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- Yen is hit hard n the back of a uber dovish BoJ.
- AUD/JPY rockets but there is daily resistance on the horizon.
The yen has dropped across the board following an uber dovish Bank of Japan meeting that has seen USD/JPY shoot towards 130 the figure in a parabolic rally of around 130 pips. This has pulled AUD/JPY higher within its correction on the daily chart by some 65 pips so far.
AUD/JPY is currently 0.66% higher on the session so far at 92.07 and has travelled from a low of 91.32 to a high of 92.24. While the BoJ was expected to keep its existing ultra-loose policy settings, the yen tumbled as the central bank announced its plan to conduct unlimited fixed-rate bond purchase operations every business day "until it is highly likely that no bids will be submitted".
Meanwhile, this leaves a compelling opportunity on the charts of the contrarian traders, if considering the risks to global growth and the Aussies' high beta status. While there is a case for a supported AUD on the back of hotter than expected inflation and a faster rate hike timetable from the Reserve Bank of Australia, the backdrop is pessimistic in the global economy and external factors are weighing the currency down. If yen weakness is faded, then there would be prospects of a downside continuation as per the following daily chart:
AUD/JPY technical analysis
A correction of the bearish impulse into resistance and the confluence of the Fibonacci levels could be the fuel for bears to move in again for a downside extension in due course. the 38.2% and 50% ratio retracements align with prior lows on the daily chart.
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A Thai Airways flight landed at Kempegowda International Airport on Tuesday night with a deflated tyre, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) sources revealed, adding that all passengers and crew members were safe.
The flight, TG 325, is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, and it landed in Bengaluru after taking off from Bangkok in Thailand. The flight was towed to a secure location at the airport and a technical inspection was immediately carried out. It was the landing gear tyre on the right side that had deflated, sources said.
After this incident, the scheduled departure of the flight from Bengaluru to Bangkok on Wednesday morning could not take place and flyers boarded the flight early on Thursday.
A BIAL spokesperson refused to comment saying this was an airline operational issue. Airline officials were not available for comment.
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The Bank of Japan was expected and has maintained its key interest rates at today’s meeting, continuing to defend low rates with bond-buying but is uber dovish and pessimistic in its guidance.
The yen is now pushed above 129 the figure toughing a 20-year high and that is where it will need to stay for a convincing prospect of a continuation for the foreseeable future.
While the BoJ was expected to keep its existing ultra-loose policy settings, the yen tumbled as the central bank announced its plan to conduct unlimited fixed-rate bond purchase operations every business day "until it is highly likely that no bids will be submitted".
BoJ decision, statement & outlook
What we know so far, as comments and statements are dripped fed through the wires vs Reuters as follows...
- BoJ keeps monetary policy steady.
- BoJmaintains the short-term interest rate target at -0.1%.
- Maintains a 10-year JGB yield target of around 0%.
- Leaves unchanged its forward guidance on interest rates, says expects short- and long-term policy rates to remain at 'present or lower levels.
- Tweaks forward guidance on monetary policy bias
- Will ease policy without hesitation as needed with an eye on pandemic impact while striving to sustain market stability and support corporate funding
- Clarifies operation on unlimited fixed-rate bond-buying
- Will offer to buy 10-year JGB at 0.25% every business day via fixed-rate operations unless it is highly likely that no bids will be submitted.
Inflation outlook:
- Board's core CPI median forecast for fiscal 2022 at +1.9% (not +0.9%) vs +1.1% in Jan.
- Board's core CPI median forecast for fiscal 2023 at +1.1% (not +1.2%) vs +1.1% in Jan.
- Board's core CPI median forecast for fiscal 2024 at +1.1% (not +1.5%).
- Inflation expectations heightening mainly for the short-term.
- Sharp rise in energy, food costs weighs on households' real income, corporate profits.
Report on risks:
- Risks to Japan's economic outlook are roughly balanced.
- Prolonged rise in commodity prices may hurt economy via worsening terms of trade.
- Japan's economy is likely to recover, risks to price outlook skewed to upside for time being, roughly balanced thereafter.
- Consumer inflation is likely to gradually accelerate the pace of increase.
- Japan's economy is likely to pick up as a trend pandemic, Ukraine fallout, commodity prices and market moves among risks to the economic outlook.
- The relief measures forced savings during the pandemic likely to moderate hit to the economy from worsening terms of trade.
- Consumer inflation is likely to accelerate to around 2% briefly but moderate as the boost from energy prices declines.
- Corporate profits are likely to remain elevated as a whole due to the weak yen.
Other key notes:
- BoJ made the decision on yield curve control by 8-1 vote
- BoJ board member Kataoka dissented from the decision on YCC
- BoJ will conduct fixed-rate JGB buying operations every working day except for when the bidding is not apparently expected.
USD/JPY update
Prior to the decision, the yen was on the backfoot, testing hourly resistance:
The pair was already breaking the ceiling of the bull-flag n the daily chart:
Meanwhile, the yen has dropped and is now through 129 the figure, scoring a high of 129.47 so far:
Update:
USD/JPY has rallied to a fresh high approximately 30 minutes after the announcements of 129.87 as the bond yields bull-flatten (long term yields decreasing more quickly than short-term rates):
About the BoJ interest rate decision
BoJ Interest Rate Decision is announced by the Bank of Japan. Generally, if the BoJ is hawkish about the inflationary outlook of the economy and rises the interest rates it is positive, or bullish, for the JPY. Likewise, if the BoJ has a dovish view on the Japanese economy and keeps the ongoing interest rate, or cuts the interest rate it is negative, or bearish.
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From television serials to acting in films, Barinder Singh Dhillon, popularly known as Binnu Dhillon, shares his journey till now with The Indian Express. In a candid interaction, Dhillon tells us his secret mantra to success and talks about his upcoming works.
Hometown
Born and brought up in Dhuri, a city in Sangrur district of Punjab, Binnu keeps switching between his two homes in Patiala and Canada, where his family lives.
Family
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Binnu is married and has two daughters, who are all settled in Surrey, a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. His wife, Gurjinder Kaur, is a homemaker while daughters Dilnaaz Dhillon and Mannat Dhillon study at a high school in Canada.
Education
Although Binnu was always more interested in extracurriculars, including folk dance (Bhangra), plays and hymn recitation (shabad gayan), he always managed to pass his examinations in the first division. He did his matriculation from a government high school in Dhura in Dhuri and Class XII from the Desh Bhagat College, Bardwal, Dhuri. He earned his arts degree from the same college, followed by post graduation in theatre and television from Patiala’s Punjabi University.
Favourite Song
Binnu loves listening to Pakistani singers Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. His favourite song is Omkara’s Naina Thag Lenge. “Its music is evergreen and pure,” he says.
Favourite Movie
Binnu prefers suspense dramas. Bollywood’s iconic film ‘Sholay’ (1975) always tops his watchlist. With bandits and criminals, the movie is completely action- and adventure-packed and forever entertaining for him. ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ (2013), which chronicles athlete Milkha Singh’s life, is another film he loves to watch.
Works Till Date
Before appearing in films, Binnu worked in various television serials such as ‘Sarhad’, ‘Lori’, ‘Gaoundi Dharti’, ‘Sirnaave’, ‘Man Jeetey Jag Jeet’, ‘Channo Chan Vargi’, ‘Jugnu Hazir Hai’, ‘Jugnu Mast Mast’, ‘Padam Paria, Kankaal’ and ‘Pagdandian’ among others.
He has also acted in telefilms like ‘Khara Dudh’ and ‘Khich Ghuggi Khich’ besides performing roles in Hindi films such as Shaheed-E-Azam’ and ‘Dev D.’ One of the best comedy actors in the industry, Binnu has acted in many Punjabi films, including ‘Carry On Jatta’ (2012), ‘Sirphire’ (2012), ‘Raula Pai Gaya’ (2012), ‘Tu Mera 22 Mein Tera 22’ (2013), ‘Lucky Di Unlucky Story’ (2013), ‘Rangeelay’ (2013), ‘Vekh Baraatan Challiyan’ (2017) and ‘Carry On Jatta 2’ (2018)’ to name a few.
Upcoming Projects
His movie ‘Gol Gappe’, directed by Sameep Kang, will come out at the end of this summer. In October, he will start shooting for the third sequel of ‘Carry On Jatta’, titled ‘Carry On Jatta 3’. Apart from these, he will be doing another project titled ‘Gaddi Jaandi Hai Challanga Maardi’ with White Hill Studios, which might hit the screens in 2023.
Claim To Fame
During his journey from serials to films, every role he played came across as an opportunity to groom himself as an artist. It has been great hard work, and nothing happened instantly. Also, it took time for people to recognise him. As far as fame is concerned, it was built over time and after many years of struggle. However, he wishes to mention that it was with the comedy show named ‘Hasde Hasande Ravo’ that audiences started identifying him as ‘Binnu Dhillon’. Things changed dramatically for good after the film ‘Carry On Jatta’ was released.
Secret Sauce
“Sincerity, focus, and dedication are all you need to accomplish in life,” Binnu says. He never takes work for granted and says that’s probably the only secret that keeps him going.
Thoughts About Pollywood
“The industry is doing good. It’s been progressing over time, which is very good for regional artists. Punjabi cinema has a great role to play in uniting Punjabis all over the globe and in promoting the culture worldwide. Although issues like piracy are a big threat to the filmmaking business, the positive side is that people invest time in viewing the content and thus stay connected with Punjabi roots irrespective of the country they are settled in,” Binnu says.
Challenges Faced
When he began his career around 20 years ago, things were difficult. The industry was in its nascent stage and actors had to face a lot of struggles from getting roles to getting paid. Also, as there were no phones or tools to communicate, the process of auditioning and casting was long and tedious. “Getting a role in a film was no easy feat for us unlike actors of today who have access to different media platforms and great connectivity enabling them to build their careers with fewer challenges,” the actor adds.
Future Plans
Binnu intends to make a sequel of the 2019 comedy film ‘Kala Shah Kala’. He also has plans to focus on his health and fitness.
Fitness Mantra
“Exercise every day is one fitness mantra everyone should live by. It is very important to take up physical activities in any form to remain fit,” Binnu says. He does 1,800 push-ups each day on an average before beginning the workout routine. Also, he loves outdoor activities like hiking and trekking. Recently, he went for a trek at Kheerganga in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh and it was an extremely exhilarating experience.
Mantra Of Success In Acting
“For an actor to be successful, he or she must possess multiple skills, including dancing, good body language, great speech, power to self-analyse and sincerity, among various others. Success doesn’t come with acting skills alone. It requires one to be a whole package to make it big in this field,” says Binnu.
Turning Point In Career
Binnu says when his elder daughter was born, it was a unique and an indescribable feeling. It was after her birth that he got more success and recognition.
Advice For Budding Actors
“Keep working hard and never lose hope,” he says. It took him 22 years to reach where he is today. “Quite a long struggle indeed. Aspiring actors must not shy away from the grind. But if you are persistent and patient, I believe God will reward you with good results and you will be amazed,” Binnu says.
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- EUR/JPY recaptures 136.00 and beyond on BOJ’s inaction.
- BOJ reaffirms loose monetary policy, yen bulls thrown out of the window.
- Focus shifts to BOJ’s Kuroda’s pressure and German inflation.
EUR/JPY is holding the higher ground above 136.50, staging a sharp 100+ pips rally after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) refrained from making any monetary policy adjustment, which smashed the yen further across the board.
The BOJ decided to keep its loose monetary policy, shrugging off the weakening of the yen and rising inflationary concerns. The BOJ’s dovish stance widened the yield differential between the US and Japan and powered the USD/JPY pair almost towards the 130.00 level.
The Japanese central bank did tweak its forward guidance on the monetary policy bias but maintained its stance to hold the YYC at 0.25%. The disparity between the BOJ and the other major global central bank increased, with the European Central Bank (ECB) also seen going for the first-rate hike as early as this July,
EUR/JPY, therefore, benefits from the central banks’ divergence theme. Further, reports that the EU gas producers are preparing to pay Russia in roubles also aid the euro to pause its downslide vs. the US dollar.
Looking ahead, BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s press conference will be eagerly awaited for his views on the yen decline and the reason to stand pat on the policy. Germany’s preliminary inflation reading will be also watched out for fresh trading impetus on the cross.
EUR/JPY technical levels
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- GBP/JPY holds above 162.00 on unchanged monetary policy by the BOJ.
- Further guidance from the BOJ indicates a continuation of an ultra-loose monetary policy.
- Pound bulls will have an upper hand on rising hawkish BOE bets.
The GBP/JPY pair has advanced sharply above 162.00 and has printed an intraday high of 162.51 on an unchanged monetary policy stance by the Bank of Japan (BOJ). The BOJ has continued its ultra-loose monetary policy stance to shore up inflation and aggregate demand in its economy. The decision of adopting a neutral stance on policy is akin to the market consensus.
The dictations from BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda to ease policy further if required in order to return to pre-pandemic growth rates may bring further weakness in the Japanese yen. On the inflation front, the economy is facing the headwinds of higher commodity prices, which are hurting the real income of the households. Although weakening yen will elevate corporate profits as exports will be cheaper but its impact on the economy will also elevate. On the inflation front, Board's core Consumer Price Index (CPI) median forecast for fiscal 2022 at +1.9% (not +0.9%) vs. +1.1% in Jan, still not able to compel the BOJ for a dovish tone.
Meanwhile, pound bulls have strengthened on expectations of interest rate elevation by the Bank of England (BOE) next week. The BOE is expected to raise its interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) in order to tame the galloping inflation in the UK. It is worth noting that the BOE raised its interest rates by 50 bps in its last monetary policy meeting.
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Gold Price resumed its downtrend on Wednesday, reversing Tuesday’s temporary pullback, as the buying interest around the US dollar remained unabated amid varied factors. Gold Price hit the lowest level in two months at $1,881, having failed to resist above the $1,900 mark.
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Work is set to begin on 10 hectares of land in the Central Ridge to remove vilayati kikar, an invasive species, and restore the natural biodiversity of the region in a pilot project, according to Environment Minister Gopal Rai.
“In the initial phase of this experimental project, work will begin on 10 hectares of land. The department has set a target to plant local species of plants by eradicating the vilayati kikar (Prosopis juliflora) growing in Delhi. The exercise of removing the invasive tree species will be done by the canopy lifting method,” Rai said after a visit to the Central Ridge on Wednesday. The canopy lifting method means the branches of the tree are pruned.
Last year, the Delhi Cabinet approved a project to restore the biodiversity of 423 hectares of the Central Ridge. The government had then constituted a six-member advisory committee for the project. But the project had not taken off since the members of the committee were at odds over how the vilayati kikar, a hardy tree that suppresses the growth of natural vegetation, is to be removed. With the Ridge being a reserve forest, the kikar trees cannot be uprooted entirely.
“Under this project, the Central Ridge area would be freed from the vilayati kikar first by the cut root-stock method as it has been observed that the expansion of exotic species is increasing aggressively. To suppress this expansion, the work of planting local species has also been started from today onwards,” Rai added, according to a communication from the Environment Minister’s office.
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The pilot project will include the construction of check dams and natural water bodies, according to Rai. A “butterfly and bird safari” are also on the anvil.
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- GBP/USD skids to near yearly lows at 1.2513 as DXY strengthens on risk-off impulse.
- The uncertainty ahead of the Fed’s rate decision has improved safe-haven appeal.
- An interest rate hike by 25 bps is expected from the BOE.
A rangebound move was displayed by the GBP/USD pair in the early Tokyo session in a narrow range of 1.2528-1.2545, which has been broken down and may mark a fresh leg of weakness in the major. The asset has remained in negative territory for the past few trading sessions amid broader strength in the greenback.
The cable is expected to continue its five-day losing streak on Thursday as the risk appetite of the market participants is diminishing strongly amid uncertainty over the interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve (Fed) next week. Investors should brace for higher uncertainty ahead of the monetary policy announcement by the Fed as a jumbo rate hike (as expected) from the fed will bring a transition phase of a tight liquidity environment from loose monetary policy culture. The Fed is likely to elevate its interest rates by 50 basis points (bps).
