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☆ Third Communications Blackout Hits Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Gaza was plunged into a communications blackout on Sunday for the third time in 10 days, again leaving its people without access to internet or phone services as night fell and Israel’s heavy bombardment of the enclave continued. The widespread blackout began shortly before sunset, around 4:20 p.m. local time, according to NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on social media that the blackout affected more than two million civilians, cutting off access to emergency medical services as the bombings continued, and that, as during the previous blackouts, it had lost contact with its teams in Gaza. UNRWA, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians, also said it was unable to reach “the vast majority” of its team in the enclave. “Without connectivity, people who need immediate medical attention cannot contact hospitals and ambulances,” he said on social media.

Persons: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ”, NetBlocks, Alp Toker, “, ” Mr, Toker, Israel Organizations: Palestine Red Crescent Society, UNRWA, World Health Organization, Gaza’s Locations: Gaza, Palestine, Israel, United States

“There is no time to mourn — more death is on the way,” Mr. Mansour said. “The answer to the killing of Palestinian civilians is not the killing of Israeli civilians,” Mr. Mansour said. Mr. Mansour, the Palestinian representative, also directly responded to a speech the Israeli foreign minister, Eli Cohen, made at the U.N. Security Council this week. Mr. Cohen called for Israeli hostages to be brought home, but “for millions of Palestinians, there is no home to go back to,” Mr. Mansour said. “For thousands, there is no family left to embrace.”“He told you how horrible it was to kill civilians,” Mr. Mansour continued, “just before justifying the killing of Palestinian civilians by the thousands.

Persons: Riyad Mansour, —, ” Mr, Mansour, ”, Gilad Erdan, Erdan, Mr, Eli Cohen, Cohen, “, Dennis Francis of Trinidad, Jordan, Ayman Safadi, ” Anushka Patil Organizations: United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian, Islamic, . Security, Arab Locations: Gaza ., Israel, Gaza, Islamic State, Iran, Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago, Jordan

At least four family members of a prominent Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza were killed, the news organization said on Wednesday. The network said the wife, son, daughter and infant grandson of Wael al-Dahdouh, the Gaza bureau chief of Al Jazeera’s Arabic-language service, were killed at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where they had been sheltering. Al Jazeera identified two of the deceased as Mr. al-Dahdouh’s teenage son, Mahmoud, and his young daughter, Sham. Photos also showed Mr. al-Dahdouh clutching what appeared to be his daughter’s small, shrouded body, looking down at her bloodied face in anguish. In a translated interview aired by Al Jazeera’s English-language channel, Mr. al-Dahdouh, his face wet with tears, said no one was safe in Gaza.

Persons: Wael, Al, “ Al Jazeera, Dahdouh, Mohamed Moawad, Jazeera, Mahmoud, Al Jazeera’s, ” Hoda Abdel, Hamid, Issam Abdallah, Shireen Abu Akleh Organizations: Al, Al Jazeera Media Network, Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Protect Journalists, Hamas, —, Reuters, Agence France, Presse, Palestinian, West Bank, Israeli Army Locations: Al Jazeera, Gaza, Al Jazeera’s, Israel, “ Al, Gaza City, Al Aqsa, Deir al, Palestinian American, Jenin, Israeli

An aerial view of a music festival that was the site of a Hamas attack. The next images are of Ms. Schem, who disappeared from the site of a music festival where at least 260 people were killed, speaking directly to the camera in Hebrew. “At the moment I am in Gaza,” Ms. Schem says in a solemn, clipped voice. “She called me to say she was going to a party down south,” Keren Schem said. Keren Schem said one person who was at the show described having seen her daughter walking toward a kibbutz nearby.

Persons: Mia Schem, —, Schem, “, Ms, ”, Shem, Schem’s, Keren Schem, ” Keren Schem, Keren Schem’s, Mia, Nadav Gavrielov Organizations: Hamas, The New York Times Locations: Gaza, Israel, Tel Aviv

Earlier the Bangladesh women's cricket team beat Pakistan in the bronze match to claim the country's first Asian Games medal since 2014 at Incheon, South Korea. Cricket, which has hopes of becoming an Olympic sport, returned to the Asian Games this year after being omitted from the last edition in Indonesia in 2018. The South Korean did not disappoint his legions of fans on Monday, helping his Korean team beat Kazakhstan 1-0 in one of the preliminary matches in the 'League of Legends' category. GROUP PHOTOElsewhere on day two of competition, three North Korean marksmen refused to join their South Korean rivals in a group photo of medal winners after narrowly missing out on gold in a men's team shooting competition. "It was really fun," she said after her seventh-placed finish in the women's park, an event won by Japan's Hinano Kusaki.

