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Clues and answer for Monday, January 27 Clues and answer for Monday, January 27 Hey, there! Welcome to the start of a new week. Whenever you need a little break, there’s a fresh round of Wordle ready for you. For those who could do with a little help to solve it, here’s our daily Wordle guide with some hints and the answer for Monday’s puzzle (#1,318). It may be that you’re a Wordle newcomer and you’re not completely sure how to play the game. We’re here to help with that too. What is Wordle? Wordle is a deceptively simple daily word game that first emerged in 2021. The gist is that there is one five-letter word to deduce every day by process of elimination. The daily word is the same for everyone. Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. Wordle blew up in popularity in late 2021 after creator Josh Wardle made it easy for players to share an emoji-based grid with their friends and followers that detailed how they fared each day. The game’s success spurred dozens of clones across a swathe of categories and formats. The New York Times purchased Wordle in early 2022 for an undisclosed sum. The publication said that players collectively played Wordle 5.3 billion times in 2024. So, it’s little surprise that Wordle is one of the best online games and puzzles you can play daily. How to play Wordle To start playing Wordle, you simply need to enter one five-letter word. The game will tell you how close you are to that day’s secret word by highlighting letters that are in the correct position in green. Letters that appear in the word but aren’t in the right spot will be highlighted in yellow. If you guess any letters that are not in the secret word, the game will gray those out on the virtual keyboard. You’ll only have six guesses to find each day’s word, though you still can use grayed-out letters to help narrow things down. It’s also worth remembering that letters can appear in the secret word more than once. Wordle is free to play on the NYT’s website and apps, as well as on Meta Quest headsets. The game refreshes at midnight local time. If you log into a New York Times account, you can track your stats, including the all-important win streak. How to play Wordle more than once a day If you have a NYT subscription that includes full access to the publication’s games, you don’t have to stop after a single round of Wordle. You’ll have access to an archive of more than 1,200 previous Wordle games. So if you’re a relative newcomer, you’ll be able to go back and catch up on previous editions. In addition, paid NYT Games members have access to a tool called the Wordle Bot. This can tell you how well you performed at each day’s game. Previous Wordle answers Before today’s Wordle hints, here are the answers to recent puzzles that you may have missed: Yesterday’s Wordle answer for Sunday, January 26 — SUNNY Saturday, January 25 — CRISP Friday, January 24 – CREPE Thursday, January 23 — UPPER Wednesday, January 22 — REACH Today’s Wordle hints explained Every day, we’ll try to make Wordle a little easier for you. First, we’ll offer a hint that describes the meaning of the word or how it might be used in a phrase or sentence. We’ll also tell you if there are any double (or even triple) letters in the word. In case you still haven’t quite figured it out by that point, we’ll then provide the first letter of the word. Those who are still stumped after that can continue on to find out the answer for today’s Wordle. This should go without saying, but make sure to scroll slowly. Spoilers are ahead. Today’s Wordle help Here are two hints for today’s Wordle answer: Push aside. Also, a medical device used to divert blood or another bodily fluid. Are there any double letters in today’s Wordle? There are no repeated letters in today’s Wordle answer. What’s the first letter of today’s Wordle? The first letter of today’s Wordle answer is S. The Wordle answer today This is your final warning before we reveal today’s Wordle answer. No take-backs. Don’t blame us if you happen to scroll too far and accidentally spoil the game for yourself. What is today’s Wordle? Today’s Wordle answer is… Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, January 27 – SHUNT SHUNT Not to worry if you didn’t figure out today’s Wordle word. If you made it this far down the page, hopefully you at least kept your streak going. And, hey: there’s always another game tomorrow. Source link #Clues #answer #Monday #January Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

'Kiss of the Spider Woman' Review: Jennifer Lopez in Musical Retelling – Hollywood Reporter 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' Review: Jennifer Lopez in Musical Retelling – Hollywood Reporter ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review: Jennifer Lopez in Musical Retelling Hollywood ReporterJennifer Lopez Wears Spiderweb Gown for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Sundance Premiere PEOPLE’Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review: Jennifer Lopez in a Mixed Musical IndieWireSundance: Bill Condon On Revisiting ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’ After 40 Years & Turning Jennifer Lopez Loose In An MGM-Style Musical DeadlineWhat Changes Have Been Made for the Jennifer Lopez-Led Kiss of the Spider Woman Movie Musical? Playbill Source link #039Kiss #Spider #Woman039 #Review #Jennifer #Lopez #Musical #Retelling #Hollywood #Reporter Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton mark 80 years since Auschwitz liberation at Perth Holocaust memorial Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton mark 80 years since Auschwitz liberation at Perth Holocaust memorial Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have briefly put political hostilities on hold to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Perth on Monday. At a memorial service on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Jewish Community Centre in Yokine, the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader stood with members of the local community. Along with senior leaders from both political parties — including Premier Roger Cook and Liberal leader Libby Mettam — Mr Albanese and Mr Dutton were warned of the rising antisemitism and the effect on the Jewish community. Holocaust Institute of WA education director Judith Lawrence said the rising hatred was mirroring attitudes after Jewish people in 1930s Europe, saying it was “gradual before it was sudden”. “Social media disseminates these age old tropes and radical ideologies continue to stoke violence,” she said. “We must recognise that antisemitism is never just about Jews. It is an indication of a broader societal decay. “The failure to combat it undermines our social cohesion. If we are to truly create a better future, we must recognise that these patterns of hate and refuse to run history to repeat itself.” The crowd heard from Holocaust Institute of WA president Sol Majtels told his father’s story of how he delayed his capture by the Nazis and ultimately survived through his time at Auschwitz. Camera IconOpposition Leader Peter Dutton. Credit: Ross Swanborough/The West *********** Recounting the last words his grandfather told his father before they were separated while being forced onto a train, Mr Majtels said they became a guiding principle for his life. “May you live to tell the world what we have gone through here,” Mr Majtel recounted. Mr Albanese and Mr Cook joined a smaller meeting of Jewish leaders after the event, while Mr Dutton spoke with the crowd, before telling The West he Speaking after the service, Mr Dutton saying he had found it “quite emotional”. “It’s a very emotional day, and I hope that that emotion can be felt by millions of Australians, because the story of the Holocaust should never be forgotten,” he said. Camera IconPrime Minister Anthony Albanese. Credit: Kelsey Reid/The West *********** “When we see the level of antisemitism in our country now, it’s as high as it’s ever been, “There are Holocaust survivors who have found safety in our country since then the Second World War, who now feel unsafe in Australia — that tells us that something is seriously wrong, and the wrong needs to be corrected.” Mr Albanese said it was a “great privilege” to hear the stories told at the event and the bipartisan turnout was a positive sign. “We need to work together as a nation to stamp out any form of antisemitism,” he said. The service comes amid a surge in antisemitism across Australia, including homes and businesses owned by Jewish people being hit with graffiti and firebombs. It has prompted the Coalition to tip $2 million into WA’s Holocaust Institute’s education program. That funding was matched late on Sunday by Mr Albanese. Source link #Anthony #Albanese #Peter #Dutton #mark #years #Auschwitz #liberation #Perth #Holocaust #memorial Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Court docs indicate man pushed, punched teen for riding motorized bike Court docs indicate man pushed, punched teen for riding motorized bike INDIANAPOLIS — A man is in jail after he reportedly hit a 14-year-old male for riding a motorized bike. According to court documents, officers from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were called to the 700 block of Aberdeen Drive around 3:41 p.m. on Saturday on a report of a disturbance. When police arrived in the area, they were told that a resident had an ongoing issue with a known neighborhood male. According to the complainant, the man would often get upset with kids in the neighborhood who ride their motorized bikes on sidewalks or roads. Source link #Court #docs #man #pushed #punched #teen #riding #motorized #bike Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

