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☆ With Government Relocated, Egypt Set to Unveil Overhaul of Downtown Cairo
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

The area, modelled on Paris in the 1860s, is filled with elegant but crumbling buildings constructed over the subsequent seven decades. The Sovereign Fund has already taken control of three prime properties in central Cairo, and received ownership of 11 former ministry buildings in a decree published this week in the official gazette. "Some of the buildings are already evacuated, but there is a mobilisation plan for relocating into concentrated locations for whoever is staying and not moving to the new capital," Soliman said. Work on the ground would begin "probably within the first half of this year," Soliman said. It would include a three-star Moxy hotel by Marriott, the first in Egypt, Soliman said.

Persons: Patrick Werr CAIRO, Ayman Soliman, Soliman, We're, Patrick Werr, Aidan Lewis, Alex Richardson Organizations: Sovereign Fund, Misr Insurance, Reuters, European Bank for Reconstruction, National Democratic Party, NDP, Marriott Locations: Paris, Cairo, Egypt

Agriculture has suffered losses of over $25 billion since the war began, Ukrainian grain trader association UGA estimates. Ukraine's grain exports so far in the 2023/24 season that started in July are running 28% below the year-earlier volume, according to agriculture ministry data. A new Black Sea shipping channel may offer a lifeline, like for Ukraine's depleted steel industry. An additional 943,000 tons should leave from Black Sea ports and 464,000 tons from the Danube by the month-end. A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa on Nov. 21 added to a series of attacks on Ukraine's Black Sea and Danube grain ports.

Persons: Stringer, Jean, Francois Lepy, Dmitry Skornyakov, Denys Marchuk, Skornyakov, Yuriy Stelmakh, Roman Gorobets, Soliman, Scott Wellcome, Pavel Polityuk, Gus Trompiz, Nigel Hunt, David Evans Organizations: REUTERS, Agriculture, UGA, Spike, Agrarian Council, FE ASTRA, Kremlin, Mediterranean, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia region, PARIS, Russia, UN, Geneva, Black, Russian, Odesa, Romania's Constanta, Brazil, Egypt, GoodMills, Kyiv, Paris, London

☆ Israel Accuses Freelance Photographers of Advance Knowledge of Oct. 7 Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Mark Landler | More About Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

“It is reckless to make those allegations, putting our journalists on the ground in Israel and Gaza at risk,” the statement said. The furor over the Gaza photographers is part of a broader information war that has raged alongside the actual war. But it said in a statement that it was no longer working with Mr. Eslaiah, who filed the earliest and most extensive photos of the attack. There were other red flags about Mr. Eslaiah. He said he had no advance knowledge of the attack and had no links to Hamas, despite the photo with Mr. Sinwar.

Persons: ”, “, Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Masoud, Masoud’s, photojournalists, Khan Younis, Eslaiah, Yahya Sinwar, Amit Segal, Sinwar, Israel, Soliman, Adolf Hitler, Hijjy, Iyad Abuheweila Organizations: The New York Times, Israel, The Associated Press, Reuters, Times, The Times, The, Associated Press, Ahli Arab Hospital, BBC, CNN, New York Times, Israel Defense Forces, Facebook Locations: Israel, Gaza, Kibbutz Kfar Azza, Ahli, Gaza City, Egypt, Israeli, Al, Cairo

Mapping Air and Ground Attacks in Israel and GazaIsrael and Hamas declared they were at war on Saturday after Hamas militants launched one of the largest assaults on Israel in 50 years. Where Hamas militants infiltrated Israel towns, and where Israel struck GazaHamas fired thousands of rockets toward Israeli cities, and Palestinian militants crossed into southern Israel, killing civilians and holding Israelis hostage. Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom, said it had received reports of Hamas rockets landing as far north as Tel Aviv. Plumes of flames and smoke rose above Gaza City as Israel retaliated, reducing multistory buildings to rubble. Soliman HijjyThe streets of Gaza City were largely empty as residents prepared for intensified Israeli airstrikes.

Persons: Israel, Daniel Hagari, Magen David Adom, Tamir Kalifa, Admiral Hagari Organizations: Hamas, Gaza, The New York Times Locations: Israel, Gaza Israel, Gaza, Tel Aviv, Sderot, Kfar Azza, Ashkelon, Ofakim, Gaza City, Egypt

☆ As the Number of Women in the N.F.L. Expands, So Does This Group Text
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Emmanuel Morgan | More About Emmanuel Morgan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I had really no concerns coming in into all the work that had been done to make sure that we left no stone unturned.”A group text is a lifeline. expanded the Rooney Rule — the mandate that forces teams to interview minority candidates for leadership positions — to include women. Three years ago, Raîche and Ameena Soliman, the Eagles’ director of personnel operations, started a group text through the messaging service WhatsApp to connect women in the N.F.L. They use the message chain to post jobs, celebrate promotions and ask questions about the dress code at certain events. The chat has ballooned to 129 people, including women in various non-coaching roles, as of August.

Persons: Raîche, Andrew Berry, Watson, Berry, “, ” Raîche, Rooney, —, Ameena Soliman Organizations: Eagles, Football Forum

Hemedti and Burhan have both excluded the idea of negotiating with each other in public comments since the fighting began. An aide to Hemedti did not respond to questions from Reuters about whether he was ready to negotiate or hold peace talks. "What are they going to talk about that wasn't on the table before the conflict started?" said the diplomat, adding that neither side could win a decisive military victory or control of all Sudan's territory. The RSF, which has bases across Sudan, has meanwhile depicted the army as "extremists", an apparent reference to the influence Hemedti says Islamists wield in the military.

