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Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri killed in U.S. strike in Afghanistan
Reuters News August 2, 2022 1:44 AM GMT+1 Last Updated 9 min ago written By Idrees Ali and Jeff Mason - The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, President Joe Biden said on Monday, the biggest blow to the militant group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who had a $25 million bounty on his head, helped coordinate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Zawahiri died after a U.S. drone strike in the Afghan capital Kabul at 6:18 a.m. (0148 GMT) on Sunday. "Now justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more," Biden said in remarks from the White House. "No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the United States will find you and take you out." U.S. intelligence determined with "high confidence" through multiple intelligence streams that the man killed was Zawahiri, a senior administration official told reporters. He was killed on the balcony of a "safe house" in Kabul that he shared with other members of his family. No other casualties occurred. Zawahiri succeeded bin Laden as al Qaeda leader after years as its main organizer and strategist, but his lack of charisma and competition from rival militants Islamic State hobbled his ability to inspire spectacular attacks on the West. His death raises questions about whether Zawahiri received sanctuary from the Taliban following their takeover of Kabul in August 2021. The official said senior Taliban officials were aware of his presence in the city. The drone attack is the first known U.S. strike inside Afghanistan since U.S. troops and diplomats left the country in August 2021. The move may bolster the credibility of Washington's assurances that the United States can still address threats from Afghanistan without a military presence in the country. In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed that a strike took place and strongly condemned it, calling it a violation of "international principles." Code:
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A Traveler Was Fined $1,874 For Not Declaring a McDonald's Egg McMuffin in Australia
entrepreneur.com By Gabrielle Bienasz August 2, 2022 Sometimes an egg sandwich at the wrong time will cost you. That was the case for a traveler who was fined about $1,874 USD when he did not declare his egg and sausage McMuffins while traveling from Bali to Australia, according to Fox Business. The bag also included a ham croissant and "a variety of risk items," according to an Australian government press release. The traveler has not been identified. In early July, Australia boosted inspections of several items, including biological materials, after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Bali, per ABC News in Australia. FMD is a highly-contagious disease that infects livestock such as cows, sheep, goats, and pigs – any animal with divided hooves, according to the USDA. (It does not impact dogs, cats, and horses.) "It can spread quickly and cause significant economic losses," the agency added. FMD can be distributed by contaminated clothes, improperly cooked food, or other "biologic products" — hence the reaction to the illicit McMuffin pair. "This will be the most expensive Maccas meal this passenger ever has, this fine is twice the cost of an airfare to Bali, but I have no sympathy for people who choose to disobey Australia's strict biosecurity measures, and recent detections show you will be caught," Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Murray Watt said in the statement. The Australian government's statement added a dog named Zinta sniffed out the meat, which led to an inspection of the bag, and a fine for "failing to declare potential high biosecurity risk items and providing a false and misleading document." Earlier this month, a woman flying from Greece to Perth, Australia, was fined around $1,844 for not declaring her Subway sandwich on her customs form and for bringing it into the country, according to the Washington Post. She went viral on TikTok, and Subway company ended up sending her a box of products, (but did not pay the fine) according to the outlet. McDonald's did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether it had such plans. FMD can also cause emotional distress — and economic. One woman, Kim Lane, told ABC News in Australia she would never forget the smell of livestock all over the UK being burned during an outbreak in the 2000s, or how sad it was for farmers. "Probably the worst part was … the human factor. Just seeing on TV [farmers] breaking down when some of them found out they had to then cull their whole herd." As Watt said in the statement, "Biosecurity is no joke." |
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Crew takes ‘entire roof’ off wrong Overland Park home — then vanishes, homeowner says
yahoo.com Kaitlyn Alanis August 3, 2022 A crew of contractors “tore the entire roof off” a Kansas home before disappearing — as they were at the wrong place, according to the homeowner. The Overland Park man believes the workers left “when they realized it was the wrong house.” He took to Nextdoor and Facebook in hopes of finding out who was actually supposed to get their roof replaced the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 2. In the meantime, Steve Kornspan says he has contacted police and his insurance company. He also now has his own roofer working on his home. A public information officer with the Overland Park Police Department confirmed Kornspan filed a report the same day. “Right now we’re looking at this as a civil matter,” Officer John Lacy told McClatchy News. “We’re not looking at this as a criminal matter because this was a mistake that they made. They were supposed to get another home and were supposed to rip up that roof but they got the addresses switched.” Police are unsure if there was damage to the inside of the home, but rain is expected to hit Aug. 3. McClatchy News reached out to Kornspan for additional information on Aug. 3 and was awaiting a response. Overland Park is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City. |
