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Bandai Namco Entertainment Reveals An Impressive PAX East Lineup Bandai Namco Entertainment Reveals An Impressive PAX East Lineup Bandai Namco has some impressive titles for those attending PAX East and fans should be thrilled to see the games. Source link #Bandai #Namco #Entertainment #Reveals #Impressive #PAX #East #Lineup Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Analysis-With militaries upgraded, risks multiply in any potential India-Pakistan conflict Analysis-With militaries upgraded, risks multiply in any potential India-Pakistan conflict By Saeed Shah and Shivam Patel ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Pakistan have significantly upgraded their military capabilities since the nuclear-armed neighbours clashed in 2019, posing increased risks of escalation even in a limited conflict, former military officers and experts say. Pakistan says India plans a military incursion after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on domestic tourists in Indian Kashmir last month. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to punish the backers of the attack “beyond their imagination”. Pakistan has denied involvement in the attack but has warned it will hit back if it is targeted. In 2019, India carried out air strikes inside Pakistan after the bombing of an Indian military convoy in Kashmir and said it destroyed “terrorist camps”. Pakistani jets conducted a retaliatory air strike and shot down an Indian aircraft during actions spread over two days. The neighbours have fought three wars – in 1948, 1965 and 1971 – and clashed countless times since gaining independence, mostly over the Kashmir region which both claim. Both acquired nuclear weapons in the 1990s and Kashmir is considered one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the world. Military experts say neither side will consider nuclear weapons unless pushed to the wall, but even a limited conflict would carry high risks of escalation. They say such a conflict is likely to involve aircraft, missiles or drones, where India and Pakistan are considered closely matched, although India’s far greater resources would come into play over a longer *******. “Decision makers in both states now have a higher risk appetite for conflict initiation and escalation than prior to 2019,” said Frank O’Donnell, a non-resident fellow at the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, a think-tank in Washington, as they had managed then to clash without nuclear weapons being used. “But without a clear mutual sense of the precise actions, that could trigger inadvertent escalation,” he added. Both sides have acquired new military hardware since 2019, opening up new conventional strike options. “Each side will think they are in a better position than last time,” said Muhammad Faisal, a South Asia security researcher based at the University of Technology, Sydney. “It is only when we see actual combat that we will find out.” In particular, India believes that it was at a disadvantage in 2019 because it had to rely mainly on ageing Russian jets. It has since inducted 36 French-made Rafale fighter jets, a top Western aircraft, with more on order for its navy. To counter, Pakistan got one of China’s most advanced war planes, the J-10, a rough equivalent of the Rafale, in batches since 2022. It has at least 20 of the aircraft, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The planes carry advanced capabilities, with the Rafale armed with Meteor air-to-air missiles that operate beyond visual range. The J-10 is armed with the comparable PL-15 missile, according to a Pakistani security official who declined to be identified because they were not authorised to brief the media. To plug the gaps in air defences exposed on both sides in the 2019 conflict, India secured Russia’s battle-tested S-400, a mobile anti-aircraft missile system. Pakistan obtained the HQ-9 from China, which is based on Russia’s S-300, one notch down. ‘CLAMOUR FOR ACTION’ “Most certainly in some respects we are better off (than 2019),” said Anil Golani, a former air vice marshal in the Indian Air Force, and the director general of the Delhi-based Centre for Air Power Studies think tank. “There’s a lot of clamour for action in the country but, in my personal assessment, both India and Pakistan are not looking for an all-out conflict,” he added. Hanging over any conflict is China, India’s rival and Pakistan’s close ally and biggest supplier of military equipment. Although the U.S. has urged India and Pakistan to ease tensions, it will closely watch any conflict for insights on Beijing’s aerial strength. The ******** plane and its PL-15 missile have not previously been tested in combat. “It could be a contest between Western and ******** technology,” said Faisal, adding “for India, there is the dilemma of how many air squadrons to commit to the Pakistan front, as it must also guard against China.” China and India fought a brief border war in 1962 and the two armies have clashed, most recently in 2022, along their tense Himalayan frontier. Pakistan has a fleet of F-16s, the U.S. aircraft acquired decades back when ties with Washington were stronger. These F-16s were deployed in the 2019 tussle, leading India to lodge protests with the U.S., although New Delhi now enjoys far closer ties with Washington. This time, to avoid the political fallout with the F-16 and to take advantage of having a more advanced aircraft, Pakistan will likely spearhead with the ******** J-10, experts said. But a drone or ground-launched missile strike is considered more likely since neither would risk a pilot being shot down. India has turned to Israel for combat-capable drones, getting the Heron Mark 2, and it has U.S. Predator drones on order. Pakistan has acquired Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 – used by Ukraine in its war with Russia – and the Akinci, also from Turkey, according to the Pakistani security official. Amid the standoff, Pakistan tested a surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 450 km (280 miles) on Saturday, to show that the armed forces were ready to “safeguard national security against any aggression,” according to a statement from the country’s military. Pakistan also has a range of short-range and medium-range missiles, capable of being fired from ground, sea and air. There was no immediate comment from India on the test. India’s capabilities include the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile of about 300 km range as well the Agni series of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The 2019 skirmish almost spiralled out of control, with multiple missile strikes threatened before U.S. intervention calmed the situation down. Kaiser Tufail, a former fighter pilot in the Pakistani air force, said that India did not manage to establish deterrence in 2019, so it would aim for a more incisive strike this time, bringing more risks in its wake. Modi said following the 2019 skirmishes that the country had felt the lack of Rafale fighters at the time, which were on order, and suggested that the results of the clash could have been different if it had the French fighter. “If you go beyond what we saw in 2019, it is very risky,” said Tufail. “Nuclear-armed countries slugging it out is extremely dangerous.” (Reporting by Saeed Shah in Islamabad and Shivam Patel in New Delhi; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan) Source link #AnalysisWith #militaries #upgraded #risks #multiply #potential #IndiaPakistan #conflict Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