US suspends tariffs after Colombia agrees to deportation flights – BBC.com US suspends tariffs after Colombia agrees to deportation flights – BBC.com US suspends tariffs after Colombia agrees to deportation flights BBC.comAfter forcing Colombia to back down, White House claims America is respected again CNN”One Day, Over A Glass Of ********…”: Colombia President Targets Trump NDTVColombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods after Trump order The HillColombian leader quickly caves after Trump threats, offers presidential plane for deportation flights Yahoo! Voices Source link #suspends #tariffs #Colombia #agrees #deportation #flights #BBC.com Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Realme Smartphone With 6.67-inch Screen, 13-Megapixel Camera Listed on TENAA Realme Smartphone With 6.67-inch Screen, 13-Megapixel Camera Listed on TENAA Realme could be working on a new smartphone that could see a launch soon. An unreleased Realme handset was recently listed on a ******** certification website hinting towards its imminent launch. Although the official moniker remains unknown, several key specifications of the purported phone were listed. The upcoming Realme smartphone may be equipped with a 6.67-inch display and a 13-megapixel rear camera. Realme Phone’s TENAA Listing First spotted by MySmartPrice, the purported Realme phone has been listed on China’s TENAA website sporting the model numbers RMX3946 and RMX3948. These are speculated to be the different variants of the same phone. The handset is listed with a 6.67-inch (720×1,604 pixels) HD screen with a power-button mounted fingerprint sensor and face unlock feature for biometric authentication. Renders of the Unreleased Realme Smartphone Photo Credit: TENAA The phone is said to have a 13-megapixel camera which headlines a triple rear camera unit. Meanwhile, the front camera will likely use an 8-megapixel sensor for selfies and video calls. Accompanying renders of the purported Realme phone show it in a dark blue colourway with the camera unit being three distinct lens rings vertically stacked at the back. As per the listing, the unreleased Realme handset could be powered by a 2.40GHz octa-core processor. It is expected to be available in 4GB, 6GB, 8GB, and 12GB configurations, paired with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB of inbuilt storage. The device may pack a 4,880mAh battery with support for 45W fast charging. In terms of dimensions, the purported phone is likely to measure 165.7 × 76.22 × 7.94mm and weigh 190g. It is reported to support GSM, WCDMA, LTE, NR NSA, and NR SA connectivity, including N1, N8, and N5 5G bands. While the phone’s official name is yet to be revealed, the report speculates that it could be a device part of the Realme V series in China. Source link #Realme #Smartphone #6.67inch #Screen #13Megapixel #Camera #Listed #TENAA Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Karratha Netball Association: Exciting plans for 2025 season Karratha Netball Association: Exciting plans for 2025 season Building on the momentum of their success last year, the Karratha Netball Association is gearing up for an exciting 2025, complete with new plans and a packed calendar. Source link #Karratha #Netball #Association #Exciting #plans #season Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

How the roots of the ‘PayPal ******’ extend to apartheid South Africa | Elon Musk How the roots of the ‘PayPal ******’ extend to apartheid South Africa | Elon Musk When Elon Musk’s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison. But in the fired-up debate about Musk’s intent that followed, as the world’s richest man insisted he wasn’t trying to be a Nazi, speculation inevitably focused on whether his roots in apartheid-era South Africa offered an insight. In recent months Musk’s promotion of far-right conspiracy theories has grown, from a deepening hostility to democratic institutions to the recent endorsement of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). He has taken an unhealthy interest in genetics while backing claims of a looming “white genocide” in his South African homeland and endorsing posts promoting the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory. Increasingly, his language and tone have come to echo the old South Africa. He is not alone. Musk is part of the “PayPal ******” of libertarian billionaires with roots in South Africa under white rule now hugely influential in the US tech industry and politics. They include Peter Thiel, the *******-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder, who was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of ******** programs and women being permitted to vote as undermining capitalism. A 2021 biography of Thiel, called The Contrarian, alleged that as a student at Stanford he defended apartheid as “economically sound”. David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora after his family moved to the US when he was young. A fourth member of the ******, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk. Among them, Musk stands out for his ownership of X, which is increasingly a platform for far-right views, and his proximity to Trump, who has nominated Musk to head a “department of government efficiency” to slash and burn its way through the federal bureaucracy. Some draw a straight line between Musk’s formative years atop a complex system of racial hierarchy as a white male, in a country increasingly at war with itself as the South African government became ever more repressive as resistance to apartheid grew, and the man we see at Trump’s side today. The week before the inauguration, Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, described white South Africans as the “most racist people on earth”, questioned their involvement in US politics and said Musk was a malign influence who should go back to the country of his birth. Others are sceptical that Musk’s increasingly extreme views can be tracked back to his upbringing in Pretoria. The acclaimed South African writer Jonny Steinberg recently called attempts to explain Musk through his childhood under apartheid “a bad idea” that resulted in “facile” conclusions. But for those looking to join dots, there is fodder from Musk’s early life with a neo-Nazi grandfather who moved from Canada to South Africa because he liked the idea of apartheid through his high school education in a system infused with the ideology of white supremacy. Musk’s formative years in the 1980s came amid a cauldron of rebellion in the ****** townships which drew a state of emergency and a bloody crackdown by the state. Some whites fled the country. Others marched with the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement against any weakening of apartheid. The South Africa into which Musk was born in 1971, and to which Thiel moved as a child from Germany, was led by a prime minister, John Vorster, who had been a general in a fascist militia three decades earlier that allied itself with Hitler. The Ossewabrandwag (OB) was founded shortly before the second world war. It opposed South Africa entering the war as an ally of Britain and plotted with ******* military intelligence to assassinate the prime minster, Jan Smuts, as a prelude to an armed uprising in support of Hitler. Vorster made no secret of his sympathy for Nazi, or National Socialist, ideology which he compared to the Afrikaner political philosophy of Christian nationalism. “We stand for Christian nationalism which is an ally of National Socialism,” he said in 1942. “You can call this anti-democratic principle dictatorship if you wish. In Italy it is called ‘Fascism’, in Germany ‘******* National Socialism’ and in South Africa ‘Christian nationalism’.” Smuts’s government took a dim view of that and a few weeks later interned Vorster as a Nazi sympathiser. At the end of the war, the OB was absorbed into the National party, which then won the 1948 election, in which ****** South Africans had no vote, on a commitment to impose apartheid. In 1961, Vorster joined the government as minister of justice and five years later became prime minister. Nazism may have been defeated in Europe but Christian nationalism was alive and kicking in South Africa under Vorster, with its own brand of racial classification and stratification justified by the need to keep the “swart gevaar”, or ****** danger, at bay. In schools, Christian nationalist education sought to forge a South African identity around a singular version of the country’s history. Musk and Thiel were taught that the Afrikaner, mostly the descendants of Dutch colonisers, was the real victim of South Africa’s strife whether at the hands of grasping British imperialists or treacherous Zulu chiefs. The truth is we didn’t see ****** people quite as equals. We didn’t think about it Phillip Van Niekerk Bea Roberts, who grew up in an apartheid-supporting family but came to oppose the system and later worked for the Institute for a Democratic South Africa, remembers a heavy emphasis on Afrikaners as victims pursuing apartheid in order to protect their culture and even their very existence. “It was a strange mix of ‘we got ******* up by the British in the [second Boer] war, and our women and children died in thousands in the concentration camps’ so we are going to rebuild our nation and make sure that that we are invincible. And we’ll do that by extreme means,” she said. Schooling, like much else, was segregated by race for most of the apartheid era and, on paper at least, white pupils across South Africa were subject to the same Christian nationalist education. But white society was itself divided and the historical narrative embraced in Afrikaans-speaking schools could often became the basis for an implicit rejection of apartheid philosophy in English-speaking ones. Musk attended a Johannesburg high school and then the Pretoria boys high school, an institution whose other alumni include students who went on to become leading anti-apartheid activists such as Edwin Cameron, a South African supreme court justice after the collapse of white rule, and Peter Hain, who moved to Britain, where he became a leading campaigner against apartheid and then a Labour government minister. Phillip Van Niekerk, former editor of the leading anti-apartheid Mail and Guardian newspaper in Johannesburg, had Afrikaner parents but attended an English-speaking school. He recalled that the official version of history did little to engender support for the apartheid system among a lot of English speakers even if they benefited from it and did little to challenge it. “We hated the National party government. Even our teachers were kind of hostile. It was seen almost like an imposition. Yet you imbibe things through the culture. The truth is we didn’t see ****** people quite as equals. We didn’t think about it,” he said. Thiel got all that and more at schools in South Africa and its de facto colony, South West Africa, which became independent as Namibia in 1990. South West Africa had been a ******* colony until the end of the first world war and Thiel lived for a time in the city of Swakopmund, where he attended a *******-language school while his father worked at a nearby uranium mine. Members of South Africa’s AWB demonstrate in Potchefstroom against the sentencing of their leader, Eugene Terre’Blanche, in 1996. Photograph: Juda Ngwenya/Reuters At that time, Swakopmund was notorious for its continued glorification of Nazism, including celebrating Hitler’s birthday. In 1976, the New York Times reported that some people in the town continued to greet each other with “Heil Hitler” and to give the Nazi salute. Van Niekerk visited Swakopmund during South African rule. “I was there in the 1980s and you could walk into a curio shop and buy mugs with Nazi swastikas on them. If you’re ******* and you’re in Swakopmund in the 1970s, which is when Thiel was there, you’re part of that community,” he said. Thiel, who moved to the US when he was 10, has described his schooling in Swakopmund as instilling a dislike of regimentation that steered him towards libertarianism. Thiel’s father worked at a uranium mine in Rössing where, as in the gold and coalmines of the Reef around Johannesburg, ****** laborers were paid just enough to survive, living conditions were dire and the work dangerous. White managers, on the other hand, lived a lifestyle of neo-colonial luxury with servants at the ready. skip past newsletter promotion Sign up to This Week in Trumpland A deep dive into the policies, controversies and oddities surrounding the Trump administration Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion Musk’s father, Errol, was also in the mining business among other interests. He once boasted that his stake in Zambian emerald mines made him “so much money we couldn’t even close our safe”. Musk’s mother, Maye, has said the family owned two homes, a plane, a yacht and a handful of luxury cars. Errol Musk has said that he opposed apartheid and joined the Progressive Federal party but then left because he didn’t like its demand for one person, one vote, and instead favored a more gradual reform with separate parliaments for different races. That was the liberal position inside the Musk family. Musk’s maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, moved from Canada to South Africa in 1950 because he liked the newly elected apartheid government. In the 1930s, Haldeman was the ********* leader of a fringe political movement originating in the US, Technocracy Incorporated, that advocated abolishing democracy in favor of government by elite technicians but which took on overtones of fascism with its uniforms and salutes. The ********* government banned Technocracy Incorporated during the second world war as a threat to the country’s security in part for its opposition to fighting Hitler. Haldeman was charged with publishing documents opposing the war and sent to prison for two months. After the war, Haldeman led a separate political party that among other things promoted the antisemitic forgery the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. When that went nowhere, he moved to South Africa because he said he liked the core National party philosophy of Christian nationalism that Vorster likened to Nazism. Errol Musk described Maye’s parents as so extreme he stopped visiting them. We white South Africans, by the very nature of our privileges and our place in the racial hierarchy, grew up believing we were the master race Phillip Van Niekerk “They were very fanatical in favor of apartheid,” he told Podcast and Chill. “Her parents came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathised with the Afrikaner government. They used to support Hitler and all that sort of stuff.” Haldeman was killed in a plane ****** when Elon was three years old but the boy remained close to his grandmother and mother. He is estranged from his father, whom Maye has described as abusive of her and their children. Errol Musk once claimed to have shot and killed three people who broke into his house. Musk has described his father as a “terrible human being”. “Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done,” he told Rolling Stone without elaborating in 2017. What is indisputable is that Musk and Thiel grew up amid incredible privilege where the racial hierarchy was clear. Those who claimed to reject apartheid sought to explain this privilege not as the result of systemic racial oppression but the natural order of things thanks to their own abilities. That in turn led some to regard all forms government as oppressive and true liberty as an individual battle for survival. The biography of Thiel said he held a view common among apartheid’s supporters at the time that ****** South Africans were better off than Africans in other parts of the continent even if they were systematically denied their rights. Thiel has denied ever having supported apartheid. Van Niekerk said that opposition to apartheid did not necessarily mean rejection of white supremacy or privilege, a point made in a 1968 British television documentary the year before Thiel was born. The commentary observed that the English-speaking mining barons and other industrialists in Johannesburg usually claimed to be “hostile to apartheid, call themselves liberal” but did little to oppose the system while profiting from it. Helen Suzman, at the time a member of the South African parliament who was often a