Denmark's foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Sunday said that the government will seek to ban desecration of Quran and other religious books in front of foreign embassies in the nation.X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, said on Monday that owner Elon Musk will lead the product and engineering teams, while its Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino will lead all other teams including legal and sales.
The company said both Musk and Yaccarino will oversee the trust and safety team, which is responsible for content moderation.
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The property manager of Donald Trump's Florida estate made his first court appearance on Monday to face charges he helped the former president conceal top secret government documents.
Carlos De Oliveira, 56, who is accused of conspiring to obstruct justice, destroying evidence and making false statements, was released pending trial on a bond of $100,000.
Carlos De Oliveira, who was wearing a navy blue suit, did not enter a plea because he has not yet retained a local attorney.
He listened attentively as federal magistrate judge Edwin Torres read the charges against him at a brief hearing in Miami.
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in June to charges of unlawfully retaining national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements.
The former president and frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination is scheduled to go on trial next May at the height of what is expected to be a bitter and divisive presidential election campaign.
Special counsel Jack Smith filed additional charges against Trump in a superseding indictment last week and added Carlos De Oliveira as a co-defendant.
The new charges relate to Donald Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct the FBI investigation and its bid to recover classified documents he took with him when he left the White House in January 2021.
Donald Trump is specifically accused in the latest indictment of attempting to delete security camera footage at Mar-A-Lago to prevent it from being provided to the FBI and a federal grand jury.
Also charged are Donald Trump's personal aide Waltine "Walt" Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.
Nauta, a 40-year-old US Navy veteran from Guam, served as Donald Trump's military valet while he was president and continued working for him in a personal capacity since he left the White House.
Donald Trump, Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira allegedly sought to have another Trump employee, who is not identified in the indictment, erase security camera footage at Mar-A-Lago.
Carlos De Oliveira, according to the indictment, allegedly told "Trump Employee 4" that "the boss" wanted the server containing security camera footage of a storage room deleted.
Carlos De Oliveira is additionally charged with making false statements to the FBI.
Asked if he ever helped unload or move boxes of documents at Mar-A-Lago, Carlos De Oliveira said he had not.
"Never saw nothing," he said.
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Carlos De Oliveira and Nauta are scheduled to go on trial with Donald Trump unless they enter into plea deals with prosecutors engaged in the first ever criminal case against a former president.
The twice-impeached Donald Trump is accused of endangering national security by holding on to top secret nuclear and defense information after leaving the White House.
Donald Trump kept the files unsecured at Mar-a-Lago -- a club that entertains thousands of members and guests every year -- and thwarted official efforts to retrieve them, according to the indictment.
Donald Trump faces other legal problems including a looming indictment from Smith for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
Georgia prosecutors are also investigating whether Donald Trump illegally attempted to reverse the election outcome in the southern state.
Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis, who has been leading the probe, told a local television station over the weekend that the "work is accomplished" and "we're ready to go."
Donald Trump also faces multiple felony counts in a New York fraud case involving alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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A Chinese human rights lawyer who was disbarred for taking sensitive cases has been arrested in Laos, while boarding a train to Thailand. The arrest has sparked fears of his deportation to China where he could be imprisoned.A TikToker in Canada was hospitalised after drinking four litres of water for 12 days as part of a viral fitness challenge. The challenge, named 75 Hard, requires participants to drink about four litres of water for 75 days. It also includes following a structured diet with no alcohol or ''cheat meals'', two 45-minute workouts a day, reading 10 pages a day, and taking a daily progress photo, New York Post reported.
On Monday, Michelle Fairburn shared a video to TikTok on Monday about the challenge, which was first started by YouTuber Andy Frisella. She explained that she thought she had water poisoning, which can occur after you drink ''more than three to four litres of water in a few hours.''
''I think I have water poisoning. I don't feel good at all,'' Ms Fairburn said.
On the 12th day of her challenge, she said she didn't feel good when she was going to bed the night before and had woken up several times in the night to go to the bathroom. She said she couldn't eat, was nauseous, felt weak, and had been "on the toilet all morning."
"I'm doing the 75 Hard, so I'm drinking an excessive amount of water," she said. "I don't know what to do."
After a series of tests, the doctor told her that she had a severe sodium deficiency. Instead of the excessive four liters a day, she was advised to consume less than half a liter of water per day.
Extreme sodium deficiencies, or hyponatremia, can be life-threatening if left untreated, according to Mayo Clinic.
"Sodium deficiency actually can be fatal. So now I'm going to the hospital and they're going to check everything and then apparently they can raise my sodium gradually. I'm still gonna do the 75 hard challenge, and I'm not gonna give up, but he says I have to drink less than half a liter of water a day. I cannot believe this is actually happening,'' she said in the second video.
Notably, the fitness program was created in 2019 by a podcaster and CEO of a supplement company, Andy Frisella, who calls it 'an Ironman for your brain'.
"You should consult your physician or other health care professional before starting 75 HARDTM or any other fitness programme to determine if it is right for your needs. Do not start 75 HARDTM if your physician or health care provider advises against it," reads the website.
Britain's Prince William served up a surprise to diners in south London when he dished out environmentally-friendly burgers from a food truck.
In a video released on Sunday, the heir to the throne handed out "Earthshot Burgers" to highlight the work of last year's winners of his annual Earthshot Prize, which he set up to help develop solutions to major environmental problems.
"Coming right up," the prince said as he served up the burgers to the stunned customers. "Morning everyone, nicely cooked, ready to go."
The object for William, who had teamed up with the founders of the YouTube channel Sorted Food which reviews kitchen gadgets and shares recipes, was to raise the profile and work of three previous Earthshot prize winners.
"So the box you're about to eat in is built by a company called Notpla and there's no plastic involved, they've come up with a seaweed coating," the prince told the customers at the burger van.
"The ingredients inside the burger are grown from a greenhouse in India from a company called Kheyti, and last but not least, the way we cook them has been on a thing called Mukuru Clean Stoves, and that is designed by a lady in Kenya who came up with the concept to reduce air pollution."