The Quintessential Princesses: Fantasy, the Abyss, and the Magic Academy announced The Quintessential Princesses: Fantasy, the Abyss, and the Magic Academy announced MAGES. has announced The Quintessential Princesses: Fantasy, the Abyss, and the Magic Academy, a dungeon RPG based on the manga and anime series The Quintessential Quintuplets. Source link #Quintessential #Princesses #Fantasy #Abyss #Magic #Academy #announced Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Security and verification concerns dog debate over Data (Use & Access) Bill Security and verification concerns dog debate over Data (Use & Access) Bill There is much to be welcomed in the ***’s latest revision to data legislation, which has had a multi-year marathon from inception as the Data Protection & Digital Information Bill and other iterations to its new form as the Data (Use & Access) Bill. Perhaps foremost in the benefits within the bill is the explicit encouragement for organisations to share data to combat financial crime, in particular the move from “legitimate interest” towards “recognised legitimate interest”. In essence this allows organisations to work on the assumption that data can be shared in set circumstances. This then allows for automated data sharing in real time, essential in a world of faster payments where human intervention is not realistic. The bill also goes a long way to create the exciting new smart data economy. It builds, as its regulatory impact assessment notes, all smart data on the success of open banking. The *** has been a pioneer in open banking and as April’s Global FinTech Week attested, the ***’s fintech scene continues to be a world leader and a huge contributor to the government’s growth agenda. As last year’s report with then Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli notes, the Data Bill will move the *** “Beyond fintech to ubiquitech”. This creates opportunities for many other smart data sectors to follow in fintech’s footsteps and create burgeoning new industries – medtech, insurtech, or any of the other sectors that are built on the ubiquitous technologies that underpin the digital economy. One bill to rule them all As the report describes, the Data Bill is the “one bill to rule them all”. Many other acts of Parliament passed recently rely almost entirely on the data provisions within the new bill to optimise their performance. The Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act, for example, relies on the “recognised legitimate interest” to allow it to scale, and the Companies House reforms require the verification of directors to be defined. Unfortunately, this is where the standards envisaged and signposted to are a dramatic fail, opening up not only to future abuse but baking in existing fraudulent activity. Regular readers of Computer Weekly over the last few decades may well recall the ongoing debate as to whether British Gas bills (other utility documents are available) were really the international gold standard for identity security, an issue on which the financial services sector has consistently opined to be counter to effective security. Yet the current “trust” framework – which you can’t trust as there is no liability model behind it – is still harking back to the Gov.*** Verify era Good Practice Guidelines (GPGs). For those uninitiated with the GPGs, they are so called because they provide good practice for slightly disorganised criminals to follow the guide so they can more readily circumvent controls. For those of you who follow the excellent Dark Money Files, we can all agree that even the disorganised criminals need no more help in practicing their online filing. However, reference to GPGs in the Data (Use & Access) Bill would cement these flaws into the system. Given that the bill now builds on open banking it is somewhat counter-intuitive that the addition of all other smart datasets onto open banking should weaken security controls across the board just because the other datasets do not currently have to meet financial services security controls. Security vulnerabilities Outside financial crime, failure to address cyber security vulnerabilities risks the general public’s trust in the handling of their data. Some will recall the collapse of the NHS National Programme for IT in 2012, in large part due to the public’s justified concerns about the lack of security over how their data was being handled. Secretary of state for health and social care Wes Streeting has recently made some excellent points about the need to optimise application of the huge national asset that is NHS data, but this is highly unlikely to be realised without bringing public trust and confidence with it. With the majority of the population having been a victim of financial crime, it is scarcely reassuring to then inform them that a lower security standard is being adopted for their medical records should they consent to use such services, and this urgently needs to be amended. Meanwhile, we heard from the Office for National Statistics last month that fraud – already the largest form of crime, responsible for 41% of all crime – is still accelerating. Moreover, this is despite the stronger sector-specific security standards that exempted financial services from the Network Infrastructure Systems Directive (NIS) a decade ago. The juxtaposition of NIS2 and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), coming through from the European Union, with a watering down of already lax financial services controls does not bode well for a *** “trust framework”. The forthcoming Cyber Security & Business Resilience Bill is to be welcomed in aiming to address the vulnerabilities in *** critical national infrastructure, a concern highlighted recently by Heathrow Airport’s closure and the switch-off of Spanish and Portuguese power grids. Even here, however, strong authentication is critical, as shown in the analysis of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, discovered to be a basic failure of multi-factor authentication. Know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) controls ought to be set at a bare minimum, but even beyond that financial services really ought to be implementing the guidance that *** Finance adopted back in 2018 as part of its commitment to the Payment Systems Regulator’s payment strategy forum’s financial crime working group. Regulatory guidelines While British standards were adopted at the time as meeting the need for regulatory guidelines, these security measures have yet to be effectively implemented in any organisation, with disparate elements merely being patched together in disjointed fashion. If that were to actually manifest then the *** could have a true Dreadnought moment, providing actual identity security, potentially offered internationally, for a robust, resilient, secure and actually trusted framework. But until then, we have a lowest common denominator which will ensure that organised crime flourishes on the back of photoshopped driving licences and gas bills. And for those who are heartened by the inclusion of international biometric chip passports, a quick note that many of our key adversaries are state-sponsored organised crime gangs. While access to corrupt officials in certain nations has always been a concern, we now have multiple states actively attacking *** services. For those of you who follow Dark Money Files, you will be aware of the scourge of innocent members of the public having their home addresses utilised for fraud. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act is supposed to tackle this, but the currently envisaged verification “solution” will simply allow Adolf Hitler to verify that he does indeed live at your address. Having done so this will likely make it even more difficult for you to have his companies that are registered at your home to be taken down. Ill-fated fiasco In conclusion, the Data (Use & Access) Bill has much in it which could prove to be a gamechanger both in combatting financial crime and cyber security flaws, but also in allowing a new swathe of smart data applications to transform the *** economy and drive growth. But if trust in the verification of individuals and organisations is fundamentally undermined by inappropriate and provably vulnerable processes then we risk the ill-fated Gov.