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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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TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas Governor Laura Kelly will be sworn-in to her second term in office next month, but first, a slate of events will be hosted across the state leading up to Inauguration Day.
On Thursday, the Kelly-Toland Inaugural Committee announced an official list of events for the Inauguration of Gov. Kelly and Lieutenant Governor, David Toland.
“We are excited to include people across the state in the Inaugural celebration,” Gov. Kelly said. “I look forward to working together to invest in our schools, support our families and commit to improving Kansas communities.”
The committee released a full schedule of events starting on Saturday, Jan. 7, leading up to Inauguration Day on Monday, Jan. 9. The celebration kicks off with “A Day of Service” on Saturday.
The Inaugural Ball will be held January 8 at Stormont Vail Events Center at 6 p.m. Single ball tickets start at $250 each.
An Interfaith Service will be held in the morning on Inauguration Day, prior to an official Swearing-In Ceremony at noon.
For more information on all inaugural events, please visit the website here.
According to the committee, more information regarding the events will be released on the website in the coming days.
Here’s a full list of the inaugural events, below:
KELLY-TOLAND INAUGURAL SCHEDULE
WHAT: Day of Service
WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023
WHERE: Locations vary, forthcoming information can be found here
WHO: Lieutenant Governor David Toland
WHAT: Inaugural Ball
WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023 at 6 PM CT
WHERE: Stormont Vail Expo Center, 1 Expocentre Dr., Topeka, KS 66612
WHO: In honor of Governor Laura Kelly and Lieutenant Governor David Toland
WHAT: Interfaith Service
WHEN: Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 at 9 AM CT
WHERE: Old Supreme Court Room (346-S), Kansas State Capitol, 300 W. 10th Ave., Topeka, KS 66612
WHO: Governor Laura Kelly, Lieutenant Governor David Toland, and leaders from various faith and religious backgrounds from across the state of Kansas
WHAT: Inaugural Swearing-in and Oath of Office Ceremony
WHEN: Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 at 12 PM CT
WHERE: Kansas State Capitol, South Lawn, 300 W. 10th Ave., Topeka, KS 66612
WHO: Governor Kelly, Lt. Governor Toland, and newly elected statewide officials
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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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(The Hill) — The nation’s animal shelters are overcrowded and understaffed. Thousands of pets face possible euthanasia if no one steps forward to adopt them.
Here are six ways to help.
Adopt a pet.
The national pet adoption network depends on a steady supply of humans to adopt cats and dogs other humans have given up. Surveys suggest only 25 to 30 percent of American households acquire pets from shelters. If that figure rose by even a few percentage points, animal advocates say, the current crisis would ease.
Shelter pets ran in short supply in the early months of the pandemic, which led many families to look elsewhere. That shortage seeded a misguided notion that rescue animals are hard to find: They’re not.
“We’re actually seeing that from millennials, which is concerning,” said Julie Castle, CEO of Best Friends Animal Society.
Or, don’t adopt a pet.
Many pets sitting in shelters today belonged to families whose lifestyles changed dramatically when the COVID-19 pandemic receded, forcing millions of Americans out of their homes and back into offices.
Adopting a pet is akin to becoming a parent. Before you adopt, “take an honest stock of your own life,” said Dr. Rebecca Greenstein, a veterinarian near Toronto who serves as medical adviser to Rover.com, the pet-sitting and pet-walking service.
Adopting a pet and then surrendering it to a shelter is “worse than not adopting them,” she said.
Donate money or time to a shelter.
The nation’s animal shelters have suffered chronic staffing shortages since the start of the pandemic, owing to COVID-19 outbreaks and economic forces. Nonprofit shelters also tend to run short of funds.
Volunteering time or donating funds can help a shelter weather the overcrowding crisis.
“There are many jobs beyond helping strictly within a shelter,” said Hannah Stember of Best Friends. Crucial tasks include posting information on animals ready for adoption and arranging transport from overcrowded shelters to facilities with available space.
Foster pets.
Overcrowded shelters rely on a network of foster parents to provide crucial extra space for animals awaiting adoption.
Pet fostering is a relatively easy way to support a local shelter. Foster arrangements are generally short-term, and the shelter typically supplies food and medication.
“Most people have a spare bathroom or spare room in their house,” said Castle, of Best Friends. “Just two weeks where you can have those kittens in your bathroom, caring for them and feeding them, I can’t tell you how much that helps the organization. If every American did that, it would solve the issue tomorrow.”
Neuter and spay.
Not all pet owners choose to neuter and spay, but the procedure prevents overpopulation in the dog and cat kingdoms.
There is a downside: The American Kennel Club reports that spaying and neutering can increase the risk of certain medical conditions, especially among very large male dogs.
But other research points to longer lives for spayed or neutered pets. And overpopulation can mean a death sentence for pets that cannot find homes.
Consider dog-walkers and pet-sitters.
In the peak pandemic years, pet owners “inadvertently raised a generation of puppies and kittens who know nothing other than 24-7 togetherness,” Greenstein said.
Now, humans are being prodded back to the office, a shift that can be disastrous for a pet. Despairing owners may feel they have no choice but to surrender the pet to a shelter.
There are other options, especially with the rise of Rover and other pet-sitting and dog-walking services.
“It really makes pet ownership much more realistic for people who are going back to work,” Greenstein said. “And these options didn’t exist many years ago.”
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(NewsNation) — Each morning, the U.S. national anthem echoes from the walls of detained American citizen Paul Whelan’s Russian prison cell.
“He gets up every morning and sings the national anthem, I think as much to irritate the guards as to keep his own morale up,” Whalen’s brother, David Whelan, said. “And I think he is determined to survive, but I think you have to wonder how long he can continue to do that.”
Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, has lost about 20% of his body weight since he was detained four years ago on suspicion of being a spy. His family says he was in Moscow attending a wedding.
Though they can speak to him on the phone, 2020 Associated Press photos of Paul Whelan inside a Russian courtroom are the most recent references his family has for what he might look like today.
On Wednesday, the family learned that another American, WNBA star Brittney Griner, would return home in a prisoner swap; the Russian government, however, is not budging on his case.
Griner had been serving a sentence in a Russian penal colony since February. Customs agents said they found cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s airport at the time, leading to her incarceration.
Her release Thursday was part of a prisoner swap for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the so-called Merchant of Death.
Now, Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, said the Griners will advocate from the U.S. for the release of other Americans held as prisoners in Russia.
“BG and I will remain committed to the work of getting every American home, including Paul, whose family is in our hearts today as we celebrate BG being home,” Cherelle Griner said. “We do understand that there are still people out here who are enduring what I endured the last nine months of missing tremendously their loved ones. So, thank you, everybody, for your support.”
David Whelan suspects Brittney Griner will have an outsize influence to draw attention to other U.S. citizens detained abroad.
At the end of the day, however, media influence and public sentiment aren’t likely to have the same impact in Paul Whelan’s case, his brother said.
“That’s unfortunate for Paul and for the wrongful detainees, but I think it’s great news if Miss Griner can bring her name and her energy to making sure the U.S. government is proactive and being more assertive to resolve these cases quickly, like they did in her case,” David Whelan said.
As the Whelan family continues to wait, it’s his brother’s kindness David Whelan said his family misses the most.
“I hope that when it comes out the other side, that these rituals … the singing and other things that he does to keep his mind squared away, the survival training to us from the Marine Corps will help him to still be the person that we knew before he got there,” David Whelan said.
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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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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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(The Hill) — Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has announced that she will leave the Democratic Party and officially register as an 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 said in an interview Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper in her Senate office.
“I’ve never fit neatly into any party box. I’ve never really tried. I don’t want to,” she added. “Removing myself from the partisan structure — not only is it true to who I am and how I operate, I also think it’ll provide a place of belonging for many folks across the state and the country, who also are tired of the partisanship.”
The announcement from Sinema comes just days after Democrats solidified a 51-49 majority in the upper chamber with Sen. Raphael Warnock’s win in Georgia.
Sinema declined to say whether she will caucus with Democrats like independent Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Angus King (Maine), but the Arizona senator said she plans to continue in her committee assignments.
“When I come to work each day, it’ll be the same,” Sinema said. “I’m going to still come to work and hopefully serve on the same committees I’ve been serving on and continue to work well with my colleagues at both political parties.”
Sinema, who began her political career in the Green Party, published an op-ed in The Arizona Republic on Friday explaining her decision to become an Independent.
“When politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans’ lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans,” she wrote.
“That’s why I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington.”
The senator, elected in 2018 after a six-year stint in the House, added that her change in partisan affiliation “won’t change my work in the Senate.”
“If anyone previously supported me because they believed, contrary to my promise, that I would be a blindly loyal vote for a partisan agenda … then there are sure to be others vying for your support,” wrote Sinema.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has suspended the law license of a former Tennessee state senator who pleaded guilty last month to violating federal campaign finance laws.
The court suspended former Republican Sen. Brian Kelsey's law license Thursday at the request of the Board of Professional Responsibility, pending further orders by the court. The state Supreme Court cited its own rules requiring the suspension because of Kelsey’s guilty plea.
The board, which oversees regulates the practice of law in Tennessee, said it will hold formal proceedings to determine the final discipline against Kelsey.
Kelsey had previously pleaded not guilty to the campaign finance charges in the case related to his failed 2016 congressional campaign, calling them a “political witch hunt” and claiming he was “totally innocent.” He then changed his plea in front of a federal judge late last month.
The move came after his co-defendant, Nashville social club owner Joshua Smith, pleaded guilty in October to one count under a deal that requires him to “cooperate fully and truthfully” with federal authorities.
Kelsey pleaded guilty to two counts: conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission, and aiding and abetting the acceptance of excessive contributions on behalf of a federal campaign. He faces up to five years in prison for each count. He and Smith are both awaiting sentencing.
Kelsey ignored reporters’ questions on the way in and out of court during his change of plea hearing, and he has still not publicly addressed his change of plea.
In October 2021, a federal grand jury in Nashville indicted Kelsey and Smith, who owns The Standard club, on several counts each. The indictment alleged that Kelsey, Smith and others violated campaign finance laws by illegally concealing the transfer of $91,000 — $66,000 from Kelsey’s state Senate campaign committee and $25,000 from a nonprofit that advocated about legal justice issues — to a national political organization to fund advertisements urging support of Kelsey’s 2016 failed congressional campaign.
Prosecutors allege Kelsey and others caused the national political organization to make illegal and excessive campaign contributions to Kelsey by coordinating with the organization on advertisements, and that they caused the organization to file false reports to the Federal Election Commission.
Kelsey, a 44-year-old attorney from Germantown, was first elected to the General Assembly in 2004 as a state representative. He was later elected to the state Senate in 2009.
In March, Kelsey announced on Twitter that he would not seek reelection.
After his indictment, Kelsey continued to represent parents and schools as intervenors in a case in which they wanted the state's two-county school voucher program to take effect. The program backed by GOP Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee had long been blocked in court until the state Supreme Court ruled in its favor in May.
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(The Hill) — The House has sent the Respect for Marriage Act to President Joe Biden’s desk after all Democrats and 39 Republicans in the body voted to support the bill.
The legislation, which passed in a 258-169-1 vote, would officially repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and require states to recognize interracial and same-sex marriages lawfully performed in other states.
The House initially passed the bill in July before the Senate approved it last week along with amendments to add protections for religious exemptions and to clarify that it does not recognize polygamy. The House then needed to approve the bill as amended, which it did on Thursday.
The bill received some measure of bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, but several Republicans in the lower chamber voted in favor of the bill in July before opposing it on the second vote, while a couple originally opposed it before voting in favor of it.
Here are the 10 House Republicans who flipped their votes on the same-sex marriage bill:
“Yes” to “no”
Cliff Bentz
Rep. Cliff Bentz (Ore.) originally voted for the bill in July before switching to a “no” vote on Thursday. He has not publicly explained his reasoning for switching his vote.
Mario Diaz-Balart
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.) also switched from voting in favor of the bill to voting against it. He said in a statement on Monday that he planned to oppose the legislation because it lacked “legitimate safeguards” for faith-based organizations that object to the law based on their religious beliefs.
“The concept of all states respecting other states’ decisions on marriage laws is deeply rooted in American jurisprudence and tradition,” he said. “Similarly, our Founders understood that religious liberties are sacred and vulnerable, and must always be vigorously protected.”
Brian Mast
Rep. Brian Mast (Fla.) also took issue with the most recent version of the bill over concerns about protections for religious freedom. He said on the House floor before the vote that changes should be made to the text to protect the “free exercise thereof,” referring to a clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution protecting freedom of religion.
He also criticized comments from Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), who said that amending the bill further would “unsettle the Senate’s carefully crafted compromise.”
Dan Meuser
Rep. Dan Meuser (Pa.) said in a statement on Twitter that the bill “goes beyond marriage” and weakens religious freedoms “fundamental to our nation,” and that he voted against it Thursday for that reason. He said the Senate’s version of the bill includes language that puts religious freedom in jeopardy and opens organizations up to civil lawsuits, unlike the House’s version.
“Therefore, I cannot support the Senate Amendment to the Respect for Marriage Act because it jeopardizes the basic religious liberties of every American,” he said.
Scott Perry
Rep. Scott Perry (Pa.) indicated that his initial vote in favor of the bill was a mistake based on a lack of time he had to review it. Axios reported that Perry said the bill was rushed to the floor and he had just gotten to the floor as the vote was happening.
“I knew I had a choice between voting against traditional marriage or voting against interracial marriage,” he said.
“I just made the wrong choice,” he added.
Maria Salazar
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.) said in a statement after the vote that she was disappointed the final version of the bill did not include “full protections” for churches and Americans with “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
She said Senate Republicans were prevented from including “vital protections” for religious Americans in the bill. She said she voted for the first version because she believes in “human dignity” and respect for all, but laws that advance one interest and ignore legal protections for others should not be passed.
Jeff Van Drew
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (N.J.) initially voted for the bill but also cited concerns about religious freedom protections. He told Axios that he “absolutely” heard from many constituents who were upset with the bill and he found them persuasive.
“No” to “yes”
Mike Gallagher
Rep. Mike Gallagher (Wis.) was one of the two Republicans who initially voted against the bill before later backing it.
He told The Hill in a statement that a religious liberty amendment and a clarification that the bill does not permit polygamy that the Senate added led him to vote in favor of the bill the second time.
“The Respect for Marriage Act fixes the polygamy loophole in Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s hastily written version and creates strong religious liberty protections for religious organizations, including schools, churches, and adoption agencies,” he said.
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.) also flipped from opposing the bill in July to supporting it Thursday but has not publicly shared her reasoning. She will be leaving Congress at the end of the term next month.
“Yes” to “present”
Burgess Owens
Rep. Burgess Owens (Utah) initially voted in favor of the bill but was the only House member to vote “present” on Thursday.
“While today is undoubtedly a giant step toward religious liberty, my lone ‘present’ vote signals a warning beacon that the war is far from won,” he tweeted.
He said religious freedom cannot prevail unless individuals and small business owners have explicit protection under the law. He added that protecting churches and religious organizations is only “scratching the surface” of the scope of First Amendment rights.
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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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(NEXSTAR) – While La Niña has decided to stick around for a rare, triple-dip winter, we may soon be saying goodbye to the climate pattern that’s been with us, on and off, since 2020.
An updated outlook released by the Climate Prediction Center Thursday confirms La Niña is expected to continue through winter, as has been expected for several months. That tends to bring a dryer winter to the southern half of the U.S. and a wetter winter to the northern half.
But as we transition from winter to spring, climate models are starting to indicate La Niña may fade away. That doesn’t mean we’ll switch into El Niño right away. Meteorologists say we’ll likely end up in an “ENSO-neutral” setup, which means neither La Niña nor El Niño conditions are present.
When the change will happen isn’t yet clear. Models give La Niña about a 50-50 chance of lasting from January to March 2023, according to the Climate Prediction Center. Deeper into spring, chances for an ENSO-neutral situation increase.
The latest outlook gives ENSO-neutral a 71% chance of winning out between February and April 2023.
Whether we’re in a La Niña year, an El Niño year, or neither depends on the temperatures of the Pacific Ocean’s surface and the atmosphere above it. Those variations end up impacting our weather here on land.
La Niña years are typically characterized by stronger hurricane seasons in the Atlantic, drought conditions in the Southern U.S., and cold, rainy winters in the Pacific Northwest.
El Niño is usually associated with the opposite: warm and dry weather in the northern U.S., and extra rain to the south.
ENSO-neutral patterns are neither. They are characterized by a return to the long-term average.
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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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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)
Elizabeth Hintz, University of Connecticut
(THE CONVERSATION) Sterilization is a safe and effective form of permanent birth control used by more than 220 million couples around the world. Despite its prevalence, however, patients seeking sterilization from their doctors often face a surprising number of challenges.
In men, the sterilization process is known as a vasectomy, which involves severing the tubes that carry the supply of sperm to the semen. In women, sterilization involves a procedure called tubal ligation. In this form of permanent birth control, the fallopian tubes are severed – or ligated – preventing eggs produced by the ovaries from traveling through the fallopian tubes to fertilize an egg. Vasectomies and tubal ligations can be reversed in some cases, although success rates vary widely.
A 2018 study found that female sterilization is the No. 1 form of contraception in the U.S., used by nearly 1 in 5 women ages 15 to 49. And a partner’s vasectomy is the fifth leading contraceptive, relied on by 5.6% of women in that age group, after birth control pills, male condoms and intrauterine devices, or IUDs.
