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Sabrina Carpenter's ex Barry Keoghan deletes Instagram following cheating rumorsIn a bid to neutralise anti-incumbency sentiment and “public angst” against some legislators, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which has been securing landslide victories in Delhi since the 2015 assembly elections, is likely to drop more than a third of its sitting MLAs from the running for the 2025 polls, according to at least three senior leaders aware of the developments. The decision to drop more than 20 legislators is based on ground surveys and evaluation of legislators on a range of criteria such as development work carried out in respective segments, popularity and accessibility, and anti-incumbency sentiment, the leaders involved in the election strategy of the party told HT. The party has already dropped three sitting legislators from its first list of candidates released last month. “The tickets are being finalised on the basis of surveys and the feedbacks of the local people...While many MLAs continue to be quite popular, there is anger against many MLAs but locals are saying they are satisfied with Arvind Kejriwal... As per our estimate, around 20 MLAs may be dropped. The final decision, however, will be taken by the party leadership,” said one of the three leaders, asking not to be named. READ | Congress leader slams AAP after Avadh Ojha's interview stopped abruptly: 'Drama company' The AAP won 62 seats in the 70-member Delhi Assembly in the February 2020 assembly elections, and the BJP won the remaining eight. However, four AAP leaders, the latest being former transport minister Kailash Gahlot, either resigned or were disqualified, bringing the party’s strength in the House down to 58. The ruling party is now gearing up for the elections and hopes to rise above the allegations of corruption that have haunted heavyweights with CBI and ED probes and jail time, leading to a series of changes in the AAP in the last few years. Adding to this, one of the leaders cited above admitted that there is also brewing anger among people against “several MLAs for not doing their work”. “The surveys also says that 65% of people want (Arvind) Kejriwal back,” said the leader, requesting not to be identified. HT reached out to the AAP for an official response but it did not issue one. In the 2020 assembly elections too, the AAP had dropped 16 sitting MLAs — many of whom rebelled against the party — but still managed to win 62 out of the 70 seats. On November 21 this year, the AAP released its first list of 11 candidates dropping three sitting MLAs — Gulab Singh (Matiala), Abdul Rehman (Seelampur) and Rituraj Jha (Kirari), and fielded leaders who switched from the Congress and the BJP. Two other MLAs — Ram Niwas Goel (Shahdara) and Dilip Kumar Pandey (Timarpur) – have opted out of the elections “on their own.” The move seems to have been inspired from the election formula the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has often adopted in several of the previous elections — this year’s Lok Sabha elections, the recent Haryana elections, and the 2022 Gujarat elections. In the general elections in June, the BJP dropped more than 130 of its 303 sitting MPs. The BJP later secured 240 seats on its own. It also seeks to compensate for the city governance that took a heavy toll with the jailing of former CM Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy CM Manish Sisodia, and former minister Satyendar Jain over graft allegations. The AAP has been unable to fulfil many promises it made such as refurbishing roads, making Yamuna clean, and supply of 24x7 uninterrupted water across the city. Other issues that piled up was the worsening condition of roads and overflowing sewer lines, especially during the monsoon. AAP chief monitoring surveys For the last few months, the AAP has been conducting surveys across constituencies to gather public feedback on the performance of MLAs in their respective segments. These surveys have been commissioned and are being monitored directly by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, said one of the leaders cited above. “The party chief directly takes feedback from those conducting the surveys and takes the decisions based on merit so that the election strategy is sharp and can bring the desired results,” the second party leader said, who asked not to be named. READ | AAP going to form govt again in Delhi, win more seats than previous polls: Kejriwal The upcoming election is more crucial for the AAP for multiple reasons: it will be Kejriwal’s attempt at redemption after spending six months in jail this year in connection with the excise policy cases which led to him quitting the CM’s post, a tough Opposition riding high on its series of victories in crucial states and the Lok Sabha elections, and gaining back public trust by resuming unfinished government works. Tanvir Aeijaz, associate professor of political science at Ramjas College, said: “There are majorly two reasons for not giving tickets to some of the sitting legislators. One, to stave off the possible anti-incumbencies of those legislators whose reports are unfavourable. Two, by bringing new faces, Kejriwal, the patriarch of the party, would like to convey his leadership and further retain his sway in the party.”
