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NATO soldiers deploy in Kosovo clashes with Serb protesters

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

NATO peacekeeping soldiers formed security cordons around three town halls in Kosovo on Monday (29 May) as police clashed with Serb protesters, while Serbia's president put the army on the highest level of combat alert.The tense situation developed after ethnic Albanian mayors took office in northern Kosovo's Serb majority area after elections the Serbs boycotted.In Zvecan, one of the towns, Kosovo police - staffed by ethnic Albanians after Serbs quit the force last year - sprayed pepper gas to repel a crowd of Serbs who broke through a security barricade and tried to force their way into the municipality building, witnesses said.Serb protesters in Zvecan threw tear gas and stun grenades at NATO soldiers. Serbs also clashed with police in Zvecan and spray-painted NATO vehicles with the letter "Z", referring to a Russian sign used in war in Ukraine.In Leposavic, close to the border with Serbia, US peacekeeping troops in riot gear placed barbed wire around the town hall to protect it ...

Single-family house sells for $2.9 million in Palo Alto

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

875 East Meadow Drive – Google Street ViewA house located in the 800 block of East Meadow Drive in Palo Alto has new owners. The 1,389-square-foot property, built in 1956, was sold on May 8, 2023, for $2,850,000, or $2,052 per square foot. The property features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a garage, and two parking spaces. The backyard also has a pool. The unit sits on a 7,100-square-foot lot.Additional houses have recently been purchased nearby:A 2,548-square-foot home on the 3600 block of Arbutus Avenue in Palo Alto sold in April 2023, for $4,150,000, a price per square foot of $1,629. The home has 6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In December 2022, a 1,421-square-foot home on Corina Way in Palo Alto sold for $2,902,000, a price per square foot of $2,042. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Lupine Avenue, Palo Alto, in April 2023, a 1,412-square-foot home was sold for $3,100,000, a price per square foot of $2,195. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. 

Today in History: May 31, the Johnstown Flood

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 31, the 151st day of 2023. There are 214 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 31, 1889, some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town. On this date: In 1790, President George Washington signed into law the first U.S. copyright act. In 1859, the Big Ben clock tower in London went into operation, chiming for the first time. In 1921, a race riot erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as white mobs began looting and leveling the affluent Black district of Greenwood over reports a Black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator; hundreds are believed to have died. In 1949, former State Department official and accused spy Alger Hiss went on trial in New York, charged with perjury (the jury deadlocked, but Hiss was convicted in a second trial).In 1962, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel a few minutes before mid...

Connecticut visits Minnesota following Hayes’ 22-point game

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

Connecticut Sun (4-1, 4-1 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (0-4, 0-3 Western Conference)Minneapolis; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Connecticut takes on the Minnesota Lynx after Tiffany Hayes scored 22 points in the Sun’s 81-78 win against the Indiana Fever.Minnesota finished 7-11 at home last season while going 14-22 overall. The Lynx averaged 13.1 points off of turnovers, 11.6 second chance points and 26.8 bench points last season.Connecticut finished 25-11 overall with a 12-6 record on the road last season. The Sun averaged 85.8 points per game last season, 15.7 from the free throw line and 19.2 from deep.INJURIES: Lynx: Natalie Achonwa: out (personal).Sun: None listed.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

UN court issuing appeal ruling in long-running trial of 2 Serbs accused of crimes in Balkan wars

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

FILE - Jovica Stanisic, facing camera, appears in court for his retrial at the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, on June 13, 2017. The appeals decision on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic brings to an end the longest-running war crimes prosecution dating back to the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. (Michael Kooren/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - Jovica Stanisic, facing camera, appears in court for his retrial at the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, on June 13, 2017. The appeals decision on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals...

La Cámara de Diputados de Brasil aprueba un proyecto de ley que limitaría el reconocimiento de las tierras ancestrales indígenas

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

(CNN) — La Cámara de Diputados de Brasil aprobó un proyecto de ley que limitaría el reconocimiento de las tierras ancestrales indígenas, con 283 votos a favor, 155 en contra y una abstención.La ministra de Pueblos Indígenas, Sônia Guajajara, calificó la votación de “grave atentado contra los pueblos indígenas y el medio ambiente”.“El PL490 ha sido aprobado por la Cámara: un grave ataque a los pueblos indígenas y al medio ambiente. Seguimos luchando por la vida. Aún en el Senado, dialogaremos para evitar que se negocie nuestra vida a cambio de lucro y destrucción. ¡No nos rendiremos!”, tuiteó Guajajara a última hora de este martes.Las invasiones y la explotación ilegal de tierras indígenas en Brasil se triplicaron bajo el Gobierno de BolsonaroEl proyecto de ley, conocido como PL 490/2007, despoja a los ministerios de Medio Ambiente y de Pueblos Indígenas de algunas competencias, debilitando su supervisión de las protecciones medioambientales y la demarca...

Australian general says US warns war crime allegations could prevent US forces working with Australia’s SAS

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian general says US warns war crime allegations could prevent US forces working with Australia’s SAS.Source

Netherlands fears Chinese cyberattacks amid chips battle

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

The Netherlands is concerned about Chinese cyberattacks, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said, weeks after The Hague introduced export restrictions on advanced microchips technology to China.“Domestic interference, but also […] cyberattacks stemming from Chinese soil, is something about which we are increasingly worried,” Hoekstra told POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.Hoekstra’s concerns echo reports from the Dutch intelligence services, which label countries with “cyberattack programs” including China as posing a “massive threat.”The Netherlands is home to ASML, a keystone for global chips production and the only company outside the U.S. and Japan that is able to produce the printers needed to manufacture advanced semiconductors. The firm has faced intellectual property theft incidents linked to China in the past. In February it said a China-based former employee stole data about its machinery, and in 2019 it revealed it had been the victim of ...

Brad Treliving leading candidate to be next Maple Leafs GM

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

Brad Treliving is the leading candidate to be the next general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports.“Until I’m given any reason to believe otherwise, I’m leaning more and more towards him. But it’s not set 100 per cent, not confirmed,” Friedman said in an interview on NHL Network on Tuesday.The former Calgary Flames GM would replace Kyle Dubas, who was let go by the Leafs on May 19 after five years at the helm. Toronto was ousted in five games in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Florida Panthers – following losses in the first round of the post-season in Dubas’ first four years in charge.The Flames and Treliving mutually agreed to part ways in April after the team missed the playoffs.Treliving was hired as Flames’ GM in April 2014.The Leafs have had plenty of off-ice drama since being eliminated. Four days before Dubas was fired, he said during a press conference he wasn’t sure he wanted to return to the Leafs as GM...

Israeli strike on eastern Lebanon kills 5 Palestinian fighters, wounds 10

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:09:50 GMT

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An Israeli airstrike targeting positions of a Syria-backed Palestinian group in eastern Lebanon early Wednesday killed five Palestinian militants and wounded 10 others, an official with the group said.Anwar Raja of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, said the Israeli strike hit positions in the Lebanese eastern town of Qusaya near the border with Syria. He said two of the wounded are in critical condition.The PFLP-GC has positions along the Lebanon-Syria border as well as military presence in both countries. The group had carried out attacks against Israel in the past. The Associated Press