He added: "Can't vouch for the taste, the quality but ... I'm rolling with it."
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 on the Richter Scale hit Afghanistan on Friday at 6:09 pm, informed the National Center for Seismology (NCS).Booksellers along the river Seine say the Olympics threaten to erase a symbol of Paris after they were told by local authorities that they will have to remove their stalls for the Summer Games opening ceremony in 2024 for security reasons.
Around 570 of the famous old stalls that line the river in the capital need to be dismantled and moved, or almost 60% of the riverside booksellers, according to the city authorities.
"People come to see us like they come to see the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame, (but) they want to hide us during a ceremony that is supposed to represent Paris," said Jerome Callais, the president of the Paris booksellers association.
Paris police have told the booksellers their stalls are within the perimeter of protection for the opening ceremony and need to be removed for "obvious security reasons," the police said in a statement.
Paris 2024 organisers expect at least 600,000 people to attend the opening ceremony on the Seine, during which athletes and delegations will sail along the river. It will be the first time the public will have free access to the opening ceremony, and not in a stadium.
The French government is making plans to ensure the security of the event, for which 35,000 security agents and the military will be deployed.
But Albert Abid feels that he and his fellow booksellers are being excluded from the celebrations, and says he is worried that his 100-year-old wooden stall will be damaged in the process.
"(They) are very fragile.. our stalls will not be able to withstand this operation, nor will the morale of the booksellers," said the seller of 10 years in front of his riverside stall holding around 100-150 books.
The Paris authorities said in a statement that they met with the booksellers earlier this month and offered to pay for the costs of removing the stalls and to pay for any repair work in the event of damage, in what they called a "renovation".
"This renovation is part of the Games' heritage and will help support the application to have the Seine booksellers recognised as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO," the authorities said.
It was not clear whether the booksellers had been told they must move for the duration of the Games or only for the opening ceremony. But the city has invited them to move to a specially created "bookseller village" in a "literary neighbourhood near to the Seine" for the duration of the Games.
However, Callais, the bookseller association president, said the proposed location of Bastille Square was not a viable solution and that no other compensation had been proposed.
"No one is going to go to that market," he said.
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The Philippines, which has been battling flash floods and storms, witnessed another black day as 21 people were killed after a passenger boat overturned in Laguna Lake southeast of Manila. According to police, the incident occurred on Thursday when the ill-fated boat was lashed by strong winds in Laguna Lake while carrying passengers from Kalinawan village in Binangonan town. 
Pakistan on Rajnath Singh's remark: A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on the occasion of the 24th Kargil Vijay Diwas, said that India is ready to cross the Line of Control (LoC) to maintain its honour and dignity, Pakistan in response on Thursday (July 27) said that the "belligerent rhetoric" is a threat to regional peace and stability.A man in his mid-30s in Belgium has confessed to killing his mother and sticking parts of her body in a fridge found in a canal in the country's east, prosecutors said Friday.
The refrigerator with its grisly contents -- two arms and two legs -- was found Tuesday bobbing in a canal on the outskirts of the city of Liege, triggering a murder investigation.
That led detectives to discover the rest of the woman's body -- her head and torso -- in a trash container thrown in a nearby river.
A tattoo on the torso helped identify the victim as a woman in her 70s, a spokeswoman for the Liege prosecutors' office told AFP.
Her son, born in 1988, was arrested just before dawn on Thursday in a hotel close to Brussels's airport.
He apparently was preparing to take a flight to South Korea, the spokeswoman, Catherine Collignon, said.
Under questioning by police, the man "confessed", she added, and the investigating judge ordered him charged and taken into custody.
Early indications in the investigation suggest the mother and son had regular arguments after he moved back in with her after the Covid pandemic.
The killing was said to have occurred in Seraing, a southwestern neighbourhood of Liege, where the woman lived with her two children and a grandchild, according to local media.
The suspect was said to have confessed to the killing to someone in his entourage, who shared the information with another person who spoke to police.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday who was on a visit to the country during which the two sides promised to support ties. North Korea marked its 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim and Shoigu talked Wednesday in the capital, Pyongyang, and arrived at an agreement on undefined "matters of shared worry in the field of national defense and security and on the territorial and worldwide security climate."
In a curious case, the abrupt removal of Qin Gang as Chinese foreign minister has been followed by the complete erasure of all activities during his near six-month tenure, including his recent meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, from the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.US citizens currently enjoy visa-free access to most E.U. countries, however, this privilege is set to change soon.
According to the official travel site of the European Union, visitors from more than 60 countries that are visa-exempt will be required to apply for European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) approval ahead of their trips starting in 2024. Visitors will need to pay about $8 to apply for ETIAS authorization when traveling to European countries.
The new travel authorization program is being implemented by the Europen Union to protect and strengthen its borders amid mounting terror threats in Europe.
''The rules of travel to Europe have changed. Starting from 2024, some 1.4 billion people from over 60 visa-exempt countries are required to have a travel authorisation to enter most European countries,'' the EU website noted.
Notably, ETIAS is an electronic travel authorization linked to a traveler's passport.
All U.S. citizens who want to travel to the 27 member countries of Europe's Schengen Zone will need to register with ETIAS or risk being turned away at the border. Once the authorization is secured, however, it is valid for up to three years or until the visitor's passport expires.
According to ETIAS, most applications should be processed within minutes, but in case an application takes longer, decisions will be sent within four days or up to 14 days if the applicant is asked to provide additional documentation.
''With a valid ETIAS travel authorization, you can enter the territory of these European countries as often as you want for short-term stays — normally for up to 90 days in any 180-day period. However, it does not guarantee entry. When you arrive, a border guard will ask to see your passport and other documents and verify that you meet the entry conditions,” the EU's website reads.
According to the Henley Passport Index, American travelers have visa-free access to 184 global destinations,
India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Monday met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the BRICS NSA's in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he spoke about the situation at the border areas.