I’m a scholar of health communication with expertise in women’s health issues and interactions between patients and doctors. My work explores how patients manage the stigma associated with seeking sterilization and communicate with others about their reproductive decisions. My research also illuminates why patients find talking about sterilization with their doctors so challenging.
Access to sterilization
Ethical guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that doctors should respect a female patient’s wishes as a matter of “reproductive justice” when deciding whether to approve their request for voluntary sterilization. The American Urological Association, on the other hand, does not appear to offer ethical guidelines concerning the provision of vasectomy services for male patients.
Yet research has documented that patients seeking sterilization procedures, especially women, are sometimes told that their doctors will not perform the procedure because of the person’s age, number of children or potential risk of regret, among other factors. Providers may also refuse to perform sterilization procedures for other reasons, including fear of legal culpability, backlash from the medical community or conscientious refusal. The latter means that a doctor cannot be compelled to provide a medical service that goes against their best judgment or personal convictions.
This hesitancy to approve sterilization requests reflects the tension over forced sterilization in the past.
How history has shaped views on sterilization
Perceptions of sterilization in the U.S. have been marred by a dark history of eugenics, in which racist ideas about who ought to have children have shaped reproductive policies and doctors’ reproductive counseling. And these views have given rise to the term “voluntary” sterilization, meant to contrast with the “involuntary” – or forced – sterilization of earlier decades.
From the late 1800s until the late 1940s, eugenicist movements sought to preserve racial purity by limiting the breeding of people who were considered “unfit” and promoting the proliferation of those who were white and of European descent, from middle or upper classes and considered able-bodied and of sound mind. Widespread federally funded involuntary sterilizations continued in the U.S. until 1979.
In contrast, women who were poor, disabled, immigrant, Black, Hispanic or Indigenous who sought to have children often faced coercive or forced sterilization, sometimes without their consent or knowledge.
When women who were considered “desirable” sought to limit their family size or forgo having children altogether through voluntary sterilization, they were sometimes denied the procedure. That trend continues today despite ethical guidelines recommending otherwise, since doctors cannot be compelled to perform medical procedures they find objectionable. Furthermore, sterilization services, like other reproductive health services, are often not offered at religiously affiliated hospitals.
Disparities in sterilization access
These cultural views contribute to disparities in access to sterilization that persist today.
In 1979, federal legislation went into effect to halt Medicaid-funded involuntary sterilizations and to limit Medicaid-funded sterilization services to any person of sound mind over the age of 21. But ironically, this legislation – which was designed to prohibit involuntary sterilization – now restricts some patients who are seeking sterilization.
Laws vary widely from state to state, meaning that where you live dictates how accessible voluntary sterilization is to you. For example, in Kansas, the most legally restrictive U.S. state, individual doctors are not held accountable for refusing to perform sterilizations, even if they are medically necessary. In addition, medical facilities and individual doctors can also legally refuse to provide information or refer patients elsewhere to procure the procedure.
In contrast, in California – a state that has progressive reproductive health care rights – a right to voluntary sterilization is enshrined in law. This means that patients cannot be discriminated against because of factors like age or the number of children they have. Yet forced sterilization is still legal in California for patients with developmental disabilities who are under conservatorship.
This patchwork of policies across U.S. states creates room for bias in the patient counseling process. Today, when Black and Native American women seek sterilization voluntarily, they are still more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic white women to be approved for the procedure by their doctors. In my view, this shows that decisions about who can be sterilized are still inherently attached to racial bias as well as gender and class bias.
The implications of the fall of Roe
In the aftermath of the fall of Roe v. Wade, which overturned nearly 50 years of abortion rights, people living in at least 13 U.S. states may now be in a double bind: unable to find a doctor who will grant them the permanent sterilization they desire to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, and also unable to access an abortion should a pregnancy occur.
With abortion access reduced in many states after the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s more important than ever for patients to be able to discuss voluntary sterilization freely with their medical providers.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/what-is-voluntary-sterilization-a-health-communication-expert-unpacks-how-a-legacy-of-forced-sterilization-shapes-doctor-patient-conversations-today-194796.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia’s war in Ukraine, chaos in Haiti and rising violence by criminal groups in Mexico contributed to a 30% spike in the number of journalists killed doing their work in 2022 over the previous year, according to a new report released Friday.
The International Federation of Journalists says that 67 journalists and media staff have been killed around the world so far this year, up from 47 last year.
The Brussels-based group also tallied 375 journalists currently imprisoned for their work, with the most in China, Myanmar and Turkey. Last year’s report listed 365 journalists behind bars.
With the number of media workers killed on the rise, the group called on governments to take more concrete action to protect journalists and free journalism.
“The failure to act will only embolden those who seek to suppress the free flow of information and undermine the ability of people to hold their leaders to account, including in ensuring that those with power and influence do not stand in the way of open and inclusive societies,” IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger said in a statement.
More media workers were killed covering the war in Ukraine – 12 in total — than in any other country this year, according to the IFJ. Most were Ukrainian but also included those of other nationalities such as American documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud. Many deaths occurred in the first chaotic weeks of the war, though threats to journalists continue as the fighting drags on.
The IFJ said “the rule by terror of criminal organizations in Mexico, and the breakdown of law and order in Haiti, have also contributed to the surge in killings.” 2022 has been one of the deadliest ever for journalists in Mexico, which is now considered the most dangerous country for reporters outside a war zone.
The group recorded five deaths of journalists amid this year’s political crisis in Pakistan, and warned of new threats to journalists in Colombia and continued danger for journalists in the Philippines despite new leadership there.
It also called out the shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she was reporting from a Palestinian refugee camp. The Arab network this week formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate her death.
The Brussels-based IFJ represents 600,000 media professionals from trade unions and associations in more than 140 countries. The report was released on the eve of the United Nations’ Human Rights Day.
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- Bitcoin price has been largely unaffected by concerns plaguing the traditional market with US PPI release.
- Bitcoin could witness a spike in volatility and move towards the boundaries of the current consolidation phase.
- The price outlook of Bitcoin is currently bearish and a move below $16,900 could validate the thesis.
US Producer Price Index (PPI) for final demand moved up 7.4% on an unadjusted basis. The upside surprise implies inflation is elevated and cryptocurrencies are expected to slide lower. Traders could pull out of risk assets like Bitcoin as the US Federal Reserve moves ahead with a continued rate hike. Bitcoin price is currently in an uptrend on the daily chart, but for bulls to realize their advantage, BTC needs higher volatility.
Previously, the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) data release has acted as a trigger for large swings in Bitcoin price. The next release is scheduled for December 13. The largest asset by market capitalization could therefore break out of its limbo and sideways price action close to the release date.
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Bitcoin price could nosedive with US PPI data release
Bitcoin traders brace for impact as US PPI data is released. The Producer Price Index measures the average change over time in the selling prices that domestic producers receive for their output.
With a higher than projected increase in PPI, it is conclusive that inflation is here to stay and risk assets like Bitcoin could suffer a downside from bearish sentiment among traders. In November, most of the increase in the index for final demand is attributable to a 0.4% advance
in prices for final demand services. Prices for final demand less food, energy, and trade services moved up 0.3% in November after rising 0.2% in October.
US PPI data one-month and twelve-month percent changes
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the change in the prices of goods and services contained in a basket of consumer items. The US Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, pays very close attention to this figure as it plays a key role in maintaining price stability.
CPI data influences sentiment amongst traders in traditional stock markets, and the same is true for risk assets like Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Historically, in the days leading up to the release of CPI data there is a spike in trade volume and Bitcoin price yields gains. An increase in inflation wipes out gains in the days following the announcement, and trade volume declines until another catalyst gives bulls the advantage.
An increase in the price of consumer goods and services results in capital outflow from risk assets like Bitcoin and increases the selling pressure on BTC, coupled with large price swings. Bitcoin is currently trading sideways with the CPI data release a week away.
Jim Wyckoff, Senior technical analyst at Kitco notes that,
Prices are now pausing but are still in a fledgling uptrend on the daily bar chart. Bulls have a very slight near-term technical advantage but need to show fresh power soon to keep it.
Expert opinion on US CPI expectation
Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities believes that the US Federal Reserve could slow the pace at which it raises interest rates with a moderate CPI print. This would have the effect of weakening the US Dollar, which in turn would have a positive effect on the prices of assets and commodities priced in US Dollars, such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
US CPI data released on November 10, 2022
Michael Hewson, Chief Market Analyst at CMC markets argues that given Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments at the Brookings Institute last week, the pace of interest rate hikes is likely to slow down from 75 to 50 bps per meeting.
Traders will also get an insight into consumer inflation expectations with the latest December University of Michigan inflation expectations numbers for 1 year and 5-10 year, scheduled to be released at 18:30 GMT later on Friday, November 9, with the previous forecasts at 4.9% and 3% respectively.
What to expect from Bitcoin price
A deep dive in Bitcoin price trend reveals that the asset is currently trading between the $16,000 and $17,500 level. After a successful retest of the $17,100 level, bulls gained an advantage and pushed BTC to $17,260.
If Bitcoin price extends its gains, it could target the resistance at the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $17,744 level. A decline below $16,600 could send BTC to the range low of $16,000 and invalidate the bullish thesis.
BTC/USDT price chart
With fast spreading FTX contagion and crypto firms filing for bankruptcy, the key price levels to watch out for are between $18,000 to $19,700 and $16,000 to $17,500. Bitcoin price could nosedive to the range low of $15,900 based on the PPI data release. BTC needs buyers to line up for bulls to gain an advantage and push Bitcoin higher ahead of CPI data release.
Once CPI data is out, Bitcoin price could witness large swings and finalize the boundaries of consolidation from the above mentioned price levels.
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- Cardano price jumped over 1.5% on Thursday as only late in the US session a tailwind emerged that lifted cryptocurrencies higher.
- ADA could be popping higher toward $0.324 and possibly breaking out of the range trade.
- Expect to see a volatile US session on Friday after PPI, with data expected to confirm diminishing inflation.
Cardano (ADA) price is advancing in the wake of important US data coming out throughout the US trading session. First up, at the start of the US session on Friday is the Producer Price Index numbers (PPI), which analysts forecast to be tilting to the downside. This would mean that overall inflation is cooling down further.
Later in the US session, the University of Michigan comes out with expectations and forecast inflation numbers. Confirming a drop similar to PPI could trigger a massive wave of tailwinds and breakouts in equities and cryptocurrencies.
ADA traders see it is time to face their fears
Cardano price has been trading against the low of 2021 for most of November, as the whole of 2022 got dictated by two main elements: inflation and the crypto winter. Today more signs will be seen regarding the first and biggest issue for 2022: inflation. The market tentatively expects that inflation will be shown decreasing further. With the PPI numbers today and US inflation figures next Tuesday, the roadmap is being made for the Fed and its statement on Wednesday, where the base case scenario is that more hikes will come but at a much less and more digestible pace and size.
Thus, ADA will see many bulls gearing up to be part of this rally as this would mean that finally some bearish pressures are fading. Expect first to see a test at $0.324 before breaking out and popping up toward the monthly pivot at $0.35, which falls in line with the 55-day Simple Moving Average (SMA). That level to get tested by the end of this week would be ideal for advancing into the coming weeks. Then look for $0.40 as the cherry on the cake by Christmas, printing a 25% ADA price increase.
ADA/USD daily chart
The risk with data points is that numbers are always up for interpretation. It depends whether the new number comes out higher than expectations or if the revision from last month triggers a drop and comes out lower than the current number. This kind of number could trigger a knee-jerk reaction and accelerate the downside toward $0.300 for a test or even break its low for 2022 at $0.297. The road would be open for another leg lower toward $0.280 in that case.
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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.
Still, a measure of “core” producer prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs, accelerated, rising 0.4% from October to November. The core figure had risen just 0.1% from September to October. Looked at over the past 12 months, though, core producer prices were up 6.2% in November, less than the 6.7% in October.
The latest figures reflect an ongoing shift in inflation from goods to services. The cost of goods rose just 0.1% from October to November, with wholesale gas prices tumbling 6%. (Food prices were an exception: They jumped 3.3% last month, fueled by costlier vegetables, eggs and chicken.)
By contrast, services prices rose more, up 0.4%, led mostly by more expensive financial services. The wholesale cost of airfares and hotel rooms both fell, though, and overall services prices have slowed in the past three months.
“Overall inflation is moving in the right direction, though at a slow pace,” PNC Financial Services Group said in research note. “The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy tightening plans will remain aggressive until clear, consistent signs of inflation’s demise have been demonstrated.”
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.
Fed 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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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange following nearly 10 months in detention in Russia.
The deal, which saw her swapped for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, secured the release of the most prominent American detained abroad and 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.
Griner is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, Baylor University All-American and Phoenix Mercury pro basketball star. Her status as an openly gay Black woman, locked up in a country where authorities have been hostile to the LBGTQ community, injected racial, gender and social dynamics into her legal saga and brought unprecedented attention to the population of wrongful detainees.
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 was seen getting off a plane that landed Friday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.
The athlete, who also played pro basketball in Russia, was arrested at an airport there in February after Russian authorities said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. Before her conviction, the U.S. State Department declared Griner to be “wrongfully detained” — a charge that Russia has sharply rejected.
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.
Following Griner’s arrest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February, she pleaded guilty in July but still faced trial because admitting guilt in Russia’s judicial system does not automatically end a case.
She acknowledged in court that she possessed canisters with cannabis oil but said she had no criminal intent and she accidentally packed them. Her defense team presented written statements that she had been prescribed cannabis to treat pain.
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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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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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...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.
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Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
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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.
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LONDON (AP) — British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials said Tuesday.
Britain’s Health Security Agency said while the epidemic is expanding, the majority of cases “continue to be in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, with the infection being passed on mainly through close contact between people in interconnected sexual networks.”
Scientists previously said there was no evidence of monkeypox spreading beyond those limited networks.
Monkeypox can infect anyone who has close, physical contact with an infected individual or the person’s clothing or bedsheets, regardless of sexual orientation.
Last month, British authorities expanded their vaccination strategy, offering vaccines not only to health workers treating monkeypox patients and high-risk contacts of patients, but to some men who are gay or bisexual and at high risk of catching the virus, including those with multiple sexual partners or who participate in group sex.
Officials also dropped a recommendation for the contacts of monkeypox cases to isolate for three weeks unless they have symptoms. The change was prompted by data showing that only a small number of contacts are ultimately sickened by monkeypox and a lack of evidence that the disease spreads without close, intimate or sexual contact.
However, health authorities urged people to remain vigilant for any signs of the disease, including a fever, headache or rash.
“Monkeypox is still a serious public health challenge, and we urge contacts to take a break from any activities or events involving skin to skin contact, including sex, hugging and kissing, to reduce the risk of the virus being passed on unknowingly,” said Dr Merav Kliner of the Health Security Agency.
The agency said it expected the first additional doses of vaccine to arrive this month, with the rest being delivered in September. The vaccine, made by Bavarian Nordic, was developed for smallpox, a related disease, and is thought to be about 85% effective against monkeypox.
Earlier this month, British scientists estimated the monkeypox outbreak was doubling about every two weeks, although many cases are likely being missed due to insufficient testing.
The disease has been endemic in parts of Central and West Africa for decades but had not been known to cause large outbreaks elsewhere until May. Since then, infections have been reported in nearly 70 countries, mostly in people without travel links to Africa.
Experts think the surge of cases across Europe was likely triggered by sex at raves in Belgium and Spain and that the disease was likely spreading undetected for months or years.
The World Health Organization plans to convene its emergency committee Thursday to weigh for the second time in weeks whether the outbreak merits being declared a global emergency.
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WORCESTER, Mass., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG) today announced Elizabeth A. Ward has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective immediately, and has been appointed to serve on the board's audit committee.
Ward, 57, has served as Chief Financial Officer of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ("MassMutual"), a mutual life insurance company, since June 2016. She previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Actuary of MassMutual from June 2015 to November 2019, and as Chief Enterprise Risk Officer from November 2007 to May 2016. Prior to joining MassMutual affiliate Babson Capital Management in 2001, Ward worked in investment portfolio management and actuarial roles at American Skandia Life Assurance Company, Charter Oak Capital Management and Aeltus Investment Management, a subsidiary of Aetna Life & Casualty Company.
"Betsy is an accomplished senior executive with broad experience working in the financial services sector," said Cynthia L. Egan, Chair of the Board of Directors at The Hanover. "She brings a vast knowledge of the opportunities and challenges impacting our industry today. We are pleased to welcome Betsy to our board."
Ward received a bachelor's degree in economics and Spanish from the University of Rochester and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. She holds a Professional Risk Manager designation from the Professional Risk Managers' International Association, and is a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. She currently serves on the Federal Advisory Council on Insurance to the Federal Insurance Office of the U.S. Treasury and has led several other industry groups in insurance and risk management. Active in her community and with not-for-profits, Ward is a Trustee on the Board of Trustees at the University of Rochester in New York and a Trustee on the board of the Community Music School of Springfield in Springfield, Mass.
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is the holding company for several property and casualty insurance companies, which together constitute one of the largest insurance businesses in the United States. The company provides exceptional insurance solutions through a select group of independent agents and brokers. Together with its agent partners, The Hanover offers standard and specialized insurance protection for small and mid-sized businesses, as well as for homes, automobiles, and other personal items. For more information, please visit hanover.com.
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LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally. Hospitalization rates have also doubled, although intensive care admissions have remained low.
In a statement on Tuesday, WHO’s Europe director, Dr. Hans Kluge, described COVID-19 as “a nasty and potentially deadly illness” that people should not underestimate. He said super-infectious relatives of the omicron variant were driving new waves of disease across the continent and that repeat infections could potentially lead to long COVID.