Dimopoulos shines in double OT and Northern Illinois beats Fresno State 28-20 in Idaho Potato BowlGM has long understood the benefits of partnerships. The Detroit automaker, for example, has a longstanding partnership with Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. More recently, GM and South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. said they signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate "to reduce costs and bring a wider range of vehicles and technologies to customers faster." The companies haven't provided further information on the partnership, but experts and analysts have cheered it on as a smart move. They expect more mash-ups — if not outright industry consolidation — as automakers face rising expenses, a choppy transition to electric vehicles and competition from innovative, low-cost Chinese manufacturers. "It's something that I talked about for many years about the need to partner up," said Martin French, partner and managing director at Berylls by AlixPartners, a global consulting firm. "If you look at the challenges that this industry is faced with and what are the key attributes for what will make you a winning OEM, it's going to be cost efficiency and time to market. And the most effective way of doing that is through partnerships." Last week, Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan Motor Corp. announced plans to work toward a merger that would form the world’s third-largest automaker. "This is a smart deal as the writing was on the wall for Nissan," said Dan Ives, a senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities, in a note to The Detroit News. "They had to do a deal in a consolidating EV landscape." Hyundai and GM have been mum on specific details of their alignment while they work to finalize it. Still, the companies have said that they would explore the co-development of internal combustion engines and "clean-energy" vehicles and research combining sourcing for battery raw materials and steel. “GM and Hyundai have complementary strengths and talented teams," GM CEO Mary Barra said at the time of the MOU announcement in September. "Our goal is to unlock the scale and creativity of both companies to deliver even more competitive vehicles to customers faster and more efficiently.” GM had been talking to Hyundai for "a while," Barra told reporters during a fireside chat with the Automotive Press Association earlier this month. "There was a period where a lot of OEMs, everyone was talking to everyone, but we continued to have conversations. "We're very aligned at the top. We have the most senior people in each company having the conversations and setting the tone for the team. We're very pleased that we signed the MOU. There's quite a bit of work going on what will become definitive agreements, but I don't want to get ahead of those announcements." The Hyundai/GM lineup "could bring outsized synergies for both companies while remaining competitors at the core level," said Paul Waatti, director of industry analysis at market research firm AutoPacific Inc. "Partnerships accelerate technological development by pooling resources to tackle the capital-intensive nature of the advanced tech R&D the industry is embracing." On GM's third-quarter earnings call in October, Barra emphasized the importance of partnerships. "One of the things people say about the auto industry is we ... all do a lot of different things and don't always leverage where we can partner with other OEMs or with other companies," she said. "And so we're really looking to leverage that, especially across the business, as we've mentioned with the MOU that we have with Hyundai, the continuing work that we do with Honda.” GM and Honda partner on the development of hydrogen fuel cell technology and collaborated on the development of Honda's Prologue and Acura ZDX electric vehicles. The companies were also planning to jointly develop a line of affordable EVs together but nixed those plans in 2023. Ford Motor Co. in 2021 also axed its plans to develop an EV with startup Rivian Automotive Inc., which makes all of its electric pickup trucks, SUVs and commercial delivery vans in Normal. The company last month entered a $5.8 billion joint-venture deal with Volkswagen AG. In a news release, the German automaker said the partnership would "create cutting-edge software and electronics architectures and scale the electric vehicle platforms and architectures." Said Waatti: "Partnerships must remain flexible with room for reassessment and revision. It’s often better to adjust or kill a joint venture than to continue going down the wrong road, even if the investment is already massive." At GM's October Investor Day event, Barra mentioned GM was having "ongoing discussions" with "potential partners" for its Cruise LLC autonomous vehicle unit. Two months later, GM said it would stop funding Cruise's robotaxi program after $10 billion in investment since 2017. GM, the majority owner of Cruise, is planning to combine the Cruise and GM technical teams into one to continue to work on AV tech. The automaker's focus will now be on its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system with the goal of developing fully autonomous personal vehicles. "GM pulling