Also, the Bank of England (BOE) will announce its monetary policy next week but investors are hoping for a standard rate hike of 25 (bps). The BOE raised its interest rates by 50 bps last time but a little less dovish tone is expected this time.
Meanwhile, the US dollar index (DXY) has renewed its five-year high at 103.47 as investors see US Core Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) at elevated levels. The US Core PCE is seen at 5.4% against the prior print of 5%. Apart from that, the US GDP will also remain focused. The quarterly and yearly GDP are seen at 7.3% and 1.1% respectively.
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USD/JPY rallies hard to renew a 20-year high just below 130.00 after the BOJ tweaked its forward guidance on monetary policy bias while keeping the key settings unchanged. The BOJ said it will conduct fixed-rate operations every day. The US dollar holds firmer amid a better market mood.
AUD/USD cracks 0.7100 amid a buoyant US dollar
AUD/USD is under pressure below 0.7100, as the US dollar continues to trade firmer, helped by a fresh USD/JPY rally. China’s covid outbreak appears to be capped as Shanghai prepares to ease restrictions. Australia’s inflation hits a 20-year high, fanning RBA May rate hike bets.
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The relationship between the dollar and the stock is a weird one
Yesterday’s data was mostly ignored, including the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow, down to a lousy 0.4% for Q1om 1.3% last time. We get another estimate today. The drop was due to “yesterday’s annual revision to retail sales by the US Census Bureau.
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The AIIMS administration Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that a committee will be constituted to examine the grievances of members of its nurses’ union, who had gone on strike on Tuesday morning.
The strike was called off Tuesday evening after the court asked the union to ensure that its members and nursing officers resume their duties forthwith.
During the resumed hearing of the AIIMS administration’s petition against the strike, Justice Yashwant Varma Wednesday said a responsible office bearer of the union will submit an undertaking of good behaviour and conduct on behalf of all members before a competent authority of the medical institution.
The court said the submission to be made by the union will also include the undertaking that the functioning of the institute and the patient services shall not be disrupted in any manner.
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“Let that undertaking be furnished within a period of 48 hours from today,” said the court.
On Monday, the AIIMS Nurses’ Union announced the decision to go on an indefinite strike against the “unilateral decision” of AIIMS to suspend its president Harish Kajla. The nursing officers posted at the main OT on April 22 had allegedly refused to perform their assigned tasks to protest the alleged increased workload and shift-work related issues. In connection with the incident, Kajla was issued show cause and later suspended.
Noting that two persons were issued a charge sheet by the AIIMS administration in respect of the “unsavoury incident”, the court Wednesday recorded the statement made by the AIIMS administration that no further punitive disciplinary measures are proposed to be taken against any other persons who were identified in the incident.
“The statement so made is recorded and accepted. It is clarified that notwithstanding the statement noted above, disciplinary proceedings that may have already been initiated shall be proceeded with in accordance with law,” said the court.
While restraining the union from continuing with the strike, the court Tuesday said, “Since the aforesaid action of the union would cause grave prejudice and also seriously impact and impede the working of the medical institution, the respondent union is directed to ensure that its workers including nursing officers immediately rejoin work forthwith pending further orders being passed in the present writ petition”.
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- USD/JPY shoots to near 129.54 on a neutral stance dictated by the BOJ in its monetary policy meeting.
- The decision is in-line with the market expectations as inflation is well below the target of 2%.
- The DXY is likely to advance further on higher expectations of the US Core PCE on Thursday.
The USD/JPY pair has attracted significant bids and has overstepped 129.50 as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has kept a neutral stance on the policy rates. The BOJ has kept the rates unchanged at -0.1%.
The announcement from BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is in-line with the expectations of the street. Market participants were expecting the maintenance of a status quo amid lower inflation and aggregate demand in Japan. The recent print of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) at 1.2% is the highest in the last three years but extremely lower than the targeted figure of 2%. Therefore, a neutral stance was expected from the central bank.
The Japanese yen is facing the heat of ultra-loose monetary policy recently. Also, the stimulus package of 6.2 trillion yen ($48.2 billion) on additional gasoline subsidies, low-interest loans, and cash assistance announced on Tuesday, clearly states the need to shoring up inflation and aggregate demand in Japan.
Meanwhile, the US dollar index (DXY) is holding above the psychological support of 103.00 amid broader strength. The DXY has printed a fresh five-year high at 103.30 on Wednesday and is likely to elevate further on a higher reading of the US Core Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) on Thursday. The US Core PCE is seen at 5.4% against the prior print of 5%. Going forward, investors will majorly focus on the monetary policy action by the Federal Reserve (Fed) next week. The Fed is expected to adopt an aggressive hawkish stance and will elevate the interest rates by 50 basis points (bps).
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USD/JPY rallies hard to renew a 20-year high just below 130.00 after the BOJ tweaked its forward guidance on monetary policy bias while keeping the key settings unchanged. The BOJ said it will conduct fixed-rate operations every day. The US dollar holds firmer amid a better market mood.
AUD/USD cracks 0.7100 amid a buoyant US dollar
AUD/USD is under pressure below 0.7100, as the US dollar continues to trade firmer, helped by a fresh USD/JPY rally. China’s covid outbreak appears to be capped as Shanghai prepares to ease restrictions. Australia’s inflation hits a 20-year high, fanning RBA May rate hike bets.
Gold downside opening up towards $1,850, all eyes on US GDP Premium
Gold Price resumed its downtrend on Wednesday, reversing Tuesday’s temporary pullback, as the buying interest around the US dollar remained unabated amid varied factors. Gold Price hit the lowest level in two months at $1,881, having failed to resist above the $1,900 mark.
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The relationship between the dollar and the stock is a weird one
Yesterday’s data was mostly ignored, including the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow, down to a lousy 0.4% for Q1om 1.3% last time. We get another estimate today. The drop was due to “yesterday’s annual revision to retail sales by the US Census Bureau.
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Mumbai News Live: The Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MahaGenco) operated all its 27 plants in the state on Wednesday to tide over the power shortage. It operated seven thermal plants in Chandrapur, four in Koradi, three each in Nashik, Bhusawal and Parli, five in Khaparkheda and two in Paras to tide over the crisis. This happened for the first time in the past 60 years, said a press note issued by MahaGenco.
Meanwhile, after lifting all Covid-19-related restrictions earlier this month, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday appealed to people to wear masks when outdoors and take necessary precautions to restrict a possible fourth wave of the pandemic. The appeal came in the backdrop of an uptick in Covid-19 cases in the state, especially in Mumbai where more than 100 new cases were reported for the second straight day on Wednesday.
In other news, senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis criticised Thackeray, saying his claim about the dues with the Centre was wrong, and asked him not to divert the topic as “blame game does not provide any relief to common man”. His statement came after Thackeray said the Centre owed Rs 26,500 crore to Maharashtra. Defending the Centre, Fadnavis said, “Union government makes the payment to the state governments by end of July every year. The Union government not only paid the whole GST amount to the states, but also borrowed from lenders to clear the dues of the states.”
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- West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is on the back foot, although risks continue to cascade across the energy complex.
- US oil inventories rose last week, but the black gold bleeds.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spot is down some 1.25% in Asia but had ended in the North American futures markets with a small gain on Wednesday following a report that US oil inventories rose last week. At the time of writing, the black gold is trading at $100.71 spot and has fallen from a high of $102.08bbls to a low of $110.63bbls.
West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery settled up US$0.32 to US$102.02 per barrel with the focus has been on Russia's suspension of natural-gas deliveries to Bulgaria and Poland. This has raised concerns over the use of its energy exports as a weapon while the two countries declined to pay for the shipments in rubles despite Russian demands.
''While the flows into Germany via the Yamal-Europe pipeline have routinely been at zero since mid-December, reductions to other customers can add further pressures on an energy system already under extreme pressure,'' analysts at TD Securities explained.
''Furthermore, four countries have already paid in rubles and ten firms have opened accounts to meet the requirements. Europe also plans to temporarily increase purchases via these avenues to offset lost flow to Poland and Bulgaria, suggesting the fundamental impact may be muted for now, although risks to the region continue to grow,'' the analysts added.
''These risks will continue to cascade across the energy complex, as noted by a record surge in heating oil prices as shortages wreak havoc around the globe.''
Meanwhile, US oil inventory data showed an increase of 0.692mbbl. This was lower than the expected increase of 2mbbl. Gasoline inventories dropped by 1.573mbbl against expectations of 0.89mbbl build up. ''Further, US oil companies are signalling they will raise oil production from the US shale basin, which could see production ramping up by end of this year,'' analysts at ANZ Bank said.
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USD/JPY clinches fresh 20-year highs just shy of 130.00 on BOJ inaction
USD/JPY rallies hard to renew a 20-year high just below 130.00 after the BOJ tweaked its forward guidance on monetary policy bias while keeping the key settings unchanged. The BOJ said it will conduct fixed-rate operations every day. The US dollar holds firmer amid a better market mood.
AUD/USD cracks 0.7100 amid a buoyant US dollar
AUD/USD is under pressure below 0.7100, as the US dollar continues to trade firmer, helped by a fresh USD/JPY rally. China’s covid outbreak appears to be capped as Shanghai prepares to ease restrictions. Australia’s inflation hits a 20-year high, fanning RBA May rate hike bets.
Gold downside opening up towards $1,850, all eyes on US GDP Premium
Gold Price resumed its downtrend on Wednesday, reversing Tuesday’s temporary pullback, as the buying interest around the US dollar remained unabated amid varied factors. Gold Price hit the lowest level in two months at $1,881, having failed to resist above the $1,900 mark.
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The relationship between the dollar and the stock is a weird one
Yesterday’s data was mostly ignored, including the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow, down to a lousy 0.4% for Q1om 1.3% last time. We get another estimate today. The drop was due to “yesterday’s annual revision to retail sales by the US Census Bureau.
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While Aamir Khan might not be on social media any more, he regularly features on daughter Ira’s Instagram. Ahead of his film Laal Singh Chaddha’s release, the actor has become quite active on social media and has been posting promotional material on the official handles of his banner — Aamir Khan Productions. However, taking a break from work, the actor on Wednesday evening spent quality time with Ira.
Ira took to Instagram and shared a bunch of pictures of herself with her father, in which he appears to have done her make-up. Ira, along with the pictures, wrote, “Guess who did my make-up? It’s interesting when your father walks up to you and claims he can do your make-up better than you can… and he turns out to be right. Who needs YouTube tutorials?!”
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Ira is seen smiling away with her father as she made him wear a head-band. As soon as Ira shared the photos online, fans showered them with love in the comments section. Singer Sona Mohapatra reacted to the post with emotions like “🤓 ♥️”. A fan wrote, “Coz he is the Mr Perfect.” Another fan wrote, “Wow Best Dad Ever.”
Ira is Aamir and his first wife Reena Dutta’s daughter. They also have a son, Junaid, who will soon make his acting debut. Aamir recently split from his second wife Kiran Rao, the two are parents to Azad Rao Khan.
Ira often posts about her equation with her father and her struggle with mental health. While Aamir shares a warm equation with all his children, he said in a recent interview that he was a distant father. He told News18, “It’s my biggest mistake. But I won’t blame my profession for it. Today, Ira is 23 but when she was 4-5, I wasn’t there for her. I was busy with films. Every kid needs their parents because when you are a child you have your own fears and hopes. But when she needed me the most, I wasn’t by her side to hold her hand when she would get scared. And, I know that moment will never come back.”
After several delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Amir’s next film , Laal Singh Chaddha– a remake of the Hollywood hit Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks–is slated to be released in theatres on August 11.
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Poland and Bulgaria are receiving gas from their EU neighbors, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, after Russian energy giant Gazprom halted supplies Wednesday when the two countries refused to pay in rubles. Von der Leyen described the Russian move as "blackmail." Another EU member, Hungary, said it will use the payment scheme put in place by Moscow to pay for its oil and gas.
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Putin issues warning: President Vladimir Putin warned that any country interfering in Ukraine would be met with a “lightning-fast” response from Russia. “We have all the tools for this — ones that no one can brag about. And we won't brag. We will use them if needed. And I want everyone to know this,” he told lawmakers in St. Petersburg.
Worry about Transnistria: Ukrainian officials have been talking about the risk of another front in the conflict with Russia opening up — along the border with Moldova in the southwest. Part of the Moldovan border region is controlled by a pro-Russian administration in what's called Transnistria.
US-Russia exchange prisoners: American Trevor Reed, a US citizen and former Marine who had been detained in Russia since 2019, was released in a prisoner swap for Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko. Reed's release will not impact the US approach to the war in Ukraine, senior administration officials said.
Russian tanks' costly flaw: Hundreds of Russian tanks are thought to have been destroyed since Moscow launched its offensive in Ukraine. Experts say battlefield images show the tanks are suffering from a defect that Western militaries have known about for decades and refer to as the "jack-in-the-box effect." Moscow, they say, should have seen the problem coming.
Ukrainians allegedly executed while surrendering: The US said it has credible information that a Russian military unit executed Ukrainians who were attempting to surrender near Donetsk. "If true, this would be a violation of a core principle of the laws of war," Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack said at the United Nations.
Surge in sponsorship applications: More than 4,000 applications were filed to sponsor Ukrainians seeking to come to the US within 48 hours of the Biden administration launching its streamlined process for those fleeing Ukraine, a spokesperson for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services told CNN.
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After actors Ajay Devgn and Kiccha Sudeep got into a Twitter argument about the subject of Hindi being the national language, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma decided to express his views on the matter as well. Sudeep had created a stir with his statement that Hindi is no longer a national language, owing to the success of South Indian language films, and Ajay Devgn had hit back, asking why the South industries dub films in Hindi then.
Ram Gopal Varma supported Kiccha Sudeep, and wrote on Twitter, “The base undeniable ground truth @KicchaSudeep sir, is that the north stars are insecure and jealous of the south stars because a Kannada dubbing film #KGF2 had a 50 crore opening day and we all are going to see the coming opening days of Hindi films.” He didn’t stop there and responded to Kiccha, “Whether u intended or not am glad u made this statement ,because unless there’s a strong stir , there cannot be a calm especially at a time when there seems to be a war like situation between Bolly(north)wood and Sandal(South) wood.” His parting shot was aimed at Ajay Devgn’s upcoming release, Runway 34, “Like the PROOF of the PUDDING is in the eating , the runway 34 collections will prove how much GOLD (kgf2) is there in HINDI versus KANNADA.”
Ajay had written to Sudeep saying, “My brother, if according to you Hindi is not our national language then why do you release your movies in your mother tongue by dubbing them in Hindi? Hindi was, is and always will be our mother tongue and national language. Jan Gan Man.”
The base undeniable ground truth @KicchaSudeep sir ,is that the north stars are insecure and jealous of the south stars because a Kannada dubbing film #KGF2 had a 50 crore opening day and we all are going to see the coming opening days of Hindi films
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— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) April 27, 2022
Sudeep answered, “And sir, I did understand the text you sent in Hindi. That’s only because we all have respected, loved and learnt Hindi. No offense sir, but was wondering what’d the situation be if my response was typed in Kannada!! Don’t we too belong to India, sir.” Sudeep also said that the statement was taken out of context and he didn’t intend to provoke or stoke a debate. Ajay drew back and the two appeared to make peace. Ajay wrote, “Thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding. I’ve always thought of the film industry as one. We respect all languages and we expect everyone to respect our language as well. Perhaps, something was lost in translation.”
Hi @KicchaSudeep, You are a friend. thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding. I’ve always thought of the film industry as one. We respect all languages and we expect everyone to respect our language as well. Perhaps, something was lost in translation 🙏
— Ajay Devgn (@ajaydevgn) April 27, 2022
A couple of days ago, at the film launch of R: The Deadliest Gangster Ever, Sudeep was asked about the success of Kannada film KGF: Chapter 2. He’d said, “You said that a pan India film was made in Kannada. I’d like to make a small correction. Hindi is no more a national language. They (Bollywood) are doing pan-India films today. They are struggling (to find success) by dubbing in Telugu and Tamil, but it’s not happening. Today, we are making films that are going everywhere.”