lone voice in opposition to apartheid, was critical of these powerful industrialists and businessmen, saying “people who do nothing are responsible”. She accused them of hiding behind apartheid to exploit ****** workers. “I see no reason why the industrialists should not improve the living conditions of their workers,” she said. In the documentary, Stanley Cohen, the managing director of the OK Bazaars supermarket chain owned by his family, was asked why he only employed whites behind the counter and no South Africans of other races even though many of the customers were ******. Cohen acknowledged that it was not a legal requirement, but did it to indulge the racist prejudices of white customers. “There is no reason why they [****** people] can’t work behind the counters. There’s no law against it. But there is this natural prejudice in this country which you can’t legislate for or against,” he said. A decade later, power was shifting. The uprising that began in Soweto in 1976 had become a full-blown national crisis for the apartheid system by the 1980s. A low-level civil war was under way. In response, the state grew even more violent and repressive. White paranoia was fed by the creep of independent ****** African states under Marxist-leaning governments ever closer to South Africa’s borders, with Angola and Mozambique in the 1970s followed by Zimbabwe in 1980. Talk of white genocide emerged, a conspiracy theory that has taken on new life in recent times with the killings of white farmers in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Support surged for the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), or Afrikaner Resistance Movement, founded in the early 1970s to oppose any relaxation of apartheid. The AWB, founded by Eugene Terre’Blanche, an imposing and flamboyant figure given to riding around on a horse from which he occasionally fell off, made no secret of its model with a badge strikingly similar to a swastika in design and colors. It’s supporters were also fond of the stiff-armed Hitler salute as they paraded on the streets of Pretoria. At its peak, the AWB appeared to have the support of more than 10% of white South Africans. Roberts said life for privileged whites in particular was “definitely a bubble, and one filled with self-belief”. But she said that it became increasingly difficult to ignore reality. “I think Musk in Pretoria in the 1980s must have had a sense of what ****** people were experiencing and why they were angry. I grew up fairly conservative but I was able to change my views. I think you have to be fairly rigid in the 80s to still cling on to the belief that the apartheid system was fine and correct and in everybody’s best interest,” she said. Musk left South Africa in 1988 in the midst of this ferment, two years before FW de Klerk carved out a path to freedom by releasing Nelson Mandela. Had he stayed, Musk faced being conscripted into the military for two years, an obligatory service for white men, that could well have meant fighting in the “border war” in Angola and Namibia or being sent to put down ****** protests in the townships. Instead, Musk took ********* citizenship through his mother and moved to Ontario. Van Niekerk said that, whether he wants to admit it or not, Musk also took a part of South Africa with him. “We all [white South Africans], by the very nature of our privileges and our place in the racial hierarchy, grew up believing we were the master race, even if we didn’t actively think about it,” he said. Source link #roots #PayPal #****** #extend #apartheid #South #Africa #Elon #Musk Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Travis Kelce celebrates Chiefs’ Super Bowl 2025 berth with Taylor Swift kiss – New York Post Travis Kelce celebrates Chiefs’ Super Bowl 2025 berth with Taylor Swift kiss – New York Post Travis Kelce celebrates Chiefs’ Super Bowl 2025 berth with Taylor Swift kiss New York Post Taylor Swift Wears $8,400 Louis Vuitton Outfit to Cheer on Travis Kelce in AFC Championship PEOPLEThe best photos of Taylor Swift from the AFC championship TennesseanHEADING TO CELEBRATE | Taylor Swift and Donna Kelce head to field Yahoo! Voices Source link #Travis #Kelce #celebrates #Chiefs #Super #Bowl #berth #Taylor #Swift #kiss #York #Post Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Gov.*** app could lead to ‘mandatory ID scheme’, claim privacy groups | e-Government Gov.*** app could lead to ‘mandatory ID scheme’, claim privacy groups | e-Government A new app to hold citizens’ driving licences, passports and benefits documents risks being used as a “launchpad for a mandatory ID scheme”, privacy campaigners have claimed. Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, last week unveiled plans for a gov.*** app and gov.*** wallet, intended to save time and hassle for millions by allowing them to carry on their phones digital versions of paper documents. These would include proofs of right to work in the ***, rights to benefits, veteran ID cards and DBS certificates, which employers use to check the criminal record of someone applying for a role. The technology will include biometric security such as face scans. Similar e-government apps are already in use in countries including Poland, Estonia and Iceland. Kyle said the technology would be voluntary and paper documents would continue to be used, but added that he was striving to make the app’s convenience so “compelling” that people would consider its use “unavoidable”. The app will include a digital document wallet similar to those already installed on Apple and Google smartphones and will be “totally reminiscent of the way you shop, the way you bank, the way you travel and this is now the way you interact with your government”, Kyle said. A mockup of a digital driving licence page stored in a Gov.*** ‘wallet’ on a smartphone. Photograph: Department for Science/PA But campaigners are now calling for greater transparency about the new systems’ privacy impact before they are rolled out later this year. “Kyle will not be department of science, innovation and technology minister for ever, and a future government could easily use the optional digital wallet as the launch pad for a mandatory ID scheme,” said Silkie Carlo, the director of the Big Brother Watch campaign group. “The addition of our facial recognition data makes this sprawling identity system incredibly sensitive, intrusive and a honeypot for hackers.” James Baker, the campaigns manager at Open Rights Group, said: “Is there going to be pressure for the app to become the portal that you have to interact with the government through? “Do you end up in a world where it’s meant to be voluntary but it becomes so widely accepted that you can’t live without it? One future problem is it ends up evolving into a national identity database where every interaction is tracked, which has considerable privacy implications.” Kyle unveiled the technology this week in a presentation inspired by a Silicon Valley product launch. He told an audience the app would be available from June followed by the wallet to “securely save government issued digital documents” – starting with driving licences and veterans cards. The hope is that the app will become a key way citizens interact with many arms of the government from paying vehicle tax, to managing ******** benefits and interacting with the NHS. Officials insist the app and wallet will be highly secure, using security features that are built into modern smartphones, including facial recognition checks similar to those used when people pay using a digital bank card. That would mean there would be no central database of the documents held on the wallet and any hackers would have to break into individual phones. skip past newsletter promotion Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it matters Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion A government spokesperson said: “By using the same technology that protects your digital bank card, a digital driving licence will be much harder to steal than the physical copy because even if a phone is stolen, the thief won’t be able to access the documents within. “We have been clear that digital identity is not mandatory, and we will continue to make sure our new tools are as accessible as possible – including by maintaining call centres or face-to-face support for those who need help accessing digital services.” Credentials lodged in the wallet should also be harder to fake than paper documents. There are also practical benefits from gathering so many key documents in one place and it could mean an end to lost or tattered documentation with renewals happening digitally rather than through lengthy paper-based applications. It also has the potential to increase privacy in some areas. For example, citizens will not need to show their name and address when they are buying age-restricted products such as alcohol and fireworks, as they will be able to simply show the screen that proves their age. The system will allow the government to revoke credentials in some circumstances, for example if they are out of date or otherwise invalid. However. citizens would still be able to use a paper copy, if that was done for mistaken reasons. Source link #Gov.