A 7-year-old girl's plea to help keep kids in her neighborhood safe was answered by officials in one Long Island town.
Government forces killed five suspected rebels, including a teenager, in gunfights in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said Sunday. The back-to-back clashes began late Saturday after troops cordoned off two villages in southern Kashmir’s Shopian and Bijbehara areas on intelligence that anti-India militants were hiding there, police said. Three militants were killed and two soldiers wounded in Shopian, Inspector General Vijay Kumar told reporters, and said troops recovered a rifle and a pistol from the site.
Several opposition leaders are barred from Sunday's poll in a country once seen as a model for Africa.
Apr. 11—So, while I was reporting on the various activities planned by local churches for Easter, out of a dozen church leaders I queried, I only heard back from two. Now, I know it's likely because they were very, very busy during Holy Week, but as I've mentioned previously, I get really uneasy when I get snubbed by church folk. In my paranoid delusions, I imagine my picture hanging in ...
Apr. 11—NEWARK, N.J. — Alex McKenney tossed a two-hitter in Game 1, four Maine pitchers combined on a four-hitter in the second game, and the Black Bears collected 24 hits while earning 10-1 and 14-2 victories Saturday against New Jersey Institute of Technology. Maine (11-8, 7-5 America East) opened the doubleheader with four runs in the top of the first inning, and Jake Marquez hit a ...
Apr. 11—100 Years Ago April 11, 1921 Snow fell at Braddock Heights at times yesterday afternoon and again last night. The fall each time was simply flurries. Other sections of the county also reported flurries shortly before midnight. The first banquet of the Brunswick Chamber of Commerce, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad n the Young Men's Christian Association building, on Potomac avenue, ...
Apr. 11—AUBURN — The recycling industry changed forever in early 2018, when a Chinese ban on the import of most plastics and other recyclable materials threw global recycling markets into turmoil. In Maine, the lack of a market and rising costs led several municipalities to debate the merits of longstanding recycling programs, and the resulting conversations left consumers wondering if it was ...
Monitors report another "explosive event" at a volcano on the now ash-covered Caribbean island of St Vincent.
Latino-owned Fuse Media has marked its first foray into the global media marketplace on the eve of MipTV with licensing deals to language learning platform Lingopie and South Africa-based Telkom SA. “Today’s licensing agreements signify the early innings of Fuse Media’s global expansion,” said Fuse Media head of digital, Patrick Courtney, who added: “It is […]
"Who's next?" asked the "Weekend Update" co-anchor. "The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein?"
Once seemingly untouchable, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has endured a tumultuous run that saw his Chinese e-commerce giant hit with a record 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) antitrust fine on Saturday, resolving one key uncertainty even as others persist for himself and his business empire. The reversal of fortune for the 56-year-old Ma, who has all-but-disappeared from public view since an October speech blasting China's regulatory system, has been striking for an entrepreneur whose transformation of commerce in China - and his relentless optimism - commanded cult-like reverence. Ma, who stepped down from Alibaba in 2019 but looms large in the corporate psyche and in the eyes of investors, had revelled in pushing boundaries with audacious statements, taking a high profile even as most Chinese peers kept their heads down.
United Arab Emirates airline flydubai said on Sunday its 14 Boeing 737 MAX jets were not affected by a potential electrical problem in certain jets. Other airlines withdrew dozens of 737 MAX aircraft from service on Friday after Boeing warned of a possible electrical insulation fault in the recent production of some aircraft. The new problem, regulators said, involved the electrical grounding - or connections designed to maintain safety in the event of a surge of voltage - inside a backup power control system.
Counterterrorism police killed one of Pakistan's most wanted militants in a shootout in the garrison city of Rawalpindi overnight, a police official said Sunday. Officer Kashif Hussain said three of the militant's accomplices escaped during the exchange of fire, leaving their weapons at the scene: two pistols, an assault rifle and ammunition. Hussain said Niaz was active with the Pakistani Taliban group Tahreek-e-Taliban in Punjab province in the Hazro area of the district of Attock.