May 9 violence: An anti-terrorism court has initiated the process of declaring former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's sisters, Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, and his nephew, along with his party leaders as 'absconders' for non-compliance with the investigation pertaining to the May 9 violence.Republican Florida governor and US presidential election candidate Ron DeSantis was involved in a car crash on Tuesday while traveling to a campaign stop in Tennessee, aides said.
He and his team were uninjured in the incident ahead of a scheduled appearance in Chattanooga, according to a statement sent to AFP by the campaign, which offered no further details.
"We appreciate the prayers and well wishes of the nation for his continued protection while on the campaign trail," press secretary Bryan Griffin said.
The accident was the latest setback in a two-month campaign that is in the midst of a reset after a series of largely self-inflicted woes that began with a glitch-ridden Twitter launch.
Campaign officials have acknowledged lavish overspending, according to US media reports, while DeSantis himself has been criticized for his awkwardness and inability to connect with ordinary voters on the campaign trail.
Former president Donald Trump commands a lead of around 33 points over Mr DeSantis in national polling averages as a crowded field of candidates prepares for the first debate in Milwaukee on August 23.
Despite languishing at 18.5 percent, Mr DeSantis is still clear of the chasing pack and best placed to capitalize should Trump's legal woes take him out of the race.
In the FiveThirtyEight national average, former vice president Mike Pence is third with just 5.6 percent support, in a virtual tie with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who is at 5.5 percent.
As Islamabad gears to set up an interim authority ahead of the general election, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has finalised Finance Minister Ishaq Dar's candidature as the next caretaker Prime Minister of the country, according to sources. However, the decision has reportedly been met with strong reservations from coalition partner - Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
A 33-year-old fitness influencer, Justyn Vicky, in Indonesia, died in a tragic gym accident after a 210 kg barbell broke his neck while attempting a squat press. A video of his accident on July 15 in a gym in Bali went viral on social media.
A helicopter crash in Alaska's North Slope region left no survivors, officials said on Friday. The aircraft carried a pilot and three state workers. The helicopter had been chartered by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the department said in a statement on Friday.
The United States imposed fresh sanctions on as many as 120 firms from Russia, United Arab Emirates and Kyrgyzstan among others on Thursday in renewed efforts to block Moscow's access to battlefield supplies along with money. Gambia's government is "far advanced" in exploring avenues for potential legal action against Atlantic Pharmaceuticals and Maiden Pharmaceuticals over toxic cough syrups that were imported from India, it said on Friday.
At least 70 children in Gambia, most under 5 years old, died from acute kidney injury last year. A government-backed investigation found that the deaths were "very likely" caused by contaminated medicines made in India.
The small West African country has hired a U.S. law firm to explore legal action, the justice minister previously told Reuters.
The Indian drugmaker Maiden Pharmaceuticals has denied wrongdoing, and the Indian government says that tests it conducted on the drugs showed they were not contaminated. Atlantic Pharmaceuticals, a local distributor of the drugs, could not be reached.
"The government is currently benefiting from legal advice from a top tier international law firm," Gambia's government said in a statement, adding it is also pursuing potential redress through engagement with the Government of India.
Families of 20 of the children have already sued the two companies as well as Gambian authorities.
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Canadian police have arrested 15 Indian-origin men for allegedly running a major organised cargo theft ring, and property worth more than 9 million dollars was recovered along with stolen goods.
A joint task force was formed in March to investigate a series of tractor-trailer and cargo thefts in Peel regional municipality and across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), a press release by the Peels Regional Police said on Wednesday.
The investigation, dubbed Project Big Rig, disrupted the criminal ring, leading to the arrests of fifteen Indian-origin individuals from different cities in the GTA. Those arrested ranged in age from 22 to 45, and 73 charges were laid on them.
Investigators said the stolen cargo included various commercial goods, ATVs, and vehicles, which the suspects then allegedly sold at various flea markets and stores, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.
A total value of 9.2 million Canadian dollars in property was recovered, comprising 6.9 million dollars of stolen cargo and 2.2 million dollars in value of stolen tractor-trailers, the press release said.
Officers discovered the same group of suspects had targeted cargos of various sizes and 28 tractor-trailers in six GTA locations by breaking through fences and driving away with the trucks or stealing trucks pulled over on the side of the road, Peel Regional Police Detective Mark Haywood said during a press conference.
"They were entering a lot of the facilities ... [They would] cut the fence, go in, steal the product, steal a truck usually and drive over the fence," Mr. Haywood was quoted as saying by the CBC.
"Some were taken from truck stops, and some were taken from roadside," while the truck drivers were on breaks or sleeping, he said.
Several of those arrested were repeat offenders, said Nick Milinovich, the Deputy Chief of Peel police's investigative and emergency services.
According to the press release, those arrested included Balkar Singh, 42; Ajay Ajay, 26; Manjeet Padda, 40; Jagjeevan Singh, 25; Amandeep Baidwan, 41, and Karamshand Singh, 58.
Jasvinder Atwal, 45; Lakhvir Singh, 45; Jagpal Singh, 34; Upkaran Sandhu, 31; Sukhvinder Singh, 44; Kulvir Bains, 39; Banishidar Lalsaran, 39; Shobit Verma, 23, Sukhninder Dhillon, 34, were also arrested and various charges were laid on them too.
Mr. Haywood said more arrests in cargo and auto thefts should be expected later this year.
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India has officially lent its support to the efforts of the United Nations in continuing the Black Sea Grain initiative, after Russia announced to halt of the "crucial" grain deal that allows the movement of agricultural goods from Ukraine to other countries.The United States on Wednesday announced a new $1.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine featuring air defense systems, anti-tank missiles, drones and other equipment.
The package is part of US efforts to meet "Ukraine's pressing requirements by committing critical near-term capabilities while also building the enduring capacity of Ukraine's armed forces," the Defense Department said in a statement.
The assistance will not immediately arrive on the battlefield, as it falls under the Ukraine Security Assistance initiative, under which Washington procures equipment from the defense industry or partners, rather than drawing it from US stocks.