*** #app #lead #mandatory #scheme #claim #privacy #groups #eGovernment Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Aussies ‘rush’ to cash in on Tuesday’s major $70m Oz Lotto prize Aussies ‘rush’ to cash in on Tuesday’s major $70m Oz Lotto prize A lucky *********** could be up to $70m richer after the biggest lottery draw of the year so far. Aussies are expected to buy thousands of entries per minute on Tuesday, as they scramble for their chance to win big, with the draw for the $70m Oz Lotto slated to close at 7.30pm. The lottery marks the largest amount of money up for grabs in more than a year and comes after last week’s $50m draw produced no division one jackpot winner. Camera IconThere was no jackpot winner in last week’s $50m draw. NewsWire / John Gass Credit: News Corp Australia The Lott spokesperson Anna Hobdell said if someone were to take home the entire prize, they’d “immediately be crowned the title of Oz Lotto’s biggest individual lottery winner ever”. Up to one in five Aussie adults are tipped to get their hands on a ticket, with Ms Hobdell saying she anticipated a “rush across the country” on Tuesday. “This is the time when office chatter turns into work syndicates, and everyone becomes a dreamer, plotting how they’d spend a share of the $70m Oz Lotto prize,” Ms Hobdell said. “The last time we saw a $70m Oz Lotto draw was in December 2023 when the peak of sales was at 6.35pm on the day of the draw when more than 4,113 tickets were sold in a single minute.” Camera Icon$70m is up for grabs in Tuesday’s Oz Lotto draw. NewsWire / David Geraghty Credit: News Corp Australia She urged Aussies to register their tickets online or in-store to the Lott Members Club so any jackpot winner could be contacted immediately after the draw. “Be sure to take your phone off silent and pick up immediately if you see your phone light up with an incoming call on Tuesday night,” Ms Hobdell said. “It could be lottery officials calling with life-changing news. “Could we crown Oz Lotto’s biggest individual lottery winner in *********** history on Tuesday night if one player claims the entire $70m prize? We can’t wait to find out.” Common winning numbers include 47, 21, 28 and 33, while those drawn the least include 34, 26, 45 and 43. Source link #Aussies #rush #cash #Tuesdays #major #70m #Lotto #prize Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

‘Serious concerns’ about DWP’s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimants | Benefits ‘Serious concerns’ about DWP’s use of AI to read correspondence from benefit claimants | Benefits When your mailbag brims with 25,000 letters and emails every day, deciding which to answer first is daunting. When lurking within are pleas for help from some of the country’s most vulnerable people, the stakes only get higher. That is the challenge facing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as correspondence floods in from benefit applicants and claimants – of which there are more than 20 million, including pensioners, in the ***. The DWP thinks it may have found a solution in using artificial intelligence to read it all first – including handwritten missives. Human reading used to take weeks and could leave the most vulnerable people waiting for too long for help. But “white mail” is an AI that can do the same work in a day and supposedly prioritise the most vulnerable cases for officials to get to first. By implication, it deprioritises other people, so its accuracy and how it reaches its judgments count, but both matters remain opaque. Despite a ministerial mandate, it is one of numerous public sector algorithms yet to be logged on the transparency register for central government AIs. White mail has been piloted since at least 2023 when the then ******** secretary, Mel Stride, said it meant “those most in need can be more quickly directed to the relevant person who can help them”. But documents released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act show that benefit claimants are not told about its use. An internal data protection impact assessment said letter writers “do not need to know about their involvement in the initiative”. The assessment says correspondence can include national insurance numbers, dates of birth, addresses, telephone details, email addresses, details of benefit claims, health information, bank account details, racial and ******* characteristics, and details on children such as their dates of birth and any special needs. People who work with benefit claimants are now voicing “serious concerns” about how the system handles sensitive personal data. Meagan Levin, the policy and public affairs manager at Turn2us, a charity which helps people facing financial insecurity, said the system “raises concerns, particularly around the lack of transparency and its handling of highly sensitive personal data, including medical records and financial details. Processing such information without claimants’ knowledge and consent is deeply troubling.” According to the information so far released, the data is encrypted before the originals are deleted, and is held by the DWP and its cloud computing provider. The name of the provider is one of many pieces of information about the system that have been redacted. The DWP’s data protection impact assessment also says consulting individuals about this way of processing their data is “not necessary as … these solutions will increase the efficiency of the processing”. Officials say it is complementary to existing systems, and flags correspondence which is then reviewed by agents to determine whether a correspondent is in fact potentially vulnerable. The DWP said no decision was made by the AI and no data processed by it. skip past newsletter promotion Get the day’s headlines and highlights emailed direct to you every morning Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion The vast trove of text is also used by the DWP “to determine insights” and create a “theme analysis”, although little more about what form that takes and how these insights have been used has been released. “Prioritising some cases inevitably deprioritises others, so it is vital to understand how these decisions are made and ensure they are fair,” said Levin. “The DWP should publish data on the system’s performance and introduce safeguards, including regular audits and accessible appeals processes, to protect vulnerable claimants. “Transparency and accountability must be at the heart of any AI system to ensure it supports, rather than harms, those who rely on it.” The DWP has been approached for comment. Source link #concerns #DWPs #read #correspondence #benefit #claimants #Benefits Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

If You Love Traveling But Hate The Airport, You’ll Want These 26 Products – BuzzFeed If You Love Traveling But Hate The Airport, You’ll Want These 26 Products – BuzzFeed If You Love Traveling But Hate The Airport, You’ll Want These 26 Products BuzzFeed Source link #Love #Traveling #Hate #Airport #Youll #Products #BuzzFeed Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Bird feathers found in engines of crashed South Korean jet Bird feathers found in engines of crashed South Korean jet EPA Feathers and blood stains belonging to the baikal teal were found on both engines of the crashed Jeju Air plane Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December and killed 179 people. The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that files in large flocks, according to a preliminary investigation report published on Monday. The inquiry into the ****** – the deadliest on South Korean soil – will now focus on the role of the bird strike and a concrete structure at the end of the runway, which the plane crashed into. The engines of the Boeing 737-800 will be torn down and the concrete structure will be examined further, the report said. The Jeju Air plane took off from Bangkok in the morning of 29 December and was flying to Muan International Airport in the country’s south-west. At about 08:57 local time, three minutes after pilots made contact with the airport, the control tower advised the crew to be cautious of “bird activity”. At 08:59, the pilot reported that the plane had struck a bird and declared a mayday signal. The