Ajay Devgn is awaiting the release of his new film, Runway 34.
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The title of the much-awaited sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar has been revealed at CinemaCon. The film is called Avatar: The Way of Water. Footage from the science-fiction film was also screened at the event, and as per reports, viewers were provided with 3D glasses. It appears that as with the original 2009 film, Cameron is going to set visual benchmarks with the sequels as well.
Deadline reported that the footage showed different regions of Pandora, an Earth-like habitable extrasolar moon of the gas giant Polyphemus from the Alpha Centauri system, which was also the setting of the original film. The footage also had shots of the Na’vi interacting with aquatic mammals like whales.
Cameron said on stage, “With the first Avatar, we set out to push the limits of the big screen. With the new Avatar films, we’re pushing those limits even farther, with 3D, with high dynamic range, with high frame rate, higher resolution, and a much greater reality in our visual effects.”
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The original Avatar was a megahit with both critics and audiences. It is currently the highest-grossing film in history, unadjusted for inflation. The film flipped the narrative. Instead of aliens invading Earth, the humans invaded Pandora, populated by the Na’vi, a peace and nature-loving, blue-hued species with feline-ish eyes, to mine the territory of a valuable mineral called Unobtanium.
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The film starred Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver in the lead roles. All of them will return in the sequels.
Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Michelle Yeoh, Jemaine Clement, Oona Chaplin, David Thewlis, CJ Jones and Vin Diesel are joining the franchise’s cast with the sequels.
Avatar 2 is set to be released on December 16, 2022.
You’re welcome Cameron! https://t.co/dYzBCrLyZS
— David F. Sandberg (@ponysmasher) April 27, 2022
Meanwhile, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to 2019’s Shazam!, has moved its release date to December 21 from its original release date, which would have put in a battle against Avatar 2. Fury of the Gods director David F Sandberg joked on Twitter, “You’re welcome Cameron!”
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May 27, 2016, was the day that Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s marriage went from private misery to public, career-killing spectacle. Heard, who had just filed for divorce, arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse that day to seek a temporary restraining order, showing up with a clear mark on her face, which she says Depp inflicted during a fight six days prior. Photographers captured the scene, and the allegations became tabloid fodder across the globe.
Depp says he never hit her, and now he’s suing Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court. On Wednesday, jurors in the case heard from police officers who responded to the couple’s penthouse immediately after the fight. None of the officers saw the red mark that was so prominent six days later.
Officer Tyler Hadden, one of the officers who responded to the couple’s penthouse apartment on May 21, 2016, said Heard refused to talk to officers and had no signs of an injury, although he acknowledged she’d been crying and was red-faced.
“Just because I see a female with pink cheeks and pink eyes doesn’t mean something happened,” he said in a recorded deposition played for jurors Wednesday.
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Depp had already left the penthouse by the time officers arrived. Officers said they had no idea who Heard was, or that she was married to Depp. He said neither Heard nor anyone at the penthouse complex was willing to tell him or the other officers who Heard’s husband was.
Jurors heard similar testimony Tuesday from an officer who accompanied Hadden to the penthouse.
An officer who made a follow-up visit that night, William Gatlin, testified Wednesday that he saw no injuries either, though he acknowledged that his visit was brief and he got no closer than 10 feet (3 meters) from Heard. He said his check was a perfunctory one because it appeared that the call was just a duplicate to the one that Hadden had already responded to.
The jury saw bodycam video of Gatlin’s response, which was less than two minutes. Heard could only be seen at a distance.
Heard’s lawyers, in their questions, have suggested that Heard could have covered her injuries with makeup, because at that point she still wanted to protect Depp. They also asked officers why they didn’t investigate a potential case of domestic violence more thoroughly.
The officers’ testimony is some of Depp’s best evidence that Heard contrived the allegations against her ex-husband. It complements earlier testimony from witnesses who say they saw Heard and her sister practicing fake punches in the days after the attack.
It’s far from definitive, though. Heard’s lawyers have yet to put on their case, and some of her friends say they were at the penthouse when Depp allegedly attacked her.
And even if jurors were to conclude that Depp never assaulted his wife on May 21, they have heard evidence of other alleged assaults before and during the couple’s brief marriage.
Depp sued Heard for libel after she wrote an op-ed piece piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” The article doesn’t mention Depp by name, but his lawyers say the article defames him nevertheless because it’s a clear reference to the highly publicized allegations Heard made when she filed for divorce in 2016 and obtained a temporary restraining order as well.
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Coronavirus News Live Updates Today: India reported 3,303 new Covid-19 cases and 2,563 recoveries in the last 24 hours ending at 8 am on Thursday. Active cases stand at 16,980, according to data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The challenge of Covid-19 is not fully over and the surge in cases in the past two weeks indicates that the country needs to stay alert, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. Interacting with chief ministers to review the Covid-19 situation in the country, the Prime Minister raised a red flag, specifically highlighting the surge in cases being witnessed in European countries triggered by sub-variants of Omicron.
Meanwhile, based on genome-sequencing analysis, the Indian SARS-COV-2 Genomics Consortia (INSACOG) has said very few recombinant variants of the coronavirus have been found in the country and none of those has shown either increased transmission, locally or otherwise, nor were they associated with severe disease or hospitalisation. INSACOG, in its weekly bulletin of April 11 that was released on Wednesday, said the incidences of suspected recombinants and the possible public health relevance are being closely monitored, PTI reported.
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Siddhant Chaturvedi is flexing his muscles. In a new Instagram picture, the ‘Gehraiyaan‘ actor was seen doing a hip flexor exercise, which he captioned, “Jai Jai Bajrang bali!” — alluding to the classic pose struck by Lord Hanuman.
In the photo, Siddhant — posing shirtless — extended his right arm, while holding his left foot with his left hand, which bent backwards supported by the knee. His right leg was bent at the knee, at a perfect 90-degree lunge position, making it look like seamless stretching.
Through this variation of hip flexor exercise, the star inspired his fans and followers to also get fit.
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For the unversed, hip flexors comprise a group of muscles located at the front of the hip that help to flex the legs and knees, making them move upward towards the torso. According to MedlinePlus, a hip flexor strain can occur when one or more hip flexor muscles become stretched or torn. Other factors leading to hip flexor strain are — weak muscles, not warming up, stiff muscles, trauma or falls, to name a few.
By doing a hip flexor stretch, you can expect to release some tension from the muscles and not make them go into shock before starting a vigorous routine. These stretches are important so as to avoid injuries and cramps.
There are many variations of hip flexor stretches; here are some of them:
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Priya Malik, a TV personality, teacher, storyteller and a performer, talks about the process of being who you are and who you want to be.
Her work has been featured in some of India’s biggest spoken word platforms such as UnErase poetry, Spill poetry, Amazon Prime and tape a tale.
She started by saying that we live in a country that is “hell-bent on telling us that you have to be certain way in order to be certain thing”. “I think it is very important to raise a generation of kids, who are not obsessed with what they want to become but a generation of kids, who want to think about who they want to be when they grow up.”
Through her life experience, she realised the only person who could move from one box to another one was she herself.
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She went on to elaborate she worked in everything: “This professional fluidity is one thing, that I want to give myself a lifestyle that is also not boxed anyway, where I can move from one box to another.”
She shared the biggest dilemma that she faced in these boxes: “There is one box that feeds my stomach, and another one that feeds my soul”.
“I don’t let my success or my failure define me, I let it educate me.”
“I don’t have to close one door in order to open the other, I didn’t have to give up on being a school teacher in order to be a spoken word artist, I didn’t have to give up on being a spoken word artist in order to fit that stereotype of a comedian, I didn’t have to give up on being a teacher, a spoken word artist and a comedian in order to be a column writer, I didn’t have to give up on all those four boxes in order to do a radio”.
“When somebody asks my 10-year-old self what do you want to be, my answer is everything,” she concluded.
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Gujarat Titans skipper Hardik Pandya said there is a lot of self-belief in his players and they always talk about winning the “right situations”, which was evident in their victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in a thrilling IPL match here on Wednesday.
Needing 56 in the last four overs and 22 off the final six balls, the Titans rode on Rahul Tewatia (40 not out off 21 balls) and Rashid Khan’s (31 not out off 11) incredible power-hitting to end on the winnings side.
This was after SRH pace sensation Umran Malik (5/25) had the Titans tottering at 140 for five in the 16th over in a stiff chase of 196.
Asked at the presentation ceremony about Rahul and Rashid’s onslaught, Pandya said, “We are quite practical as well and talk about winning the right situations. We always back them because they have a lot of self belief.
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“We have intentionally tried to make sure that the dugout or in the dressing room to keep the atmosphere calm because it helps the players play their best game. A lot of credit goes to the support staff.”
In a lighter vein, the GT skipper said that he keeps telling his players that “God is helping” them out.
“I keep joking in the dressing room that God is telling us ‘You guys are good, I’ll help you’. It’s happening so often that I fear we may run out of luck in the knockout games.”
Pandya thanked the team’s support staff for the performance in its maiden season in IPL.
“A lot of credit goes to support staff, the kind of environment we have kept. A lot of people get a lot of freedom. It’s very chilled out. There’s not much pressure given to the players. A lot of pressure is taken on by the leadership group.
“Everyone is stepping up and doing justice to what they represent.”
Asked about his bowling fitness, he said, “It’s just a conscious decision to manage my bowling, plan is to bowl whenever the team needs me. It’s a long tournament and I don’t want to get too excited early.
“Same with Rahul (Tewatia) as well. He’s ready whenever the ball is given to him.”
SRH captain Kane Williamson felt the game could have gone either way.
“From our perspective, when you have two really strong sides that are playing good cricket going at it, the game is played at very small margins.
“As we saw going into that last over, it could’ve gone either way. So great learning for us as a side, first time batting first for us as well, so a lot of good learning. Another strong performance against top of the table opposition,” Williamson said.
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Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked their SpaceX capsule, just two days after the last crew to depart the orbiting outpost returned to Earth.
Rendezvous of the Crew Dragon capsule with the station less than 16 hours after launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marked one of the fastest flights by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to the ISS from liftoff to docking, NASA webcast commentators said.
The fully automated docking took place at about 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT) while the Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Freedom, and the space station were flying about 260 miles (420 km) above the central Pacific Ocean, according to NASA.
The Freedom crew consists of three American NASA astronauts – flight commander Kjell Lindgren, 49; mission pilot Bob Hines, 47; and mission specialist Jessica Watkins, 33 – as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, 45, of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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After docking ahead of schedule to the station’s Harmony module, crew members spent two hours conducting standard leak checks and pressurizing the chamber between the capsule and the ISS before opening the entry hatches.
A live NASA video feed showed the smiling new arrivals floating headfirst through the padded passageway one by one into the station. They were greeted with hugs and handshakes by the four-member team they will be replacing – three Americans and a German ESA crewmate due to end their mission next week.
Three Russian cosmonauts currently sharing the station but preparing for a spacewalk on Thursday were not present for the welcome.
The four latest astronauts, designated Crew 4, are the fourth full-fledged ISS crew NASA has launched aboard a SpaceX vehicle since the California-based rocket company began flying U.S. space agency astronauts in 2020.
RAPID FLIGHT TURNAROUNDS
SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Musk, the billionaire CEO of electric carmaker Tesla Inc who on Monday clinched a
deal to buy social media platform Twitter. It has now launched seven human spaceflights over the past two years.
That includes a four-man team organized by Houston-based company Axiom Space that splashed down on Monday after a
two-week stay aboard the ISS, capping the first all-private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory.
The Crew 4’s predawn launch on Wednesday came just 39 hours after the Axiom team safely parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida coast in a separate Crew Dragon capsule.
The brief interval between Axiom’s splashdown and the Crew 4 launch vividly demonstrated a swift turnaround capability forged by NASA and SpaceX, at least when weather conditions permit, built around a fleet of reusable rockets and crew capsules.
The lower-stage of the Falcon 9 rocket from Crew 4’s launch flew itself back to Earth for a safe return landing just minutes after liftoff on Wednesday, marking the fourth successful flight and recovery of that same SpaceX booster.
The Crew Dragon capsule Freedom was making its maiden flight.Crew 4 was under the command of Lindgren, a board-certified emergency medicine physician and one-time flight surgeon making his second trip to the ISS, where he logged 141 days in orbit and performed two spacewalks in 2015.
ISS FIRSTS
The designated pilot for mission was Hines, a rookie astronaut and U.S Air Force fighter pilot who has accumulated
more than 3,500 hours of flight time in 50 types of aircraft and had flown 76 combat missions.
Watkins, a geologist who earned her doctorate studying large landslides on Mars and Earth, was also making her debut spaceflight and was set to become the first African-American woman to join a long-duration mission aboard the ISS.
They were joined by Cristoforetti, an ESA astronaut and Italian Air Force jet pilot making her second flight to the space station and slated to assume command of ISS operations during the team’s six-month stint, becoming Europe’s first woman in that role.
The ISS, the largest artificial object in space, spanning the size of an American football field end to end, has been continuously occupied since November 2000, operated by a U.S.-Russian-led international consortium of five space agencies from 15 countries.
An international crew of at least seven typically lives and works aboard the platform while traveling at 5 miles (8 km) per second, circling Earth once about every 90 minutes.
The station’s microgravity environment provides scientists a unique laboratory to run experiments on everything from fluid mechanics and combustion to cell growth and aging.
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Written by Kenneth Chang
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars.
And indeed it is.
But it doesn’t belong to aliens.
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Instead, the wreckage is the work of NASA, a component called a backshell that detached during the landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of the red planet in February 2021.
“There’s definitely a sci-fi element to it,” Ian Clark, an engineer who worked on Perseverance’s parachute system, said of photographs released Wednesday. “It exudes otherworldly, doesn’t it?”
After spending a year exploring the rocks of the crater it landed in, the Perseverance rover passed near its landing site on its way to a river delta that once flowed along the western rim of the crater. The rover’s small robotic companion, the helicopter Ingenuity, continues to tag along.
During its 26th flight last week, Ingenuity took 10 pictures during its 159 seconds in the air covering 1,181 feet. Those show the backshell, or the top half of the landing capsule that protected Perseverance and Ingenuity as they plunged through the Martian atmosphere. Still attached is the 70-foot-wide parachute that slowed the vehicles’ descent.
The parachute and backshell detached from the rover at an altitude of 1.3 miles. A rocket-powered system called Skycrane took Perseverance the rest of the way to the surface, while the backshell and parachute landed more than a mile away to the northwest.
The backshell, nearly 15 feet in diameter, hit the ground at about 78 mph, partially shattering. Otherwise, everything looks to be in good shape — no obvious signs of charring. The parachute appears to be intact as do the suspension lines connecting the parachute to the backshell. But engineers have just started scrutinizing the new images in detail.
“They say a picture’s worth 1,000 words, but it’s also worth an infinite amount of engineering understanding,” Clark said.
Studying the remains of the backshell could prove helpful for NASA’s next big Mars adventure — bringing back rocks and soil from Mars to Earth for more detailed study. That mission, called Mars Sample Return, will need to put two landers on the surface — a rover to collect rock samples being drilled by Perseverance, and a small rocket to launch the samples into orbit for another spacecraft to pick up to bring back to Earth.
“We use all of our best models, all of our best analysis tools,” Clark said. The images help verify how well the models and analysis worked, adding confidence to the models in the future.
Kenneth Farley, the mission’s project scientist, was fascinated not just by the “truly spectacular” images of the hardware but also what the hardware happened to land on.
“Remarkably, this wreckage wound up right on the contact between the two rock formations on the crater floor,” Farley said in an email. The two formations, named Seitah and Maaz, both consist of volcanic rocks. But they are very different in composition. Seitah is rich in olivine that settled out of thick magma, perhaps a lava lake. Maaz, which is on top and thus probably younger, has a composition similar to most basaltic lava flows — full of minerals known as pyroxene and plagioclase but with little or no olivine.