The package includes four NASAMs air defense systems and related munitions, TOW anti-tank missiles, 152 mm artillery shells, drones as well as counter-drone systems, and various vehicles.
The United States has spearheaded the push for international support for Ukraine, quickly forging an international coalition to back Kyiv after Russia invaded and coordinating aid from dozens of countries.
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A Russian fighter jet flew very close to a US surveillance aircraft over Syria, forcing the aircraft to navigate the turbulent wake and putting the lives of the four American crew members in danger, according to US officials on Monday. The incident on Sunday marked a significant escalation in the recent series of encounters between US and Russian aircraft in Syria.The first-generation iPhone just sold at auction for $190,372.80 (approximately Rs 1,29,80,000). The 2007 Apple iPhone originally bought for $599, was sealed and in exceptional condition, the auction listing said.
The LCG Auctions described the product as a "popular high-end collectable" and "exceedingly rare".
The iPhone collectors considered the model to be "Holy Grail" due to its extreme scarcity, BBC reported.
"We expected the bidding for this item to be fervent and it did not disappoint as a handful of avid and sophisticated collectors drove the price from just over $10,000 on Sunday afternoon to this record-setting amount by Sunday night," LCG Auctions founder Mark Montero said in a statement.
"We congratulate the winners, our consignors and all of the bidders for making this one of the most active auctions in our history."
Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone in 2007 and Apple was able to sell millions of units.
The iPhone also featured a 2-megapixel camera.
Meanwhile, the latest iPhone 14 comes with 128 GB storage and has a 12-megapixel camera with an ultra-wide lens.
According to The Guardian, LCG Auctions sold another first-generation iPhone for $63,356 in February. Another firm, Wright Auctions, sold a first-generation iPhone for $40,320 in March.
Owuraka Koney forms part of an elite group on Wall Street: Those who foresaw Tesla Inc.'s wild growth potential before it even went public.
Koney was just 25 when he stumbled across the fledgling electric-vehicle maker while researching other companies for Jennison Associates. He was immediately taken with Tesla's vision and by 27 managed to convince his colleagues at Jennison to gamble on the stock.
A dozen years and some 14,800% later, Koney isn't satisfied. He still sees lots of room for additional gains as the company releases a "tsunami" of new cars in the coming years. At the same time, he expects the auto industry to undergo a massive consolidation as it makes the challenging shift away from combustion engines.
Koney, talking for the first time publicly about how Jennison built a Tesla position now worth $5.9 billion, said the Elon Musk-led company built EV expertise early and has fine-tuned its products, positioning itself to be among the survivors. Koney thinks by 2026, Tesla could be pumping out twice the 2 million or so cars it's expected to deliver this year. That will set it up for further growth, even as dreamy notions of fully self-driving cars remain years away.
"They are mostly a car company today. That's what drives the majority of their revenue," Koney said. "A few years from now that will still be the case."
When Tesla posts quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Koney won't be especially worried about the company's seemingly constant volatility. The results will be a barometer for how well a series of price cuts are working in an increasingly crowded market, in which both legacy automakers and startups are constantly introducing alternatives to the Model 3 and Model Y, Tesla's two workhorse vehicles.
Koney said he's thinking more about three years from now, when he expects next-generation Tesla cars will be rolling off a newly built assembly line in Mexico. He sees those models being made cheaply at high volumes, putting investors like Jennison in line for another Musk windfall.
Chance Meeting
Koney had no real background in the auto industry when he first encountered Tesla. He was born in Ghana and spent part of his childhood in Gambia. His father was a judge, and his mom worked for Ghana Airways. After studying economics and political science at Williams College, he got his first job in finance as an aerospace analyst at UBS Group AG.
Jennison, an affiliate manager of PGIM with about $175 billion under management, hired Koney in 2007 to cover the industrial sector. Two years later, the analyst embarked on a nationwide tour of the EV ecosystem to understand why one of the companies he followed, Johnson Controls Inc., was considering building a lithium-ion battery business. One of the startups he visited impressed him so much he began forming a whole new investment idea.
When Koney met with Tesla at its retail store in Silicon Valley, Deepak Ahuja, Tesla's then-chief financial officer, said the company would first break into the market at the high end, where consumers were willing to pay a premium for an EV. Then they would drive downmarket as quickly as possible, increasing volume and lowering the price of each successive model.
Koney came away bullish, but Tesla still faced a lot of risks. He kept a close watch on the company as it gained a stronger footing. In April 2010, the carmaker received a low-interest $465 million loan from the US Department of Energy - a lifeline as it was creating the Model S. A month later, Tesla bought a shuttered factory once owned by a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota Motor Corp. That June, Tesla went public at $17 a share, valuing the company at about $1.7 billion.
Koney met more executives, including its then-chief technology officer, JB Straubel, and its head designer, Franz von Holzhausen. By 2011, convinced Tesla was "for real," it was time for him to pitch Jennison on the idea.
"Owuraka believed that Tesla was going to revolutionize the auto industry," said Kathleen McCarragher, head of growth equity at Jennison. "He had a deep understanding of the significance of Tesla's competitive advantages."
Among the factors Koney highlighted to the team was that Tesla had created its own battery system, had structural cost advantages compared to traditional automakers and had a "unique company culture that could create innovative solutions," McCarragher said.
Jennison owns more than 20 million Tesla shares, making it one of the company's largest investors. The asset manager declined to say how profitable its bet on Tesla has been over the years, citing compliance issues. The stock has gained more than 135% in 2023 and is up 14,853% since mid-2011, when Jennison first disclosed its initial shareholding in a regulatory filing.
High Volatility
For nearly a dozen years, Koney has ridden the waves of stomach-churning volatility, a similar experience to the other company he pegged as a potential behemoth early in his time at Jennison: Netflix Inc. Few stocks are as polarizing as Tesla, and each day begins with absorbing the news flow, checking Reddit and "aggressive lurking" on Twitter.
Some of the ups and downs have been triggered by Musk himself, and behind the scenes Koney has found himself in disagreements with the multibillionaire.
