also. Whether the Central government cooperates or not, we will create better connectivity in the city,'' he said.
Complimenting the officials for putting efforts to make the Airport Metro a reality, Rao said Hyderabad which is known as a true cosmopolitan city in the country by espousing all religions, communities has now become a global city.
Hyderabad was not appropriately developed during earlier regimes in undivided Andhra Pradesh, he alleged.
KCR said Hyderabad city has been turned as a ''Power Island'' by connecting it with all power generating stations in the state and the national electricity grid, resulting in continuous power supply.
''That means there may be power outages in London, New York and Paris cities, there will not be any power interruption in Hyderabad,'' he asserted.
There are 500 important IT firms in the city, he said, adding permissions are given to construct skyscrapers also.
He stressed the need to increase greenery further in the city.
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Strictly Come Dancing's semi-final will take place this weekend, a day later than usual at 7.15pm on Sunday (December 11) on BBC One. The remaining five couples will face the most challenging week yet, as they perform two routines in a bid to wow both judges and viewers and make it to next week's final.
Judges Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood, and Anton Du Beke are set to score their dances as always, whilst viewers will vote to keep their favourite stars in the competition. Monday's results show will see one couple booted from the competition, leaving just four in the running for the Glitterball.
This year's Strictly final will air on Saturday, December 17. As the competition reaches its penultimate stage, BetVictor has priced up the odds on who's the most likely winner - and it looks like there is a belief Helen Skelton and Gorka Marquez could be lifting the Glitterball this year.
BetVictor has revealed that with odds of 10/11, CBBC star Molly Rainford is most likely to be eliminated next, followed by singer Fleur East at 11/10. Wildlife photographer Hamza Yassin is favourite to be kept in this week, sharing odds of 33/1 with Countryfile's Helen Skelton, with the two favourites followed by Will Mellor, who is at odds of 10/1.
As for the favourite to take home the Glitterball next weekend, Hamza beats Helen with odds of 8/13, trumping her at 13/10, whilst Will is third most likely to win, with odds of 12/1. Fleur is favourite to come fourth at 50/1, whilst Molly is least likely to take the metaphorical Strictly crown at 66/1.
BetVictor's spokesperson Sam Boswell said: "It's fair to say our pairs have their work cut out for them this week. They'll be navigating two brand new styles on the dance floor this weekend, pushing them further than ever before.
"The winner market is still lead by Hamza at 8/13, Hamza and Jowita are dancing to Charleston to Pencil Full Of Lead by Paolo Nutini and Waltz to What The World Needs Now by Burt Bacharach. It’s looking like a two-horse race now as Helen and Gorka are very close behind Hamza, at 13/10.
"She was amazing in her performance last week; she shared the top spot with Will Mellor with 39 points each. This week, Helen and Gorka are performing the Argentine Tango to Here Comes The Rain Again by Eurythmics and Waltz to Only One Road by Céline Dion.
"Will comes in as third favourite at 12/1. Will and Nancy are dancing to Couple's Choice to Know How / Fools Gold / Step On Young MC / The Stone Roses / Happy Mondays and Paso Doble to Uccen – DWTS Remix by Taalbi Brothers, DWTS.
"In the elimination market, Molly comes out on top at 10/11, she faced the dance-off last week but she was saved despite being joint-second in the leader board. Molly and Carlos are performing Paso Doble to Survivor by 2WEI ft Edda Hayes and American Smooth to Easy On Me by Adele."
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Japanese Embassy honours DMRC with commendation certificate
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The Japanese Embassy here has honoured the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation with a commendation certificate in recognition of its distinguished contribution to the enhancement of mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and India.
Vikas Kumar, Managing Director, Delhi Metro, received the Certificate of Commendation from the Ambassador of Japan to India Suzuki Hiroshi at a ceremony organised at the Japanese Embassy. This assumes importance as the year 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Japan has a long-standing association with the DMRC since the inception of the organisation through financial support and technical assistance for the construction of all phases of the Delhi Metro project so far.
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The trial of a North Devon woman accused of murdering her husband will not take place as planned in February due to delays. Christine Rawle allegedly stabbed Ian Rawle, 72, at their home in Knowle near Braunton.
The 69-year-old defendant was due to stand trial accused of murder on February 20. But the case is not yet ready to be heard. Exeter Crown Court was told unavoidable delays meant a new date would have to be found.
Rawle, a horse trainer, was due to appear via video for the short hearing on Friday [December 9] but the link was not working. She is yet to enter a plea to the charge but the court was told the case will go to trial.
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The defendant was represented at the hearing by Ms Clare Wade and the prosecution by Mr Sean Brunton KC.
Judge Robert Linford set a new timetable and relisted the case for a plea and trial preparation hearing on January 27. The proposed trial is due to last between three and four weeks.
Police and emergency services were called to the house at 2.35pm on Sunday, August 21 following reports of a stabbing. Mr Rawle died from a single wound and was pronounced dead at the scene at 3.16pm and his wife arrested.
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Researchers develop new way to detect malaria
A quick, painless method of diagnosing malaria created by a team led by the University of Queensland could yearly help save hundreds of thousands of lives.
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A team of researchers has created a quick, needle-free malaria diagnostic technology that has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. The findings of the research were published in PNAS Nexus.
Malaria is usually detected by a blood test, but scientists have devised a method using a device that shines a beam of harmless infrared light on a person's ear or finger for five-to-10 seconds, it collects an infrared signature that is processed by a computer algorithm. International team leader, Dr Maggy Lord from UQ's School of Biological Sciences, said the technology would revolutionise how malaria is fought globally.
"Currently it's incredibly challenging to test large groups of people, such as the population of a village or town - you have to take blood from everyone and mix it with a reagent to get a result," Dr Lord said. "But with this tool we can find out very quickly whether a whole village or town is suffering from, or carrying, malaria.
"The technique is chemical-free, needle-free and detects malaria through the skin using infrared-light - it's literally just a flash on a person's skin and it's done. "The device is smart-phone operated, so results are acquired in real-time."
The researchers believe the technology is the first step to eliminating malaria. "According to the World Health Organisation malaria report, in 2020 there were an estimated 241 million cases worldwide and more than 600,000 died from malaria," Dr Lord said.
"Most of the cases are in sub-Saharan Africa, where 90 per cent of deaths are children under five years old. "The biggest challenge in eliminating the disease is the presence of asymptomatic people in a population who act as a reservoir for transmission by mosquitos.
"The World Health Organisation has proposed large-scale surveillance in endemic areas and this non-invasive, affordable and rapid tool offers a way to achieve that." The technology could also help tackle other diseases.
"We've successfully used this technology on mosquitoes to non-invasively detect infections such as malaria, Zika and dengue," Dr Lord said. "In our post-COVID world, it could be used to better tackle diseases as people move around the globe.
"We hope the tool could be used at ports of entry to screen travellers, minimising the re-introduction of diseases and reducing global outbreaks. "It's still early days, but this proof-of-concept is exciting." (ANI)
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Sri Lanka shuts schools as extreme weather brings pollution
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Schools across Sri Lanka were closed on Friday as health and environment officials said the air quality in most parts of the island nation was unhealthy partly due to extreme weather conditions.
Polluted air from neighbouring India was aggravating the problem, authorities said, as a storm in the Bay of Bengal triggered heavy rains and winds across Sri Lanka in recent days.
A haze hung over the capital, Colombo, and other parts of the country, with the level of fine particles in the air reaching unhealthy levels.
"The current pollution has arisen due to the combination of local air pollutants and transboundary air pollution," said the National Building Research Organisation, a state agency involved in environmental monitoring and risk management.
"This condition can be seen in all parts of Sri Lanka and it has a tendency to cause health problems," it added.
Director General of Health Services Asela Gunawardena said the condition would continue for the next two weeks and he advised people to limit the amount of time they spend outdoors and to wear a face mask when they are outside to minimize their health risk.
At least two people were killed and another two were injured as heavy rains and winds lashed many parts of Sri Lanka the past two days. Dozens of houses were damaged by falling trees and several roads were blocked.
The Department of Meteorology said Friday that a severe cyclonic storm was in the Bay of Bengal, about 230 kilometres (143 miles) northeast of Sri Lanka, and likely to move toward India.
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The former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX said in a tweet Friday that he is willing to testify to Congress next week, but that he will be limited in what he can say and that he “won't be as helpful” as he'd like to be.
The tweet came in response to several tweets earlier this month from House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, who had requested that Sam Bankman-Fried attend next week's hearings over the collapse of FTX.
Waters, a California Democrat, said in a series of tweets to Bankman-Fried that based on multiple media interviews since FTX collapsed, it was “clear to us that the information you have thus far is sufficient for testimony.”
FTX failed last month in what was essentially a cryptocurrency version of a bank run, when customers tried to withdraw their assets all at once because of growing doubts about the financial strength of the company and its affiliated trading arm, Alameda Research. Since its collapse, FTX’s new management has called the cryptocurrency exchange’s management a “ complete failure of corporate controls.”
Bankman-Fried has admitted his own failures in preventing the collapse.
In a series of tweets to Waters, Bankman-Fried listed specific issues he would be able to discuss with the committee, including the solvency of FTX's U.S. business, its American customers and possible solutions for returning assets to international clients. He also said he could talk about what he thinks led to the crash and “my own failings."
Bankman-Fried has said that he takes responsibility for FTX’s collapse and that he failed to grasp the amount of risk Bermuda-based FTX and Alameda were taking on across both businesses. One of the accusations made against Bankman-Fried is that he arranged for Alameda to use customers’ assets in FTX to place bets in the market. Bankman-Fried has said in public interviews that he did not “knowingly” co-mingle customers’ assets with Alameda.
Exchanges like FTX are supposed to segregate customers’ deposits from any bets they place in the markets. Other financial companies have gotten into trouble for misusing customers deposits, one example being MF Global roughly 10 years ago.
In a TV interview just over a week ago, Bankman-Fried said he largely believed the U.S. affiliate of FTX was entirely solvent and could start processing withdrawals at once. As for the rest of FTX, which was significantly larger than the U.S. division, he said the fate of customers’ funds were largely out of his control.
Bankman-Fried, who was once one of the richest people in the world on paper, now says he is getting by on a single credit card and likely has less than $100,000 to his name after FTX’s failure.
Waters has said that FTX's collapse had “harmed over one million people," and tweeted on Tuesday that if Bankman-Fried was not willing to testify that a subpoena was “definitely on the table.”
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DETROIT (AP) — Workers at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery factory in Ohio have voted to join the United Auto Workers union.
About 900 workers at the new plant near Warren, Ohio, are the first to decide on union representation at a battery plant. The union says in a statement Friday that workers voted 710 to 16 for the UAW, a decision that is crucial to the future of the 372,000-member union.
As batteries replace gas-powered engines, employees at GM engine and transmission factories will need places to work as their products are gradually phased out over the next decade or so.
GM has pledged to sell only electric passenger vehicles by 2030, and the Ohio plant is the first to begin making battery cells that will go into packs that make electric vehicles go.
The company has announced the sites of two other North American battery factories in Lansing, Michigan, and Spring Hill, Tennessee, to be built in a joint venture with LG Energy Solution of South Korea. The location of a fourth plant, built by the Ultium Cells joint venture, is expected to be announced soon.
“The vote shows that they want to be part of maintaining the high standards and wages that UAW members have built in the auto industry,” union President Ray Curry said in the statement.
GM CEO Mary Barra told the Automotive Press Association in Detroit on Thursday that the company welcomes the union at its battery plant. GM, she said, has worked with the UAW on health and safety, quality and training issues. "There's a lot that we can do together," she said.
The union represents about 150,000 workers employed by the three Detroit automakers, and sees organizing the battery plants as key to its future.
Curry, who is in a runoff election to lead the UAW next year, said in a July interview that representation at the battery plants is critical, given that major automakers are staking their futures on widespread use of electric vehicles.
“It’s going to be key to lock down that type of new technology,” he said. "Everybody is dependent upon what happens out of that bargaining.”
In addition to GM, Ford has announced plans to build three U.S. battery factories, all in Kentucky and Tennessee, states where workers may not be as amenable to unions as the Great Lakes region. Stellantis, formerly, Fiat Chrysler, will build one battery plant in Canada and another in Kokomo, Indiana.
The union will want automakers to pay top assembly plant wages of around $32 per hour at the battery plants, the wage they now pay at engine and transmission factories. But automakers will want to pay less to keep costs competitive with companies that have battery plants in the South and West that are likely to be nonunion.
On Thursday, Barra said that just because the UAW represents a plant doesn't mean its costs have to be higher. GM, she said, knows how to run its operations efficiently and has strategies to do that. But she said GM still has to be competitive so it can reinvest in its business and keep workers' jobs secure.
“When you have that conversation on the plant floor, they get it,” Barra said. “We'll work through it. I don't subscribe that that means we're going to have higher costs necessarily.”
Barra said she would like to get a contract with the union at the Warren plant as quickly as possible. But the issue could be rolled into national contract talks with the automakers that are coming next year. The talks could become contentious with new union leaders who want to take a more confrontational stance.
The UAW sought the election, run by the National Labor Relations Board, after it said GM wouldn’t recognize cards that Warren employees signed to join the union.
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Cyclonic storm 'treasure box' brings rainfall in TN
Northern coastal Tamil Nadu witnessed light to moderate rainfall and some places heavy showers as the cyclonic storm Mandous continued to move further closer to the States coastline, and it is set to cross coast near here starting midnight, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday.Under the influence of the cyclonic storm, several areas here and in the outskirts witnessed heavy rainfall 7 CM and other coastal regions including Chengelpet and Nagapattinam recorded intermittent, light to moderate showers upto 3 CM.
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Northern coastal Tamil Nadu witnessed light to moderate rainfall and some places heavy showers as the cyclonic storm 'Mandous' continued to move further closer to the State's coastline, and it is set to cross coast near here starting midnight, the India Meteorological Department said on Friday.
Under the influence of the cyclonic storm, several areas here and in the outskirts witnessed heavy rainfall (7 CM) and other coastal regions including Chengelpet and Nagapattinam recorded intermittent, light to moderate showers (upto 3 CM). As many as 16,000 police personnel and 1,500 Home guards have been deployed here for security, relief and rescue tasks and a 40-member team of TN State Disaster Response Force, in addition to 12 District Disaster Response Force teams are on standby, police said here. Already, nearly 400 personnel of the NDRF and State Disaster Response Force teams have been stationed in coastal regions, including those near the Cauvery delta areas. The IMD said Doppler weather radars are monitoring the cyclone which weakened into a cyclonic storm on December 9 after being a severe cyclonic storm for less than 24-hours and it now lay at about 180 km southeast of Mamallapuram.
Also known as Mahabalipuram, Mamallapuram is about 50 km from here. Mandous, pronounced 'man-dous' is an Arabic word and it means treasure box and the name was reportedly picked by the United Arab Emirates.
The cyclonic storm is very likely to move nearly northwestwards and cross north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and adjoining south Andhra Pradesh coasts between Puducherry and Sriharikota near Mamallapuram as a cyclonic storm with a maximum sustained wind speed of 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph, during midnight and early hours of Saturday.
Till midnight the departure of at least 13 flights from here have been cancelled. Trains including suburban services were operated and there was some disruption in bus services in view of water logging in a string of areas.
Transport Minister SS Sivasankar said bus services would be suspended in and around Mamallapuram and the East Coast Road two hours before and after the cyclone's landfall. Buses ply as usual in coastal districts of Chennai, Chengelpet, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Cuddalore and Villupuram, he said. Schools and colleges were closed in coastal regions and a holiday has been declared for educational institutions on Saturday as well.
On December 10, rainfall is likely to reduce at most places though it is expected to be heavy to very heavy at isolated areas in north interior Tamil Nadu, Rayalaseema and adjoining southern Andhra Pradesh. Following landfall, the cyclonic storm is set to lose intensity and become a deep depression and later a depression on December 10. ''Gale wind, speed reaching 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph prevails over southwest Bay of Bengal,'' the IMD said. It would decrease gradually becoming 70-80 kmph gusting to 90 kmph from Friday evening, 55-65 kmph gusting to 75 kmph by December 10 early morning and 30-40 kmph gusting to 50 kmph by Saturday evening.
Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary V Irai Anbu chaired a meeting of senior officials and reviewed the preparatory measures. In neighbouring Puducherry, the territorial administration declared holiday for all schools and colleges in Puducherry and Karaikal regions on Friday and Saturday after the IMD issued a cyclone warning.
Puducherry Home and Education Minister A Namassivayam said in a release that the government took note of the warning issued by the IMD that a strong cyclone would hit Puducherry and Karaikal regions under the influence of the storm in the Bay of Bengal. All schools and colleges would remain closed for two days from Friday, he added.
The Department of Revenue and Disaster Management geared up all departments concerned with relief works and deployed rescue teams to respond to any exigency.
A storm warning signal flag Number Five has been hoisted at the Puducherry port and fisherfolk had been asked not to venture into the sea.
Chief Minister N Rangasamy held discussions with officials of Revenue and Disaster Management Department officials.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Celine brought a new line of fashion into the Hollywood spotlight in front of a star-studded audience while infusing rock music into designer Hedi Slimane’s “Age of Indieness” show Thursday night.
The fashion brand's show at iconic Los Angeles landmark The Wiltern introduced glitzy black and gold gowns, faux fur coats, slim leather pants along with gold-button jackets and coats. Each model walked down the runway to the beat of The White Stripe’s rock-infused “Hello Operator” while displaying the latest collection from the fashion house.
The co-ed runway graced the eyes of several celebrities and entertainers including Cindy Crawford, Doja Cat, Brie Larson, Justin Hoffman, Paris Hilton, Kid Cudi, Paris Jackson, Ava Phillippe, Wiz Khalifa and Courtney Cox. Crawford watched as her daughter, Kaia Gerber, strutted in a glittery gold dress.
Slimane incorporated men and womenswear. Some of the pieces worn were red blazers with gold trims, high-heeled black leather boots, black suits and gold feathers hanging from jackets.
Once the show finished, Slimane briefly marched onstage holding Gerber's hand, waved and took a bow at audience members – mostly dressed in black – who stood and applauded his fashion efforts.
The fall/winter fashion show ultimately turned into a big party in the lobby area as attendees were served food and drinks before being graced by live performances lasting a couple hours in the theater.
A night centered around rock aesthetics was wrapped up with performances by Iggy Pop, The Strokes, Interpol and The Kills.
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Discovery of new dinosaur teeth reveal what they didn't eat
Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including Allosaurus and T. rex. By taking 3D images of individual teeth and analyzing the pattern of marks scratched into them, researchers could reason which dinosaurs may have frequently crunched on hard bone and which may have regularly eaten softer foods and prey.