A line of rocks that runs from the backshell to an area just next to the parachute is where the two formations meet. “We want to know how these rocks may be related to each other,” Farley said.
The mission’s scientists were so intrigued by the geology that Ingenuity made another pass over the dividing line between Seitah and Maaz on Sunday. Those pictures will be sent back to Earth on Thursday.
Perseverance has also been busy during its drives. On April 2, it took a series of pictures of the small Martian moon Phobos passing in front of the sun, a partial eclipse by the potatolike object. Detailed measurements of Phobos’ orbit give hints about the interior structure of Mars.
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To understand the speed with which Twitter’s board accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout offer, look no further than the dim view Wall Street holds over Twitter’s ability to reach lofty financial goals announced after demands by activist investor Elliott Management in 2020.When Twitter reports quarterly financial results on Thursday, analysts expect user growth to lag behind what they need to reach aggressive 2023 growth targets that Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and then-chief executive of Twitter promised Wall Street.
According to data from Refinitiv, Twitter is expected to miss this target and remain off track for the remainder of the year. Two weeks ahead of the deal announcement, Michael Nathanson, an influential tech and media analyst at MoffettNathanson, advised shareholders to “take the money…and run.”Twitter’s board reached the same conclusion.
Directors lacked confidence in new CEO Parag Agrawal’s ability to deliver a higher return than what Musk offered, clearing the way for the decision to sell just four days after the Tesla CEO detailed his financing, according to sources familiar with the board’s deliberations.
Handing off the CEO role to an untested leader, Agrawal, five months ago created additional risks for Twitter, said Ryan Jacob, chief investment officer at Jacob Asset Management, which holds $7.7 million worth of shares in Twitter.
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“They have aggressive targets out there, and there’s a lot of skepticism they can hit those numbers,” Jacob said. “The CEO doesn’t have a record.”Eight current and former Twitter staffers, including both executives and employees, described to Reuters long-standing issues of internal dysfunction, indecision and a lack of accountability, which, in the view of one current employee, were exacerbated by the pressure to deliver promised results.
After the deal to be taken private was announced on Monday, Dorsey thanked Musk and Agrawal in a tweet thread for “getting the company out of an impossible situation,” that he blamed on being “owned by Wall Street and the ad model.”Twitter declined to comment. Tesla and Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
ANOTHER REORG
Employees are bracing again for more change under Musk. Current and former employees told Reuters that Twitter’s history of executive shake-ups since its founding in 2006 has made it difficult for the company to commit to long-term plans, often leaving projects dangling just as they start to bear fruit. Its last major reorganization was in December under the new CEO.
Take the push into live sports, entertainment and news in 2016 aimed at capitalizing on Twitter’s strength as a real-time platform. Twitter had signed high-profile deals with partners like the NFL to stream games and promoted the feature widely.
Dorsey joined other executives at the Digital Content NewFronts in New York to tout the service’s line-up to advertisers.
A 2018 reorganisation divided Twitter under 10 leaders overseeing aspects of the business like technology, product and revenue, which spread responsibility for projects like the live video push, a former executive and current employee told Reuters.
Without a clear owner in the increasingly competitive space, and with hearings in Washington, DC, new privacy rules in Europe and financial pressures vying for executives’ attention, live video languished, they said.Lack of coordination at the top meant senior executives frequently pursued their own agendas without working together, four sources said.
The problem was particularly acute among executives responsible for product, engineering, technology and revenue, known internally as the “experience” team, the sources said.
Following Elliott’s arrival, pressure to hit the 2023 growth targets exacerbated those issues, one current employee said, likening the environment to a “pressure test.”Fleets, Twitter’s short-lived Snapchat copycat product, was one example.
Launched in late 2020, and championed by Agrawal and product director Kayvon Beykpour, the feature was mocked by Twitter users as a late attempt to jump on the disappearing messages bandwagon.
The company assigned hundreds of engineers to work on building Fleets, but Agrawal and Beykpour failed to collaborate with counterparts responsible for revenue, and launched the feature without plans for incorporating ad space, said two people familiar with the project.
“It was a real mess, to be honest,” said one former executive. “It was the typical ‘hey, just push it out there, we’ll alter it later.'”Twitter shelved Fleets eight months after its launch and only a month after introducing a limited ad rollout for the feature.
HANDS-OFF MANAGEMENT
Product and revenue mismatches may have been less frequent had Dorsey held those teams to account, but the chief executive embraced a management philosophy that led him to shy away from making specific decisions, four former Twitter executives told Reuters.
One of these former executives said Dorsey’s approach was inspired by Disney’s former CEO, Bob Iger, who was known for hiring strong executives and encouraging them to take risks.”One of the critiques around Jack is that sometimes he takes a long time to make decisions, he was reluctant to insert himself in decision-making,” said the former executive.
“Jack views himself getting involved in a tie-breaking as a failure of leadership, because it means the management team hasn’t solved it themselves.”Some thrived under this autonomy, particularly developers who were motivated to invent new things. But others said it left the company adrift.”Everyone agrees that we need better accountability for decision-making at the management levels,” a current employee said.
On Monday, hours after the buyout announcement, employees at a company-wide meeting complained about Musk’s “questionable ethics” and wondered what would happen to Twitter’s work limiting hate speech on its platform. In response to a question about whether Donald Trump, the former US president banned permanently from Twitter for risk of inciting violence, would return, executives admitted they were in the dark on the company’s future.What is clear is Twitter will soon have a new leader with strong views on what to do with Twitter, whatever they may be.
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Elon Musk’s criticism of a content decision made by Twitter Inc’s legal team was followed by a wave of abusive tweets directed against the company’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde.
Musk, who has 86.4 million followers on Twitter and has clinched a deal to buy the company for $44 billion, often uses the site as a way to criticize Twitter’s decisions, particularly when they involve banning accounts from people who violate the platform’s rules, some of whom Musk sees as being unfairly sidelined.
On Tuesday, he faulted a decision the company made in 2020 to block a New York Post story about Hunter Biden. He called the move “incredibly inappropriate.” While he didn’t identify Gadde by name, the post was in response to an article in which she was mentioned prominently.
Musk was responding to a tweet from Saagar Enjeti, host of a political podcast, who in turn was referencing a report by Politico that Gadde broke down in tears at a meeting with her staff this week.
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“Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover,” Enjeti tweeted.
The Post story referenced by Enjeti had alleged that Biden, son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, had improper connections to an executive at a Ukrainian energy firm. Twitter later reversed the move, but not before it was accused of censoring information that could have hurt a Democratic candidate.
Musk’s remark was followed by a barrage of negative comments from Twitter users. Some used expletives or racist slurs referring to Gadde’s Indian heritage, including words like “curry,” and references to India’s caste system. Others used expletives or derogatory language and blamed her for having “destroyed countless @Twitter accounts for speaking the truth.” Some called for her to be fired or suggested she should leave on her own. Some of the abusive tweets were later removed for violating Twitter rules.
On Wednesday, Musk posted an additional tweet with a meme about Twitter’s “left wing bias.” It featured Gadde’s face and drew a rebuke from former Twitter Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo, who asked why Musk was “making an executive at the company you just bought the target of harassment and threats.”
Musk has often said his goal is to make the social media platform a bastion of free speech. “By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law,” he said in a tweet Tuesday. “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.” In some cases, his remarks ignite his considerable fan base to publicly mock people he has criticized, from a local health official early in the pandemic to current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
Some racist comments that followed his Tuesday tweet also made a connection to Agrawal, who is of Indian origin as well. Musk has taken potshots at Agrawal too, posting a meme last year superimposing his face onto Russian dictator Joseph Stalin’s. The doctored image depicted Agrawal, formerly Twitter’s chief technology officer, purging co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, just as Stalin did to Soviet secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.
Some users publicly urged Dorsey to take responsibility for the decisions during his tenure, given that Gadde reported to him, or at least defend her work. But he was silent, even as other employees, including former CEO Ev Williams, chimed in to defend her.
Musk’s comments on the legal decision coincided with a securities filing Tuesday with details of the Twitter transaction, including a section on “public announcements” that had a limitation on what Musk can tweet. He is is still allowed to discuss the deal on Twitter, but not in disparaging terms, according to the filing.
“The equity investor shall be permitted to issue tweets about the merger or the transactions contemplated hereby so long as such tweets do not disparage the company or any of its representatives,” according to the filing. It’s unclear whether his reference to Gadde would violate those terms or what would happen to Musk if it did.
John C Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School, said it would be unlikely that Twitter jeopardises the deal by calling out Musk for the tweets.
“Even if Musk did violate the anti-disparagement clause, the last thing Twitter would do is call off a deal that is probably overpriced,” he said.
And it’s hard to know what Twitter would get from such a move, Coffee said. “If you were to say that he violated the anti-disparagement clause, there is no natural penalty that corresponds to it.”
In acquiring Twitter, Musk has promised to turn it into a platform for free speech with few restrictions, a move he has said is “essential to a functioning democracy.”
Musk defined the goal for Twitter at a TED event earlier this month, saying, “A good sign as to whether there is free speech is: Is someone you don’t like allowed to say something you don’t like? If that is the case, then we have free speech.”
But those who have said things Musk didn’t like have seen their reputations publicly trashed. Vernon Unsworth, a British caver who helped rescue 12 boys trapped in Thailand, called Musk’s efforts to help a “PR stunt” in 2018. Musk retaliated by calling him a “pedo guy.”
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US President Joe Biden will travel to South Korea and Japan next month and attend the QUAD summit in Tokyo, during which he will also meet India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House has said.
Biden’s trip to South Korea and Japan has been scheduled for May 20 to 24.
“This trip will advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s rock-solid commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday here.
Biden will also hold bilateral meetings with South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan.
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“The leaders will discuss opportunities to deepen our vital security relationships, enhance economic ties and expand our close cooperation to deliver practical results. In Tokyo, President Biden will also meet the leaders of the Quad grouping of Australia, Japan, India and the United States. We look forward to having further details to share about this trip soon,” Psaki said.
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British finance minister Rishi Sunak was found on Wednesday to have adhered to rules on conflicts of interest and the ministerial code in his and his family’s financial affairs, which had attracted sharp political and media criticism.
Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy — daughter of Infosys founders N R Narayana Murthy — confirmed this month that she had “non-domiciled” status allowing her to pay tax in India rather than Britain, something the opposition Labour party said was at odds with Sunak’s role and his tax-raising plans.
He also came under scrutiny for holding a US “green card” — an immigration status intended for permanent US residents — after becoming finance minister in 2020.
Sunak, who had been seen as a strong candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, asked the government’s independent ethics adviser to consider whether he had broken any rules.
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“I advise that the requirements of the Ministerial Code have been adhered to by the Chancellor, and that he has been assiduous in meeting his obligations and in engaging with this investigation,” the adviser, Christopher Geidt, said in a statement. “In reaching these judgements, I am confined to the question of conflicts of interest and the requirements of the Ministerial Code. My role does not touch on any wider question of the merits of such interests or arrangements.”
Labour said the report was a whitewash.
“This report fails to answer the most basic questions and makes a mockery of our democracy. Downing Street has lost all ethical credibility,” said deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner.
The recent spotlight on Sunak and criticism of his decision not to offer fresh support for households hit by surging inflation have led to a slump in his approval ratings.
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The United States and Russia swapped prisoners on Wednesday amid their most tense relations in decades over the war in Ukraine, with former US Marine Trevor Reed released in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko.
The swap was not part of broader diplomatic talks and did not represent an American change in approach on Ukraine, US officials said.
Russian-American ties have been at their worst since the Cold War era following Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions imposed on Moscow.
Reed, from Texas, was expected to arrive back in the United States on Wednesday night, State Department spokesperson Ne Price said. Senior US officials said the 30-year-old was in “good spirits.”
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President Biden met with the parents of Trevor Reed last month to discuss Trevor’s safe return to the United States after being detained in Russia.
Thanks to the dedicated work of many across our government, Trevor Reed is returning home to his family today. pic.twitter.com/wgRSRj8T9A
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 27, 2022
“Today, we welcome home Trevor Reed and celebrate his return to the family that missed him dearly,” President Joe Biden said in a statement, noting the parents’ concerns about their son’s health. “The negotiations that allowed us to bring Trevor home required difficult decisions that I do not take lightly,” Biden added.
Asked later on Wednesday how he was able to raise the issue of Reed’s detention amid the broader tensions with Russia over Ukraine, Biden said, “I did it. I raised it. I raised it three months ago.”
Reed was convicted in Russia in 2019 of endangering the lives of two police officers while drunk on a visit to Moscow. The United States called his trial a “theater of the absurd.”
US officials said Biden commuted the sentence of Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot who was arrested by American special forces in Liberia in 2010 and convicted for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
Russia had proposed a prisoner swap for Yaroshenko in July 2019 in exchange for the release of any American. The swap occurred in Turkey, and the United States thanked Turkey, a Nato ally, for its help in the exchange. Russian news agencies reported that Yaroshenko then flew from Ankara to Sochi and finally to Moscow.
Rossiya 1, Russia’s main national news channel, showed video of Yaroshenko’s being embraced by his wife and his daughter, who was jumping up and down with joy, on the tarmac at a Moscow airport.
Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said they were working to free another American held in Russia, Paul Whelan, also a former Marine.
Joey and Paula Reed, the parents of Trevor Reed, thanked Biden and others, saying in a statement that the “president’s action may have saved Trevor’s life.”
His father, Joey, later told reporters that they had two phone calls with their son on Wednesday.
“It didn’t sound like him (in the first call). The second call, he sounded more like himself. He must’ve gotten some fluids and food in him. He was cracking jokes,” Joey Reed said.
“Looks terrible”
Russian state television video, played on CNN, showed Reed, appearing thin and wearing a dark overcoat, being supported on both sides by men wearing camouflage. Russia state media described the video as showing Reed at an airport in Russia.
“He looks terrible to us. As his parents, we know he does not look well,” Paula Reed told CNN outside their home in Granbury, Texas. “The American plane pulled up next to the Russian plane, and they walked both prisoners like you see in the movies,” Joey Reed told CNN.
Biden met with Joey and Paula Reed on March 30. The following week, the parents said that a prisoner swap seemed to be the only way to bring Reed home and urged the White House to take all possible steps.
The months of tense diplomacy that led to Reed’s release focused strictly on securing his freedom and were not the beginnings of discussions on other issues, senior Biden administration officials said. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the swap followed a lengthy negotiation process. Russian news agencies reported on April 4 that Reed had ended a hunger strike and was being treated in his prison’s medical center. The prison service said Reed had gone on hunger strike on March 28 to protest disciplinary action against him.
Reed’s parents said at the time that he had been exposed to an inmate with active tuberculosis in December. The prison service said Reed had repeatedly tested negative for tuberculosis. The Reeds said their son would tell his story when ready.
“We’d respectfully ask for some privacy while we address the myriad of health issues brought on by the squalid conditions he was subjected to in his Russian gulag,” they said.
Biden said his administration will continue to work for the release of Whelan and others. Whelan has been held on spying charges that he denies and that he has likened to a political kidnapping. Whelan’s family said they worried that the deal made with Russia on Yaroshenko dimmed prospects for Whelan’s release.
“Is President Biden’s failure to bring Paul home an admission that some cases are too hard to solve?” they asked in a statement. “Who gets saved is the president’s choice.”
US basketball star Brittney Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was detained at a Moscow airport on February 17 when a search of her luggage allegedly revealed multiple cannabis oil vape cartridges. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
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SAN ANTONIO — A Harlandale ISD Police officer shot a man suspected of attempting to break into an elementary school on the south side Wednesday evening, officials said.
The call for a shooting-in-progress came in around 8:30 p.m. at Morrill Elementary School on Flores Street. District spokesperson Mariana Verza later said a custodian saw that a man was trying to break into the school.
Officers approached, searched his name and discovered he had an active warrant for drug possession out of Kendall County.
Verza said the man attempted to flee before officers chased him. The suspect grabbed the baton from one of the officers and started hitting him, at which point the man reached for his gun, and the other officer shot the suspect.
The suspect's injury was not life-threatening.
