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☆ Work proceeds on Ukraine's power supply, Zelenskiy says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Dec 11 (Reuters) - Emergency crews were working to ease power shortages in many parts of Ukraine after Russian attacks, particularly the Black Sea port of Odesa, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. "At this time, it has become possible to partially restore supplies in Odesa and other cities and districts in the region," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. Zelenskiy said Odesa was "among the regions with the most frequent power outages". Other areas experiencing "very difficult" conditions with power supplies included the capital Kyiv and Kyiv region and four regions in western Ukraine and Dnipropetrovsk region in the centre of the country. The work on restoring electricity for the general population was constant, Zelenskiy said.

☆ Russian attacks grind on in eastern Ukraine as Bakhmut is 'destroyed'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

An aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. Zelenskyy said the situation "remains very difficult" in several frontline cities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. "The occupiers actually destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army turned into burnt ruins." He said Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks in Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk. Taking Bakhmut would rupture Ukraine's supply lines and open a route for Russian forces to press on toward Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, key Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk.

A female police officer in Chicago says a supervisor forced her to perform oral sex on him inside a car. A female officer in Philadelphia says a sergeant grabbed her hand and placed it on the crotch of his pants. And a female officer in New York says one of her superiors hacked into her Snapchat account and showed off her intimate photos to a male commander. “How can you be in charge of male and female officers with the record that you have?”Marchese didn’t respond to requests for comment. Of the 87 NYPD officers accused in court papers of abusing female officers, 27 have since moved up in rank, according to an NBC News review.

☆ Peru’s president ousted and arrested after he seeks to dissolve Congress in political crisis
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The president of Peru was ousted by Congress and arrested on a charge of rebellion Wednesday after he sought to dissolve the legislative body and take unilateral control of the government, triggering a grave constitutional crisis. Boluarte, a 60--year-old lawyer, called for a political truce and the installation of a national unity government. He entered a police station and hours later federal prosecutors announced that Castillo had been arrested on the rebellion charge for allegedly violating constitutional order. Shortly before the impeachment vote, Castillo announced that he was installing a new emergency government and would rule by decree. The Ombudsman’s Office, an autonomous government institution, said before the congressional vote that Castillo should turn himself in to judicial authorities.

☆ Face masks come back to forefront amid triple threat of Covid-19, flu, RSV
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Local officials mulling over masksThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers specific guidance on when masking is recommended based on its Covid-19 community levels. The agency says that people may choose to wear masks at any time but that a “high-quality mask or respirator” is recommended for everyone when a county has a “high” Covid-19 community level. As of Thursday, about 5.66% of US counties have high community levels, including some places in Arizona, Wyoming, Oregon and the Dakotas. Even without a mandate, she emphasized community efforts like wearing masks inside when possible and getting Covid-19 vaccines or boosters. “We do know that 5% of the population is living in places with a high Covid-19 community level.

☆ I'm a 20-year-old Airbnb host who made $375,000 in revenue this year. Here's how I set up and scaled my properties.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Dorothy Cucci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Inayah McMillan is a 20-year-old Airbnb host with 11 listings in St. Louis, Missouri. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Inayah McMillan, a 20-year-old Airbnb host with listings in St. Louis, Missouri. We've made more than $375,000 this year in revenue, and our best month yet was this past May, when we made $58,120 in revenue. If I could go back, I would have registered my Airbnb business as an LLC from the very start. Automation softwares are key to scaling"Beaming Carriage Home" in Central West End, St. Louis mAnother thing that sets me apart is having a private booking website.

☆ Fauci criticizes 'extreme' ideological divide that has led to disproportionate Covid deaths
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Anthony Fauci, the federal government's top infectious disease expert and a chief proponent of Covid vaccines, sharply criticized the "extreme" ideological divide that he said has led to a disproportionate amount of coronavirus deaths among Republicans compared to Democrats. In an interview with NBC News' Lester Holt scheduled to air Wednesday night, Fauci said he thought political viewpoints had a measurable effect on the number of people who could have been saved by the coronavirus vaccine. It’s part of our democracy, part of what makes our country great. But when they get so extreme that it prevents you from doing something that’s life saving, that is really awful," he said. Watch the full interview on “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. CT.Several studies have found that Covid deaths are unevenly distributed among Republicans and Democrats.

☆ Peru's president dissolved Congress hours before he faced an impeachment trial and is now calling to rewrite the country's constitution
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo said Wednesday that he will dissolve the nation's Congress. The embattled president made the annoucement hours before he was set to face an impeachment trial. Castillo assumed office a year ago and has so far survived two impeachment attempts. The president pushed the Andean nation into a fresh political crisis just before lawmakers were scheduled to try for a third time to unseat him from office. "I have decided to irrevocably resign from the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs, given the decision of President Castillo to close Congress... violating the Constitution," said Landa, according to Reuters.