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Dinosaur teeth scratches may disclose what the animals actually consumed. The feeding habits of giant theropods, including Allosaurus and T, have been deduced for the first time using dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA). rex. Researchers may determine which dinosaurs may have frequently crushed on hard bone and which may have consumed softer foods and prey by capturing 3D photographs of individual teeth and examining the pattern of marks scraped into them. With the aid of this method, palaeontology is given access to a new field of study that will enable us to learn more about not only the dinosaurs themselves but also the environments and societies in which they thrived.
From Fantasia to Jurassic Park, the T. rex is seen as a terrifying apex predator that would chase down its prey and crunch on its whole. But how much did this iconic dinosaur actually chow down on bones? And what about other predatory dinosaurs that existed long before it? Researchers from the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with teams from the University of Mainz and the University of Hamburg in Germany, have used dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), a scanning technique to examine topographical dental wear and tear in microscopic detail, on individual dinosaur teeth from more than 100 million years ago to better understand what they may have eaten.
"We wanted to test if we could use DMTA to find evidence of different feeding behaviors in tyrannosaurids (from the Cretaceous period, 145 million to 66 million years ago) compared to the older Allosaurus (from the Jurassic period, 201 million to 145 million years ago), which are both types of theropods," explained postdoctoral fellow Daniela Winkler from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. "From other research, we already knew that tyrannosaurids can crack and feed on bones (from studies of their faeces and bite marks on the bone). But allosaurs are much older and there is not so much information about them." DMTA has mainly been used to study mammal teeth, so this is the first time it was used to study theropods. The same research team from the University of Tokyo also recently pioneered a study on DMTA in Japanese sauropod dinosaurs, famous for their long necks and tails. A high-resolution 3D image was taken of the tooth surface at a very small scale of 100 micrometres (one-tenth of a millimetre) by 100 micrometres in size.
Up to 50 sets of surface texture parameters were then used to analyze the image, for example, the roughness, depth and complexity of wear marks. If the complexity was high, i.e., there were different-sized marks which overlaid each other, this was associated with hard object feeding, such as on bone. However, if the complexity was low, i.e., the marks were more arranged, of a similar size and not overlapping, this was associated with soft object feeding, like meat. In total, the team studied 48 teeth, 34 from theropod dinosaurs and 14 from crocodilians (modern crocodiles and alligators), which were used as a comparison. The team was able to study original fossilized teeth and take high-resolution silicon molds, thanks to loans provided by natural history museums in Canada, the U.S., Argentina and Europe.
"We actually started dental microwear research of dinosaurs in 2010," said Lecturer Mugino Kubo from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences. "My husband, Dr Tai Kubo, and I had started collecting dental molds of dinosaurs and their contemporaries in North and South Americas, Europe, and of course Asia. Since Daniela joined my lab, we utilized these moulds to make a broader comparison among carnivorous dinosaurs." "It was especially challenging to carry out this research during the pandemic," said Winkler "as we rely on being able to gather samples from international institutions. The sample size might not be so large this time, but it is a starting point."
Winkler says what they found surprising was that they didn't find evidence of much bone-crushing behaviour in either Allosaurus or tyrannosaurids, even though they know that tyrannosaurids ate the bone. There may be several reasons for this unexpected outcome. It could be that although Tyrannosaurus was able to eat bone, it was less commonly done than previously thought. Also, the team had to use well-preserved teeth, so it might be that extremely damaged teeth that were excluded from this study were in such a condition because those animals fed more on bone.
Something the team did find with both the dinosaurs and crocodilians was a noticeable difference between juveniles and adults. "We studied two juvenile dinosaur specimens (one Allosaurus and one tyrannosaurid) and what we found was a very different feeding niche and behaviour for both compared to the adults. We found that there was more wear to juvenile teeth, which might mean that they had to more frequently feed on carcasses because they were eating leftovers," explained Winkler. "We were also able to detect different feeding behaviour in juvenile crocodilians; however, this time it was the opposite. Juvenile crocodilians had less wear on their teeth from eating softer foods, perhaps like insects, while adults had more dental wear from eating harder foods, like larger vertebrates." Winkler says that the next step with dinosaurs will probably be to look in more detail at the long-necked sauropods, which the team has also been studying. But for now, she is experimenting with something much, much smaller: crickets.
The insects' mouths may be tiny and don't have any teeth, but the researchers want to see if they can still find evidence of mouth wear using the same technique. "From what we learn using DMTA, we can possibly reconstruct extinct animals' diets, and from this make inferences about extinct ecosystems, paleoecology and paleoclimate, and how it differs from today," said Winkler. "But this research is also about curiosity. We want to form a clearer image of what dinosaurs were really like and how they lived all those millions of years ago."
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ROME (AP) — Two aid groups were seeking a port in Italy on Friday to disembark more than 500 people they rescued in the Mediterranean, posing a new challenge to the government which has vowed to crack down on migrant smuggling operations in north Africa.
The new rescues come a month after Italy and France got into a diplomatic standoff over the fate of the Ocean Viking and its 234 migrants. Italy refused the rescue ship port for weeks, forcing France to take it in. Paris retaliated by suspending its participation in a European Union solidarity pact to accept 3,000 relocated migrants this year from Italy and reinforced its southern border crossings.
Now again European-flagged rescue ships chartered by European aid groups are awaiting permission to dock. Early Friday, the German-flagged Louise Michel, which is funded and decorated by the street artist Banksy, disembarked its 33 passengers on the small island of Lampedusa, Sicily amid bad weather.
But two other larger ships are waiting off Sicily.
The Geo Berents, chartered by Doctors Without Borders, rescued 248 people in recent days — a passenger list that grew by one when a woman gave birth on Wednesday. Mother and son needed medical attention, so they and three other siblings were evacuated to Lampedusa and later transferred to Sicily, the group said.
Doctors Without Borders said in a statement it is looking to disembark the rest of its passengers and the vessel is heading closer to Italy after requests to Malta went unheeded.
The German aid group SOS Humanity, meanwhile, said it too was looking for a safe port for 261 people picked up in three separate rescues by its Humanity 1 ship.
“No place of safety has yet been allocated despite multiple requests. Meanwhile, the weather is worsening,” a group statement said.
Italy's new government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has said that the flag countries of the rescue ships are responsible for taking in the migrants and that Italy will no longer be the de facto port of automatic entry. The aid groups say that position contradicts international law and maritime conventions, which require rescued people to be disembarked as quickly as possible at the nearest port of safety.
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ALICANTE, Spain (AP) — Spain, France and Portugal agreed Friday to build by 2030 a major undersea pipeline to transport hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to France and eventually the rest of Europe.
The pipeline is aimed at making the European Union's energy supply more independent, a goal expedited by the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February that precipitated an energy crisis.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the pipeline, dubbed H2Med, will be able to convey some 2 million metric tons of hydrogen to France annually — 10% of the EU´s estimated hydrogen needs. The project is expected to cost 2.5 billion euros ($2.6 billion).
The announcement came after a meeting between Sánchez, his French and Portuguese counterparts and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the eastern Spanish city of Alicante.
“Today, the Iberian Peninsula is becoming a major European energy gateway to the world,” Von der Leyen said at a joint press briefing.
French President Emmanuel Macron said H2Med, which replaces an earlier proposal to transport gas across the Pyrenees Mountains, will “take a new path through the Mediterranean and rely on a technology of the future, which is hydrogen.”
“It will also probably allow later other European interconnections toward some other countries which will want to get that hydrogen,” he added.
Portugal, Spain and France struck a broad deal on the plan in October. They hope to present it to the European Commission by Dec. 15 so it will be eligible for EU financing, which could represent as much as 50% of the cost.
The project will first connect two plants in northern Portugal and northern Spain and then involve a pipeline under the Mediterranean Sea from the northeastern Spanish port of Barcelona to France’s Marseille.
“We are strengthening European Union’s strategic autonomy and energy security at a moment when solidarity among Europeans is essential to reduce energy dependency on countries that use energy as a blackmailing tool,” Sánchez said, in reference to Russia and the gas crisis that has emerged since the war in Ukraine.
He said that with the project, they “aspire to be a benchmark not only in Europe, but also worldwide, in the field of hydrogen.”
Spain and Portugal had initially wanted to pipe gas across land to France but Paris rejected that proposal.
“Hydrogen is a game-changer for Europe,” said Von der Leyen.
She said the EU planned to produce 10 million metric tons of renewable hydrogen by 2030 and to import another 10 million tons.
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Raquel Redondo in Madrid, Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report.
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Dr Joe Phaahla opens Africa’s first Regional Diagnostic Demonstration Centre
The centre, which has its headquarters in Johannesburg, Gauteng, will boost laboratory capabilities all over Africa, advancing the objective of a safe and secure Africa.
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Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, on Friday officially opened Africa's first Regional Diagnostic Demonstration Centre (RDDC).
"The centre advances and strengthens South Africa's biosafety and biosecurity system capabilities and its role in the Southern African region to prevent natural, accidental, or deliberate biological events," the Minister explained.
Under the umbrella of the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organisation (WHO), biosafety and biosecurity capacity and competency in the Member States is identified as an area most in need of improvement.
Recognising this need, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) and the Defence Threat Reduction Agency Biological Threat Reduction Program (DTRA-BTRP) of the United States and Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) launched the RDDC, the first of its kind in the continent.
The centre, which has its headquarters in Johannesburg, Gauteng, will boost laboratory capabilities all over Africa, advancing the objective of a safe and secure Africa.
The RDDC will also provide specialised diagnostic training and capacity building for Africa.
The centre will also cover areas of viral haemorrhagic fevers and other emerging infectious diseases.
"Over the past decade, Africa has experienced an increased number of devastating outbreaks, including Ebola in West Africa and now the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Upholding robust biosafety and biosecurity systems and practices remains a critical priority for the global community, especially in mounting a response to these outbreaks," Phaahla said.
The COVID-19 pandemic, he said, compounded the public health challenges experienced on the African continent where resources to respond to epidemic-prone diseases remain limited.
He noted that the pandemic amplified pre-existing concerns, especially in Africa about the safekeeping and handling of pathogens, samples, and other potentially harmful biological materials.
According to the Minister, this also prompted the construction of new laboratories with new technologies.
"But not all were accompanied with rigorous personnel training, robust dual-use oversight protocols, bioinformatics, cybersecurity, and physical plant security."
He believes to strengthen the efficiency of responding quickly, African States need to improve their capacities in disease recognition and laboratory competence, including biosafety and biosecurity capacities.
Since the launch of the Africa CDC Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative in 2019, Phaahla said South African experts have played a significant role in supporting the objectives of this programme.
"This, and other initiatives like it, illustrates how regional collaborative action can be harnessed to implement robust structures and programmes aimed at improving health security and capabilities."
The Minister believes the facility has great promise since the Africa CDC certified the RDDC as the first Regional Centre of Excellence for Biosafety and Biosecurity (RCoEBB) to offer its Regional Training and Certification Programmes for Biosafety and Biosecurity Professionals in the continent.
This facility, according to the Minister, will also serve as a pilot for the other four regional centres of excellence that the Africa CDC plans to establish across the continent.
"Therefore, there is no room for failure. It is imperative that we make a deliberate and concerted effort aimed at building regional capability to overcome identified regional biosafety and biosecurity vulnerabilities."
In addition, he said South Africa is committed to building regional laboratory capacity to mitigate the spread of any infections in the event of an outbreak in the region and beyond.
"The role of governments in improving biosecurity and global capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious events cannot be overemphasised," he stressed.
He also recognised the Canadian High Commissioner to South Africa, Christopher Cooler, who announced funding for the establishment of the RDDC as a regional centre of excellence.
(With Inputs from South African Government Press Release)
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BERLIN (AP) — German authorities said Friday that judges have confirmed the arrest of 23 people detained earlier this week on suspicion of planning to topple the government, while the extradition of two others detained abroad is being sought.
Prosecutors said 22 German citizens and a Russian woman detained in a series of raids across Germany on Wednesday have appeared before a federal court for their arraignment and will remain in custody as the investigation into the case continues.
Extradition proceedings have been initiated in the case of two others, identified only as Maximilian E. and Frank H., who were detained in Italy and Austria respectively, prosecutors said.
German authorities described the suspects as being part of the far-right Reich Citizens movement. Its adherents deny the legitimacy of the present-day German constitution and government, claiming instead that the German empire, or Reich, of 1871 still exists.
The plotters allegedly wanted to install Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, a 71-year-old businessman, as the head of a new government. Although Germany abolished any formal role for royalty over a century ago, he continues to use the title of “prince” due to his descent from the formerly noble House of Reuss.
The case has also put a spotlight once more on the far-right Alternative for Germany party. One of its former lawmakers, Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, was among those arrested. A Berlin judge, she was tapped to become justice minister if the coup succeeded, prosecutors said.
While the party, known by its German acronym AfD, has denounced the plot, rival politicians have called for its links with the Reich Citizens movement to be investigated.
Bavaria's governor Markus Soeder said Friday that Germany's domestic intelligence agency should step up its surveillance of AfD. Lars Klingbeil, the general-secretary of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party, accused AfD of being the “parliamentary interface for hatred, incitement and violence.”
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BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese actress with links to the country’s controversial Central Bank governor was arrested on Friday, a judicial official and the state-run new agency said.
The development is the latest in the controversy surrounding the governor, Riad Salameh, who is being investigated for corruption as an economic meltdown and financial collapse convulse the tiny Mediterranean nation.
According to the National News Agency, a judge, acting on the request by Lebanon’s top financial prosecutor, ordered that Stephanie Saliba be placed in custody after she showed up earlier in the day at the prosecutors office in Beirut for questioning. The report gave no reason for her arrest.
A judicial official said investigative Judge Iman Abdullah questioned Saliba over “illicit enrichment and money laundering.” The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, did not give further details.
Salameh is being investigated in several European nations, including Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein, for potential money laundering and embezzlement. He has repeatedly denied corruption charges.
Reports in Lebanese media say the governor gave Saliba expensive gifts.
Earlier this week, Ghada Aoun, an investigative judge at Mount Lebanon district court who has been investigating Salameh, issued a search warrant for Saliba's home as part of her investigation of the governor.
Aoun refused to comment on the case when contacted by The Associated Press on Friday, saying only: “I did not issue the arrest warrant. I know nothing.”
Since 2019, Lebanon has been in the grips of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history, rooted in decades of corruption and mismanagement by the country’s political class.
Many hold the 72-year-old Salameh responsible for the crisis, citing policies that drove up national debt and caused the Lebanese pound to lose 90% of its value against the dollar. The Central Bank governor, who has held the post for the past three decades, still enjoys the backing of top politicians.
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New abnormal: Climate disaster damage ''down'' to $268 billion
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This past year has seen a horrific flood that submerged one-third of Pakistan, one of the three costliest U.S. hurricanes on record, devastating droughts in Europe and China, a drought-triggered famine in Africa and deadly heat waves all over.
Yet this wasn't climate change at its worst.
With all that death and destruction in 2022, climate-related disaster damages are down from 2021, according to insurance and catastrophe giant Swiss Re. That's the state of climate change in the 2020s that $268 billion in global disaster costs is a 12% drop from the previous year, where damage passed $300 billion.
The number of U.S. weather disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage is only at 15 through October and will likely end the year with 16 or 17, down from 22 and 20 in the last two years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But because of Hurricane Ian, overall damage amounts are probably going to end up in the top three in American history.
Weather disasters, many but not all of them turbocharged by human-caused climate change, are happening so frequently that this year's onslaught, which 20 years ago would have smashed records by far, now in some financial measures seems a bit of a break from recent years.
Welcome to the new abnormal.
"We've almost gotten used to extremes. And this year compared to many years in the past would be considered a pretty intense year, but compared to maybe the most extreme years, like a 2017, 2020 and 2021, it does look like ... a slight adjustment down," said NOAA applied meteorologist and economist Adam Smith, who calculates the billion dollar disasters for the agency. "We're just getting used to it but that's not a good way to move into the future." Wildfires in the United States weren't as costly this year as the last couple years, but the Western drought was more damaging than previous years, he said. America's billion dollar disasters in 2022 seemed to hit every possible category except winter storms: hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires, heat waves, hail storms and even a derecho.
When it comes to 2022's financial damages globally and the United States, Ian, which walloped Florida, was the big dog, even though Pakistan's flooding was more massive and deadly. In terms of just looking at dollars not people, Ian's damages eclipsed the drought-triggered African famine that affected more people. It also overshadowed river levels in China and Europe that dropped to levels so low it caused power and industrial problems and the heat waves in Europe,India and North America that were deadly and record-breaking.
Smith said NOAA hasn't finished calculating the damages from Ian yet, but there's a good chance it will have more than $100 billion in damage, pushing past 2012's Superstorm Sandy that swamped New York and New Jersey, ranking only behind 2005's Katrina and 2017's Harvey for damaging hurricanes.
In the 1980s, the United States would average a billion-dollar weather disaster every 82 days. Now it's every 18 days, Smith said. That's not inflation because damages are adjusted to factor that out, he said. It's nastier weather and more development, people and buildings in harm's way, he said.
Globally "if you zoom in the last six years, 2017 to 2022, this has been particularly bad" especially compared to the five years before, said Martin Bertogg, Swiss Re's head of catastrophic peril.
"It felt like a regime change, some people called it a new normal," Bertogg said. But he thinks it was more getting back, after a brief respite, to a long-term trend of disaster costs steadily rising 5% to 7% a year.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said the increasing number of disasters makes the case for reducing emissions.
"You're spending money now because we're not doing the things we ought to be doing," Kerry said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We'll be spending a hell of a lot more under much more stringent circumstances than we are today if we don't move faster." Not every year has to be a whopper. The U.S. got a break in 2019 when there were "only" 14 billion-dollar disasters, NOAA's Smith said.
"A growing body of evidence indicates that climate change is increasing the variability as well as the average" of weather disasters, said Stanford University environment director Chris Field, who led a United Nations 2012 report on extreme weather. "What this means is that in some years we get hit harder than others. In other years we get hit like never before." "The important thing is that the trend in disasters is increasing," Field said. "And it will continue to increase until we halt the warming." Looking at damages, mostly insured losses, can give a skewed picture because how much a disaster cost depends greatly on how wealthy the area that the disaster hit, less so than the scale of the disaster itself, said Debarati Guha-Sapir, who runs the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.
And even more important, these figures are about dollars, not people, and that distorts the true picture, said Guha-Sapir and University of Washington health and climate professor Kristie Ebi.
"What is insured is a small fraction of total infrastructure and the people killed in Pakistan," which lowers the damage amount despite 1,700 people killed, Ebi said.
The flood in Pakistan, which submerged one-third of a country that's bigger than Texas, was not the only thing that hit that developing country.