"We know it's not easy to deal with these situations; we're happy there was no loss of life," Verza said.
The San Antonio Police Department will be handling the investigation, and is expected to provide an update around 10 pm.
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SAN ANTONIO — Two people were killed and a third was critically injured in a shooting outside a bar in the Medical Center area Wednesday night.
The call came in for a shooting in progress in the 5500 block of Fredericksburg Road around 9:40 p.m. Police at the scene said that three victims, two females and one male, were sitting in a car when someone opened fire striking all three. Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and the third was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
An SAPD officer said that they did not have a suspect or a motive at this time, and they were unsure if the killer walked up or shot from a vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to call police.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Many San Antonio homeowners saw a large increase in their property tax because of soaring home values. An easy, free way to lower your property tax bill is the homestead exemption. It will take a flat $5,000 off your home’s value in the City of San Antonio.
“If your house is worth $100,000, the city will only tax you on $95,000 of property value,” said Albert Uresti, the Bexar County tax assessor.
Based on last year’s tax rate, homeowners with a house valued at $312,000 saved $28. Yet, the homestead exemption can save you much more in the long run by helping to keep your property taxes low.
“It limits the increase of your property tax,” Uresti said. “So, for instance, if you have a $100,000 home and the price doubles or triples, your property taxes only go up 10 percent if you have the homestead exemption. So it's extremely important to protect yourself and have that homestead exemption.”
You must own and live in the home to get the homestead exemption. You will need either a state ID or a state driver’s license that matches the home’s address to apply for it. You can submit the application either online or in-person at the Bexar County Appraisal District at 411 N. Frio
San Antonio, TX 78207 . It is free, if you submit it yourself.
“There’s companies out there that will do it for you, but they are going to charge you,” Uresti said. “You don’t need that.”
You can apply at any time, but apply by April 30 and you will get the maximum rebate possible.
“If you do it by April 30th you’ll get the current year plus two years prior,” Uresti said. “If you owned your home two years before you should be able to get a refund for the two years prior.”
Apply after April 30, and you will only get a refund for one year. You only need to apply once and the exemption will last as long as you live in the home.
“Our mission is to help keep families in their homes,” Uresti said. “These are some of the tools we use to help our families.”
There are also property tax exemptions for homeowners 65 and older and disabled veterans.
If you need help or have questions, call or email the Bexar County Appraisal District at 210-335-2251 or CS@bcad.org.
If you live outside of San Antonio city limits, check with your local appraisal district for information on a homestead exemption.
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The Powerball lottery jackpot reached an estimated $473.1 million for the drawing Wednesday night. It's the second-largest jackpot of the year for the multi-state game.
The jackpot was initially estimated to be $454 million, so the nearly $20 million bump was a likely indication of high ticket sales.
The winning numbers were 11-36-61-62-68. The Powerball was 4 and the Power Play multiplier was 2x.
It was not immediately announced if anyone had won the jackpot or if anyone had won one of the $1 million prizes for picking the numbers of all five white balls correctly.
Winning tickets have been sold for two jackpots this year. Two tickets sold in California and Wisconsin shared $632.6 million in January and one ticket in Connecticut won $185.3 million.
The largest Powerball jackpot in history, which is also the largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever, was $1.586 billion split between three tickets in California, Florida and Tennessee in 2016.
Indiana has the most jackpot-winning tickets sold with 39. Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, Vermont, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Wyoming have never had a jackpot-winning ticket sold.
The overall odds of winning any Powerball prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Powerball is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Powerball all-time largest jackpots
- $1.586 billion: Jan. 13, 2016 (three tickets sold)
- $768.4 million: March 27, 2019
- $758.7 million: Aug. 23, 2017
- $731.1 million: Jan. 20, 2021
- $699.8 million: Oct. 4, 2021
- $687.8 million: Oct. 27, 2018 (two tickets)
- $632.6 million: Jan. 5, 2022 (two tickets)
- $590.5 million: May 18, 2013
- $587.5 million: Nov. 28, 2012 (two tickets)
- $564.1 million: Feb. 11, 2015 (three tickets sold)
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SAN ANTONIO — Trevor Reed, the Texas native and U.S. Marine veteran who returned stateside after being detained in Russia since the summer of 2019, is being taken to a San Antonio military base, a source told our team Wednesday night.
According to that source, Reed's family was heading to the Alamo City from their north Texas home; it's possible he'll arrive sometime overnight. It's unknown exactly which base he'll be taken to, but it's likely he'll be hospitalized at Brooke Army Medical Center for treatment.
Reed's family said his health was deteriorating while in Russian custody, and believes he could have tuberculosis, adding he was coughing up blood.
His release was part of a prisoner exchange between Russia and the U.S., which returned a Russian pilot convicted of smuggling drugs. The exchange unfolded in Turkey.
Earlier on Wednesday, Reed's parents expressed gratitude in north Texas to President Joe Biden for negotiating the swap.
"Almost as good as the day he was born," Reed's mother told local media on Wednesday. "We know he's on the plane, but it's going to really hit us when we get to put our arms around him."
Governor Greg Abbott sent a Wednesday-morning tweet welcoming Reed home as the news was announced.
Reed was sentenced in 2020 to nine years behind bars in Russia. He was convicted by authorities there of assault charges while drunk, but has continuously denied the allegations. And the U.S. government has described him as “unjustly detained” over that time, while pressing for his release.
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MILLARD COUNTY, Utah — A man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly made a threat toward the Millard County Jail on Sunday, April 24.
The man's identity was not released, however he now faces one count of "threat of terrorism," which is a second degree felony.
The Millard county Sheriff's Office said in a press release that on Sunday, "Millard County Dispatch received a phone call of a recording which stated that there was a bomb at the Millard County Jail."
Explosive detection K9 units were sent to the jail to verify security of the facility, occupants and surroundings and no explosive materials were discovered, officials reported.
In the following days after the threat, investigators examined patterns of phone calls and served a search warrant at a the "Delta Manor Apartments," located at 185 South 100 East.
No "explosive making activity" was observed, however, two males were taken into custody and interviewed. A 26-year-old man was arrested and the other male returned home.
The Millard County Sheriff's Office reports the incident remains an active investigation.
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Offset requirements in India pose a major challenge to the defence trade with the US, a former top Pentagon official told lawmakers.
“India has enormous opportunities but also enormous challenges. We have never been able to get the overarching security agreements with India that we would hope,” Ellen Lord, who previously served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S), told members of the House Armed Services Committee.
“We have challenges with things like the S-400 being on contract and so forth. Additionally, the challenge of doing business, I can tell you in India is enormous because of offset requirements there to be able to provide a local business,” Lord said.
The United States is in talks with India on several multi-billion key defence sales, including the guardian drones. Over the past decade, the volume of defence trade between the two countries has increased from almost zero to USD18 billion.
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Major American companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics are eyeing the Indian market now, which is projected to grow exponentially over the next one decade.
“So, enormous potential, but I would say the opportunity and the challenge is to work with the Indian government to streamline policies and procedures, make them consistent so that it is a pretty predictable venue for US business and government to invest in,” Lord said responding to a question from Senator Mark Kelley, who recently returned from a trip to India.
“From our recent discussions, I believe there is a willingness to strengthen the US-India security and industry partnerships. What thoughts do you have on how we can accomplish that? And do you agree this will also benefit US strategic interests at a time when Russia is looking to shore up their own ties with India,” he asked.
“So, this is an opportunity for us to build some ties through the sale of some of our military equipment, which I’d like to see,” Kelley said.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who just returned from a trip to India and Nepal, said both countries would love to acquire US-produced helicopters and other weaponry.
“The challenge is that it just takes too long. It is so cumbersome to create any acquisition fluidity with these countries that it’s easier to buy from Russia or not in those cases but China,” she said.
“I think we have to understand that our cumbersome nature in acquisitions is highly problematic from the way we project power worldwide, but also so that our warfighters can have the most lethal and most effective technology possible,” Gillibrand said.
Lord conceded that this delay is because of the bureaucracy in the Pentagon and the State Department.
“We have a very risk-averse workforce that is extremely concerned about media attention or congressional hearings, pointing out when things didn’t go well. This is leading to a group that does not want to do anything other than what’s there’s precedent for before. So, I think we need to encourage and train to use things,” Lord said.
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The world’s largest asset manager has launched a blockchain ETF, providing clients with greater exposure to crypto and blockchain-related companies.
BlackRock has officially launched a blockchain focused ETF, that provides investors with exposure to the crypto and blockchain industry without needing to directly own digital assets.
On Wednesday, the world’s largest asset manager, which currently manages approximately $10 trillion in assets, added the Blockchain and Tech ETF (IBLC) to its iShares product line.
The $4.7 million ETF does not directly own cryptocurrencies or digital assets themselves, but instead tracks an array of international companies that are involved in the industry.
The ETF is comprised of 41 separate holdings, with the largest single holding being US-based crypto exchange Coinbase making up 11.45% of the fund. This is closely followed by large Bitcoin miners Marathon Digital Holdings (11.19%) and Riot Blockchain Inc. which accounts for 10.41% of the total holdings.
Showing readiness for future acquisitions, the ETF currently sports a healthy 9.15% US dollar cash position.
Alongside the release of the new ETF, BlackRock published a report that outlined three main areas of the market that are currently undergoing permanent changes.
The paper details just how bullish BlackRock is on the crypto industry, stating that while most of the attention directed towards digital assets focuses on the price and volatility, the actual value of blockchain is yet to be fully realised.
We believe the broader opportunity — leveraging blockchain technology for payments, contracts and consumption broadly — has not yet been priced in.
The paper also brings attention to the adoption of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), noting that 87 countries are currently in the process of exploring the technology.
Crypto ETFs are growing in popularity among institutional investors as a way of gaining exposure to the cryptocurrency industry.
Discussions concerning a spot Bitcoin ETF have been re-ignited after a recent Nasdaq survey revealed that 72% of the 500 financial advisors interviewed would be more likely to invest client funds in a spot fund over a futures-based one.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Criminal violence in Haiti worsened this week. with fighting among gangs in part of the capital chasing thousands from their homes and killing at least 20 people, including children.
Haiti's Civil Protection Agency said the fighting began Sunday in four neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, north of the international airport. At least a dozen homes were burned downand many of those who fled initially took shelter in the yard of a local mayor’s office.
The eruption comes amid a spike in violence and kidnappings as gangs grow more powerful and seek to control more territory amid the power vacuum following the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
The situation has angered and frustrated Haitians, who are demanding action from Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s administration, which is receiving international help to boost an underfunded and understaffed police force.
A family of eight, including six children, was among those killed since Sunday, authorities said Wednesday. Schools and businesses in the area remain closed as thousands of families with children are camping in a park near a local mayor’s office.
“They need water, food, supplies,” said Jean Raymond Dorcely, who runs a small grassroots community organization. “They had to leave with nothing in their hands.”
He said that the neighborhood is usually quiet and that his child often plays in the park now turned into a makeshift outdoor shelter.
“I can see kids crying because they’re hungry and families don’t have anything to provide to them,” he said, adding that needs were growing as the fighting continued. “I don’t know what it’s going to be like tomorrow.”
Authorities said that along with the dead, two dozen people had been injured in the violence, and that one bullet hit an empty United Nations Humanitarian Air Service helicopter stationed near the airport.
“The conflict is likely to escalate in the coming days, leading to further casualties and new population migrations,” the Civil Protection Agency said.
Officials warned that main roads leading to Haiti’s northern region could be cut off as a result of the fighting.
Gang violence in the Martissant community in southern Port-au-Prince already has cut off access to the country’s southern region, which is trying to recover from last year's deadly earthquake.
The Martissant violence displaced thousands of families last year that have spent months in overcrowded, unhygienic government shelters in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. It wasn’t immediately clear where the newly displaced families would be staying.
The Civil Protection Agency blamed this week's violence on a fight between the Chen Mechan gang and the rival 400 Mawozo gang. which was involved in the kidnapping of 17 U.S. missionaries last year.
Haiti’s ombudsman-like Citizen Protection Office released a statement condemning the violence. It criticized political leaders, saying their inaction and silence has brought “a form of cynicism or contempt for human rights, particular the right to life and security.”
The office also questioned whether the area known as Plaine du Cul de Sac was becoming another Martissant and called on authorities to assume their responsibility to protect citizens.
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — European leaders blasted Russia's decision to cut natural gas shipments to Poland and Bulgaria as "blackmail," saying the cutoff and the Kremlin's warning that it might cease shipments to other countries is a failed attempt to divide the West over its support for Ukraine.
Russia's move Wednesday to use its most essential export as leverage marked a dramatic escalation in the economic war of sanctions and countersanctions that has unfolded in parallel to the fighting on the battlefield.
The tactic against the two EU and NATO members could eventually force targeted nations to ration gas and deal another blow to economies suffering from rising prices. At the same time, it could deprive Russia of badly needed income to fund its war effort.
Poland has been a major gateway for the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and confirmed this week that it is sending the country tanks. Just hours before Russia's state energy giant Gazprom acted, Poland announced a new set of sanctions against the company and other Russian businesses and oligarchs.
Bulgaria, under a new liberal government that took office last fall, has cut many of its old ties to Moscow and likewise supported punitive measures against the Kremlin. It has also hosted Western fighter jets at a new NATO outpost on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.
The gas cuts do not immediately put the two countries in any dire trouble. Poland, especially, has been working for many years to line up other suppliers, and the continent is heading into summer, making gas less essential for households.
Also, Russian gas deliveries to both Poland and Bulgaria were expected to end later this year anyway.
Still, the cutoff and the Kremlin warning that other countries could be next sent shivers of worry through the 27-nation European Union. Germany, the largest economy on the continent, and Italy are among Europe’s biggest consumers of Russian natural gas, though they, too, have been taking steps to reduce their dependence on Moscow.
“It comes as no surprise that the Kremlin uses fossil fuels to try to blackmail us,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “Today, the Kremlin failed once again in his attempt to sow division amongst member states. The era of Russian fossil fuel in Europe is coming to an end.”
Gazprom said it shut off the two countries because they refused to pay in rubles, as President Vladimir Putin has demanded of "unfriendly" nations. The Kremlin said other countries may be cut off if they don't agree to the payment arrangement.
Most European countries have publicly balked at Russia’s demand for rubles, but it is not clear how many have actually faced the moment of decision so far. Greece’s next scheduled payment to Gazprom is due on May 25, for example, and the government must decide then whether to comply.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told his country's parliament that he believes Poland’s support for Ukraine — and the new sanctions imposed by Warsaw on Tuesday — were the real reasons behind the gas cutoff.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov called the suspension blackmail, adding: “We will not succumb to such a racket.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia views gas as a weapon for political blackmail and "sees a united Europe as a target.”
On the battlefield, fighting continued in the country's east along a largely static front line some 300 miles (480 kilometers) long.
Russia claimed its missiles hit a batch of weapons that the U.S. and European nations had delivered to Ukraine. One person was killed and at least two were injured when rockets hit a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv.
Western officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence findings, said Russia has made slow progress in the eastern Donbas region, with “minor gains,” including the capture of villages and small towns south of Izyum and on the outskirts of Rubizhne.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, conceded that Russia has made some progress in its advance on Rubizhne through its nearly constant bombardment, but that Ukrainian troops are fighting back and retreating only when there is nothing left to defend.
“There is no point in staying on territory that has been fired on so often that every meter is well known,” he said.
Maxim, a Ukrainian tank commander in the Donbas who didn't give his last name, offered his rationale for why Ukrainian forces have been able to hold back the better-equipped Russian army: “The strength is not in the tank; the strength is in the people.”
The Western officials said some Russian troops have been shifted from the gutted southern port city of Mariupol to other parts of the Donbas. But some remain in Mariupol to fight Ukrainian forces holed up at the Azovstal steel plant, the last stronghold in the city. About 1,000 civilians were said to be taking shelter there with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian defenders.
“The situation is very difficult. There are huge problems with water, food,” Serhii Volynskyi, commander of the marine unit inside the plant, said in a Facebook video message. He said hundreds of fighters and civilians were wounded and in need of medical help, and those inside included children, older people and disabled people.