Persons: India's Divyansh Singh, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil, Dylan Martinez, Lee Sang, Anna Prakaten, Panipak Wongpattanakit, Guo Qing, Hong Kong's Siobhan Bernadette Haughey, it’s, I’m, Japan's Hinano, Martin Quin Pollard, Ian Ransom, Peter Rutherford, Ken Ferris Organizations: Sports Centre, India, Hangzhou Asian Games, Games, Sri, Asian Games, Bangladesh women's, Pakistan, Cricket, Olympic, Korean, Kazakhstan, League, North, South, Tokyo, Russian Olympic Committee, Thomson Locations: Hangzhou, China, HANGZHOU, Sri Lanka, Guangzhou, Bangladesh, Incheon, South Korea, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Philippines

HANGZHOU, China (AP) — The Asian Games offer a preview of what could soon be coming to the Olympics. India's women won the gold medal on Monday at the Asian Games, defeating Sri Lanka in the 20-overs format. WORLD RECORDIndia set the first world record of the Asian Games in the 10-meter team rifle event. NORTH KOREA MEDALNorth Korea, appearing in its first international multi-sport event since the 2018 Asian Games, took bronze on Sunday in judo. The Asian Games involves about 12,400 competitors from 45 nations and territories with 481 gold medals on the line.

Persons: That's, Sri Lankans, Minnu Mani, Hashan Tillakaratne, Cricket's, Rudrankksh Patil, Divyansh, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Chae Kwanglin, ___ Organizations: Games, Los Angeles Games, Brisbane, Asian Games, Sri, Bangladesh, ”, Asian, Cricket, Olympic, IOC, Olympics, Paris Games, WORLD, Indian, NORTH KOREA, China Locations: HANGZHOU, China, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, ” Bangladesh, North Korea, CHINA, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia

☆ The U.S. ambassador visits Evan Gershkovich, a WSJ reporter detained in Russia.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The U.S. ambassador to Russia met Friday with Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter jailed in Moscow, a few days after his family appealed to the United Nations for help in bringing him home. The U.S. embassy in Russia confirmed the visit by Ambassador Lynne M. Tracy, which was the fourth time she had met with Mr. Gershkovich since he was detained by the Russian authorities in March. “He remains strong and is keeping up with the news — including his parents’ appearance at the U.N. this week,” the embassy said in a statement on social media. Mr. Gershkovich’s family on Wednesday had urged world leaders who will soon be attending the U.N. General Assembly to join the call for his release.

Persons: Evan Gershkovich, Lynne M, Tracy, Gershkovich, Gershkovich’s Organizations: Wall Street, United Nations, General Assembly Locations: Russia, Moscow, U.S

☆ Kim and Putin Meet in Russia: Ukraine War Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Choe Sang-Hun | Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Mr. Kim and Mr. Putin, the Russian president, are both pariahs, isolated from the West, but the war in Ukraine has elevated the North Korean leader’s significance to the Kremlin. Mr. Putin told reporters before the start of the summit that the meeting was being held at the cosmodrome because Mr. Kim “shows great interest in rocket technology,” RIA journalists reported on Telegram. Mr. Kim arrived in Russia on Tuesday from North Korea, having traveled to the meeting on his armored train, a trip that took days. North Korea also has one of the largest fleets of tanks in the world, though most are Soviet-era models. Earlier Wednesday, South Korea reported that North Korea had launched two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast.

