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Industry-backed pesticide immunity laws are advancing nationwide, raising fears that farmers and families harmed by pesticides could lose their right to seek justice.

Die globale Sicherheitslage ist in den letzten Jahren immer weiter aus den Fugen geraten.  Weltweit wird für Aufrüstung so viel ausgegeben wie noch nie. Jetzt wird auch in Österreich wieder über höhere Militärausgaben sowie über eine Verlängerung von Wehr- und Zivildienst diskutiert. Gegen eine Verlängerung auf insgesamt 10 Monate (Zivildienst 12 Monate) – wie sie […] Der Beitrag Verlängerung von Wehr – und Zivildienst: „Junge Menschen haben kaum Mitspracherecht“ erschien zuerst auf Kontrast.at.

آنتونیو گوترش، دبیرکل سازمان ملل متحد، با ابراز نگرانی عمیق از تشدید دوباره تنش‌ها در خاورمیانه، خواستار توقف فوری همه حملات و رعایت کامل آتش‌بس‌ها در لبنان، ایران، و غزه شد.

New York — Serokê Amerîkayê Donald Trump roja Sêşemê ragihand ku dibe peymanek ji bo dawîkirina şerê di navbera Îran û alîyên têkildar de di nav “du an sê rojan” de were bidestxistin. Trump dema serê sibehê zû li firokxaneya John F. Kennedy ku bi firokeya Air Force One dixwest vegere Koşka Sipî, gote rojnamevanê CNBC News ku "Amerîka û Îran niha di qonaxa dawî ya danûstandinên peymanekê de ne." Wî got "pir baş û pir girîng e." Serok Trump careke din tekezî li ser bernameya navokî ya Îranê...

Qeveria do ta monitorojë situatën gjatë këtij muaji dhe më pas, nëse ka nevojë, do të miratojë masa ekonomike të synuara për uljen e inflacionit. Këtë e njoftoi sot kryeministri Hristijan Mickoski, duke iu përgjigjur një pyetjeje të gazetarëve se kur mund të priten masa ekonomike, duke pasur parasysh se norma e inflacionit në nivel […]

The mother of a girl who had lodged a rape complaint against the chief suspect in the Lyhanna murder case is to sue the French state and the justice minister, her lawyer said on Tuesday. Thousands took to the streets nationwide on Monday evening to protest at the failure to protect child victims of violence.

Con un hito simbólico realizado en tierra y en el mar, Puerto Antofagasta colocó la primera piedra de la ampliación de su Molo de Abrigo, uno de los proyectos estratégicos de su Plan Maestro. De esta manera, el puerto avanza en una obra estructural orientada a entregar mayor estabilidad a las operaciones de comercio exterior […] Este artículo Puerto Antofagasta coloca la primera piedra de la ampliación de su Molo de Abrigo fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Israelgo Gobernuak Espainiako Estatuko lau GKEri egotzi die Hamasi "funtsak" bideratzea, Palestinako herritarrei laguntzeko egiten dituzten elkartasun jarduerak direla-eta. Tartean dago Bakea eta Duintasuna, Euskal Herrian aspaldi errotutakoa. "Palestinaren aldeko nazioarteko sareak hausteko saiakera da", esan du komunikatu baten bidez elkarteak.

🎉 Hoy, martes 9 de junio, se celebra el día del Pato Donald. Fue hace exactamente 92 años cuando el icónico personaje de dibujos animados debutó en el cortometraje “La Gallinita Sabia”. Y por si no conoces su nombre completo, aquí te lo dejamos: Donald Fauntleroy Duck. 🗞️ Ahora vamos con las principales noticias 👨🏻‍🚒 […]

Više javno tužilaštvo odbacilo je krivičnu prijavu protiv bivšeg načelnika beogradske policije Veselina Milića u delu koji se odnosi pomaganje počiniocu ubistva u restoranu u Beogradu 12. maja.

К ограничениям присоединился ряд других стран

Сьледчы камітэт заявіў, што прычынай атручэньня дзяцей у Менскай вобласьці маглі стаць парушэньні санітарна-эпідэміялягічных нормаў, дапушчаныя работнікам падчас вытворчага працэсу.

Online sollen Zweifel an der Berichterstattung zur Ukraine gesät werden: Das Foto von einer Frau, die ihre Katze nach einem Tornado in den USA rettete, sei für Berichte über einen Bombenangriff in der Ukraine verwendet worden. Doch das stimmt nicht.

Во објавата сосема паушално, без никаква експертиза и аргументација се тврди дека откако е поставена кулата на Водно „се мултиплицирале состојби и болести кај луѓето“. Тоа не е потврдено од ниедна домашна или странска здравствена организација. Кулата во моментов е…

Нижняя палата российского парламента одобрила сразу во втором и третьем, окончательном чтении второй пакет мер, направленных на борьбу с мошенничеством.