the plug on the Cruise partnership to stop the bleeding and realign capital is the latest example of this challenging dynamic, particularly considering the potential revenue upside — still many billions of dollars and years down the road," Waatti said. Cruise's restructuring followed months of efforts by GM to restart the operation after a pedestrian accident in October 2023 with a Cruise self-driving vehicle halted operations. GM had restarted testing in several cities, and in August, Cruise and Uber Technologies LLC announced a multiyear deal for customers to book autonomous Cruise robotaxis through the Uber platform starting in 2025. It's unclear where the Cruise and Uber partnership stands after GM's move to defund the robotaxi program. Uber did not respond to a request for comment and a Cruise spokesperson deferred to GM. GM spokesperson Jim Cain said: "We've proposed a restructuring, and a lot of these potential opportunities depend on how that gets resolved."
2 Top Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Buy in DecemberOfficer fatally shot in a North Carolina supermarket, suspect in custody, police sayEddie Howe wants even more from in-form Newcastle striker Alexander Isak. The 25-year-old Sweden international took his goal tally for the season to 12 in the 3-0 Boxing Day win over Aston Villa at St James’ Park, 10 of them in his last 10 Premier League games, after a challenging start to the new campaign. Isak managed 25 goals in a black and white shirt last season to further justify the club record £63million the club paid to bring him to Tyneside from Real Sociedad during the summer of 2022, but as delighted as he is with his big-money signing, head coach Howe is confident there is even more to come. Murph 🔗 Alex Isak Different game. Same link up. 💪 — Newcastle United (@NUFC) Asked where the former AIK Solna frontman currently ranks in world football, he said: “My biggest thing with Alex is I am evaluating his game on a daily and weekly basis and I just want to try to push him for more. “Everyone else can say where he is in the pecking order of world football. His game is in a good place at the moment. “My job is to not sit back and appreciate that, my job is to try and find areas he can improve, push him towards that and never stop pushing him. He has all the ingredients in there. Football never stops evolving and changing and he has to evolve with it. “There is a lot more to come from him. Our job is to help him deliver that. “Of course the main responsibility is for Alex to keep his focus, ignore the plaudits and keep helping the team, not be selfish. It is about Newcastle and he plays his part.” It is no coincidence that Newcastle have prospered as Isak has rediscovered his best form, and they will head for Manchester United – where they have won only once in the top flight since 1972 – on Monday evening looking for a fifth successive win in all competitions. He has scored in each of the last five league games having grown into the mantle of the Magpies’ main man, a role performed with such distinction in the past by the likes of Jackie Milburn, Malcolm Macdonald and Alan Shearer, and he has done so with the minimum of fuss. Asked about his character, Howe said: “He is calm, cool – he is what you see on the pitch. “He doesn’t get overly emotional, which for a striker is a great quality because that coolness you see and calmness in front of goal is part of his personality, part of what he is. He seems to have an extra half a second when other players don’t. “With Alex, the beauty of his attitude is that he wants to improve. We give him information and he is responsive. He is not a closed shop. “He is in no way thinking he has arrived at a certain place. He knows he has to keep adding to his game. The challenge is great for him to keep scoring freely as he is now.”
Victor Wembanyama plays 1-on-1 chess with fans in New YorkInvestors are focused on the potential extension of the stock market's bull rally heading into 2025. Wall Street experts highlighted the most important stock market charts to watch into next year. From interest rates to software stocks, here's what Wall Street's top technical experts are watching. After strong back-to-back years for the stock market, investors are fixated on whether the bull rally will extend into 2025. To get a better idea of what investors should be watching next year, Business Insider reached out to the top technical experts on Wall Street and asked them: What is the most important stock market chart heading into 2025? From interest rates to software stocks, here's what they're watching.