In the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which Russian forces have occupied since early in the war, a series of explosions boomed late Wednesday near the television tower and at least temporarily knocked Russian channels off the air, Ukrainian and Russian news organizations reported.
Just across the border from the Donbas in Russia, an ammunition depot in the Belgorod region burned after several explosions were heard, the governor said. Blasts were also reported in Russia's Kursk region near the border, and authorities in Russia's Voronezh region said an air defense system shot down a drone.
Earlier this week, an oil storage facility in the Russian city of Bryansk was engulfed by fire.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak hinted at the country's involvement in the fires, saying in a Telegram post that “karma (is) a harsh thing.”
With the help of Western arms, Ukrainian forces managed to thwart Russian forces' attempt to storm Kyiv. Moscow now says its focus is the capture of the Donbas, Ukraine's mostly Russian-speaking industrial heartland.
A defiant Putin vowed Russia will achieve its military goals, telling parliament, "All the tasks of the special military operation we are conducting in the Donbas and Ukraine, launched on Feb. 24, will be unconditionally fulfilled.”
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Gambrell reported from Lviv, Ukraine, and Gera reported from Warsaw, Poland. Associated Press journalists Jill Lawless in London, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, David Keyton in Kyiv, Oleksandr Stashevskyi at Chernobyl, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, and AP staff around the world contributed to this report.
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KYIV, Ukraine — In the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a series of explosions boomed near the television tower late Wednesday and at least temporarily knocked Russian channels off the air, Ukrainian and Russian news organizations reported.
The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said missiles and rockets were fired at the city from the direction of the Ukrainian forces to the northwest.
Kherson has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war.
Ukrayinska Pravda, an online newspaper, said the strikes set off a fire and knocked Russian television channels off the air.
RIA Novosti said the broadcast later resumed. It said Russian channels began broadcasting from Kherson last week.
Russia has been determined to strengthen its control over the city, but residents have continued to come out onto the streets to protest the occupation.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— Russia cuts natural gas to 2 NATO nations in escalation
— European nations accuse Russia of natural gas 'blackmail'
— The AP Interview: UN nuclear chief wants Ukraine plant access
— EXPLAINER: What's behind Russia's natural gas cutoff?
Follow all AP stories on Russia's war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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BERLIN — An independent research group says Germany was the biggest buyer of Russian energy during the first two months since the start of the war in Ukraine.
A study published by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air calculates that Russia earned $66.5 billion from fossil fuel exports since Russian troops attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Using data on ship movements, real-time tracking of gas flows through pipelines and estimates based on historical monthly trade, the researchers reckon Germany paid Russia about 9.1 billion euros for fossil fuel deliveries in the first two months of the war.
The German government says it can’t comment on estimates and declines to provide any figures of its own.
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LONDON — Britain’s top diplomat says Western allies should send tanks, planes and other heavy weapons to Ukraine, saying “inaction would be the greatest provocation.”
NATO nations have supplied Ukraine with military supplies including missiles and armored vehicles. But so far they have been reluctant to send fighter planes for fear of escalating the conflict.
U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said “this is a time for courage, not caution.” Despite Truss’ call for jets, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said there were “no plans” for the U.K. to send planes to Ukraine.
Truss also said Russia’s attack on Ukraine must be a wake-up call for international institutions. She called for a new focus on “military strength, economic security and deeper global alliances.”
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BOSTON — Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organizations in Ukraine and produced “a chaotic information environment,” Microsoft says in a report released Wednesday.
Nearly half the destructive attacks were against critical infrastructure, many times simultaneous to physical attacks, the report notes.
A top Ukrainian cybersecurity official, Victor Zhora, told reporters in a news briefing on Wednesday that cyberattacks on telecommunications have sometimes coincided with artillery and other physical attacks.
Microsoft assessed that Russia-aligned threat groups were “pre-positioning for the conflict as early as March 2021,” hacking into networks to obtain footholds they could later use to collect “strategic and battlefield intelligence or to facilitate future destructive attacks.”
During the war, Russia’s cyberattacks “have at times not only degraded the functions of the targeted organizations but sought to disrupt citizens’ access to reliable information and critical life services, and to shake confidence in the country’s leadership,” the company’s Digital Security Unit says in the 20-page report.
Kremlin cyber operations “have had an impact in terms of technical disruption of services and causing a chaotic information environment, but Microsoft is not able to evaluate their broader strategic impact,” the report says.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday that Russia’s war on Ukraine “screams” that the world needs to stop importing oil and gas from Russia and instead move toward other forms of energy.
At an international forum on offshore wind energy in Atlantic City, Granholm said the U.S. as well as its energy industries “are on a war footing,” and called for a rapid acceleration of renewable energy including offshore wind power.
Her comments were echoed by Kadri Simson, the European Commissioner for Energy, who noted that Europe recently committed itself to a large-scale move away from Russian fossil fuel imports, and considers wind energy an important part of that transition.
Their comments came as Russia cut off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday and threatened to do the same to other countries, dramatically escalating its standoff with the West over the war in Ukraine. European leaders decried the move as “blackmail.”
Germany and Italy are among Europe’s biggest consumers of Russian natural gas but have already been taking steps to reduce their dependence on Moscow.
“Russia is waging a war in Ukraine and the imperative to move away from Russian oil and gas, for the world to move away from Russian oil and gas screams that there is an imperative that we electrify,” said Granholm, the former Michigan governor. “Offshore wind is just a huge component in that.”
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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. says its humanitarian office is mobilizing an experienced team from around the world to coordinate the complex evacuation of civilians from the besieged steel plant in the battered Ukrainian city of Mariupol with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in principle to U.N. and ICRC participation in the evacuation from the plant during a nearly two-hour, one-on-one meeting Tuesday. The sprawling Azovstal complex, which has been almost completely destroyed by Russian attacks, is the last pocket of organized Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol. An estimated 2,000 troops and 1,000 civilians are said to be holed up in bunkers underneath the wrecked structure.
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters Wednesday that the U.N. is trying to translate the Guterres-Putin agreement in principle “into an agreement in detail and an agreement on the ground.”
“And ultimately what we want is to make sure that a cease-fire would be respected that would allow us to move people safely,” he said.
Haq said U.N. officials are having follow-on discussions Wednesday with authorities in Moscow and Kyiv “to develop the operational framework for the timely evacuation of civilians.”
He said the exact timing depends on the outcome of discussions between the U.N. humanitarian office and Russia’s Ministry of Defense in Moscow as well as between the U.N. crisis coordinator for Ukraine, Amin Awad, and the authorities in Kyiv, where Guterres will be meeting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday.
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OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian government said Wednesday that it has imposed sanctions on more than 200 people who are loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
Russian forces have been backing separatist rebels in the Donbas area for eight years following Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
The Canadian sanctions are focused on the renewed Russian attempt to annex areas of the Donbas by targeting people attempting to support the next phase of the two-month-old Russian war on Ukraine.
“Canada will not stand idly by and watch President Putin and his accomplices attempt to redraw the borders of Ukraine with impunity,” Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement. “International law must be respected.”
Global Affairs Canada, the governmental department that manages the country’s diplomatic relations, said the new measures target 11 senior officials and 192 other members of the People’s Councils of the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk for supporting Putin’s attack on the area.
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WASHINGTON — The White House says President Joe Biden will tour a Lockheed Martin facility that makes weapons systems, such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, that the administration is providing to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s 2-month-old invasion.
Biden plans to visit the facility in Alabama on May 3.
A Javelin is a long-range guided anti-tank missile that can be carried by one person. The United States says it has provided several thousand of the systems to Ukraine.
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MADRID — Russia announced Wednesday it was withdrawing from the United Nations World Tourism Organization just hours before the body’s assembly voted to temporarily suspend the country’s membership over the invasion of Ukraine, officials said.
UNWTO Secretary General Zurab Pololikashvili made the announcement on his official Twitter account. He said it was the first U.N. body to address Russia’s membership.
The organization went ahead and approved the suspension at a special meeting in Madrid on Wednesday, where the organization has its headquarters.
“(Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s military offensive is an attack on the founding principles of the United Nations and on the values that tourism represents, such as peace, prosperity and universal respect and the observance of human rights,” Spanish Industry, Trade and Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said in a statement following the decision.
The assembly resolution included a clause that said the suspension could be reversed if a change in the politics of the Russian Federation were noted.
Spain was one of 22 European nations that had promoted the motion.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Norway’s Energy Minister Terje Aasland said Wednesday that the Scandinavian country’s position “as a stable, predictable and long-term supplier of energy to the European market is only becoming more important.”
“It is underlined by what is now happening on the part of Gazprom,” Aasland told Norwegian news agency NTB.
The state-controlled Russian giant said it was shutting off natural gas to NATO members Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday because they refused to pay in Russian rubles, as President Vladimir Putin had demanded.
Russia threatened to do the same to other countries, dramatically escalating its standoff with the West over the war in Ukraine. European leaders decried the move as “blackmail.”
Norway exports about 95% of its gas via an extensive subsea pipeline network linking it to terminals in Germany, Britain, France and Belgium. Last month, Denmark decided to resume the construction of the Danish part of Baltic Pipe, which will connect Poland to Norwegian gas fields.
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to Russia’s parliament that the goals of the country’s military operation in Ukraine will be achieved.
Putin said in an address on Wednesday to both houses of parliament: “I want to emphasize again that all the tasks of the special military operation we are conducting in the Donbas and Ukraine, launched on Feb. 24, will be unconditionally fulfilled.”
That, he said, will “guarantee the security of the residents” of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine that Russia recognized as independent shortly before launching its military action in Ukraine, as well as Crimea — which Russia annexed in 2014 — “and our entire country in the historical perspective.”
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BERLIN — Germany’s economy minister says the government is considering “all scenarios” for a Russian-owned oil refinery that supplies much of the petroleum used in and around Berlin.
Robert Habeck told reporters Wednesday that the German government’s goal is to ensure the country becomes independent of Russian energy supplies, and companies established to procure fossil fuels from Russia are “not helpful in that regard.”
The refinery at Schwedt is controlled by Rosneft, a Russian state-controlled oil and gas company.
Asked whether Germany would go so far as to nationalize the refinery, an option foreseen in a regulatory change approved by Cabinet this week, Habeck said that “we are in a situation where the government must expect and prepare for all scenarios.”
“There are likely to be some we haven’t thought of,” he said. “But we are considering everything conceivable and making political preparations.”
Habeck said Russia’s decision to stop supplies of gas to Poland and Bulgaria was an example of “the reality where energy is used as a weapon.”
He acknowledged that Germany was and remains one of the biggest consumers of Russian fossil fuels worldwide, though it is making all efforts to diversify its supplies, reduce consumption and switch to renewable energy “so that we are not defenseless.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian presidential adviser has hinted that his country might be involved in a series of fires in border regions of Russia in recent days.
On Wednesday, the governor of the Belgorod region said an ammunition depot was burning after several explosions were heard. Earlier this week, there was a blaze at an oil storage facility in Bryansk.
Ukraine hasn’t officially taken responsibility for those and other incidents, and Russian officials haven’t publicly ascribed them to Ukrainian attacks.
But Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said in a Telegram post Wednesday that “karma (is) a harsh thing.”
He said that Russian regions where the incidents happened “are now also actively studying the concept of ‘demilitarization.’”
Without directly admitting any Ukrainian involvement, he said that “sooner or later the debts will have to be repaid.”
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ROME — Premier Mario Draghi’s office says the Italian leader will meet President Joe Biden in Washington on May 10.
Draghi’s office said in a statement on Wednesday that Ukraine will be at the center of discussions, including coordinated measures “to support the Ukrainian population and to counter Russia’s unjustified aggression.”
The leaders will also discuss energy security. Italy is among European countries that get a large proportion of their natural gas from Russia. Draghi and his ministers have been working to get alternative sources.
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WARSAW, Poland — Security authorities in Poland say that a Russian and a Belarusian man have been arrested on allegations that they spied for Russian intelligence.
A spokesman for Poland’s state security bodies, Stanislaw Zaryn, said Wednesday that material gathered by Polish military intelligence led to their arrest.
He said that they were gathering sensitive military information, including about Polish troops in the area near Poland’s border with Belarus.
The men were arrested separately last week.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — The Bulgarian government says the prime minister and defense minister will go to Ukraine to meet with that country’s leaders.
The goverment press office said Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and Defense Minister Dragomir Zakov were being accompanied on Wednesday by members of Parliament.
In Kyiv, they will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, and with members of the 200,000-strong Bulgarian community in Ukraine.
They also will visit Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpin, in the Kyiv region, to see damage caused by the Russian invasion.
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BRUSSELS — The head of the European Union’s executive Commission says energy companies in the 27-nation bloc that agree to Moscow’s demands to pay for gas deliveries in Russian rubles will be breaching the sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ursula von der Leyen spoke after Polish and Bulgarian officials said Moscow was cutting off natural gas deliveries to their countries due to their refusal to pay in rubles, a demand made by President Vladimir Putin after sanctions were levied against his nation.
Von der Leyen said Wednesday that “our guidance here is very clear.”
She said that “to pay in rubles, if this is not foreseen in the contract, is a breach of our sanctions. We have round about 97% of all contracts that explicitly stipulate payments in euros or dollars, so it’s very clear. And the request from the Russian side to pay in rubles is a unilateral decision and not according to the contracts.”
Von der Leyen said Russia’s decision to cut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria is another “provocation from the Kremlin” and an attempt to “blackmail” the EU.
She said that, following an urgent meeting of member states, both Poland and Bulgaria are now receiving gas from their EU neighbors.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Russia has expelled three Norwegian diplomats following the expulsion from Norway earlier this month of three Russian diplomats.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfelt said Wednesday that the Norwegians being kicked out were doing “regular diplomatic work.” She vowed that Norway “will continue to stand with our close allies and partners against Russia’s aggression and in our support for Ukraine,”
Huitfeld told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that “like other European countries and allies, we have reduced contact with the Russian authorities to a minimum.”
On Tuesday, Russia expelled four Swedish diplomats. The Foreign Ministry in Stockholm said they too were “engaged in normal diplomatic activities.”
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced sanctions against 287 British lawmakers in response to the U.K. sanctioning 368 members of Russia’s lower house of parliament.
The ministry on Wednesday released a list of both government and opposition lawmakers, and a few former lawmakers. They are now barred from entering Russia because they “took the most active part in the establishment of anti-Russian sanctions instruments in London (and) contribute to the groundless ramping-up of Russophobic hysteria in the U.K.”
The ministry’s statement said that “hostile rhetoric and far-fetched accusations coming from the mouths of British parliamentarians not only condone the hostile course of London aimed at demonizing our country and (at) its international isolation, but are also used by opponents of mutually respectful dialogue with Russia to undermine the foundation of bilateral cooperation.”
Responding to the announcement, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “those 287 should regard it as a badge of honor.”
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin has criticized a statement by a Ukrainian presidential adviser holding the door open to possible military action in the separatist Trans-Dniester region of Moldova.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday described the statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s adviser Oleksiy Arestovych as “quite provocative.” Asked in a video stream if Ukraine could send its forces into Trans-Dniester, Arestovych said it could do that but only if Moldova asks for it.
Trans-Dniester, a sliver of land with about 470,000 people, has been under the control of separatist authorities since a 1992 war with Moldova. Russia bases about 1,500 troops in the breakaway region, nominally as peacekeepers. Tensions in the region have escalated in recent days with a series of explosions, for which no one claimed responsibility, raising fears of broader hostilities.
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BERLIN — The German government has rejected criticism that it has been slow to provide Ukraine with weapons requested by Kyiv.
Following domestic and international pressure, Germany announced this week that it would allow the delivery of self-propelled armored anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine to help it fend off Russia’s military attack, backing off earlier reluctance provide heavy weapons to the country.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz's spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, said that “the federal government and chancellor have looked with great seriousness at the difficult situation Ukraine, Europe and the entire world are in, and taken a very balanced decision."