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, Kim Jong, Kim, Kim “, Kim’s, Dmitri S, Peskov Organizations: Vostochny Cosmodrome, Sputnik, North, Vostochny, Kremlin, United Nations Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Russian, North Korea, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia’s, Amur, Pyongyang, Khasan, Korea, Soviet, Moscow, South Korea, North Koreans

☆ Evan Gershkovich’s family appeals to the U.N. for help in securing his release.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The family of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia since March, appealed on Wednesday for the United Nations’ help in bringing him home, urging world leaders who will soon be attending the U.N. General Assembly to join the call for his release. “Next week, world leaders will gather here to discuss many important issues,” Mr. Gershkovich’s father, Mikhail, said at a briefing in New York alongside the American ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. He called on those leaders to stand with his son, saying Evan Gershkovich represented “the basic right to free press and freedom of expression” and that “these rights are bedrock principles of the United Nations.”The United States “will not rest until Evan and Paul and all wrongfully detained Americans are home safe and sound,” Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said, referring to Paul Whelan, a former Marine serving a 16-year sentence on what U.S. officials say are bogus espionage charges.

Persons: Evan Gershkovich, Mr, Gershkovich’s, Mikhail, Linda Thomas, Greenfield, Evan, Paul, Ms, Thomas, Paul Whelan Organizations: Wall Street, United Nations, General Assembly, United, Marine, U.S Locations: Russia, New York, American, United States

☆ Blinken, in Kyiv, Says U.S. Will Send $1 Billion More in Aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

The aid will also include demining assistance to clear Russian land mines and prevent the remnants of war from causing further harm to civilians, Mr. Blinken said. It includes ammunition made with depleted uranium for Abrams tanks, which are scheduled to arrive in Ukraine this fall, Mr. Blinken said. Mr. Blinken traveled by train to Kyiv with Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, according to a State Department statement. He was replaced by Rustem Umerov, who has been the chairman of Ukraine’s State Property Fund. A senior State Department official told reporters traveling with Mr. Blinken that the effort was aimed at “putting global support on a long-term, sustainable path.

Persons: Antony J, Blinken, Biden, Dmytro Kuleba, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Mr, Zelensky, ”, “, Lynsey Addario, Mr, Mette Frederiksen, Blinken’s, Oleksii, Rustem Umerov, Umerov’s, Tyler Hicks, Putin, Vladimir V, Russia, Erin Mendell, Anushka Patil Organizations: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kyiv, United, Pentagon, The New York Times, Ukraine’s, Department, Property Fund, 22nd Mechanized Brigade, State Department Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, U.S, United States, matériel, Kostyantynivka, Ukrainian, ”, Russia, “, Denmark, Ukraine’s, Bakhmut, Israel

President Volodymyr Zelensky named Rustem Umerov as his choice to be Ukraine’s next defense minister, opting for a prominent member of the Crimean Tatar ethnic group who has played a key role in negotiations with Russia since the start of the war. In announcing his decision on Sunday to replace Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, Mr. Zelensky was brief. Umerov,” he said, “does not need any additional introductions.”Though a member of an opposition political party, Mr. Umerov, 41, has taken on several critical roles for the government since the Russian invasion last year. He was the chief Ukrainian negotiator of an agreement that allowed Ukraine to export some of its grain, and a prominent negotiator on prisoner exchanges. A former investment banker, Mr. Umerov is a lawmaker with the Holos party, which is in opposition to Mr. Zelensky’s Servant of the People party.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Umerov, Oleksii Reznikov, Zelensky, Mr, ”, “, Zelensky’s, Roman Abramovich Organizations: Defense, People, Ukraine Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Istanbul

☆ Oprah and Dwayne Johnson Give $10 Million to Help Maui Wildfire Victims
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson have donated $10 million to help establish a fund that will give direct cash assistance to Maui residents displaced by catastrophic wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes on the island, they said on Thursday. The new effort, called the People’s Fund of Maui, is offering payments of $1,200 per month to adults whose homes were destroyed or made uninhabitable by the wildfires in Lahaina and Kula this month. The assistance is available to both homeowners and renters, but not to property owners who do not live in homes they own. “People being able to have their own agency, being able to make decisions for themselves about what they need and what their family needs — that’s our goal,” Ms. Winfrey added in a video on Instagram. She promised that the public’s donations to the fund would go directly to victims.

