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One person was shot dead on board a bus that was hijacked with passengers on board in downtown Los Angeles early this morning, police said. Police took one suspect into custody early Wednesday who is suspected of hijacking the bus and was unharmed. No details were provided on the identity of the dead victim, who was shot inside the bus and died at a local hospital, police said. Graham said that the driver used "emergency protocols" to sound the alarm. ET that a bus had come to a standstill at Almeda and 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles and that a SWAT team was on its way to the scene.

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☆ Musk's Starlink internet service to be offered in the Philippines in Q1
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MANILA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Starlink, the satellite internet unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is on track to enter the Philippine market this year, with its broadband service to be introduced within the first quarter, its local partner said in a statement on Friday. "We are excited to finally introduce Starlink to the Philippine market by Q1 2023," said Anthony Almeda, Vice Chairman and CEO of Data Lake Inc, a Manila-based firm he co-owns with tycoon Henry Sy Jr.Almeda said in a statement the high-speed, low-latency broadband internet service will be "game-changing" for the Southeast Asian archipelago, where broadband coverage is patchy. In the Philippines, only seven out of every 100 people have fixed broadband subscriptions, lagging behind regional peers like Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, data from the World Bank shows. Data Lake Inc said Philippine customers would have to shell out an initial $599 per unit and $99 for monthly connectivity service for a download speed of 200 Mbps. Reporting by Enrico dela Cruz and Karen Lema; Editing by Kanupriya KapoorOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Elon Musk's SpaceX partners with Philippine tycoon on satellite service
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MANILA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) is expanding into the Philippines by offering satellite broadband service to businesses and the government, his local partner said on Thursday. Data Lake Inc, a Philippine-based firm partly owned by tycoon Henry Sy Jr, said it signed a deal to be the first partner of SpaceX's Starlink in Southeast Asia. "The Philippines is an archipelago, and connecting our country to the wider world often requires extensive infrastructure," Data Lake Chairman Anthony Almeda said in a statement. The Philippines is made up of more than 7,600 islands, many of them isolated and with mountainous terrain, making broadband coverage difficult for companies. Around 20 tropical storms also typically hit the country every year, often damaging infrastructure and cutting communication links between islands and provinces.

The disappearance and killing of Vanessa Guillén, a U.S. Army specialist stationed in Fort Hood, Texas, in 2020 shook the nation and led to widescale changes in how the military protects victims of sexual violence. On Saturday, a state highway in her hometown, Houston, will be named after the Mexican American soldier, part of a series of commemorations to honor her legacy. Family and officials gathered on State Highway 3 in Harris County, between the intersections of Interstate Highway 45 and Almeda Genoa Road, to mark the naming of the Vanessa Guillén Memorial Highway. This year, lawmakers passed the I Am Vanessa Guillén Act, which aims to protect victims of sexual violence in the military. State lawmakers approved a bill to make Sept. 30, Guillén’s birthday, “Vanessa Guillén Day."

☆ Kamala Harris, prima femeie din istoria Statelor Unite care devine vicepreședinte
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-07 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +9 min

După câteva luni, Kamala Harris a renunțat la visul ei prezidențial, însă a primit ulteror șansa de a ajunge la Casa Albă făcând echipă cu fostul vicepreședinte Joe Biden. - comma, în engleză înseamnă virgulă)”, scria Kamala Harris în autobiografia ei din 2018, The Truth We Hold („Adevărul pe care îl deținem ”- n.r.). Crescute de mama lor, care nu s-a mai recăsătorit, surorile Kamala și Maya și mama lor, Shymala, erau cunoscute ca „Shymala și fetele”. Kamala Harris a făcut carieră în justiție înainte de a deveni politicianKamala Harris s-a născut în Oakland, în California. Cuplul nu are copii împreună, dar Kamala Harris este mamă vitregă pentru cei doi copii pe care avocatul îi are dintr-o căsătorie precedentă.

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