WHO said the 53 countries in its European region, which stretches to central Asia, reported nearly 3 million new coronavirus infections last week and that the virus was killing about 3,000 people every week. Globally, COVID-19 cases have increased for the past five weeks, even as countries have scaled back on testing.
“With rising cases, we’re also seeing a rise in hospitalizations, which are only set to increase further in the autumn and winter months,” Kluge said. “This forecast presents a huge challenge to the health workforce in country after country, already under enormous pressure dealing with unrelenting crises since 2020.”
Earlier this week, editors of two British medical journals said the country’s National Health Service has never before had so many parts of the system so close to collapsing.
Kamran Abbasi, of the BMJ and Alastair McLellan of the Health Service Journal wrote in a joint editorial that the U.K. government was failing to address persistent problems worsened by COVID, including ambulances lining up outside hospitals too overloaded to accept new patients.
They slammed the government’s insistence that vaccines have broken the link between infections and hospitalizations. Although vaccines dramatically reduce the chances of severe disease and death, they have not made a significant dent on transmission.
“The government must stop gaslighting the public and be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses to them and the National Health Service,” the editors wrote.
WHO released its fall strategy for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The U.N. health agency called for a second vaccine booster dose for anyone age 5 and up with weak immune systems, promoting mask-wearing indoors and on public transportation, and better ventilation in schools, offices and other places.
Kluge said Southern Hemisphere countries were currently experiencing a very active flu season that, combined with COVID, was straining health systems.
“We are likely to see a similar scenario in the Northern Hemisphere,” Kluge said, warning that increased pressure could lead to business, travel and school chaos.
He urged people to make their own decisions, even in countries where authorities have largely abandoned coronavirus restrictions.
“We’re all aware of the tools we have to keep ourselves safe, assess our level of risk and take the necessary steps to protect others if we get infected,” Kluge said. “Just because a mask isn’t mandated doesn’t mean it’s prohibited.”
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SAN JOSE, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results after the market close on Monday, August 1, 2022. Harmonic will host a live webcast to discuss the company's results at 2:00 p.m. PT on the same day.
To participate via telephone, please register in advance using this link, https://register.vevent.com/register/BIa55199c150564ee4b8118917be1e93c9.
Upon registration, telephone participants will receive a confirmation email detailing how to join the audio version of the webcast, including the dial-in number and a unique registrant ID. The live webcast will be available via Harmonic's Investor Relations website at investor.harmonicinc.com. The company suggests participants for both the conference call and those listening via the web dial in or sign on at least 15 minutes in advance of the call.
For those unable to participate in the live event, a replay will be available on the same website after 5:00 p.m. PT.
Further information about Harmonic and the company's solutions is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
About Harmonic
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in virtualized cable access and video delivery solutions, enables media companies and service providers to deliver ultra-high-quality video streaming and broadcast services to consumers globally. The company revolutionized cable access networking via the industry's first virtualized cable access solution, enabling cable operators to more flexibly deploy gigabit internet service to consumers' homes and mobile devices. Whether simplifying OTT video delivery via innovative cloud and software platforms, or powering the delivery of gigabit internet cable services, Harmonic is changing the way media companies and service providers monetize live and on-demand content on every screen. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
Harmonic, the Harmonic logo and other Harmonic marks are owned by Harmonic Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – The current Mega Millions jackpot is $555 million, a life-changing amount of money for anyone lucky enough to win it, but what would you buy if you got the top prize?
According to Worthly.com, the most common purchases with lottery winnings include luxury vacations, paying off debts, new cars, new houses and gifts for friends and families.
Some folks, however, spent their winnings more creatively.
In New York, John and Linda Kutey were part of a syndicate in 2011 that won a $319 million jackpot and received $28.7 million to share. They used the money to launch a waterpark that was created in honor of their parents that also contributes to their community.
When Joe Denette won the Virginia lottery in 2009, he chose to spend the money on creating his own NASCAR team. After consulting with driver Kevin Harvick, Denette officially launched his own team in 2011 as part of the Camping World Truck Series.
In 2009, 19-year-old Jonathan “Jay” Vargas became one of the youngest lottery winners in the United States and launched a bid to join the entertainment industry. He created an all-female wrestling promotion called Wrestlicious, which featured scantily clad women in a mix of wrestling matches and sketch comedy. The company ended up folding after only one season of production.
While most lottery-winning stories turn from a dream to a nightmare when the cash is gone, a Georgia man blew his lottery winnings in historically destructive fashion. Ronnie Music Jr., 46, spent part of his $3 million in lottery winnings on trafficking methamphetamines, which led to a 21-year prison sentence on drug conspiracy and firearm charges.
The idea of wild expenditures from a jackpot isn’t strictly an American concept – many lottery winners from other countries have also found distinct ways to spend their cash.
For instance, Peter Lavery, an Irishman who won the UK lottery, decided to launch his own whiskey distillery in Belfast. The company is now known as Titanic Distillers and has been a major success, which led to even more success for Lavery.
Sarah Cockings, a British woman who won $5.1 million in the lottery in 2006, also made expensive purchases with her family in mind. She bought breast augmentations for herself and for both of her sisters.
The next Mega Millions drawing will be held on Tuesday, July 19.
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FARMINGTON, Conn., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) ("Horizon") (the "Company"), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, announced today that it plans to release financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, after the close of market trading.
The Company has scheduled a conference call to discuss the results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET. The conference call will feature remarks by Robert D. Pomeroy, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gerald A. Michaud, President, and Daniel R. Trolio, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. To participate in the call, please dial (877) 407-9716 (domestic) or (201) 493-6779 (international). The conference ID is 13731060. Please dial into the call at least five minutes before the scheduled start time.
The conference call will also be available via a live listen-only webcast on the Company's website, www.horizontechfinance.com. Please allow extra time prior to the call to visit the site and download any necessary software that may be needed to listen to the Internet broadcast.
An online archive of the webcast will be available on the Company's website for 30 days following the call.
About Horizon Technology Finance
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) is a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries. The investment objective of HRZN is to maximize its investment portfolio's return by generating current income from the debt investments it makes and capital appreciation from the warrants it receives when making such debt investments. Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC is headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, with a regional office in Pleasanton, California, and investment professionals located in Portland, Maine, Austin, Texas, and Reston, Virginia. To learn more, please visit horizontechfinance.com.
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Statements included herein may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance, condition or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Horizon undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
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CAIRO (AP) — At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash on Tuesday near Egypt’s southern province of Minya, authorities said.
The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a stopped trailer truck on a highway linking the capital of Cairo to the country’s south, local authorities in Minya said in a statement. The bus was heading toward Cairo.
Authorities said the truck was changing tires on the roadside when the bus hit it in the city of Malawi in Minya province, about 220 kilometers (137 miles) south of Cairo.
Ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the injured to hospitals in Minya. Footage from the scene posted by local authorities showed a bus with heavy damage in the front half apparently from the crash with the back of the truck.
Traffic accidents kill thousands every year in Egypt, which has a poor transportation safety record. Crashes are mostly caused by speeding, careless driving, bad roads or poor enforcement of traffic laws.
In January, at least 16 people were killed and 18 others injured when a microbus collided with a public transportation bus in the Sinai Peninsula. In April last year, a bus overturned while trying to pass a truck on a highway in the southern province of Assiut, leaving at least 21 people dead and three others injured.
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Two well-established firms unite to create more options for customers in three growing markets
HOUSTON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greg Baker, CEO/ President of JD Martin, and Tim Klinger, CEO/President, of I-Pro are pleased to announce the two firms have joined forces in the Rocky Mountain Region to form I-Pro Martin effective immediately.
I-Pro and JD Martin represent many of the same premier manufacturers' and are confident regarding the numerous benefits of the collaboration. Their alignment accelerates the efficient delivery of services and support for local channel partners and customers while also expanding growth opportunities for represented manufacturers and product portfolios in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
Baker said, "The I-Pro leadership team has built a solid, successful business. We share many of the same values and similar organizational cultures. Our decision to merge ensures, together, we are better positioned to meet the needs of our customers and the manufacturers we represent in the Rocky Mountain Region."
Tim Klinger added, "We are grateful for the opportunity to join forces with the JD Martin team. Our shared vision enables us to strengthen a foundation built on trust and intentionally create an environment for all to grow."
I-Pro's current leadership team, organizational structure and staff will remain intact while adding local headcount to boost service within existing markets. The firm will continue to provide exemplary service to the commercial, industrial, residential, utility and emerging markets. Tim Klinger will be named President & COO of I-Pro Martin while Greg Baker will hold the position of CEO.
I-Pro has served the Colorado and Wyoming markets since 1995. JD Martin — based out of Houston, Texas — entered Colorado earlier this year with two of their largest manufacturer partners.
Both firms share a common approach to supporting their markets. The merger allows both firms to leverage their collective strengths, multiply best practices, and enhance internal and external support for team members and customers by scaling an enlarged network and heightening a long-term, strategic positioning effort.
ABOUT JD MARTIN:
JD Martin Company is an electrical manufacturers' representative agency that sells and markets premier lines of electrical products to OEM and MRO contractors, and end-user markets through wholesale distribution. For more than 68 years, we have supported industries such as oil & gas, mining, steel, waste water treatment, wind power generation and commercial construction. We offer impactful solutions and sell electrical products, through qualified electrical distributor channels, in over 15 states in territories that include Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, The Carolinas and Florida. To learn more about JD Martin click here.
ABOUT I-PRO MARTIN:
I-Pro Martin is committed to being a premiere, world class manufacturer's representative serving the electrical, electronic, utility, and data com markets in the Rocky Mountain Region. We accomplish this by providing sophisticated, cost-effective, systems solutions, field sales, and marketing services that anticipate and exceed the expectations of our customers, principals and employees. For more about I-Pro Martin click here.
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LONDON (AP) — The fractious race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister entered an unpredictable endgame Tuesday as three candidates for Conservative Party leader were left battling for the two spots in a run-off vote.
Kemi Badenoch, a previously little-known lawmaker who has become a rising star of the party’s right wing, was eliminated from the contest after receiving the fewest votes from Conservative lawmakers in their fourth round of voting.
After the latest vote knocked Badenoch out, former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak led the shrinking field of candidates and had all but secured his place in the final pair. Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who were neck and neck behind him, will now scramble to woo Badenoch’s supporters before a final elimination vote on Wednesday.
All are running to succeed Johnson, who quit as party leader this month after snowballing ethics scandals sparked mass resignations in his government.
The two finalists will go to a runoff vote by all 180,000 members of the Conservative Party, with a winner expected to be announced Sept. 5.
Sunak got 118 votes on Tuesday, two short of the number that would guarantee he is one of the two candidates Conservative members can choose. Mordaunt received 92 votes, Truss 86 and Badenoch 59.
The remaining candidates are also courting supporters of Tom Tugendhat, an influential lawmaker who was eliminated from the contest on Monday.
Both Mordaunt and Badenoch tweeted praise for Tugendhat after Monday’s vote. Truss promised to increase military spending from 2% to 3% of gross domestic product — a key issue for Tugendhat, a former soldier who chairs the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee.
The bitter campaign has exposed deep divisions in the Conservative Party at the end of Johnson’s scandal-tarnished reign. Opponents have rounded on Sunak for raising taxes in response to the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Sunak has hit back that his rivals are peddling economic “fairy tales.”
In a contest where every vote counts, the electorate of 358 Conservative legislators was reduced Tuesday to 357. Tobias Ellwood, a Johnson critic who supports Mordaunt, was suspended from the party group in Parliament for failing to vote in a confidence motion on Monday.
The government easily won the vote thanks to a big Conservative majority, but Ellwood was punished for not cutting short a trip to Moldova to return for it.
Ellwood, who heads Parliament’s Defense Committee, said he had been unable to return “due to unprecedented disruption both here and in the U.K.,” where a heat wave is adding to summer travel chaos.
“I am very sorry to lose the whip but will now continue my meetings in Ukraine promoting the prime minister’s efforts here and specifically seeking to secure the reopening of Odesa port — so vital grain exports can recommence,” Ellwood said.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA) (the "Fund") has declared a monthly distribution of $0.22 ($2.64 per share on an annualized basis). The distribution will be paid July 28, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business July 21, 2022.
AMZA Cash Distribution:
- Ex-Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2022
- Record Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022
- Payable Date: Thursday, July 28, 2022
The Fund estimates that 100 percent of the distribution, or $0.22 per share, is attributable to return of capital and that 0.00 percent, or $0.00 per share, is attributable to dividend income. Infrastructure Capital Advisors expects to declare future distributions on a monthly basis. Distributions are planned, but not guaranteed, for every month. The next distribution is scheduled to occur in August 2022.
For more information about AMZA's distribution policy, its 2022 distribution calendar, or tax information, please visit the Fund's website at www.virtusetfs.com.
About Virtus ETF Advisers
Virtus ETF Advisers is a New York-based, multi-manager ETF sponsor and affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners. With actively managed and index-based investment capabilities across multiple asset classes, Virtus offers a range of complementary exchange-traded-funds subadvised by select investment managers.
About Infrastructure Capital Advisors
Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC (ICA) is an SEC-registered investment advisor that manages exchange traded funds and a series of hedge funds. The firm was formed in 2012 and is based in New York City. ICA seeks total-return opportunities in key infrastructure sectors, including energy, real estate, transportation, industrials and utilities. It often identifies opportunities in entities that are not taxed at the entity level, such as master limited partnerships ("MLPs") and real estate investment trusts ("REITs"). It also looks for opportunities in credit and related securities, such as preferred stocks. Current income is a primary objective in most, but not all, of the company's investing activities. The focus is generally on asset-intensive companies that generate and distribute substantial streams of free cash flow. For more information, please visit www.infracapfunds.com.
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Fund Risks
Exchange Traded Funds: The value of an ETF may be more volatile than the underlying portfolio of securities the ETF is designed to track. The costs of owning the ETF may exceed the cost of investing directly in the underlying securities.
MLP Interest Rates: As yield-based investments, MLPs carry interest rate risk and may underperform in rising interest rate environments. Additionally, when investors have heightened fears about the economy, the risk spread between MLPs and competing investment options can widen, which may have an adverse effect on the stock price of MLPs. Rising interest rates may increase the potential cost of MLPs financing projects or cost of operations, and may affect the demand for MLP investments, either of which may result in lower performance by or distributions from the Fund's MLP investments.
Industry/Sector Concentration: A fund that focuses its investments in a particular industry or sector will be more sensitive to conditions that affect that industry or sector than a non-concentrated fund.
Short Sales: The Fund may engage in short sales, and may experience a loss if the price of a borrowed security increases before the date on which the Fund replaces the security.
Leverage: When a Fund leverages its portfolio, the value of its shares may be more volatile and all other risks may be compounded.
Derivatives: Investments in derivatives such as futures, options, forwards, and swaps may increase volatility or cause a loss greater than the principal investment.
MLPs: Investments in Master Limited Partnerships may be adversely impacted by tax law changes, regulation, or factors affecting underlying assets.
No Guarantee: There is no guarantee that the portfolio will meet its objective.
You should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. Contact VP Distributors LLC at 1-888-383-4184 or visit www.infracapmlp.com to obtain a prospectus which contains this and other information about the Fund. The prospectus should be read carefully before investing.
Virtus ETF Advisers, LLC serves as the investment advisor and Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC serves as the sub-advisor to the Fund.
The Fund is distributed by VP Distributors, LLC, member FINRA and subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
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BERLIN (AP) — Egypt’s foreign minister called on rich and developing countries to show readiness to compromise at the U.N. climate talks he is set to chair in November, saying Tuesday that the negotiations shouldn’t be a “zero-sum game” between wealthier and poorer nations.
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry spoke as officials from 40 countries held a two-day gathering in Berlin billed as an opportunity to rebuild trust after technical talks last month achieved little progress on major issues such as climate aid for developing countries.
He said the “very useful” discussions brought Egyptian officials “closer to understanding the areas of convergence and also possible divergence which will require more work from us all” at the November summit in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Developing countries are still waiting for rich nations to provide $100 billion in climate aid each year, a target meant to be reached by 2020. They also want to make progress on the issue of restitution for “loss and damage” caused by climate change.
As the Berlin meeting opened Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accords was slipping further out of reach even as more people are being hit by extreme floods, droughts, storms and wildfires.
European nations vowed to fulfill their climate targets despite the war in Ukraine prompting some to seek new fossil fuel sources and to turn at least temporarily to coal to make up for shortfalls in Russian energy deliveries. Developing countries have viewed the actions with suspicion.
Shoukry, the designated chairman of the Sharm el-Sheikh conference, said that “we must make substantive progress across the board and ensure that no one is left behind.”
“This necessitates everybody rising to the occasion and showing understanding and willingness to compromise,” he said during a brief news conference alongside his German counterpart. He added” “We cannot afford to delay or backtrack on commitments” amid the fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic.
“Climate change negotiations need not be a zero-sum game between developed and developing countries,” Shoukry said.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The InfraCap REIT Preferred ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFR) (the "Fund") has declared a monthly distribution of $0.12 per share ($1.44 per share on an annualized basis). The distribution will be paid July 28, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business July 21, 2022.
PFFR Cash Distribution:
- Ex-Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2022
- Record Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022
- Payable Date: Thursday, July 28, 2022
Infrastructure Capital Advisors expects to declare future dividends on a monthly basis. Distributions are planned, but not guaranteed, for every month. The next distribution is scheduled to occur in August 2022.
For more information about PFFR's distribution policy, its 2022 distribution calendar, or tax information, please visit the Fund's website at www.virtusetfs.com.