Persons: Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson, “, Mr, Johnson, —, ” Ms, Winfrey Organizations: People’s, of Locations: Maui, of Maui, Lahaina, Kula, Hawaii

☆ Anti-Abortion Activist Who Kept Fetuses Is Convicted in Clinic Blockade
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Five anti-abortion activists, including one who was found to have kept five fetuses in her home last year, were found guilty of federal civil rights offenses on Tuesday after blocking access to an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C., in 2020. Lauren Handy of Virginia, who prosecutors said directed the invasion and blockade of the abortion clinic on Oct. 22, 2020, and her co-defendants were each convicted of a felony charge of conspiracy against rights and of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The law makes it a crime to threaten, obstruct or injure a person seeking access to a reproductive health clinic or to damage clinic property. Handy had arrived for an appointment she had made at the clinic under a false name. The defendants, who were livestreaming their blockade on Facebook, blocked a patient from entering the treatment area and left a nurse with a sprained ankle, prosecutors said.

Persons: Lauren Handy, Handy, “ Organizations: Washington , D.C, Prosecutors, Facebook Locations: Washington ,, Virginia

☆ Jimmy Carter, 6 Months Into Hospice, Is Still ‘Very Much’ Himself, Grandson Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, are still holding hands and making memories together in their Georgia home six months after he entered hospice care there, one of the couple’s grandsons said on Monday. The former president, 98, is “still very much Jimmy Carter,” his grandson Josh Carter said in a telephone interview. “He’s still opinionated, he’s still strong-willed, he’s still him. And that’s great to see.”Mr. Carter, an avid outdoorsman who now uses a wheelchair, and Mrs. Carter, who uses a walker, try to get outdoors every day around the ranch-style home they built in the 1960s, their grandson said. According to the American Medical Association, hospice care is generally intended to relieve pain and suffering in patients who most likely have six months or less to live.

Persons: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, ”, Josh Carter, “ He’s, he’s, Mr, Carter Organizations: American Medical Association Locations: Georgia

On the western side of Maui, some residents fled by swimming into the ocean, where they were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, Maui County officials said. Others escaped by car, driving past flames in the shadow of the West Maui Mountains. Two evacuation shelters closed because of the encroaching fire, and people inside were sent to new locations, Maui County officials said. The 911 emergency call service in West Maui was down early on Wednesday, and people were told to call the local police department directly instead, Maui County officials said. In Maui County, there were more 12,600 electricity customers without power on Wednesday, according to the tracking site poweroutage.us.

Persons: Hurricane Dora, Richard T, Bissen, Brian Schatz, Dora, —, Sylvia Luke, Hawaii’s Organizations: U.S . Coast Guard, Weather Service, Maui Counties, National Guard Locations: Maui, Maui County, West Maui, Hawaii, Lahaina, ”

☆ iPhone maker Foxconn to invest $600 million into phone and chip project in India
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Foxconn will invest more than $600 million in India as part of a phone manufacturing project and separately a semiconductor equipment facility, according to the government of the state of Karnataka. The phone project will create employment opportunities for 12,000 people, Patil said, while the semiconductor facility will generate employment for 1,000 people. Foxconn has also, with little success so far, tried to enter the semiconductor manufacturing area. Applied Materials was not immediately available for comment. Modi attended a semiconductor event in India last week, at which senior executives from big U.S. chip firms including Applied Materials and AMD were present.

Persons: Foxconn, B Patil, Patil, Narendra Modi, Modi, Young Liu Organizations: Materials, Vedanta, CNBC, Applied Materials, AMD Locations: Krakow, Poland, India, Karnataka, U.S, China

☆ Foxconn to invest $600 million in India's Karnataka to make iPhone components, chip equipment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Munsif Vengattil | Thomson Reuters | Munsif Vengattil Is A Reuters' India Technology Correspondent | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Reuters was first to report the investment plans on Wednesday. The investment decisions follow a meeting between Foxconn Chairman Young Liu, Karnataka's IT minister Priyank Kharge, and Industries Minister MB Patil. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also attracting investors for semiconductor manufacturing, which is his key business agenda currently. In Karnataka, Foxconn will collaborate with Applied Materials on a project for making semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and create jobs for around 1,000 people. India's Tamil Nadu state has also announced that Foxconn will invest $194 million in a new electronic components manufacturing facility that will create 6,000 jobs.

