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☆ The US Army needs tanks to win a war in the Pacific, but it knows the Abrams isn't the right tank for the job
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But it also knows that rivals are building weapons that are potent against the aging Abrams tank. The Army's main battle tank, the M1 Abrams, now faces two main problems. End of the Abrams eraA US Abrams tank that Iraqi officials said was destroyed in fighting south of Baghdad in April 2003. Threats to the Abrams tank's battlefield dominance, according to the Army Science Board. The Army Science BoardThe Army Science Board assessed various alternatives.

Persons: Abrams, —, China —, Eddie McCrossan, M1A1 Abrams, Scott Nelson, Charles Flynn, Bradley, KARIM SAHIB, Michael Peck Organizations: US Army, Service, Army, Pacific, Rivals, M1 Abrams, Army Science Board, ., Logistics, US Defense Department, Eddie McCrossan Tanks, Nazi, US Army Pacific, Board, for Army, sustainment, China, Abrams, Getty, The Army, Booker, Defense, Foreign Policy, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Europe, Asia, Russia, China, Fort Knox, Kentucky, Britain, America, Russo, Ukraine, East Asia, Japan, Malay, Korean, Vietnam, Kuwaiti, Fulda, East, West Germany, Baghdad, AFP, Pacific, Forbes

☆ Lying All the Way to the Bank in ‘America Fantastica’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Noah Hawley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

AMERICA FANTASTICA, by Tim O’BrienWhen scientists take a core sample of fiction from the post-Trump era, they will discover American novelists struggling to unpack the political and social repercussions of his reign. Just as historians work to document the facts of the last 10 years, so, too, do novelists try to reveal their meaning. In “America Fantastica,” a manic road-trip-meets-crime-spree novel, O’Brien — the award-winning author of “The Things They Carried” and “Going After Cacciato” — speaks through an omniscient narrator, one who regularly interrupts the story to describe the spread of this so-called disease:Bullyism skyrocketed. husband, her scheming billionaire father, the married owners of the bank in question (who don’t report the robbery because they’re too busy robbing the bank themselves) and Angie’s homicidal, reality-challenged fiancé, who sets off in pursuit. But by adding a veneer of topicality, O’Brien aims to turn his characters into case studies for a nation’s moral failure.

Persons: Tim O’Brien, Tim O’Brien’s, Trump, O’Brien, ” —, Boyd Halverson, Penney, Angie Bing, they’re, fiancé, Elmore Leonard Locations: America, Fulda, Calif, Texas, Minnesota

A banner reading: "Abortion Out of the Penal Code" hangs from a building during International Women's Day, at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico March 8, 2023. The ruling set a significant legal precedent and paved the way for the federal health system to begin providing abortion services and broaden access dramatically. But Mexican abortion rights advocates say the ruling's promise of expanding abortion access will not become a reality overnight and could depend on the political and legislative will of the federal government. Aside from safeguarding abortion patients and providers from prosecution, the ruling will have limited impact on access until the federal public health system starts providing abortion services. Xochitl Galvez, the senator chosen to represent the main opposition coalition, has broken from her center-right party’s anti-abortion platform to support abortion rights.

Persons: Quetzalli, Maria Antonieta Alcalde, IPAS, Alcalde, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xochitl Galvez, Veronica Cruz, Roe, Wade, Isabel Fulda, Gabriella Borter, Stephen Eisenhammer, Josie Kao Organizations: REUTERS, Mexico City, Regeneration, Mexico's, United States Supreme, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Coahuila, Latin America, Caribbean, America, United States, Guanajuato, U.S

☆ Mexico's Supreme Court upholds abortion rights nationwide, paving way for federal access
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Gabriella Borter | Thomson Reuters | Gabriella Borter Is A Reporter On The U.S. National Affairs Team | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Wednesday's ruling will increase abortion access throughout Mexico, marking a major victory for abortion rights advocates in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. In the United States, meanwhile, the Supreme Court struck down the national right to an abortion in 2022 and nearly half of the 50 states have restricted access dramatically. The court sided with GIRE in a challenge to the federal penal code and declared that the section of the national law that criminalized abortion could no longer take effect. The ruling opens the door for the federal healthcare system to start providing abortions, which could become increasingly important as Mexico mulls centralizing healthcare services, abortion rights advocates say. Aguascalientes became the 12th Mexican state to decriminalize abortion last month when the Supreme Court sided with GIRE in a similar challenge to that state's penal code.