"We always went out for the same reasons, to free Algeria, for a better Algeria, to let young people work, for children and youth, for the coming generation, Algeria belongs to them." Lynda, a protester, told Reuters.The protest movement, known as 'Hirak', brought tens of thousands of people to the streets each week for more than a year until the pandemic hit Algeria in early 2020, forcing them to stop.The 2019 protests prompted the military to oust veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika after two decades in power.Elected in December 2019, President Abelmadjid Tebboune has vowed to implement political and economic changes in a bid to put an end to the protest movement which demanded the departure of the whole ruling elite.Tebboune has set June 12 for early legislative elections, after announcing the dissolution of the lower house of parliament last month. The vote is part of political reforms promised by Tebboune.However, protesters have rejected the upcoming elections. Protester Chawaki told Reuters "nothing has changed, we have a president who belongs to the old regime... nothing has changed so people will keep protesting until we get a state of rights and a civil state, not a state governed by the army."
The comedian wishes other celebrities were as open as she was about the menopause
The star, who appeared on the seventh series of Big Brother in 2006, had anorexia.
European Union leaders no longer meet around a common oval summit table to broker their famed compromises. Lofty hopes that the crisis would encourage a new and tighter bloc to face a common challenge have given way to the reality of division: The pandemic has set member nation against member nation, and many capitals against the EU itself, as symbolized by the disjointed, virtual meetings the leaders now hold. Perhaps worse, some attack the very structures the EU built to deal with the pandemic.
Greenpeace has uncovered widespread use of illegal driftnets in the northwest Indian Ocean, which it says are decimating marine life in what is one of the world's most ecologically vulnerable fishing grounds. During two weeks at sea, the environmental organisation says it filmed seven ships within 20 square miles (50 sq km) using driftnets to catch tuna. "If yellowfin tuna continues to decrease at the current rate then food security in the region, as well as local economies is going to take a huge hit," Greenpeace said.
The interior secretary has announced the formation of a new unit to investigate the ‘epidemic’ of violence Deb Haaland announced the formation of the Missing & Murdered Unit just two weeks after being sworn in. Photograph: Reuters For 30 long years, Ana White has been searching for her sister, Andrea “Chick” White. The then 22-year-old Native mother of four, along with an eight-month-old baby, had traveled to Eureka, California, in July 1991 for a court date, after an auto accident. She was spotted hitchhiking home along a freeway near Blue Lake, in northern California. She has been missing ever since. White, who described her sister as a great mother and very giving person, has repeatedly prodded local law enforcement, who she said have largely given her “lip service”, and helped to spread awareness about the case through social media posts. But for three frustrating decades the situation has remained unchanged.Now, after the secretary of the interior, Deb Haaland, announced the formation of a new unit to investigate the “epidemic” of missing and murdered Native Americans, she said she has suddenly found herself with a renewed sense of hope.“It’s like, oh, suddenly I’m breathing. It’s like I’m being resuscitated,” said White, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. “If my feelings were to be visible, that’s what you’d see. Somehow, I’ve got this oxygen tank right here, and Deb Haaland put it on my side.”Haaland, the first Indigenous cabinet secretary in US history, announced the formation of the Missing & Murdered Unit (MMU) within the Bureau of Indian Affairs office of justice services earlier this month, just two weeks after being sworn in.In a statement, Haaland, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, described the violence against Native people as a “crisis that has been underfunded for decades”. People participate in a march in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, 14 February 2019, to call attention to missing and murdered Native American women and girls. Photograph: Ryan Hermens/AP “The new MMU unit will provide the resources and leadership to prioritize these cases and coordinate resources to hold people accountable, keep our communities safe, and provide closure for families,” she said. Activists and experts in the Native community told the Guardian that the formation of a unit poised to tackle this horrific epidemic of violence against Native people, especially women and girls, is an important and potentially game-changing development. But some also cautioned that this is also only the start of important work.Roxanne White, a survivor of human trafficking, a family member of missing and murdered Indigenous people and an activist, said she was excited that Haaland has this position and is leading this work. But, she said, moving forward she would like to see there be a real collaboration between officials and families within the new unit.