*** Verify fiasco dragging on for yet another decade. Andrew Churchill is policy director at the Cyber Security & Business Resilience Policy Centre and author of the British Standard in Digital Identification & Strong Customer Authentication (BSI PAS499). Source link #Security #verification #concerns #dog #debate #Data #Access #Bill Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Inside the multi-day meltdown at Newark airport – CNN Inside the multi-day meltdown at Newark airport – CNN Inside the multi-day meltdown at Newark airport CNNAir traffic controllers lost communication with Newark planes – leading to widespread delays after they took leave for trauma CNNNewark Airport latest: Travel woes continue at Newark Airport, new air traffic control plan expected this week ABC7 New YorkNews Wrap: Hundreds of flights canceled or delayed at Newark airport PBSNewark Radar Failure Left Controllers Blind for 90 Seconds Bloomberg.com Source link #multiday #meltdown #Newark #airport #CNN Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Pokémon Go will conclude the Might and Mastery season with the debuts of Urshifu and Gigantamax Machamp Pokémon Go will conclude the Might and Mastery season with the debuts of Urshifu and Gigantamax Machamp This season is ending with a bang Go Battle Week to take place from May 21st to 27th Gigantamax Max Battle Day will be held on May 25th The Final Strike: Go Battle Week is set to wrap up the Might and Mastery season with a powerhouse lineup, headlined by the debut of Urshifu and Gigantamax Machamp. Running from May 21st to 27th, this event marks the final push toward mastery, rewarding all that hard-earned progress with a host of new encounters, evolutions, and bonuses. Your Kubfu can finally evolve into Urshifu, but you’ll need 200 Kubfu Candy and a bit of strategy. Depending on the style you’re aiming for, defeat 30 Dark-type or 30 Water-type Pokémon in raids or Max Battles while Kubfu is your buddy. Single Strike and Rapid Strike Urshifu are both on the table, so you can make your pick. The event’s free Special Research continues the Might and Mastery storyline, giving you more Kubfu Candy, Mysterious Components, and themed encounters like Charcadet with a Special Background. You’ll also have the chance to evolve classic battle picks like Mankey, Seel, and Froakie into Pokémon with exclusive attacks. You’ve also got options for premium experiences. The $1.99 Timed Research includes two Premium Battle Passes, Lucky Eggs, and more themed Pokémon. The $7.99 Fuzzy Fighter Special Research lets you reunite with Dynamax Kubfu, featuring extra items and season-themed encounters. Both are available until the event ends, alongside the Fuzzy Fighter Ultra Ticket Box at the Pokémon Go Web Store. Finally, on Sunday, May 25th, everything peaks with Gigantamax Machamp’s six-star debut. From 2:00 to 5:00 pm, every Power Spot will host Gigantamax Battles with boosted Max Particle rewards and a higher collection cap. Redeem these Pokémon Go codes for more freebies! The $4.99 event ticket for Max Battle Day grants an exclusive Timed Research featuring 25,000 XP, one Max Mushroom, and major Max Battle boosts. Leading up to the event, Timed Research will also guide you to a Dynamax Beldum, a solid pick against Machamp. Get ready to end this season with a bang by downloading Pokémon Go now for free. Source link #Pokémon #conclude #Mastery #season #debuts #Urshifu #Gigantamax #Machamp Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Deliveroo agrees to £2.9bn takeover by DoorDash Deliveroo agrees to £2.9bn takeover by DoorDash Deliveroo, the food delivery app, has agreed to be taken over by US giant DoorDash in a deal valuing the British business at £2.9bn. The deal is the latest example of a ***-listed company being taken over by a US rival. DoorDash is offering 180p per Deliveroo share, which marks a 44% increase on the *** company’s share price from the point when takeover talks were made public. “The combination with Deliveroo will strengthen DoorDash’s position as a leading global platform in local commerce,” the two firms said. Source link #Deliveroo #agrees #2.9bn #takeover #DoorDash Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The business tycoon game “Rise of Industry 2” is coming to PC and consoles on June 3rd (2025) The business tycoon game “Rise of Industry 2” is coming to PC and consoles on June 3rd (2025) In addition to playing the campaign, the game will also offer a sandbox mode, where you can grow and grow and grow and not deal with any missions. Graphically, it has its own style, which may not be as rich and detailed as in some other management games, but it doesn’t look bad, and hopefully it will run well even with really crowded maps. It also has its own style in content and presentation. But so far it looks nice and…complex. Source link #business #tycoon #game #Rise #Industry #coming #consoles #June #3rd Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

F1 Q&A: Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton and Charlec Leclerc; Kimi Antonelli at Mercedes and Fernando Alonso’s situation at Aston Martin F1 Q&A: Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton and Charlec Leclerc; Kimi Antonelli at Mercedes and Fernando Alonso’s situation at Aston Martin What on earth is wrong at Ferrari? – Jonathan After the Miami Grand Prix, the questions in Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur’s news conference focused largely on the team orders debate between the team and drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc during the race. Vasseur became a little frustrated with this, and in the end said: “It’s not the story of the day,” pointing out that the only difference it made in the end was which driver finished seventh and eighth. “I would be much more keen to speak about why we finished one minute behind McLaren,” he said. Vasseur claimed that in the race, the car’s pace was a match for the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and the Mercedes, but Ferrari paid the price for their poor grid positions. McLaren, he admitted, were “on another planet”. Charles Leclerc qualified eighth and Lewis Hamilton 12th, Ferrari’s worst qualifying result of the season, and that was largely because they were struggling to get the best out of new tyres. That’s why Hamilton and Leclerc ran on used tyres in the second set of qualifying. As Vasseur put it: “Everybody improved 0.5-0.6secs between scrubbed to new and we lost 0.2-0.3secs.” Asked why Ferrari struggled with tyres in Miami, he said: “That’s a good question. If I knew the answer, I would do a step forward and we would have fixed it between Q2 and Q3. “You always have to operate the tyres in a very narrow window. It’s different from track to track, it’s different from compound to compound, from track temp to track temp. And it’s always after the session that you say, ‘OK, I could have done differently.'” But that was just Miami. The wider issue is that the car is not where Ferrari expected it to be at the start of this season, after running McLaren so close for the constructors’ title last year. Other teams – especially McLaren – made more progress over the winter, and Ferrari simply need to make the car faster. On average, it is the slowest of the top four teams, and Ferrari have scored only one grand prix podium, thanks to Leclerc in Saudi Arabia. Hamilton won the sprint in China, but that seems to be a case of him and the team finding a good set-up after just one practice session, while others did not, and then benefiting from clean air at the start of the race. As Leclerc put it: “Lewis did an outstanding job. Maybe some drivers didn’t put everything together in (sprint) qualifying and he managed to do that and managed to outperform the car a bit. “Then tyre degradation being a big thing, when you start in front, everything comes to you a bit more. Lewis made a difference on Friday and Saturday.” There are what Vasseur calls “some small upgrades” coming at the next two races in Imola and Monaco. And Vasseur hopes that the stricter rules on front wing deflection that are being introduced at the subsequent race in Spain will make a difference. “Everybody will have a new front wing in Barcelona,” he said. “By definition and by regulation. I think it will be perhaps a reset of the performance