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TORONTO — Canada's main stock index pushed higher to end Monday up almost 150 points on light trading action, while U.S. stock markets also gained ahead of the Christmas break. "Today is a quiet pre-Christmas Day of trading," said Kevin Burkett, a portfolio manager at Victoria, B.C.-based Burkett Asset Management. While markets in both Canada and the U.S. were mild, Burkett suggests watching the markets closely during the holiday season, a contrast to what's typically a sleepy period for markets. "We're continuing to watch markets very closely here because you've got some tectonic plate shifting in terms of the macroeconomic backdrop," he said. "It's all the political conversations both in Canada and in the U.S." Burkett added fiscal policy seems to be disconnected from monetary policy in the post-pandemic period. "The fiscal policy may shift and that shift absolutely has market implications both in the short and long term," he said. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 149.50 points at 24,748.98. Statistics Canada released its latest numbers on Canada's economic growth, up 0.3 per cent in October — driven by the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sector. The loonie continued its slide, trading for 69.47 cents US compared with 69.61 cents US on Friday. The telecom sector was the biggest loser at the closing on TSX, which Burkett attributed to "tax loss selling happening at the end of the year." Competition Bureau Canada announced on Monday it was suing Rogers Communications Inc. for allegedly making misleading claims about its infinite wireless plans. The stock price for Rogers, which is hovering near 52-week lows, fell 0.7 per cent on Monday. Meanwhile, BCE was down almost 1.4 per cent and Telus dropped 0.9 per cent. Burkett suggested the day's poor performance among telecom companies was likely tax loss selling since it's almost the end of the year. "It's been a tough year for the communication services sector," he said. South of the border, communications services was the top-performing sector, led by large-cap tech companies. Several big technology companies helped support the gains, including chip companies Nvidia and Broadcom. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 66.69 points at 42,906.95. The S&P 500 index was up 43.22 points at 5,974.07, while the Nasdaq composite was up 192.29 points at 19,764.89. The February crude oil contract was down 22 cents at US$69.24 per barrel and the February natural gas contract was down six cents at US$3.35 per mmBTU. The February gold contract was down US$16.90 at US$2,628.20 an ounce and the March copper contract was down one cent at US$4.09 a pound. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 23, 2024. Companies in this story: (TSX: GSPTSE, TSX: CADUSD, TSE: BCE, TSE: RCI. B) Ritika Dubey, The Canadian PressZerodha CEO Nithin Kamath on Saturday, December 7, cited two recent orders by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to remind investors about an ‘old saying’ regarding how taking shortcuts to earn quick bucks in the stock markets is "the surest way to lose money". Share Market View All Nifty Gainers View All Company Value Change %Change Kamath took to X to share details about ‘two different scams’ with his more than 6.82 lakh followers on the social media platform. " SEBI recently passed two orders related to two different scams. In the first scam, an SME company raised ₹44 crores through an SME-IPO to buy software, among other things. But, the company that it was buying software from was a shell company complete with fake financials and a fake list of clients,” Kamath wrote. "The second order was against a popular finfluencer who collected ₹17 crores by selling courses, seminars, etc. This just proves that old saying: if something is too good to be true, it almost always is. Taking shortcuts to make a quick buck is the surest way to lose money in the markets," he added. Kamath seems to be referring to the SEBI action against the newly listed Trafiksol ITS Technologies. The market regulator on Tuesday, December 3, ordered Trafiksol ITS Technologies to refund the money paid by investors towards subscribing to its IPO. Further, the company was directed to return the interest amount accrued on the money to those investors, who were allotted its shares in the IPO. The BSE SME IPO was launched on September 10 to raise ₹44.87 crore. The issue was oversubscribed 345 times. After the closure of the IPO, the market regulator received a complaint alleging that objects of the issue included the purchase of software, valued at nearly ₹18 crore, from a vendor which, inter alia, had questionable financials. It had even failed to file its annual financial statements with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. In view of this, the BSE in consultation with SEBI deferred the listing of Trafiksol's shares. Later on, the SEBI passed an interim ex-parte order and directed an investigation to be undertaken. The IPO listing was scheduled for September 17. The second case cited by Kamath seems to be linked to SEBI’s recent crackdown on a popular social media finfluencer. The market regulator ordered operators of the ‘Baap of Chart’ platform to refund more than ₹17 crore to the investors for their unregistered investment advisory services. Also Read: SEBI slams ‘Baap of Chart’ with refunds and penalties, citing risk to investors A three-month deadline has been set by the market regulator for these refunds, while clear instructions have been given for the repayments to be made via bank transfers that maintain an audit trail. The refund obligations were distributed among the involved parties, wherein Nasiruddin Ansari and his associates bear the largest share. "In my view, unregistered investment advisors like Nasir can put investors at great risk by misleading them. Without holding any registered IA certificate, Nasir aided and abetted by the remaining noticees, provided investment advisory services and promised unrealistic returns to investors with the objective of raising money through course fees," said Amarjeet Singh, a full-time member at SEBI in the order.Eric Adams’ son holds holiday bash at Gracie Mansion despite scandals hanging over mayor’s head