He told reporters in Berlin: “I don’t see a change of position on the part of the government, but continuity.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — The International Atomic Energy Agency’s director-general says the level of safety at Europe’s largest nuclear plant, currently under Russian occupation in Ukraine, is like a “red light blinking” as his organization tries in vain to get access for work including repairs.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Rafael Grossi said that the IAEA needs access to the Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine so its inspectors can, among other things, reestablish connections with the Vienna-based headquarters of the U.N. agency. And for that, both Russia and Ukraine need to help.
The plant requires repairs, “and all of this is not happening. So the situation as I have described it, and I would repeat it today, is not sustainable as it is,” Grossi said. “So this is a pending issue. This is a red light blinking.”
He spoke in an interview Wednesday, a day after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the issue.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Mike Gibbons, an Ohio investment banker, leads the pack of self-funders in both states after lending his campaign almost $17 million. Three other wealthy candidates in the Ohio race — state Sen. Matt Dolan, whose family owns the Cleveland Guardians baseball team; former Ohio Republican chair Jane Timken, whose husband’s family founded the steel giant Timken Co.; and “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance — have lent or contributed a combined $14 million to their campaigns.
In Pennsylvania, heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Mehmet Oz, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick and former real estate investment firm CEO Carla Sands report that they have lent their campaigns more than $20 million combined.
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, has poured money into a super PAC backing Vance, while hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin has contributed millions to a super PAC supporting McCormick.
The influx of money into the Ohio and Pennsylvania primaries illustrates the importance of the two Senate seats, which could help determine party control of the chamber in November. The highly competitive races for the seats being vacated by Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Pat Toomey are expected to be among the most expensive contests in this year's midterm elections.
While the money alone may not determine who wins, it can definitely help.
Sheila Krumholz, executive director of OpenSecrets, a research group that tracks campaign spending, said self-funding has become an increasingly appealing option for wealthy candidates because the lack of limits on personal giving allows them to “fight fire with fire” against deep-pocketed super PACs and dark money groups.
“The massive spending by super PACs and outside groups with anonymous sources means that candidates really can never stop fundraising,” Krumholz said. “They can never have enough money, so self-funded candidates have that built-in advantage. You’re not only raising money to fight an opponent or opponents, you need money to fend off attacks that could come from anywhere, at any moment, in any amount of money."
Some of the less well-known candidates, such as Gibbons and McCormick, have spent some of their fortunes on TV advertising to introduce themselves to voters. More high-profile contenders, like Oz and Vance, have funneled money into ads to remind voters they have the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who remains popular with the Republican base.
In Ohio, Mandel, the state's former treasurer, is the only Republican Senate candidate in the seven-person race who hasn’t given himself a personal loan. But he is backed by Club for Growth Action, the super PAC of the conservative Club for Growth, which has spent more than $4.6 million pillorying his rivals, particularly Vance, ahead of the state's May 3 primary.
For his part, Vance has the support of Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC into which Thiel has invested $13.5 million.
In Pennsylvania, the state's seven-way Republican Senate primary election on May 17 has been transformed by three wealthy and well-connected candidates who moved from out of state — blue states, no less — to spend their riches on a campaign in the presidential battleground.
In their financial disclosures, Sands, Oz and McCormick report being worth tens of millions — if not hundreds of millions — and owning properties across the country.
McCormick, who resigned from his $22 million-a-year job as CEO of a hedge fund in Connecticut to run for the Senate, grew up the son of a college professor, administrator and president who became the chancellor of the state’s university system. McCormick often talks about working on a Christmas tree farm owned by his family.
But asked last week if someone as wealthy as he is can understand average Pennsylvanians, McCormick told KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh that “I didn’t have anything” growing up.
His campaign later said McCormick had a “humble upbringing” and had been trying to explain that he worked for the wealth he has now.
A rival Republican candidate, Kathy Barnette, who has allied herself with pro-Trump arch-conservatives, took aim at what she called the GOP’s habit of electing “the richest person.”
“How has that served us? Picking the richest person, just because they are the richest person,” Barnette said at a forum in late March while sitting just feet away from Oz and McCormick.
Addressing voters, she said: “How many times have you called your elected official who just so happened to be the richest person in the room and asked them to stand up for you? And how many of them over the past two years have stood up for you?”
McCormick and Oz are being boosted by super PACs and the airwaves are blanketed with their TV ads, helping put the men atop polls in the Republican primary. A super PAC supporting McCormick — and attacking Oz — has reported spending more than $13 million so far, powered by $7.5 million from Griffin, the hedge fund billionaire.
All the cash can concern voters, said Terry Casey, a Republican strategist in Ohio.
“The voters, with reason, are legitimately skeptical of candidates spending millions and millions, because who's giving it to them and why?” he said. “So there's an argument that if you're self-funding, maybe you're less tainted, but then it raises the question of, ‘Is this an ego or vanity campaign?’”
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Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pa.
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Lucknow: The All India Tanzeem Ulama-e-Islam (AITUI), an organisation of Barelvi-Sunni Muslims, has sent a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, to ensure better facilities for Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan in jail.
The letter, signed by Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi, general secretary of the Tanzeem, says that being a saint himself, Yogi Adityanath should take a lenient view of mistakes committed during the Samajwadi regime and ensure early release of Azam, Khan who is lodged in jail since the past 26 months.
Razvi further said that if Yogi Adityanath helps in the release of Azam Khan, Muslims across the country would perceive this as a positive step and there would be a visible change in their attitude towards the state government.
In another letter written to SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Maulana has expressed dismay at the fact that Mulayam has not uttered a word in support of Azam Khan who happens to be the founder member of the Samajwadi Party.
“We have seen Azam Khan begging for votes for your party and he even played a key role in making Akhilesh Yadav the chief minister. It is a matter of regret that during this crisis, the SP has almost abandoned him,” the letter says.
The Maulana further says that Mulayam is known for his good relations with Prime Minister Narendra Modi but it is a matter of regret that he has not done anything to secure the release of his loyal friend from jail.
In the letter, he further asks Mulayam to speak to the Prime Minister and, if needed, raise the issue in Parliament.
“Otherwise, we will be forced to believe that you have no interest in issues related to Muslims,” he says.
This is the first time that any Muslim organisation has written to Yogi Adityanath and Mulayam Singh Yadav on the issue of releasing Azam Khan.
The letter is expected to increase troubles for SP which is already facing flak from its own Muslim leaders on the issue.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean activist said Thursday he launched a million propaganda leaflets by balloon into North Korea this week, in his first such campaign while standing trial for past leafleting under a contentious new law that criminalizes such actions.
The law that took effect in March 2021 and punishes anti-Pyongyang leafleters with up to three years in prison has been hotly debated in South Korea, with critics saying Seoul's liberal government was sacrificing freedom of speech to improve ties with rival North Korea.
Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector-turned-activist, said he resumed his leafleting campaign this week after halting such activities for a year during a police investigation and court trial for sending balloons across the border in April last year. The trial is continuing and no verdict has been issued.
On Monday and Tuesday, his group floated 20 huge balloons carrying leaflets critical of North Korea’s nuclear program and the Kim family's hereditary rule across the tense Korean border, Park said.
Park said the balloons also contained pictures of South Korea’s incoming conservative president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to show North Koreans the difference between the South’s election system and the North’s father-to-son successions. He said small books and USB sticks, which carry information about South Korea’s economic and cultural development, were also put in the balloons.
“North Korea has deceived us. It once said it would scrap its nukes but its leader Kim Jong Un and (his sister) Kim Yo Jong are now threatening to launch preemptive nuclear strikes on South Korea and the international community. I want to condemn such acts,” Park said by phone.
Police in Gyeonggi province, who have jurisdiction over the border areas where Park claimed to have launched the leaflets, said they were checking details about Park’s activities. They said they weren’t aware of Park’s reported leafleting in advance.
Park said some of his leaflets flown this week reached Pyongyang and other North Korean cities. Experts say many leaflets launched in the past landed in frontline South Korean areas. North Korea hasn't reacted to any leafleting this week.
North Korea is extremely sensitive about any outside attempt to undermine Kim Jong Un’s leadership and weaken his absolute control over the country’s 26 million people, most of whom have little access to foreign news. In 2020, North Korea blew up an empty, South Korean-built liaison office on its territory after making a furious response to South Korean civilian leafleting campaigns. In 2014, North Korea fired at propaganda balloons flying toward its territory and South Korea returned fire, though there were no casualties.
In late 2020, South Korean lawmakers supporting outgoing, liberal President Moon Jase-in’s appeasement policy on North Korea passed the anti-leafleting law, arguing it is meant to avoid unnecessarily provoking North Korea and ensure the safety of frontline South Korean residents.
Moon will be replaced by Yoon, a former top prosecutor who has promised to take a tougher line on North Korea, on May 10. Yoon’s party has harshly criticized the anti-leafleting law.
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Ottawa: In the middle of high job vacancies and historically low unemployment, Canada is facing record retirements from an aging labour force with the number of seniors citizens aged 65 years and older growing six times faster than children aged between 0-14 years, said Statistics Canada.
Releasing a second series of results from the 2021 Census which features the age structure of the Canadian population, the national statistical office on Wednesday said the working-age population, persons aged between 15 to 64 years, who produce the bulk of goods and services in the Canadian economy, has reached a turning point with 21.8 per cent in this population close to retirement, that is, aged between 55 to 64 years, which represented an all-time high in the history of Canadian censuses.
From 2016 to 2021, the number of persons aged 65 years and older rose 18.3 per cent to 7 million. This is the second largest increase in 75 years. In the same period, the number of children under the age of 15 years grew at a pace six times slower than the number of people aged 65 years and above, to total 6 million, Xinhua news agency reported.
These demographic shifts are due to low fertility (the total fertility rate at fewer than two children per woman for nearly 50 years), the gradual increase in life expectancy, and the fact that the large baby boom generation (born between 1946 and 1965) started turning 65 in 2011, the agency said.
According to Statistics Canada, immigration has a rejuvenating effect on the Canadian population, but this effect is not enough to stop the population aging process.
The Covid-19 pandemic slowed population growth in all age groups. However, it has not had a significant impact on population aging, Statistics Canada added.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Holocaust survivors across the world have united to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.
In a video released Thursday to mark Yom HaShoah -- Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day -- 100 Holocaust survivors asked people to stand with them and remember the Nazi genocide to avoid repeating the horrors of the past.
The 100 Words project video was released by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference. The group represents the world’s Jews in negotiating for compensation and restitution for victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs, and provides welfare for Holocaust survivors around the globe.
“The world is full of strife – from the pandemic to the crisis happening in Ukraine – on remembrance days like Yom HaShoah, it is so important to stop and reflect,” Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference, said in a statement.
“The call to action these survivors put forth today is not only one of remembrance, but one of action, a reminder that we do not have to be bystanders. We can all stand up in our own way and we can choose to not let our collective history repeat itself.”
The project is being released as Russia faces widespread revulsion and accusations of war crimes over attacks on civilians in its invasion of Ukraine. It also comes at a time when Holocaust survivors -- now in their 80s and 90s -- are dying, while studies show that younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, in which a third of the world's Jews were annihilated.
“If we do not remember them, we are murdering them twice because we have forgotten them. And we have forgotten the tragic travesty that was visited upon millions of people,” said Ginger Lane, a Holocaust survivor who along with her siblings was hidden in a fruit orchard near Berlin by non-Jews.
“It is important to remember because it is a part of our heritage and our legacy that we pass on to the younger generation,” said Lane, whose mother was killed at the Auschwitz death camp, and who has made it her lifelong mission to educate others.
“Holocaust denial, we know it has always existed, but it seems to be on the upswing and ... a huge number of young people don’t even know what the word Holocaust means … These young people are eager to move forward with their lives. But their lives today are shaped by the past. And they need to know what happened in the past.”
In a 50-state study of Millennials and Generation Z-age people in the U.S. in 2020, researchers found that 63% of respondents did not know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust and 48% could not name a single death camp or concentration camp.
The 100 Word Project statement by Holocaust survivors says:
“Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day
We all survived the Holocaust
We are here to give voice to the six million Jews who were murdered
We are a reminder unchecked hatred can lead to actions, actions to genocide
Just over 75 years ago, one-third of the world’s Jews were systematically murdered
Among them, over 1.5 million children were killed
in the name of indifference, intolerance, hate
Hatred for what was feared
Hatred for what was different
We must remember the past or it will become our future
On Holocaust Remembrance Day we ask the world to stand with us and remember.”
The annual remembrance known as Yom HaShoah is one of the most solemn on Israel's calendar, with the nation coming to a standstill during a two-minute siren on Thursday morning. According to the Hebrew calendar, Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising — the most significant act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Although the uprising ultimately failed, it is remembered in Israel as a symbol of strength and the struggle for freedom in the face of annihilation.
It means “resilience, tenacity, strength. It’s the hallmark of being a Holocaust survivor, the very concept of surviving, of everyday problems, of fighting until the end,” said Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Claims Conference.
“And for some people, unfortunately, the end was the gas chamber. For other people the end was the Warsaw ghetto, where a very small group of people who weren’t well-equipped held out for nearly a month,” Schneider said.
"And that’s why it’s such an important day in Israel, and around the world for the Jewish community because it symbolizes the fight of certainly the Jewish people, but of any people facing this type of incredible adversity.”
The Claims Conference is working with its partners, among them the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, to get as many Holocaust survivors out of Ukraine as possible. Thousands of people have been killed and more than five million have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24.
Holocaust survivors from Canada, England, France, Germany, Israel, the United States and Ukraine were part of the video statement.
“Survivors from many different countries and languages who have vastly different persecution experiences -- some were in concentration camps, some were in ghettos, some fled, some were in hiding,” Schneider said.
“And yet they come together to speak in one voice of the hope for the future.”
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Srinagar: Former IAS officer Shah Faesal, who was the first UPSC topper from Jammu and Kashmir, on Wednesday dropped hints about his return to government service in some form.
In a series of tweets, Faisal spoke about his idealism letting him down in 2019 when he resigned from government service to join politics.
“Eight months of my life (Jan 2019-Aug 2019) created so much baggage that I was almost finished. While chasing a chimera, I lost almost everything that I had built over the years. Job. Friends. Reputation. Public goodwill. But I never lost hope. My idealism had let me down,” he tweeted.
“But I had faith in myself. That I would undo the mistakes I had made. That life would give me another chance. A part of me is exhausted with the memory of those 8 months and wants to erase that legacy. Much of it is already gone. Time will mop off the rest In believe,” he added.
Although Faesal did not spell out what he meant by “another chance”, speculation has been rife here over the past one year that he might return to government service either as an IAS officer or in some advisory role to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
“Just thought of sharing that life is beautiful. It is always worth giving ourselves another chance. Setbacks make us stronger. And there is an amazing world beyond the shadows of the past. I turn 39 next month. And I’m really excited to start all over again,” he wrote.
There was an outpouring of support for Faesal from his friends and former Civil services colleagues.
Faesal, who topped the UPSC examination in 2009, resigned from service in January 2019, citing “rising intolerance” in the country.
He floated his own political party — Jammu and Kashmir People’s Movement — in March that year and had plans to contest assembly elections which were to be held.
He was arrested in the wake of abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in August that year.
However, after his release, Faesal gave up on politics and started dropping hints of making a coming back.
He has been an ardent supporter, on the social media, of the present government’s policies. Faesal has been often sharing speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on his Twitter handle.
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Bengaluru Rural: Tense situation prevailed at a university campus in Karnataka after a foreign student fell to her death, police said on Thursday, adding that security has been tightened to avoid any untoward acts of violence.
The incident took place at 11 p.m. on Wednesday night at the Gitam University located in the Bengaluru Rural district, police sources said.
Haseena, a 24-year-old student from Uganda enrolled in the final year of an engineering course, died after falling from the sixth floor of the residential facility.
Soon after the news spread in the campus that Haseena had committed suicide, a group of students vandalised the college and hostel buildings, including smashing of window panes and breaking of cots.
In a short time, the campus had turned into a war zone, witnesses said.
The police rushed to the spot and controlled the situation after carrying out a lathi charge against the agitating students.
