Rescue efforts continue as precipitation soaks regions like Arequipa, a centre for recent antigovernment protests.A landslide in southern Peru has left at least eight people dead and five more missing, as torrential rain washes through the region on Monday. Twenty more people were treated for minor injuries, according to a bureau for Peru’s Ministry of Health in the mountainous town of Secocha, where the landslide took place. Located on the banks of the Ocoña River in Camaná province, Secocha is among the areas in the department of Arequipa facing high water levels as heavy rain continues to fall. As of…
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The United States Department of Justice has charged a neo-Nazi leader and his associate with plotting to attack Baltimore’s power grid, a plan the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) thwarted with the help of a confidential informant. Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, and Sarah Clendaniel from Maryland were arrested last week, US officials said in a briefing on Monday, and they have been charged with conspiring to damage an energy facility. Russell is a convicted felon and founder of a neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division that works towards “ushering in the collapse of civilization”, according to the Southern Poverty…
Eight amateur rugby players have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for a 2020 murder that shocked Argentina, after an 18-year-old was beaten to death in what critics described as a racist and classist attack. Five of the eight defendants — all between the ages of 21 and 23 — were handed sentences of life imprisonment on Monday in the death of Fernando Baez Sosa, a law student from a Paraguayan-born family. The other three each received 15 years for playing a “secondary” role in the incident. The verdicts came after a four-week trial in a court in the town…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Brady will not go immediately from the playing field to the broadcast booth. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Brady told Colin Cowherd during Monday’s episode of “The Herd” on FS1 and Fox Sports Radio that he will not start his broadcasting career with Fox until the 2024 season. The seven-time Super Bowl champion — who retired last week after a 23-year career with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers — signed a 10-year deal with Fox last May to become the network’s top analyst when he decided to quit playing for…
Antonio Guterres says prospects of ‘further escalation and bloodshed’ in the Russia-Ukraine war keep growing.United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned the world that it may be heading towards a “wider war” as the risk of a further escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict rises. In a speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly on Monday presenting his 2023 priorities, Guterres decried the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying the war was “inflicting untold suffering on the Ukrainian people with profound global implications”. “The prospects for peace keep diminishing,” he said. “The chances of further escalation and bloodshed keep growing. “I…
Manchester-based football club says they welcome review by an independent commission.England’s Premier League has charged last season’s champions Manchester City with more than 100 alleged breaches of its financial rules since the club was acquired by the Abu Dhabi-based City Football Group. The alleged misdemeanours stretch from the 2009-10 season to the 2017-18 campaign, the league said on Monday following a years-long investigation. During that period, the team won three Premier League titles: in 2012, 2014 and 2018. Charges such as those faced by Man City could, if proven, result in a club being expelled from the Premier League in…
PRAGUE (AP) — Jaromir Jagr celebrated his 51st birthday about a week early by scoring his 1,099th goal to overtake Wayne Gretzky at the top of the chart. Jagr, who will turn 51 on Feb. 15, scored for the Kladno Knights on Sunday in 5-4 loss at Trinec in the Czech league. The winger, who was the NHL’s second highest point scorer in 2018 when he was released by the Calgary Flames, got his 1,099 goals in professional games and at international tournaments. Jagr collected the puck behind the net before skating around it to put Kladno ahead 4-3 at…
Thread by thread, the idea of lovely Canada is coming undone. Some, if not many, Canadians are likely to consider my indictment as a click-bait-driven exaggeration or hyperbole. There is, I think, more than a measure of truth in that uncharitable opening sentence. This nation, widely known and admired for its tolerance and kindness, has changed and is changing in ways that call into question Canadians’ understanding and appreciation of what has allegedly made Canada different from other, much more turbulent and much less generous places in the world. The discovery over the past two years of mass, unmarked graves…
Tagenarine Chanderpaul – son of West Indies legend Shivnarine – scored a Test double century against Zimbabwe as he and captain Kraigg Brathwaite shared a national-record opening stand.Chanderpaul made 207 not out from 467 deliveries in West Indies’ total of 447-6 declared in Bulawayo, scoring a maiden hundred in his fifth Test innings. The 26-year-old’s 336-run partnership with Brathwaite (182) for West Indies’ first wicket eclipsed the 298 Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes had put on against England in St John’s in 1990.Shivnarine Chanderpaul is West Indies’ second-highest Test run-scorer of all time, behind only Brian Lara, after amassing 11,867…
Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Israeli forces have shot dead at least five Palestinian men during a raid on Jericho in the eastern occupied West Bank. The large-scale raid took place in the early hours of Monday in the Aqabet Jabr refugee camp – which has been under an Israeli siege, as described by Palestinians, for more than a week – and continued until after dawn. Confirming the death of five people, the governor of Jericho said three others were injured. The Israeli military initially said in a statement that it had killed seven men in total, including two responsible…