Еден километар до крајот на 2022 година чинел околу 9 милиони долари, констатирале државните ревизори

Oregon officials who recently blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from receiving undercover state license plates won’t extend the restrictions to all federal law enforcement, including other agencies that assist immigration enforcement operations.  Gov. Tina Kotek’s office announced last week that Oregon’s Driver and Motor Vehicles division would block ICE agents from receiving undercover plates, […]

El papa Lleó XIV ha instat aquest dimarts tots els cristians a l'acollida, la concòrdia i la pau, i ha assegurat que els barcelonins i els catalans tenen una "vocació per convertir-se en constructors d'unitat". En la seva primera homilia a Catalunya, feta amb alguns fragments en català a la catedral de Barcelona, ha admès que això pot comportar sacrificis, però ha instat els fidels a "renunciar a allò superflu i construir el que és essencial". "Barcelona és anomenada 'Cap i Casal de Catalunya'. Això dona a aquesta comunitat i a tots vosaltres, barcelonins i catalans, una vocació i una responsabilitat especial per convertir-vos amb l'ajuda de Déu, en constructors d'unitat", ha afegit. "En un món esquinçat per guerres i divisions, en una societat cada cop més fragmentada i individualista, volem ser màrtirs, és a dir, testimonis i profetes d'unitat, acollida, concòrdia i pau, fins i tot a costa de sacrificis i renúncies", ha dit. Ha afegit que cal "renunciar al que és superflu per construir sobre el que és essencial i dura per sempre". Justament, ha admès que en tota comunitat hi ha "membres més forts i altres més febles, alguns visibles, que fan funcions evidents cap a l'exterior, altres amagats, que actuen des de dins, en alguns casos sense parar-se mai i complint funcions vitals, sense que ningú ni tan sols se n'adoni". El pontífex ha dit que Barcelona "té una gran tradició d'Església" i ha citat el papa Joan Pau II en la seva visita a la capital catalana el 1982, quan va lloar "l'ànim acollidor que al llarg de la història ha dut als barcelonins i catalans, a compartir la ciutadania humana i cristiana amb moltíssima gent". També ha animat els assistents, citant altre cop sant Joan Pau II, a "proclamar davant l'Església que aquesta ciutat i aquesta regió són un lloc ampli i obert a la fraternitat cristiana". Així, ha demanat als fidels que s'entreguin per "construir harmonia i comunió, més enllà de tota polarització".  En el seu discurs ha citat el seu predecessor, el papa Francesc, quan va fer un vídeo per a la inauguració de la torre de la Mare de Déu de la Sagrada Família el 2021 i també un discurs als seminaristes de Barcelona el 2022 on els demanava fraternitat, unitat i amor, més enllà de la llengua, el poble o la nació a la qual pertanyin. L'homilia ha començat amb una breu salutació en català: "Estimats germans i germanes, amb gran goig començo la visita resant l'Hora sexta en aquesta catedral amb tots vosaltres". Després l'ha utilitzat en cinc paràgrafs més, d'un total de més de dues pàgines, i en la salutació final: "Que Maria, mare de l'Església i mare de la unitat, ens ajudi a ser fidels a aquest compromís i a aquesta missió. Mare de Déu de la Mercè, pregueu per nosaltres". Abans d'això, el Papa ha anat directe de l'aeroport del Prat a la catedral de Barcelona, on ha arribat mitja hora més tard del previst inicialment i enmig d'aplaudiments dels concentrats a la plaça de la Catedral. A la porta del temple ha estat rebut per l'arquebisbe de Barcelona, el cardenal Joan Josep Omella, i el degà de la catedral. El pontífex ha entrat a la capella del Sant Crist de Lepant per tenir un moment de recolliment davant del Santíssim Sagrament. A continuació ha recorregut la nau central i el cor del temple, enmig de crits en castellà de 'Visca el Papa' i 'Aquesta és la joventut del Papa' per part dels voluntaris. Tot seguit hi ha hagut un cant de benvinguda, Omella també ha fet un discurs de benvinguda i a continuació s'ha fet la pregària de l'anomenada 'hora mitjana' o 'hora sexta', una oració de la Litúrgia de les Hores. En la seva benvinguda, Omella ha dit que els fidels barcelonins estan molt contents d'acollir el sant pare a la capital catalana i la seva catedral. Li ha dit en català, i ha afegit que no li traduïa perquè Lleó XIV ja ho entén. Ja en castellà, ha saludat el cardenal emèrit i exarquebisbe de Barcelona, Lluís Martínez Sistach, així com als bisbes auxiliars, els canonges de la seu, la cúria diocesana i els voluntaris que omplien la part posterior del temple, entre altres. El sant pare ha fet l'homilia i la benedicció. Bona part dels càntics, els salms i la lectura han estat en català, alguns en llatí i només l'oració i la conclusió han estat en castellà. En acabar, Lleó XIV ha entrat a la capella de Santa Eulàlia, copatrona de la ciutat i patrona de la catedral, per tenir un moment de recolliment i pregària davant la tomba de la santa, a la cripta. Després ha abandonat el temple recorrent la nau central altre cop. Ha sortit per la porta principal, on ha dirigit unes breus paraules als concentrats a l'exterior, on els ha agraït la rebuda i els ha animat a seguir amb "alegria" la fe catòlica. Després, a través de la capella de Santa Llúcia, ha passat pel claustre, ha visitat la font i l'ou com balla, ha saludat els membres del Capítol Catedralici i alguna altra autoritat civil. A través de la porta de Santa Eulàlia ha accedit al Palau Episcopal, que és el seu lloc d'estada a Barcelona i on tindrà un dinar privat. La plaça de la Catedral i el temple en si mateix estan rodejats d'un gran dispositiu de seguretat. L'accés a l'interior està controlat per la Policia Nacional que fa passar tots els assistents, periodistes i voluntaris per un arc detector de metalls i escàner. Dues hores abans de l'arribada del Papa, Omella ja passejava per l'edifici supervisant els últims detalls de l'acte. A les 16.15 hores té prevista una trobada privada amb el president de la Generalitat, Salvador Illa, i a les 5 de la tarda tindrà una altra trobada privada amb membres de l'orde dels Agustins, a la qual pertany Robert Prevost.