☆ Live updates: Russian official says Kursk airfield has been attacked; Ukraine comes under further missile strikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine faced continuing missile attacks on Tuesday morning, a day after it faced an heavy barrage of missiles from Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address Monday that 70 Russian missiles had been fired at Ukraine during attacks yesterday and that most of them were shot down. The wave of missile attacks came after blasts at two separate air bases in Russia. Russia blamed Kyiv for the attacks but Ukraine has not publicly commented on the incidents. On Tuesday morning, the governor of Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, said there was a "drone attack" near an airfield in the region.

☆ Zelenskiy urges residents to be strong as Ukraine races to restore power
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Nick Starkov | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Russia has been pounding Ukraine's power infrastructure since early October, causing blackouts and leaving millions without heating as temperatures plummet. RESTORING POWERIn Ukraine, officials have been resorting to scheduled blackouts as they race to restore power. In Kherson, left largely without power when Russian forces abandoned the southern city last month, the regional governor said 85% of customers now had electricity. On the battlefront, Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were holding positions along the front line, including near Bakhmut, viewed as Russia's next target in their advance through Donetsk. Russian forces trained tank and artillery fire on both cities and about eight other centres.

The Biden administration called them “shortsighted” and said they would hurt low- and middle-income countries by pushing energy prices higher. Europe’s ban on importing oil from Russia shipped by sea kicks in on Monday, injecting extra uncertainty into the outlook for energy supply. G7 nations, the European Union and Australia agreed Friday to impose a price cap of $60 a barrel on Russian oil shipped to other countries that have not adopted an embargo. The move, which also takes effect Monday, is aimed at depriving the Kremlin of revenue while avoiding a price shock by keeping Russian oil flowing to some markets. Moscow has previously threatened to retaliate by cutting off oil supply to countries that adhere to the price cap.

☆ OPEC sticks with oil supply cuts as West tightens sanctions on Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

A tech entrepreneur in Texas wasn’t given ample time to drop a rifle he was carrying on his own front porch before he was fatally shot by police last month, his devastated family told NBC News. The caller said the police were on scene and the man fired again, police said. Police identified the officer who fired at Moonesinghe as Daniel Sanchez, who is now on administrative leave. Immediately after telling Mr. Moonesinghe to drop the gun, Officer Sanchez fired his Department approved firearm at Mr. Moonesinghe. … It looks like he’s pointing the rifle at the interior of his home.”The caller then alerts the dispatcher that the man fired the rifle.

☆ Ukraine Struggles to Reconnect People to Power Grid as Russia Escalates Missile Strikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Six million people remain without power across Ukraine, as Russian strikes on critical infrastructure continued, while the United Nations made a record request for humanitarian aid for next year, in part fueled by the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address Wednesday that residents remained disconnected from the electricity grid in most regions of the country. The outages are worst in Kyiv, Odessa and several regions in western Ukraine that had been largely insulated from the effects of the war before Russian strikes began hitting infrastructure over the last two months.

The women's attorney, L. Chris Stewart, based in Atlanta, said the Americans died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a malfunctioning water heater. Investigators believe the trio died from carbon monoxide poisoning, Mexico City prosecutors said. Ben Jared / PGA TOUR via Getty Images fileAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, carbon monoxide poisoning is almost entirely preventable. But carbon monoxide poisoning can be especially dangerous during power outages, when people use alternative sources of fuel or electricity, such as generators. A winter storm in Texas in mid-February 2021 resulted in one of the worst carbon monoxide poisoning incidents in recent history, experts said.

☆ Ukraine seeks ban on churches 'affiliated' with Russia
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Dan Peleschuk | Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

KYIV, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian government will draw up a law banning churches affiliated with Russia under moves described by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as necessary to prevent Moscow being able to "weaken Ukraine from within." The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) it said was searching at least five parishes belonging to a branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church which until May was subordinated to the Russian Orthodox Church. The branch has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine but many Ukrainians fear it could be a source of Russian influence in the country. "Therefore, the state of Ukraine does not have any legal grounds to put pressure on or repress our believers," he said. The Orthodox Church in Russia has lavishly backed the Kremlin's nine-month-old invasion of Ukraine.

