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  In Ukrainian cities it took place to create a pretext for their annexation by Moscow Russian forces launched new strikes in occupied regions of Ukraine as Kremlin-orchestrated votes. The latest Russian shelling killed at least three people and wounded 19, Ukraine’s presidential office said. A Russian missile hit an apartment building in the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and injuring seven others, the Ukrainian governor of Zaporizhzhia, Oleksandr Starukh, on joining Russia said one of the regions where Moscow-installed officials organized referendums. In the south Kherson and Zaporizhzhia that began Friday and in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the five-day voting, and, election officials accompanied set up mobile polling stations, by police officers carrying ballots to homes citing safety reasons. When balloting will be held on Tuesday the votes are set to wrap up at polling stations. The referendums have no legal force both Ukraine and its Western allies sa...

  The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals again blocked on Monday a larger panel of California’s first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit private prisons and immigration detention facilities, finding that it is trumped by the federal government. By 2028 last year in California a three-judge appellate panel rejected the 2019 state law that would have phased out privately run immigration jails. A key piece of the nation’s detention system for immigrants the law would have undermined. To reconsider a ruling General Rob Bonta, California Attorney, had asked the larger appellate panel. The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on immigration enforcement was one of many efforts to limit California’s cooperation with the federal government as then-President Donald Trump imposed hardline policies. But the Biden administration continued on constitutional grounds the U.S. government’s opposition to the law. Under the U.S. Constitution’s “supremacy clause” by the federal government the 11-member appella...

  Against the U.S. dollar after the British pound touched an all-time low Monday The Bank of England sought to reassure financial markets, but it’s entreaty fell flat for investors concerned about jolting a faltering economy that the government’s plan was meant to prop up and a sweeping package of tax cuts further. To boost interest rates to curb inflation the central bank said it was “closely monitoring’’ the markets and would not hesitate. As low as $1.0373 its statement came after the pound plunged, in 1971 the lowest since the decimalization of the currency, as the United Kingdom teeters toward recession by Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng would swell government debt and fuel further inflation on concerns that tax cuts announced Friday. “On Thursday in the medium term the bank will not hesitate to change interest rates by as much as needed to return inflation to the 2% target sustainably, which raised rates, and said it would fully assess the government’s tax and spending commitme...

Iran summoned the British and Norwegian ambassadors  by the death of a woman detained by morality police over what it called interference and hostile media coverage of the nationwide unrest triggered. For many who have joined the protests the label Tehran has used, which have swept the country, on internet and phones prompting a security crackdown and curbs, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian also criticized U.S. support for “rioters”. After being arrested by police enforcing the Islamic Republic’s strict restrictions on women’s dress, demonstrations erupted more than a week ago at the funeral of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini, who died in detention. In several years they have turned into the biggest protests. According to sources in the cities of Tabriz, Urmia, Rasht and Hamedan Clashes continued between security forces and protesters in several northwestern regions. In districts of the capital, Tehran Activists said there were also protests. On Sunday in a st...

For its war in Ukraine, Russia made its case to the world on Saturday, repeating a series of grievances about its neighbour  and the West to take military action to tell the U.N. General Assembly meeting of leaders that Moscow had “no choice”. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sought to shift the focus to Washington, after days of denunciations of Russia at the prominent diplomatic gathering.  The international system that the U.N. represents in his speech cantered on a claim that the United States and its allies, not Russia, as the West maintains, are aggressively undermining. To a 19th-century U.S. policy that essentially proclaimed American influence over the Western Hemisphere from the U.S. war in Iraq invoking history ranging in the early 2000s to the 20th-century Cold War. As a bully that tries to afford Lavrov portrayed the U.S. “with impunity wherever they want the sacred right to act” and can’t accept a world where others also advance their national interests. He maintai...

  At a pop-up car rally in Wildwood over the weekend authorities in southern New Jersey say at least two people were killed amid multiple crashes. There were a series of car crashes related to the “unsanctioned” car meet-up event, according to the report, Mayor Pete Byron told NJ Advance Media on Sunday. Byron said the two victims “were in a golf cart” but in the event weren’t believed to be taking part. Byron said on the identities of those killed or the nature of the crash he didn’t have additional information. From the Fall Classic Car Show taking place officials had issued warnings earlier about what they called an unsanctioned car rally separate.  To gather and check out cars participants say it gives enthusiasts a chance, but officials in other areas such as Ocean City, Maryland, have reported problems stemming from the event in previous years. On social media sites ideas showed modified vehicles revving engines and speeding off to cheers from crowds gathered on the stre...

Due to the high risk most of Oregon is in extreme fire danger, as several fires are already burning, in several regions evacuations have been ordered and power has been shut off to thousands of customers. According to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, the largest active fire in the state is the Double Creek, which grew by over 41,000 acres overnight, which coordinates wildfire incidents for agencies in Oregon and Washington. The fire officials said on Saturday that the Double Creek Fire, which was caused by lightning, has burned over 147,000 acres in northeastern Oregon since igniting on Aug. 30 and is 15% contained. For the town of Imnaha north to the Snake River and south to Highway 39 evacuations are in effect. In western Oregon another concern is the Cedar Creek Fire, burning in the National Forest east of the community of Oakridge in Lane County. The state fire officials said that over 51,000 acres the lightning-caused fire has so far burned since igniting in early Au...

The incessant ringing of a phone punctuates the crunch of broken glass splintering underfoot as police lay out a body bag, through the debris-strewn rooms of the bomb-blasted house. But the call will never be answered. The phone’s owner crouches lifelessly on the floor of his home, in a front room where the explosion from a missile, one of several to hit this eastern Ukrainian town, found him. The missiles that rained down on Pokrovsk were part of a barrage of attacks on towns in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region that left at least 10 people dead Saturday, according to Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko into the early hours of Saturday night and Sunday.  With a counteroffensive pressed forward just to the north in the Kharkiv region they came as Ukraine, from key areas pushing Russian forces into a retreat. Mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said in a message posted on Telegram, six of the dead were in Pokrovsk. Before by missiles from the front line the industrial town about 40 kilometres (25 m...

The U.N. food chief on Thursday warned that the world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude” toward starvation with up to 345 million people marching and to starvation by the war in Ukraine 70 million pushed closer. David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. The World Food Program said that in 2020 the U.N. Security Council in the 82 countries 345 million people facing acute food insecurity where the agency operates is 2½ times the number of acutely food insecure people before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. He said from very acute malnutrition and are “knocking on famine’s door”, it is incredibly troubling that 50 million of those people are suffering in 45 countries.  He said, pointing to rising conflict, the pandemic’s economic ripple effects, climate change, rising fuel prices and the war in Ukraine, “What was a wave of hunger is now a tsunami of hunger”.  On Feb. 24, Beasley said,  since Russia invaded its neighbour, soaring food, fuel and fertilizer...