of everybody.” The implication is that McLaren are benefiting from exploiting this phenomenon. McLaren themselves say they expect it to make little difference to them. Ferrari progressed well with upgrades in both 2023 and 2024 after difficult starts. Vasseur remains confident they can do the same this year. Hamilton said on Sunday: “I feel optimistic for the future. I think this car really does have performance. Something’s holding us back at the moment. We’ve lost performance since China. And it’s there, it’s just we can’t use it. Until we get a fix for that, then this is where we are.” Source link #Ferrari #Lewis #Hamilton #Charlec #Leclerc #Kimi #Antonelli #Mercedes #Fernando #Alonsos #situation #Aston #Martin Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Elden Ring Nightreign Reveals “Libra” Boss Fight and the Similarity Is Uncanny Elden Ring Nightreign Reveals “Libra” Boss Fight and the Similarity Is Uncanny FromSoftware continues its tradition of creating memorable bosses with its upcoming multiplayer spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign. The latest reveal showcases “Libra, Creature of Night,” one of eight Nightlords players will face after surviving three harrowing nights in the game’s shifting world. But it wasn’t just the boss’s intimidating presence that caught the community’s attention. Within hours of the reveal, fans were quick to spot something unexpectedly familiar about this fearsome foe—and it has nothing to do with the Lands Between. When FromSoftware meets Cartoon Network What happens when a terrifying goat ****** meets nostalgic cartoon memories? Internet gold, apparently. The moment the new Elden Ring Nightreign footage hit the web, viewers couldn’t help but notice something oddly familiar about Libra’s appearance. The exclusive reveal, captured by IGN during their two-day visit to FromSoftware‘s Japan office, shows the intimidating Nightlord in all its glory: User @eminefeparlakportaka perfectly captured what many were thinking with their observation: “Grey Matter has changed a lot since Ben 10.” And this sparked a nostalgic thread with @Stoic.Blessing responding, “That show was GOATED when i was a kid”—a particularly fitting pun given Libra’s goat-like appearance. What exactly triggered this comparison? At first glance, what appears to be Libra’s oversized eyes bear a striking resemblance to the diminutive alien genius from the beloved cartoon series. “Give him his Omnitrix back, bro is going crazy,” reads another comment. However, as @merlinho0t pointed out: “After reading this I had to look at the boss with it paused more closely to see that it’s not even eyes, it’s big bells hanging off his horns lmao.” Indeed, closer inspection reveals these aren’t eyes at all, but decorative bells adorning the Nightlord’s impressive horns. The footage itself shows Libra offering players a choice before combat begins—granting either increased strength, status ailment resistance, or the ability to survive one fatal blow. Whatever deal you strike (or refuse), prepare for a punishing encounter filled with frenzy-inducing spells and aggressive melee attacks. A boss who blends chaos and order with brutal efficiency Pick your poison. | Image Credit: FromSoftware/IGN Beyond its meme-worthy appearance, Libra represents a new kind of challenge that, unsurprisingly, has every Elden Ring fan scrutinizing the gameplay footage frame by frame. The boss utilizes attacks that inflict the Madness status effect, with projectiles and area-of-effect sigils that become increasingly dangerous as the fight progresses. As @thomasdevlin5825 observed: “This boss almost feels like a hybrid between elden ring and dark souls. He looks like a chaos ****** but he uses frenzy magic, he’s really interesting.” This fusion of elements hasn’t gone unnoticed by lore enthusiasts either. Player @riccard1n0 theorized: “‘Libra’ so balance, between what seem like order and Chaos, reason why he use both incantations affiliated to the Golden Order and Frenzied Flame.” The gameplay footage reveals a multi-phase encounter that becomes increasingly frantic. After taking significant damage, Libra enters a berserk state with more aggressive attacks and enhanced Madness-inflicting abilities. The fight is clearly designed with co-op in mind, as positioning and coordination between players becomes crucial for survival—especially when reviving fallen teammates amidst Libra’s devastating area attacks. Despite initial skepticism about this multiplayer-focused spin-off, each new reveal seems to be winning over the community. As @demodee9270 confessed: “I’ll be honest, back when the first Nightreign trailer released, I was pretty skeptical and was contemplating buying it. But with every new info I see I just been more and more excited to play this”. Have you spotted any other unexpected references in Elden Ring Nightreign’s boss designs? Drop your theories below—we’re just weeks away from facing these Nightlords ourselves! Source link #Elden #Ring #Nightreign #Reveals #Libra #Boss #Fight #Similarity #Uncanny Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Two New Countries Issued “Do Not Travel” Warnings From the U.S. Two New Countries Issued “Do Not Travel” Warnings From the U.S. The summer season is nearly upon us, bringing with it carefully-planned family vacations to the farthest corners of the globe. As prospective travelers sit down to come up with their vacation itineraries, however, they might want to factor in the various travel warnings in effect against several international destinations. More recently, the U.S. State Department has issued warnings about visiting both North Korea and Burkina Faso. With this recent announcement, the U.S. now has a total of 21 countries that carry the “Do Not Travel” warning: the highest advisory level used by the State Department. In particular, the U.S. advises against traveling to North Korea owing to “the continuing serious risk of arrest, long-term detention, and the threat of wrongful detention.” Because the U.S. does not maintain close diplomatic connections with North Korea, the State Department has warned travels that “it cannot provide direct help to U.S. citizens in North Korea in emergencies.” Similarly, the State Department has warned against visiting Burkina Faso “due to terrorism, crime, and kidnapping.” The West African nation has experienced a recent spike in terrorist operations, with the State Department stating, “Terrorists may attack anywhere with little or no warning and may utilize various tactics including the use of common, commercially available items or the use of kidnapping for ransom.” With both nations obtaining a Level 4 travel warning in the U.S., both North Korea and Burkina Faso have now been characterized as two of the most dangerous places for U.S. citizens to travel to. The U.S. has similar warnings in place against various nations across the globe, including the likes of Yemen, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Haiti, Venezuela, Somalia, Russia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United States currently has four levels in its travel advisory, ranging from Level 1 (“Exercise Normal Precautions”), Level 2 (“Exercise Increased Caution”), Level 3 (“Reconsider Travel”) and Level 4 (“Do Not Travel”). Source link #Countries #Issued #Travel #Warnings #U.S Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Federal judge says results of North Carolina court race with Democrat ahead must be certified – AP News Federal judge says results of North Carolina court race with Democrat ahead must be certified – AP News Federal judge says results of North Carolina court race with Democrat ahead must be certified AP NewsFederal judge orders NC to certify Riggs as winner in Supreme Court election Raleigh News & ObserverJudge Orders Elections Board to Certify Democrat’s Victory in Contested N.C. Race The New York TimesWIN: Federal Court Blocks GOP Effort to Overturn North Carolina Supreme Court Election Democracy DocketFederal judge orders certification of NC Supreme Court election in favor of Allison Riggs CBS 17 Source link #Federal #judge #results #North #Carolina #court #race #Democrat #ahead #certified #News Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