pilot then requested permission to land from the opposite direction, during which it belly-landed without its landing gear deployed. It overran the runway and exploded after slamming into the concrete structure, the report said. Authorities earlier said that flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the plane stopped recording about four minutes before the disaster. Experts who had flown the same type of aircraft involved in the ****** have also questioned the presence of the concrete barriers along the runway – with some suggesting that the casualty toll would have been lower if they were not there. The concrete structure holds a navigation system that assists aircraft landings, known as a localiser. South Korea’s transport ministry had said this system could also be found in other airports in the country and even overseas. Last week, authorities announced that they will change the concrete barriers used for navigation at seven airports across the country. Seven airports will also have their runway safety areas adapted following a review. The preliminary report has been submitted to the United Nations’ aviation agency and to the authorities of the United States, France, and Thailand. Source link #Bird #feathers #engines #crashed #South #Korean #jet Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

‘You’re too old for this now’: District Court judge slams actions of Kimberley woman after house fires ‘You’re too old for this now’: District Court judge slams actions of Kimberley woman after house fires A WA District Court Judge has slammed the actions of a Kimberley woman who set fire to a house and burned down another in retaliation to a man known to her, sentencing her to five years in prison. Source link #Youre #District #Court #judge #slams #actions #Kimberley #woman #house #fires Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

As Trump and Putin Circle Each Other, an Agenda Beyond Ukraine Emerges As Trump and Putin Circle Each Other, an Agenda Beyond Ukraine Emerges They have been circling each other carefully for seven days now — sending out invitations to talk, mixing a few jabs with ego-*********, suggesting that the only way to end the Ukraine war is for the two of them to meet, presumably without the Ukrainians. President Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, whose relationship was always the subject of mystery and psychodrama in the first Trump term, are at it again. But it is not a simple re-run. Mr. Trump was unusually harsh in his rhetoric last week, saying Mr. Putin was “destroying Russia,” and threatening sanctions and tariffs on the country if it doesn’t come to the negotiating table — a fairly empty threat given the tiny amount of trade between the U.S. and Russia these days. Calculating and understated as ever, Mr. Putin has responded with flattery, agreeing with Mr. Trump that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine had he been president three years ago. He repeated that he was ready to sit down and negotiate over the fate of Europe, superpower to superpower, leader to leader. So far they have not spoken, though Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday night that “he wants to speak, and we’ll be speaking soon.” As they prepare the ground for that first conversation, they are sending signals that they want to negotiate about more than just Ukraine — a war that, in Mr. Putin’s telling, is only one of the arenas in which the West is waging its own fight against Russia. Both men seem to envision taking on the whole relationship between Moscow and Washington, possibly including revived nuclear arms talks, a conversation that has a looming deadline: The major treaty limiting the arsenals of both nations expires in almost exactly a year. After that, they would be free to pursue the kind of arms race the world has not seen since the deepest days of the Cold War. Recalling conversations with Mr. Putin in 2020, before his defeat in the U.S. election that year, Mr. Trump insisted last week, “We want to see if we can denuclearize, and I think that’s very possible.” He appeared to be assuming that China would engage in the same conversation. (It has refused, at least so far.) While he kept using the word “denuclearize,” Mr. Trump almost certainly meant negotiating a new agreement to reduce — not eliminate — the stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons, which can cross continents. For his part, Mr. Putin talked about reviving discussions on “strategic stability,’’ the term of art among negotiators for talks that cover not just the number of nuclear weapons deployed on each side, but where they are based, how they are inspected, and steps to deter their use. The last, tentative arms control talks were ended shortly before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Mr. Putin has argued since then that any talks on limiting nuclear arms should also cover the war in Ukraine. The Biden administration had refused to mix the two, fearing that Mr. Putin’s real goal was to trade limits on its nuclear arsenal for the territory he had captured in Ukraine and other concessions. But Mr. Trump seems open to a broader negotiation, which is exactly what Mr. Putin would like, because it could enable him to make that trade-off. It is unclear what, if any, long-term security guarantees Mr. Trump is willing to offer to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who he has insisted in recent days should have made a deal with Mr. Putin and avoided a devastating war. Mr. Trump clearly wants to establish himself as a peacemaker: In his first term he suggested he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, and bringing some kind of end to Europe’s biggest war since World War II would bolster his argument. He seems unconcerned about giving Ukraine a substantive role in the process, in contrast to former President Joe Biden, whose mantra was “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” “For all these blustering exchanges, the thing Putin most wants to hear is that this is a deal Russia and the U.S. will strike by themselves,” said Stephen Sestanovich, a Russian and Eurasian studies expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former State Department official. Keith Kellogg, a retired general who, at 80, has been tasked by Mr. Trump to get the conversations going, insists that the key will be economics, not casualties. “When you look at Putin, you can’t just say, ‘Well, stop the killing,’ because candidly, that’s not their mentality,’’ he said on Fox News last week. Mr. Trump “approaches warfare differently: he looks at the economics as a piece of that warfare.” And he will focus, Mr. Kellogg insists, on limiting Russia’s oil revenues. Mr. Putin, confident of his position on Ukraine’s battlefields despite Russia’s enormous casualties, has been trying to telegraph a wait-and-see approach to Mr. Trump. Russia’s goals haven’t changed, he has said, and while it is ready for talks to end the war, it will only do so on its own terms. Mr. Putin has strongly signaled that, at a minimum, he would demand to keep the roughly 20 percent of Ukraine that Russia now controls, as well as an agreement ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine and limiting the size of its military. At the same time, Mr. Putin has made clear his eagerness to engage with Mr. Trump — and, more broadly, with the United States, after three years of diplomatic isolation by the Biden administration. The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, has been telling journalists on a near-daily basis that Mr. Putin is ready to receive Mr. Trump’s call. “We’re waiting for signals,” he said Friday. “Everyone is ready.” And Mr. Putin himself twice went out of his way last week to lavish praise on Mr. Trump — a proven method for winning Mr. Trump’s favor. On Monday, Mr. Trump’s inauguration day, he held a televised meeting of Russia’s Security Council — an event that normally happens on Fridays and largely behind closed doors. He said Mr. Trump “showed courage” in surviving attempts on his life and had won “a convincing victory.” On Friday, in a stage-managed moment, Mr. Putin stopped to answer a state television reporter’s question about Mr. Trump. The Kremlin promptly posted the video on its website. “It is probably better for us to meet and, based on today’s realities, talk calmly about all areas that are of interest to both the U.S. and Russia,” Mr. Putin said. He brushed aside Mr. Trump’s sanctions threats, calling him “smart” and “pragmatic,” and spoke Mr. Trump’s language by saying the 2020 election had been “stolen” from him. Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin has hinted at a desire to discuss a much broader set of issues with Mr. Trump than only the war in Ukraine. In his comments to state television on Friday, Mr. Putin said the Kremlin and the Trump administration could “jointly look for solutions to the key issues of today, including strategic stability and the economy.” The “strategic stability” reference signaled potential interest in arms control talks, which the Kremlin briefly began with the Biden administration in 2021. “We discussed the range of arms control and nonproliferation issues, from AI in weapons to renewal of New START,’’ Wendy Sherman, the former deputy secretary of state, who conducted the talks for the U.S. side, said in an email. (New START is the arms control treaty that has been partly suspended by Russia, and expires in February 2026.) Ms. Sherman noted that the talks were broken off ahead “of Putin’s horrific invasion.’’ Mr. Putin’s invitation for broad talks underscored what appears to be his continued optimism about Mr. Trump, despite Mr. Trump’s tough words about Russia last week and the fact that the president imposed a raft of new sanctions on Russia during his first term as president. Mr. Trump also went after Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, last week, essentially blaming him for not striking an agreement with Mr. Putin that could have avoided the war. “I could have made that deal so easily, and Zelensky decided that ‘I want to fight,’” Mr. Trump told the Fox Television host Sean Hannity. He made clear he was not interested in Mr. Biden’s approach of supporting Ukraine for as long as necessary, but with his tough rhetoric last week against Mr. Putin he may be trying to show he is not a pushover for the Russian leader, while preparing for the possibility that he cannot coax Mr. Putin into a deal that works for all sides. “To keep Putin off balance, Trump has to show him a deal is possible only if it makes sense to Ukraine and our allies,” Mr. Sestanovich said. Even as Mr. Putin welcomes talks with Mr. Trump, Russian officials aren’t backing away from their overall message about the United States as a malignant force — one sign of how the Kremlin is hedging its bets in case discussions with Mr. Trump do not go well. Ms. Sherman, who has extensive experience negotiating with Russia, warns that if talks with Russia begin, the Trump administration should be ready. “Putin will want what he has always said he wanted: As much territory as possible, no Ukraine ever in NATO, no Western nuclear weapons in Europe that could target Russia.” Given that, she bets that actually negotiating a follow-on to the New START treaty “is likely low on his list.” Source link #Trump #Putin #Circle #Agenda #Ukraine #Emerges Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

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WA Labor commits $4 million to Halls Creek water park project WA Labor commits $4 million to Halls Creek water park project Roger Cook has pledged to contribute $4 million towards a new water park in Halls Creek if re-elected at this March’s State election. The funding is part of a $186m election commitment that could benefit almost 50 community sporting facilities as part of WA Labor’s sport and recreation infrastructure package. Premier Roger Cook said he wants every West *********** to have opportunities to participate in sport and recreation that they enjoy. “Sporting clubs are the lifeblood of our local and regional communities, bringing people together and providing opportunities to stay active and engaged,” he said. “Local clubs are the key to getting more people involved, which is why we are committing $186m to sport and recreation infrastructure projects right across the State. “No other government in WA history has provided more support for community-level sporting infrastructure, and if re-elected, I look forward to working with local clubs and organisations to deliver the infrastructure their communities need.” Source link #Labor #commits #million #Halls #Creek #water #park #project Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

U.S. puts Colombia tariff, sanctions threat on hold after deportations deal U.S. puts Colombia tariff, sanctions threat on hold after deportations deal Colombian Foreign Relations Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo (C) looks on next to Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Rojas (L), Director of DAPRE Laura Sarabia (2nd-L), Ambassador of Colombia to the United States ******* Garcia-Pena (2nd-R), and Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Luis Carlos Reyes during a press conference on the diplomatic dispute with the United States at the San Carlos Palace in Bogota on January 26, 2025. Andrea Ariza | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia to punish it for earlier refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown. But in a statement late on Sunday, the White House said Colombia had agreed to accept the migrants after all and Washington would not impose its threatened penalties. “The Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all ******** aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” it said. Draft orders imposing tariffs and sanctions on Colombia would be “held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement”, it added. In a statement late on Sunday, Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said: “We have overcome the impasse with the U.S. government”. “The government of Colombia… has the presidential plane ready to facilitate the return of Colombians who were going to arrive in the country this morning on deportation flights.” The draft measures included imposing 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods coming into the U.S., which would go up to 50% in one week; a travel ban and visa revocations on Colombian government officials; and emergency treasury, banking and financial sanctions. Trump also said he would also direct enhanced border inspections of Colombian nationals and cargo. A State Department spokesperson said the United States had suspended visa processing at the U.S. embassy in Bogota. Colombia is the third largest U.S. trading partner in Latin America, while the U.S. is Colombia’s largest trading partner. Colombian President Gustavo Petro earlier condemned the military deportation flights and said he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the U.S. “We are the opposite of the Nazis,” he wrote in a post on social media platform X. But he also said Colombia would welcome home deported migrants on civilian planes, and offered his presidential plane to facilitate their “dignified return”. Trump declared ******** immigration a national emergency and imposed a sweeping crackdown since taking office last Monday. He directed the U.S. military to help with border security, issued a broad ban on asylum and took steps to restrict citizenship for children born on U.S. soil. Mexico also refused a request last week to let a U.S. military aircraft land with migrants. Trump has said he is thinking about imposing 25% duties on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1 to force further action against ******** immigrants and fentanyl flowing into the U.S. Source link #U.S #puts #Colombia #tariff #sanctions #threat #hold #deportations #deal Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

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Anthony Albanese slams ‘evil forces’ dividing Australians after neo-Nazi march in Adelaide Anthony Albanese slams ‘evil forces’ dividing Australians after neo-Nazi march in Adelaide Anthony Albanese has slammed “evil forces” seeking to divide Australians after 15 men and a teenager were arrested at a neo-Nazi march. Source link #Anthony #Albanese #slams #evil #forces #dividing #Australians #neoNazi #march #Adelaide Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