In a rare showing of bipartisan support, the state Senate in May overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill that would potentially help hundreds of thousands of California public employees combat obesity by requiring their health insurer to cover anti-obesity medications, or GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic.  So why is CalPERS, the health plan for 1.3 million […]

(The Center Square) – Decatur police visited the home of Municipal Court Chief Judge Rhathelia Stroud on the same day a disputed will is dated that gave her control over her dying brother's estate, but the department says no bodycam footage of the visit exists. Department policy says officers must activate their body-worn cameras on "all calls for service." A family member challenging the will's validity, claiming "forgery," says any footage showing the state of her father on his deathbed that day would be vital to her case in DeKalb County Probate Court. "That would be proof in and of itself right there," the judge’s niece, Gemina Stroud, told The Center Square. "You would be able to see his frail face. You would be able to see how he was on that Friday ... I just don’t think he was of a sound mind." But the police department says no video exists of the Sept. 5 welfare check, which the niece requested amid a dispute with her aunt over her father’s care. Nor can Decatur Police produce an incident report documenting officers entering the judge's home or what they observed about the late Johnny Stroud. The only police record provided to The Center Square is a one-page dispatch log listing the judge’s last name and address, with officer arrival and departure times. Johnny Stroud died of colon cancer twelve days later, on Sept. 17, at age 68. His sister, the judge, filed the will in DeKalb County Probate Court in November. The will, dated Sept. 5, named the judge executrix of her brother's estate. It authorized her to sell his home, valued at $244,000 by the county tax appraiser’s office, and use proceeds to compensate herself for assisting him during his illness. It left nothing to his two adult children beyond asking his sisters to share his personal belongings with them "at their discretion" and to divvy up remaining house sale proceeds "as determined by my Executrix." The Center Square reported last month that, in a court action, Judge Stroud’s niece alleges her father was too "physically debilitated and cognitively impaired" to execute a will, and that someone else wrote his signature. She hired a forensic document examiner to compare the signatures on the will to seven other documents signed by Johnny Stroud while he was alive. The examiner concluded in her written report that "someone did indeed forge the signatures of Johnny Stroud." That report has not been filed in Probate Court. The filed challenge of the will notes the daughter's call for a police welfare check, citing "the likelihood of undue influence, coercion, or manipulation" of her father. Her court filing says Judge Stroud "refused to allow the Decedent – her own brother – to see his children and close friends. The family was forced to request and obtain a welfare check due to concerns for the Decedent’s well-being and possible isolation." Gemina Stroud is asking a Probate Court judge to declare the will invalid, in a case that has the entire DeKalb County judiciary recused because of her aunt's position as a DeKalb judge herself. The county’s Superior Court chief judge has asked the neighboring Atlanta Judicial Circuit to assign a replacement judge. 'The bodycam would be critical' Law professor and former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan said that, even with a signature expert's testimony, invalidating the will in court will be difficult since one of her father's signatures is notarized and two witnesses also signed. And handwriting examination is an art, not a science, he said, so expert testimony alone would not disprove the will's validity. "She would have to show that he's not competent to sign it," Morgan said of the daughter. "It’s a tough burden to overcome." That means any police video recorded Sept. 5 would be essential to the case, he said. "The bodycam would be critical, for either side," Morgan, a criminal law professor at Western Carolina University, said. Judge Stroud has not responded to repeated messages from The Center Square over the past four weeks – left on her personal phone, at both of her judicial offices, and by personal and county email. The attorney representing her in the Probate case, Dana Ashford, also has not responded to phone and email messages sent to her law office. Through her attorney in correspondence obtained by The Center Square, Judge Stroud called her niece's allegations "unsupported" and "factually and legally deficient." In letters between attorneys in the case, provided by the niece, Ashford said the witnesses will testify they saw Johnny Stroud "willingly execute his Will on September 5, 2025, and that he appeared to be of sound mind at the time." Gemina Stroud alleges in her court challenge that the notary and two witnesses are "close personal friends or long-standing acquaintances" of