In 2016, Tesla wanted to acquire SolarCity, a rooftop solar-panel installer run by Musk's cousins. Some investors balked: Tesla was in the throes of working on the Model 3, its first mass-market car, and the deal seemed ill-timed.
As Tesla lobbied shareholders for support, the company arranged for a phone conversation between Koney and Musk. The analyst was rushing home to his infant daughter when the call from the CEO came through. His mother, who'd been helping with childcare, picked up as Koney walked in the door and told him "this guy called Elon" was on the phone.
Shareholders overwhelmingly approved the SolarCity deal; Jennison voted against it. Solar still isn't a big part of Tesla's energy business, where much of the excitement is focused on the company's Megapack batteries for utilities.
"I was not a fan of that deal, and I'm still not," Koney said. "I like Elon. But I'm not a fanboy, per se. We don't just sign off on everything."
By 2018, Tesla was in a manufacturing ramp-up period so taxing and capital intensive, Musk called it "production hell." According to the CEO's retelling, the company was weeks away from bankruptcy, and key executives quit.
That was also the year Musk infamously tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla private at $420, and had "funding secured." Koney shot Tesla an email and was ultimately deposed by investors who sued Musk in federal court (the transcript of the analyst's deposition is sealed).
Early 2019 was equally rough: Tesla closed stores and missed delivery targets, and Ahuja left. But Koney saw the second quarter of the year as a turning point: Tesla became cash-flow positive, proving it could build the Model 3 and make money. It's still the only US company with a profitable EV business.
Tesla is not immune to risks. The company itself says it is highly dependent on Musk, who is also the CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. In October, he acquired Twitter Inc. for $44 billion. This month, he announced the leadership team for xAI, his latest startup.
"Elon is a big driver for Tesla's success," said Koney. "The less time he spends on Twitter and the more time he spends on Tesla, I'm happy."
Full Self-Driving
In March, Tesla gave a lengthy investor presentation at the company's headquarters and factory in Austin, and Musk shared the stage with several other executives. Koney was there in person, paying close attention to the more than 160 slides that Tesla showed.
Besides the breadth of executive talent, Koney's biggest takeaway was the "unboxed" assembly process that Lars Moravy, Tesla's vice president of vehicle engineering, highlighted. He said the company will move away from complex and cumbersome methods the industry has used for more than a century, eliminating hundreds of parts and simplifying assembly processes. Koney believes Optimus, Tesla's humanoid robot, could ultimately be put to work on production lines to install seats and interior panels.
That could reduce costs, which would be especially helpful as Musk slashes prices of Tesla models to keep growing sales as other carmakers release waves of competing electric vehicles.
While those cuts will pressure profit margins, Musk has said the company could make so much money on autonomous-driving software in the future, it doesn't need to make upfront returns on vehicle sales. The CEO has long made lofty claims about AI-powered cars that haven't come to pass.
Koney thinks that Full Self-Driving Beta - Tesla's name for its driver-assistance software - is getting incrementally better, and requiring less input from the driver. He should know: He has a Model X with FSD Beta and regularly drives it in Manhattan.
"It's extremely cautious around pedestrians, which it should be," Koney said. "There's a ways to go before FSD works in a city like New York, let alone a place like Mumbai."
More bullish for Koney is the fact Tesla is building a new factory in Mexico that will make its next-generation cars.
Though details are scant - vehicles were shrouded under white sheets during its investor day - Tesla expects them to be winning products. The company wants to make 20 million vehicles a year by 2030 and will need a cheaper, high-volume models to get there.
It's a far cry from 2009, when Koney was excited about the fledging EV maker but much of Wall Street questioned whether the company was viable.
"When I look at Tesla today, I'm no longer worried about survival," said Koney. "It's just a question of how successful they will be."
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United President Joe Biden has recently announced the appointment of Indian-American business leader and founder and president of Mastercard's Center for Inclusive Growth, Shamina Singh, as a member of the President's Exclusive Council.A jumper worn by Britain's late Princess Diana and depicting a black sheep is headed for auction later this summer with a price estimate of up to $80,000.
Designed by knitwear label Warm & Wonderful, the sweater, which will headline Sotheby's Fashion Icons Aug. 31-Sept. 14 online sale, was rediscovered in an attic earlier this year by one of the brand's founders.
Diana first wore the red jumper, which depicts a lone black sheep among rows of white sheep, to watch then Prince Charles play in a polo game in June 1981, a month before they were married, sparking speculation over its potential significance.
After it was damaged on the wrist, her private secretary Oliver Everett wrote to Warm & Wonderful co-founder Joanna Osborne asking if it could be repaired and the jumper was sent back. A few months later, Diana received a replacement, which she was photographed wearing in 1983.
Ms Osborne found the original in a box in her attic in March.
"If you're Princess Diana, certainly you have access to lots of pieces of apparel you could choose to wear," Cynthia Houlton, global head of fashion at Sotheby's, told Reuters at a press preview in London on Monday.
"And the fact that she wanted a replacement and then again two years later wore ... the replacement sweater, I think speaks really volumes from her how much this sweater meant to her."
The jumper, which is being sold with Oliver Everett's two letters to Joanna Osborne, has a price estimate of $50,000-$80,000.
Earlier this year, Sotheby's sold a purple, velvet, strapless evening gown worn by Diana, designed by couturier Victor Edelstein for his autumn 1989 collection, for just over $600,000, five times its pre-auction estimate.
The jumper and letters are on display at Sotheby's London until Wednesday. They will go on show in New York in September.
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday met his Myanmar counterpart Than Swe and discussed expediting projects, especially the India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway, and underlined the importance of ensuring peace and stability in the border areas. Jaishankar, who arrived in Bangkok from Indonesia on Saturday on an official visit, also met Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai.A Pakistani woman, who sneaked into India with her four children to live with a Hindu man she had befriended through an online gaming platform, has been ostracised by her family and neighbours back home for daring to defy societal norms.