2024 is coming to a close, and while all of us here at Tom's Guide want everyone to have the absolute best online safety (whether this is using the best VPN or using unique passwords for every account), it's also important to recognise that sometimes online safety is a bit trickier than this. So, it's time to look at some times when cyber security has gone wrong. If you (like me) like to keep up with all the cyber attacks from across the globe, it might not surprise you that it's been a big year for data breaches. From July to September alone, more than 422 million records were exposed through various hacks, cyber attacks and network vulnerability exploitations. The impact of data breaches is always widespread, with victims more likely to be victims of other cyber attacks like phishing, or may even get their identity stolen, but this year has been particularly devastating for the businesses that suffered them. The cost of data breaches was the highest it's ever been, with the global average cost of a data breach being $4.88 million . It would take far too long to list every single data breach that happened this year, so instead I've put together a list of the top 10 most impactful data breaches of this year. 10. Life360 attacked by anonymous hacker If you use Life 360 to keep an eye on your loved ones, unfortunately you now may have more eyes on you than you bargained for. Around half a million users of the family networking app had their data leaked to the dark web after a hacker abused a flaw in Life 360's login API. The hacker, who referred to themself as "emo," posted a database containing the emails, phone numbers and full names of 442,519 people to a dark web hacking forum. "Emo" gave details of how the breach happened, but claimed to not be the perpetrator of the breach. Instead, the anonymous poster simply said: "Credit to the original breacher for this leak yk who u are". 9. Millions of Discord messages leaked Discord is one of the most popular messaging services, with over 200 million monthly active users. It's not exactly surprising that it would be the target of a data breach, then, considering the sheer amount of data shared on the platform every single day. The instant messaging and VoIP platform suffered a data breach in April of this year. The hackers responsible for the attack and subsequent data leak exploited a vulnerability in its website code, and through this accessed Discord's data. In total, the Discord data breach exposed roughly 4.2 billion Discord messages from 256 million users. That's a whole lot of memes, DMs and community servers exposed. 8. FBCS and the rapidly growing data leak In a data breach that just kept getting worse as time went on, Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) was breached in February of this year. The breach took place after a hacker gained unauthorized access to the organisation's servers. It was initially thought that the data of 1.9 million people had been stolen in the hack, but this was then raised to 3.2 million in May, and then 4.2 million in July. The data stolen included names, addresses, driver's license numbers and social security numbers, as well as information relating to customers' medical history. This included provider information, information related to medical claims, clinical information (e.g. conditions or diagnosis, treatment information and medications) and health insurance information. 7. Double data leaks for AT&T It was a bad year for AT&T, as it was the victim of not one but two different data breaches this year. In March, a hack was discovered after the personal data of 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers was posted to the dark web. While AT&T initially denied that the data posted to the hacking forum was stolen from their servers, they eventually admitted that it was their data. Then in July, AT&T informed their customers that hackers had stolen a cache of data containing the phone numbers and call records of 110 million people , or "nearly all" its customers. AT&T has not yet made public how either of these hacks happened. 6. Disney targeted by furry hackers Another company to suffer multiple data breaches this year was Disney, resulting in a huge amount of corporate data being stolen. The first data breach Disney suffered was in June of this year, with 2.5GB of Club Penguin and corporate data leaked on a 4chan message board after being stolen from the company's Confluence server. Then, in July, notorious furry hacking gang NullBulge stole 1.2TB of data from Disney after the group breached Disney's Slack platform. According to the Wall Street Journal, the information stolen included 44 million internal Slack messages, 18,800 spreadsheets and 13,000 PDFs. 5. Dell suffers brute-force cyber attack Computer software company Dell was another company to suffer a widespread breach following a targeted cyber attack. In May, Dell suffered a brute force attack to its systems, meaning the hackers inputted