Judge Stroud and were not impartial. Neither Judge Stroud nor her attorney responded to messages last week asking to speak about the welfare check that same day. After trying for days to reach Decatur Police Chief Scott Richards by phone and email, The Center Square found him outside a City Commission meeting last week, where he refused to answer questions about the case in person – only in writing. "We’re looking into it, and I’ll have you a reply," he said. In an email the next day, Richards said the welfare check didn’t warrant an incident report with a detailed narrative "as there was no crime committed." He said because the bodycam videos of the incident were deemed "non-evidentiary," they only had to be retained by the department for six months, which expired March 4. However, The Center Square filed an Open Records Act request for the footage on February 2 – more than a month before the stated expiration date. The department responded at the time that, aside from the dispatch log, "there are no other reports or videos." The dispatch log references bodyworn footage, saying within seconds of officers departing the scene, "Incident Data Sent to Utility BodyWorn Service for agency DECATUR PD.” Gemina Stroud filed her own records request for the footage on February 5. The department responded in writing: "A search of our video management system was conducted; however, no body-worn camera footage was located." Asked why the footage wasn't produced before the retention date expired, Chief Richards said his open records officer was out of the office. "Once I have time to investigate, I will get back with you," he said. The chief declined to identify the responding officers or make the lead officer available for an interview. Calls for outside investigation Rhathelia Stroud holds dual government roles. She has served as a Decatur Municipal Court judge since 1999 and as its chief judge since 2016 – a position appointed by the City Commission to preside over traffic offenses, parking tickets, local ordinance violations, and misdemeanors. She also serves as a DeKalb County Magistrate Court judge – appointed by the county's chief magistrate – presiding over Misdemeanor Mental Health Court, a diversion program for low-level offenders. Ed Williams, a local government accountability advocate who chairs the group Concerned Citizens for Effective Government, reviewed Decatur Police’s policies on bodycams and incident reports, as well as the existing documentation of the Sept. 5 welfare check. He said the department’s only record of the call, the dispatch log, isn’t sufficient. Williams said the department has created the appearance of a conflict of interest by straying from its own policies on a matter personally involving the city’s chief judge. He said the DeKalb County District Attorney should request a Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe into the missing video and the handling of the welfare check. Williams also called on the City Commission, city attorney and city manager to open their own administrative inquiry. "It seems like they’re not being transparent," Williams said. "The only way to get beyond that is to get someone with the authority, from outside, to investigate the incident." Morgan, the former DeKalb DA, also said the case raises questions warranting a criminal investigation. The welfare check Johnny "Pokey" Stroud, an Army veteran and retired bus driver, had been discharged from Atlanta's VA hospital in late August under hospice care. In his daughter’s account, she feuded with her aunt during her father’s final days. She had agreed, though, to allow his two sisters to move him to their home in Decatur, she said. She said other family members informed her she was banned from entering the judge’s home, where her father was bedridden and heavily medicated. She said she called her father on his cell phone on Sept. 5 and told him she wasn’t allowed to visit. "And he just started crying," Stroud said. "I heard him in the background saying, 'Please let her see me. Y'all know I’m hurting. Y'all are making me hurt worse. Do this for me.'" She requested police meet her at the judge’s home. She said she recalls three officers being on the scene. They went inside and exited less than 10 minutes later, she said, and she spoke with the lead officer. "I asked them how my dad was doing, how he was looking," Stroud said. "He was just like, 'He’s just kind of out of it' … I guess he was asleep and not alert." Stroud said she and the officer also talked about her aunt holding medical power of attorney for her father, and the officer suggested the daughter hire a family law attorney. The Decatur Police policy on storing body-worn camera footage says it follows the state's records retention schedule for local governments. That policy says six months for bodycam, but if the footage "can reasonably be anticipated to be necessary for pending litigation" it should be kept for 30 months. The Center Square has asked Police Chief Richards why, given that reported conversation about hiring a family law attorney, the bodycam footage wasn't preserved as evidence for potential litigation. He has not answered that question.