“We are going to be the ones to guide this,” said White. “I really believe this, because we’re the ones that have been doing this work. We’ve been doing the searches; we’ve been the ones dealing with all of this stuff … The relationship between, you know, governmental, FBI, DoJ and families has to be stronger, and it has to be more meaningful and authentic.” White said she would also like to see the unit go beyond cold cases and current investigations and actually help to prevent these horrific tragedies through trauma-informed, culturally based wraparound services, including housing and drug and alcohol treatment.About 1,500 American Indian and Alaska Native people across the US are listed as missing in the National Crime Information Center, while thousands of other cases of murder and non-negligent homicide have been reported to the federal government’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. In 2008, the justice department found that Native women on some tribal lands were murdered at more than 10 times the national average.The new unit is expected to investigate unsolved cases as well as active missing and murdered investigations, and boost overall collaboration with such agencies as the FBI Forensic Laboratory and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. It is also expected to build on the work by Operation Lady Justice, a presidential taskforce launched in 2019 under the Trump administration to examine missing and murdered Native cases that has been criticized by some as being vague and uninformed. According to a statement out of the US Department of the Interior, the new effort “builds on that work by designating new leadership and support positions, including a unit chief responsible for stakeholder collaboration, continued policy development and overall performance of the unit”.Sarah Deer, a distinguished professor at the University of Kansas, who has written extensively about violence against Native Americans, said there were still many unknowns in terms of what this new unit will actually look like. She said it was important to make sure it doesn’t become some kind of “one size fits all plan”.“Oftentimes, the federal government and the federal courts tend to just lump us all into one category, when we have very, very, very small tribes and very, very large tribes, and the way that justice is going to be pursued in those kinds of differing tribes, we can’t have a one size fits all,” said Deer, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma.Deborah Maytubee Shipman, the director and founder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA, described Haaland as “our great hope”. She told the Guardian about the challenging experience of sitting down with a family whose 14-year-old daughter was found dead. When they went to identify her body, she had a severe head injury, said Maytubee Shipman. And yet no criminal charges were filed because officials determined she died of hypothermia.“The thing is, that won’t be the last time, but I hope it’s coming – I don’t say hope, I know that she’s going to do everything she can to stop that,” said Maytubee Shipman, a member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma.For Ana White, who said she still believes her sister is alive, the new unit could mean her sister’s case will get a fresh look. She said she hoped the FBI would get involved and uncover important things local law enforcement agents missed.“I believe that we’re going to take our case to them and they will come,” she said. “We’re going to be relentless on having Chick’s case looked at by them.”
Once seemingly untouchable, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has endured a tumultuous run that saw his Chinese e-commerce giant hit with a record 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) antitrust fine on Saturday, resolving one key uncertainty even as others persist for himself and his business empire. The reversal of fortune for the 56-year-old Ma, who has all-but-disappeared from public view since an October speech blasting China's regulatory system, has been striking for an entrepreneur whose transformation of commerce in China - and his relentless optimism - commanded cult-like reverence. Ma, who stepped down from Alibaba in 2019 but looms large in the corporate psyche and in the eyes of investors, had revelled in pushing boundaries with audacious statements, taking a high profile even as most Chinese peers kept their heads down.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Israel on Sunday on the first visit by a senior representative of the Biden administration, whose stance on Iran has worried Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Austin was due to meet Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz during the two-day visit, which officials said would include discussions of U.S. arms supplies to Israel. Washington has sought to reassure Israel on regional security issues while restarting talks - so far indirect and inconclusive - about a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal between major powers and Iran that the previous Trump administration quit.
Yahoo Home