Persons: Ann Wang, Foxconn, Young Liu, Priyank Kharge, Liu, Narendra Modi, Munsif, Aditya Kalra, Himani Sarkar, Jane Merriman, Mark Potter Organizations: REUTERS, Applied Materials, Reuters, Industries, Patil, Micron, Materials, Thomson Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, BENGALURU, India's Karnataka, China, Karnataka, India, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bengaluru

☆ Battery maker IBC to set up plant in India's Karnataka for nearly $1 bln
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Aug 1 (Reuters) - International Battery Company (IBC) has signed an investment pact worth 80 billion rupees ($971.89 million) with India's southern state of Karnataka to build a battery manufacturing facility, the state's minister said on Tuesday. The manufacturing facility will be spread across 100 acres in the state, Minister for Commerce & Industries, Infrastructure MB Patil said in a post on messaging platform X.Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday that the company would manufacture lithium-ion cells at the facility. IBC plans to begin production by 2025, Bloomberg News reported, citing Gunjan Krishna, commissioner at Karnataka's Industries and Commerce Department, adding that the private company is aiming to ramp up capacity to 10 gigawatt by 2028. The company, which met state government officials in June, had then expressed an interest in investing on battery production in Karnataka, Patil had said in a post in June. ($1 = 82.3140 Indian rupees)Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh KuberOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gunjan Krishna, Patil, Anirudh, Shailesh Organizations: International Battery Company, Commerce & Industries, Patil, Bloomberg, IBC, Bloomberg News, Karnataka's Industries, Commerce Department, Thomson Locations: Karnataka, Bengaluru

Trevor Reed, the former U.S. Marine who was detained in Russia for nearly three years and later freed in a prisoner swap, was injured while fighting in Ukraine, the State Department said on Tuesday. He is receiving medical care in Germany, said Vedant Patel, a State Department spokesman. Mr. Reed was visiting his Russian girlfriend in Moscow in August 2019 when he was arrested on what his family said were bogus charges of assaulting police officers. The United States considered him wrongfully detained, and after months of diplomatic negotiations and mounting public pressure on the Biden administration, Mr. Reed was freed in April 2022 as part of a prisoner swap for a Russian pilot imprisoned on cocaine trafficking charges in the United States. The United States has repeatedly warned American citizens not to travel to Ukraine or participate in the war, though untold numbers of them have done so anyway.

Persons: Trevor Reed, Vedant Patel, Reed, Biden Organizations: U.S . Marine, State Department, United Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Moscow, United States, Russian

☆ U.S. confirms talks with Russia on prisoner swap for Evan Gershkovich, but tempers expectations.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Anushka Patil | More About Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The United States confirmed on Friday that it was in talks with Russia about a potential prisoner swap for the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, but cautioned that the discussions had not yet produced “a clear pathway to a resolution.”The Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov said this week that the two countries were in contact about the possibility of a swap. President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, confirmed the Kremlin’s remarks on Friday, but he said that he did not want to give “false hope.”“There have been discussions, but those discussions have not produced a clear pathway to a resolution,” Mr. Sullivan told reporters, adding that the U.S. did not have a “clear answer” on how it would secure Mr. Gershkovich’s release.

Persons: Evan Gershkovich, Dmitri S, Peskov, Biden’s, Jake Sullivan, Mr, Sullivan Organizations: United, Wall Street, Mr Locations: United States, Russia, U.S

But now, as Mr. Putin seeks to project an image of restored stability and control, he has been putting his defense minister on display, even if Mr. Shoigu has not addressed the public or even been heard speaking. Mr. Shoigu was also present on Monday as Mr. Putin convened a meeting of his top security chiefs. On Tuesday, as Mr. Putin praised his security forces in a grandly choreographed speech, Mr. Shoigu was again present, wearing his military uniform. Mr. Shoigu, who was a very popular minister of emergency situations before becoming defense minister in 2012, has had a long and friendly relationship with Mr. Putin. Mr. Putin may have kept both men in charge as part of his decades-long efforts to place the sprawling Russian military more under his control.