Seema Ghulam Haider and Sachin Meena met online in 2019 while playing PUBG. This culminated into a dramatic love story between the two who lived over 1,300 km apart in countries not friendly with each other.
Seema, 30, and Sachin, 22, live in Greater Noida, near Delhi, where Sachin runs a grocery store, according to the Uttar Pradesh Police.
While Seema was arrested on July 4 for illegally entering India without a visa via Nepal with her four children - all below seven years of age, Sachin was jailed for sheltering the illegal immigrants.
The woman's family and neighbours in Pakistan's Karachi are not impressed and don't want her to return.
"She should just send her children back to Pakistan. She can stay there. Now she is no longer a Muslim even," her landlord's 16-year-old son said. Seema had been living on rented with her children for the three years before deciding to come to India to be with her Hindu lover.
The story of this not so educated mother of four and the wife of a man working abroad abandoning everything and entering India illegally to be with a much younger lover has fascinated everyone in her neighbourhood in Bhittaiabad - a Katchi Abadi in the heart of Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
Her home is a three-room portion in a building devoid of any paint and located in a narrow lane filled with garbage and an overflowing sewage system.
The stench from the sewage lingers in the air in the crowded un-constructed lane and broken road bustling with people and shops on both sides.
Seema's house is testament that the reports about her husband - Ghulam Haider, who works in Saudi Arabia, buying her the house for Rs 1.2 million is absolutely untrue.
"No, she was a tenant with us for three years with her children. She lived alone with her children. Her father-in-law lives nearby," Nur Muhammad, the landlord's son, explained.
Seema and Ghulam Haider had eloped 10 years ago to Karachi and married against the wishes of their parents.
"We saw her call a taxi and leave one day with her children and some bags and we thought she was going to her village in Jacobabad. But after nearly a month, when we heard about her on TV channels, we were shocked," Jamal Jakhrani, an elderly man, who was her neighbour, said.
Mr Jakhrani, who belongs to the same tribe as Seema and Ghulam Haider, believes it is best she remains in India now.
"If she ever thinks of coming back, she will not be forgiven by the tribe and secondly, her decision to stay with a Hindu has angered everyone here," he said.
Mian Mithoo, a religious leader in Pakistan's rural Sindh, known for using his seminary to convert Hindu girls to Islam, has openly threatened to punish Seema if she returns home.
His supporters have also threatened to attack Hindu places of worship in Seema's village but a police officer in Kashmore-Kandhkot, Irfan Samoo, assured Hindus and Sikhs that they would be protected.
Mr Samoo, however, is puzzled by the whole case and has pointed out anomalies in Seema's documents and tale.
"Her national identity card says she was born in 2002. So, she should be 21 now and yet she has four children all aged at least six," he said.
He also said the police have asked Ghulam Haider to return from Saudi Arabia but he has been in touch with them only on video and phone calls.
Mr Samoo is not convinced that a woman with a rural background would have the courage to plan her way to India via Dubai and Kathmandu.
An officer at the police station in Karachi where Seema's father-in-law filed an FIR is also not convinced that it is as simple a case as it seems.
"The husband also keeps changing his stories to the police. First, he said he bought the house and now he says he paid one million rupees to Seema's family to settle a tribal decision when they first fled to Karachi," he said.
"One thing is clear - Seema was frustrated with her husband's absence and being forced to take care of her four children all by herself as she had no support, not even from her in-laws," he said.
Malik, a mobile shop owner, remembered how, after a year of Seema moving into the neighbourhood, she used to visit his shop to get her phone balance recharged frequently.
"She always wore a chaddar over her head and half of her face would be covered. She didn't talk much. So it surprised me when I learnt about her decision," Malik said.
Maulvi Samiuddin, a prayer leader at the neighbourhood mosque, was not willing to talk about the incident initially. Later, he said Seema was evil.
"Husbands should never leave their wives alone for years and parents need to constantly keep a watch on their daughters or we will have more such incidents in the future because most people, especially women, are not educated enough in such poor neighbourhoods to understand the consequences of their actions," he said.
"She has brought shame to Muslims and Pakistan. She will face punishment for her actions sooner or later," he said.
Meanwhile, a Hindu place of worship was attacked early Sunday by a gang of dacoits with rockets in the Kashmore area of the province.
The attack comes just days after dacoits in the Kashmore and Ghotki riverine areas had threatened to attack Hindu places of worship and the community members in retaliation over the case.
"The suspects fled from the scene after the attack. The police are searching the area," a police official said, adding that eight to nine gunmen were involved in the attack.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said it was alarmed by reports that these gangs have threatened to attack the community's sites of worship with high-grade weapons and asked the Sindh Home Department to investigate the matter without delay.
A terrifying incident involved the first-class mail delivery of a severed human finger to French President Emmanuel Macron. The bundle was conveyed to the Elysee Castle, the official residence of Macron without a note of clarification. The police are yet to ID the suspect as examinations are in progress to find out the thought process behind the move. They, nonetheless, have opened the case for "danger of a wrongdoing or offense against a chosen official", reported CNN.
A major crack in Russian top administration has again emerged within a month after a Russian general in charge of forces fighting in southern Ukraine was relieved of his duties. According to the reports the General was removed as he spoke about problems faced by his troops-- a move that reflected new fissures in the military command following a brief rebellion by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.A Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for soliciting sexually explicit photos and videos from young girls in the Philippines.
Karl Quilter, 58, pleaded guilty last year to sexual exploitation of children, the US Attorney's Office for the North District of Illinois said.
Quilter was sentenced to 30 years in a federal prison by US District Judge Virginia Kendall, the US Attorney's Office said in a statement on Friday.
Quilter enticed at least nine girls in the Philippines to produce sexually explicit photos and videos and send them to him via Facebook, Viber, and Skype between 2017 and 2020, it said.
Quilter "preyed on the victims' financial difficulties, using money transfers to the victims' families to entice the girls to record the sexually explicit images," the US Attorney's Office said.
"Victim by victim, and message by message, defendant used social media and the internet to target and groom young Filipino girls," Assistant US attorney Ashley Chung said in the government's sentencing memorandum.
