The Toronto Blue Jays announced Wednesday that veteran reliever David Phelps is retiring from MLB after 10 seasons in the league. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Phelps, 36, pitched in both 2021 and 2022 for the Blue Jays, and was especially good last season, finishing with a 2.83 ERA over 63.2 innings. He was an important presence in the young club’s locker room, which the team thanked him for in its tweet. He was also on the team back in 2019, making appearances in 17 games before being traded to the Chicago Cubs. The right-hander had a lat…
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Authorities in the United States on Wednesday have identified a 24-year-old woman and her one-year-old son as the victims of a fatal polar bear attack in an isolated Alaska Native village. The fatal mauling happened on Tuesday in Wales, a coastal community that is no stranger to co-existing with polar bears, situated along the Bering Strait on the westernmost tip of the North American mainland — about 80km (50 miles) from Russia. Summer Myomick of Saint Michael and her son, Clyde Ongtowasruk, were killed in the attack, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement. The polar bear had chased several…
Department of Justice says Anatoly Legkodymov operated the Hong Kong-registered Bitzlato exchange as a money laundering haven.United States authorities have arrested a Russian national accused of running a Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange as a money laundering outfit. The US Department of Justice said Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, a Russian living in Shenzhen, China, is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday for his role in transmitting a total of $700m in illicit funds through the virtual currency exchange Bitzlato, which marketed itself as requiring minimal identification from users. The arrest was conducted in conjunction with the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial…
A professor in the United States has announced plans to sue a Minnesota university following a row over her showing a painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on Islamic art. Hamline University, a small, private school in the city of St Paul, chose not to renew Adjunct Professor Erika Lopez Prater’s contract after a student objected to her showing a 14th-century painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on Islamic art as part of Lopez Prater’s global art course. For many Muslims, visual depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are strictly forbidden and seen as a violation of…
Ottawa Senators centre Josh Norris is returning to the lineup Wednesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins, head coach D.J. Smith announced. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Norris, 23, has been sidelined since Oct. 22 – missing 38 games – with a shoulder injury. Before he was injured, the Oxford, Mich., native had one goal and one assist for two points in five games. At morning skate, Norris was skating on Ottawa’s second line between wingers Alex DeBrincat and Claude Giroux. Smith said Giroux would take most of the faceoffs for Norris. Norris had 35 goals and 20 assists for…
Monastyrskyy, 42, was killed in a helicopter crash on the outskirts of Kyiv while en route to the front lines.Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyy was killed on Wednesday morning when the helicopter he was travelling in crashed near a children’s nursery on the outskirts of Kyiv. The aircraft was flying towards front-line positions in Ukraine’s east when it came down, officials said. There was no immediate official statement on the cause of the incident. Monastyrskyy’s deputy Yevhen Yenin and Interior Ministry State Secretary Yurii Lubkovych were also killed in the incident, but the overall toll is unclear. In the hours…
Liang Wenbo, Yan Bingtao and Zhao XintongTen Chinese players face match-fixing charges as snooker’s governing body investigates the sport’s biggest corruption scandal.The allegations include manipulating games, approaching players to cheat, betting on snooker and fixing a match.In October, Liang Wenbo was suspended by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA).Nine others followed, including 2021 Masters champion Yan Bingtao and UK Championship winner Zhao Xintong.Both players were barred from competing in last week’s Masters.Players found guilty of the charges against them will face a lengthy ban from the sport.Most of the players have not commented publicly on the allegations, although…
At least 15 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister, have been killed after a helicopter crashed in a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, according to Ukrainian emergency services. Three children were among the dead and more than 20 others wounded in Wednesday’s incident were being treated in hospital, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) said. A local official had earlier put the death toll at 18. There was no immediate official statement on the cause of the crash. Russia, which invaded Ukraine nearly 11 months ago, has yet to comment. Here is what we know so far: Where did the…
The Black Hawks replace Australia’s fleet of European-designed Taipan helicopters which are being retired a decade early.Australia has announced it will ditch its fleet of European-designed Taipan military helicopters a decade earlier than scheduled, replacing them with 40 Black Hawk choppers from the United States at an estimated cost of 2.8 billion Australian dollars ($1.97bn). US manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp’s UH-60M Black Hawks will replace Australia’s fleet of MRH-90 Taipan helicopters, which have been plagued for years by costly maintenance issues, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Wednesday. “We’ve just not got the flying hours out of the Taipan that…
Sonu Jaiswal had shot the 90-second smartphone video showing the aircraft approaching the runway at Pokhara moments before the crash.In India’s Ghazipur city, Sonu Jaiswal’s family is distraught and still waiting to identify his body. “It’s a tough wait,” said Jaiswal’s brother, Deepak Jaiswal. Sonu Jaiswal, 25, was on the Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that plummeted into a gorge moments before it was scheduled to land in Pokhara on Sunday, killing all 72 on board. Moments before the crash, Jaiswal was livestreaming the plane’s landing on Facebook. 🚨Trigger Warning🚨#NepalPlaneCrash | A chilling video has surfaced online which shows Indian…