Persons: Vladimir V, Sergei K, Shoigu, Valery V, Putin, Yevgeny V, Wagner, ” Mr, Gerasimov, Mr, Prigozhin, Ramzan Kadyrov, —, ”, ” Andrei Guryulov, Aleksandr Dugin, Aleksandr G, Lukashenko, Dugin, Long, General Gerasimov, It’s, Andrei Soldatov, Putin “, ” Oleg Matsnev Organizations: Putin, Cuban, National Defense Control Center of Russia, Russian military’s Zvezda, United, Defense Ministry, General Staff Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Cuba, Russian, Ukrainian, Lyman, Chechnya, United Russia, Belarus

☆ Inside the Titan: Quiet and Cramped, With a Single Porthole
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Anushka Patil | Jacey Fortin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Passengers seeking a glimpse of the R.M.S. Titanic aboard the submersible that disappeared in the North Atlantic this week have endured hours in a dangerous drop to the ocean floor aboard a cramped craft with a single porthole. Mike Reiss, a producer and writer for “The Simpsons,” boarded the vessel, known as the Titan, last summer. He said that passengers were required to sign a waiver that mentioned death three times on the first page. Passengers on his 10-hour journey — a trip than can cost up to $250,000 — were composed but excited, he said.

Persons: Mike Reiss, ” Organizations: Titanic, OceanGate Expeditions Locations: North

☆ British Explorer on Missing Submersible Said He Knew the Risk of Such Voyages
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Emma Bubola | Anushka Patil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hamish Harding, a British explorer aboard the submersible missing in the North Atlantic, acknowledged in a 2021 interview that he had taken on deep-sea missions in the past knowing that rescue would not be an option. At almost seven miles, the Mariana Trench is far deeper than the Titanic site that the submersible was set to visit, which is about two-and-a half miles down. On the 2021 trip, Mr. Harding, a 58-year-old British businessman, and Victor Vescovo, an American explorer, set a Guinness World Record for the longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean on a single dive. Their 4-hour, 15-minute dive also set a record for farthest distance traveled along the deepest part of the ocean. “It was potentially scary, but I was so busy doing so many things — navigating and triangulating my position — that I did not really have time to be scared,” Mr. Harding told The Week.

Persons: Hamish Harding, ”, Mariana Trench, Harding, Victor Vescovo, Mr Locations: British, Mariana, American

“The submersible industry had significant concerns over the strategy of building a deep sea expedition submersible without following existing classification safety guidelines,” Mr. Kohnen said. OceanGate said in the post that because its Titan craft was so innovative, it could take years to get it certified by leading assessment agencies. “Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation,” the company wrote. The submersible sustained modest damage to its exterior, he wrote, leading OceanGate to cancel the mission so it could make repairs. Still, Mr. Concannon wrote in the filing, 28 individuals had been able to visit the Titanic wreckage on the craft in 2022.

Persons: —, Will Kohnen, Mr, Kohnen, Rush, OceanGate, Bart Kemper, ”, Kemper, Charles Kohnen, Will Kohnen’s, “, David Concannon, Concannon, Rebecca Beach Smith, Kitty Bennett Organizations: The New York Times, Stockton Rush, Manned, Vehicles, Marine Technology Society, Titan, Atlantis, Eastern, of, Court Locations: Canadian, U.S, of Virginia

☆ ‘Never Have I Ever’ star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan jokes Mindy Kaling has ‘spoiled’ Hollywood for her
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was a high school student who had never acted professionally when in 2019, she responded to an open casting call from Mindy Kaling for a TV series about an Indian American teenager. That’s one thing I don’t think I’ll ever comprehend: This was my first opportunity? I couldn’t ask for a better boss than Mindy Kaling. Mindy Kaling screwed me over. The first Tamil person I knew on TV was Mindy (Kaling) in “The Mindy Project.” That was probably the first South Asian person I saw on TV.

Persons: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Mindy Kaling, Ramakrishnan, Devi Vishwakumar, Priya Mangal, Lizzie Bennet, “, ”, Devi, She’s, Kulkarni, I’ve, hasn’t, That’s, Kamala, Harry Potter, Patil, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Yule, –, Hermione Granger, we’re, ” That’s, ” What’s, What’s Organizations: CNN, Netflix, “, South Locations: American, South Asian, Canada

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