potentially thousands of passwords to find the right one. The hack targeted a Dell portal that contained customer information related to purchases and resulted in the breach of 49 million records. Among the data exposed were the names, addresses and order details of customers, although Dell claims no financial information was exposed in the hack. 4. Change Healthcare hack impacts a third of Americans In a breach that impacted a huge portion of Americans, health insurance technology provider Change Healthcare was hacked early this year. Roughly a third of Americans had their data compromised in February 2024 following the h ack of Change Healthcare . The hack was extensive, impacting a number of other health insurance companies and pharmacies. Orchestrated by ransomware gang APLHV (also known as BlackCat), the hack saw the sensitive data of around 100 million people exposed. The data stolen included social security numbers, medical records, patient diagnoses, passport numbers, health insurance plan data and billing information. 3. Billions of records exposed in National Public Data hack This shocking breach saw billions (that's right, billions ) of records in a single cyber attack. Early this year, online background check and fraud prevention service National Public Data suffered an extensive data breach that allegedly exposed 2.9 billion records . The information exposed included the names, social security numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of 170 million people across the US, UK and Canada. The breach was caused by a hacker gaining access to National Public Data's systems in December 2023. This hacker then leaked data found on the system onto the dark web from April to the summer of 2024. 2. Millions of customers have data exposed in Ticketmaster breach Bad news for anyone who went to a gig this year, as Ticketmaster suffered a data breach that exposed the data of millions of customers. Ticketmaster was targeted by ransomware gang ShinyHunters in June of this year, who claimed to have stolen the data of more than 560 million customers. ShinyHunters posted about the data breach online, offering the data set for $500,000. ShinyHunters gained access to the data by stealing login details for Snowflake, Ticketmaster's cloud storage service. ShinyHunters also targeted more than 160 other Snowflake customers with similar data theft, including banking group Santander. 1. The Mother of All Breaches lives up to its name Considering the name, it's not surprising that the Mother of All Breaches (MOAB) is taking the number one spot. 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Charred remains of Vladimir Putin's 8,370mph hypersonic Oreshnik missile retrieved by Ukraine after despot's boasts that 'no one in the world has such weapons' By TARYN PEDLER Published: 11:01 EST, 24 November 2024 | Updated: 11:28 EST, 24 November 2024 e-mail 5 View comments The charred remains of Putin 's hypersonic Oreshnik missile have been retrieved by Ukraine after the despot boasted that 'no one in the world has such weapons'. The debris from the medium-range ballistic missile that was fired at the city of Dnipro on Thursday is being studied by Ukrainian investigators as it historically became the first time such a powerful weapon has been used in the war. Pieces of the nuclear-capable weapon were found scorched and shredded on the ground in a hangar at a facility which conducts weapons forensics. Russia has named the missile the Oreshnik - meaning Hazel Tree - and have previously claimed it is impossible to intercept it with air defences. Ukraine said the weapon reached a top speed of more than 8,000mph as it headed towards Dnipro on November 21. Intermediate-range ballistic missiles have a range of up to 5,500km and Ukrainian experts study their debris to gain insight into Russian military supply chains, production, and how to develop counter-measures. Two unnamed state experts provided cautious assessments, saying only that the weapon was ballistic, flew on a ballistic trajectory, and that the strike resulted in civilian damage. 'These are preliminary conclusions and to say something more concrete requires time and careful study of the remains of the missile,' Ivan, one of the experts, told Reuters. Fragments of a rocket which struck Dnipro on November 21 are seen at a center for forensic analysis in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, November 24 Pieces of the nuclear-capable weapon were found scorched and shredded on the ground in a hangar at a facility which conducts weapons forensics Russia on November 21 fired an experimental missile at Ukraine, officials from Western governments said. Ukraine initially accused Russia of firing in an attack on Dnipro an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in combat for the first time in history A grab taken from handout footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry on March 1, 2024 purport to show the test firing of an ICBM belonging to the country's nuclear deterrence forces 'This is the first time that such remnants of such a missile have been discovered on the territory of Ukraine,' added Oleh, an investigator for the Security Service of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the use of the weapon, which is capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, a severe escalation and urged his allies to respond. Ukraine originally said the weapon appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile. The Kremlin later said it fired a new intermediate-range missile at a Ukrainian military target in Dnipro in response to Kyiv striking Russia with US and British made missiles for the first time after the US granted its approval. Read More Putin ramps up production of Russia's 8,370mph hypersonic missiles that he fired at Ukraine The US military has said the missile's design is based on the longer-range RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The new missile was experimental and Russia likely possessed only a handful of them, they have said. If the missile was launched from the Kapustin Yar range in Russia's southern Astrakhan region, as it was in yesterday's strike on Ukraine, Putin could still comfortably hit any target in Europe or the UK without having to turn to his most powerful weapons. Targets in London would go up in flames in under 20 minutes while Berlin further east would have less than 15 minutes before impact. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Moscow would keep testing the missile in combat and had a stock ready to use. After firing the Oreshnik, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned Britain and America of their 'reckless' action in supplying the long-range missiles to Ukraine. Peskov said: 'The main message is that the reckless decisions and actions of Western countries that produce missiles, supply them to Ukraine, and subsequently participate in strikes on Russian territory cannot remain without a reaction from the Russian side.' Putin also boasted that no country in the world has the power to intercept the Oreshnik missiles, which fly at ten times the speed of sound. Footage captured the moment the debris from the missile was located in Ukraine Ukrainian experts study their debris to gain insight into Russian military supply chains, production, and how to develop counter-measures Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the use of the weapon, which is capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads, a severe escalation and urged his allies to respond The moment Russia used the Oreshnik for the first time to strike Dnipro, on November 21 A view shows a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro Firefighters work at the site of a Russian missile strike in Dnipro Putin boasted that no country in the world has the power to intercept the Oreshnik missiles, which fly at ten times the speed of sound He said: 'There is no countermeasure to such a missile, no means of intercepting it in the world today. 'And I will emphasise once again that we will continue testing this newest system. It is necessary to establish serial production.' He added: 'No one in the world has such weapons. Sooner or later other leading countries will also get them. We are aware that they are under development.' The missile being fired into Ukraine led the country's parliament to cancel a session, as security in Kiyv was tightened. Read More Putin's new missile leaves the whole of Europe minutes from Armageddon NATO chiefs and Ukrainian leaders are expected to hold emergency talks on Tuesday. But the West stood defiant against Putin last night, as France's foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, gave Ukraine the green light to fire French long-range missiles into Russia 'in the logics of self-defence'. Last night, a senior Ukrainian military source said that the country had lost 40 per cent of the territory it had gained in Russia's Kursk region. The source said Russia had deployed 59,000 troops there, pushing Ukrainian troops back. He said: 'At most, we controlled about 531 square miles. Now we control approximately 309 miles.' President Zelensky revealed yesterday that Russian drone and missile attacks had damaged 321 Ukrainian port facilities since July last year. He added that 20 merchant ships belonging to other countries had also been damaged by Russian strikes. He said: 'Ukrainian food exports provide food for 400 million people in 100 countries around the world. Food prices in Egypt, Libya, Nigeria and other countries in Africa directly depend on whether farmers and agricultural companies in Ukraine can operate normally.' Russia Vladimir Putin Ukraine Share or comment on this article: Charred remains of Vladimir Putin's 8,370mph hypersonic Oreshnik missile retrieved by Ukraine after despot's boasts that 'no one in the world has such weapons' e-mail Add commentRepeat Offenders to City: Drop Dead. New York lawmakers have been viewing criminals through rose-colored glasses. The past decade of reform policies treated offenders as innocent neighbors bamboozled by “root causes,” like poverty or poor education, into doing bad things. Our sympathetic laws chipped away at the criminal justice system’s ability to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate these lambs, instead offering them social services — so they wouldn’t want to prey on others. But last Sunday this dream-world conception of criminality went up in flames. Sebastian Zapeta-Calil , reportedly a K2 addict in this country illegally (for the second time) lit a sleeping woman