[1/2] Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - World Cup Accommodation - Doha, Qatar - November 28, 2022 General view of Barwa Barahat al Janoub complex which is some of the cheapest accommodation available for World Cup fans in Qatar REUTERS/Charlotte BruneauAL WAKRAH, Qatar, Nov 29 (Reuters) - For tens of thousands of World Cup fans, home base in Qatar is a concrete complex on the edge of the desert, next to a slaughterhouse and a set of high-voltage electrical wires. The new complex, which features 1,404 clusters of three-storey buildings laid out in a grid of narrow streets, was designed to house some 67,000 low-income workers - a group that makes up the majority of Qatar's 3 million population - who are expected to move in some time after the World Cup. I was saving money since like the last two years," said Sandipan Bhowmick from India, who is attending his first World Cup. Sombrero-toting Mexicans, flag-draped Moroccans and a group of Brazilians singing "Ole, Ole, Ole" emerge from buses and taxis. Reporting by Andrew Mills and Charlotte Bruneau; Writing by Andrew Mills; Editing by Conor HumphriesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The Epic Blunder That Made America’s Goalkeeper
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DOHA, Qatar—Before Matt Turner became a star for the U.S. men’s national team, he was famous for the one and only thing that a goalkeeper never wants to become associated with: an all-time howler. The goal Turner gave up in 2013 was so astonishing that a Fairfield University soccer clip went viral. Videos of the play—which began with a shot that ricocheted off the crossbar, popped into the air and then rolled off Turner when he tried to collect it, into his own net—rapidly spread across social media and the nightly news. Turner rode the bench for the rest of the season while seemingly everyone watched his mistake over and over.

☆ Zelensky Warns of More Russian Missile Attacks as Ukraine Struggles to Restore Power
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the country was facing a difficult week amid the threat of further missile strikes by Russia aimed at disabling key infrastructure and sapping Ukrainian morale. “Our defense forces are preparing. Our whole country is preparing,” Mr. Zelensky said in his nightly address Sunday, praising repair personnel working overtime across the country. “All scenarios are being assessed.”

☆ Ukraine must prepare itself for a new wave of Russian strikes, Zelenskyy says; liberated Kherson remains 'vulnerable'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

We know this for a fact," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Sunday. He urged defense forces and citizens to work together to withstand expected future attacks. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the country must prepare for new missile attacks from Russia, while millions still remain without power as a result of relentless bombardment of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Ukraine's power network came under intense attack last week, with Zelenskyy saying Friday evening that blackouts persisted in most regions as well as the capital of Kyiv. "I know that, unfortunately, not in all cities the local government has done a good job.

☆ Russia planning new strikes, says Ukraine's Zelenskiy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Russia would surely launch new missile attacks on his country, and warned defence forces and citizens should be prepared to work together to withstand the consequences. We know this for a fact," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. Zelenskiy said the week to come could well be as difficult as the previous week, when attacks on electricity infrastructure subjected Ukrainians to the most acute power cuts since Russian troops invaded in February. "Our defence forces are getting ready. The entire country is getting ready," he said.

☆ Kyiv mayor punches back at Ukraine president's criticism
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nov 27 (Reuters) - The mayor of Kyiv, former professional boxer Vitali Klitschko, hit back on Sunday at criticism by Ukraine's president over measures to help residents withstand power cuts, describing disputes as "senseless" amid Russia's military campaign. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy noted last week there were a lot of complaints about measures adopted in the capital. "I do not want to become involved in political battles, particularly in the current situation," Klitschko said in a video posted on Telegram. In his nightly video address on Friday, Zelenskiy said the Kyiv mayor had not done enough to help beleaguered residents. Before the war, the two leaders had clashed over the way the capital and its services were being run.

☆ Snowy Kyiv grapples with power outages amid fears of new attacks
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The cold weather is gradually pushing up the energy needs of consumers even as repair workers race to fix wrecked power facilities, grid operator Ukrenergo said. Electricity producers are still unable to resume full power supply after Russia's missile attacks on Wednesday and have no choice but conserve energy by imposing blackouts, it said. Moscow has targeted vital infrastructure in recent weeks through waves of air strikes that have sparked widespread power outages and killed civilians. "If consumption increases in the evening, the number of outages may increase," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address, reiterating an appeal to citizens to save power. "This once again shows how important it is now to save power and consume it rationally."

☆ Cristiano Ronaldo Kicks Off His Final World Cup—and a Job Search
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Joshua Robinson | Jonathan Clegg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo begins his World Cup on Thursday. DOHA, Qatar–The most famous person at this World Cup is rapidly aging, stewing over the nightly news and currently unemployed. These are tough times to be Cristiano Ronaldo.

☆ Cristiano Ronaldo Kicks Off His Final World Cup With a Win
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Joshua Robinson | Jonathan Clegg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal celebrates with Joao Felix after scoring via a penalty during Portugal’s win over Ghana on Thursday. DOHA, Qatar–The most famous person at this World Cup is rapidly aging, stewing over the nightly news and currently unemployed. These are tough times to be Cristiano Ronaldo.

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