The Pope’s plane arrived in Iqaluit at about 4 p.m. ET and the pontiff was greeted by local officials, including Nunavut Premier PJ Akeeagok and Commissioner Eva Aariak. It marks the first papal visit to Canada’s newest territory, and for some, a potential turning point in a century-long relationship between the Catholic Church and Canada’s Inuit. “Once the pope apologizes, we have to find a way to move on from this....
Ukraine’s capital city could be facing a renewed threat as the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Denis Pushilin traveled to Belarus Wednesday and said it was “time to liberate” Kyiv. Pushilin, backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, traveled to the southwest city of Brest, which is situated on the border of Poland and just 50 miles from Ukraine, a state-owned Russian media outlet first reported. “Today it’s time again to liberate Russian cities founded by Russian people: Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Lutsk,” Pushilin said naming cities across Ukraine while he attended a flower-laying ceremony at the Brest Fortress in honor of a Wold War II battle, according to a Telegram post by RIA....
Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station project “after 2024” after fulfilling its obligations, the Kremlin said after a meeting between newly appointed head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “You know that we work in the framework of international cooperation on the International Space Station. Undoubtedly, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to abandon the station after 2024 has been made,” Borisov told Putin in the statement issued by the Kremlin....
The Buccaneers may have a serious injury problem along their offensive line early in training camp. According to multiple reporters regarding the Bucs’ blowout, center Ryan Jensen went down with an apparent left leg injury. He was briefly down as his teammates knelt when the cart came out. Jensen didn’t put much weight on his left leg as he was helped to the basket and carted off. After practice, head coach Todd Bowles said Jensen had a knee injury....
En annonçant jeudi la fin de sa carrière à seulement 35 ans, l’Allemand privera le sport d’un de ses meilleurs palmarès. Avec quatre titres mondiaux, l’actuel pilote Aston Martin arrive juste derrière Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher (7) et Juan Manuel Fangio (5) dans le livre d’or de la Formule 1. Vainqueur à 53 reprises en Grand Prix, il n’est devancé que par Lewis Hamilton ( 103) et Michael Schumacher (91)....
Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is accused of failing to pay the Spanish government 14.5 million euros ($15 million) in taxes between 2012 and 2014. Prosecutors said they would also seek a fine of 24 million euros ($24 million dollars). The indictment outlines six charges against Shakira. The singer this week rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors, opting to go to trial instead. A trial date has not yet been set....
Zeta Ophiuchi is a single star that likely once had a companion that was destroyed when it went supernova. The supernova explosion sent Zeta Ophiuchi, seen in Spitzer (green and red) and Chandra data (blue), hurtling through space. X-rays detected by Chandra originate from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by the effects of a shock wave. Scientists are working to match computational models of this object to explain data obtained at different wavelengths....
The development, first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, came after Spirit four times pushed back a shareholder vote on the Frontier deal, hoping it could garner enough support. Spirit had previously argued that antitrust regulators were unlikely to clear JetBlue’s $3.7 billion bid. The result was a setback for Frontier and its chairman Bill Franke, who was instrumental in starting talks between the sides last year. Franke’s airline-focused buyout firm Indigo Partners is a major shareholder in Frontier....
Stellantis poursuit sa trajectoire financière sans accroc. Après des résultats 2021 record, le groupe composé de PSA et Fiat-Chrysler a publié ce jeudi de nouveaux très bons résultats au premier semestre. Le quatrième groupe automobile mondial a annoncé un bénéfice net de 8 milliards d’euros, en progression de 34% sur un an. Tous les voyants sont au vert, avec notamment un chiffre d’affaires en augmentation de 17% à 88 milliards d’euros, un résultat opérationnel en hausse de 44%, à 12,4 milliards d’euros et un “free cash-flow” industriel de 5,3 milliards d’euros, de quoi rassurer les investisseurs sur un marché automobile fortement ralenti par les pénuries de puces électroniques....
Murder charges have been laid in the death of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was shot in front of his business in Surrey, BC, on July 14. Malik, who was acquitted in 2005 in connection with the Air India bombings that killed 331 people, was 75. On Tuesday, RCMP arrested Tanner Fox, 21, and Jose Lopez, 23, without incident in Abbotsford and New Westminster, respectively. “Through conventional investigative techniques and outstanding police work, we were able to locate and arrest two suspects in connection with this homicide,” said Supt....