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What Lay Behind the Brutal Killing of a Nigerian in Italy? On Friday in the small town of Civitanova Marche on Italy’s Adriatic coast, an Italian man beat and strangled a Nigerian street vendor in broad daylight. Alika Ogorchukwu, 39, had apparently tried to sell the alleged assailant and his girlfriend a packet of tissues and then asked for some change. Public debate is focused on gruesome details of the crime: Ogorchukwu was beaten with the crutch he used to walk and bystanders failed to intervene for the four minutes it took to kill him. Attention has also focused on the fact that the suspect’s lawyer says the suspect has a mental health condition. Yet there’s another troubling aspect to this story: The police have excluded any possible racist motivation behind the violence. Said Deputy Police Commissioner Matteo Luconi, “There is certainly no racial element.” He also said the suspect’s reaction was due to “a particularly insistent request for a handout.” Italy has historically failed to respond adequately to hate crimes. It has a law providing for longer prison sentences for racially aggravated crimes. But law enforcement, prosecutors, and courts tend to pursue this only if racism is identified as the sole motive. That’s why in 2009 a court didn’t recognize any racist motivation when it convicted two men of murdering 19-year-old Italian Abdoul Guiebre after he stole a packet of cookies from their coffee shop, even though the killers shouted racist slurs and, “Thieves, go back to your own country.” The judge ruled that the perpetrators had, “a conservative vision of one’s cultural and territorial integrity, more than in a discriminatory theory of racial superiority.” But as Guiebre’s grieving father told me, “If my son had had a different color of skin, the [perpetrators] wouldn’t have acted like that.” The failure to identify hate crimes reflects a failure to acknowledge that racialized thinking influences behavior. It also means official statistics for hate crimes are low, giving Italian authorities and society a pretext to claim racially aggravated violence is rare and adopt the platitude that “Italy is not a racist country.” Alika Ogorchukwu’s death is now an issue in the lead-up to Italy’s snap elections in September. It is insufficient that political party leaders across the political spectrum have condemned the killing. Italy needs to reckon with the institutional racism in its laws and policies. A call by all parties for a serious investigation of the role race played in the killing would be a start.
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Ferrari recalls nearly every car it produced in the last 17 years
Komando.com By Albert Khoury August 10, 2022 Automotive recalls can range from minor annoying issues to deadly safety concerns. The latest notices of recalls from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) include models from Ford, Jeep, Toyota, Nissan and BMW. Tap or click here to check your car against the list. You don’t often hear about recalls concerning pricey and rare vehicles simply because there aren’t so many of them on the road. While Toyota will produce hundreds of thousands of a single model in a year, a company like Aston Martin or Lamborghini may only make a few hundred. A Camry recall impacts far more cars than one for the Aventador. Ferrari is making waves with its recent recall, however. Why? Because it affects nearly every vehicle it’s sold in the U.S. since 2005! Whether or not you’re one of the lucky few to own one of these exotics, you’ll want to check this out. A whole lot of Ferraris There are more than 50 million cars on the road with open recalls. The affected models come from some of the bestselling automotive brands in the world. How do you know if your vehicle is safe to drive? Tap or click here to check the recall status of any vehicle. Ferrari builds cars in much smaller numbers than your average automaker. The time and effort that goes into each vehicle (plus a very steep entry price) means you won’t see too many on the road. Though a Ferrari recall won’t number in the hundreds of thousands, it’s still a concern when it’s a dangerous one. A Safety Recall Report from the NHTSA states that 23,555 Ferrari vehicles are equipped with a “braking system that could potentially leak brake fluid, which may lead to partial or total loss of braking capability.” Yikes! The affected vehicles were produced as far back as 2004, though the earliest model year for this recall starts in 2005. The number of recalled Ferraris may not seem like much until you realize that it makes up a large chunk of the Italian carmaker’s sales in the U.S. According to its financial reports, Ferrari sold 2,831 cars in the Americas in 2021. This is a solid number for the Italian carmaker, which has seen a steady increase in one of its most important markets. Ferrari has sold roughly 30,000 cars here since 2005. The fix consists of replacing the brake fluid reservoir cap and updating the software to provide a unique warning message if the car loses sufficient brake fluid. Ferrari will notify owners to warn them of the issue, and dealers will fix the recall free of charge. |
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10th August 2022, 18:27 | #616 |
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They tried, they failed: what were they thinking?