"Pakistan just couldn't catch a break this year. A January snowstorm killed 23 followed by a lethal spring heatwave, then devastating floods from June-October took over 1,700 lives and untold livelihoods," said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell climate Research Center in Cape Cod. "Many other surprising, less publicised, and alarming events wreaked havoc on local communities, such as the sudden collapse of the lucrative snow crab fishery in the Bering Sea, rapid demise of European glaciers, inundation of several coastal villages in Alaska by ex- tropical cyclone Merbok." "Additional heat in the atmosphere is sucking moisture out of soils, exacerbating drought and heatwaves,'' Francis said. ''Evaporation from oceans and land also increases the amount of moisture in the air, which provides more fuel for storms and heavier downpours." Swiss Re's Bertogg said although climate change is at work he estimates two-thirds, perhaps more, of the rise in damages is due to more people and things in harm's way.
Urbanization across the globe puts more people in dense environments, which increases damage when disaster hits, Bertogg said. Then add urban sprawl that takes those cities and makes them geographically bigger and thus more vulnerable, he said. A good example of that is how wildfires started damaging more homes in California as more homes got built in rural areas, he said.
Plus more construction is being built on the coast and along waterways making them more vulnerable to storms and flooding, with flooding as "the biggest threat for the global economy," Bertogg said.
But NOAA's Smith keeps searching for a little silver lining in storm clouds: "I just hope the trends get a little bit less profound and less stressful for society. We all need a break."
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for six bank robberies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, taking more than $25,000 total.
Eric Mohan, 48, received a 57-month federal prison sentence on Thursday. He had pleaded guilty to the crimes in September.
Prosecutors said in February, Mohan first robbed a Triangle Credit Union in Manchester, New Hampshire using a demand note. He robbed a Salem Five Bank in Tewksbury, Massachusetts twice, an Align Credit Union in Danvers, and then two other credit unions in New Hampshire.
He was arrested in April after the Federal Bureau of Investigation had identified his vehicle and tracked him to a credit union in New Hampshire. Prosecutors said while being arrested, Mohan dropped a bag containing more than $10,000 and a demand note.
Mohan's lawyer had asked for a four-year prison sentence, saying the robberies were motivated by “a desperate drug addiction" that Mohan has sought treatment for. He has completed spiritual and therapeutic counseling programs.
The lawyer said Mohan, a former teacher, has requested additional substance abuse rehabilitation and mental health counseling services.
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INTERVIEW-From sidelines, U.S. pushing key nature goals at COP15
* U.S biodiversity envoy attending COP15 talks in Montreal
* Having backed 30 by 30 goal, U.S. wants others to follow
* New legislation to tackle deforestation not ruled out
The United States will help other nations achieve a key pledge of an anticipated new global nature pact - to protect at least 30% of the planet's land and seas by 2030, Washington's top biodiversity envoy said.
While the United States has never formally joined the 1992 U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), it hopes its support for the "30 by 30" goal will drive more ambitious efforts to protect nature among about 195 member countries gathered in Montreal to finalise a nature protection deal. The draft pledge has gained support from more than 110 nations, including the United States.
"We are very interested in seeing the 30 by 30 framework adopted and in supporting other countries in achieving those goals," Monica Medina, U.S. special envoy for biodiversity and water resources, said in an interview ahead of the COP15 nature talks in Canada. "We do need to aim for something that we think is achievable - and if we build on that success perhaps we can get even farther," she said, highlighting a 50% by 2050 protection target put forward by some scientists.
People around the world depend on nature, from oceans to wilderness, to supply them with clean air and water - and to regulate rainfall that is vital for growing food crops. And because plants absorb planet-heating carbon dioxide to grow, strengthening conservation efforts is widely seen as one of the cheapest and most effective ways to slow climate change.
But forests and other ecosystems are still being destroyed, often to expand agriculture and production of commodities such as palm oil, soy and beef, to feed a growing global population. Medina said the world is waking up to the fact that it needs to better account for the costs of losing nature.
The United States is taking the 30 by 30 target "very seriously", and it is backed by President Joe Biden, she said. Medina cited the launch last year of the locally-led, decade-long America the Beautiful conservation program - but said coast and ocean efforts were lagging land-based initiatives.
Also domestically, Medina said the government would use national park funding as part of its biodiversity and 30 by 30 drive, and was seeking to develop accounting systems that look at the value of nature to the economy, and how to garner investment in it. Internationally, the United States will use climate funding to promote biodiversity conservation, and promote 30 by 30 through its membership of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People and via "coalitions of governments", she added.
"Up until now, we've seen nature not properly valued and that has caused a tremendous amount of economic costs that are not recouped very easily," Medina added. 'DO OUR BEST'
The United States does not play a formal role in CBD talks but Medina is due to travel to Montreal. Her appointment in September to the newly-created diplomatic role was seen by green groups as a sign of the nation's commitment to tackling climate change and conserving nature.
Charles Barber, a senior biodiversity advisor at the World Resources Institute, said that despite never having ratified the CBD, the United States' development agencies are among the largest donors to nature conservation in developing countries. At the COP26 climate summit last year, President Biden pledged $9 billion in tropical forest and other critical ecosystems funding by 2030.
In 2020, USAID, the country's development agency, said it worked in nearly 60 countries around the world to conserve biodiversity, fight conservation crime, and support sustainable fisheries. The international development agency invested about $314 million that year to conserve biodiversity.
Barber estimated that the United States had provided about $4-$5 billion in grant aid explicitly for biodiversity conservation in developing countries over the past two decades. The U.S. delegation "works quietly but effectively behind the scenes with like-minded countries in CBD negotiations, and also has close relationships with many of the NGOs most involved in the negotiations", Barber added.
Barber cited Washington's lobbying for the 30 by 30 goal and its support and membership of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Medina said ratifying the U.N. biodiversity convention was in the hands of the U.S. Senate, but that the country would nonetheless work with allies and do its "best to implement the (biodiversity) framework".
The need for greater funding to help to develop and nature-rich countries meet the goals of any new biodiversity deal has been a sticking point in negotiations in recent years. Medina stressed how important it was to attract private investment for biodiversity conservation.
As well, the costs of nature losses need to become part of economic accounting for governments and businesses so "we don't end up in a situation where we have a degraded environment and no way to bring it back", she said. Earlier this week, the European Union become the world's first trading bloc to agree on a law to prevent companies from selling several commodities - including palm oil, soy and beef - linked to deforestation.
Medina said the Biden administration was examining what similar powers it might have to tackle the problem, including potentially proposing legislation or executive action on the issue. "Are we concerned? Yes. Do we have our next steps all set yet? No, not yet - but we are studying the problem," she added.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of Penguin Random House, the world's largest trade publisher, is stepping down. Markus Dohle's decision, effective at the end of the year, comes just weeks after a federal judge blocked the company's attempt to buy rival Simon & Schuster.
“Following the antitrust decision in the U.S. against the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, I have decided, after nearly 15 years on the Executive Board of Bertelsmann and at the helm of our global publishing business, to hand over the next chapter of Penguin Random House to new leadership," Dohle, 54, said a statement released Friday by parent company Bertelsmann, the German conglomerate.
Dohle is also leaving his seat on the Bertelsmann executive board. His departure was made at “his own request and on the best of mutual terms,” according to the Bertelsmann announcement. Dohle will be succeeded, on an interim basis, by Nihar Malaviya, 48, currently president and COO of Penguin Random House.
Dohle was named CEO when Penguin Random House was still Random House and presided over an era of enormous growth, notably the merger in 2012-13 with Penguin that made the new company the industry's unchallenged market leader. But the failed purchase of Simon & Schuster proved an embarrassment to Dohle, who had strongly pushed for the deal.
He had been working under a 5-year contract set to expire in December 2025.
“We regret Markus Dohle’s decision to leave Bertelsmann and Penguin Random House," Christopher Mohn, chair of Bertelsmann's supervisory board, said in a statement. “He has sustainably focused Penguin Random House on growth and profitability. Under his leadership, our book division more than doubled its revenues and quintupled its profit. The fact that our global book publishing group is in such a strong position today is largely thanks to Markus Dohle.”
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No wastage of Covid vaccines in govt buffer stock due to expiry: Govt in Lok Sabha
To ensure utilisation of the near expiry vaccine, they have been supported for intra- and inter-state transfer, the short expiry vaccines are also replaced by manufacturers, the Union Minister of State for Health said.The national regulator, Central Drugs Standard Organisation, prescribed the shelf life of Covishield vaccine as nine months and Covaxin vaccine as 12 months from the date of manufacture, Pawar stated.She said India has administered more than two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
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There has been no wastage of COVID-19 vaccines in the government buffer stock due to expiry, Union minister Bharati Pravin Pawar informed Lok Sabha on Friday.
The central government closely monitors COVID-19 vaccine stocks in states and Union territories so as to ensure their optimal utilisation and minimal wastage, Pawar said in written reply to a question.
States and UTs have also been advised to review programme coverage and vaccine wastage on a daily basis and redistribute the vaccine stock if required for their optimal utilisation. To ensure utilisation of the near expiry vaccine, they have been supported for intra- and inter-state transfer, the short expiry vaccines are also replaced by manufacturers, the Union Minister of State for Health said.
The national regulator, Central Drugs Standard Organisation, prescribed the shelf life of Covishield vaccine as nine months and Covaxin vaccine as 12 months from the date of manufacture, Pawar stated.
She said India has administered more than two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. As on December 5, a total of 2.19 billion vaccine doses have been administered across the country.
The introduction of COVID-19 vaccines entailed many challenges such as research and development, training of more than 2.64 lakh vaccinators and 4.76 lakh other vaccination team members, optimum utilisation of available vaccine, and difficult to reach population.
It also required storage and decentralised distribution of vaccines across 29,000 cold chain points, augmenting cold chain capacity, developing IT platform for registering beneficiaries and vaccine service delivery and surveillance and management of adverse event following immunisation and special vaccination drive to reach out to last mile beneficiaries, she said.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Police launched 16 raids across Belgium's capital Friday as part of a probe into corruption and money laundering involving the European Union parliament and an unidentified Gulf country, the federal prosecutor’s office said.
Four people were detained for questioning, and investigators recovered around 600,000 euros ($633,500) in cash and seized computer equipment and mobile telephones during the Brussels raids, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The statement did not name the four but said one was a former member of the European Parliament.
The raids targeted in particular assistants working for EU lawmakers, the statement said. The EU assembly has 705 elected members from the bloc’s 27 member nations. Each lawmaker has a number of assistants.
Prosecutors said Belgium’s federal judicial police suspect the unidentified Gulf country of trying “to influence the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament.”
It said this was allegedly done “by paying large sums of money or offering large gifts to third parties with a significant political and/or strategic position within the European Parliament.”
The EU parliament’s press service declined to comment on the raids while an investigation was underway, but said the assembly was cooperating fully with Belgian police.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who returned to his homeland after 14 years in a U.S. prison as part of a swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner, said the West is bent on destroying Russia.
Bout, dubbed the “Merchant of Death” who provided arms for some of the world’s worst conflicts, was seen in Russia as unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation.
The Russian state media hailed his release, carrying the footage of him talking to his family from a private jet following a swap at Abu Dhabi's airport and then embracing his wife and his mother on a snowy tarmac in Moscow.
Speaking in an interview for RT channel with Maria Butina, who also served 18 months in a U.S. prison after being convicted of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the United States, Bout said he was still struggling to control his emotions after his imprisonment.
He charged that the West's long-held objective was to destroy Russia.
“The West believes that it has failed to finish us off when the Soviet Union began to collapse,” Bout said. “And our efforts to live independently, be an independent power is a shock to them.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the swap was agreed between Russian and U.S. intelligence agencies, and that contacts were held exclusively to hammer out its specifics.
“It has no impact on the overall state of bilateral ties that looks sad," Peskov said in televised remarks.
Despite negotiating the swap for Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and the most high-profile American jailed abroad, the U.S. failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan. Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive, has been imprisoned in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government have said are baseless.
U.S. officials said they did not see an immediate path to bringing about Whelan’s release, saying Russia has treated his case differently because of the “sham espionage” charges against him. Still, they said they believe communication channels with the Russians remain open for negotiations about his freedom.
Peskov said that “special services may continue their work if necessary,” and also noted the role of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in helping broker the swap.
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Research finds how intensive agriculture turned wild plant into pervasive weed
New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, the common water hemp, into a problematic agricultural weed.
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New research published in Science demonstrates how the development of modern agriculture has transformed the native common water hemp plant of North America into a troublesome agricultural weed. 187 water hemp samples from current farms and nearby wetlands were compared with more than 100 historical samples dating back as far as 1820 that had been housed in museums across North America by an international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The genetic makeup of the plant over the past 200 years allowed the researchers to observe evolution in action across changing habitats, just as the sequencing of ancient human and neanderthal remains has clarified important questions about the history of humanity.
"The genetic variants that help the plant do well in modern agricultural settings have risen to high frequencies remarkably quickly since agricultural intensification in the 1960s," said first author Dr Julia Kreiner, a postdoctoral researcher in UBC's Department of Botany. The researchers discovered hundreds of genes across the weed's genome that aid its success on farms, with mutations in genes related to drought tolerance, rapid growth and resistance to herbicides appearing frequently. "The types of changes we're imposing in agricultural environments are so strong that they have consequences in neighbouring habitats that we'd usually think were natural," said Dr Kreiner.
The findings could inform conservation efforts to preserve natural areas in landscapes dominated by agriculture. Reducing gene flow out of agricultural sites and choosing more isolated natural populations for protection could help limit the evolutionary influence of farms. Common water hemp is native to North America and was not always a problematic plant. Yet in recent years, the weed has become nearly impossible to eradicate from farms thanks to genetic adaptations including herbicide resistance.
"While water hemp typically grows near lakes and streams, the genetic shifts that we're seeing allow the plant to survive on drier land and to grow quickly to outcompete crops," said co-author Dr Sarah Otto, Killam University Professor at the University of British Columbia. "Waterhemp has basically evolved to become more of a weed given how strongly it's been selected to thrive alongside human agricultural activities." Notably, five out of seven herbicide-resistant mutations found in current samples were absent from the historical samples. "Modern farms impose a strong filter determining which plant species and mutations can persist through time," said Dr Kreiner. "Sequencing the plant's genes, herbicides stood out as one of the strongest agricultural filters determining which plants survive and which die."
Waterhemp carrying any of the seven herbicide-resistant mutations has produced an average of 1.2 times as many surviving offspring per year since 1960 compared to plants that don't have the mutations. Herbicide-resistant mutations were also discovered in natural habitats, albeit at a lower frequency, which raises questions about the costs of these adaptations for plant life in non-agricultural settings. "In the absence of herbicide applications, being resistant can actually be costly to a plant, so the changes happening on the farms are impacting the fitness of the plant in the wild," said Dr Kreiner.
Agricultural practices have also reshaped where particular genetic variants are found across the landscape. Over the last 60 years, a weedy southwestern variety has made an increasing progression eastward across North America, spreading its genes into local populations as a result of its competitive edge in agricultural contexts. "These results highlight the enormous potential of studying historical genomes to understand plant adaptation on short timescales," says Dr Stephen Wright, co-author and Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. "Expanding this research across scales and species will broaden our understanding of how farming and climate change are driving rapid plant evolution." "Understanding the fate of these variants and how they affect plants in non-farm, 'wild' populations is an important next step for our work," according to Professor John Stinchcombe of the University of Toronto, a coauthor on the study. (ANI)
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MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Russian opposition figure was on Friday sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison after being convicted on charges stemming from his criticism of the Kremlin’s action in Ukraine.
The sentence handed to Ilya Yashin, one of the few Kremlin critics to have stayed in Russia, offered the latest indication of an intensified crackdown on dissent by Russian authorities.
“With that hysterical sentence, the authorities want to scare us all but it effectively shows their weakness,” Yashin said in a statement through his lawyers after the judge passed the sentence. “Only the weak want to shut everyone's mouth and eradicate any dissent.”
Yashin was charged with spreading false information about the military — a new offense added to the country’s criminal law after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine.
The charges against him related to a YouTube livestream video in which he talked about Ukrainians being killed in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. He rejects the charges as politically motivated.
During the trial at Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court, Yashin argued that his case has been fabricated and “has all the markings of illegal political persecution.” He noted that in the video he cited Russian official sources along with Ukrainian statements to give his audience an objective view.
In his final remarks Monday, he said that he considers it his duty to tell the truth. “I will not renounce the truth behind bars,” he said.
“When the hostilities began, I didn't hesitate for a second," Yashin said. "I felt I should remain in Russia, loudly tell the truth and try to do all what I could to end the bloodshed. It's better to sit behind bars for a decade and remain an honest person than silently feel shame for the blood spilled by your government.”
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IMD forecasts unseasonal rains in parts of Maha in next 48 hours
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Some parts of Maharashtra might receive unseasonal rainfall in the next 48 hours due to the cyclone storm 'Mandous' over Bay of Bengal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday.
Mild or medium rainfall is expected to hit Konkan, Marathwada and most districts of central Maharashtra after 48 hours, said Sushma Nair of IMD Mumbai.
The cyclonic storm 'Mandous' over Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall after 24 hours, she said.
Weather condition is expected to change in Maharashtra due to vapours from Bay of Bengal and vapours being pulled from Arabian Sea, the official said.
Mandous, pronounced 'man-dous' is an Arabic word and it means treasure box and the name was reportedly picked by the United Arab Emirates.
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| 2022-12-09T14:17:45
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CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Two Moldovan oligarchs who are allegedly implicated in a one-billion-dollar bank fraud and other illicit schemes have been added to a new U.K. sanctions list, Britain's foreign secretary said Friday.
The two men, Ilan Shor, and Vladimir Plahotniuc, fled Moldova in 2019 as they faced a series of corruption charges. They were among 30 people around the world sanctioned Friday by the U.K., Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement.
Moldovan authorities allege that both are implicated in a $1 billion dollar bank theft from a Moldovan bank in 2014. At the time, the sum was the equivalent of about one-eighth of annual GDP in what is one of Europe’s poorest countries.
Moldova’s Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita hailed the U.K. move, saying that “the circle around the corrupt and thieves in the country is tightening.”
“We are determined to ensure all conditions for corrupt politicians to be investigated,” she told a press conference, adding that she wants Moldova "to ... become a country where European values and standards are lived realities and not a distant dream.”
Shor is a businessman born in Israel — where he has resided in exile since 2019. He also leads the populist, Russia-friendly Shor Party, which in recent months has organized large protests in Moldova's capital, Chisinau, against the pro-Western government.
Shor also is accused of bribery to secure his position as chair of a Moldovan bank in 2014, and was recently named on a U.S. State Department sanctions list as working for Russian interests and to undermine Moldova’s bid to join the European Union.