AFLW pre-season to begin before fixture release AFLW pre-season to begin before fixture release The AFLW pre-season gets underway in less than a week but players and clubs are still waiting on a fixture to be released. Source link #AFLW #preseason #fixture #release Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Four new direct flights from Des Moines airport start soon. See the new routes. Four new direct flights from Des Moines airport start soon. See the new routes. Des Moines International Airport has announced several new flight routes for 2025, bringing the airport’s total number of nonstop destinations to 33, the highest ever offered. Allegiant Air will offer two brand-new nonstop routes to Jacksonville, Florida and Boston. American Airlines announced it will reintroduce a nonstop flight to Philadelphia International Airport after a nearly five-year hiatus, and launch a route with daily service to Los Angeles International Airport. More: See the 10 cheapest flights from the Des Moines airport for May Here’s your reminder of when each route starts. When will Allegiant’s flight to Jacksonville be offered at Des Moines International Airport? The first Allegiant Air flight from Des Moines International Airport to Jacksonville is scheduled for May 22, 2025. Flights will be offered on Sundays and Thursdays with bookings available until November. More: Allegiant adds 2 east coast destinations, bringing Des Moines to record 33 nonstop options When will Allegiant’s flight to Boston be offered at Des Moines International Airport? For Boston, the first flight is May 23, 2025. Flights are available on Mondays and Fridays until November. When will American’s flight to Philadelphia be offered at Des Moines International Airport? The first American Airlines flight from Des Moines to Philadelphia is scheduled for June 5, 2025. Flights are available twice a day. Previously: American Airlines to reintroduce direct flight from Des Moines to Philadelphia When will American’s flight to LAX be offered at Des Moines International Airport? American Airlines said it will launch the route with once-a-day service to Los Angeles International Airport starting in October 2025. The move restores service lost when Allegiant discontinued its seasonal route. More: Des Moines International Airport to again have nonstop service to Los Angeles What cities have non-stop flights from Des Moines? When new flights from Allegiant and American Airlines start in 2025, Des Moines will offer flights to 33 routes serving 28 unique markets. Austin, Texas:* Allegiant Charlotte, North Carolina: American Airlines Chicago (O’Hare International Airport): American Airlines and United Dallas: American Airlines Denver: Frontier, Southwest and United Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida*: Allegiant Fort Lauderdale, Florida*: Allegiant Houston: Allegiant (William P. Hobby Airport) and United (George Bush International Airport) Las Vegas: Allegiant and Southwest Los Angeles: American Airlines Miami*: American Airlines Nashville, Tennessee*: Allegiant New York (LaGuardia Airport): American Airlines and Delta Newark, New Jersey*: Allegiant Orange County, California*: Allegiant Orlando, Florida*: Allegiant (Orlando Sanford International Airport) and Frontier (Orlando International Airport) Phoenix: Allegiant (Phoenix-Mesa Gateway), American Airlines and Southwest (Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport) Portland, Oregon*: Allegiant Punta Gorda, Florida*: Allegiant Sarasota, Florida*: Allegiant St. Petersburg, Florida: Allegiant Washington, D.C. (Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport): American Airlines * Seasonal flights Victoria Reyna-Rodriguez is a general assignment reporter for the Register. Reach her at *****@*****.tld or follow her on Twitter @VictoriaReynaR. This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: 4 new flights from Des Moines start soon. See the new direct routes. Source link #direct #flights #Des #Moines #airport #start #routes Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

K-Pop Star Shocks Met Gala With Apparent Image of Rosa Parks on Her ******* – The Daily Beast K-Pop Star Shocks Met Gala With Apparent Image of Rosa Parks on Her ******* – The Daily Beast K-Pop Star Shocks Met Gala With Apparent Image of Rosa Parks on Her ******* The Daily BeastView Full Coverage on Google News Source link #KPop #Star #Shocks #Met #Gala #Apparent #Image #Rosa #Parks #******* #Daily #Beast Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Review – Haste (PC) | WayTooManyGames Review – Haste (PC) | WayTooManyGames WTMG’s Leo Faria: “My summarised answer as to whether or not you should pick up Haste is: “yeah, duh”. Do it right away. It stands out from a sea of generic roguelites by being completely focused on just a few core concepts, namely momentum, speed, and platforming. Thankfully, Haste delivers in all of these aspects, so what we have here is an incredibly charming game that is easy to pick up, hard to master, and even harder for you to stop playing.” Source link #Review #Haste #WayTooManyGames Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Fifita to miss after playing with pain-killing jabs Fifita to miss after playing with pain-killing jabs Gold Coast forward David Fifita will not play this weekend due to a lingering ankle complaint that has led to him playing through pain during nine rounds. AAP has learned that Fifita has been receiving pain-killing injections in the ankle in order to play after complications from pre-season surgery persisted. He was given a jab as recently as Sunday when he played for the Ipswich Jets in a 32-0 loss to Northern Pride after being dropped by coach Des Hasler. Fifita will now not play for the Titans against Newcastle away on Friday night or for the Jets in their home clash with Townsville Blackhawks on Sunday. One narrative about the Queensland and Test second-rower is that he has not been putting in maximum effort but his courage to play through the pain proves otherwise. The situation has reached a point where the Titans confirmed on Tuesday the 25-year-old would consult a specialist on the issue. Titans captain Tino Fa’asuamaleaui, ahead of his 100th NRL game, said his teammate had not dropped his bundle after being axed. “Dave was really good last week with all the media talk and a lot of things being said,” Fa’asuamaleaui said. “He turned up with the right attitude and got us ready to play the game on the weekend.” Hasler said after the side’s loss to Canterbury on Sunday that Fifita “had to review some areas and he had some thinking to do in some areas” of his game. Fa’asuamaleaui said Fifita’s relationship with Hasler was not the issue. “There’s some areas he needs to work on in his game and sort some stuff away from (training),” he said. “They definitely get along. Des has backed him since the beginning.” The Titans skipper is close to Fifita and is making sure he is encouraged. “I’m trying to keep him up and making sure he’s okay and how his personal life is and his head …being there as a mate,” he said. “The coach is the coach for a reason and makes decisions for what’s best for the team and club. Whatever the coach says, I back.” While it was Fifita that was dropped after the 50-18 thrashing by North Queensland a fortnight ago, other players could easily have been left out for their own shortcomings. The Titans have lost five games in a row and Fa’asuamaleaui said introspection across the board was required. “They’ve got to look at their own job as players and really ask themselves are they doing the job for the team the best they can,” he said. “(Being dropped is) the result of what happens if you don’t. “We are in a rut and have to question if we’re doing everything right and putting your best foot forward when you cross that line.” In Titans team news, star half Jayden Campbell returns from an ankle injury to play the Knights and replaces Tom Weaver