Domino's exits Italy after failing to win over ancestral home of pizza The company's cheese-filled crusts and pineapple-topped pizzas failed to gain a foothold in a competitive marketSource: Code:
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Study finds spiders likely sleep and dream a lot like people
msn.com Ian Lee, Tina Kraus Aug 10, 2022 Birds do it, people do it, even dogs do it. We all sleep, and dream as we slumber. But do spiders do it, too? It's a question that's keeping some scientists in Germany up at night. They may be creepy and crawly, but the researchers have concluded that spiders may be more like us than we think. A new study from a team at the University of Konstanz in Germany has found that arachnids — specifically jumping spiders — can doze in a dream-like state, complete with rapid eye movement. Known as REM sleep, that's the deepest stage of sleep that helps us feel rested and stay healthy. Scientists can't scan a spider's brain, and obviously can't quiz them about their dreams. So, the next best thing is to observe them at night. "We actually see twitching and uncontrolled leg movements, coupled with actual retinal movements," said behavioral and evolutionary ecologist Daniela Roessler. Roessler set up a lab to monitor baby spiders while they dangled at night. "I personally do think that they're experiencing visual dreams," said Roessler, "but it will be very difficult to prove that scientifically." Using night vision, the researchers watched jumping spiders attach themselves to silk anchors before catching some zzzzz's. "They have little bursts of activity throughout the night that reoccur pretty regularly, and the durations are also very regular," explained Roessler. The researchers said it was the first time that scientists had observed REM sleep in animals that don't have a backbone or spine. So, whether you have eight legs or two – it appears that everyone needs their beauty sleep. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. But what could spiders possibly dream about? Ask London zookeeper Jamie Mitchell, and he'll tell you: "I would imagine they're going to be dreaming about flies probably." |
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Recent Loch Ness Monster sighting turned out to be an Alpaca going for a swim
A mischievous bunch of escaped alpacas have tricked people around Loch Ness into thinking they have spotted Nessie in the flesh after they were seen going for a dip By John Bett 09 Aug 2022 A recent sighting of the Loch Ness Monster turned out to be an escaped Alpaca going for a swim. When a long-necked figure was seen in the infamous waters people naturally assumed it was the mythical creature, but they were wrong. It turns out a herd of the South American mammals had escaped from a nearby enclosure and had decided to go for a swim, and one, with it's neck protruding from the water, looked remarkably like the iconic shot of Nessie, as the Daily Star reports. An image of an alpaca in the loch was shared on social media and people soon began making jokes about the situation, as one said: "Cue the Nessie sightings from the other side of the loch." The mischievous bunch, from Loch Ness Alpacas in Dores, Inverness, had a nosey round the Balachladaich Bed and Breakfast, situated next to their pen on the banks of Loch Ness. One of the sneakier alpacas was seen finally being caught yesterday as it enjoyed a cool-down in the loch. It looked a dead ringer for the 1934 'surgeon’s photo', which was found to be a fake 60 years later. - -
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'Italian pizza is better for sure' - Italians respond to Domino's pulling out of country Domino's Pizza's last stores in Italy have been closed after the firm that operated its outlets in the country filed for bankruptcy.Source (includes video): Code:
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Car Thief Who Hid From Police Inside Giant Teddy Bear Learns His Fate
HuffPost msn.com David Moye Aug 11, 2022 A suspected car thief in Manchester, England, apparently found the idea of being arrested unbearable ― so he reportedly attempted to hide inside a 5-foot teddy bear. Spoiler alert: Joshua Dobson’s attempt at being a master of disguise didn’t work and now he will have to see if he can bear time behind bars. The 18-year-old has been wanted by Greater Manchester Police since May when he allegedly “stole a car and didn’t pay to fuel it up,” according to the BBC. Dobson managed to elude capture until July when police were searching a house in Rochdale and noticed what a force spokesman described as “a large bear breathing.” Dobson was taken into custody and charged with the alleged crimes. He was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders institution last week, according to the Metro. The Greater Manchester Police announced Dobson’s sentence on Facebook with some pretty unbearable puns: “He’s now stuffed behind bars after being sentenced last week for theft of a motor vehicle, driving while disqualified, and making off from a petrol station without payment. Hopefully, he has a bearable time inside.” |
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