The police sources said the victim accidentally slipped and fell while she was trying to pick up a clothing item that had fallen on a sheet at the edge of the building.
Although she was immediately rushed to a hospital, Haseena succumbed to her injuries on the way.
Her body has been kept at a private hospital in Doddaballapur.
Students from across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and also abroad are currently studying engineering in the campus.
Earlier, there was a dispute between students from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for a week.
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It was another in a long string of nights when a Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher dug an early hole from which his teammates couldn’t extricate themselves.
Vladimir Gutierrez needed a lighted miner’s helmet, a GPS and a Sherpa guide to locate home plate. And he never did find it Wednesday night in Great American Ball Park.
Gutierrez gave up six runs on five hits and a career-most six walks in four innings. And it led to an 8-5 loss to the San Diego Padres, Cincinnati’s 13th defeat in its last 14 games.
And the Reds starting staff’s earned run average crept ever closer to 8.00, by far the worst of all major league teams by more than a point.
The 3-15 Reds have gone 18 games without a single quality start (six innings, three or fewer runs).
In stark contrast, the Padres have had 10 quality starts in their first 19 games.
They didn’t get one Wednesday night, but rookie MacKenzie Gore, making his third major league start, came as close as a pitcher can come.
He pitched five innings and held the Reds to one run and five hits while walking two and striking out 10.
It all added up to San Diego’s fifth straight win over the Reds this season and its 11th win over the Reds in 12 games the last two years.
There was one glimmer of positivity on another mostly dismal night for the Reds in near-empty GABP.
Cincinnati native and Moeller High School graduate Phillip Diehl was called up from Class AAA Louisville on Tuesday night.
He made his Reds’ debut Wednesday glittery and glorious. He pitched two perfect innings, six up and six down, with two strikeouts.
Gutierrez started with style, a 1-2-3 first inning.
And the Reds made noise in the first against Gore. Jonathan India and Brandon Drury opened with singles.
After Tommy Pham struck out, Joey Votto walked to fill the bases with one out. But Kyle Farmer struck out and Nick Senzel grounded out.
And that’s when composure, command and control abandoned Gutierrez. He walked the bases loaded in the second with one out. He escaped with only one run. a sacrifice fly by Luis Campusano for a 1-0 Padres lead.
It all came apart in the third when the first four Padres hit safely and four runs crossed the plate.
Trent Grisham led with a triple and Jake Cronenworth blooped a single to center to make it 2-0. Manny Machado blooped a single to center and Jurickson Profar launched a three-run home run.
Jurickson hit four home runs last season and Wednesday’s three-run rip was his fifth in San Diego’s 19th game. And it pushed the Padres ahead, 5-0.
The Reds pushed a run across in their third on Pham’s single and a two-out double by Kyle Farmer. Pham was called out at home, but the Reds challenged the call, and he was ruled safe.
San Diego retrieved the run in the fifth when they filled the bases with no outs. Luis Cessa replaced Gutierrez and Eric Hosmer singled home a run. Further damage was averted when the Reds turned an 8-2-5 double play on a fly ball to center fielder Senzel.
University of Dayton product Craig Stammen replaced Gore in the sixth and the Reds threatened to get back into the game.
They loaded the bases with no outs in a strange manner. Farmer doubled and Senzel reached on catcher’s interference, the second time in two nights and the ninth time for his career.
Manager David Bell, sensing the opportunity to scramble back into the game, sent up three straight pinch-hitters. Jake Fraley batted for Aristides Aquino (23 strikeouts in 40 at bats this season) and was hit by a pitch, filling the bases.
Tyler Naquin batted for Aramis Garcia and struck out. Colin Moran batted for newly-acquired Matt Reynolds and lifted a sacrifice fly to make it 6-2. It ended with only one run when India struck out.
The Reds crept to within three in the seventh when Pham barely cleared the left field wall with his third home run, all three against the Padres, his former team, and it was 6-3.
After striking out with the bases loaded in the first inning, Farmer banged three straight doubles, including one with two outs in the seventh. Senzel, though, couldn’t get him home when he grounded out.
Alexis Diaz trudged to the mound for the seventh, carrying a 0.00 earned run average. Eric Hosmer ruined that quickly, launching a home run that had more hang time than a Bryson DeChambeau tee shot that landed halfway up the right field seats and it was 7-3.
The Padres added a run in the ninth against Dauri Moreta on a hit by pitch and Machado’s double to make it 8-3.
Brandon Drury crushed a home run in the bottom of the ninth. Pham walked and scored on Farmer’s fourth double to pull the Reds within three runs. When Senzel walked, the Reds had the tying run at the plate.
That forced Padres manager Bob Melvin to bring in closer Taylor Rogers, a left-hander, to face left-hander Jake Fraley.
It ended on one pitch, a shallow fly ball and Rogers had his seventh save in seven appearances.
Amazingly, although the Reds scored five runs, they were 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11.
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Hyderabad: Lashing out at the Centre for asking the States to reduce VAT (value-added tax) on fuel, Telangana Industry and Commerce Minister KT Rama Rao on Wednesday demanded the central government to scrap the Cess on petrol and diesel across the country.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader held the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Centre responsible for the rising prices of petrol and diesel.
“Fuel prices have shot up because of NPA (non-performing asset) Central government. Name calling states for not reducing VAT even though we never increased it; is this the cooperative federalism you are talking about Narendra Modi ji?. Telangana has not increased VAT on fuel since 2014 and rounded off only once,” Rao tweeted.
“We do not get 41 per cent of our rightful share because of the Cess imposed by your government. In the form of Cess, you are looting 11.4 per cent from the state and we are getting only 29.6 per cent for FY23. Please scrap Cess so we can give Petrol at Rs 70 and Diesel at Rs 60 all over India. One Nation – One Price?” added KTR.
In view of the increasing COVID cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a meeting with the Chief Ministers of all the states via video conferencing and discussed various issues.
The Prime Minister called upon opposition-ruled states to follow the Centre’s decision by reducing taxes on petrol and diesel to provide relief to the people from the price hike.
“In order to reduce the burden of rising petrol and diesel prices, the central government reduced the excise duty last November. We had urged the states too to reduce their taxes. Some states reduced the tax and provided benefits to the consumers but some did not do so,” said PM Modi in the meeting.
Naming opposition parties ruled states, PM Modi said, “Maharashtra, West Bengal, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Jharkhand, and Tamil Nadu did not follow the advice of central government and people in these states are burdened with price rise.”
“I request these states to do now what they should have done in November. By reducing the VAT you can lower the burden faced by the residents,” he added.
The central government in November had reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 respectively. Following the Center’s decision, 25 states and Union Territories, mostly ruled by BJP or their allies had reduced VAT on petrol and diesel to give relief to consumers.
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It will be frosty to begin today, but otherwise it will be partly sunny and cool today, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
There is a Freeze Warning in effect for Champaign County from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. due to expected sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 degrees.
There is a Frost Advisory in effect for Clark, Darke, Greene and Miami counties from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. due to expected temperatures as low as 33 degrees.
Frosty and freezing conditions could damage or kill sensitive plants, as well as possible damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Highs will be around 59 degrees today.
It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a slight chance of rain after midnight. Lows will be around 41 degrees.
Friday will be mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain in the morning and late in the evening, which will change to a chance of rain throughout the night.
Temperatures will be a little warmer, with a high around 63 degrees and low around 49 degrees.
To begin Saturday, there will be a chance of rain which will gradually rise throughout the day, with showers being likely by early evening.
There will also be a slight chance of thunderstorms to begin the day and the evening which will carry into Saturday night.
Overnight on Saturday it will be rainy with a chance of thunderstorms, especially after midnight.
Rain and storms will start to weaken around dawn on Sunday, with the NWS predicting showers will gradually trail off during the day.
Temperatures will be warm on Saturday, with highs around 70 degrees that will fall to a low around 59 degrees overnight.
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Guwahati: The lawyers of Independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani, who is now under five-day police custody in Assam’s Barpeta district, said on Wednesday that they would move the sessions court on Thursday seeking bail for the Dalit activist.
Mevani’s advocate Angshuman Bora said that he, accompanied by other lawyers, would move the district sessions court on Thursday with a bail plea.
Meanwhile, Congress leaders on Wednesday announced to stage a sit-in against the arrest of Mevani, who had earlier pledged outside support to the party, in all 34 districts of the state on Thursday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit Assam to kick-start a slew of projects.
On Tuesday, Mevani was sent to five-day police custody after his bail petition was rejected by Barpeta’s Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM).
Earlier, soon after the CJM’s court in Kokrajhar district granted him bail on Monday, six days after he was arrested by Assam police from his home state in Gujarat in connection with an “objectionable” tweet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he was re-arrested by the Assam police on different charges, including “outraging the modesty of a lady police officer”.
The Gujarat legislator was arrested following a complaint filed by an Assam BJP leader seeking action against him under the IT Act.
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New Delhi: If you thought Wednesday was cruelly hot, wait! Maximum temperatures are set to rise by about 2 degrees Celsius very likely over most parts of northwest India during next three days
India Meteorological Department (IMD) said: “Heat wave conditions would continue over Vidarbha, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh during next five days, over Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, interior Gangetic West Bengal and interior Odisha till April 30, over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi till May 1, Bihar till April 29, over Chhattisgarh during April 28-30, and northern parts of Gujarat on April 28.”
On Wednesday, heat wave conditions prevailed in some parts of Gangetic West Bengal and in isolated pockets over Bihar, western Rajasthan, Odisha, Vidarbha and Saurashtra Kutch.
Across these states, maximum temperatures ranged between 43 degrees Celsius and 45.6 degrees Celsius (at Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, followed by 45.5 degrees Celsius at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh), IMD data showed.
Under the influence of a fresh Western Disturbance, light/moderate isolated rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm/lightning/gusty winds (speed reaching 30-40 kmph) are very likely over Jammu-Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, and Himachal Pradesh during April 28 and May 1 and over Uttarakhand during April 29 and May 1. Isolated hailstorms are also likely over Jammu-Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh on April 29 and over Uttarakhand on April 30 and May 1.
Very light isolated rainfall with dust storms/thunderstorms is likely over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh on April 29 and over Rajasthan on both April 29 and 30.
Meanwhile, under the influence of another fresh Western Disturbance likely to affect northwest India from May 2, light/moderate scattered to fairly widespread rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm/lightning likely over Western Himalayan Region during May 2-4.
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New Delhi: Amid the debate over Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country, Senior Congress leader and former union minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said the government should clearly give the definition of UCC.
“They should tell what is Uniform Civil Code? In the Constitution, there is a mention of UCC that there will be an attempt to apply a uniform civil code but a clear definition is never clear and what will be the impact. The government never said it will implement the Hindu code when it talks about UCC. The better practice of any religion is applied whether it is Islam, Christianity or other religion. They should tell what is the definition of UCC then only we can react,” Khurshid told ANI.
The Congress leader raised doubts about the working style of the government alleging that it has spread discrimination in the society and said there is a possibility of similar treatment in the case of UCC.
When asked about the situation inside the Congress party and its future course of action, Khurshid however, batted for the Gandhi family by calling them an important centre for the Congress party and its future.
“Nobody knows the future but the present reality is that Congress party’s stability dependent on faith which we have in Gandhi family. We do not hesitate to say that today Gandhi family is an important centre for Congress and its future,” Khurshid said.
Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Minority Welfare and Wakf Affairs Danish Ansari said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state will take steps towards implementing the Uniform Civil Code by holding discussions under quami chaupal.
Notably, the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh has said a “high-powered” expert committee will be formed to prepare a draft Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for the state.
Further, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday also said that the issue of implementation of UCC is being examined in the state.
Meanwhile, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Tuesday termed the Uniform Civil Code ‘an unconstitutional and anti-minorities move’, and called the rhetoric for bringing the law an attempt by Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Central governments to divert attention from inflation, economy and rising unemployment.
AIMPLB appealed to the Centre to not undertake the Uniform Civil Code.
The Uniform Civil Code is a proposal in India to formulate and implement personal laws of citizens which apply to all citizens equally regardless of their religion, sex, gender and sexual orientation. Currently, the personal laws of various communities are governed by their religious scriptures.
The code comes under Article 44 of the Constitution which lays down that the state shall endeavour to secure a Uniform Civil Code for the citizens throughout the territory of India.
Notably, in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 2019 Lok Sabha election manifesto, BJP has promised the implementation of UCC if it comes to power.
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Makkah: The doors of Holy Kaaba in Masjid-e-Haram were opened on Wednesday. On the occasion, Senegal President Macky Sall who is performing Umrah has been invited inside the holy place.
Many other dignitaries were also seen entering the Kaaba while others were heard chanting “Allahu Akbar”.
Meanwhile, paramilitary forces and other security officials were present around the Kaaba.
What is Ghusl-e-Kaaba?
Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) washed Kaaba after entering the Holy place during the conquest of Makkah. Since then, the ceremonial washing of Kaaba has become a custom.
It has become customary to wash the Kaaba twice a year. It is washed first in Muharram, the first month of the Hijri year, and the second at the beginning of the month of Shaaban.
On this occasion, the Kaaba is washed. White clothes dipped in rose and musk perfumes are used to clean the interior walls of the holy place whereas, the floor is cleaned with Zamzam water mixed with rose perfume
The Kiswa of the Kaaba is changed once a year on Arafat Day, Dhul Al-Hijjah 9.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) recently told a far-right Catholic media organization that “Satan’s controlling the church” of Christians who provide aid to undocumented immigrants.
The extremist lawmaker, whose website boasts of her “strong Christian faith,” sat down for an interview Thursday with right-wing activist Michael Voris, founder of Church Militant.
In a clip from the interview released by the group Right Wing Watch, Voris asked Greene about Catholic organizations in the U.S. that use federal funding to help resettle undocumented immigrants and refugees.
“I thought we had a separation of church and state,” Greene said in response.
“What it is, is Satan’s controlling the church,” she continued. “The church is not doing its job, and it’s not adhering to the teachings of Christ, and it’s not adhering to what the word of God says we’re supposed to do and how we’re supposed to live.”
She added that Christian groups that say you should take care of migrants are “destroying our laws” and taking advantage of Americans.
“Yes, we are supposed to love one another, but their definition of what love one another means, means destroying our laws,” she said. “It means completely perverting what our Constitution says. It means taking unreal advantage of the American taxpayer. And it means pushing a globalist policy on the American people and forcing America to become something that we are not supposed to be.”
She also suggested that the U.S. government should sever foreign aid to the home countries of undocumented immigrants who are “illegally invading.”
“We should hold those countries accountable,” she said. “‘Oh, I’m sorry, Guatemala, you’re not getting a check this year because you’ve sent X number of thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of people to illegally invade our country as if they’re an army.”
Greene’s comments earned a rebuke from the Catholic League, an organization that defends the religious and civil rights of Catholics.
In a statement, the group’s president, Bill Donohue, called Greene “a disgrace” and said she needed to apologize immediately.
“She had plenty of opportunities to make rational criticisms of the agency, but instead she slandered the entire Catholic Church,” he said. “We are contacting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy about this matter. He’s got a loose cannon on his hands.”
Voris, a devout supporter of former President Donald Trump, has claimed that Catholics support men like Trump because they “no longer see any trace of masculinity in their religious leaders.” In 2020, he warned that not voting for Trump would result in Christians being “identified, hunted down, declared ‘illegal’ for some made-up reason.”
“Don’t be expressing your regrets as you’re herded onto the trains heading for the camps,” he wrote.
In Church Militant’s write-up of Greene’s interview, it declared she was “universally despised by the Marxist Left for her straight shooting and belief in Christ” and claimed that was the reason Greene’s critics are “using trumped-up accusations about Jan. 6” to block her from running for reelection.
The day after the interview, Greene testified in a hearing about whether she is qualified to run for reelection in Georgia. She is accused of assisting the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which could be considered a violation of the 14th Amendment prohibition on members of Congress taking part in an “insurrection or rebellion.”
She faces a lawsuit from a group of her constituents represented by Free Speech for People, an organization that advocates for fair elections.
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