Новости за 25.03.2023

Venezuela’s attorney general says 21 people, including senior officials in President Nicolás Maduro's government and business leaders, have been arrested in connection with a corruption scheme involving international oil sales. Prosecutor Tarek William Saab said the scheme involved selling oil through Venezuela’s cryptocurrency oversight agency in parallel to the state-run PDVSA. The oversight agency allegedly signed contracts for the loading of crude “without any type of administrative control or guarantees,” violating legal regulations... Читать дальше...

Canada has pledged to step up spending to improve water quality in the Great Lakes. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement Friday after meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. Some members of the U.S. Congress and advocacy groups had complained that Canada has done too little to help clean up the lakes, which suffer from industrial toxins, invasive species, harmful algae and other problems. Trudeau says his government will spend $420 million, or about $306 million in U.S. dollars, over the next decade on Great Lakes cleanup. Читать дальше...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a bill allowing firing squads to execute death row inmates when lethal injection drugs are unavailable. The move makes Idaho the fifth U.S. state to authorize the execution method. The new law will give the Department of Correction up to five days after a death warrant is issued to determine if lethal injection is available. If not, the execution must be done by firing squad. The Death Penalty Information Center says Idaho joins Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah... Читать дальше...

North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell says he'll run for governor in 2024. He'll likely be required to best Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to earn the Republican nomination. Folwell announced his decision at Saturday’s Republican Party convention for Forsyth County. He told The Associated Press he would bring competence to operating government and look out for working people if elected. The state constitution prevents Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper from seeking a third consecutive term. Robinson has scheduled... Читать дальше...

Syrian opposition activists say Iran-backed fighters are on alert in eastern Syria, a day after U.S. forces launched retaliatory airstrikes on sites in the war-torn country. The airstrikes came after a suspected Iran-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans on Thursday. The situation was calm Saturday following a day in which rockets were fired at bases housing U.S. troops in eastern Syria. The rockets came after U.S. airstrikes on three different areas in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour... Читать дальше...

Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94. Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation say Moore died Friday at his home in Hawaii. Moore made his famous observation three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It's now known as “Moore’s Law." Moore later became known for his philanthropy when he and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

The electricity shortages that plague many of Africa’s 54 countries are a serious drain on the continent’s economic growth. In recent years South Africa’s power generation has become so inadequate that the continent’s most developed economy must cope with rolling power blackouts of eight to 10 hours per day. Africa’s sprawling cities have erratic supplies of electricity but large swaths of rural areas across the continent have no power at all. According to the International Energy Agency, in 2021... Читать дальше...

An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania Friday killed two people and left nine people missing. West Reading Borough Police Department Chief of Police Wayne Holben says several other people were injured by the explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The explosion just before 5 p.m. sent a plume of black smoke into the air, destroying one building at the facility and damaging a neighboring building with apartments. Holden says the cause of the explosion remains under investigation. Читать дальше...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen worked against the clock with other regulators, lawmakers and business leaders to come up with a plan that would prevent a full blown banking crisis. She coordinated the government’s emergency response after two bank failures and a near third over one week, then testified on Capitol Hill over the administration’s efforts to prevent a wider financial catastrophe. Yellen now faces a test of whether she can leverage her experience to lead an outcome that does not include... Читать дальше...

Storms producing tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and hail up to the size of golf balls are moving through several southern states with widespread damage reported Friday night in Mississippi from a large tornado. The National Weather Service in Jackson confirmed a tornado caused damage in Silver City and Rolling Fork and was still moving. Rolling Fork mayor Eldridge Walker tells WLBT-TV that he was unable to get out of his damaged home soon after the tornado hit the town because power lines were down. Читать дальше...

Police in South Texas say that two migrants have been found dead and at least 10 have been hospitalized after authorities received a call that they were “suffocating” in a freight train car traveling near the U.S.-Mexico border. The Uvalde Police Department says Border Patrol was informed of the phone call and able to stop the train Friday. Police say about 15 migrants were found inside. The condition of all of those hospitalized was not immediately known. University Health in San Antonio tweeted that it had received two male patients... Читать дальше...

The Los Angeles Unified School District and union leaders say they have reached a deal on a new contract for workers after a strike that shut down the nation’s second-largest school system for three days. The agreement includes a pay raise for workers such as bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers, special education assistants and other support staff. Union leaders from Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union say that will raise the average pay for those workers significantly. The deal must still be voted on by the full union.

Investigators said Friday that a passenger on a business jet diverted to Connecticut was fatally injured when the aircraft violently bucked up and down after pilots disconnected a system used to stabilize the plane.

American Airlines will suspend some flights to Europe this spring because of a delay in getting new planes from Boeing. American said Friday that it will suspend flights between Philadelphia and Madrid for a few weeks in May and early June. The airline says it's making the call now while it can still rebook passengers on other flights. Boeing has been prevented from delivering new 787s, a plane it calls the Dreamliner, because of production flaws. Federal regulators recently gave the go-ahead for Boeing to resume deliveries... Читать дальше...

The FireWolves have lost eight straight games to fall to 2-10. They moved Downing to Toronto in exchange for a second-round pick in this year's draft.

It was the stuff of novels: For years, a con artist plagued the publishing industry, impersonating editors and agents to pull off hundreds of literary heists. But the manuscripts obtained from high-profile authors were never resold or leaked, rendering the thefts all the more perplexing. Thursday's sentencing of Filippo Bernardini in Manhattan federal court brought the saga to an end and, with it, finally some answers. After pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud in January, Bernardini was sentenced to time served, avoiding prison. Читать дальше...

The last time Butker was seen in uniform, he kicked a 27-yard field goal with eight seconds left to give the Chiefs a 38-35 victory over the Eagles in February in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. will respond “forcefully” to protect its personnel after U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. The U.S. strikes followed a attack Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone that killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria. “The United States does not, does not seek conflict with Iran,” Biden said in Ottawa, Canada, where he is on a state visit. But he said... Читать дальше...

The immigration deal announced by U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aims to shut down a process that has enabled tens of thousands of immigrants from across the world to move between the countries and pursue asylum cases without going through an official border crossing. The two leaders released the details Friday in Ottawa. Migrants used a remote road outside Champlain, New York, for years to reach Canadian soil, and then were allowed to stay while asylum cases were pending. Читать дальше...

The American Civil Liberties Union says that parents and children likely to be affected by a Nebraska bill to ban gender-affirming treatments for minors are preparing for a legal fight if it's enacted. That comes after the bill cleared its first and toughest hurdle this week when lawmakers advanced it on a largely party-line vote. The bill would outlaw gender-affirming therapies such as hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgery for those 18 and younger. It would also ban Nebraska doctors... Читать дальше...