☆ A 5,000-mile blanket of seaweed that can be seen from space threatens the beaches of Florida
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This year's seaweed bloom of 'Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt' is one of the largest on record. It is the largest seaweed bloom in the world — weighing approximately 20 million tons — and is visible from outer space. "It's incredible," Brian LaPointe, a research professor at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, told NBC News. Workers who were hired by residents remove sargassum seaweed from the Bay of Soliman, north of Tulum, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. "I think I've replaced my climate change anxiety with sargassum anxiety," Patricia Estridge, CEO of Seaweed Generation, told The Guardian.

☆ A 5,000-mile blanket of seaweed that can be seen from space is threatens the beaches of Florida
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-12 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Egypt to build 21 desalination plants in phase 1 of scheme - sovereign fund
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

CAIRO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The first phase of Egypt's plan to develop large-scale water desalination will cover 21 plants with a capacity of 3.3 million cubic metres daily at a cost of $3 billion, the CEO of the country's sovereign fund said on Thursday. Egypt, which recently hosted the COP 27 U.N. climate talks and is trying to boost investment in renewables, aims to start production on its green hydrogen projects in 2025-2026, Soliman told the Reuters NEXT conference. Reporting by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Jan HarveyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Energy crisis highlights need to broaden renewables' supply chain
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Laila Kearney | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Enel CEO Francesco Starace speaks during the Reuters NEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, U.S., December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidNEW YORK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The global energy crisis sparked by war in Ukraine has underscored how parts of the renewables supply chain might face similar struggles if not quickly diversified, energy executives told the Reuters NEXT conference this week. "Out of this crisis, you learn that there are many other things that might follow this same pattern," said Francesco Starace, CEO of Italy's Enel (ENEI.MI), speaking at the conference on Thursday in New York. Starace noted how solar panels are produced overwhelmingly in China, saying that, and the manufacture of other energy components critical to transitioning from fossil fuels, are potential problem areas. South Africa, the most industrialized country in Africa, will need to add more than 50,000 megawatts (MW) of new power generation capacity to help meet demand and stabilize its grid, Brian Dames, chief executive officer of African Rainbow Energy & Power, said at a Reuters NEXT panel on Wednesday.

☆ Federal Prosecutors Probe New Jersey’s Sen. Bob Menendez
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( James Fanelli | Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Justice Department is investigating Sen. Bob Menendez , according to a representative for the New Jersey Democrat, five years after federal public-corruption charges against him fell apart. “Senator Menendez is aware of an investigation,” said Michael Soliman , a political consultant and adviser to Mr. Menendez, adding that he didn’t know the scope of the probe. “As always, should any official inquiries be made, the senator is available to provide any assistance that is requested of him or his office.”

Dozens of federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued in the past several months as part of the federal criminal investigation involving several people in New Jersey and the powerful Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News. Two people familiar with the matter said one of the entities involved in the investigation is IS EG Halal of Edgewater, New Jersey. According to a filing by Lustberg, federal agents seized cellphones, computers, tablets, USB drives, business documents, notepads, a photo album, $5,943 dollars in cash, jewelry and Hana’s passport. The court filings do not specify why federal investigators conducted the search, and NBC News could not confirm whether it was tied to the current investigation involving Menendez. Federal prosecutors decided in 2018 not to retry him.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., is under federal criminal investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, according to two people familiar with the matter and a spokesperson for the senator. "Senator Menendez is aware of an investigation that was reported on today, however he does not know the scope of the investigation," Menendez’s adviser Michael Soliman said Wednesday in a statement. News of the investigation was first reported by the website Semafor. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. He has served in the Senate since 2006 and previously served in the House.

☆ Yoga chain leaders arrested on tax fraud charges, accused of stashing cash from donations in tissue boxes and guitar cases
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-25 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The yoga business made over $20 million, funding lavish lifestyles for the three leaders. The DOJ said cash from the yoga studios were collected in tissue boxes and kept in guitar cases. Yoga to the People, which was founded in 2006, had 20 yoga centers around the country, but closed them in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of the three leaders submitted fake tax returns for a loan and even an apartment, according to the government agency. Around the time the yoga studios closed during the pandemic, Gumucio was facing allegations of sexual and psychological abuse to staff members.

Chilia și Cetatea Albă a rămas sub stăpânirea sultanului, Marea Neagră devenind un „lac intern” al Imperiului Otoman. În 1489, domnul Țării Moldovei s-a recunoscut vasal al regelui ungar, primind feude (stăpâniri condiționate) în Transilvania, Ciceul și Cetatea de Baltă cu domenii din jur. Rivalul său de la 1497, Sigismund I, devenit rege al Poloniei, l-a numit în 1531 „acel mare Ștefan” („Stephanus ille magnus”). Ștefan cel Mare, caz unic în istoria Țării Moldovei, a transmis puterea domnească la 30 iunie 1504 fiului său, Bogdan al III-lea. La 20 iunie 1992 a fost canonizat, fiind înscris în sinaxar, cărțile de cult etc., cu numele „Dreptcredinciosul Voievod Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt” (sărbătorit la 2 iulie).

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