Новости за 04.03.2024

Eleven people were hurt after falling from a border wall in San Diego in a single day, the latest injuries after the barrier was heightened to deter illegal crossings. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports 10 people were hospitalized with “minor to moderate” injuries after falling off the barrier Saturday. The falls come days after a man believed to be in his late 20s died trying to get around the wall. In 2019, the Trump administration began replacing the barriers with a 30-foot wall. San Diego hospitals... Читать дальше...

Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically-driven charges over the last three years as part of the authorities' relentless crackdown on dissent. The Viasna human rights center said Monday that at least 4,690 people have been convicted on politically-motivated charges since the August 2020 presidential election that fueled massive protests to which the authorities responded with brutal repressions. Viasna’s representative Pavel Sapelka noted that the number of people who faced persecution... Читать дальше...

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The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict says there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape, “sexualized torture,” and other cruel and inhuman treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7 that left about 1,200 people dead and some 250 others taken hostage. There are also “reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing,” said Pramila Patten, who visited Israel and the West Bank from Jan. 29 to Feb. 14 with a nine-member team. Читать дальше...

Mexico’s president has acknowledged for the first time that seven National Guard recruits drowned in an army training accident in February. It was the worst military training accident in recent memory in Mexico. The drownings on Feb. 20 raised questions about the president’s insistence that guard members receive military training and be under army command, despite the fact they do civilian law enforcement work. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said a total of 11 recruits had been swept away by the waves and four survived.

France has become the only country to explicitly guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution and other Europeans wonder whether a rollback of rights like the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision could happen in their countries. Abortion is broadly legal across Europe and governments have been gradually expanding abortion rights, though in some places they are threatened. Women can terminate pregnancies in more than 40 European nations from Portugal to Russia, with varying rules on how late in a pregnancy it is allowed. Читать дальше...

Gangs in Haiti are increasingly powerful, and they've been attacking prisons and the main international airport. They've forced businesses and schools to close. Hundreds of people have fled. Heavy gunfire echoes in the capital every day. The director of Haiti’s National Police told local Radio Caraïbes last week that the first round of attacks left many police unable to respond. Government officials imposed a three-day nightly curfew that began Monday in an attempt to curb the violence. Heavily armed... Читать дальше...

The last home of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the deep-sea explorer who tragically died in the June 2023 Titan submersible accident, has just gone up for sale.

Nine people are dead following a van crash on a highway in a largely Indigenous area on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo say that the van carrying the victims apparently collided with a truck. The crash occurred Monday in an area about 75 miles or 120 kilometers south of the resort of Tulum. The van burst into flames after the collision Another six people suffered serious injuries. They were all apparently passengers aboard the van. The dead included three minors. Читать дальше...

Two people are under arrest in North Carolina for poaching hundreds of Venus flytraps. The plants grow naturally in the eastern part of the state. Officers with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission obtained arrest warrants for the two people accused of stealing nearly 600 of the rare plants from Boiling Spring Lakes. Stealing the plants is a felony. Wildlife officers responded to a complaint last month about two people digging for flytraps in the area. The two were stopped at a local... Читать дальше...

Applebee's closed a Bay Area outpost. But there are still 18 more in the area.

In a blow to the Biden administration’s effort to increase corporate transparency, an Alabama federal district judge has ruled that the Treasury Department cannot require small business owners to report details on their owners and others who benefit from the business. Late Friday, U.S. District Judge Liles C. Burke decided that the Corporate Transparency Act, a landmark U.S. anti-money laundering law enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2021, is unconstitutional on... Читать дальше...

You can find a decent domicile priced below $100,000. Plenty of sweet little communities offer nice dwellings for less than six figures.

These popular Berkeley bagels are coming to SF this spring with 3 new shops.

A spiritual sanctuary once used as a convent and now a luxury residence in Butte, MT, is the week's most popular home.

Morgan had to be separated from a Colombian player before a corner kick.

On "Fixer to Fabulous," Dave and Jenny Marrs renovate a 1980s home for Dave's aunt and uncle, who are moving to town from Minnesota.

This weekend's suspension of a troubled congressional campaign in Ohio has eased the minds of establishment Republicans hopeful they can flip a Democratic seat this fall by defeating the longest-serving woman in Congress. J.R. Majewski paused his campaign Saturday in the race for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District. It marked the latest turn in a rollercoaster of a GOP primary for the seat held by U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, among the year's most vulnerable Democrats. The National Republican Congressional... Читать дальше...

Children’s author Kate DiCamillo, known for “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Because of Winn-Dixie,” has a new book debuting this week called “Ferris.” It has all the hallmarks of an inventive, funny DiCamillo story, with well-drawn characters. But for the first time, its nucleus is a happy family. DiCamillo tells The Associated Press that after healing some of the trauma of her own childhood, and finally being able to receive the love of fans, she was ready to write a story about pure love. It's a busy year for the 59-year-old... Читать дальше...

A U.S. Postal Service plan to downsize a regional mail hub in Reno and move package and letter processing to Sacramento, California, has officials in Nevada worried about delays and mail-in ballot handling. A bipartisan trio of Nevada congressional delegates are among those who say mail service would be snarled by the hours-long roundtrip drive over the Sierra Nevada. Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar says processing ballots in California before returning them over the snowy mountains to be counted... Читать дальше...

One person was killed in the pursuit and shooting early Monday.

U.N. envoy says there are "reasonable grounds" to believe Hamas raped women during Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

What does Marco Luciano's immediate Giants future look like?

Swiss police say the 15-year-old suspect in the stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in Zurich over the weekend had appeared in a video expressing solidarity with the banned Islamic State group and called himself as a “soldier” in its self-described caliphate. Police say authorities are investigating whether the unidentified teen, a Swiss national, acted alone. Police say in one video, the suspect referred to the attack in Arabic and called for a “battle against the Jews." Police have stepped up security... Читать дальше...

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