who will miss the trip to Newcastle due to concussion protocols. Source link #Fifita #playing #painkilling #jabs Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers 80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small ****** coffins, and ******* soldiers lowered them respectfully into a large, freshly dug grave as a military band played a solemn tune. Hundreds of villagers and relatives of the fallen watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers who died in one of the last large World War II battles fighting for Adolf Hitler’s army got their final resting place. The gestures of remembrance are part of a long, complicated — and sometimes controversial — effort to bring the ******* dead to rest, 80 years after a war that Nazi Germany started. It’s still not the end — much work remains to identify the dead and notify any surviving family members. Across Europe, in forests, fields and beneath old farmland, the remains of ******* soldiers are still being found, exhumed and reburied by teams from a nonprofit organization called the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, or ******* War Graves Commission, which has been doing this work for decades. A search for the dead As the world pauses this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the war’s end, the continued search is a reminder that the conflict’s legacy is not only historical or political, it is also physical and unfinished, still unfolding in the ground beneath Europe’s surface. “It’s very, very important that this is still being done,” said Martina Seiger, 57, whose grandfather’s bones were found and buried a few years ago. Seiger and her family make a point of attending the burials of other soldiers who died in the battle of Halbe in 1945. It’s as close as they can get to some kind of ******** for her grandfather, Werner Novak. Novak was 21 when he was killed. He had already been injured and sent back from the front to Berlin. He was planning to marry his pregnant fiancée and hoped for a more peaceful future, Seiger said. Instead, as the Soviet’s Red Army was approaching Berlin in the last weeks of war, he was back into battle. Lost in the chaos of war The process of finding and identifying the remains is slow — many of the missing were buried hastily during retreat or combat, with no markers or records. Some sites are remembered only vaguely, passed down through local knowledge. Others are beyond reach, beneath modern infrastructure or the front line in eastern Ukraine. Still, the Volksbund works on, searching across Europe’s old battlefields, following tips, checking old military maps and missing soldiers lists. The work continues even in western Ukraine, away from the raging fighting in the country’s east. When possible, the organization brings the remains to cemeteries maintained specifically for ******* soldiers who died abroad. It says its goal is humanistic: to offer a dignified burial to every person who died in the war, regardless of the role they played. That includes soldiers who served in a military responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. The Volksbund does not frame its mission as one of honoring the fallen, but of identifying them and ensuring they are not left to vanish into the earth, without a name. A missing father Wolfgang Bartsch, 83, stood on a small hill near the open graves as the soldiers’ bones were laid to rest. Bartsch has never been able to bury his own father, who died in January 1942 fighting on the front in Russia. He was just three weeks old. Days earlier his mother was killed in an Allied bomb raid on Berlin. He was raised by his grandmother but always felt the pain of growing up without parents. “My dad is buried somewhere in a nameless grave in Oryol in Russia,” he said. “The Volksbund will never be able to recover his bones because I know that lots of settlements were built on top of those graves.” By the Volksbund’s estimate, more than 2 million ******* soldiers remain unaccounted for. Over the past 30 years, since gaining access to former Eastern Bloc territories, the Volksbund has recovered and reburied the remains of a million people. Work that can be controversial In some parts of Europe, resentment lingers toward anything perceived as rehabilitating the Nazi military past. But many accept that efforts to find the dead could help close this chapter of history. “I don’t want to rule out the possibility that we have a large number of war criminals in our war graves. We also know that some of them have even been proven to have committed the most serious war crimes,” said Dirk Backen, the secretary general of the Volksbund. “Behind every dead person is a human destiny and that is our main focus,” he said. “When you stand in front of the grave of an 18-year-old young Wehrmacht soldier, you naturally ask yourself whether he may have had other plans in life and a different dream than to give his life at the age of 18 for a cause that was also criminal.” Weeks before the burial in Halbe, an exhumation took place in the Polish city of Ostrołęka, where Volksbund employees and local Polish archaeologists dug for the remains of ******* soldiers in a Polish cemetery wherever it would not involve disturbing a marked grave. The skeletons were documented that day, March 19, and the bones of each person were sealed into a ****** bag. Dog tags were saved in the hope the remains can one day be identified. The group plans to rebury them later this year at a military ceremony in Poland. They deserve to be buried Łukasz Karol, a Polish archaeologist working on the exhumation, acknowledges having had ethical concerns as he considered the job of unearthing soldiers of an army that invaded Poland and killed some 6 million Polish citizens over the course of the war. But he said the work has moral significance and uncovers important scientific information. “These are also people and they also deserve a burial,” Karol said. Unlike in the immediate postwar years, few families today are actively searching for lost relatives. In many cases, the emotional and generational distance is too great; there is no one left to remember the missing, or the need for closure has faded with time. For Bartsch, the 83-year-old who attended the burial in Halbe, there is no closure. “I still can’t find peace when I think that so many people are still buried here in the ground without a proper ********,” he said. “My heart would rejoice if only I could bury my father too, but that won’t happen.” ___ Gera reported from Ostrołęka, Poland. Source link #years #World #War #Germany #painstakingly #searching #fallen #soldiers Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

‘James’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction – The Washington Post ‘James’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction – The Washington Post ‘James’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction The Washington Post’James’ wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction NPRBranden Jacobs-Jenkins on Winning a Pulitzer for ‘Purpose’ The New York TimesUSC Dornsife’s Percival Everett Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction USC DornsifeSteppenwolf Theatre play ‘Purpose’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama Chicago Tribune Source link #James #wins #Pulitzer #Prize #fiction #Washington #Post Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