About Virtus ETF Advisers
Virtus ETF Advisers is a New York-based, multi-manager ETF sponsor and affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners. With actively managed and index-based investment capabilities across multiple asset classes, Virtus offers a range of complementary exchange-traded-funds subadvised by select investment managers.
About Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC
Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC (ICA) is an SEC-registered investment advisor that manages exchange traded funds and a series of hedge funds. The firm was formed in 2012 and is based in New York City. ICA seeks total-return opportunities in key infrastructure sectors, including energy, real estate, transportation, industrials and utilities. It often identifies opportunities in entities that are not taxed at the entity level, such as master limited partnerships ("MLPs") and real estate investment trusts ("REITs"). It also looks for opportunities in credit and related securities, such as preferred stocks. Current income is a primary objective in most, but not all, of the company's investing activities. The focus is generally on asset-intensive companies that generate and distribute substantial streams of free cash flow. For more information, please visit www.infracapfunds.com.
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Fund Risks
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF): The value of an ETF may be more volatile than the underlying portfolio of securities it is designed to track. The costs of owning the ETF may exceed the cost of investing directly in the underlying securities. Preferred Stocks: Preferred stocks may decline in price, fail to pay dividends, or be illiquid. Real Estate Investments: The Fund may be negatively affected by factors specific to the real estate market, including interest rates, leverage, property, and management. Industry/Sector Concentration: A Fund that focuses its investments in a particular industry or sector will be more sensitive to conditions that affect that industry or sector than a non-concentrated Fund. Passive Strategy/Index Risk: A passive investment strategy seeking to track the performance of the underlying index may result in the Fund holding securities regardless of market conditions or their current or projected performance. This could cause the Fund's returns to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy. Correlation to Index: The performance of the Fund and its index may vary somewhat due to factors such as Fund flows, transaction costs, and timing differences associated with additions to and deletions from its index. Market Volatility: Securities in the Fund may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies and general economic conditions. Price changes may be short or long term. Prospectus: For additional information on risks, please see the Fund's prospectus.
You should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. Contact VP Distributors LLC at 1-888-383-4184 or visit www.virtusetfs.com to obtain a prospectus which contains this and other information about the Fund. The prospectus should be read carefully before investing.
Virtus ETF Advisers, LLC serves as the investment advisor and Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC serves as the subadviser to the Fund.
The Fund is distributed by VP Distributors, LLC, member FINRA and subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The capture of fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was hailed by U.S. authorities as an example of cooperation with Mexico in the fight against drugs. But in fact Caro Quintero had been the source of 37 years of tension between the two countries.
Caro Quintero was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana to the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mexican marines captured him in the mountains of northwest Mexico Friday.
Mexico had been slow in going after the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel for killing U.S. DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in 1985, as well as several other U.S. citizens around the same time.
The U.S. had to nearly shut down border traffic to pressure Mexico to go after Caro Quintero in the 1980s, but even then the Mexican legal system wasn’t able to hold him in jail: in 2013 he walked out of prison on an erroneous decision by a Mexican appeals court, and had returned to his drug trafficking operations.
This time, Mexico has made it clear that Caro Quintero was arrested with the intention of extradition. His lawyers, however, quickly signaled through their court filings that the extradition process will be drawn out and it could be many months before he is seen in a U.S. courtroom.
WHO WAS KIKI CAMARENA AND WHY WAS HE KILLED?
Caro Quintero had blamed Camarena, the DEA agent, for a raid on a huge marijuana plantation that Caro Quintero’s cartel ran in northern Mexico in 1984. The next year, Camarena was kidnapped in Guadalajara, allegedly on orders from Caro Quintero. “What they wanted to do is they wanted to get information from Kiki relative to the investigations that the DEA was conducting in Mexico. They wanted to know who the informants were, that they were handling. They wanted to know the addresses where the agents live,” said Mike Vigil, the DEA’s former chief of international operations. “So they wanted to extract as much information from Kiki through horrific torture. And it was finally a blunt instrument blow to the head that caused Kiki Camarena’s … death.” His tortured form was found a month later.
WHY DID CARO QUINTERO THINK HE COULD GET AWAY WITH ALL THIS?
People today are accustomed to hearing about warring drug cartels in Mexico. It is hard to imagine the first generation of drug lords in Mexico in the 1980s: there was only one big cartel, the Guadalajara Cartel, and Caro Quintero, Fonseca Carrillo and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo ran it. People like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman worked for them at that point — as did as many as 4,000 agricultural workers pressed into service growing marijuana on the gang’s 1,350-acre (545 hectare) marijuana plantation. “Given the fact that the cartel was the only cartel in Mexico in the eighties, they operated with complete impunity because they were paying off many, many individuals within the Mexican government for protection,” said Vigil. “So they figured that they could do whatever they damn well please as long as they paid money for protection.”
HOW DID CARO QUINTERO ESCAPE JUSTICE?
In August 2013, an appeals court in Caro Quintero’s home state overturned his 40-year sentence in the killing of Camarena and a Mexican government pilot. The panel of judges argued a state court should have overseen the case, not a federal one, and ordered his immediate release from a maximum-security prison. Mexico’s Supreme Court annulled the order releasing him months later, saying Camarena was a registered U.S. government agent and therefore his killing was a federal crime and had been properly tried. An arrest warrant was issued for Caro Quintero, who was long gone. Questions still swirl around his late-night release: Mexican prosecutors, who by law should have been notified, weren’t notified until hours after he was released in the middle of the night and disappeared in a car that had been waiting for him.
WHAT DID CARO QUINTERO DO WHILE HE WAS ON THE RUN BETWEEN 2013 and 2022?
Caro Quintero was added to FBI’s 10 most wanted list in 2018, with a $20 million reward for his capture. Mexican security analyst David Saucedo believes that the sudden renewed interest in his arrest may have stemmed from the deadly wave of overdoses in the United States from the synthetic opioid fentanyl. “I think that the FBI did that because of the deaths being caused in the United States due to fentanyl consumption,” said Saucedo. “When Caro Quintero got out of prison he takes up drug trafficking again and established the Caborca cartel in Sonora. But his criminal activities include shipping fentanyl.”
WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN TO CARO QUINTERO NOW?
Caro Quintero was notified this weekend that a process to extradite him to the United States has begun, but his lawyers have already filed for court injunctions that could stretch the legal process out over months, and perhaps years. He will wait out the process in a maximum security prison west of Mexico City. A grand jury in the Eastern District of New York indicted Caro Quintero in 2017 on a number of drug trafficking charges, as well as for conspiring to murder those who posed a threat to his narcotics activities.
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LONDON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE:IGT) will host a conference call and live webcast to discuss second quarter 2022 results for the period ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
Conference call details:
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
8:00 a.m. EDT
Dial-in registration: Visit here to register for the conference call. Upon registering, you will receive a dial-in number and unique PIN.
Webcast registration: Visit here to register for a live, listen-only webcast. Further details are available under "Events Calendar" on IGT's Investor Relations website at www.IGT.com. A replay will also be available on the website following the call.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivalled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.IGT.com.
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ROME (AP) — Italy has seen dozens of governments since the end of World War II, so it’s very accustomed to political crises. But the tumult now roiling its political parties is playing out differently as Premier Mario Draghi’s future as the nation’s leader hangs in the balance.
Draghi’s offered to resign last week after a coalition partner, the populist 5-Star Movement, boycotted an important Senate vote. But Italy’s president declined to accept the resignation — for now, at least. Draghi is not a politician, and in his 17 months in office at the helm of an unusual “national unity” government, he has gained statesman status in Western Europe for his staunch support of aid for Ukraine and for his shepherding efforts to enact economic reforms.
The outcome of debate in the legislature on Wednesday will help determine if Draghi will stay in office. In marked contrast to many previous political crises in Italy, which citizens have shrugged off, this time many Italians are pleading with Draghi to stay. If Draghi can’t — or won’t — revive his coalition, early elections could be the result.
WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS GOVERNMENT:
President Sergio Mattarella tapped Draghi, the former chief of the European Central Bank, to form a “national unity” government in February 2021 to help revive Italy’s pandemic-battered economy. Draghi took the helm of the premiership from Giuseppe Conte, the 5-Star leader who chafed at losing his post as he struggled to get Italy’s COVID-19 vaccination program running smoothly.
Draghi leads an unusual coalition, of often-squabbling rivals, including parties on the right, center and left, as well as the 5-Stars, who dealt him the stinging betrayal on July 14.
BAD TIMING:
This crisis comes at a particularly crucial time — for Italy and Europe. High inflation and skyrocketing energy costs are punishing consumers and industry. And Draghi has positioned himself as one of the staunchest backers of military and other aid from Europe for Ukraine, as that country defends itself from the war launched by Russia. With political setbacks for British leader Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron, and the absence of longtime German leader Angela Merkel still very much felt on the continent, Draghi has established himself as a reliable, authoritative voice of Europe. The premier has also stayed the course in delivering reforms demanded by the European Union as conditions for 200 billion euros in pandemic recovery aid.
THE SHOWDOWN:
Wednesday is a crucial day. Mattarella has invited Draghi to go before Parliament to explain why he wants to resign. Lawmakers then publicly stake their positions in debate. While the other coalition parties are expected to press Draghi to stay, the 5-Stars, weakened by defections from their ranks, have been squabbling over what to do. Draghi has said he won’t govern without the populists in his coalition.
A MATTER OF CONFIDENCE:
Draghi’s government hasn’t sought a make-or-break confidence vote. But lawmakers from parties in his coalition could propose motions and tie them to an open-roll-call vote, in a bid to ensure party discipline. Should those eventual motions fail, Draghi’s departure would be virtually inevitable.
ROOTING FOR “REMAIN”:
An online petition called “Draghi, stay” launched by former Premier Matteo Renzi had snagged more than 100,000 signatures by late Monday. Hundreds of rank-and-file citizens and political leaders turned out Monday for pro-Draghi rallies in piazzas in Rome, Milan and other cities. Some 1,000 mayors from rival political stripes signed an open letter to Draghi exhorting him to remain. Various lobbies, including a doctors’ group worried about any government leadership void amid surging coronavirus infections, also pitched “please stay” pleas.
DRAGHI’S CHOICE:
Even without the 5-Stars, Draghi could still muster a comfortable majority in the legislature. But Draghi, whose “whatever it takes” strategy saved the euro currency from demise a decade ago when he led the European Central Bank, could decide that while he technically still has the numbers on his side, he might have run out of patience with his not infrequently bickering coalition partners.
IF DRAGHI EXITS:
Should Draghi make his resignation bid irrevocable, the next move is up to Mattarella. He could ask someone else to try to form a government, but Draghi’s is already the third government since the election of Parliament, in 2018. More likely is that the president will dissolve Parliament, triggering early elections as soon as late September. The legislature’s five-year term expires in March, so elections wouldn’t be far off in any case.
Such a move would likely be in the interests of the far-right, EU-skeptic Brothers of Italy, which opinion polls indicate could be the top vote-getter, propelling its leader Giorgia Meloni into the premier’s office.
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...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON EDT /11 AM CDT/ TO 8 PM EDT
/7 PM CDT/ WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 107 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of south central Indiana and north central,
northwest and south central Kentucky.
* WHEN...From noon EDT /11 AM CDT/ to 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/
Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
A Heat Advisory means that a period of hot temperatures is
expected. The combination of hot temperatures and high humidity
will combine to create a situation in which heat illnesses are
possible. Drink plenty of fluids...stay in an air-conditioned
room...stay out of the sun...and check up on relatives and
neighbors.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible.
To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational Safety and
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HOULTON, Maine, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Katahdin Bankshares Corp. (OTCQX: KTHN), the parent company of Katahdin Trust Company, a full-service community bank in Maine, has announced its second-quarter earnings of $2.1 million, or $0.65 per common share, exceeding the previous quarter by 21% and down from the second quarter last year by $354,000 or 14.2%.
"We are happy to report our improving results over the first quarter of 2022 as we begin to make up for the extra one-time Paycheck Protection Program loan fees and interest income realized in the prior two years," stated Jon Prescott, President and CEO of Katahdin Trust. "We are also proud to have been recently named one of American Banker's Top 200 Community Banks for the third consecutive year based on our financial performance."
Total assets reached $965 million, an increase over the prior year of $17.6 million. Their branch in Scarborough will be moving to its new location at 136 US Route 1 and plans to open on July 25.
For more detailed information and to view a copy of the Bank's most recent quarterly financial report, visit: KatahdinTrust.com/Shareholder-Relations.
About Katahdin Bankshares Corp.
Katahdin Bankshares Corp. is the bank holding company of Katahdin Trust Company. Founded in 1918, Katahdin Trust is a community bank based in Houlton, Maine with more than $965 million in assets and 16 banking offices that serve Aroostook, Penobscot, and Cumberland counties. The Bank has nearly 180 employees and, in 2021, was named one of the Best Places to Work in Maine for the fourth year in a row and recognized the past three years as one of the Top 200 Community Banks in the country by American Banker magazine. Katahdin Bankshares Corp. common stock is quoted on the OTC Markets (OTCQX) under the symbol KTHN. Learn more about the Company and its subsidiary bank at www.katahdintrust.com and follow Katahdin Trust on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Methanol was found in the blood of the 21 teenagers who died last month in a bar in South Africa’s city of East London, according to a health official. Methanol — often called wood alcohol — is a toxic chemical and if ingested even small amounts of it can be fatal. Here’s a look at what is known.
WHAT HAPPENED IN SOUTH AFRICA?
The teenagers died at the Enyobeni tavern in East London’s Scenery Park township in the early hours of June 26, shocking the country and resulting in several investigations by the police and liquor license authorities. Many of the teens, ranging in age between 13 and 17, were found dead in the tavern, their bodies slumped across tables and couches and collapsed on the dance floor, according to officials. Final toxicology reports will show if the levels of methanol were fatal and South Africa’s police will determine whether anyone will face criminal charges for the 21 deaths, national police minister Bheki Cele has said.
WHY IS METHANOL SO POISONOUS?
Methanol is a colorless liquid used industrially in antifreeze and paint remover. It’s toxic to humans. Public health expert Professor Sue Goldstein, from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, warned that ingesting even small amounts of methanol can be lethal. Methanol is sometimes used in making illicit alcohol, she said.
“The one used in normal liquor is ethanol. There is a slight difference in name, but the difference is huge in that methanol is poison.
“These are early stages, but we don’t know if there was homemade alcohol there perhaps and the levels of methanol which were found in the people who died,” said Goldstein. Methanol can cause blindness and can cause brain and organ damage. Drinking even small amounts can lead to death, say experts. The toxic effects of methanol are often delayed so if poisoning is identified early an antidote can be given to reduce deaths.
IS METHANOL BLAMED FOR OTHER DEATHS?
Yes. Because methanol is cheap it has been used in making illegal alcoholic drinks, sometimes called moonshine. Other incidents of suspected methanol poisoning in South Africa were in May and June 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown when liquor sales were banned. Police reported that a man had died in the small town of Brakpan, far east of Johannesburg, from organ failure caused by homemade liquor bought from an illegal trader. Seven people died in the Western Cape province after consuming homemade alcohol which was laced with methanol, said police.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES?
Outbreaks of methanol poisoning have occurred around the world. Even though consumption of methanol can easily be fatal, it accounts for less than 1% of all alcohol-related deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The medical charity, Doctors Without Borders, established a special Methanol Poisoning Initiative in 2012, to help create effective responses to outbreaks of methanol poisoning and to make an effective antidote more widely available.
ARE THERE OTHER INCIDENTS IN WHICH METHANOL HAS CAUSED MULTIPLE DEATHS?
In Iran in March 2020, methanol was included in an illegal remedy for COVID-19, resulting in the deaths of nearly 300 people, according to official reports. An Iranian doctor helping the country’s Health Ministry told The Associated Press at the time that the problem was even greater, giving a death toll of around 480 with 2,850 people sickened. Fake remedies spread across social media in Iran, where people were deeply suspicious of the government after it downplayed the COVID-19 crisis before the disease overwhelmed the country.
In the United States, four people died in Arizona and New Mexico in August 2020 after drinking hand sanitizer which had methanol in it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had earlier issued a warning about a Mexican-made hand sanitizer gel that was dangerous because it had large amounts of methanol. The FDA said the methanol “can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested.”
In northern India, 79 people died from bootleg liquor in three separate incidents in February 2019. Post mortems found that the liquor contained methanol.
In the Russian city of Irkutsk, at least 49 people died after drinking a counterfeit bath lotion containing methanol in December 2016. Officials found that the lotion contained deadly levels of methanol and antifreeze. Police found an underground facility that made the counterfeit lotion, and seized 500 liters (132 gallons) of it at about 100 shops in Irkutsk, according to the Tass news agency. Poisonings caused by cheap surrogate alcohol are a regular occurrence in Russia, but the Irkutsk case was much larger, said authorities at the time.
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LOUSIVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One person is dead after authorities said a pursuit involving a Kentucky State Police trooper led to a fiery crash in Hardin County.
According to a news release from the KSP, the incident began sometime around 7:30 p.m. Monday. Police said a trooper tried to stop the driver of a KIA Soul near Mile Marker 2 on the Joe Prather Parkway (KY 313) near Interstate 65, but the driver refused to yield for the traffic stop.
The reason for the traffic stop was not provided in the release.
According to police, the suspect's vehicle traveled westbound on the Joe Prather Parkway at speeds as high as 100 mph before the suspect turned southbound onto U.S. 31-W. Police said the vehicle then made a U-turn and drove north on U.S. 31-W before running a red light near the intersection of U.S. 31-W and Gateway Crossing Boulevard.