In June, Moldova — a former Soviet republic of 2.6 million sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine — was granted EU candidate status.
The other sanctioned oligarch, Plahotniuc, is a powerful businessman and former politician charged with “capturing and corrupting Moldova’s state institutions,” Cleverly’s statement read.
In June 2019, Plahotniuc fled to the U.S. from Moldova after failing to form a government with his Democratic Party. In 2020, the U.S. declared him persona non grata and his whereabouts are now unknown to authorities. He too was included on the recent U.S. sanctions list.
“Plahotniuc’s bribery of law enforcement officials reflects his longstanding efforts to capture and corrupt Moldova’s judicial and law enforcement institutions,” the State Department said at the time.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu thanked her country’s external partners on Friday for their "support in our fight against corruption that has plagued our state and citizens.”
Moldova has taken a distinctly Western-oriented path over the last year, and officials are pushing to clean up corruption and reform the judiciary. It ranked 105th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perception Index.
The U.K. said Friday it will freeze any assets owned by Shor or Plahotniuc in the U.K. or its overseas territories. British citizens are also barred from economic transactions with the pair, “who are henceforth denied entry to the UK.”
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BERLIN (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official on Friday said Iran's first execution of a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests is “very troubling" and an attempt by Tehran to stifle further anti-government demonstrations.
The Iranian government's decision to carry out the death penalty was “clearly designed to send a chilling effect to the rest of the protesters,” Volker Türk told reporters at a news conference in Geneva.
“We will follow up with the authorities as well about this,” he said.
“I can only ... call on the authorities to immediately institute a moratorium on the death penalty, to release the ones who were arrested in connection with the protests and to work towards the abolition of the death penalty,” he added.
The execution of Mohsen Shekari was widely condemned abroad and comes as other detainees also face the possibility of the death penalty for their involvement in the protests, which began in mid-September.
Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday praised the protesters in Iran, and called on authorities in Tehran to end what he called their “inhumane” crackdown against their own population.
Steinmeier, who as Germany’s head of state holds a largely ceremonial role, cited reports that more than 500 people, including children, have been killed by government forces in recent months.
Speaking after a 90-minute meeting Friday with Iranians living in Germany, Steinmeier accused Iran's government of bringing “fear and terror” on its people and paid respect to the protesters in Iran.
“I admire your bravery,” he said. “We see your suffering. We see the crimes being done to you.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has also slammed Iran's first execution linked to the anti-government protests, saying the death penalty was being used “as an instrument of terror.”
Baerbock said late Thursday at a news conference in Dublin that the European Union would react with further “hard measures” against Iran.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday that the Iranian ambassador in Berlin was summoned for talks following the execution of Shekari.
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Science News Roundup: Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world; Study shows dinosaurs were 'struck down in their prime' by asteroid and more
Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier.
Following is a summary of current science news briefs.
Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world
Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago - the oldest on record by far - from sediment at Greenland's northernmost point dug up around the mouth of an Arctic Ocean fjord, revealing an amazing lost world at this remote frontier. Researchers said on Wednesday fragments of DNA were detected for a panoply of animals including mastodons, reindeer, hares, lemmings and geese as well as plants including poplar, birch and thuja trees and microorganisms including bacteria and fungi. DNA is the self-replicating material carrying genetic information in living organisms - sort of a blueprint of life.
Study shows dinosaurs were 'struck down in their prime' by asteroid
The age of dinosaurs ended in cataclysm one spring day 66 million years ago when an asteroid 7.5 miles (12 km) wide hit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, triggering the extinction of those remarkable beasts and about three-quarters of Earth's species. But were the dinosaurs already on the way out, with diversification faltering and rates of evolution sputtering, as some scientists have proposed? The answer is a definite "no," according to a new study that modeled food chains and ecological habitats in North America, the part of the world best represented in the fossil record from that time.
Japanese billionaire Maezawa picks K-pop star TOP, DJ Steve Aoki to join SpaceX moon trip
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa revealed on Friday that K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon as soon as next year, hitching a ride on one of Elon Musk's SpaceX rockets. Maezawa bought every seat on the maiden lunar voyage, which has been in the works since 2018 and would follow his trip on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) for a 12-day stint last year.
(With inputs from agencies.)
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MOSCOW (AP) — A representative of one the the organizations sharing this year's Nobel Peace Prize said Friday that she thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin must face an international tribunal for the fighting in Ukraine.
Oleksandra Matviichuk of Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties said during a news conference in Oslo, Norway, that “We must establish an international tribunal to hold Putin, (Belarusian President Alexander) Lukashenko and other war criminals accountable.”
In October, the Ukrainian group was named a co-winner of the 2022 peace price along with Russian human rights group Memorial and Ales Bialatski, head of the Belarusian human rights group Viasna.
Bialatski is jailed in Belarus and was unable to travel to receive the prize, which is due to be formally presented on Saturday.
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Cricket-Ballance signs deal to play for Zimbabwe after Yorkshire release
Former England batsman Gary Ballance has agreed a two-year deal to play international cricket for Zimbabwe, the country's board said on Friday, a day after he was released from his contract with English county side Yorkshire.
Former England batsman Gary Ballance has agreed a two-year deal to play international cricket for Zimbabwe, the country's board said on Friday, a day after he was released from his contract with English county side Yorkshire. The Zimbabwe-born player has spent a year on the sidelines while dealing with mental health issues after he admitted to using racist language against former club team mate Azeem Rafiq.
Ballance, who will also play domestic cricket in Zimbabwe, played 23 tests for England between 2014 and 2017, scoring 1,498 runs, including four centuries, at an average of 37.45. He also appeared in 16 one-day internationals. The left-hander played for Zimbabwe at the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in 2006 before moving to England.
"I'm thrilled to be joining Zimbabwe Cricket and can't wait to start work with some great coaches and talented players," Ballance said in a statement. "The opportunity to represent Zimbabwe has given me a new-found passion and excitement for the game.
"I have kept in touch with a number of people within Zimbabwe cricket over the years and it has been great to watch their recent progress especially." Zimbabwe Cricket's Director of Cricket Hamilton Masakadza said they were delighted to have an "immensely talented and experienced cricketer" back home.
"He's a great addition to our domestic and international set-up and we are looking forward to him making a massive difference for us," Masakadza said. Yorkshire, who released Ballance two years early from his contract as per the player's wishes, have made sweeping changes following Rafiq's explosive allegations of institutional racism at the club.
Ballance has apologised to Rafiq in person.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 7.4% in November from a year earlier, a fifth straight slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures across the economy are continuing to cool.
The latest year-over-year figure was down from 8% in October and from a recent peak of 11.7% in March. On a monthly basis, the government said Friday that its producer price index, which measures costs before they reach consumers, rose 0.3% from October to November for the third straight month.
Rising prices are still straining Americans' finances, particularly for food, rent and services such as haircuts, medical care and restaurant meals. Yet several emerging trends have combined to slow inflation from the four-decade peak it reached during the summer. Gas prices have tumbled after topping out at $5 a gallon in June. Nationally, they averaged $3.33 a gallon Thursday, according to AAA, just below their average a year ago.
And the supply chain snarls that caused chronic transportation delays and shortages of many goods, from patio furniture to curtains, are unraveling. U.S. ports have cleared the backlog of ships that earlier this year took weeks to unload. And the cost of shipping a cargo container from Asia has fallen sharply back to pre-pandemic levels.
As a result, the prices of long-lasting goods, from used cars and furniture to appliances and certain electronics, are easing.
Friday’s producer price data captures inflation at an early stage of production and can often signal where consumer prices are headed. Next week, the government will report its highest-profile inflation figure, the consumer price index. The most recent CPI report, for October, showed a moderation in inflation, with prices up 7.7% from a year earlier. Though still high, that was lowest year-over-year figure since January.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, in a speech last week, pointed to the decline in goods prices as an encouraging sign. Powell suggested that housing costs, including rent, which have been a major driver of inflation, should also start to slow next year.
The Fed chair also signaled that the central bank will likely raise its benchmark interest rate by a smaller increment when it meets next week. Investors foresee a half-point Fed hike, after four straight three-quarter-point increases.
Yet Powell noted that services prices, which reflect the largest sector of the U.S. economy, are still increasing at a historically fast pace. Rapidly rising wages are a key driver of services inflation, he noted. That’s because as wages rise, many businesses pass on their higher labor costs to their customers through higher prices, which drives up inflation.
Pay is still rising quickly and could continue to fuel higher inflation through most of next year. In last week’s jobs report for November, the government reported that average hourly pay jumped 5.1% from a year earlier, far above the pre-pandemic pace. Powell said wage gains closer to 3.5% would be needed to bring inflation down toward the Fed’s 2% annual target.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — As early customers warm themselves up with hot drinks at the Café Tetouan in downtown Brussels, owner Hicham Achrayah buys Morocco’s flags from a street vendor who stopped by on a cold winter morning.
The bar is the local hotspot for Morocco soccer fans in Belgium's capital and he needs to get it ready for Saturday’s match against Portugal at the World Cup in Qatar, where Morocco will try to become the first African team to reach the tournament's semifinals.
As has been the case since the World Cup started, Achrayah expects a full house.
“They are writing a page of history,” Achrayah said of the team that has inspired a sense of pride in Moroccan immigrant communities across Europe.
An estimated 5 million Moroccans live abroad, with the majority in European countries such as France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. The national team depends heavily on that diaspora, with 14 of the squad’s 26 players born abroad, the highest proportion for any team at the World Cup.
“They were born abroad, but inside, the blood is Moroccan,” Achrayah’s said, pointing to midfielder Hakim Ziyech, who was born in the Netherlands. "What did he say when he chose Morocco? He said it was a call from his heart.”
Ziyech, who plays for Chelsea in the Premier League, has been in scintillating form at the tournament, forming a tremendous duo on the right flank with Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi, who was born in Spain. Four players in the Morocco squad were born in Belgium.
Morocco's French-born coach Walid Regragui has compared building his roster with making “milkshake,” mixing players with Moroccan heritage from across Europe who also bring to the team some of the cultures and soccer styles of the countries where they grew up.
“People are identifying with us and we are managing to unite Moroccans behind this football team," Regragui said in Doha on Friday. “It is worth more than anything. It is worth more than money, more than titles.”
Still, he said he was not going to let exuberance surrounding the team affect its concentration.
“We can bring hope and positive energy to people, this is fantastic. But we are focused on what we are doing on the pitch,” he said.
Hassan Bousetta, a researcher studying Moroccan migration, says the backgrounds of the foreign-born players in the squad reflect the widespread distribution of Moroccan immigrant communities across Europe.
“Unlike the Turks and Algerians, for instance, the Moroccans are much more spread out over various European countries,” Bousetta said.
He stressed the role played by Moroccan authorities to maintain close ties with those who move abroad.
“They have built a global relationship with their diaspora. And today, we see its impact in soccer,” he said. “All these players were trained by big clubs. The idea is to benefit from the training, on a global scale. Giving great responsibilities to children of the diaspora is something that is not seen in other Arab countries.”
In Qatar, Morocco's European-born players have delivered in a big way for the Atlas Lions to the delight of their huge overseas fan base.
After Morocco defeated Spain in a penalty shootout in the round of 16, legions of fans poured into the streets of European cities to celebrate. In Madrid, some Morocco supporters had mixed feelings.
“If Spain had won, we would be just as happy because we live here. It is our country, too,” said Shalma Boudoir, a 19-year-old student. “We have Spanish nationality, but Morocco has not won a World Cup, so we are very happy, we can’t be happier.”
Highlighting that sense of dual belonging, Belgian flags also decorate the walls of Café Tetouan, where Moroccan immigrants and their descendants have united behind the Atlas Lions’ historic run.
Four years ago, after Morocco exited the World Cup in the group stage, Moroccan fans in Brussels rallied behind Belgium. The Red Devils made it to the semifinals, with the help of Marouane Fellaini and Nacer Chadli, two players with Moroccan roots.
“We have been fervent supporters of Belgium, which we also consider as our country,” said Adil El Malki, a 49-year-old legal expert with dual citizenship. “But to tell you the truth, it is rather the belonging and the sense of identity that prevail. That’s why we support Morocco, but Belgium is in our hearts, too.”
Despite the dual allegiances, riots broke out in several Belgian and Dutch cities as Morocco fans celebrated their 2-0 upset win over Belgium in the group stage. But overall, Morocco’s victory was peacefully and enthusiastically celebrated by fans with Moroccan immigrant roots.
“Let’s hope that on Saturday everything will be calm and that there will be no disturbances," Achrayah said. “And long live Morocco!"
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Associated Press writer Graham Dunbar in Doha and video journalist Alicia León in Madrid contributed to this report.
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Soccer-Moroccan fans scramble for World Cup flights
A source at Morocco's soccer federation said it had agreed with RAM that fans seeking tickets on the additional flights should have tickets for the Saturday match and a Hayya card - Qatar's temporary entry visa for World Cup visitors. However, several fans at a RAM office in Rabat said they were able to get air tickets with only the Hayya card and hoped to buy match tickets on arrival in Doha.
Moroccans scrambled on Friday to get seats on the seven additional flights that state carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has announced to help soccer fans get to Qatar for the World Cup quarter final against Portugal.
Morocco, the last African country left in the tournament and the first Arab country to ever reach the quarter finals, has been gripped by excitement at the team's World Cup performance, with victories over highly ranked Spain and Belgium. A source at Morocco's soccer federation said it had agreed with RAM that fans seeking tickets on the additional flights should have tickets for the Saturday match and a Hayya card - Qatar's temporary entry visa for World Cup visitors.
However, several fans at a RAM office in Rabat said they were able to get air tickets with only the Hayya card and hoped to buy match tickets on arrival in Doha. Ousama Ouaddich, waiting outside the Rabat RAM office in the rain on Thursday night, said he had managed to buy a ticket for the match but did not yet have a flight.
"It's frustrating. We need more airplanes," he said. At home, the main fan zones with big screens are at a Casablanca stadium and in Marrakech, where a screen has been put up in the Jmaa al-Fnaa square, a UNESCO world heritage site.
During the match against Spain, the Jmaa al-Fnaa was hung with flags and throbbed to the chants of 30,000 fans, said Abdelmakel El Mansouri a member of the city council. "We are expecting a similar or higher number of fans during the game against Portugal," he said.
Fans attending the Casablanca stadium zone need to get there three hours early for a place, one of the organisers said. Across the country, shops and stalls are doing a roaring trade in flags, national team shirts and T-shirts.
"Looking at how many T-shirts I have sold, I wish the World Cup lasted forever," said Zouhir Sabir, a shop keeper in the old centre of Rabat. The price of clothes with national symbols had risen about 30% due to high demand, he said. "Now you see people dressed normally. On the day of the match most people will be wearing colours of the national flag and football jerseys," he said.
Even people with little interest in the sport joined the street celebrations that have followed Morocco's progress through the tournament. "I'm not usually a football fan and I know we have lots of economic problems in the country. But I think this is a special moment to celebrate," said Abdellah Belhaj, a retired man in Rabat.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo did not threaten to leave the World Cup after being dropped from the team to play Switzerland in the round of 16, Portugal coach Fernando Santos said Friday.
Santos did acknowledge his star player was “not happy” to be told he was not in the starting lineup in a private meeting on Tuesday after lunch, hours before the game.
Ronaldo’s replacement Gonçalo Ramos scored three goals in 6-1 win. The all-time leading scorer for Portugal came off the bench in the 74th minute.
“Cristiano obviously was not very happy about it. He told me ‘Do you really think it’s a good idea?’” Santos said one day before facing Morocco in the quarterfinals.
“He has never told me that he wanted to leave the national team,” Santos said in translated comments, dismissing reports in Portuguese media. “It is time we stopped with this conversation and the controversies. He celebrated all the goals that we scored."
“It is time for you to leave Ronaldo alone in acknowledgement of what he did for Portuguese football,” the coach said.
Santos declined to say if he would change the team and restore Ronaldo to face Morocco.
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Soccer-Argentina had toughest route to World Cup final in 1990 - Gracenote study
But France did have the second-most difficult route in 2006 (8%), followed by West Germany in 1986 (11%), with both teams losing in the final. "Argentina (2014) and Croatia (2018) were the only runners-up with a more favourable route to the World Cup final than their opponents (Germany and France respectively).
If the Netherlands beat Argentina in the World Cup quarter-finals they could face Brazil in the semis but their route to the final will still not be as difficult as Argentina's path in the 1990 edition, a Nielsen's Gracenote analysis has revealed. Since the introduction of the current format of the knockout stage in 1986, the study showed that Argentina had only a 3% chance of beating Brazil, Yugoslavia and hosts Italy in the 1990 tournament, where they lost to West Germany in the final.
On the other hand, France had the most favourable route to the final when they hosted the 1998 edition, beating Paraguay, Italy and Croatia when they had a 35% chance of advancing to the tournament showdown where they upset Brazil. But France did have the second-most difficult route in 2006 (8%), followed by West Germany in 1986 (11%), with both teams losing in the final.
"Argentina (2014) and Croatia (2018) were the only runners-up with a more favourable route to the World Cup final than their opponents (Germany and France respectively). In both cases, they were the underdogs in the final," Gracenote said. "According to Gracenote, Argentina (1986) are the only underdogs in the last nine World Cup finals to go home with the trophy and their chance of 49% to win was the highest of those nine underdogs."
Morocco have already won one game in Qatar as underdogs in the last 16 when they beat Spain on penalties. Along with Croatia, England and the Netherlands, they must all beat two higher-ranked teams to reach the final.
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, December 11, 2022
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HIGH WIND WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
453 AM PST Fri Dec 9 2022
...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...South winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
possible.
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Mountains and Santa Barbara
County Interior Mountains.
* WHEN...From Saturday afternoon through late Saturday night.
* IMPACTS...Damaging winds could blow down large objects such as
trees and power lines. Power outages are possible. Travel
could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Fasten loose objects or shelter objects in a safe
location prior to the onset of winds.
* WHAT...South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
* WHERE...San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys.
...HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING...
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains.
* WHEN...From Saturday evening through Sunday morning.
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
* WHERE...Los Angeles County Mountains.
* WHEN...From Saturday evening through Sunday afternoon.
trees and power lines. Power outages are possible. Travel could
be difficult, especially for drivers of high profile vehicles.
* WHERE...Antelope Valley.
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WFO RENO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 10, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service RENO NV
518 AM PST Fri Dec 9 2022
...Significant Sierra Winter Storm this Weekend...
A significant winter storm is poised to impact the Sierra this
weekend with the potential for several feet of snow from Friday
night into late Sunday. Travel across the Sierra is not
recommended this weekend and may be impossible at times. If you
choose to do so, make sure to have proper supplies and plan for
long delays. Winds will remain strong and gusty in the High Sierra
with periods of stronger winds surfacing in valley locations.
