More than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity after dozens of Russian air attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure as winter sets in and temperatures plummet, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Repeated barrages disrupted electricity and water supplies across Ukraine, but Russia blamed the civilian suffering on Ukraine’s refusal to negotiate an end to the war that began on February 24. On Thursday, residents of the recently recaptured city of Kherson in southern Ukraine rushed to stockpile food, blankets, and winter clothing, with shouting matches and shoving erupting as volunteers tossed supplies into the crowds that waited hours in freezing…
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Facebook and Twitter on Friday were blocked in Russia, amid President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine.In a statement issued on Friday, Roskomnadzor, the country’s communications regulator, explained the decision was made to “block access to the Facebook network” after at least 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources” since October 2020. The agency highlighted Facebook’s recent restriction of Kremlin-tied media sources RT and Sputnik across the EU.“Soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information, deprived of their everyday ways of connecting with family and friends and silenced from speaking out,”…
The four, including an Australian economist and a former UK ambassador, were among thousands detained after the military coup.Four foreigners who were among the thousands jailed by Myanmar’s military following its February 2021 coup have flown out of the country after being released in an amnesty. Sean Turnell, a 58-year-old Australian economist who worked as an adviser for elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, arrived in Melbourne on Friday morning. His wife, Ha Vu, posted a photo of the two of them smiling on social media. “He is here,” she wrote, adding a smiling emoji surrounded by hearts. Turnell was…
REGINA — Once again, Zach Collaros is the CFL’s most outstanding player. The Winnipeg quarterback secured the honour for a second straight year Thursday night at the CFL awards banquet. Collaros will lead Winnipeg into the Grey Cup game Sunday versus the Toronto Argonauts, with the Bombers chasing a third straight championship. Voting for the award was conducted by members of the Football Reporters of Canada and the nine CFL head coaches. Collaros, 34, guided Winnipeg to a CFL-best 15-3 record this season, winning 15 of his 17 regular-season starts. Collaros led the CFL in touchdown passes (37) and was…
Every nuclear reactor is a balancing act, where fuel rods are carefully kept just close enough together to generate the heat needed to generate electricity, while being continually monitored to prevent overheating, which would melt the fuel. This requires continuous cooling and a highly trained staff. The reactors themselves are covered with a steel shell and a heavy layer of concrete, expressly designed to withstand projectiles and plane crashes, and meant to contain the heat of the fuel melting down in a disaster. The Chornobyl reactors lacked this level of protection, which led to the open-air release of radioactive material.Ukraine…
American fighters Ryan Garcia and Gervonta Davis have each revealed a fight between the pair is “a done deal” for some time in 2023.The lightweight bout, which has long been rumoured as potentially in the works, was confirmed by each fighter to be taking place in Las Vegas. Davis confirmed he is already scheduled to fight in Washington DC on January 7, but that his next fight will be against Garcia.”I’ll be back in the ring Jan 7 stay tuned for more details! After that it’s me and Ryan signed sealed delivered…done deal!,” he said.Garcia championed “the best fighting the best”…
Bankruptcy specialist John Ray who took over as CEO when FTX filed for bankruptcy said the situation is ‘unprecedented’.New FTX CEO John Ray has said in a US court filing that there was flawed regulatory oversight and a lack of corporate control of the bankrupt crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. In the highest-profile crypto blowup to date, FTX filed for protection in the United States last Friday after traders pulled $6bn from the platform in three days and rival exchange Binance abandoned a rescue deal. “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and…
Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Matt Murray will get the start Thursday against the New Jersey Devils, head coach Sheldon Keefe announced, making it his home debut with the club. Netminder Erik Kallgren will serve as backup to Murray. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Keefe also provided an update on injured goalie Ilya Samsonov, saying the Russian isn’t 100 per cent healthy and is expected to remain out through the weekend. Samsonov has been out since Nov. 5 with a knee injury suffered in a win against the Boston Bruins. Murray began the season as Toronto’s starting netminder but…
Elsewhere in the world, mudslides blanketed Japan’s town of Atami in Shizuoka prefecture, entire villages were inundated by torrential downpours in Western Germany, and a wildfire destroyed Canada’s town of Lytton.Some of these disasters pose real risks of physical harm to kids. Take extreme heat and heat waves: Pregnant people, babies, and young kids are all more vulnerable to heat than older kids and most adults because their bodies aren’t as good at cooling and staying that way. Studies even show that an unborn child’s exposure to extreme heat while in the womb could result in negative health outcomes later,…
Obiang, the world’s longest-standing president, wants to extend his 43-year rule in the oil-rich Central African nation.On Sunday, Equatorial Guinea will hold elections in which the world’s longest-standing president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, will seek to extend his 43-year authoritarian rule, marked by alleged rights abuses and corruption. The West African oil-producing nation of about 1.5 million people has had only two presidents since independence from Spain in 1968; Obiang and his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema who he removed in a coup in 1979. The 80-year-old Obiang, always elected with more than 90 percent of votes in polls international observers have…