The suspect's vehicle then hit three other vehicles before catching fire in the southbound lanes.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene by the Hardin County Coroner's Office, according to the news release. The identity of that suspect has not yet been publicly released.
The people inside the other three vehicles were taken to Baptist Health Hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening. No one else was injured.
"KSP is committed to being transparent while ensuring the integrity of the investigation," KSP said in a news release. "To protect the integrity of an ongoing investigation, it is KSP's standard operating procedure not to release specific details until vital witnesses have been interviewed and pertinent facts gathered. Timelines to complete investigations vary based on the complexity of the case."
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Geographic Expansion Continues in the Oklahoma Market
TAMPA, Fla., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Lazydays Holdings, Inc. (NasdaqCM: LAZY) ("Lazydays RV" or "Lazydays") completed its acquisition of Dave's Claremore RV (Dave's) located in Claremore, Oklahoma near Tulsa on historic Route 66 and Interstate 44. The dealership is strategically located between the Oklahoma City and the Ozarks markets, and offers a selection of outstanding RV brands including Forest River, Thor, and East to West. Dave's, with their exceptional team of employees and their focus on delivering a best-in-class customer experience, will fit seamlessly into the Lazydays family.
Dave's represents the Company's fifth acquired or greenfield dealership location added over the last twelve months, preceded by acquired locations in Portland, Oregon; Vancouver, Washington; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a greenfield location in Monticello, Minnesota. The Company continues to advance a strong pipeline of expansion opportunities that includes both acquisitions and greenfields. Previously announced greenfields under development include locations in Fort Pierce, Florida; near Omaha, Nebraska; Surprise, Arizona; Wilmington, Ohio; and three dedicated Airstream locations in Ramsey, Minnesota and Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee.
Lazydays currently operates seventeen dealerships with locations in Florida (2), Colorado (2), Arizona (2), Minnesota (2), Tennessee (3), Indiana (2), Oregon (1), Washington (1), Wisconsin (1), and Oklahoma (1); and a dedicated Service Center location near Houston, Texas.
ABOUT LAZYDAYS RV
As an iconic brand in the RV industry, Lazydays, The RV Authority, consistently provides the best RV sales, service, and ownership experience, which is why RVers and their families become Customers for Life. Lazydays continues to add locations at a rapid pace as it executes its geographic expansion strategy that includes both acquisitions and greenfields.
Since 1976, Lazydays RV has built a reputation for providing an outstanding customer experience with exceptional service excellence and unparalleled product expertise, along with being a preferred place to rest and recharge with other RVers. By offering the largest selection of RV brands from the nation's leading manufacturers, state-of-the-art service facilities, and thousands of accessories and hard-to-find parts, Lazydays RV provides everything RVers need and want.
Lazydays Holdings, Inc. is a publicly listed company on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker "LAZY."
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This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements describe Lazydays future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, including statements regarding Lazydays' expectations for future operating results, its expectations regarding the impact of its recently acquired dealerships in Maryville, Tennessee, Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Tulsa, Oklahoma; and its greenfield start-ups in Monticello, Minnesota, Fort Pierce, Florida, near Omaha, Nebraska, Wilmington, Ohio, Surprise, Arizona and three dedicated Airstream locations in Ramsey, Minnesota and Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee; and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of Lazydays. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to various factors, including the impact of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including from current and future sanctions imposed by governments or other authorities, including economic conditions generally (including increasing fuel costs), conditions in the credit markets and changes in interest rates, conditions in the capital markets, the continuing impact of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and other factors described from time to time in Lazydays' SEC reports and filings, which are available at www.sec.gov and other factors that Lazydays may not have currently identified or quantified. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release, and Lazydays undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, unless otherwise required by law.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A 7-year-old boy was identified Tuesday as the child who died after being rushed to the hospital from a Louisville foster care facility.
The Jefferson County Coroner's Office said Ja'Ceon Terry died Sunday at Norton Children's Hospital. His cause of death is still pending.
It happened at the Brooklawn Child and Family Services location off Goldsmith Lane and Bardstown Road. A spokesperson for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services said several investigations were opened Sunday but couldn't provide any additional details.
Seven Counties Services, which operates the children's home, said they are "devastated at the tragic loss of one of our children."
The organization said it's working with state partners and local authorities as the investigation continues.
The Louisville Metro Police Department said it is conducting a death investigation and is waiting on results from the medical examiner's office to determine the cause and manner of the Ja'Ceon's death.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday ordered one of the country’s leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced. The order came as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure.
Masoud Setayeshi, spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, announced that award-winning director, Jafar Panahi, perhaps Iran’s best-known film director, would fulfill his six-year prison term handed down in 2011 on charges of producing antigovernment propaganda, a final verdict that he said should have been implemented at the time.
Although Panahi was banned from traveling over the past years, the sentence was never enforced and he continued to make underground films, which were released abroad to great acclaim. He has won multiple festival awards, including the 2015 Berlin Golden Bear for “Taxi.” His defiant films about poverty, sexism, violence and censorship in the Islamic Republic long have angered the government.
Authorities detained Panahi last week when he visited the Tehran prosecutor’s office to inquire about the cases of fellow detained dissident filmmakers, Mohamad Rasoulof and Mostafa al-Ahmad. Rasoulof and al-Ahmad were swept up earlier this month on charges of undermining the nation’s security by voicing opposition on social media to the government’s violent crackdown on unrest in the country’s southwest.
Panahi’s detention in Iran’s Evin Prison has drawn widespread criticism from rights groups, shining light on a wave of repression hitting not only the country’s celebrated cinema industry but also activists and protesters.
The government has escalated its crackdown on dissent as it seeks to prevent the Iranian currency, the rial, from crashing. Talks to revive Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers remain deadlocked and desperation over the economic crisis is deepening with no sanctions relief in sight.
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LAND O'LAKES, Fla., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, recently opened Angeline, a new community of active adult homes designed exclusively for residents 55 and better. Situated in Pasco County's 6,200 acre premiere masterplanned community of Angeline, Lennar's new community will offer an extensive array of luxurious private amenities. Prospective home shoppers are invited to tour Lennar's eight model homes and experience the unparalleled lifestyle that Angeline has to offer. For more information and to schedule a tour, click here.
"Angeline will be a destination city centered around health and wellness and we are proud to introduce this new, residential community designed specifically for Active Adults," said Steve Smith, Tampa Division President for Lennar. "From the thoughtful design details within our homes to the depth of our amenities, no detail has been overlooked when it comes to providing residents with a beautiful and comfortable lifestyle."
Home shoppers at Angeline can select from 12 signature Lennar floorplans in three distinctive collections: Villas, the Estates, and the Executives. Home designs include single-family and villas and range from 1,683-2,775 square feet, with two to three bedrooms and two to three baths. Pricing starts in the low $300,000s for the Villas, high 300,000s for the Estates and mid $400,000s for the Executives.
All homes will offer Lennar's signature Everything's Included® program that outfits every new home with popular features and upgrades at no extra cost. The homes also include connected home components including Ring® pro video doorbell and alarm security kit, Honeywell Home® smart thermostat, Legrand® media panel, Schlage Encode Smart lock®, Flo by Moen® smart water shutoff and eero® pro 6 mesh wifi system.
Within Angeline, there will be a vast assortment of amenities including the MetroLagoon ®. Lennar residents will also have access to a multi-million-dollar amenity center with resort-style recreational opportunities including a swimming pool, fitness center, tennis, pickleball and bocce ball courts.
Anchored by the new state-of-the-art H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, the 6,200-acre Angeline will be home to more than 30,000 residents with access to a community farm, 3,600 acres of green space, an extensive trail network, office and retail, onsite school and the fastest internet service in the nation. Moffit's 750-acre life sciences research park – larger than downtown Tampa – will be one of the leading facilities of its type in the world. To learn more about Lennar's new communities in Angeline, please visit the Welcome Home Center at 11342 Flora Crew Ct, Land O' Lakes, FL 34638 or click here.
Lennar is now selling at three Active Adult communities across the Tampa market. In addition to Angeline, the homebuilder is selling at Mirada in San Antonio, FL and Southshore Bay in Wimauma, FL.
For a limited-time only, prospective home shoppers can take advantage of special pricing and incentives during Lennar's 10-day National New Homes Sales Event which ends this coming Sunday, July 24. Lennar Mortgage is currently offering a fixed rate of 4.99% (4.99% APR) when a customer signs a purchase agreement on a select move-in ready home in the greater Tampa Bay area between 07/14/2022 - 07/24/2022 and close by 10/31/22. Requires financing through Lennar Mortgage, LLC.*
Interested homebuyers are encouraged to move fast while these homes with incredible savings last! To discover incredible savings on new homes near you, visit www.lennar.com today.
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit lennar.com.
*Offer available on select move-in ready homes in the greater Tampa area if the purchase agreement is fully executed between 07/14/2022 and 07/24/2022 and closes and fully funds on or before 10/31/22. Offer may not be combined with any other existing promotions. Sample APR is based on interest rates and terms available as of 07/14/22 and on a purchase price of $415,490 with 20% down factoring in prepaid interest and closing costs. Rates may change or not be available or funds may be exhausted at the time of loan commitment, lock-in or closing. Buyer is subject to qualifications for specific loan terms, occupancy, down payment, credit and underwriting requirements, and/or investor program guidelines. Not an offer to enter into an interest rate or discount point agreement and any such agreement may only be made in writing signed by both the borrower and the lender. Offer requires financing through seller's affiliate Lennar Mortgage, but use of Lennar Mortgage is not required to purchase a home ( See Affiliated Business Arrangement Disclosure ). Lennar Mortgage, LLC – NMLS # 1058, Mortgage Lender/Servicer License #MLD549. Seller's Broker: Lennar Realty, Inc. Construction License(s): CGC1518166. Date 07/22
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- All lanes of Interstate 64 East near Hurstbourne Parkway are shut down after a fatal accident Tuesday afternoon, according to Louisville Metro Police.
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LMPD Officer Beth Ruoff said just after 4 p.m., a box truck lost control near the Hurstbourne Parkway exit on I-64 East.
The box truck overturned, killing one man who was inside the vehicle, Ruoff said.
LMPD said drivers should expect delays in the area as all lanes are expected to be shut down until at least 6 p.m.
Traffic is being diverted onto Hurstbourne Parkway, and drivers can reenter I-64 on the ramp at Hurstbourne.
LMPD's Traffic Unit is investigating the accident.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces, accompanied by an investigative judge, raided the country’s Central Bank on Tuesday in a divisive investigation against the bank’s embattled governor.
Judge Ghada Aoun had been investigating Gov. Riad Salameh, and in March charged him with illicit enrichment and money laundering. A handful of European countries, including Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein are also investigating Salameh for alleged money laundering and embezzlement.
Also in March, in an initiative by Germany, France, and Luxembourg, the European Union froze $130 million worth of Lebanese assets belonging to five unnamed Lebanese. They accused the suspects of embezzling over $330 million and 5 million euros ($5.5 million) respectively, between 2002 and 2021. It is widely believed that Riad Salameh and his brother Raja are among the five.
Lebanon is grappling with a staggering economic crisis that has pushed over three-quarters of its population into poverty.
Many hold 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 71 year-old Central Bank governor, who has held the post for the past three decades, still enjoys the backing of most Lebanese political parties.
On Tuesday, the investigative judge arrived at the Central Bank headquarters in Beirut with Lebanese state security personnel, apparently trying to find Salameh.
Aoun told the press after leaving the premises that she did not find Salameh and was unable to look for him in the building’s offices and storage rooms. “We immediately received a judicial order (to leave),” she said.
State security forces earlier Tuesday raided Salameh’s home, but he was not there.
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the raid in a statement, calling it a “brash” move for a sensitive case in the troubled country.
“What is required is to solve this case with a prior political agreement on a Central Bank governor, and then take the appropriate legal course,” Mikati said.
Aoun’s monthslong investigation into Salameh has divided the country. In January, she froze his assets as a “precautionary measure, ” after he did not show up for questioning in a lawsuit filed by a Lebanese anti-corruption group.
She has also charged the governor’s brother, Raja Salameh, with involvement in the formation of three illusive companies in France alongside Ukrainian citizen Anna Kosakova to purchase real estate worth nearly $12 million there. Raja was detained in March and released in May on record bail worth $3.7 million.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIND; "Lindblad"; the "Company"), a global provider of expedition cruises and adventure travel experiences, will report 2022 second quarter financial results on Monday, August 1, 2022, before the market opens. The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results at 8:30 am Eastern Time. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 844-200-6205 (United States), 833-950-0062 (Canada) or 929-526-1599 (International). The Access Code is 618427. The earnings release and a live audio webcast of the call will be available in the investor relations section of the Company's website at investors.expeditions.com.
A replay of the call, along with a transcript, will be available on the website within 48 hours of its completion. The replay will also be accessible by phone by dialing 866-813-9403 (United States), 226-828-7578 (Canada) or 44-204-525-0658 (International). The Replay Access Code is 566816.
About Lindblad Expeditions
Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. is an expedition travel company that focuses on ship-based voyages through its Lindblad Expeditions brand and on land-based travel through its subsidiaries, Natural Habitat Adventures, Off the Beaten Path, DuVine Cycling and Adventure and Classic Journeys.
Lindblad Expeditions works in partnership with National Geographic to inspire people to explore and care about the planet. The organizations work in tandem to produce innovative marine expedition programs and to promote conservation and sustainable tourism around the world. The partnership's educationally oriented voyages allow guests to interact with and learn from leading scientists, naturalists and researchers while discovering stunning natural environments, above and below the sea, through state-of-the-art exploration tools.
Natural Habitat, Inc. partners with the World Wildlife Fund to offer and promote conservation and sustainable travel that directly protects nature. Natural Habitat's adventures include polar bear tours in Churchill, Canada, Alaskan grizzly bear adventures and African safaris.
Classic Journeys, LLC is a luxury cultural walking tour company that operates a portfolio of curated tours centered around cinematic walks led by expert local guides. Classic Journeys offers active small-group and private custom journeys in over 50 countries around the world.
DuVine Cycling + Adventure Co. designs and leads luxury bike tours in the world's most amazing destinations, from Italy's sun-bleached villages and the medieval towns of Provence to Portugal's Douro Valley and the vineyards of Napa, California. Guests bike, eat, drink, and sleep their way through these regions and many more while sampling the finest cuisine, hotels, and wine.
Off the Beaten Path LLC is an outdoor, active travel company offering guided small group adventures and private custom journeys that connect travelers with the wild nature and authentic culture of their destinations. Off the Beaten Path's trips extend across the globe, with a focus on exceptional national park experiences in the Rocky Mountains, Desert Southwest, and Alaska.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Malibu Jack's Indoor Theme Parks, which has locations in Louisville, Lexington and Ashland, was acquired by Five Star Parks & Attractions.
The Hattan family opened the first Malibu Jack's location in Lexington nine years ago and then expanded into Louisville. Officials said they will continue to have a relationship with the original owners.
In a news release, Five Star Parks said it was drawn to Malibu Jack's because the company transforms vacant buildings, instead of building new venues.
"Our goal has always been to find a way that we, as entrepreneurs, could also make a positive impact on our communities, turning what had been an eyesore or empty store into a place that brings joy to residents and visitors alike," said Terry Hatton, the original owner. "We love that challenge, and what appeals to us about this partnership with Five Star is that we’ll be able to expand our reach, bringing our original vision to families across the country."
Malibu Jack's, located on Hurstbourne Parkway in Louisville, features indoor go-karts, bowling alleys, mini golf, laser tag, rides and arcades.
Five Star Parks & Attractions also owns amusement parks in Branson, Missouri; Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and other cities.
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LONDON (AP) — Officials at Britain’s Foreign Office warned against the U.K.’s plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda, citing the East African country’s human rights record, according to documents cited in a lawsuit brought against the British government.
In written submissions filed Tuesday, lawyer Raza Husain said Foreign Office officials told then Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in March that if Rwanda were selected for the policy, “we would need to be prepared to constrain U.K. positions on Rwanda’s human rights record, and to absorb resulting criticism from U.K. Parliament and NGOs.”
The government initially excluded Rwanda from the shortlist of potential destination countries for deported migrants “on human rights grounds,” according to Husain, who is representing a group of asylum-seekers, charities and public employee unions.
The group brought legal action against Britain’s government over the deportation agreement reached with Rwanda in April.
Under the plan, Britain would deport people who enter the U.K. illegally and in exchange for accepting them, Rwanda would receive millions in development aid. The deportees would be allowed to apply for asylum in Rwanda, not Britain.
Authorities have defended the plan, arguing it would deter asylum-seekers from making dangerous and “unnecessary” trips on small boats across the English Channel. But it has drawn outrage from human rights activists, the United Nations and many others who say it is illegal and inhumane to send people thousands of miles away to a country they don’t want to live in.
Some have denounced the policy as an attack on the rights of refugees that most countries have recognized since the end of World War II.
Citing internal memos and other government documents, Husain said a Foreign Office note from April said the human rights concerns about Rwanda included the potential for “torture or degrading treatment” of the deportees.
Husain also said the U.K.’s high commissioner to Rwanda indicated last year that the country should not be used be considered for several reasons — including that it “has been accused of recruiting refugees to conduct armed operations in neighboring countries.”
Britain was forced to cancel the first deportation flight at the last minute last month after the European Court of Human Rights ruled the plan carried “a real risk of irreversible harm.”
Home Secretary Priti Patel has vowed that her government would not be put off by such legal challenges.