Areas of whiteout conditions will be possible across the Sierra on
Saturday due to strong winds and heavy snowfall.
Lower western Nevada valleys could see spillover rainfall
Saturday as snow levels rise to 5000-6000 feet. Periods of
moderate to heavy rainfall during this timeframe could create some
nuisance flooding for urban and poor drainage areas. Snow levels
will then rapidly drop to all western Nevada valley floors by
Sunday morning which will provide the best chances for a few
inches snow accumulation and travel impacts across lower valleys.
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Soccer-Where will Cristiano Ronaldo go next? Former Manchester United player's options
Several top players have finished their careers in the United States recently and Ronaldo has not closed the door on a switch to the MLS. PARIS ST GERMAIN (14/1) Ronaldo could form an attacking lineup that would be the envy of every club if he decides to head to France with Paris St Germain, who boast the likes of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in their ranks. However, PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi has appeared to close the door on a move for Ronaldo, saying in an interview with Sky News that they were happy with their forwards.
Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo left Manchester United last month after a controversial interview in which he said he had no respect for manager Erik ten Hag. With the January transfer window close, what is his next move? WHAT HAS RONALDO SAID?
Former Real Madrid and Juventus forward Ronaldo said ex-United manager Alex Ferguson persuaded him to rejoin the club for a second spell at Old Trafford, where he won eight major trophies from 2003-09. Ronaldo added in the interview with TalkTV that he was close to joining United's local rivals Manchester City before Ferguson intervened.
He also confirmed reports that he had rejected a massive offer to join a Saudi Arabian side, among others, during the close season to remain at United. Spanish media said during the Qatar World Cup said that Ronaldo was closing in on a deal to join Saudi Arabian side Al Nassr for a staggering 173 million pounds ($211.65 million) per year, but the player said the reports were not true.
The 37-year-old is unlikely to retire yet, having stated that Qatar would probably be his last World Cup and that he plans to stop playing at 40. Below are the odds and most popular bets for Ronaldo's next destination, according to Oddschecker.
CHELSEA (16/1) Ronaldo had been linked in British media with a switch to Chelsea at the end of last season, with the London club in need of firepower up front. Reports in England said Chelsea could renew their interest.
SPORTING (8/1) Ronaldo joined United from Portuguese side Sporting for 12 million pounds in 2003 -- breaking the then British transfer record for a teenager -- after catching the eye of Ferguson and the club's players in a friendly.
His mother, Dolores Aveiro, has previously said she wants to eventually see him back at the Lisbon club. NEWCASTLE UNITED (12/1)
English Premier League side Newcastle United, who have Saudi Arabian owners after their October 2021 takeover by a consortium which includes the nation's Public Investment Fund, have also shown interest in Ronaldo according to British media. ANY MLS CLUB (16/1)
Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham -- a former United player -- said in an interview in 2020 that Messi and Ronaldo were potential targets, underscoring his club's global ambition. Several top players have finished their careers in the United States recently and Ronaldo has not closed the door on a switch to the MLS.
PARIS ST GERMAIN (14/1) Ronaldo could form an attacking lineup that would be the envy of every club if he decides to head to France with Paris St Germain, who boast the likes of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in their ranks.
However, PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi has appeared to close the door on a move for Ronaldo, saying in an interview with Sky News that they were happy with their forwards. "The three players that we have (Messi, Neymar and Mbappe), it's very difficult, but I wish him all the best. He's fantastic and he's still an amazing player."
Al-Khelaifi's comments come after Bayern Munich CEO Oliver Kahn ruled out Ronaldo moving to the Bundesliga giants. ($1 = 0.8174 pounds)
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 12, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Hanford CA
441 AM PST Fri Dec 9 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM SATURDAY TO
4 AM PST MONDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow with total snow accumulations of 3 to 4 feet
expected with isolated heavier amounts to 5 feet. Winds could
gust as high as 50 mph.
* WHERE...Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra specifically above 3,500
feet, Yosemite NP, including Yosemite Valley, and Upper San
Joaquin River. In addition, snow levels are expected to rise
to around 6,000 feet on Saturday evening into Sunday morning
before lowering back to around 3,500 feet by Sunday evening.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Saturday to 4 AM PST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Gusty
winds could bring down tree branches.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can
be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM SATURDAY TO
* WHAT...Heavy snow with total snow accumulations of 2 to 4 feet
expected. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE...Sierra Nevada above 3,500 feet from San Joaquin River
Canyon southward to South End of the Upper Sierra in Tulare
County. In addition, snow levels are expected to rise to
around 6,000 feet on Saturday evening into Sunday morning
* WHEN...From 10 AM Saturday to 4 AM PST Monday.
winds could bring down tree branches. The cold wind chills as
low as 20 below zero could result in hypothermia if
precautions are not taken.
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Skyexch has been awarded as Presenting Sponsor Of Lanka Premier League 2022
Third edition of Lanka Premier League has been started from 6th Dec which will end on 23rd Dec and for this years edition it will be presented by Skyexch.net.The Sri Lanka Premier League LPL 2022 will be held in Colombo. Skyexch.net provides the most recent news from the world of sports.
- Country:
- China
Skyexch.net has been announced as Presenting Sponsor of Lanka Premier League 2022. Third edition of Lanka Premier League has been started from 6th Dec which will end on 23rd Dec and for this year’s edition it will be presented by Skyexch.net.
The Sri Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 will be held in Colombo. The LPL 2022 was originally scheduled to take place from August 1 to August 21, but the country's economic crisis forced the tournament to be postponed indefinitely just weeks before the first match. The Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 has started from Tuesday, December 6, after a three-month delay. In the tournament opener, the defending champions Jaffna Kings will face the runners-up Galle Gladiators. Only three venues will host the 24-match competition. The first few games will be played in Hambantota, followed by Kandy. Similarly, the final ten games, including the knockouts and final, will be held at Colombo's R Premadasa Stadium. Each of the five teams - Jaffna Kings, Galle Gladiators, Colombo Stars, Kandy Falcons, and Dambulla Giants - will play each other twice in the round-robin stage before one is eliminated. Fixtures, Venues and Timings (IST): Tuesday, December 6 – Jaffna Kings vs Galle Gladiators Hambantota 3 PM Tuesday, December 6 – Colombo Stars vs Kandy Warriors Hambantota 7:30 PM Wednesday, December 7 – Dambulla Giants vs Jaffna Kings Hambantota 3:00 PM Wednesday, December 7 – Galle Gladiators vs Kandy Warriors Hambantota 7:30 PM Thursday, December 8 – Dambulla Giants vs Colombo Stars Hambantota 3:00 PM Saturday, December 10 – Kandy Warriors vs Jaffna Kings Kandy 7:30 PM Sunday, December 11 – Colombo Stars vs Galle Gladiators Kandy 3:00 PM Sunday, December 11 – Jaffna Kings vs Dambulla Giants Kandy 7:30 PM Monday, December 12 – Kandy Warriors vs Galle Gladiators Kandy 3:00 PM Monday, December 12 – Colombo Stars vs Jaffna Kings Kandy 7:30 PM Tuesday, December 13 – Dambulla Giants vs Kandy Warriors Kandy 3:00 PM Tuesday, December 13 – Galle Gladiators vs Colombo Stars Kandy 7:30 PM Wednesday, December 14 – Jaffna Kings vs Kandy Warriors Kandy 3:00 PM Wednesday, December 14 – Colombo Stars vs Dambulla Giants Kandy 7:30 PM Saturday, December 17 – Dambulla Giants vs Galle Gladiators RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Saturday, December 17 – Kandy Warriors vs Colombo Stars RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Sunday, December 18 – Galle Gladiators vs Jaffna Kings RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Sunday, December 18 – Kandy Warriors vs Dambulla Giants RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Monday, December 19 – Jaffna Kings vs Colombo Stars RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Monday, December 19 – Galle Gladiators vs Dambulla Giants RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Wednesday, December 21 – Qualifier 1 RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Wednesday, December 21 – Eliminator RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Thursday, December 22 – Qualifier 2 RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Friday, December 23 – Final RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM now talking about Skyexch.net, is an online sports news platform which provides you with the most recent and remarkable sports news. It is must visit sports of cricket news, rankings, football features, kabaddi, event predictions, and more! Skyexch.net provides the most recent news from the world of sports. It also publishes the best news and sporting events from around the world. Mazaplay allows you to not only immerse yourself in the world of sports, but also to fully immerse yourself in the incredible world of sports.
Skyexch.net is your go-to resource for everything sports-related.
And speaking about sponsoring the cricket tournaments Skyexch was announced as title sponsor of Road to Safety World Series 2022 in which team India Legends came victorious as champion.
Skyexch.net has also stepped on other sports like horse racing where it was awarded as title sponsor of Royal Calcutta Turf Club season 2022.
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- Hambantota
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- The Lanka Premier League
- Galle Gladiators
- Lanka Premier League
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 9, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
635 AM CST Fri Dec 9 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.
* WHERE...Across the Coastal Plains, Coastal Bend and the Victoria
Crossroads.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM CST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.
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Mazaplay.net awards the Title sponsor of Lanka Premier League 2022
The Sri Lanka Premier League LPL 2022 will be held in Colombo. Each of the five teams - Jaffna Kings, Galle Gladiators, Colombo Stars, Kandy Falcons, and Dambulla Giants - will play each other twice in the round-robin stage before one is eliminated. Mazaplay.net provides the most recent news from the world of sports.
- Country:
- China
Mazaplay.net has been announced as Title Sponsor of Lanka Premier League 2022.
Third edition of Lanka Premier League has been started from 6th Dec which will end on 23rd Dec and for this year’s edition Mazaplay.net will be the Title Sponsor of the tournament. The Sri Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 will be held in Colombo. The LPL 2022 was originally scheduled to take place from August 1 to August 21, but the country's economic crisis forced the tournament to be postponed indefinitely just weeks before the first match. The Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 has started from Tuesday, December 6, after a three-month delay. In the tournament opener, the defending champions Jaffna Kings will face the runners-up Galle Gladiators. Only three venues will host the 24-match competition. The first few games will be played in Hambantota, followed by Kandy. Similarly, the final ten games, including the knockouts and final, will be held at Colombo's R Premadasa Stadium. Each of the five teams - Jaffna Kings, Galle Gladiators, Colombo Stars, Kandy Falcons, and Dambulla Giants - will play each other twice in the round-robin stage before one is eliminated. Fixtures, Venues and Timings (IST): Tuesday, December 6 – Jaffna Kings vs Galle Gladiators Hambantota 3 PM Tuesday, December 6 – Colombo Stars vs Kandy Warriors Hambantota 7:30 PM Wednesday, December 7 – Dambulla Giants vs Jaffna Kings Hambantota 3:00 PM Wednesday, December 7 – Galle Gladiators vs Kandy Warriors Hambantota 7:30 PM Thursday, December 8 – Dambulla Giants vs Colombo Stars Hambantota 3:00 PM Saturday, December 10 – Kandy Warriors vs Jaffna Kings Kandy 7:30 PM Sunday, December 11 – Colombo Stars vs Galle Gladiators Kandy 3:00 PM Sunday, December 11 – Jaffna Kings vs Dambulla Giants Kandy 7:30 PM Monday, December 12 – Kandy Warriors vs Galle Gladiators Kandy 3:00 PM Monday, December 12 – Colombo Stars vs Jaffna Kings Kandy 7:30 PM Tuesday, December 13 – Dambulla Giants vs Kandy Warriors Kandy 3:00 PM Tuesday, December 13 – Galle Gladiators vs Colombo Stars Kandy 7:30 PM Wednesday, December 14 – Jaffna Kings vs Kandy Warriors Kandy 3:00 PM Wednesday, December 14 – Colombo Stars vs Dambulla Giants Kandy 7:30 PM Saturday, December 17 – Dambulla Giants vs Galle Gladiators RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Saturday, December 17 – Kandy Warriors vs Colombo Stars RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Sunday, December 18 – Galle Gladiators vs Jaffna Kings RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Sunday, December 18 – Kandy Warriors vs Dambulla Giants RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Monday, December 19 – Jaffna Kings vs Colombo Stars RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Monday, December 19 – Galle Gladiators vs Dambulla Giants RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Wednesday, December 21 – Qualifier 1 RPS, Colombo 3:00 PM Wednesday, December 21 – Eliminator RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Thursday, December 22 – Qualifier 2 RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Friday, December 23 – Final RPS, Colombo 7:30 PM Now talking about Mazaplay.net, is an online sports news platform which provides you with the most recent and remarkable sports news. It is must visit sports of cricket news, rankings, football features, kabaddi, event predictions, and more! Mazaplay.net provides the most recent news from the world of sports. It also publishes the best news and sporting events from around the world. Mazaplay allows you to not only immerse yourself in the world of sports, but also to fully immerse yourself in the incredible world of sports. Mazaplay.net is your go-to resource for everything sports-related. Mazaplay.net has already been awarded as associate sponsor between India and New Zealand for limited over series where two teams will play 3 ODIs and 3 T20s from 18th Nov - 30th Nov 2022. In Desert Cup 2022, Mazaplay.net was also Title Sponsor of the Series where Oman, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Bahrain played each other twice on round robin format.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 9, 2022
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FREEZING FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
448 AM PST Fri Dec 9 2022
...FREEZING FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Visibility one half mile or less in freezing fog.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Lower Columbia Basin of Oregon. In
Washington, Yakima Valley and Lower Columbia Basin of
Washington.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM PST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility
and potential frost on bridges.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you. Also, be alert for frost on bridge decks
causing slippery roads.
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WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, December 9, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Seattle WA
441 AM PST Fri Dec 9 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO
10 PM PST THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to 6
to 18 inches.
* WHERE...Olympic mountains including Hurricane Ridge.
* WHEN...From 10 AM this morning to 10 PM PST this evening.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
For the latest road conditions in Washington state, call 5 1 1.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
4 PM PST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to 5
to 24 inches.
* WHERE...Cascade mountains and valleys of Whatcom and Skagit
Counties, including, the Mount Baker Ski Area, and Cascade
mountains of Pierce and Lewis Counties, including the Crystal
Mountain Ski Area, Paradise on Mount Rainier, and Ashford.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon to 4 PM PST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on very difficult travel.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
4 AM PST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Wet snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to
one inch.
* WHERE...Western Kitsap and the lowlands of eastern Jefferson and
Mason Counties, including Brinnon, and Seabeck.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon to 4 AM PST Saturday.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to 5 to 10
inches.
* WHERE...Cascade mountains and valleys of Snohomish and King
Counties, including Skykomish, Stevens Pass, and Snoqualmie
Pass.
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Cricket-England 281 all out as Pakistan's Abrar takes seven on debut
- Country:
- Pakistan
England were all out for 281 in their first innings after electing to bat on the opening day of the second test against Pakistan in Multan on Friday.
Ben Duckett (63) and Ollie Pope (60) scored breezy half-centuries for the touring side who are 1-0 up in the three-test series. For Pakistan, spinner Abrar Ahmed claimed 7-114 on his remarkable test debut.
England, who won the opening match in Rawalpindi by 74 runs, are on their first test tour of Pakistan since 2005.
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- Pakistan
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- Ollie Pope
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Wish to improve my performance at higher level: Para shuttler Sukant Kadam
The ace shuttler is behind France's Lucas Mazur who is currently World and Paralympic champion in SL4.
- Country:
- India
Indian para shuttler Sukant Kadam has achieved World No 2 ranking in SL 4 category following his exploits in the international circuit in the last few months. The ace shuttler finished the year with a gold at the recently concluded Peru Para-Badminton International in Lima. In November, he also won a bronze medal at the BWF Para World Badminton championships in Tokyo.
He smashed his way to a gold medal at the recently concluded Peru Para-Badminton International, defeating ace shuttler defeated Singapore's Chee Hiong Ang. India won 14 medals in total (6 gold, 1 silver and 7 bronze). Sukant maintained his dominance right from the word go in the finals. He defeated Chee Hiong Ang in straight sets with a score line of 21-14 and 21-15. The match lasted 32 minutes. The ace shuttler didn't put a foot wrong and had a great final.
The ace shuttler is behind France's Lucas Mazur who is currently World and Paralympic champion in SL4. Talking about the same Sukant Kadam said, "I am really excited on becoming world no 2, I have put in a lot of hard work in the training which showed in the results that I achieved which helped me to be World No 2."
"It is great to end 2022 being world no 2, this will only motivate me to work harder. But the Jobs are not finished as 2023 is very important year which includes Asian Para Games and also Paralympics Qualifications. I wish to improve on my performance and continue performing at this high level," said the World No.2. (ANI)
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Wish to improve my performance at higher level: Para shuttler Sukant Kadam
The ace shuttler is behind France's Lucas Mazur who is currently World and Paralympic champion in SL4.
- Country:
- India
Indian para shuttler Sukant Kadam has achieved World No 2 ranking in SL 4 category following his exploits in the international circuit in the last few months. The ace shuttler finished the year with a gold at the recently concluded Peru Para-Badminton International in Lima. In November, he also won a bronze medal at the BWF Para World Badminton championships in Tokyo.
He smashed his way to a gold medal at the recently concluded Peru Para-Badminton International, defeating ace shuttler defeated Singapore's Chee Hiong Ang. India won 14 medals in total (6 gold, 1 silver and 7 bronze). Sukant maintained his dominance right from the word go in the finals. He defeated Chee Hiong Ang in straight sets with a score line of 21-14 and 21-15. The match lasted 32 minutes. The ace shuttler didn't put a foot wrong and had a great final.
The ace shuttler is behind France's Lucas Mazur who is currently World and Paralympic champion in SL4. Talking about the same Sukant Kadam said, "I am really excited on becoming world no 2, I have put in a lot of hard work in the training which showed in the results that I achieved which helped me to be World No 2."
"It is great to end 2022 being world no 2, this will only motivate me to work harder. But the Jobs are not finished as 2023 is very important year which includes Asian Para Games and also Paralympics Qualifications. I wish to improve on my performance and continue performing at this high level," said the World No.2. (ANI)
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- Singapore
- Sukant Kadam
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Abrar Ahmed limits England to 281 with 7-114 in debut test
Stokes was baffled by a Ahmeds sharp turner that hit the lefthanders off stump and Jacks was trapped leg before wicket.Mark Wood, the only change England made to its playing XI, struck eight fours in his unbeaten 36 off 27 balls to underline Englands aggressive batting throughout before Mahmood wrapped up Englands innings quickly.Wood, playing his first test since March, replaced injured Liam Livingstone after the allrounder flew back home after injuring his knee during the first Test.
