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In French town under curfew, wave of violence leaves locals dazed and angry

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

COLOMBES, France — Late weekend afternoons in July are usually prime time for social meet-ups and busy café tables in the pedestrian streets of Saint-Denis, the heart of local life in Colombes. But this weekend, terraces emptied early on Saturday as handymen hastily nailed up wooden planks on shop windows.After riots raged through the streets of this Paris suburb for three straight nights, Colombes Mayor Patrick Chaimovitch declared a night curfew starting Saturday evening, and scheduled to last until Tuesday morning. Many other municipalities have taken similar measures.Colombes is a diverse town of 80,000 — home to both well-off young professionals and multi-racial, poorer communities. It borders Nanterre, where 17-year-old Nahel was shot dead by the police last Tuesday. Like in many suburban towns in the Paris region and beyond, the wave of violence that followed has left inhabitants stunned.Standing next to Chaimovitch in front of a local retailer on Saturday, Julien Beaussier, ...

Russia targets Kyiv with overnight drone strike, first in nearly two weeks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

Russia overnight launched its first drone strike on Kyiv in 12 days, damaging three homes and injuring one person, according to a senior Ukrainian military official.The attack included a barrage of Iranian-made Shahed drones, Sergey Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said in a Telegram post. All were shot down by Ukrainian forces, Popko said, as the capital and neighbouring regions were under raid alerts in the early hours of Sunday morning. Pokpo said there was no further information on casualties or destruction so far, though the military head of the region, Ruslan Kravchenko, said on Facebook that three homes were damaged by falling debris. Witnesses reported hearing blasts like air defense systems hitting targets.

Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading posts on Twitter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the amount of tweets that most users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.The site is now requiring people to log on to view tweets and profiles — a change in its longtime practice to allow everyone to peruse the chatter on what Musk has frequently touted as the world’s digital town square since buying it for $44 billion last year.The restrictions could result in users being locked out of Twitter for the day after scrolling through several hundred tweets. Thousands of users complained Saturday of not being able to access the site.In a Friday tweet, Musk described the new restrictions as a temporary measure that was taken because “we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”Musk has pushed back on what he calls misuse of Twitter data to train popular artificial intelligenc...

Baltimore mass shooting kills 2 victims with 28 injured including 3 critically, police say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Two people were killed and 28 victims were wounded in a mass shooting, including three people who are in critical condition, police said. Baltimore Police Department Acting Commissioner Richard Worley confirmed the number of dead and injured during a press conference at the scene.The shooting took place in the 800 block of Gretna Avenue early Sunday morning. The Associated Press

Shootout in southwest Pakistan kills 4 security forces, 1 militant, officials say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Militants attacked a security post in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province, triggering a shootout that left three police officers a paramilitary soldier and two militants dead on Sunday, officials said.Local police chief, Abdul Salam Baloch said one of the militants was also killed while the others managed to escape to the mountainous terrain in the Shirani district, bordering North Waziristan where they have multiple hideouts.Baloch said the attackers used hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on the joint security post of police and paramilitary forces. Bilal Shabbir, a top administrative officer in Shirani district, said two militants and one paramilitary trooper were wounded in the shootout that lasted for about two hours. He said the attackers managed to escape with their wounded accomplices. He added that security forces launched a search operation in the area and surrounding mountains to trace and eliminate the perpetrator...

Windows smashed in Swiss city, 7 detained in ‘echo’ of violence in France

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Seven people were detained, most of them teenagers, after several shop windows in the Swiss city of Lausanne were smashed as young people gathered in an “echo” of riots in neighboring France, police said Sunday.More than 100 people gathered in downtown Lausanne, in French-speaking western Switzerland, on Saturday evening, police said in a statement. It said that they were responding to several appeals on social media linked to several nights of violence that have shaken France after the police killing of a 17-year-old in a Paris suburb. Several shop windows and a shop door were broken, while officers dispersed youths who threw paving stones and a Molotov cocktail at them, police said. They detained six people ages 15 to 17 — three girls and three boys, with Portuguese, Somali, Bosnian, Swiss, Georgian and Serbian citizenship — and a 24-year-old Swiss man.No police officers were injured.On Thursday, about a dozen people were detained in the Belgian capital, Brussels, an...

Magnitude 3.8 earthquake hits Southern California

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

An earthquake measuring 3.8 in magnitude rattled many residents awake in the Los Angeles area early Sunday morning.The quake struck at 2:29 a.m. and was centered roughly 13 miles southwest of Malibu at a depth of 18 miles in the Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The preliminary magnitude was originally 4.1 but was quickly downgraded to 3.8.Shaking could be felt across Los Angeles and areas of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, according to a USGS map.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.This is a developing story. Stay with KTLA for updates.

Horoscopes July 2, 2023: Margot Robbie, leave nothing to chance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Margot Robbie, 33; Alex Morgan, 34; Ashley Tisdale, 38; Larry David, 76.Happy Birthday: Rethink your long-term plans and make adjustments. Pay more attention to what makes you happy, and configure the best route to reach your goal. Don’t waste time on something you cannot change. Focus on what’s feasible and will contribute to your happiness. Leave nothing to chance or up to someone else. Your destiny depends on your actions, intelligence and willingness to make things happen. Your numbers are 5, 16, 20, 26, 31, 38, 45.ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do something energetic or take on a self-improvement project that makes you more qualified and apt to advance in your chosen field. Being at your best will give you the confidence to reach your goal. Romance is in the stars. 5 starsTAURUS (April 20-May 20): A day trip, reunion or learning something new will spark your imagination and help you head in a new direction. Keep in mind how much things cost...

Ask Amy: I’m sickened by my granddaughter’s cheerleading, and her parents won’t listen

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

Dear Amy: I had a 42-year career as a speech-language pathologist, working with young children. Early childhood development was my professional specialty.I made sure to provide my own children with play-based preschool opportunities. As they grew and showed interest in certain activities, we provided those opportunities for them in art, music and sports.Both children are now successful professionals.Our son and his wife are the parents of two children, ages 3 and 1.They let us know early on that they would accept no input or support, even when they shared their struggles and challenges. Not even a book suggestion was welcome.I have respected their wishes, and I respond to texts, e-mails and rare phone calls with generic positive statements like, “Thanks for sharing that photo!” and “It looks like he’s doing great!”Now, our daughter-in-law is sending photos and videos of our 3-year-old granddaughter in a peewee “cheer” program.She is on a “performance team,” complete with uniforms wi...

The Right’s Desperate Push to Tank ESG and Avoid Disclosing Climate Risks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:23 GMT

The House of Representatives released the first report from its ESG Working Group in late June, highlighting priorities for the rest of the 118th Congress and making clear that Republicans won’t stop “investigating” environmental, social, and governance investing while there’s still a chance to save polluting companies from having to report their actual emissions.At its core, ESG is about information: When companies report on their environmental, social, and governance risks, which can range from high greenhouse gas emissions to particular hiring practices, investors use that information to determine whether they think a company is a good investment.The Republican-led House isn’t the only entity that’s become obsessed with ESG investing over the past two years. From political advocacy organizations like the Texas Public Policy Foundation to state treasurers, the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Republican Attorneys General Association, the right wing has been on fire ab...