• Lisez aussi : L’un des chefs du « convoi de la liberté » obtient une caution • Lire aussi : Le juge refuse de libérer à nouveau Tamara Lich Faisant face à de multiples accusations, Mme Lich, qui était en liberté conditionnelle en attendant son procès, avait rencontré le co-accusé et militant anti-vaccin Tom Marazzo lors d’un gala du Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms le 16 juin, même si cela était strictement interdit....
The decision to move 0.75% matched the size of the Fed’s last move in June, which was the largest rate hike in a single meeting since 1994. Wednesday’s decision was unanimously agreed by members of the Federal Open Market Committee who voted. The Fed has now moved in four consecutive meetings to raise borrowing costs in America, extending its effort to curb spending by households and businesses. The goal: to tackle inflation running at rates not seen since the early 1980s....
@C Erskine: “Purely scientific and objective: England is the most beautiful country on Earth because it contains Old Winchester Hill where I asked my wife to marry me in 1976. Also Eastbourne, where my three children were born and West Sussex where I live close to one of my daughters and her family, with my other family only an hour away. “There’s also the South Downs, Dorset, Cotswolds, Shropshire, Kent and Devon....
In a 5-4 decision today, the high court says that “no, no without a condom” should not be taken to mean “yes, without a condom” in a courtroom. A court has ordered a new trial in a British Columbia case in which a complainant told a new sex partner, Ross McKenzie Kirkpatrick, that she would only have sex with him if he wore a condom. The fact that Kirkpatrick used a condom the first time they had sex led the complainant to assume he was already wearing one when they started having sex the second time, he told the court – but he didn’t, which he said he didn’t realize....
Van Vleuten : “Après 6 jours à survivre, je voulais faire les plus gros écarts possible” Un simple aperçu du matelas que possédait, sur cette étape, la récente vainqueure du Giro sur la concurrence. “Je me suis battue si fort, mais je ne suis pas assez forte pour le moment, a poursuivi Vollering. Si j’avais été capable de tenir un peu plus longtemps… Mais je ne pouvais pas. Quand je l’ai vu (Van Vleuten) surgir devant, je m’attendais à ce qu’elle fasse quelque chose, j’étais prête, j’espérais tenir un peu plus longtemps mais ça n’a pas été le cas”, a-t-elle raconté, comme pour s’incliner devant une adversaire beaucoup trop féroce pour le reste du peloton....
Für den russischen Einmarsch in die Ukraine gebe es keine Rechtfertigung, betonte Müller. „Putin ist verantwortlich für die schrecklichsten Verbrechen, Verbrechen gegen unschuldige Männer, Frauen und Kinder. Leider haben wir immer noch Leute, die ihn verteidigen.” Deutscher Kardinal Müller, Erzbischof und Kardinal der römisch-katholischen Kirche Quelle: dpa/Oliver Weiken Es ist zutiefst enttäuschend, dass ein einzelner Mann einen solchen Krieg mit Tausenden von Opfern beginnen kann. „Putin hat einen Instinkt für ein Machtspiel mit der Gefühlswelt eines Sexualstraftäters“, sagte Müller....
An unknown number of people were killed and several others wounded when United Nations peacekeepers opened fire on a border post in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN said. Video of the incident, shared on social media, shows men – at least one in police uniform and another in army uniform – advancing towards the stalled UN convoy behind a closed barrier in Cassidy. The city is located in Beni territory of eastern DRC on the border with Uganda....
Un premier rapport a été rendu par les services d’instruction de l’Autorité de la concurrence et il n’est « pas favorable » au projet de fusion entre TF1 et M6, qui doit créer un géant français de la télévision, a annoncé mardi 26 juillet le dirigeant de M6, Nicolas de Tavernost, en marge de la publication des résultats de son groupe. Le rapport pointe notamment « des problèmes de concurrence significatifs » dans la publicité télévisuelle, a évoqué M....
A US aircraft carrier and its strike group are now in the South China Sea in what could potentially become a tense standoff in hotly contested waters near Taiwan. Speaking to Insider on Wednesday night, US Navy spokesperson Mark Langford confirmed that the vessels were on the move and operating in the South China Sea. The aircraft carrier departed Singapore after making a scheduled port visit on July 22. According to Langford, the carrier is “continuing normal, scheduled operations as part of her routine patrol in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific....
“All EU member states, including Hungary, signed up to common global values,” von der Leyen told Slovak news website aktuality.sk on Saturday, adding that “discriminating on the basis of race is to trample on those values. The European Union is built on equality, tolerance, justice and fair play.” Von der Leyen did not mention the Hungarian leader explicitly. But her comments came in response to a question on a controversial speech Orbán gave last weekend, in which he notably said he didn’t want Hungary to be a “mixed-race” country....