‘Firecrackers, cute as buttons’: Town left reeling after boys, 6 and 7, found dead at home in Coonabarabran in rural NSW ‘Firecrackers, cute as buttons’: Town left reeling after boys, 6 and 7, found dead at home in Coonabarabran in rural NSW A small community has been left reeling after two boys were found dead following a ******** check by police overnight. Officers attended the home on Emu Ln in Coonabarabran – more than 488km northwest of Sydney, in the Warrumbungle Shire council region – just after 2pm on Monday, following reports of a concern for ********. Two boys, aged 6 and 7, were found deceased inside the home and their grandmother, 66, was taken to hospital for further assessment. In a further update on Tuesday afternoon, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Andrew Holland said both boys were found in separate rooms within their grandmother’s house. She remains under guard in hospital. Camera IconPolice and emergency crews have swarmed the house on Emu Ln in Coonabarabran, after two boys were found dead during a ******** check on Monday. NewsWire Credit: NewsWire Commissioner Holland confirmed the grandmother was known to police but “not adversely” and the children’s biological parents had been contacted. “The family is not doing well,” he said. “Anyone confronted with the death of one child let alone two in these sorts of circumstances would be struggling.” Commissioner Holland also praised the actions of young police officers who responded to the scene, calling them “heroic”. The horrific discovery has led to an outpouring of grief in the tiny rural town – which has a population of just 2387 people. Camera IconFire crews and forensic officers can be seen entering the property. NewsWire / Dean Marzollla Credit: NewsWire Warrumbungle Shire councillor Kodi Brady took to social media to pay tribute to the “firecracker” kids in the hours after the tragedy. On his official Facebook page he wrote: “My heart is broken alongside the whole community, two little firecracker kids!” “They were among it all, 100 miles an hour, involved in soccer, karate, wild as march hares and cute as buttons! So devastating for all!” “If anyone needs anything at all, a shoulder to lean on, a cuppa or just a yarn please sing out.” Photographs of the scene capture police swarming the rural street, which is located a short drive outside of the town of Coonabarabran. Fire crews wearing heavy kits and forensic officers can be seen entering the building, as the remainder of Emu Ln is blocked off by police tape. One woman walking her dog is seen briefly speaking to police outside, before she is allowed to cross the tape. Camera IconThe boys’ deaths have led to an outpouring of grief from the community, with one local councillor remembering the ‘firecracker’ kids who were ‘cute as buttons’. NewsWire / Dean Marzolla Credit: NewsWire Speaking to the ABC, Shiara Green said she spoke to her own sons on the night of the tragedy. “I tried not to cry,” she told the broadcaster. “I’m emotional just trying to talk about it now. “They didn’t really react too much to it … but [I said] you’re going to hear about it all tomorrow when you go to school.” Karate instructor Peter Wilkie told the broadcaster both boys had taken lessons at his studio, just a town over. “They were good kids. They were quiet achievers,” he said. Camera IconPolice have said the boys’ parents have been contacted and the family is ‘not doing well’. NewsWire / Dean Marzollla Credit: NewsWire NSW Premier Chris Minns continued his tributes after first learning of the incident on Monday. “What has occurred is terrible and as a state we share in the community of Coonabarabran’s grief at the loss of two young boys who had their entire futures ahead of them,” he said. “I cannot begin to imagine the heartbreak their loved ones are currently feeling, including their family, friends, and teachers. “I thank the local officers who attended the scene for their professionalism and bravery in the face of such a horrible event.” Source link #Firecrackers #cute #buttons #Town #left #reeling #boys #dead #home #Coonabarabran #rural #NSW Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Dave Portnoy retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in ‘F*** the Jews’ sign incident – The Times of Israel Dave Portnoy retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in ‘F*** the Jews’ sign incident – The Times of Israel Dave Portnoy retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in ‘F*** the Jews’ sign incident The Times of IsraelDave Portnoy responds to antisemitic sign at Barstool Sansom Street in Philadelphia; Temple student suspended 6abc PhiladelphiaTemple University student suspended over antisemitic sign at sports bar BBCBacklash over antisemitic sign at Philly bar: The Lineup NBC10 PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia police investigate antisemitic incident at Barstool bar Yahoo Source link #Dave #Portnoy #retracts #Auschwitz #tour #offer #customer #Jews #sign #incident #Times #Israel Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Lamine Yamal v Lionel Messi: Will the La Masia teen emulate Barcelona’s greatest of all time? Lamine Yamal v Lionel Messi: Will the La Masia teen emulate Barcelona’s greatest of all time? There are portraits that precede greatness, snapshots of youthful genius. The boy with the indie-band bangs celebrating on Ronaldinho’s back, the bleach-blonde teen with blaugrana braces leaving a trail of Inter defenders in his wake. Almost exactly 20 years separated Lionel Messi’s first goal for Barcelona and Lamine Yamal’s sensational Champions League semi-final strike on his 100th appearance for the Catalan giants last Wednesday. Yamal, a month younger than Messi was when he lobbed the goalkeeper from Ronaldinho’s scooped assist to become La Liga’s youngest scorer in 2005, has already won a European Championship with Spain and a La Liga, Copa del Rey and Super Cup with Barcelona. “I don’t want to compare myself with the best player in football’s history,” said the forward before his stunning individual performance against Inter, but conjecture around whether he can emulate Messi is natural. The stats show Yamal’s trajectory since his debut aged 15 years and 290 days is going up faster than either Messi or the other superstar of his generation, Cristiano Ronaldo. Yamal hit a century of Barcelona appearances two months shy of his 18th birthday. By the same age, Messi had scored once in nine senior games for Barca while Ronaldo had netted five goals in 19 games for Sporting. Yamal has 22 goals and 27 assists to his name, plus four more goals in his 19 appearances for Spain. Neither Messi or Ronaldo made their international debut until they turned 18. It took Messi, who made his debut at 16, until shortly before his 21st birthday to hit the 100-game mark in Barcelona colours, scoring 41 goals in the process. But they were the first of an incredible 672 for the club, to complement the eight Ballon d’Ors, one World Cup, two Copas America, four Champions Leagues and a huge haul of domestic silverware. “It is not normal,” says former Barcelona midfielder Mark van Bommel of Yamal’s rise. “That’s why everyone is talking about him. [But] to reach the number of Messi, that’s not easy. Even for a guy playing at 17.” Source link #Lamine #Yamal #Lionel #Messi #Masia #teen #emulate #Barcelonas #greatest #time Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Unretired Andrew Moloney back in world title frame Unretired Andrew Moloney back in world title frame Andrew Moloney is back in world title contention less than a year since sensationally announcing his retirement from boxing after a controversial loss. AAP can reveal Australia’s former super flyweight world champion (27-4-1) has been ordered to fight Mexico’s Argi Cortes (27-4-2) in an IBF eliminator. Negotiations are now underway to determine a date and venue for the fight between a pair with remarkably similar records. The winner will become the mandatory challenger to the victor of this month’s IBF title fight between ******** pair Willibaldo Garcia and Rene Calixto. The chance comes less than a year after the 34-year-old Moloney quit the sport in a rage after losing on points to Pedro Guevara for the interim WBC super flyweight title. Moloney reversed his retirement decision later last year and has fought once since, comfortably beating Jakrawut Majungoen in December. He was also denied a world title in 2020 after a hugely controversial no-decision verdict when it was decided a cut to Joshua Franco’s eye was caused by a headbutt and not a Moloney punch. Moloney’s manager Tony Tolj said he held no concerns over the integrity of his charge’s next fight. “If anyone deserves another world title opportunity it is Andrew,” he told AAP. Cortes’ only two losses since 2015 have been against two-weight world champion Juan Estrado and Japanese demolition man Junto Nakatani, who savagely knocked Moloney out in their 2023 title fight. “It’s another massive fight and Argi is a great fighter, we believe better than the pair fighting for the IBF title this month,” Tolj said. “We’re working on it (a date and location) now.” The opportunity comes after Andrew’s twin brother’s back-to-back losses to highly-rated Japanese bantamweights Tenshin Nasukawa and Yoshiki Takei since he won and defended his WBO crown. Source link #Unretired #Andrew #Moloney #world #title #frame Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