Britain’s government has argued that while Rwanda was the site of a genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of people in 1994, the country has built a reputation for stability and economic progress since then. Critics say that stability comes at the cost of political repression.
Yvette Cooper, a lawmaker from the opposition Labour Party, said the documents were evidence that the Rwanda deportation plan was “unworkable and unethical.”
“Today’s revelations show that ministers knew the policy was unenforceable, would be at very high fraud risk and would undermine U.K. foreign policy and our ability to raise the issue of Rwanda’s human rights record,” Cooper said.
Two judges are expected to give their decision Wednesday on when a full hearing over the case will take place.
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Residents oppose rezoning of Hagerman St. lot which would have become a bakery
When commercial property is at a premium, rezoning is often the only option business owners have
The rezoning of nearly an acre of property on Hagerman Street from residential to commercial was the only affordable option for Chelsie Young, who proposed opening a bakery on the vacant lot in a Carlsbad neighborhood.
Young said she and her family looked at commercial properties in Carlsbad but could not afford asking prices ranging from $200,000 to $3.8 million.
“Rezoning our land is the absolute only way we could afford this adventure. I did in fact look at other alternative areas,” she said.
That option was dashed on July 12, when the Carlsbad City Council reaffirmed a denial for the zoning change recommended in June by the City's Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission.
Jeff Campbell, marketing director of the Carlsbad Department of Development (CDOD), said pricing for commercial property varied across Carlsbad depending on the location.
“With Carlsbad growing as much as it is, the available inventory of commercial property in more desirable locations has become less over time. This can make the property more expensive, considering all variables,” he said.
“While some barriers to entry, such as property costs, might be high for small business owners just starting out, the overall economic atmosphere is positive,” Campbell said.
More:Carlsbad City Council approves 80-acre land annexation for potential industrial use
Young, who lives in Texas and property owner Joe Pulice, from Carlsbad sought the zone change from Residential 2 District (R-2) to Commercial 1 District (C-1), according to Carlsbad City Council records.
R-2 is intended to accommodate higher density housing, mobile home parks and subdivisions and provides land-use protection for areas that develop in such a manner, read of City of Carlsbad zoning codes. C-1 is intended to accommodate neighborhood scale retail, office and customer service uses, according to City zoning codes.
"We've had Hell dealing with the City as long as I can remember," Pulice said.
He said the property was in the family's possession for decades and at one time the family lived in a house on Hagerman Street before it burned down nearly 20 years ago.
Pulice said he spent nearly $70,000 demolishing the structure and cleaning up the property.
Past attempts to place housing or a business on the property were turned down by the City, according to Pulice.
"They have never allowed us to do anything with it," he said.
Pulice said he gave the property to Young and her mother.
"I'm tired of messing with it. I pay all the (property) taxes and all the upkeep," he said.
Four City departments recommended to deny the zoning request after residents of the neighborhood circulated a petition protesting the zone change.
"The planning department followed the unanimous recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission in its recommendation to the City Council," said City of Carlsbad Planning, Engineering and Regulation Department Director Jeff Patterson.
"The planning department also meets with other city departments to discuss each item scheduled for P&Z. Members of the Commission (at the P&Z meeting) and then members of City Council (at the Council meeting) listened to public feedback on this topic before voting."
Patterson said the City has not considered any other zoning change requests this year from small business owners intending to located a small business within a residential area.
Sharon Williams, who lives near the property, said residents did not wish to inhibit business growth in the city, rather property owners felt the zone change was not compatible with the fully residential neighborhood.
“There are many and established (business) areas within the City, which are suitable for this type of development,” she said.
More:Annexation, zoning change for property on Cherry Lane approved by City Council
In the petition presented to City of Carlsbad officials, Hagerman Street residents contended the zone change would impact property values, increase traffic, noise, and congestion and disrupt neighborhood activities.
Young said a business in the lot would have only added to the neighborhood - replacing a storage container that sits on the property owned by her family for nearly 40 years - and creating jobs for the booming community.
“I feel like I was targeted, and the board's denial was not in the best interest of the town. My plans for that lot would have only improved the area, created jobs, and increased the economy,” Young said.
More:Zone change approval allows Carlsbad couple to keep horse
“A bakery is something that my mom and I have talked about opening up for a long time. I am a nurse and wanting to continue on to medical school, however, I also want to help my mom have something that she can support herself with and enjoy doing,” she said.
Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway said the City has a process in place through a zoning ordinance that ensures that the applicant and interested members of the public receive fair treatment and have an opportunity to appeal the decision to the City Council.
Campbell said CDOD gets requests from small business owners seeking information and advice on rezoning property.
“When people ask about this, we normally refer them to the City of Carlsbad Planning department so they can best assess the situation and offer guidance,” he said.
More:Carlsbad School Board to consider rezoning for middle schools
“Market conditions can be tough for small business owners just starting out, depending on all variables involved. However, the overall growth of Carlsbad makes opening a business more advantageous now, because the consumer base demands more options."
He said small businesses and Carlsbad's major industries like oil and gas and potash mining led to $1.1 billion in matched taxable gross receipts (MTGR) for the third business quarter of 2022.
Campbell said the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department defined MTGR as available tax data showing underlying economic activity.
He said the data collection process matched a tax payment with reported receipts for each taxpayer by industry.
More:President Joe Biden signs bill to boost New Mexico's outdoor recreation, improve access
"Carlsbad has a number of new retail and restaurant businesses slated to open in 2022. Coupled with a balanced approach to industrial growth, area residents and leaders are primed for more," Campbell said.
Young said the family was still looking at options for the bakery and the property on Hagerman Street.
With commercial property at a premium in Carlsbad, Janway expected more zoning change requests in the future.
"We will handle each of these individually, on its own merits, and continue to follow our process," he said.
More:Sendero Midstream sold for $600M. New pipeline connecting Permian oil and gas to Gulf Cost
How do rezone procedures work?
"The zoning change process begins with the submission of the application to the City's Planning Department," Patterson said.
He said an applicant was required to send notification letters to all neighbors within 100 feet of the proposed rezoned property.
Patterson said the notification informed neighbors of the zoning change request and lets them know the P&Z Commission will meet and consider the zone change request.
"Once a complete application has been submitted and the notification letters sent, the planning staff schedule the zoning change request for the next available Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The P&Z meeting serves as the first public hearing for a zoning change request," Patterson said.
He said P&Z considers an item, gathers input at public meetings and then votes to recommend approval or denial to the Carlsbad City Council.
Once the Commission makes its recommendation, the Planning Department schedules the zoning change request to be heard at City Council. The Council is the final decision-maker for zoning changes because zoning changes are accomplished by ordinance," Patterson said.
More:Carlsbad City Council approves 80-acre land annexation for potential industrial use
He said the Council considers recommendations from the P&Z Commission and takes public input.
"Once the Council considers these factors, they vote to approve or deny the request," Patterson said.
Mike Smith can be reached at 575-628-5546 or by email at MSmith@currentargus.com or @ArgusMichae on Twitter.
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LOS ANGELES, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, a longtime partner of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, is donating $750,000 to the Food Bank to help provide food and nutrition assistance to families in need throughout LA County as part of the 2022 All-Star Legacy Initiative. In addition to the financial gift, the LA Dodgers and key members of Major League Baseball, including MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, volunteered at the Food Bank on Monday, July 18, and prepared kits for the Food Bank's BackPack Program, which provides food to students when free school meals are not available.
"Today, we're here at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank launching our All-Star Weekend Essentials BackPack Program," says the Dodger Foundation CEO Nichol Whiteman. "In light of the 2022 All-Star game, the MLB, the Dodgers and the Dodgers Foundation are going to leave behind $6 million worth of community legacy projects combined with our efforts in 2020. Today, we're packing food boxes that will go along with care kits that we packed a couple of weeks ago with Baby2Baby that will allow for 4 million meals to go to 15 LAUSD Title 1 schools over the next academic year. The LA Regional Food Bank has been doing this amazing program for years and years and we're really proud with over a $1 million investment, we will be able to help sustain and expand this program to more schools that have been on waiting lists."
As part of the initiative, the contribution will help fund the Food Bank's BackPack Program to support thousands of students and their families who will receive essential items weekly at many LA school locations during the 2022-2023 academic year. Funds through this initiative will allow purchasing of nutritionally balanced and kid-friendly food that will be sent home with students on Fridays to provide meals for the weekend.
Food insecurity is harmful to all individuals however it is particularly devastating to children. Proper nutrition is critical to a child's development. Not having enough proper nutrition can severely affect a child's physical and mental health, academic achievement and future economic prosperity. LA County is home to more food-insecure children than any other county in the nation.
"The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is so grateful to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, Major League Baseball and to everyone involved in this event, "said Michael Flood, President and CEO of the LA Regional Food Bank. "Comprehensive support like this is a home run - volunteering, donating funds, donating product, raising awareness for our work - this is exactly the support we need to continue to fight hunger in our community."
While food-insecure families contend with summer months without as much food assistance during the school year, many families are also impacted by current inflationary prices of fuel, food and everyday goods. Strong partnerships with community members such as the Dodgers Foundation, Dodgers and MLB help the Food Bank and our partner agency network of 600+ organizations reach as many food-insecure families as possible. Since the Food Bank was founded in 1973, more than 1.5 billion meals have been provided to those in need.
Through a combined effort, the All-Star Legacy Initiative, MLB, LADF and the Dodgers will address the root causes of homelessness by supporting an ongoing program to provide the equivalent of 4 million healthy meals and 127,000 basic essential items for youth and families living in poverty. Each student in the program will receive a Baby2Baby bare essentials kit to take home to their families, including hygiene items, soap, blankets, diapers and PPE supplies.
Being a non-profit organization, the work of the Food Bank cannot be executed without the engagement of our community partners such as the Dodger Foundation, Dodgers and MLB. The LA Regional Food Bank thanks the Dodger Foundation, Dodgers and MLB for their continued support of the fight against hunger.
The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank has been mobilizing resources to fight hunger in Los Angeles County since 1973. To support the Food Bank's vision that no one goes hungry in Los Angeles County, food and grocery products are distributed through a network of 600+ partner agencies and through Food Bank programs serving 800,000 people monthly. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Food Bank tripled the number of people reached every month. The Food Bank is a 4-star rated charity by Charity Navigator. For more information, visit LAFoodBank.org
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Metro Police are investigating after a man was shot in the city's Portland neighborhood.
LMPD's First Division responded to a reporting in the 2200 block of St. Xavier Street around 3 p.m. Tuesday, Officer Beth Ruoff, LMPD spokesperson, said. That's off North 22nd Street near Bank Street.
Once on scene, officers found a man who had been shot. He was taken to University of Louisville Hospital to be treated for injuries not thought to be life-threatening, according to Ruoff.
First Division detectives are investigating the shooting, but it's unclear whether or not they had any suspects.
Police are asking anyone who has information to call LMPD's anonymous crime tip line at (502) 574-LMPD (5673). Tips can also be submitted anonymously on the department's crime tip portal by clicking here.
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LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — Investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of what has become a raging wildfire in southwest France detained a man for questioning, as firefighters and water-bombing planes on Tuesday fought ferocious flames there and in other parts of Europe that have baked in extreme heat.
Smoke from a large forest fire fanned by high winds blackened the skyline in Greece’s capital Tuesday. Firefighting aircraft buzzed over the flames and dropped water on the slopes of Mount Penteli, 25 kilometers (16 miles) northeast of the city. Officials ordered hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.
Wildfires also kept emergency crews busy in England, Germany, Portugal and Spain.
In the Gironde region of southwest France, two massive fires feeding on tinder-dry pine forests also have forced tens of thousands of people to flee homes and summer vacation spots since they broke out July 12.
One of the blazes, tearing through woodlands south of Bordeaux, is suspected to have been started deliberately. A motorist told investigators that before pulling over and trying unsuccessfully to extinguish the flames, he saw a vehicle speeding away from the spot where the fire started, the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office said.
Criminal investigators found evidence pointing to possible arson, the prosecutor’s office said.
The 39-year-old man being questioned Tuesday lives in Gironde and was detained Monday afternoon, the office said. He also was questioned in 2012 on suspicion of starting a forest fire but that investigation was shelved in 2014 for lack of evidence, the prosecutor’s office added.
Ten water-bombing planes and more than 2,000 firefighters worked day and night to contain that fire and another fierce blaze southwest of Bordeaux that police investigators were treating as accidental. The blazes have burned through more than 190 square kilometers (more than 70 square miles) of forest and vegetation, Gironde authorities said.
Thick clouds of smoke and the risk of flames spreading to buildings have forced the evacuations of more than 39,000 people, including 16,000 on Monday, authorities said. A smaller third fire broke out late Monday in the Medoc wine region north of Bordeaux, further taxing regional firefighting resources.
Swirling winds and extreme heat have complicated firefighting. Record-smashing temperatures eased along France’s Atlantic seaboard Tuesday while other parts of the country and the continent continued to broil.
In Paris, the thermometer in the French capital’s oldest weather station – opened in 1873 – topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit ) for just the third time. The 40.5 C (104.9 F) measured there Tuesday by weather service Meteo-France was the monitoring station’s second-highest reading ever, topped only by a blistering 42.6 C (108.7 F) in July 2019.
The first time the station topped 40 C – hitting 40.4 C (104.7 F) — was in July 1947, Meteo France said. After a 72-year gap, the station has now twice surpassed 40 C in the space of just three years.
The people evacuated Monday included 74 residents of a retirement home, authorities said. Another 80 care-home residents were among 2,000 people getting moved out Tuesday from the latest of more than a half-dozen towns and villages that were ordered to evacuate, authorities said.
Approaching flames also forced the emergency evacuation Monday of 363 animals from a zoo in the Arcachon maritime basin, southwest of Bordeaux, the government’s ecological transition ministry said Tuesday. About 10 animals died of heat and stress, the ministry said.
Five camping sites also went up in flames in that area, which is famous for its oysters and beach resorts, Gironde authorities said.
The double blow of heat waves and droughts exacerbated by climate change are making wildfires more frequent, destructive and harder to fight. In Spain, the prime minister has linked wildfires that have killed two people to global warming, saying Monday that “climate change kills.”
The head of Spain’s Civil Protection and Emergencies agency, Leonardo Marcos González, noted Tuesday that extreme heat and wildfires have hit the country three weeks earlier than usual this year and that many fires broke out at the same time.
“We are in the midst of the most significant civil protection emergency on record,” he told radio station SER.
In charred countryside near Barcelona, Ricardo Serra and Julia Garrido returned Tuesday to the wreckage of their home. They’d been renovating it for the upcoming wedding of Garrido’s son.
“Everything’s been burnt,” she said. “All of our wedding clothes.”
In Portugal, cooling temperatures have eased pressure on emergency crews, with just two major wildfires being tackled by around 800 firefighters Tuesday. But more torrid weather is forecast for Wednesday.
Authorities suspect a wildfire was to blame for the death of a couple in their 80s whose car went off the road and flipped over in a northern Portuguese village late Monday. Their charred vehicle with two bodies inside was found after a blaze engulfed the area. Officials suspect the couple died while trying to flee the flames.
The pilot of a water-dumping plane also died in Portugal last week when his aircraft crashed while fighting a wildfire.
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Leicester reported from Le Pecq, France. Associated Press journalists Derek Gatopoulos in Athens, Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Emilio Morenatti in Barcelona and Raquel Redondo in Madrid contributed. Jade Le Deley also contributed from Paris.
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Carlsbad players compete in state baseball, softball tournaments
All Star baseball and softball tournaments are continuing across New Mexico, and Carlsbad players are doing their usual excellent job.
On the softball side, Carlsbad National Little League’s 11U team won first place in in their state tournament. The 10U team finished second. Carlsbad National’s 12U, 14U and 16U teams all won district championships.
Carlsbad National Little League also received some more good news recently. Faith Aragon, who has selected as the Gatorade New Mexico Softball player of the year, selected Carlsbad National as the recipient of her donation choice.
The Gatorade Play It Forward initiative works with the program to empower student-athletes to provide resources to sports organizations in their community. All 60 Gatorade Player of the Year award winners have the opportunity to select a youth sports organization for the $1,000 grant. Congratulation to all of our softball teams.
On the boys’ side, Carlsbad Shorthorn is currently in the middle of a very competitive state All Star tournament in multiple age brackets. Things have been going very well for the boys in all four age categories, as the double elimination tournament continues this week. Results are being posted here: https://www.facebook.com/district6baseballNM
Most recently, Carlsbad’s 10- and 11-year-olds both beat Eastdale, while the 12 year-olds lost in the double elimination tournament. Carlsbad’s Junior boys fell to Mile High.
Carlsbad Hall of Fame member John Andrews, who currently resides in northern New Mexico, has been attending some of Shorthorn’s state tournament games and closely following their successes. Dr. Andrews, who pitched in the Carlsbad Shorthorn Little League’s first game ever, reports being extremely impressed by what he saw. Let’s hope for continued success.
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Congratulations as well to Lindsay Garza, who was selected as the 2022 Administrator of the Year by the New Mexico Association of Elementary School Principals. Garza most recently retired as the Principal of Ocotillo Elementary. She was born and raised in Carlsbad, where she spent 27 years in education. She taught kindergarten for 18 years before moving into administration.
We’re also very glad to hear that Garza plans to continue being an educator in Carlsbad. According to the Carlsbad Prep Academy, she is one of the all-star cast of teachers being assembled at this new private school. You can read more about all of the educators who will be part of this school by visiting the web page at https://www.cpa-nm.com/.
Sincerely, Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A pedestrian was killed in a fatal hit-and-run Sunday night in Clarksville.