"This was not a one-time aberration, but rather a years-long pattern of predatory abuse and exploitation of minors," Chung said.
Quilter was arrested in Chicago in November 2020.
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Amid the ongoing NATO Summit in Lithuania's national capital Vilnius, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has made contentious remarks against war-torn Ukraine for continuously demanding weapons from Britain without showing "gratitude" for what it has received since the escalation of the tragic war. In a blunt intervention, Wallace argued that Ukraine should keep in mind that the UK is not an online shopping platform-- "Amazon" for weapons and added Kyiv might be wise to let its supporters "see gratitude".
After threatening of 'shocking' consequences over alleged US reconnaissance activity near its territory, North Korea on Wednesday launched an inter-continental ballistic missile towards its eastern waters. The missile was detected by Japan's Defense Ministry.Time is money, and Shopify Inc. wants its workers to understand that maxim applies to pointless meetings, too.
The Canadian e-commerce company has rolled out a calculator embedded in employees' calendar app that estimates the cost of any meeting with three or more people. The tool uses average compensation data across roles and disciplines, along with meeting length and attendee count, to put a price tag on the event. A typical 30 minute endeavor with three employees can run from $700 up to $1,600. Adding an executive - like Chief Operating Officer Kaz Nejatian, who built the program during a company-wide hack day - can shoot the cost above $2,000.
The new tool is part of the company's yearlong drive to reduce unnecessary gatherings. Earlier this year, Shopify eliminated all recurring meetings with more than two people and started discouraging meetings on Wednesdays.
The goal of these initiatives, said Nejatian, is to "change the default answer from yes to no."
The company is on pace to cut out 322,000 hours and 474,000 discrete events in 2023, according to Nejatian.
"No one at Shopify would expense a $500 dinner," Nejatian said in an interview. "But lots and lots of people spend way more than that in meetings without ever making a decision. The goal of this thing is to show you that time is money. If you have to spend it, you think about it."
Executives and their employees both say they spend hours each week in meetings that could disappear without consequence. Time wasted on activities like meetings were among the top five causes of inefficiency within an organization, a survey of business leaders and knowledge workers from project-management app Wrike found.
In total, noncritical meetings waste about $100 million a year at big organizations, according to research from Steven Rogelberg, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who has studied meetings for two decades.
Companies have battled the scourge of meetings for decades. When Alan Mulally took over at Ford Motor Co. in 2006, he slashed unnecessary or unduly long meetings to speed decision making. A decade ago, Bain & Co. found that a single weekly meeting of midlevel managers cost one organization $15 million a year, and senior executives devoted more than two days every week to meetings.
"Meetings are like weeds - they sprout back up, everywhere, unless you're diligent," said Brian Elliott, an executive adviser on workplace issues.
On its own, the Shopify calculator won't likely change behaviors, Rogelberg said. "It is a very superficial intervention."
He suggested the company couple it with training on best practices, feedback for middle managers and buy-in from senior leadership - all things that Shopify is already doing as part of its broader calendar campaign.
Another concern, said Steph Little, a senior consultant at workplace advisory firm Bright + Early, is that putting a dollar figure on meetings might discourage junior or marginalized employees from raising an important issue up the chain, thinking it's not worth it.
"We have a ton of unnecessary meetings, sure, but we also have people who are left out of decisions," Little said. "When people are working remotely especially, they want the connection and information."
At Shopify, the average time spent in meetings per worker declined 14% over the first five months of 2023 compared with the same period last year. That's helped contribute to a projected 18% increase in finished projects this year, Nejatian said.
"Most of the modern work environment is broken," he said. "It's not just any one change that matters."
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The BBC presenter facing allegations he paid a young person thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos is Huw Edwards, the BBC reported on Wednesday, citing a statement from his wife.
"Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years," his wife, Vicky Flind said, according to the BBC.
"The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he'll stay for the foreseeable future."
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Russia-Ukraine War: Russian President Vladimir Putin has held secret talks at the Kremlin with the Wagner warlord who staged an armed mutiny against his regime, according to Western intelligence sources, a media report said.
France protests: As France recently witnessed a spade of violent riots, the country on Sunday imposed a ban on the sale, possession and transport of firecrackers for the Bastille Day celebrations later this week.
At least 24 people were killed after unidentified gunmen, claimed to be a part of 'militia gang' attacked a village in Nigeria, according to authorities on Sunday. The attack comes as many parts of the country grapple with armed violence.Meta Platforms' Twitter rival Threads crossed 100 million sign-ups in five days, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, dethroning ChatGPT as the fastest online platform to hit the milestone.
The app has been setting new records for user additions since its launch on Wednesday, with celebrities from Jennifer Lopez to Kim Kardashian joining the platform seen as the first serious threat to the Elon Musk-owned microblogging app.
Twitter has responded by threatening to sue Meta over the app, alleging that the social media behemoth used its trade secrets and other confidential information.
That claim, legal experts say, could be hard to prove.
Threads shares some resemblance to Twitter, as do the numerous other social media sites that have cropped up in recent months. It allows posts that are up to 500 characters long and include links, photos and videos of up to 5 minutes.
The app's sprint to 100 million users was much faster than the two months OpenAI-owned ChatGPT took in January, which had made it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study.
Still, Threads has some catching up to do. Twitter had nearly 240 million monetizable daily active users, according to a company statement in July last year.
The app also does not yet have a direct messaging function and lacks a desktop version that certain users, such as business organizations, rely on.
Still, analysts said the turmoil at Twitter, including recently imposed limits on the number on tweets users can see, could help Threads to garner both users and advertisers.
Currently, there are no ads on the Threads app and Zuckerberg said the company would only think about monetization once there was a clear path to 1 billion users.
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A small plane crashed in a field in southern California and subsequently burst into flames, killing all six people on board, according to authorities. The crashed occurred after two landing attempts were made amid the fog on Saturday at an airport in California.A book on the development of electricity has finally been returned. James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" was checked out in 1904 from the New Bedford Free Public Library in Massachusetts. The book was published in 1882.