Persons: Henry Romero, Wednesday's, It's, Isabel Fulda, Gabriella Borter, Aurora Ellis, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Supreme, REUTERS, Catholic, Twitter, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Mexico's, Coahuila, America, United States, Aguascalientes, Mexican

☆ Putin’s Nonnuclear War in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Daniel Henninger | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nearly any conversation about Ukraine in recent months has become preoccupied with whether a desperate Vladimir Putin might use a tactical nuclear weapon. That possibility, however concerning, should not deter us from staying focused on the higher stakes Mr. Putin put in motion by invading Ukraine. Across the more than four decades of the Cold War—a struggle between the ideological opposites of Western freedom and Soviet communism—the great fear, other than nuclear war, was of a ground war between Russia and the U.S.-led forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Cold War military doctrine held that this war likely would start with a massive Russian tank invasion through Germany’s Fulda Gap.

☆ Mystery as former Chinese leader is escorted out of Communist Party Congress in front of world media
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Janis.Jpg | Janis Mackey Frayer | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

BEIJING — Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was led out of the country's Communist Party Congress Saturday in a moment of unexpected drama during an otherwise highly choreographed event. The “Two Safeguards” assure Xi’s “core” status within the party and the party’s centralised authority over China. It is widely expected that Xi Jinping will hold onto his status as general secretary and head of China’s armed forces. “With Xi Jinping being so prominent, and the party so omnipresent, whenever something goes wrong in China the party will be blamed, and Xi Jinping will be blamed,” he said. In his closing remarks, president Xi said that the Chinese Communist Party, now in its 100th year, was still in its prime.

☆ O lebădă și-a vegheat perechea moartă pe o cale ferată din Germania: Circulația a 23 de trenuri a fost întreruptă
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: 1 min

Lebedele s-ar fi rătăcit pe linia de cale ferată de mare viteză care leagă regiunile Kassel de Göttingen, din centrul Germaniei. Potrivit poliției din Kassel, citată de France 24, una dintre cele două păsări a murit după ce s-ar fi prins în cablurile de electricitate. Polițiștii au povestit cum cealaltă lebădă a stat lângă cadavrul perechii sale și nu a fost chip să fie îndepărtată de pe calea ferată. presseportal.dePompierii au fost chemați să intervină și după aproximativ o oră au reușit să o îndepărteze. Cele 23 de trenuri blocate din cauza incidentului și-au reluat mersul după aproape o oră, mai scrie sursa citată.

Persons: Lebedele Organizations: presseportal.de Locations: Kassel, Göttingen, Germaniei, Fulda

☆ O lebădă a reținut 23 de trenuri, pentru că deplângea moartea tovarășului
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

O lebădă a fost motivul reținerii circulaţiei a 23 de trenuri, timp de o oră, pentru că deplângea moartea perechii sale chiar pe linia de cale ferată. Potrivit The Guardian, incidentul a avut loc în Germania, în zona căii ferate de mare viteză care lega Kassel de Göttingen. Potrivit publicaţiei, una dintre păsări ar fi murit în urma unui șoc electric, pe firele aeriene de înaltă tensiune. Pentru că cealaltă pasăre nu se lăsa dusă, salvatorii au fost nevoiți să desfășoare o „operațiune specială”. Cu ajutorul unor echipamente speciale, pasărea moartă a fost scoasă de pe firele de înaltă tensiune, iar lebăda „îndurerată” a fost ridicată de pe calea ferată și eliberată mai apoi pe râul Fulda.

Locations: Germania, Kassel, Göttingen, Fulda

Lebedele s-ar fi rătăcit pe linia de cale ferată de mare viteză care leagă regiunile Kassel de Göttingen, din centrul Germaniei. Potrivit poliției din Kassel, citată de France 24, una dintre cele două păsări a murit după ce s-ar fi prins în cablurile de electricitate. Polițiștii au povestit cum cealaltă lebădă a stat lângă cadavrul perechii sale și nu a fost chip să fie îndepărtată de pe calea ferată. Pompierii au fost chemați să intervină și după aproximativ o oră au reușit să o îndepărteze. Cele 23 de trenuri blocate din cauza incidentului și-au reluat mersul după aproape o oră, mai scrie sursa citată.

Persons: Lebedele Locations: Kassel, Göttingen, Germaniei, Fulda

☆ Medic din România ucisă în Germania; Poliția l-a reținut pe fostul iubit pe care l-a părăsit recent
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-09 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Elena K. a fost găsită moartă, înjunghiată în regiunea gâtului, luni dimineață, în jurul orei 8:00. Se pare că a fost ucisă când se întorcea acasă, de la spital, potrivit Bild. Elena era foarte apreciată în spitalul în care lucra, iar vecinii știu că era și o mamă devotată pentru fiul ei de doi ani. Suntem cu toții șocați și nu ne vine să credem ce s-a întâmplat. La câteva ore după ce a fost descoperit trupul neînsuflețit al medicului, poliția a reținut un suspect - fostul iubit al Elenei, un bărbat de 30 de ani.

Persons: Elena K ., Elena Locations: Fulda, Germania

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