U.S. puts Colombia tariff, sanctions threat on hold after deportations deal U.S. puts Colombia tariff, sanctions threat on hold after deportations deal Colombian Foreign Relations Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo (C) looks on next to Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Rojas (L), Director of DAPRE Laura Sarabia (2nd-L), Ambassador of Colombia to the United States ******* Garcia-Pena (2nd-R), and Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Luis Carlos Reyes during a press conference on the diplomatic dispute with the United States at the San Carlos Palace in Bogota on January 26, 2025. Andrea Ariza | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the South American nation had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia to punish it for earlier refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown. But in a statement late on Sunday, the White House said Colombia had agreed to accept the migrants after all and Washington would not impose its threatened penalties. “The Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all ******** aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” it said. Draft orders imposing tariffs and sanctions on Colombia would be “held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement”, it added. In a statement late on Sunday, Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said: “We have overcome the impasse with the U.S. government”. “The government of Colombia… has the presidential plane ready to facilitate the return of Colombians who were going to arrive in the country this morning on deportation flights.” The draft measures included imposing 25% tariffs on all Colombian goods coming into the U.S., which would go up to 50% in one week; a travel ban and visa revocations on Colombian government officials; and emergency treasury, banking and financial sanctions. Trump also said he would also direct enhanced border inspections of Colombian nationals and cargo. A State Department spokesperson said the United States had suspended visa processing at the U.S. embassy in Bogota. Colombia is the third largest U.S. trading partner in Latin America, while the U.S. is Colombia’s largest trading partner. Colombian President Gustavo Petro earlier condemned the military deportation flights and said he would never carry out a raid to return handcuffed Americans to the U.S. “We are the opposite of the Nazis,” he wrote in a post on social media platform X. But he also said Colombia would welcome home deported migrants on civilian planes, and offered his presidential plane to facilitate their “dignified return”. Trump declared ******** immigration a national emergency and imposed a sweeping crackdown since taking office last Monday. He directed the U.S. military to help with border security, issued a broad ban on asylum and took steps to restrict citizenship for children born on U.S. soil. Mexico also refused a request last week to let a U.S. military aircraft land with migrants. Trump has said he is thinking about imposing 25% duties on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1 to force further action against ******** immigrants and fentanyl flowing into the U.S. Source link #U.S #puts #Colombia #tariff #sanctions #threat #hold #deportations #deal Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Chiefs to face Eagles in Super Bowl 2025, one step from historic three-peat after crushing Bills’ hearts again – New York Post Chiefs to face Eagles in Super Bowl 2025, one step from historic three-peat after crushing Bills’ hearts again – New York Post Chiefs to face Eagles in Super Bowl 2025, one step from historic three-peat after crushing Bills’ hearts again New York Post Bills-Chiefs: Deal with it, America. Patrick Mahomes, KC defeat Buffalo to win AFC title and maintain shot at Super Bowl 3-peat Yahoo SportsThe Buffalo Bills Have Put Their Fans in a Trap SlateJosh Allen, Bills suffer another heartbreaking playoff loss to Chiefs: ‘We didn’t get it done’ NFL.comPatrick Mahomes, Chiefs outlast Bills, head to Super Bowl 59 with chance at NFL history USA TODAY Source link #Chiefs #face #Eagles #Super #Bowl #step #historic #threepeat #crushing #Bills #hearts #York #Post Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

‘Watershed moment’ as press allowed to report ‘Watershed moment’ as press allowed to report Getty Images Journalists can now report from family courts in England and Wales in what the ***’s most senior family judge has called a “watershed” change. From Monday, accredited journalists can speak to families about their ongoing cases, report what they see and hear in court, and quote from key documents – provided they keep those families anonymous. Family courts determine cases that have profound effects on family lives, like deciding whether children should be taken into care or which parent they should live with. Hearings are held in private, and while journalists have been allowed to attend since 2009 they have had no right to report. Monday’s change follows a two-year “transparency pilot” which began with three court centres and now covers almost half the family courts in England and Wales. Using the pilot, the BBC has reported on multiple cases, including one in Cardiff Family Court where a young mother, whom we called Bethan, had to spend £30,000 to protect her young daughter. Her ex-husband, the child’s father, had been convicted of multiple paedophile offences. The Family Court agreed he should lose parental rights over the little girl. Bethan told us she thought the new regime was “fantastic news”. She said “allowing reporting in the Family Court sheds light on issues that the public should have the right to know about”. Her daughter, she said, was now thriving. “She has an empathy and sympathy for her little friends that simply couldn’t have developed if she were being brutalised in the way that her father’s victims were. Thanks to the Family Court judgment, she stands a chance at having a full and happy life.” BBC reporting of Bethan’s case led the then-MP Harriet Harman to campaign to change the law on parental access – which is now under way. In the future, no other parents in Bethan’s position would have to go to court to remove parental rights from those convicted of the most serious paedophile offences. The most senior judge in the Family Court, Sir Andrew McFarlane, said Bethan’s case was an example of how the new rules should operate. “If something isn’t working well, then it should be called out,” he said. The reporting and calling out of such cases was a “healthy development”, he said, adding he “looked forward to more in the future”. More of Sanchia’s reporting on family courts There has been resistance to transparency. In 2023 a senior family judge in Manchester blocked journalists from reporting a case. During a private court hearing Judge Haigh made comments about the new approach, which were published when the journalists went to the Court of Appeal. Judge Haigh said he was not supportive of the “transparency project”. “I have always felt these cases are deeply private and my judgments are there really for the parents, to help them,” he said. “They are not for public consumption or to allow press and journalists to further their journalistic ambitions.” In the High Court last year, Mr Justice Williams blocked publication of the names of Family Court judges in the Sara Sharif case – though he did release documents from the case to the press. This was overruled by the Court of Appeal last week, who said judges should be identified whether sitting in private, as they do in family cases, or in public. Some lawyers also worry the new rules could have “unintended consequences”. Alexandra Hirst, a solicitor from Boodle Hatfield, a family law firm with offices in Mayfair, and many wealthy clients, expressed concern that individuals would be reluctant to give details of their private lives in court, knowing that reporters would be listening to “highly personal evidence”. “Regardless of whether publishing names is not permitted, there is a real concern that there will be enough information available to work this out,” she said. Royal Courts of Justice Sir Andrew McFarlane said judges were favourably surprised when journalists had come to the Family Court Sir Andrew said he wasn’t surprised there was resistance to the new approach. “I understand and respect people would be resistant,” he said. “Change is change”. A lot of the courts originally approached to take part in the pilot, he said, “didn’t greet us with open arms”. Sir Andrew said when journalists did come to court the judges “were very favourably surprised about how relatively straightforward it is”. He said reporting had been “significant” and included coverage of issues affecting some of the most vulnerable in society, such as children subject to Deprivation of Liberty Orders and cases of child neglect or abandonment. He cited the case of Baby Elsa and her siblings as an important story which the BBC had highlighted. In June last year we revealed that Baby Elsa was the third child of the same parents to be abandoned over seven years. Many newsrooms are under considerable financial pressure, and some have questioned how much reporting of family courts they can undertake. Dawn Alford, executive director of the Society of Editors said freedom for journalists to report would have a particular value for regional and local audiences. It was “really vital coverage,” she said, “that is hugely important to the lives of so many” which could help communities “recognise the role of mainstream media”. 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