Clarksville Police officers were called to the crash on Brown Station Way West near North Clark Boulevard around 9:57 p.m. Sunday. No other details were provided about the victim.
Police are currently looking through security cameras from the area but are also asking for the public's help.
Anyone with information is asked to call Lt. Jeff Kennedy at the Clarksville Police Department at 812-288-7151 Ext 307 or email j.kennedy@clarksvillepolice.com.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Markem-Imaje, part of Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a global provider of end-to-end supply chain solutions and industrial marking and coding systems, recently announced the launch of the SmartLase® C600, the new 60-watt CO2 laser printer.
Designed with speed and reliability, the SmartLase C600 is the fastest and most powerful CO2 laser in Markem-Imaje's range. It delivers high-quality, chemical-free, permanent coding and indelible marking to protect against counterfeiting on a variety of surfaces including PET bottles, glass, labels, confectionery labels, flexible films, inked paper/carton, and coated metals.
The SmartLase C600 has been engineered to perform to the highest standards in the most demanding packaging lines - even with the increasing complexity of 1D and 2D codes. With very limited maintenance needs, the C600 reduces operational expenses (OPEX) through fewer line stoppages and no added costs for expensive consumables or external cooling. Meanwhile, chemical-free production helps businesses meet sustainability compliance goals.
"The new SmartLase C600 is our most advanced CO2 laser coder," said Adam Krolak, Product Marketing Manager at Markem-Imaje. "It is fast and rugged while also delivering when it comes to safety, simplicity and sustainability. Future-proofed and industry 4.0-ready, it can handle even the most challenging packaging lines while also cutting OPEX. The SmartLase C600 is perfectly placed to power up your production while also bringing down your costs."
Industry 4.0-optimized and with a variety of industrial interfaces such as Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, NGPCL and full-featured CoLOS® software support, the SmartLase C600 enables advanced packaging intelligence. Once integrated, the intuitive user interface delivers an increase of up to 20% in operating efficiency.
With a complete IP55-compliant controller and printhead, the SmartLase C600 meets the high standard of safety per ISO 13849-1 up to Performance Level PLe.
About Markem-Imaje:
Markem-Imaje, a wholly owned subsidiary of the US-based Dover Corporation is a trusted world manufacturer of product identification and traceability solutions, offering a full line of reliable and innovative inkjet, thermal transfer, laser, and print and apply label systems. Markem-Imaje provides global reach to over 50,000 customers with 30 subsidiaries, 6 technology centers, several equipment repair centers and manufacturing plants with the most comprehensive marking and coding portfolio available in the marketplace. Visit www.markem-imaje.com for further information.
About Dover:
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of approximately $8 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 65 years, our team of over 25,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at dovercorporation.com.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The toxic chemical methanol has been identified as a possible cause of the deaths of 21 teenagers at a bar in the South African city of East London last month.
Methanol was found in all of their bodies and investigations are continuing to determine whether the levels of the toxic chemical were enough to have killed them.
“Methanol has been detected in all the 21 individuals that were there, however there is still progressive analysis of the quantitative levels of methanol and whether it could have been the final cause of death,” Dr. Litha Matiwane, Eastern Cape provincial deputy director for clinical service, said at press conference in East London Tuesday.
Authorities are still awaiting the conclusive results which are being conducted at a laboratory in the city of Cape Town, he said.
Methanol is a toxic form of alcohol that is used industrially as a solvent, pesticide or an alternative source of fuel. It is not used in the production of alcohol sold for human consumption.
It is yet not known how the youngsters ingested the methanol.
Alcohol poisoning and inhalation of carbon monoxide have both been ruled out as possible causes of death although traces of both were detected in the bodies of all 21 victims, said Matiwane.
The teenagers died at the Enyobeni tavern in East London’s Scenery Park township in the early hours of June 26, shocking the country and resulting in several investigations by the police and liquor license authorities.
Many of the teens, ranging in age between 13 and 17, were found dead in the tavern, with their bodies strewn across tables and couches. Others died after they were rushed to nearby health facilities.
South Africa’s police will be guided by the final results of the toxicology analysis to determine whether anyone will face criminal charges for the 21 deaths, national police minister Bheki Cele has said.
The owner of Enyobeni tavern and some employees were arrested and are currently out on bail as they face charges related to the violation of liquor trading laws, including the sale of liquor to children.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke at a mass funera l for the teens and vowed his government would take action to prevent alcohol from being served to children under the legal drinking age of 18.
The deaths of the young people at the bar in East London are separate from the shootings at three bars in South Africa earlier this month in which a total of 22 people were killed. In all three incidents, the suspects opened fire on patrons before speeding off in their vehicles and notably the attackers did not rob the victims. In the worst incident, gunmen burst into a bar in Johannesburg’s Soweto township and opened fire, killing 16 people.
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New Mexico's space economy is important to our state, nation
Though New Mexico is one of the youngest states in the Union — once thought of as an uncharted and barren landscape on America’s western frontier — we are only the third state to successfully launch a mission to space.
New Mexico has a rich and unique history of technological innovation and space exploration. Being home to technologically advanced space infrastructure, decades of established public private partnerships, and sustained investment, our state is poised to play a vital role in the next generation of our national defense, research, and commercial space travel.
New Mexico is home to the world’s first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America. Adjacent to White Sands Missile Range and managed by the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, it is home to prominent tenants like Virgin Galactic, AeroVironment/HAPSMobile, and Spinlaunch, among other short-terms contractors operating out of this massive 18,000-acre facility with a 12,500 foot runway and 6,000 square miles of restricted airspace.
Telescopes at New Mexico Tech’s Magdalena Ridge Observatory can resolve objects at 100 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope and respond rapidly to targets of opportunity through tracking and identifying missiles, artificial Earth satellites, space vehicles, and astronomical targets, and partners with the Air Force, NASA, and NSF. Air Force Research Laboratories, Sandia, and Los Alamos National Laboratories employ over 20,000 personnel, while New Mexico State University (NMSU) industry partnerships support the emerging commercial space sector and New Mexico Tech engages students in the realm of space development and technology
Having driven significant investment for decades through public-private partnerships, New Mexico is uniquely positioned at the forefront of our space industry. Space related investments from the private sector are now hitting record levels in what was once an entirely government-run endeavor.
I continue to push these priorities in the House appropriations process to ensure robust funding for our state and for our associated Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) public entities, private partners, and contractors. New Mexico encompasses one of the highest percentages of STEM workforce, and Aerospace and aviation related industries also supply thousands of jobs in our state, and has attracted over 60 companies with a presence in New Mexico.
Space dominance is not only an economic and scientific concern, but a matter of national security. China’s high-tech weapons capacity and growing assertiveness in the new space race should spur America to action. Their advances and successful tests with DF-17 hypersonic missiles allow for the speed and maneuverability to evade defense systems. New Mexico will have great strategic importance to national security readiness for the rest of the country and it is paramount that we maintain a technological edge.
Our spaceport, military installations, and National Laboratories will continue to be front and center in a new era of technology and exploration. I look forward to forging unique public-private partnerships across the state, bringing stakeholders to the table, and being a strong voice for New Mexico’s space sector in Washington.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- More police officers will soon be on the streets of Lyndon after a merger with a local police department allowed the city to create its own.
The Graymoore-Devondale Police Department is now known at the Lyndon Police Department. The announcement was made Tuesday with Lyndon Mayor Brent Hagan and Chief Grady Throneberry.
"We feel we can tailor services to meet the needs of our community and its residents," Hagan said. "We can provide a visible presence in our community."
Graymoore-Devandale was its own department for 13 years. The department currently has 20 officers.
But Hagan said it just made more economic sense to partner with the Graymoore-Devondale on a four-year contract — basically operating as it has — but officers will now be Lyndon city employees.
Taxes will not increase due to the merger.
"Because Lyndon has 12,000 residents and over 400 businesses, our tax base is four times larger than that of Graymoore," Hagan said.
But the reason for the change was more than just financial. LMPD's 8th Division would assist to cover the area, but with the department now 300 officers short, it had become apparent LMPD could no longer complete coverage and adequate response to the Lyndon area.
The Graymoore-Devondale Police Department is headquartered on Westport Road, and it will still serve as headquarters for Lyndon Police until new headquarters can be built.
Most of the calls Graymoore-Devondale responds to is property damage.
"We all understand that nobody operates in a vacuum, and nobody has all the resources they need to do everything they need to do all the time," Throneberry said.
The official rollout of the Lyndon department started a couple weeks ago with the name change on many of the police vehicles.
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- Expects 2Q22 operating income for Ocean Transportation to be $465.0 to $470.0 million
- Expects 2Q22 operating income for Logistics to be $22.5 to $23.5 million
- Expects 2Q22 net income and diluted EPS to be $373.3 to $377.9 million and $9.31 to $9.42, respectively
- Year-over-year increase in consolidated operating income driven by China service strength
- Repurchased approximately 1.6 million shares in 2Q22
- Announces second quarter earnings call date on August 1, 2022
HONOLULU, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Matson, Inc. ("Matson" or the "Company") (NYSE: MATX) today announces preliminary second quarter financial results, provides a business update and announces that its second quarter earnings call will be held on August 1, 2022.
"Matson performed well in the second quarter 2022 with higher year-over-year operating income in both Ocean Transportation and Logistics," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Matt Cox. "Within Ocean Transportation, our China service continued to see significant demand for its expedited ocean services as volume for e-commerce, garments and other goods remained elevated. The increase in consolidated operating income year-over-year was driven by continued strength in the China service. Currently in the Transpacific tradelane, we are seeing solid demand for our China service as China's factory production continues to recover from the COVID-19-related supply chain challenges. However, in recent weeks we have seen a gradual decline in the Transpacific freight rate environment off the highs experienced earlier this year. This indicates that rates have likely peaked for now, and, at this time, we expect an orderly marketplace for the remainder of the year with our vessels continuing to operate at or near capacity and earning a significant rate premium to the market because of our differentiated, fast ocean services. To this end, we continue to expect to operate the CCX service through at least the October peak season this year."
Mr. Cox added, "In our domestic ocean tradelanes, we saw continued strength in Alaska with higher year-over-year volume and softer volumes in Hawaii and Guam compared to the year ago period. In Logistics, operating income increased year-over-year with strength across all of the business lines as we continued to see favorable supply and demand fundamentals in our core markets. As a result, Matson expects second quarter operating income for Ocean Transportation of $465.0 to $470.0 million and Logistics operating income of $22.5 to $23.5 million. We also expect second quarter 2022 net income and diluted EPS to be $373.3 to $377.9 million and $9.31 to $9.42, respectively."
Second Quarter Tradelane Volume (Forty-foot equivalent units (FEU)) (1)(2):
For the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021 and on a FEU basis:
- Hawaii container volume decreased 1.5 percent primarily due to lower retail-related demand;
- Alaska volume increased 12.2 percent primarily due to (i) higher northbound volume primarily due to higher retail-related demand and an additional sailing and (ii) higher volume from Alaska-Asia Express ("AAX");
- China volume was 11.7 percent higher as a result of 4 more eastbound voyages than the prior year;
- Guam volume was 7.0 percent lower primarily due to lower retail-related demand; and
- Other containers volume increased 19.2 percent primarily due to the addition of China-Auckland Express ("CAX") volume in the South Pacific.
- Approximate volumes included for the period are based on the voyage departure date, but revenue and operating income are adjusted to reflect the percentage of revenue and operating income earned during the reporting period for voyages in transit at the end of each reporting period.
- Other containers includes containers from services in various islands in Micronesia and the South Pacific, and Okinawa, Japan.
Liquidity, Debt and Share Repurchases
Matson's cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, 2022 was approximately $609.0 million. Total debt (presented before any reduction for deferred loan fees as required by GAAP) as of June 30, 2022 was $596.6 million.
During the second quarter of 2022, Matson repurchased approximately 1.6 million shares for a total cost of $138.1 million. As of June 30, 2022, the Company had approximately 1.2 million shares remaining in its share repurchase program.
A slide presentation that accompanies this press release is available on the Company's website at www.matson.com, under Investors.
Teleconference and Webcast
A conference call is scheduled on August 1, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. ET when Matt Cox, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Joel Wine, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will discuss Matson's second quarter results.
The conference call will be broadcast live along with an additional slide presentation on the Company's website at www.matson.com, under Investors.
Particpants may register for the conference call at:
https://register.vevent.com/register/BI50173006aa0245ddae17cd86ba37457f
Registered partipants will receive the conference call dial-in number and a unique PIN code to access the live event. While not required, it is recommended you join 10 minutes prior to the event starting time. A replay of the conference call will be available approximately two hours after the event by accessing the webcast link at www.matson.com, under Investors.
About the Company
Founded in 1882, Matson (NYSE: MATX) is a leading provider of ocean transportation and logistics services. Matson provides a vital lifeline to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam, and to other island economies in Micronesia. Matson also operates premium, expedited services from China to Long Beach, California, provides service to Okinawa, Japan and various islands in the South Pacific, and operates an international export service from Dutch Harbor to Asia. The Company's fleet of owned and chartered vessels includes containerships, combination container and roll-on/roll-off ships and custom-designed barges. Matson Logistics, established in 1987, extends the geographic reach of Matson's transportation network throughout North America. Its integrated, asset-light logistics services include rail intermodal, highway brokerage, warehousing, freight consolidation, Asia supply chain services, and forwarding to Alaska. Additional information about the Company is available at www.matson.com
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this news release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including without limitation those statements regarding performance and financial results, volume level and demand for Matson's China service, Transpacific freight rates and Matson's rate premium, duration of CCX service, tourism levels, unemployment rates, economic recovery and drivers in Hawaii, Alaska and Guam, economic conditions in the U.S. and global economies, inflation, and personal income. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the relevant forward-looking statement, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties relating to repeal, substantial amendment or waiver of the Jones Act or its application, or our failure to maintain our status as a United States citizen under the Jones Act; changes in economic conditions or governmental policies, including from the COVID-19 pandemic; our ability to offer a differentiated service in China for which customers are willing to pay a significant premium; new or increased competition or improvements in competitors' service levels; our relationship with customers, agents, vendors and partners and changes in related agreements; fuel prices, our ability to collect fuel-related surcharges and/or the cost or limited availability of required fuels; evolving stakeholder expectations related to environmental, social and governance matters; timely or successful completion of fleet upgrade initiatives; the occurrence of poor weather, natural disasters, maritime accidents, spill events and other physical and operating risks, including those arising from climate change; transitional and other risks arising from climate change; the magnitude and timing of the impact of public health crises, including COVID-19; significant operating agreements and leases that may not be replaced on favorable terms; any unanticipated dry-dock or repair expenses; joint venture relationships; conducting business in a foreign shipping market, including the imposition of tariffs or a change in international trade policies; any delays or cost overruns related to the modernization of terminals; war, terrorist attacks or other acts of violence; consummating and integrating acquisitions; freight levels and increasing costs and availability of truck capacity or alternative means of transporting freight; relations with our unions; satisfactory negotiation and renewal of expired collective bargaining agreements without significant disruption to Matson's operations; loss of key personnel or failure to adequately manage human capital; the use of our information technology and communication systems and cybersecurity attacks; changes in our credit profile and our future financial performance; our ability to obtain future debt financings; continuation of the Title XI and CCF programs; costs to comply with and liability related to numerous safety, environmental, and other laws and regulations; and disputes, legal and other proceedings and government inquiries or investigations. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. This release should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and our other filings with the SEC through the date of this release, which identify important factors that could affect the forward-looking statements in this release. We do not undertake any obligation to update our forward-looking statements.
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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Nearly three dozen migrants were sentenced in Morocco on Tuesday for attempting to scale a border wall last month separating the north African country from the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
The court in Nador sentenced 33 people to 11 months in prison, in a decision that was criticized by rights groups.
Hundreds of migrants tried to cross the border between Morocco and Melilla on June 24. At least 23 people died in the attempt — which Moroccan authorities have called a stampede.
On Tuesday, the 33 migrants were accused of “disobedience,” “armed gathering,” “violence against public officials,” and “illegal entry into Moroccan territory.” Authorities say the migrants were all from sub-Saharan Africa, with the majority having traveled from Sudan and Chad.
In addition to the prison time, the court also ordered the accused to each pay fines of 500 dirhams ($49), along with paying 3,500 dirhams ($340) to settle civil rights claims from members of the public services.
Nongovernmental organizations have decried the decision, with the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) calling it “very harsh,” and calling for the court of appeal to overturn it. The organization will present the results of their investigations into the events in Nador on Wednesday.
In June, a total of 133 migrants breached the border between Morocco and Spain, the first such mass crossing since the two countries mended diplomatic relations in May. A spokesperson for the Spanish government’s office in Melilla said at the time that about 2,000 people attempted to cross, but many were stopped by Spanish Civil Guard police and Moroccan forces on either side of the border fence.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the casualties occurred when people tried to climb the iron fence.
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Hearings reconstruct chain of events leading to Jan. 6 attack
If you haven’t followed the Jan. 6th select committee the past year you are likely not planning to watch the final public hearing this week. I would suggest you think again and tune in.
This is the 8th hearing. It will be broadcast in prime time on Thursday, July 21, just over a year after the committee was formed. Even though some might think the committee has moved slowly, it is remarkable what they have accomplished. Let’s look.
In July 2021, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed a diverse committee of highly skilled, thoughtful members of the House. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy nominated five members, two of whom Pelosi rejected. McCarthy then withdrew his nominees. Pelosi moved ahead and named Republicans Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, and Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, to complete the committee. Former Republican Congressman Denver Riggleman, of Virginia, joined the staff.