- Country:
- Pakistan
Unheralded Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed bagged a rich haul of 7-114 in a dream debut to dismiss England for 281 inside the two sessions of the second Test on Friday.
The 24-year-old Ahmed mystified England on a turning wicket at the Multan Cricket Stadium after not getting picked for the opening Test at Rawalpindi, which Pakistan lost by 74 runs. Leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood finished off the England tail just before tea to end up with 3-63 after Ahmed had sliced through the top-order with the visitors continuing to bat in their own brand of aggressive cricket and scored at a rate of 5.43.
Ben Duckett (63) and Ollie Pope (60) both scored rapid half centuries before falling to Ahmed in the first session as the legspinner became only the second bowler in test history to pick up five wickets before lunch in his debut test.
Leftarm spinner Alf Valentine of the West Indies was the other bowler to do so when he debuted against England at Manchester in 1950.
Ahmed struck off his fifth ball as captain Babar Azam turned to his mystery spinner as early as in the ninth over after Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bat.
Ahmed challenged England's aggression through his variety of bowling on a wicket offering plenty of assistance to the spinners from the onset and wasn't afraid to lure the England batters through his variations.
Zak Crawley (19) was baffled by Ahmed's sharp delivery which jagged back into him and knocked back his stumps and then the leg-spinner successfully won lbw decisions against Duckett and Joe Root (8) through television referrals.
Duckett and Pope combined in a 79-run stand off 61 balls and briefly dominated even Ahmed through their extravagant reverse sweep shots before the bowler broke through soon after Duckett had completed his half century.
All-rounder Faheem Ashraf and Ahmed were two of the three changes Pakistan had to make after fast bowlers Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah both were ruled out with injuries, and the home team also dropped experienced No. 3 batter Azhar Ali because of lack of form and brought in allrounder Mohammad Nawaz.
England didn't slow down and its fearless approach to score at a rapid pace cost them when Pope was caught at point while going for a reverse sweep and Harry Brook gave a skied shot to Nawaz at mid-off against Ahmed as England reached 180-5 in an extended 2 1/2 first sessions due to Friday prayers.
Captain Stokes (30) and Will Jacks (31) added 61 runs but Ahmed continued to strike after lunch by removing both batters in his successive overs. Stokes was baffled by a Ahmed's sharp turner that hit the lefthander's off stump and Jacks was trapped leg before wicket.
Mark Wood, the only change England made to its playing XI, struck eight fours in his unbeaten 36 off 27 balls to underline England's aggressive batting throughout before Mahmood wrapped up England's innings quickly.
Wood, playing his first test since March, replaced injured Liam Livingstone after the allrounder flew back home after injuring his knee during the first Test.
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Soccer-'Made-in-Sialkot' Adidas ball puts Pakistan in the World Cup
Even though it is a cricket-mad nation, Pakistan is playing a big part in the soccer World Cup by making the balls used on the training fields in Qatar and the replicas sold to fans worldwide. Forward Sports, a multinational sports equipment company in the northeastern city of Sialkot, has been working with Adidas AG for almost 20 years.
Even though it is a cricket-mad nation, Pakistan is playing a big part in the soccer World Cup by making the balls used on the training fields in Qatar and the replicas sold to fans worldwide.
Forward Sports, a multinational sports equipment company in the northeastern city of Sialkot, has been working with Adidas AG for almost 20 years. It is one two manufacturers of Adidas' Al Rihla, the official World Cup ball. Forward Sports Director Hassan Masood Khawaja said his company had made 5.5 million Al Rihla balls, including 60,000 high-quality replicas of the balls used in matches, only without the real-time technology helping referees with offside and line calls.
They are used by the teams as they train in Qatar, and sold as a premium product to football enthusiasts across the globe, with the rest sold as lower-priced leisure and souvenir balls. The match balls are made in China. Adidas declined to identify the manufacturer. For the company, the contract is a source of pride.
"More than business, it is a matter of prestige and honour for us to make the World Cup ball," Khawaja said. "How do we do it? It's the skill of the people ... and our love for the sport," he said.
While soccer is popular among fans, the national side is ranked 194 out of 211 countries by FIFA. Cricket reigns supreme. Sialkot has a rich history of making soccer balls and other sporting equipment dating back to colonial times.
Pakistan remains one of the world's biggest manufacturers of soccer balls, along with China and India. The local chamber of commerce said more than 43 million balls valued at $191 million were made in Sialkot in the 2021/22 financial year. About 8% of Sialkot's population of around 1 million people work in the industry, but many say they have little time to actually see their product in action.
"We work all day," said Forward Sports quality control inspector Amna, when asked if she watched soccer. "At night, when we go home, we need to rest."
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Ball-tampering approved by CA officials before Cape Town scandal, claims Warner's manager
because at the end of the day no one wanted to hear any more of it and hes got on playing cricket. Describing the sandpaper gate scandal as injustice at its greatest level, Erskine said that Warner had been completely villainised, and there was far more than three people involved in this thing.CA is yet to respond to Erskines allegations.
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In a startling revelation, David Warner's manager James Erskine has claimed that Cricket Australia's (CA) officials allowed players to tamper with ball more than a year before the sandpaper gate scandal broke out in the Cape Town Test in 2018.
The players got the go ahead from ''two executives'' after losing a Test match to South Africa in late 2016 in Hobart, according to Erskine.
Then skipper Steve Smith and his deputy Warner were slapped with one-year bans for their role in the 2018 incident while opener Cameron Bancroft was handed a nine-month suspension.
Warner was singled out as the orchestrator of the incident that took place in March in Cape Town and was ruled out of leadership role for the rest of his career.
''Two senior executives were in the changing room in Hobart and basically were berating the team for losing against South Africa,'' Erskine told SEN.
''Warner said: 'We've got to reverse-swing the ball. 'The only way we can reverse-swing the ball is by tampering with it.' ''And they were told to do it.'' In the Hobart Test, Australia were bundled out for 85 in the first innings, although South Africa's Faf du Plessis was later found guilty of ball-tampering.
Even though Erskine did not directly state that the executives involved were from CA, he said, ''He (Warner) has shut up, he protected Cricket Australia, he protected his fellow players ... because at the end of the day no one wanted to hear any more of it and he's got on playing cricket.'' Describing the sandpaper gate scandal as ''injustice at its greatest level'', Erskine said that Warner had been ''completely villainised'', and ''there was far more than three people involved in this thing''.
CA is yet to respond to Erskine's allegations. The sandpaper scandal led to the resignation of then Australian coach Darren Lehmann, although he was not found guilty of any involvement.
An internal review found that CA was ''partly to blame'' for the ball-tampering scandal.
Not prepared to let his family be the ''washing machine for cricket's dirty laundry'', an angry Warner on Wednesday withdrew his application for revocation of lifetime leadership ban, saying the independent review panel wanted him to go through ''public lynching''.
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke supported Warner and accused his country's cricket board of double standards and making the opener the ''scapegoat'' in its messy handling of his captaincy ban following the scandal.
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Soccer-France wary of England's pace and set-piece threat in quarter-final
France will have to be on their toes when they face England in their World Cup quarter-final clash as their opponents have players capable of hurting them on the counter-attack and at set-pieces, coach Didier Deschamps said on Friday. The teams have not met at a major tournament since they drew in the group stage of Euro 2012 but the focus has very much been on the game between two countries that share a sporting rivalry.
France will have to be on their toes when they face England in their World Cup quarter-final clash as their opponents have players capable of hurting them on the counter-attack and at set-pieces, coach Didier Deschamps said on Friday.
The teams have not met at a major tournament since they drew in the group stage of Euro 2012 but the focus has very much been on the game between two countries that share a sporting rivalry. Deschamps, who has won the World Cup with France as a player and coach, said he did not see many weaknesses in the England team but they did have some "slightly less strong points".
"Pace is often one of the keys - when you are quick then the opponents have less time to get organised. But you need more than just pace to score goals," Deschamps said ahead of Saturday's game at Al Bayt Stadium. "You can stop a lot of things but it is very difficult to stop someone very quick, especially in transitions.
"England are very strong in transitions - more than half of their goals have come from quick counter-attacks. But they have other qualities too -- they have technical ability, the capacity to score goals and ability on set-pieces." The spotlight has been on how forward Kylian Mbappe, the tournament's top scorer with five goals, will fare against the England defence, with Kyle Walker saying he would count on his experience of playing him in the past when they square up.
"I'm sure England will have prepared to face him but Kylian is in a position to make a difference," Deschamps said. "Even in his last match he wasn't at his best, not in top form but still decisive (scoring twice in a 3-1 win against Poland). We have other players that can be dangerous as well."
INSIDE KNOWLEDGE France skipper and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has spent the last decade playing in England with Tottenham Hotspur and the 35-year-old said he would be sharing what he has learned from playing in the Premier League with his team mates.
"Some of us play and train with the English players on a daily basis. If we can help our team mates with knowledge from playing with the clubs, we do," Lloris said. "They (England) are good on set pieces, they're tall, they have players who can take good free kicks. We have to be very strong, but our attack has what it takes and can make it difficult for them."
France won the World Cup with a stellar run in Russia four years ago but Lloris said it was the England squad that has more tournament experience than the reigning champions. "If we compare both sides, there were more English players here who were at the World Cup in Russia than France players," Lloris added.
"England reached the semi-finals at the last World Cup and were runners-up at the Euros, there's been a real progression. This team is ready to compete for trophies. They were unlucky at the last Euros, they were close, but they're here to win. "In our side there are changes, there's a new generation of players ready to compete playing in the best clubs in Europe. It's a good mixture of experience and young players, we're getting stronger step by step."
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MI Emirates sign four UAE players for inaugural edition of ILT20
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Mumbai Indians Emirates have signed four UAE players -- Muhammad Waseem, Basil Hameed, Vriitya Aravind and Zahoor Khan -- for the upcoming inaugural season of IL T20.
MI Emirates, led by Kieron Pollard, will be based in Abu Dhabi. The team also has the likes of Dwyane Bravo, Nicholas Pooran, Imran Tahir and Trent Boult in its ranks. MI Emirates will play its first match on January 14 at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi.
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Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit Celebrates 10th Year
Volano Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., Indias leading participative sports firm, hosted the Bengaluru edition of its Xth season of the Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit which saw participation of over 5500 runners making it a truly magnificent experience for all. As the first mover in the space of participative sports, Volano introduced the concept of obstacle running by establishing Devils Circuit in 2012.
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Volano Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., India's leading participative sports firm, hosted the Bengaluru edition of its Xth season of the 'Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit' which saw participation of over 5500 runners making it a truly magnificent experience for all. The one-day event took place on 4th of December 2022at Prestige Grove Park, Whitefield, Bengaluru. Participants came from 19 different Indian states and from 77 different cities. 61-year old Mr. M Venkateshwaran who travelled from Tirunelveli, was the eldest male participant at the Bengaluru edition.
The event also witnessed the 1st blade runner (Glen Padua) of this season. Bengaluru edition witnessed some great competition in the Legends Cup category, where competitive runners from across India ran for the grand prize of a Maruti Suzuki Swift. Aneesh Damodar Reddy won the 1st spot, followed by Sukhchain Singh, and Yadha Krishna following closely in the 2nd and 3rd spot. On the other hand, Women's category saw many ups and downs through the run with Zahabiya Merchant winning her category. She was followed by Jyothi Poojari, Aarti Juikar, who clinched the 2nd and 3rd spots respectively. This season of the Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit also welcomes Apollo Tyres, BunkerFit, Morpheus Dare to Dream, and Puma as associate sponsors. With a tagline of ''Go the distance'', Apollo Tyres has the same DNA as that of the property with a complete focus on overcoming challenges. Puma on the other hand finds a fit with the property on their ''forever faster'' positioning. As Title sponsors of the property- Maruti Suzuki India Limited continue to explore the synergies between brand Swift with its focus on performance and thrill and the Devils Circuit. Together they promote the theme of ''being limitless'' which is epitomized by each participant.
Commenting on the event, Adnan Adeeb, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Volano Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. said, ''I want to dedicate the Begaluru Edition of the Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit to the spirit of this city and to the belimitless attitude of all participants who signed up to enjoy an experience of a lifetime. We aim to make Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit a landmark race and will continuously engage with our devilslayers to make it a bigger and better experience every year. Through this current season, Volano aims to engage over over 50,000 participants through the 8 cities edition which include Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Mohali and Delhi. The continual growth in these established 8 cities and encouraging response from newer cities reaffirms the appeal for disruptive sporting formats in the country. The Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit Season 2022-23 which kick started from Chennai in September will conclude in Delhi NCR in March 2023, where the biggest prize in amateur sports category in Asia- 2 brand New Maruti Suzuki Swift cars shall be awarded to the winners in the Men's and Women's categories.
About Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit, a unique running concept, introduced to India by Volano is a disruptive sports property which has already initiated a revolution in the entire fitness and running category mix . Its model encourages camaraderie between runners as they tackle a running track interspersed with military-style obstacles, including high warped walls, barbed wire and ice.
Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit course with its 15 Military style obstacles is a litmus test for the strength and endurance of any runner. The finishers of Maruti Suzuki Devils Circuit form the tribe of Swift Devil Slayers, the indomitable runners who prove to be limitless when it comes to facing challenges and overcoming the obstacles. After running 5 kilometers and conquering 14 obstacles, it is then the runners faced the Brain Freeze where they had to slide from 14-ft height in to a pool containing 20 ton of ice cubes. Brain Freeze literally froze the runners leaving them shivering as they approached the podium to receive their finisher's medal. W : www.devilscircuit.com About Volano Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Volano Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is India 's Leading participative sports Firm headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana. Credited with the conceptualisation and execution of some of India's biggest participative sports properties, Volano has been responsible for creating brands such as the Devils Circuit, Devils Circuit Swift Challenge, and GameOnIndia.
Co-Founded by Adnan Adeeb and Zeba Zaidi, Volano brings path-breaking and disruptive sports properties that comprise a unique amalgamation of fun and fitness for everyone. With close to 4 decades of experience between the co-founders, Volano has secured trust from brands like, Maruti Suzuki, and Apollo Healthcare, amongst others. As the first mover in the space of participative sports, Volano introduced the concept of obstacle running by establishing Devils Circuit in 2012. This was done with the vision of increasing sports participation among the masses and revolutionizing the concept of running.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, outgoing head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is revealing more about how he navigated his “very uncomfortable” time in President Donald Trump’s administration. (Watch below.)
Fauci told CNN’s Chris Wallace he felt “uncomfortable” publicly disagreeing with Trump during White House briefings.
“And that’s how I evolved essentially in the, you know, public enemy number one of the far-right, which I did not desire to be put in that position,” Fauci said.
Fauci added that he’s happy to cooperate with GOP-threatened House investigations into his pandemic recommendations, even if he becomes a “punching bag” for his critics.
Fauci is set to retire this month following a 54-year career in government that includes 38 years as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director.
Watch more of Fauci’s interview with Wallace below.
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The recent antics of the unlikely trifecta of former President Trump, world’s richest man Elon Musk and superstar rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) have proven once again that being Jewish in America is complicated.
This isn’t news to us. Antisemitic incidents in the U.S., which have been rising for years, hit an all-time high in 2021. Just under a year ago, on the morning of Jan. 15, a gunman held four people hostage in a small-town Texan synagogue. I wasn’t shocked. I wasn’t even surprised. When you’re Jewish, you come to expect this.
Home during winter break from grad school, I walked up to my mother’s room to share the news. When I told her what was happening, her response echoed a deep-seated family belief: “This is why we don’t go to synagogue. This is what your grandfather feared.”
I didn’t grow up in New York or Boston or Los Angeles, where there are sizable Jewish populations. My siblings and I were raised in a small conservative town in rural Alabama. When I say rural, I mean we were raised across the street from 40 acres of cow pasture. Out here in the boonies, birdsong is just as common as hearing people target practice in the woods. I had a neighbor whose son would ride a four-wheeler around with a big Rebel Flag strapped to the back of it, the crooked starry cross flapping and mud-smeared. In addition to its glorification of the painful legacy of slavery and racism, closeted Nazis and fascists frequently use the flag as something of a substitute swastika.
Growing up, we were the only Jewish family in the community. Although only a half-hour north of Birmingham, where there are three synagogues, we grew up isolated from the small Hebrew community there because my parents worked so much to provide for my siblings and me.
My mom turned on her TV, and I sat on her bed as the information trickled in about the hostage situation. The temple, called Congregation Beth Israel, belonged to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Colleyville, a city of fewer than 30,000. One of the hostages was the synagogue’s rabbi.
I wanted to ask my mom if she thought this would become a new Tree of Life massacre, which left 11 Jews dead in 2018. That was Pittsburgh, a city with an old Jewish presence; a supposedly safe place for us. But I kept silent.
Being Jewish in the United States is not black and white. It’s closer to gray, which was my grandfather’s Americanized surname. He was Czech, a Holocaust survivor, refugee and immigrant who died in 1992 from what my family believes to be depression and a shattered heart.
He could’ve chosen a number of names that would’ve better reflected what he was given at birth: Goldberger. My grandfather could’ve been Eugene Gold, a perfect name for what he became in the United States: a helpless gambler and door-to-door salesman.
Instead, he chose the color gray exactly because it sounded generic, so it ― and he ― would blend, like a puff of smoke fading into blue air. Except my grandfather misspelled it as “Graye,” perhaps as a quiet rebellion to signify he was different, foreign.
Eugene never talked about the before-life. He was just a teenager when Hitler rose to power. His story, what happened during the war, went with him when he passed when I was 5. There are a few photos of him in our family album, but I have no memories of him.
About a half-hour into watching the hostage story, I heard my mother talk over the news anchors: “What did Grandpa Graye always say?”
I already knew the litany. “Don’t go to synagogue. Don’t put your names on any lists. Don’t tell anyone you’re Jewish.” She shook her head and puffed on her vaporizer.
I asked Mom: “You don’t feel like you’re hidden, like you’ve lived a closeted life?” My mother was born in Detroit and grew up in Michigan, but Grandpa Graye taught her the same things she taught me: Don’t tell anyone that you’re Jewish. Don’t let them know. Don’t even wear a Star of David around your neck.
My mother shook her head. “I don’t view it that way because you’ve got your religious Jews, and your cultural Jews, and Jews who are just... Jews.”
According to Judaism, if your mother’s Jewish then you’re Jewish no matter what. This applies to me even though my late father came from poor country people in Alabama who had no religion. It means I’m Jewish although my family and I almost never went to synagogue and only occasionally celebrated Chanukah and the high holidays.
As the news networks stalled on the hostage situation in Colleyville, I wandered back to my room. I tried to work on my grad school thesis ― a novel on migrant prison camps on U.S. soil, about the wicked detention-deportation machinery of modern-day America ― but I couldn’t concentrate.