on fire on the F train. Then he stood back and watched her burn to death, gently fanning the blaze as it consumed her standing body. This stunningly grotesque murder is a wake-up call for city and state leadership to finally reorient law-and-order policies to protect the city’s most vulnerable people in its most vulnerable places. Zapeta-Calil sadistically slayed an apparently disabled homeless woman — in the subway, where there is limited access to protection or escape. It is she, tortured while sheltering underground from the cold and heartbreakingly anonymous, who deserves our compassion. But our city leadership likes to pretend there isn’t a criminal mindset that responds better to stringency than to coddling. This blind delusion ignores the self-indulgent sense of entitlement that criminal psychologists have long understood to be a central feature of offenders’ thinking. Indeed, an estimated majority of prison inmates exhibit antisocial personality disorders. When law enforcement stops curbing entitled behavior, it actively intensifies the sense of entitlement. And New York has been indulging like crazy. Perhaps the most vivid example is the harmful impact of New York’s “Raise the Age,” which boosted the age of criminal responsibility statewide to 18 years old. Under RTA, 75% of older teens committing violent felonies face no real consequences. Meanwhile, the most hardened teens get housed in detention facilities with younger (actual) kids. In the South Bronx’s Horizon facility, the number of older residents aged 16 to 21 jumped 880% in the five years since RTA, and those with a top charge of murder rose a terrifying 1,550%. Placed in cuddlier institutions, these murder defendants aren’t behaving more nicely. Supervised by impotent Administration for Children’s Services workers instead of cops or corrections officers, the percentage of assaults resulting in injuries at Horizon grew 30% last year. This is in a facility where 20-year-olds are housed with 13-year-olds whom they may harm again and again. This fall, even the City’s own Department of Investigation found that RTA and bail reform rendered “existing disciplinary measures and institutional responses insufficient to deter misconduct, including acts of violence.” How do they know? “This ineffectiveness is demonstrated by the high levels of youth-on-youth and youth-on-staff violence, security breaches, and recovery of contraband including weapons and cellphones.” Again, we aren’t protecting our most vulnerable in the most vulnerable settings. Outside of juvenile detention, too, teens freed from consequences by RTA are not acting nicer. Youth arrests for major crimes are surging, including a 42% leap last year, with hundreds of these offenses happening in vulnerable places that should be safe: public housing buildings and the transit system. New York is growing criminals by indulging youths’ sense of entitlement to harm others, rather than curbing it. And we are also importing criminals, like Zapeta-Calil, who returned to the US after his original deportation. Last month, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency data revealed that Gotham harbors almost 60,000 migrants who are convicted felons or facing criminal charges. Having rewarded each illegal entrant with $352 worth daily in free housing and services, we then expect them to behave like lawbreaking has consequences. Nope. Illegal drugs also almost certainly played a role in Sunday’s twisted murder. Zapeta-Calil’s roommate describes his intense daily use of the synthetic drug K2 — a favorite among recent high-profile dangerous New Yorkers from Jordan Neely to Assamad Nash. But drug offenses have also seen a softer response in part due to NY’s 2020 “discovery” law, which upped compliance burdens on prosecutors, forcing them to dismiss many more cases. The Bronx District Attorney’s office, for instance, went from convicting 57% of non-marijuana drug cases in 2019, before “discover reform,” to an average 33% conviction rate in the four years since. Even just considering felony cases, Bronx prosecutors went from 999 convictions in 2019 to only 341 convictions in 2022 (and merely 137 last year, although some cases are still pending). The Bronx’s rampant open-air drug markets attest that reducing consequences for drug abuse did not inspire addicts to stop harmful behavior. Indulgence has just enabled more of it. Even last month, NYC’s supremely indulgent Public Advocate Jumaane Williams cosponsored a City Council bill establishing a commission on “the root causes of violence in the city” to address everything from gang assault to murder through the lens of non-criminal justice approaches such as poverty reduction programs. This ignores the fact that committing violence is often the most obvious “root cause” for committing more violence. Yes, justice often calls for leniency. But for criminals hurting New Yorkers, the default shouldn’t be leniency. Justice demands the default be enforced. New York: stop giving antisocial lawbreakers the benefit of the doubt that they won’t set homeless women on fire. Re-establish laws that protect the truly innocent. Hannah E. Meyers is a fellow and director of policing and public safety for the Manhattan Institute.
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