Over 1,000 witnesses have been interviewed and 125,000 documents reviewed. White House staff, Trump family members, advisors, and state election officials have testified under oath before millions of Americans. Powerful testimony by mostly Republican witnesses has spurred others to come forward.
The committee focused on seven areas.
1. False information, including the big lie, being fed to the public.
2. Attempts to corrupt the Department of Justice in service of the big lie and to install a conspiracy theorist, Jeff Clark, as Attorney General.
3. The public and private efforts by the former President Donald Trump to pressure Vice President Mike Pence into an illegal scheme to overturn the election.
4. Pressure from Trump on state election officials to “find” fraud or extra votes.
5. The attempt to create false electors in seven states, including New Mexico.
6. Incitement of a mob prior to and on Jan. 6 by Trump and those around him.
7. Trump’s failure to come to the aid of Congress when insurrectionists breached the capitol with weapons in hand.
Here is what we have learned from the testimony so far:
There was no voter fraud in the 2020 election. It was disproven in 64 lawsuits. The election was lost, not stolen.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr as well as other DOJ officials testified Trump pressured them to claim fraud in battleground states. Barr said Trump had no evidence and “no interest in the facts.”
White House witnesses confirmed that on Jan. 4, Trump was informed that his plan to have Pence delay the certification was illegal. He didn’t listen.
Election officials from Arizona and Georgia testified that Trump directly pressured them to violate their oath of office and “find votes” or claim fraud to support his claims.
John Eastman, with Trump’s support, had a scheme to overturn the election by organizing false electors in seven states, including New Mexico where Biden won handily.
White House aides, insurrectionists, and advisors all testified that Trump’s rally, tweets, and social media communications leading up to and on Jan. 6 contributed to the attack on the capitol.
This week’s hearing will focus on the last area: Why did Trump fail to act when Congress and democracy were under attack. Why did he ignore calls from Republican Party leaders, family, advisors to DO SOMETHING?
The hearings are a reminder of what millions of us saw in real time that day. Jan. 6 was a bloody day. Insurrectionists brutally assaulted 150 police officers. Five people died. Elected officials and appointees were pressured to overturn a free and fair election. A mob was incited to violence. For the first time, the peaceful transfer of power was temporarily interrupted – inspired by the lies and actions of a sitting president.
It's not too late. Tune in. Hear the facts. See for yourself.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky lawmakers met Tuesday afternoon to discuss election security, an effort to debunk what they said were misconceptions about fraud.
Assistant Secretary of State Jenni Scutchfield told lawmakers that one misconception among the public is that voting machines are connected to the internet and thus voting totals are susceptible to outside influence. Scutchfield denied this, pointing out that no voting machines contain a modem or have any access to the internet.
She added that the vote totals are tabulated by the County Board of Elections, which consists of the sheriff, the county clerk and one representative from the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Additionally, she said county clerks must maintain a record of the number of ballots issued to each precinct and create what's called a ballot accountability statement, which accounts for the total number of ballots used, unused and spoiled on Election Day.
Still, Sen. Adrienne Southworth, R-Lawrenceburg, who has been criticized by top election officials for spreading election misinformation, spoke in front of the committee in support of a system utilizing hand-counted ballots.
"I have a constituent that texts me and asked me to share this, and it's certainly not the first time I've said something similar," Southworth said. "A lot of concerns about vulnerable election machines. They want paper ballots and hand counts at the precinct level."
But not everyone agreed. Rep. Jason Nemes, R-Louisville, expressed his disapproval of such a system.
"We don't need to be hand-counting ballots," he said. "That would be the worst thing we could possibly do. Out of all the election law ideas, that's the absolute worst."
Both Republican and Democratic leaders at the capitol agree that Kentucky elections are safe and free of fraud.
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HONOLULU, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael J. Kennedy, an innovative leader with extensive executive and strategy experience with national and global organizations, will be appointed to the board of directors of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HEI) (NYSE:HE), effective August 1, 2022. Kennedy will continue to serve as a director of American Savings Bank, F.S.B. (ASB), HEI's wholly owned bank subsidiary, where he has served as a director and member of the ASB Risk Committee since 2018 and as a member of the ASB Audit Committee since 2020.
In 2011, Kennedy co-founded and served as CEO of clearXchange, LLC, a digital payment platform. In 2017, clearXchange became Zelle, one of today's most widely used instant payment services, providing its customers a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family and others they trust. Before founding clearXchange, he was an executive vice president with Wells Fargo, where he led innovation and payment strategy. He was also previously an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, Inc.
After Zelle, Kennedy went on to lead several innovative companies in the international payments industry, serving as president of OFX North America, one of the world's largest international payment providers (2017-19); as CEO of Interstellar, a technology company focused on delivering more reliable cross-border payments (2019-21); and as CEO of Velo Labs, which aims to revolutionize the global financial services industry through development of a blockchain-enabled payments network (2021-22).
Kennedy joins a diverse and talented board of directors at HEI, including: retired Admiral Tom Fargo, former Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command and current HEI board chair; Scott Seu, HEI president and CEO; Celeste Connors, CEO of Hawai'i Local2030 Hub; Richard Dahl, former CEO of James Campbell Company; Elisia Flores, CEO and vice chair of L&L Franchise, Inc.; Peggy Fowler, former CEO of Portland General; Micah Kāne, president and CEO of Hawai'i Community Foundation; Keith Russell, president of Russell Financial; and Jim Scilacci, former CFO of Edison International.
"Mike Kennedy has been a very effective director at American Savings Bank, and we are thrilled to appoint him to the HEI board," said Fargo, HEI board chair. "Mike is a proven leader and his creative thinking, expertise in technology and financial services, and experience developing innovative strategies will greatly support our vision across the HEI family of companies."
Kennedy holds bachelor of science and master of science degrees in industrial engineering, with distinction, from Stanford University. He also has a master of business administration, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.
The Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (HEI) (NYSE:HE) family of companies provides the energy and financial services that empower much of the economic and community activity of Hawaiʻi. HEI's electric utility, Hawaiian Electric, supplies power to approximately 95% of Hawaiʻi's population and is undertaking an ambitious effort to decarbonize its operations and the broader state economy. Its banking subsidiary, American Savings Bank, is one of Hawaiʻi's largest financial institutions, providing a wide array of banking and other financial services and working to advance economic growth, affordability and financial fitness. HEI helps advance Hawaiʻi's sustainability goals through investments by its non-regulated subsidiary, Pacific Current. For more information, visit www.hei.com.
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MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani rescuers Tuesday resumed a search for 29 people who went missing after a passenger boat carrying nearly 100 members of a wedding party capsized in the fast-flowing Indus river.
Twenty-one women and children were killed in the disaster a day earlier, a senior government official said.
Divers from Pakistan’s army were expected to join the rescue operation in Sadiqabad, a district in the eastern Punjab province, government official Saleem Assi said.
He said the bodies of 21 people had so far been recovered and handed over to their relatives.
Assi said at least 65 people, including the bridegroom, were rescued on Monday, but 29 people, including children, were still missing. The missing passengers are feared dead. Their relatives are still waiting hopefully along the riverbank to witness the rescue operation.
Assi said at least 90 people were on board the boat when the boat capsized.
Such accidents are common in Pakistan, where rickety wooden boats are often used to transport goods and people on rivers and lakes. Most operate without life jackets.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Slugger Field is a finalist in Ballpark Digest's "2022 MiLB Triple-A Best of the Ballparks" competition.
A winner of the tournament in 2016, Slugger Field was slotted by Ballpark Digest before the tournament as the No. 7 seed, with Las Vegas Ballpark — last year's winner — receiving the top seed.
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Greg Galiette, president of the Louisville Bats, said the open concept of the park's concourse gives fans the feeling of a "street fair," lending itself to a casual atmosphere to catch a game.
"This ballpark is small enough where the atmosphere each and every night is special," he said. "It's big enough to accommodate big crowds. And it's just got that atmosphere that you want every ballpark to have."
Voting ends Friday night. To vote for Slugger Field, click here.
"We want to get the word out and have everybody in the community step up and vote for Louisville Slugger Field as the top triple-A ballpark in all of America," Galiette said.
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Five Unique OG NFT Designs Immortalize Former Police Officer & Popular U.S. Political Commentator
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DeepRedSky, the premium NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace connecting collectors with world-class individuals and brands online, announces the launch of "The Officer Tatum NFT Collection." The exclusive collection showcases and preserves the many facets, messages, and learnings of the widely successful political commentator, entrepreneur, former police officer, and co-founder of BLEXIT. Brandon Tatum's inspiring and empowering experiences come to life through this dedicated collection of NFTs.
"The Officer Tatum NFT Collection" will be limited to 1,500 pieces in total during this OG release and will be delivered to collectors in gumball style when minted at $50 each. The collection features five unique designs with predetermined rarity, with a dedicated utility attached for each design:
NFT Qty: 175 - "Beaten Black and Blue"
NFT Qty: 300 - "Inspire, Educate, Empower"
NFT Qty: 600 - "In the End We Win"
NFT Qty: 125 - "Let's Get Into This!"
NFT Qty: 300 - "Make Men, Men Again"
- The u Collectors are encouraged to mint and hold to gain access to everything: exclusive virtual events, signed merchandise, and more.
- Officer Tatum's 'Beaten Black & Blue' NFT - features Brandon Tatum's career as an officer, and collectors are entered to win a copy of his book with NFT purchase.
- Collect Brandon Tatum's 'Inspire, Educate & Empower' NFT and you'll be entered for a chance to win a ticket to a Brandon Tatum speaking event of your choice.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles struck cities and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine, hitting homes, a school and a community center on Tuesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin won strong support support from Iran for his country’s military operation.
In Kramatorsk, a city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province considered a likely Russian occupation target, one person was killed and 10 wounded in an airstrike that hit a five-story apartment building, regional Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
Fresh blood stained the concrete amid green leaves that were torn off trees as nearby apartments on at least two floors burned. Shrapnel was placed in a small pile near an empty playground.
“There was no one here. Everything is ruined,” said Halyna Maydannyk, a resident of one burned apartment. “Who knows why they’re doing this? We were all living peacefully.”
Kramatorsk residents Mykola Zavodovskyi and Tetiana Zavodovska stood in bandages outside a hospital. They heard a loud clap and went to their balcony to investigate, then everything exploded and the windows shattered.
“Probably it was a rocket, and probably it was brought down by Ukrainian forces,” Zavodovska said.
The midday strike came after Kyrylenko had reported four earlier Russian strikes in Kramatorsk and urged civilians to evacuate.
On the political front, Putin visited Tehran, where Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the West opposes an “independent and strong” Russia. Khamenei said that if Russia hadn’t sent troops into Ukraine, it would have faced an attack from NATO later, echoing Putin’s own rhetoric and reflecting increasingly close ties between Moscow and Tehran as they both face severe Western sanctions.
NATO allies have bolstered their military presence in Eastern Europe and provided Ukraine with weapons to help counter the Russian attack. Putin and other officials at the Tehran meetings said little new about negotiations to unblock Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
In the Odesa region in southern Ukraine, Russian forces fired seven Kalibr cruise missiles overnight. The Russian Defense Ministry said strikes on the village of Bilenke achieved a legitimate military goal and “destroyed depots of ammunition for weapons supplied by the United States and European countries.”
A local official disputed Moscow’s claim and said six people were wounded.
“These strikes on peaceful people have one goal — to intimidate the population and the authorities and keep them in constant tension,” Serhiy Bratchuk, the speaker of the Odesa regional government, told Ukrainian television.
With indications that Ukraine is planning counterattacks to retake occupied areas, the Russian military in recent weeks has targeted Odesa and parts of southern Ukraine where its troops captured cities earlier in the war.
In the east, Ukrainian forces are fighting to hold onto the declining territory under their control. Donetsk has been cut off from gas supplies and partly from water and power as the Russians try to complete their capture of the province. Russia’s ground advance has slowed, in part because Ukraine is using more effective U.S. weapons and partly because of what Putin has called an “operational pause.” Russia has been focusing more on aerial bombardment using long-range missiles.
“The infrastructure of the cities is being methodically destroyed by missile strikes, and the civilian population, cut off from bare necessities, suffers the most,” Kyrylenko said.
Russian-installed officials in the southern region of Kherson, under Moscow’s control since early in the war, said Ukrainian forces damaged the only bridge in the city of Kherson over the Dnipro River, east of Odesa. Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the Kherson region’s Kremlin-backed administration, told the Russian news agency Interfax that Ukrainian forces used American-made rocket launchers to damage the bridge in an attempt to cut Kherson off from the left bank of the Dnipro.
Ukrainian officials have spoken of plans for a counter-offensive to retake Kherson and other southern Ukrainian territory from the Russians.
Serhiy Khlan, an official with the Ukrainian administration of the Kherson region, tacitly confirmed the strike on Ukrainian television, reporting “a precise hit” and explosion in the area of the bridge.
Also in the Kherson region, Ukraine claimed to have used anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet that had planned to attack its planes. Several ground-based videos posted on social media showed a plane breaking up in the evening sky Tuesday near Nova Kakhovka, in flames and spewing gray and black smoke as it descended and crashed into the ground, at least some pieces into a green field. Ukrainian news reports said the pilot ejected and showed a helicopter search for him. Russian officials didn’t immediately confirm the shootdown. Little information has emerged during the war about aerial battles.
Kherson — hosting a major ship-building industry at the confluence of the Dnieper River and the Black Sea near Russian-annexed Crimea — is one of several areas a U.S. government spokesman said Russia is trying to annex. Following months of local rumors and announcements about a Russian referendum, White House national security council spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence officials have amassed “ample” new evidence that Russia is looking formally to annex additional Ukraine territory and could hold a “sham” public vote as soon as September. Russia is eyeing Kherson as well as the entirety of the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.
“Russia is laying the groundwork to annex Ukrainian territory that it controls in direct violation of Ukraine sovereignty,” Kirby said in Washington.
Kirby also said the White House is expected to announce more military aid for Ukraine later this week. The aid is expected to include more High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, a critical weapon Ukrainian forces have been using with success in their fight to repel Russian troops.
On the ground, Ukraine and Russia continued their sporadic exchanges of bodies of fallen soldiers. Each side gave the other 45 soldiers’ bodies in the Zaporizhzhia region. Russia’s Ria-Novosti news agency said Tuesday the soldiers had been killed in Mariupol, the Azov Sea city that captured worldwide attention because of a weeks-long siege of a steel plant.
At least two civilians were killed and 15 wounded by Russian shelling across Ukraine over the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s presidential office said in a Tuesday morning update.
With Russia’s missiles hitting cities 799 kilometers (497 miles) apart Tuesday, “there remains a high level of threat of missile strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine,” said Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesman of the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The missile strikes came as the British military said it believes Russia is struggling to keep up its troop strength in its grinding war of attrition that began with the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
The British Defense Ministry said in a Tuesday assessment that Russia “has struggled to sustain effective offensive combat power since the start of the invasion, and this problem is likely becoming increasingly acute” as Moscow seeks to conquer the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
The British military added: “While Russia may still make further territorial gains, their operational tempo and rate of advance is likely to be very slow without a significant operational pause for reorganization and refit.”
In other developments Tuesday:
— Ukraine’s parliament approved President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dismissal of Ivan Bakanov as head of the country’s Security Service, the SBU, and the Ukrainian leader on Tuesday finalized the firing of Iryna Venediktova, who served as Ukraine’s prosecutor general. As part of the reshuffle stemming from alleged collaboration with Russian authorities, Zelenskyy on Tuesday also fired six other SBU officials.
— Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, visited Washington at the invitation of U.S. first lady Jill Biden. Zelenska met Monday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who assured her of the U.S. commitment to Ukraine, and praised her work with civilians dealing with trauma and other war damage. At the White House on Tuesday, Zelenska met with Jill Biden, embracing and posing for photos before discussing how the U.S. is helping Ukrainians suffering mentally and emotionally from the war.
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Cara Anna contributed to this report from Kramatorsk.
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JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (WDRB) -- Weeks after several bodies were discovered at a southern Indiana funeral home, the business owner appeared in court for the first time.
Randy Lankford with Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center in Jeffersonville was in the Clark County Courthouse on Tuesday for a preservation of evidence hearing.
"We asked the judge to require Mr. Lankford to preserve certain information, written documentation, electronic information in his possession, and overall, we were successful," attorney Marc Sedwick said.
Sedwick and attorney Larry Wilder are representing several of the families.
This all stems from a police investigation after receiving information concerning the funeral home's condition.
Maj. Isaac Parker with Jeffersonville Police said authorities found 31 deceased individuals, "some of which were in the advanced stages of decomposition" at the funeral home, along with the post-cremation remains of 16 people.
"So today, what we were able to do was confirm that Mr. Lankford, one, is someone who will come to court, which was one of the things we were concerned about whether he would show up when ordered by a judge," Wilder said.
Wilder said he has spoken with several families. One family recently told WDRB News that they held a celebration of life for their father and had what they believed to be his ashes, then got a call from the coroner saying their father's body was one of the bodies discovered at the funeral home.
"We've seen a lot of tears, we've heard a lot of angry voices ..." Wilder said. "I've done this 37 years. I've been involved in all kinds of different cases. I've never seen one that has covered so many different emotional expressions from so many different people that have been hurt or are a part of it."
WDRB News has tried reaching out to the funeral home for comment, but the voicemail is full and directs callers to reach out to the county coroner's office. Online, it says the funeral home is "permanently closed."
Sedwick said next, there will be a status conference in early August. He said for this hearing, several families were present either in person or virtually.
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