I thought back to when I first heard about the Tree of Life killing, and how much weight and suffering a relatively small number like 11 can carry. Multiply that number times one million and you have an idea of the weight of misery created by the Holocaust.
When I started coming out of the Jewish “closet” in middle school, I was shocked by some of the ignorance and animosity I encountered. In class, I was frequently called “the Jew” or just “Jew.” Some classmates thought this was funny or endearing. I was condemned to hell on a regular basis by people who claimed they loved me. When I was sent to the vice principal’s office for acting out over this, his first suggestion was that I shouldn’t tell anyone I was Jewish.
Being gray in America is nothing like being Black or Brown. What I’ve experienced over a lifetime is a small drop compared to the deluge that is drowning people of color.
But it was different for my grandfather and anybody who grew up Jewish in Europe before the end of WWII. Jews endured centuries of race massacres or pogroms. Even today in the United States, Jews are consistently the most targeted religious group, making up nearly 60 percent of all religiously motivated hate crimes while comprising less than two percent of the population. And, as Ye and NBA star Kyrie Irvine and so much of Elon Musk’s more hate-filled Twitter recently proved, that thinking doesn’t belong only to the folks in white hoods.
Last January, when I reemerged from my room, many hours had passed. My mom had migrated to the downstairs living room to watch the evening news. She was only half-paying attention to the anchors as she picked at a plate of cold food.
“They all got out,” she said.
“Who got out?”
“The people trapped in the temple. They’re safe.”
“What happened?”
“I don’t know, but they’re out.”
“What about the guy who took them hostage?”
“I think he’s dead.”
In the days that followed, I learned the hostage-taker was Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British citizen. Though he had a criminal record in the U.K., Akram had likely never owned a gun before coming to the United States, where he purchased one illegally just days before he knocked on the locked doors of Congregation Beth Israel, posing as a homeless person and asking for shelter.
In negotiations with the police, Akram demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, an al Qaeda agent who was being held at a women’s federal prison in Fort Worth, about 20 miles from the temple. The hostages escaped after the rabbi threw a chair at their assailant and fled through a nearby exit. Then FBI agents cut power to the synagogue, entered the building and shot Akram dead.
In the end, the gunman’s motives provided little clarity. If anything, they made the act seem more senseless and murky.
Congregation Beth Israel’s rabbi later credited the success of his daring escape to emergency preparedness training he’d received. When a news anchor expressed surprise at this, I thought: Really? Every temple I’ve ever visited had locked doors and security guards. Every single one.
Since my adolescence, I’ve guarded my Jewishness. I wonder sometimes if I’d told no one, stayed in the Jew closet, could I have just skipped this walking identity crisis? Could I have forgotten that part of myself and essentially passed as status-quo white America?
The answer is, No. I am Jewish. But that isn’t wholly who I am. No one’s identity is as simple or reducible as Black or white or brown or gray. The racist society we live in might make that fantasy a reality, but inside it’s not true. People are individuals ― people are complicated.
Watching the news with my mother on that January night, I remember looking at our dusty mantel. Atop were two Stars of David, a very plain menorah and, right in the middle, a photo of Grandpa Graye and my brother, easily the best image we have of my grandfather. My brother’s not smiling in the picture, and neither is this big Eastern European man with his baggy blue eyes and sad jowls.
He didn’t teach his children or grandchildren about their culture because he believed he was protecting them. In some ways, he was. I used to think such protectionism erased culture, but now I see it can cultivate its own heritage.
Looking at my grandfather in the photo, I saw that the grayness was as much a part of him as it is of me. However our culture may make us feel about it, the grayscale of identity is something to embrace, not dispel. I may never fully know who I am, but that’s OK. That is part of my identity.
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Athletics-AIU suspends Albanian long jumper, officials for alleged result manipulation
Albanian long jumper Izmir Smajlaj was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Friday along with two senior officials of his nation's athletics body for allegedly breaching World Athletics' Integrity Code of Conduct. "Competition manipulation is a serious threat to the integrity of athletics and the AIU is committed to protecting our sport from it."
Albanian long jumper Izmir Smajlaj was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Friday along with two senior officials of his nation's athletics body for allegedly breaching World Athletics' Integrity Code of Conduct. The Albanian federation's president Gjegj Ruli and general secretary Nikolin Dionisi were charged along with Smajlaj for allegedly giving false information to the global body and the AIU for the result of an event held in Tirana in May 2021.
Smajlaj competed and placed first with a distance of 8.16 metres at the Dita E Kercimeve competition, which earned him a universality spot to compete in last year's Tokyo Olympics. The independent AIU, which oversees integrity issues in international athletics, said the trio were charged for alleged breaches of rules relating to honesty, maintaining the integrity of competition, failure to report and complicity.
"The AIU's mandate is to ensure clean and fair competition, and to hold anyone who may have breached the Integrity Code of Conduct accountable for their actions, including high-ranking officials," AIU Head Brett Clothier said in a statement. "Competition manipulation is a serious threat to the integrity of athletics and the AIU is committed to protecting our sport from it."
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said Friday that she has switched her party affiliation from Democrat to independent.
“I’ve registered as an Arizona independent. I know some people might be a little bit surprised by this, but actually, I think it makes a lot of sense,” Sinema told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview broadcast Friday.
Sinema’s defection may not affect Democrats’ majority in the Senate when the next Congress begins in 2023. The party will still control committees and the Senate floor.
Sinema, who often bucked her party on elements of President Joe Biden’s agenda, said she is removing herself from the “partisan structure.” She added her move will “provide a place of belonging for many folks across the state and the country, who also are tired of the partisanship.”
In an op-ed published in The Arizona Republic on Friday, Sinema wrote she had promised voters to never surrender to pressure coming from either political party.
“My approach is rare in Washington and has upset partisans in both parties,” Sinema wrote. “It is also an approach that has delivered lasting results for Arizona.”
Sinema, as an outlier Democrat, often acted as an obstacle to Biden, including by refusing to eliminate the filibuster, and had already been perceived as an independent.
Two other Senate independents, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, caucus with Democrats. Sinema didn’t specifically say whether she would.
White House press secretary Karine Jean Pierre on Friday hailed Sinema as a “key partner” on some historic legislation Biden promoted over the past 20 months, including the American Rescue Plan.
“We understand that her decision to register as an independent in Arizona does not change the new Democratic majority control of the Senate, and we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work successfully with her,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
A White House official said the administration had been aware of Sinema’s switch since Thursday, adding that her decision changes little for Democrats “except for her reelection path,” according to NBC’s Mike Memoli.
Sinema, who is up for reelection in 2024, was reportedly unpopular with Democratic voters in her state.
A poll by progressive group Data for Progress published last year showed she was likely to lose her 2024 primary. Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego was one potential challenger, according to CNN.
An AARP poll released in September found Sinema was the least popular among Sen. Mark Kelly and now-Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, with 54% of voters saying they had an unfavorable view of her. The survey also showed Sinema’s support was mostly split evenly among Democrats, Republicans and independents, while Kelly and Hobbs enjoyed robust backing from Democrats.
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Long jumper accused of false information to get Olympic spot
It is alleged that false information was submitted to World Athletics and the AIU in support of this competition result, the AIU said.Smajlajs result wasnt good enough to qualify for the Olympics outright, but he got a place under the universality rule that allows countries to send one male and female athlete to the Olympic track events.
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A long jumper and two officials from Albania could face bans after they were accused of submitting false information that helped the athlete get a spot at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
The Athletics Integrity Unit said Friday it had charged long jumper Izmir Smajlaj, Albanian track federation president Gjegj Ruli and the federation's general secretary Nikolin Dionisi with disciplinary offenses over a competition held in Albania in May 2021, two months before the Tokyo Olympics. They are all provisionally suspended until the case is resolved.
Smajlaj was named as the competition winner with a national-record jump of 8.16 meters. ''It is alleged that false information was submitted to World Athletics and the AIU in support of this competition result,'' the AIU said.
Smajlaj's result wasn't good enough to qualify for the Olympics outright, but he got a place under the "universality" rule that allows countries to send one male and female athlete to the Olympic track events. Those athletes still have to provide evidence they have met a certain standard to compete.
Smajlaj jumped 7.86 meters at the Olympics as he failed to qualify for the final. The AIU said in September that Albania was one of seven countries on a ''competition manipulation watch list'' along with Turkey, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. It's not the first time Tokyo Olympic qualifiers have allegedly been manipulated. Swimming's world governing body FINA said last year there was "nefarious behavior" around two swim meets in Uzbekistan just before the Olympics and refused to recognize the results. An Indian swimmer who took part in one of the meets said the results were faked and that he had been offered a bribe to keep quiet.
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Comedy icons Steve Martin and Martin Short didn’t ease up on the jabs as they took turns making fun of each other ― and Jimmy Fallon ― during a late night interview on Thursday.
The “Only Murders in the Building” stars made an appearance on “The Tonight Show” ahead of their shared “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig this weekend.
After an introduction from Fallon, Short went directly after the host, calling him “James Kanye Fallon,” a comedian with the easiest late night show “to fall asleep to.”
Gesturing to the audience, Short added, “Really, tell everyone what you were telling about why it’s finally the right time to suspend the Constitution,” in reference to Donald Trump’s comments this week.
Short, who joined Martin in a roast of Fallon’s appearance, later mocked his own look and said his striped socks looked like “Margaret Hamilton wore [them] in ‘The Wizard of Oz.’”
Martin later jokingly weighed in on the holidays and explained that his favorite part of decorating the tree is putting “a little, tiny star on top.”
“And thank you for being up there, I know that could get uncomfortable,” said Martin as he patted Short on the shoulder.
Watch more of the comedic pair’s hilarious interview on “The Tonight Show” below.
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BWF World Tour Finals: Prannoy stuns world number one Victor Axelsen to end campaign on a high
The 30-year-old from Kerala had lost 21-23 21-17 19-21 in a gruelling 84-minute contest.The top two players in each group will make it to the knockout stage.
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Already out of reckoning, top Indian shuttler HS Prannoy stunned world number one and Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen in three games to end his BWF World Tour Finals campaign with a memorable win here on Friday.
The tie was already inconsequential for Prannoy, seeded third in the tournament, as he had lost his earlier two Group A matches but the Indian pulled off a shock 14-21 21-17 21-18 win over the top seed Dane in 51 minutes to at least end his campaign on a high.
This was Prannoy's second career win over Axelsen, whom he had beaten during the Indonesia Masters last year. The career head-to-head record is, however, in favour of Axelsen at 5-2.
On Thursday, Prannoy had lost to China's Lu Guang Zu in his second Group A match to bow out of the semi-final race. The 30-year-old from Kerala had lost 21-23 21-17 19-21 in a gruelling 84-minute contest.
The top two players in each group will make it to the knockout stage. Prannoy is the lone Indian competing in the season-ending tournament.
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Women's IPL: BCCI invites bids for media rights for five-year period
The procedure to procure the ITT documents is enlisted in Annexure A of the document. The ITT will be available for purchase till December 31, 2022. It has been clarified that merely purchasing the ITT does not entitle any person to bid.
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The BCCI on Friday invited bids for media rights for the Women's Indian Premier League (WIPL) for a five-year period between 2023-27.
''The Governing Council of the IPL invites bids from reputed entities to acquire the Media Rights for the Women’s Indian Premier League Seasons 2023-2027, through a tender process,'' BCCI secretary Jay Shah stated in a media release.
Whether the media rights bid for WIPL will be a sealed one-time bid or incremental e-auction bids has not yet been specified.
The 'Invitation to Tender' (ITT) bid document costs Rs 5 lakh plus applicable tax. The procedure to procure the ITT documents is enlisted in Annexure A of the document. The ITT will be available for purchase till December 31, 2022. Any interested party wishing to submit a bid is required to purchase the ITT.
However, only those satisfying the eligibility criteria set out in the ITT and subject to the other terms and conditions set out therein, shall be eligible to bid. It has been clarified that merely purchasing the ITT does not entitle any person to bid.
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I have been working on my power-hitting: Washington Sundar
They had a good run in the T20 World Cup. The struggling and depleted Indian team will be determined to avoid the ignominy of a clean sweep against Bangladesh in the final ODI of the three-match series here on Saturday.Every game is an opportunity for us to keep getting better, to get the right rhythm, and obviously, perform really well as a team.
He is not the quintessential power-hitter. But, keeping in mind the Indian team's requirements ahead of next year's World Cup, Washington Sundar is working ''specifically'' on how to hit the ball long and hard.
Known to rely more on timing and placement, Washington has also played a few blinders, the most recent coming in the tour of New Zealand. And who can forget his 14-ball 40 against Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, representing Sunrisers Hyderabad. ''That's the role I have been getting in the last few years or so. That's what that particular position demands, and I have working quite specifically that way. ''Whatever positions demand me to do, I have been practising that way. I have been working in those specific manners,'' Washington said on the eve of the third ODI against Bangladesh. Washington is happy that his hard work is reaping dividends.
''I am glad that all the hard work has been coming good in the last few months or so. Hopefully, I will continue to do really well in the coming months and years as well.'' The all-rounder, who has picked up five wickets in the two preceding matches of the series which India have already lost, is looking to be the player for all situations and positions. ''It was a great opportunity for me in last game. With the World Cup next year, I want to be the player who could play in any situation, in any sort of combinations, and wherever the team needs. To win games, wherever they ask me to play, I will play. That's the kind of player I want to be. ''I want to be able to contribute to my potential, contribute in a way that the team gets to win most of the games, and eventually, be very, very successful in the World Cup. I just want to be in the present and keep doing well, keep getting better in every aspect of the game.'' India lost both their matches in Bangladesh from winning positions, having the hosts at 136 for nine in a chase of 187 in the opener and then reducing them to 69 for six before letting them off the hook to make 271 for seven in the second match. ''To be honest, we had our opportunities in both the games, First game, they needed about 50 runs to win with one wicket and we had a good opportunity. And even the last game, we had a good opportunity. ''In the first innings, they were 70 for six and with the way Shreyas and Axar were batting, we we were going to win quite convincingly and Rohit bhai, the kind of knock he played, it was unreal. ''It was just about winning those critical moments, probably doing one or two things better here and there. We will look to end the one-day series on a high.'' Washington was all praise for the Bangladesh side.
''Bangladesh is a high-quality side, especially at home, I think they have lost only one series at home, to England. They had a good run in the T20 World Cup.'' The struggling and depleted Indian team will be determined to avoid the ignominy of a clean sweep against Bangladesh in the final ODI of the three-match series here on Saturday.
''Every game is an opportunity for us to keep getting better, to get the right rhythm, and obviously, perform really well as a team. There is not going to be many games in the next 10 months or so, so every game is very important for us, we want to play a very good brand of cricket no matter who we are playing. ''Our job is to play to our potential and keep getting better whenever we have to. That's the kind of mindset we are in and we will keep looking to improve,' Washington said. Washington has battled a spate of injuries before forcing his way back into the Indian team. ''Definitely quite disappointing with the few injuries that I have had in the past. I just want to live in the present, I am getting opportunities, really want to perform and win games for India consistently. That way things will be very bright for me and we as a team will also be very consistent.'' Asked about getting advice from head coach Rahul Dravid, he said, ''He has got so much experience especially at this level, one-day format, he has played so many games. So obviously, he had lots of insights to share and every conversation with him is very valuable.'' PTI AH AH KHS KHS
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Cricket-Australia dominate as Head, Labuschagne tons hit Windies in Adelaide
Devon Thomas finally broke the stand when he had Labuschagne caught behind after the batsman's 305-ball knock which included 14 fours. Thomas nearly removed Cameron Green (nine) with the next delivery but the edge fell tantalisingly short of the slip fielder.
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Australia's Travis Head fell short of a maiden double hundred as the hosts declared their first innings on 511-7 and reduced West Indies to 102-4 to tighten their grip on the day-night second test at the Adelaide Oval on Friday. Head smashed a career-best 175 and combined in an epic 297-run partnership for the fourth wicket with Marnus Labuschagne, whose 163 followed his 204 and 104 not out in the series opener in Perth.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul was batting on 47 at stumps with Anderson Phillip on one at the other end. West Indies, still 409 behind, will need something extraordinary to escape a 2-0 series defeat.
Earlier, after the home side resumed on 330-3, Head overtook Labuschagne to the 150-mark reaching the milestone in 182 balls. Devon Thomas finally broke the stand when he had Labuschagne caught behind after the batsman's 305-ball knock which included 14 fours.
Thomas nearly removed Cameron Green (nine) with the next delivery but the edge fell tantalisingly short of the slip fielder. Head looked in imperious form but an almighty mix-up with Green put paid to his hopes of a test 200. The left-hander hit 20 fours in his whirlwind knock.
Alex Carey made 41 not out down the order before Steve Smith, leading the side in the absence of regular skipper Pat Cummins, declared their innings 20 minutes before the tea break. Michael Neser gave Australia the breakthrough with the ball by dismissing West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite (19) caught by Carey and they combined again to send back Shamarh Brooks (eight).
Nathan Lyon took a return catch to remove Jermaine Blackwood (3) and Thomas (19) dragged a Green delivery onto his stumps as the tourists slumped to 90-4. "The boys set it up with the bat, kept them out there for nearly two days and we took advantage of the evening conditions," Naser said.
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Ahmed's 7-114 on Test debut helps Pakistan rein in England
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Unheralded Abrar Ahmed bagged a rich haul of seven wickets in a dream debut as Pakistan's spinners kept England's aggression in check on the first day of the second Test on Friday.
The 24-year-old mystery spinner grabbed 7-114 and got plenty of help from the dry wicket at Multan Cricket Stadium to dismiss England for 281 inside the first two sessions.
England got rid of both Pakistan openers — Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique — early before captain Babar Azam's unbeaten 61 carried the home team to 107-2 at stumps when bad light stopped play with 10 overs still remaining in the day. Saud Shakeel, who scored a gritty half century in Pakistan's 74-run defeat in the first Test at Rawalpindi, was not out on 32.
Ahmed was surprisingly left out from the first test despite picking up 43 wickets in this season's first class tournament. He mystified England with his sharp googlies and carrom balls with only Ben Duckett (63) and Ollie Pope (60) scoring rapid half centuries.
Leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood made a forgetful Test debut at Rawalpindi, but finished off the tail just before tea to end up with 3-63 after Ahmed's brilliance constantly posed challenges to England's aggression.
Duckett and Pope both scored half centuries in the first session before falling to Ahmed as the legspinner became only the second bowler in the history to pick up five wickets before lunch in his debut Test and England reached 180-5.
Left-arm spinner Alf Valentine of the West Indies was the other bowler to do so when he debuted against England at Manchester in 1950.
Ahmed struck off his fifth ball as Babar turned to his mystery spinner as early as in the ninth over after Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bat.