The book made its way to a donation pile in West Virginia, nearly 900 miles from its home. According to New York Post, the curator of rare books at West Virginia University Libraries, Steward Plein, plucked the centuries-old science book from the charity bin and noticed that it still had its "withdrawn" sticker intact which meant it was still the library's property.
Mr Plein reached out to the New Bedford Free Public Library and mailed their book to them.
The New Bedford Free Public Library shared the pictures of the returned book on their Facebook page and wrote, "It's never too late to return an overdue library book! Today, West Virginia University's Rare Books Curator found in their donations one of our Special Collection's materials- a book that was checked out nearly 120 years ago!"
"The book is titled "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" by James Clerk Maxwell and has made the journey back home to #NewBedford," the caption read.
The New Bedford library has a 5-cent-per-day late fee, meaning the 119 years of overdue fees would amount to more than $2,100 if the late fee didn't max out at $2, reported New York Post.
An explosion at an explosives manufacturing plant in Russia's Samara region claimed the lives of six people and wounded two others, according to emergency officials.
Micro-blogging site Twitter threatened Meta with legal action over the launch of its new app Threads, a letter obtained by Semafor informed. According to a letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg, the blue birdie has accused Meta of unlawfully using it's trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a 'copycat' app.
South Africa gas leak: As many as 24 people lost their lives of suspected gas inhalation at the Angelo informal settlement in South Africa's Boksburg city on Wednesday night. The zama-zamas, who operate out of a shanty in the informal settlement, were said to have leaked a gas cylinder that spilled nitric oxide, reported South African online newspaper TimesLIVE.The Dalai Lama's kindness and humility serve as an inspiration to many around the world, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday as he greeted the India-based Tibetan spiritual leader on his 88th birthday.
Blinken also said the United States is unwavering in its commitment to support the linguistic, cultural, and religious identity of Tibetans, including the ability to freely choose and venerate their religious leaders without interference.
"I extend my warmest wishes to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his 88th birthday, an auspicious day for the Tibetan community," he said.
"His Holiness's kindness and humility serve as an inspiration to many around the world, and I have deep admiration for his ongoing commitment to peace and nonviolence," Blinken said in a statement.
The 14th Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 following a Chinese crackdown on an uprising by the local population in Tibet.
India granted him political asylum and the Tibetan government-in-exile has been based in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh since then.
"Today, may we reflect on his messages of compassion and tolerance as we reaffirm our commitment to upholding the human rights of all people, including those of the Tibetan community," the top US diplomat said in a statement.
China has in the past accused the Dalai Lama of indulging in "separatist" activities and trying to split Tibet and considers him a divisive figure.
However, the Tibetan spiritual leader has insisted that he is not seeking independence but "genuine autonomy" for all Tibetans.
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Israel-Palestine conflict: A member of the Hamas group allegedly rammed his car into a bus stop in Israel's Tel Aviv on Tuesday and began stabbing people, injuring at least eight persons, a day after Israeli forces launched a military operation in the occupied West Bank that killed 12 Palestinians.Some 1,600 tremors have been recorded in the area around Iceland's capital Reykjavik, signalling that a volcanic eruption could be imminent, the country's weather office said Wednesday.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) noted that the earthquakes began around four pm (1600 GMT) on Tuesday beneath Mount Fagradalsfjall, which rests atop a volcanic system and where two eruptions took place in the last two years on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland's southwestern tip.
"Roughly 1,600 earthquakes have been measured and the largest earthquakes have been felt in the capital area," the agency said in a statement, adding that continued seismic activity can be expected during the day.
Four of the tremors had a magnitude over four, which is considered a light quake.
The seismic activity also prompted the agency to raise its aviation alert from "green" to "orange".
The colour code is designed to inform the aviation industry of the risk of an eruption.
While no "eruption tremor" had been observed as of yet, the likelihood of one occurring "within the coming hours to days" had increased.
Iceland is Europe's biggest and most active volcanic region.
The North Atlantic island borders the Arctic Circle and straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a crack on the ocean floor separating the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.
Lava spewed out near Mount Fagradalsfjall, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the capital Reykjavik, in both 2021 and 2022, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors to catch a rare glimpse of an active volcano.
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A group of Khalistani radicals on June 2 (Sunday) attacked the Indian Consulate in San Francisco on fire. Meanwhile, no loss of lives or major damage was reported from the site. 
A blast was heard and smoke was seen on Monday from a building in Tokyo's Shimbashi region, police said, according to Japan's NHK News. The incident resulted in at least three injuries, but none of them are life-threatening, according to the police.
French protests: As violent protests continue across France over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver, seven people were detained in similar demonstrations in the city of Switzerland as protesters resorted to smashing shop windows in an 'echo' of the French unrest.At least two people were killed and 19 others were wounded in a Russian drone attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Monday, local authorities said.
An official building and two residential buildings were damaged in an attack carried out with four drones, the Sumy regional administration said on the messaging app Telegram.
Images from the scene posted by Ukraine's state emergency service showed mangled buildings and courtyards scattered with debris as rescue workers tackled a fire.
Another air-raid alert was declared in the Sumy region several hours after the morning strike, with the Ukrainian air force warning that more drones could be on the way.
Kyiv's military had earlier on Monday reported shooting down 13 of 17 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Moscow overnight in a separate attack on several parts of the country.
Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has stepped up air strikes against Ukraine in recent weeks, and Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive to try to retake occupied territory.
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Nowhere in the world has a higher rate of unsafe abortions or unintended pregnancies than in sub-Saharan Africa, where women often face scorn for becoming pregnant before marriage. Efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa were shaken when the US Supreme Court ended the national right to an abortion a year ago. Within days, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio declared that his government would decriminalize abortion “at a time when sexual and reproductive health rights for women are being either overturned or threatened.”
Brazil's top electoral court on Friday barred far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro from running for office till 2030 for alleged abuse of power and casting unsubstantiated doubts on the electronic voting system of the country.