OnePlus 13s Design Fully Revealed in New Teaser; Confirmed to Debut in Two Colour Options OnePlus 13s Design Fully Revealed in New Teaser; Confirmed to Debut in Two Colour Options OnePlus India announced its plans to release OnePlus 13s in India last month. The brand has not yet shared the exact launch date, but it has posted a new teaser revealing the display design and colour options of the latest OnePlus 13 series phone. It appears to arrive as a rebranded version of the OnePlus 13T that went on ***** in China last month. The OnePlus 13s will feature the same core specifications as the OnePlus 13T, including a 6.32-inch display and Snapdragon 8 Gen Elite chipset. OnePlus shared a new video teaser of the OnePlus 13s on its social media channels on Monday. The teaser shows the phone in ****** and pink colourways. The marketing names of these shades are unknown at the moment. In China, the OnePlus 13T is available in Cloud Ink ******, Morning Mist Gray, and Powder Pink colour options. The teaser shows the OnePlus 13s with a compact form factor. It has a hole punch display design at the front and a unique dual camera module at the rear. Like the OnePlus 13T, it has a squircle camera bump on the back, mirroring the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s rear camera layout. The rest of the OnePlus 13 series devices sport a large circular rear camera housing centred on the back. Both the OnePlus India website and Amazon have created dedicated landing pages on their websites, showing details of the OnePlus 13s. It features a 6.32-inch display and runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. It boasts a Short Key that replaces the alert slider. OnePlus 13T Price, Specifications The OnePlus 13T was launched in China last month with a price tag of CNY 3,399 (roughly Rs. 39,000) for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The compact Android flagship runs on sports a 6.32-inch Full-HD+ (1,264×2,640 pixels) display with up to 1,600 nits global peak brightness and carries a 6,260mAh battery with support for 80W fast charging. It runs on a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and up to 1TB of UFS 4.0 onboard storage. The OnePlus 13T has a dual rear camera setup comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and a 16-megapixel selfie shooter. Source link #OnePlus #13s #Design #Fully #Revealed #Teaser #Confirmed #Debut #Colour #Options Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jurors say they have seen video of alleged beating, heard baby oil jokes Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jurors say they have seen video of alleged beating, heard baby oil jokes By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Prospective jurors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial acknowledged on Monday being familiar with allegations against the hip-hop mogul, seeing a video of him allegedly assaulting a woman and hearing a comedian joke about baby oil that prosecutors say was found in his residences. But having followed the case in the media did not exclude them from potentially serving on the jury for a trial expected to last up to two months on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty. The “Bad Boy Records” founder is known for elevating hip-hop in American culture in the 1990s and 2000s, and hosting lavish parties for the cultural elite in the Hamptons and Saint-Tropez. In a 26th-floor courtroom in Lower Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian questioned 32 prospective jurors one-by-one, a process known as voir dire, in a bid to seat a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates who can be fair and impartial to both sides despite heavy media coverage of the case. Opening statements are scheduled for May 12. Subramanian deemed 19 qualified to serve – including two who said they were fans of 1990s hip-hop – and the rest were dismissed. More will be questioned on Tuesday, and jury selection is expected to finish by the end of the week. The judge’s goal is to choose 45 potential jurors who are qualified to serve, and lawyers for both sides will then have the opportunity to dismiss jurors without stating a reason. With Combs looking on wearing dark glasses and sporting a salt-and-pepper goatee, one juror said they had seen a video on the news that showed Combs allegedly assaulting someone in a hotel. Subramanian decided that juror, referred to as Juror No. 5, was qualified for the panel after they assured the judge they would be a “blank slate entering this courtroom.” A prospective juror was dismissed after writing in a screening questionnaire that a still image they had seen below a news headline of a woman on the floor in a hotel hallway and Combs standing near her “could be damning evidence.” Last year, CNN broadcast surveillance footage of what it said was a 2016 incident in which Combs attacked his former girlfriend, the R&B singer Casandra Ventura, in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel. Combs apologized after the footage aired. The jury will be anonymous, which is frequently the case in high-profile trials in which jurors could face threats or harassment if their identities are known. Prosecutors have said the incident depicted in the hotel surveillance video was evidence of how Combs used force and threats over a two-decade ******* to coerce women to take part in days-long, drug-fueled ******* performances with male sex workers, which the mogul called “Freak Offs.” COMBS JAILED SINCE SEPTEMBER ARREST Prosecutors say employees of Combs’ business empire helped the “Freak Offs,” including by booking hotel rooms, buying controlled substances and other items used during sex, and helping him cover up the activity. During raids of Combs’ homes, authorities found drugs and 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant, prosecutors said. One prospective juror said they had “liked” a video on social media in which a comedian joked about Combs and baby oil. “I remember liking it because I thought it was funny,” said the juror, who Subramanian decided was qualified after they said they would be able to put the video aside and be impartial. Combs’ lawyers say the hotel surveillance video depicted a domestic dispute over infidelity and was not evidence of sex trafficking. They are expected to argue that the ******* activity described by prosecutors was consensual. Combs is the latest powerful man in the entertainment industry to be accused of ******* misconduct since the #MeToo movement encouraged women to speak up about abuse. Since September he has been held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, about an hour by subway from the Harlem neighborhood where he was born. His rags-to-riches life story is of a boy reared by a single mother who through perseverance grew up to live in mansions in Los Angeles and Miami. Since September he has been held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, about an hour by subway from the Harlem neighborhood where he was born. If convicted on all counts, he faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison and could face life in prison. (Reporting by Luc Cohen and Jack Queen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder, Alistair Bell and Howard Goller) Source link #Sean #Diddy #Combs #jurors #video #alleged #beating #heard #baby #oil #jokes Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]