Ahmed challenged England's aggression through his variety of bowling on a wicket offering plenty of assistance to the spinners inside the first hour and wasn't afraid to lure the England batters through his variations.
Zak Crawley (19) was baffled by Ahmed's sharp delivery which jagged back into him and knocked back his stumps and then the leg-spinner successfully won lbw decisions against Duckett and Joe Root (8) through television referrals.
Duckett and Pope combined in a 79-run stand off 61 balls and briefly dominated even Ahmed through their extravagant reverse sweep shots before the bowler broke through soon after Duckett had completed his half century.
All-rounder Faheem Ashraf and Ahmed were two of the three changes Pakistan had to make after fast bowlers Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah both were ruled out with injuries, and the home team also dropped experienced No. 3 batter Azhar Ali because of lack of form and brought in all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz.
England didn't slow down and its fearless approach to score at a rapid pace cost them when Pope was caught at point while going for a reverse sweep and Harry Brook gave a skied shot to Nawaz at mid-off against Ahmed as England reached 180-5.
Captain Stokes (30) and Will Jacks (31) added 61 runs but Ahmed continued to strike after lunch by removing both batters in his successive overs. Stokes was shocked by Ahmed's sharp turner that hit the lefthander's off stump and Jacks was trapped leg before wicket.
Mark Wood, the only change England made to its playing XI, struck eight fours in his unbeaten 36 off 27 balls to underline England's aggressive batting throughout the innings before Mahmood wrapped up England's innings quickly.
Wood, playing his first Test since March, replaced all-rounder Liam Livingstone, who flew back home after injuring his knee during the first test.
Veteran James Anderson struck early when he found the outside edge of Imam in his second over without scoring before wicketkeeper Pope held on to another thin edge of Shafique's bat against Jack Leach when England successfully went for television referral.
Leach couldn't get much purchase of the wicket with the new ball after Stokes went to his spinners from the onset in the last session.
Babar, who pushed himself at No. 3 after Azhar was dropped, was fluent against both spin and pace and completed his half century off 57 balls late in the last session before bad light brought an early closure.
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AIFF to strictly follow transparency in financial dealings, to address trust deficiency: Secy Gen Prabhakaran
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The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been suffering from trust deficit for some time and the new administration's endeavour is to build a positive image of the organisation with emphasis on transparency in financial dealings, a top official said.
The committee of administrators which ran the affairs of the AIFF before being disbanded in August had informed the Supreme Court that the forensic audit of the federation accounts had prima facie revealed massive siphoning of funds by its previous management headed by former union minister Praful Patel.
''Trust (of the public) towards the AIFF was missing due to whatever had happened earlier. We have to restore that, and we will do it,'' Prabhakaran told PTI in an interview.
''We are serious, this organisation is answerable (to the public) and that is why we are stressing on transparency.'' He said the AIFF is waiting for the forensic report which could be used in reforming the financial aspect of its administration.
''We are eagerly waiting because this matter is in the Supreme Court. Once the forensic audit report comes to us, we are ready to take whatever actions are required, because it is fundamental for us to have a sound and transparent financial management system,'' he said.
''That forensic audit report will tell us what are the gaps. Once we get the report we will be able to act as swiftly as possible. We want to understand the gaps, if there was serious bungling or whatever corruption happened that report will show us. That report will be the basis for our reform on the financial part.'' The Supreme Court in an earlier hearing had asked for an interim and final report of the forensic audit of the AIFF -- which indicated large scale siphoning and defalcation of funds by the Patel-led executive committee -- to be submitted to the sports ministry and orally directed it to proceed under law.
''Confidence (of the public) will come from our transparent work, open communication. We are not developing a nuclear project. We are developing players, football development. This has to be as open as possible,'' Prabhakaran, who took charge on September 7, said. ''We are talking of plans of more than 20 years. We have to except the problems. Our youth players and women players are not getting competitive games, we have several weakness. We have to accept that and try to find out solutions,'' he said referring to the roadmap the new AIFF office bearers will reveal in the second half of this month.
Women's football development is one of the priority areas of the new dispensation and Prabhakaran said the national league (IWL) will be restructured.
''We will have the new structure of the women's league (IWL) from next season. There will be divisions also. They (women players) should have economic value, that will be the focus.'' He said the senior men's team will play international friendly matches in all the FIFA windows of the coming year, so that the players can prepare well for the AFC Asian Cup, to be held in Qatar in January 2024.
''We will not be missing any FIFA international friendly days to prepare well for the Asian Cup. In the last two months, we are in the hunt to find teams (for international friendly matches), we are constantly working on it.
''We will give the team enough matches according to what the coach wants. The tournament will be in the middle of season and it will be a good situation. It is an opportunity for us to prepare optimally and showcase our ability.'' Prabhakaran also defended the AIFF's decision to pull out of the race to host the 2027 Asian Cup. He, however, said that the AIFF will reconsider making bids for big tournaments in four years' time.
''It (hosting 2027 Asian Cup) is a serious investment, we have to divert a lot of focus, attention, resources towards that. But we have to act strategically, what is the value we want to derive from that. It should be very concrete and tangible.
''We have to think whether we will be gaining commercially, or gaining on development aspect of the team. One is the economic part, one is the football growth part and impact overall. That is very scientific.
''We think right now we are not ready for that. Our focus right now will be on capacity building. We have to make our team strong, have strong competitions, strong structure, good governance.'' He said performance of the team is also important when the AIFF opts to bid for big events.
''We have to see whether we have players or team who can compete because we cannot expose ourselves. We cannot show ourselves as weak. Right now whatever we are thinking or planning, it does not fit in. May be four years later, it can fit in.''
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Soccer-World Cup memorabilia proves a big draw for football fans in Qatar
Football fans in Doha have been flocking to see a collection of World Cup memorabilia put on show by two Qatari brothers and featuring medals, balls and shirts worn by the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as some more obscure items. Fans from all over the world have been able to view everything from a shirt issued to Netherlands winger Arjen Robben for the 2010 final in South Africa to Diego Maradona's USA 94 World Cup ID among the rare soccer artefacts owned by the Almeer brothers, Esmael and Khalid.
Football fans in Doha have been flocking to see a collection of World Cup memorabilia put on show by two Qatari brothers and featuring medals, balls and shirts worn by the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as well as some more obscure items.
Fans from all over the world have been able to view everything from a shirt issued to Netherlands winger Arjen Robben for the 2010 final in South Africa to Diego Maradona's USA 94 World Cup ID among the rare soccer artefacts owned by the Almeer brothers, Esmael and Khalid. "I collected cards and stickers and swapped them with other children at school as a child in the USA. We moved back to Qatar but the love for collecting sports memorabilia stayed with me ever since," Esmael told Reuters, explaining the genesis of the collection.
A former player for Qatar's national youth teams, Esmael saw the tournament as a perfect opportunity to share their collections with the world. "Me and my brother Khalid, who is also an avid World Cup memorabilia collector, organised a football collectibles exhibition at the Katara cultural village on the sidelines of the World Cup in Qatar."
England fan Simon Ebrington was wide-eyed as he took in the objects on show. "It's an insane amount of memorabilia ... I saw some photos over there and images of Roberto Carlos, he's my all-time number one footballer," he told Reuters.
The shirts are displayed behind glass panels on the walls at Building 18 in the Katara cultural centre with other items, including a promotional ball for the 2002 World Cup signed by Pele and a staff pass for the 1966 final at Wembley, which are stored in glass cases. FAMOUS NUMBER 7
Portugal's Ronaldo may be wearing his famous number 7 at his fifth World Cup, but back in 2006 he wore number 17 as he made his tournament debut, and the Almeer brothers have one of his shirts from the third-place playoff against Germany in their exhibition. "I now have 150 match worn shirts and I focus mainly on World Cup shirts and European Championship shirts," Esmael says, adding that his favourite shirt is one from the former Yugoslavia that was worn by striker Davor Suker.
As indicated by the sale of Maradona's "Hand Of God" shirt from the 1986 World Cup for 7.14 million pounds to an anonymous buyer, rare items can have enormous value, and collectors have to be wary of fakes on the market. "Alan Ball's shirt from the 1966 World Cup final just sold at auction for 130,000 pounds this morning, and I would expect a 2022 winning shirt from Argentina, England or Brazil to fetch between 100,000 and 200,000 pounds," expert Barry Rojack of the Irish Sports Museum told Reuters.
Esmael says that the most valuable item they have is a 1978 World Cup winner's medal and that he sources most of his shirts through a company in the United Kingdom. "The owner is a reliable and trusted seller who buys from retired footballers and then helps collectors build their match-worn shirt collections," he said.
Esmael got a surprise early on in the exhibition when visitor Alex Tobin pointed to a very rare Australia shirt that had been worn in a game against Sweden in 1996 -- and told the collector that he had worn the shirt while playing centre-back for Australia in that game. "I didn't even know when I met him, he's such a humble person," Esmael said, with a note of incredulity.
"We had visitors from all over the world walk in to our exhibition, and this was a joyful experience that I'll never forget," he added.
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Cricket-Abrar claims seven on debut, Babar leads Pakistan's reply in Multan
Abrar got his fifth when Harry Brook offered a skier which Mohammad Nawaz took at mid-off. The flurry of wickets notwithstanding, England did not abandon their aggressive batting philosophy and raced to 180-5 at lunch, which is most in the first session on day one of a test match.
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Pakistan's Abrar Ahmed made a stunning test debut claiming seven for 114 to bowl out England for 281 on a frenetic opening day of the second test in Multan on Friday.
Pakistan were 107-2 in reply, with skipper Babar Azam leading their bid for a series-levelling victory with a fluent 61 not out. Saud Shakeel was on 32 at the other end when bad light stopped play.
Pakistan are still 174 behind but will be happy how they have bounced back from the defeat in the opening test in Rawalpindi. A bespectacled spinner mowing down the top half of England's explosive batting lineup in the first session of his debut test is hardly what Ben Stokes would have expected after he won the toss and elected to bat.
Pakistan had already been without pace spearhead Shaheen Afridi who had been ruled out of the series following an appendicitis surgery. Their fast bowling resources were further depleted after Haris Rauf (thigh) and Naseem Shah (shoulder) suffered injuries in Rawalpindi along with top order bat Azhar Ali (finger).
Pakistan opted for a spin-heavy attack while rejigging the squad, picking Mohammad Ali as their lone specialist seamer sharing the new ball with all-rounder Faheem Ashraf. Their three replacements included Abrar and the leg-spinner impressed immediately after being introduced into the attack in the ninth over.
The 24-year-old tasted success with his fifth delivery which he spun through the gate to dismiss Zak Crawley (19). Ben Duckett (63), one of the four Englishmen to smash a hundred in Rawalpindi, raced to a 40-ball 50 before falling leg- before in an eventful Abrar over.
It began with Duckett using review to overturn an lbw decision against him and ended with Pakistan taking the same route to reverse a not-out decision and remove the opener. The Abrar-review combination also accounted for the wicket of Joe Root (eight) on a forgettable day for the on-field umpires who had to reverse several of their decisions.
Ollie Pope used one such review to prolong his innings and went on to smash a run-a-ball 60 before playing one reverse sweep too many. Abrar got his fifth when Harry Brook offered a skier which Mohammad Nawaz took at mid-off.
The flurry of wickets notwithstanding, England did not abandon their aggressive batting philosophy and raced to 180-5 at lunch, which is most in the first session on day one of a test match. When they returned after the break, Stokes (30) and Will Jacks (31) produced breezy cameos before both fell to Abrar.
Particularly impressive was the googly with which he bowled Stokes who was left open-mouthed by the dismissal. Zahid Mahmood dismissed Ollie Robinson and Jack Leach in successive deliveries and finished with 3-63 as England lost all 10 wickets to spin bowling.
Pakistan lost Imam-ul-Haq early in their reply and the other opener, Abdullah Shafique, soon after crossing the 50-mark but Babar looked in his elements hitting nine fours and a six.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Tennis-Poland's Majchrzak provisionally suspended for failing drug test
Poland's Kamil Majchrzak has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) for failing a drug test, with the player saying he did not knowingly take a banned substance and that the news was "the biggest shock." The 77th-ranked Majchrzak, who won the Challenger Tour event in Busan, South Korea in October and reached the semi-finals of an ATP 250 event in Pune, India earlier this year, did not provide further details about the banned substance.
Poland's Kamil Majchrzak has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) for failing a drug test, with the player saying he did not knowingly take a banned substance and that the news was "the biggest shock."
The 77th-ranked Majchrzak, who won the Challenger Tour event in Busan, South Korea in October and reached the semi-finals of an ATP 250 event in Pune, India earlier this year, did not provide further details about the banned substance. The ITIA said on Friday that Majchrzak had provided samples from tournaments at Sofia in September and Japan and Seoul in October which were found to contain three banned substances (SARM S-22, LGD-4033 and PPARδ agonists).
"I have some incredibly sad and difficult news to share with everyone. I have tested positive in anti-doping controls during October and November 2022," Majchrzak wrote in a post on Instagram on Thursday. "Firstly, I have never, ever, knowingly taken any banned substance. At this moment I have no idea what has happened and this is the biggest shock.
"I have started the most difficult fight of my life -- the fight to prove my innocence and to return to the sport I love." The ITIA said the player can request that his B samples are analysed to see if they confirm the A sample findings.
"While provisionally suspended, he is ineligible to compete in or attend any sanctioned tennis events organised by the governing bodies of the sport," the ITIA said.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Will take traditional sports international, says sports minister Anurag Thakur
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday assured the Lok Sabha that traditional sports such as Mallakhamb, Thang Ta, Yogasana, Gatka and Kalpetta will soon go international, and the ministry will open 1,000 Khelo India centres across the country by August 15 next year.As the Lok Sabha resumed on Thursday debate on sports and the steps taken by the government in this regard, several MPs urged the government to create sports infrastructure in rural areas and initiate measures to include rural youth in selections.
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Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday assured the Lok Sabha that traditional sports such as Mallakhamb, Thang Ta, Yogasana, Gatka and Kalpetta will soon go international, and the ministry will open 1,000 Khelo India centres across the country by August 15 next year.
As the Lok Sabha resumed on Thursday debate on sports and the steps taken by the government in this regard, several MPs urged the government to create sports infrastructure in rural areas and initiate measures to include rural youth in selections. The discussion started in Lok Sabha on March 31, during the Budget Session of Parliament.
In his reply on Friday, Thakur said the focus of the government is towards identifying talent from the rural areas and training them to become international athletes. He said the demand is that Khelo India centres must be opened in rural areas. ''We will start with opening 1,000 Khelo India centres. The process for 733 such centres has already started and by next August 15, we will finish the work of opening 1,000 Khelo India centres,'' the minister said.
Thakur further said there is a need to move beyond the sense of region and state to embrace the spirit of team India. He recalled Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement that when a sportsman wins in a game, it gives Indians a chance to celebrate the concept of ''Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat''.
In 2014, the budget for the sports ministry was increased from Rs 1,219 crore to Rs 3,062 crore, he said, adding, ''The expenditure has been less for just one year -- 2020-21 -- when the country was battling Covid. In 2022-23 it again increased.'' Stating that there is discrimination against para-athletes, Thakur said India's Olympics performance in this category has improved.
''I want to say whether it is paralympics, deaf olympics or summer olympics, we have won most medals. Seven in the Olympics, 19 in the paralympics and 16 in the deaf olympics. We worked towards changing perceptions towards sports. PM Modi says that 100 per cent effort must be given and one should not lose hope. Taking the cue, our athletes have performed very well,'' he said.
Thakur also mentioned how through the Khel Mahakumbh in Gujarat, villagers were given an opportunity to play sports. He urged MPs to organise Khel Mahakumbh in their constituencies which will give them chance to connect with the youth of the country.
The sports ministry has an inventory of 16,000 indoor stadiums, open grounds and hockey stadiums across the country, he said. To a query on lab testing, Thakur said the National Forensic Science University and the Youth Affairs Ministry have signed an agreement with nutritional supplement testing laboratories to provide athletes supplements that do not get them barred from international events.
Thakur said the government started Fit India certification and Fit India schools week was organised. During Covid 4.3 lakh schools had participated, he said.
''Promoting traditional games, in Khelo India youth games five traditional games have been included. They are Mallakhamb, Thang Ta, Yogasana, Gatka and Kalpetta. Many athletes participated and they are not regional but national and soon they will be made international,'' he said.
Thakur also said the ministry has made changes in its policy and many administrative posts were surrendered and 398 coaches are in the process of being hired in 21 disciplines.
''Sports is a state subject and states have a very important role to play in it... We brought transparency in our work and increased representations of players too. I assure that the government is not leaving any stone unturned to promote sports in the country,'' the minister added.
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Let me tell you a secret about sports media, specifically the prospect writers: No one knows anything. There’s experience to draw upon, trends to identify, projectable attributes, and other buzzwords that make you think someone knows what they’re talking about when talking about players acquired.
That doesn’t mean scouts and other evaluators’ opinions don’t matter, but sometimes the hardest thing to do is be patient. So I ask you, a quick exercise this morning, go back to this date, December 9, 2015, it’s David Stearns first Winter Meetings and Adam Lind is traded.
The return from the Mariners are three teenagers that had what we call “high-risk, high-reward,” translation: we have no idea how this could play out. Do you remember any of the players acquired back?
RHP Carlos Herrera, he was released in A-Ball. RHP Daniel Missaki was recovering from Tommy John surgery at the time of the trade. He ended up never throwing a pitch in the organization, and is now in the Japan’s Eastern League.
The last pitcher? Freddy Peralta. At 5’11 and a funky arm slot, you just never know what you’re looking at until it arrives.
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Cpl Amar Singh Devanda represents India in 24 Hrs Ultra Marathon in Taiwan
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24 Hrs Ultra Marathon was organised by Chinese Taipai Association of Ultra runners for 2022 at Soochow University, Taiwan. Cpl Amar Singh Devanda represented India in the event. A total of 31 runners comprising 21 males and 10 females from 5 countries participated in the event. The competition started at 0900 hrs on 03 Dec 22 and culminated at 0900 Hrs on 04 Dec 22. Cpl Amar bagged sixth position by covering a distance of 204.47 Kms. He covered 510 Laps (400 m each) in the stadium in 24 Hrs.
Prior to this, during Asia-Ocenia 24 Hrs Championship 2022 held at Bengaluru, Cpl Amar covered 257.618 Kms on 03 Jul 22 thus creating a new national record. The Indian team lead by him stood first in the championship.
His efforts were highly appreciated by Air Marshal S Prabhakaran, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Air Command, Indian Air Force and was awarded with on the spot commendation by him on 08 Dec 22 for excellence in sports.
(With Inputs from PIB)
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