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Overnight News Digest: We're having a heat wave [1]
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Date: 2022-07-25
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x Democrats and Republicans agree. Now we just need a governor who does too. pic.twitter.com/9OaXuKaSU5 — Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) July 26, 2022
The Guardian
Firefighters made progress against a ferocious wildfire in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada that forced thousands of residents from their homes in the gateway to Yosemite national park. The Oak fire started on Friday near the town of Midpines, California, and exploded in size over the weekend. Burning through dense and dry vegetation on the region’s steep and rugged hillsides, the blaze was fanned by gusty winds and temperatures that hovered around 90F (32C). The extreme nature of the fire meant it turned tall trees into matchsticks and sent billowing black smoke curling over the quaint historic downtown of Mariposa.
C/NET
Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon launched a public effort Monday to scrap the leap second, an occasional extra tick that keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's actual rotation. US and French timekeeping authorities concur. Since 1972, the world's timekeeping authorities have added a leap second 27 times to the global clock known as the International Atomic Time (TAI). Instead of 23:59:59 changing to 0:0:0 at midnight, an extra 23:59:60 is tucked in. That causes a lot of indigestion for computers, which rely on a network of precise timekeeping servers to schedule events and to record the exact sequence of activities like adding data to a database. The temporal tweak causes more problems -- like internet outages -- than benefits, they say. And dealing with leap seconds ultimately is futile, the group argues, since the Earth's rotational speed hasn't actually changed much historically.
BBC
Russian energy giant Gazprom says it will once again drastically cut gas supplies to the EU through its main pipeline due to maintenance work. Gazprom said stopping another turbine at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would cut daily gas production to 20%, halving the current level of supply. The German government said there was no technical reason to limit gas supply. It is likely to make it more difficult for EU countries to replenish their stores of gas before winter. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which pumps gas from Russia to Germany, has been running well below capacity for weeks, and was completely shut down for a 10-day maintenance break earlier this month. Russia supplied the EU with 40% of its gas last year, and the EU has accused Russia of using energy as a weapon.
BBC
In his first public remarks in Canada, Pope Francis has asked indigenous residential school survivors for forgiveness. "I am deeply sorry," the Pope said on the grounds of a former residential school in Maskwacis, near Edmonton. He said his apology is a first step, and that a "serious investigation" into abuses must occur to foster healing. The pontiff is in Canada to apologise for the church's role in schools meant to assimilate indigenous children. The government-funded schools were part of a policy meant to destroy indigenous cultures and languages. The papal apology was received by applause from survivors in the audience, some of whom travelled far to hear the Pope speak.
Bangkok Post
The government decided on Monday not to declare monkeypox another serious communicable disease as health authorities remain confident they can contain the virus. Chakrarat Pittayawonganon, director of the epidemiology division at the Department of Disease Control, said increasing surveillance measures on the disease nationwide would be sufficient. The nature of monkeypox does not yet fit the definition of the Communicable Disease Act, the official added. "Serious communicable diseases must have severe symptoms and be spread easily and quickly," Dr Chakrarat said after the meeting of the academic committee to seek opinions on its status.
Russia-Ukraine updates: Kyiv says grain shipments to start 'this week' Deutsche Welle Ukrainian officials said on Monday that Kyiv expects to export grain shipments "this week," after signing a UN-backed deal to life Russia's blockade. A Russian strike on the main Ukrainian port of Odesa — just hours after the deal was signed in Istanbul — had cast doubt on whether Moscow would commit to the agreement. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the attack hit a "military target" and "should not" affect the shipments. Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, who led his country's delegation in the Istanbul talks, said Kyiv expected to see the agreement begin "working in the coming days." "We are preparing for everything to start this week," said Kubrakov. Ukraine's deputy infrastructure minister Yuriy Vaskov said he believes that "over the next 24 hours we will be ready to work to resume exports from our ports." A UN official also said the first grain shipments could leave Ukraine "within a few days." "All parties have reconfirmed their commitment," said deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq. "We expect that the first ship may move within a few days," he added. Myanmar junta executes 4 democracy activists Deutsche Welle The activists were accused of leading "brutal and inhumane terror acts," the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said. The executions are Myanmar's first in decades. The report did not specify how the activists were killed. Who were the executed men? The executed men included democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu and former lawmaker and hip-hop artist Phyo Zeya Thaw, the newspaper reported. Thaw was a lawmaker from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). The other two executed men were Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw. They were convicted of killing a woman they allegedly believed was an informer for the military. The Global New Light of Myanmar said that the four had been charged under a counterterrorism law and the penal code. The newspaper said the punishment had been conducted under the prison's procedures
Al Jazeera
Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr has outlined a series of ambitious plans in his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). However, several analysts said the plans lacked detail and that his speech had glaring omissions on key issues such as human rights. Hundreds of legislators, officials and guests gathered on Monday at the Batasan Pambansa Complex, the headquarters of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, in Quezon city to hear Marcos Jr set out his agenda in what is also the traditional curtain-raiser for sessions of the Senate and Congress.
Al Jazeera
A codefendant of the Central Park Five, a group of Black and Latino teenagers whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger in New York City were thrown out more than a decade later, has had his conviction on a related charge overturned. A New York judge exonerated Steven Lopez on Monday in response to requests by both Lopez’s lawyer and prosecutors. Lopez was 15 when he was first named in the indictment along with five other Black and Latino teenagers for the night-time rape and attempted murder of Trisha Meili, an investment banker whose horrific injuries became the subject of sensationalist media coverage. Lopez later pleaded guilty to robbing a male jogger that same night in a deal with prosecutors that saw the charges alleging his involvement in the attack on Meili dropped, and was sentenced to between 1-1/2 and 4-1/2 years in a state prison.
The Guardian
A former intelligence contractor who was imprisoned for leaking a reportabout Russian interference in the US presidential election that Donald Trump won in 2016 has insisted she acted out of love for a nation that was “being lied to”. “I am not a traitor – I am not a spy,” Reality Winner said in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’ 60 Minutes. “I am somebody who only acted out of love for what this country stands for.” In some of her most extensive remarks about her case since she was freed from prison last year for good behavior, Winner portrayed herself living as normal a life as possible in Texas, teaching yoga and fitness while also being a pet owner, daughter and sister named after a pun of her family’s surname and her father’s wish to have a “real winner”.
The Guardian
Allies of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have been accused of “bullying” and firing “poisonous” criticism, as Nadine Dorries upped the ante of “blue-on-blue” attacks by mocking the former chancellor’s expensive outfits. Amid fears the Conservative leadership race was descending into “horrific nastiness”, some MPs urged the two remaining candidates to stop “knocking seven shades of shit out of each other” and pull out of the remaining head-to-head TV debates. Though Sunak has agreed to an interview on Friday with Andrew Neil on Channel 4, Truss has so far ruled out doing the same, prompting accusations she was “frit”.
The Guardian
Canadian police say two people have been killed in an early morning gun attack in a Vancouver suburb that left two others injured and appeared to target homeless residents. The suspect was shot dead by officers. On Monday morning, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said most of the shootings were in downtown Langley in southwest British Columbia. There was also a reported shooting in the neighbouring Langley township. Two of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene, police said later on Monday. One woman remained in critical condition. A fourth person was shot in the leg. The attack is believed to have unfolded over several hours. Images from social media showed multiple vehicles, including a police SUV, with bullet holes in them.
NPR
New evidence shared by the House Select Jan. 6 Committee shows then-President Donald Trump edited a speech that was aimed at strongly condemning the deadly attack on the Capitol last year. A document for a Jan. 7, 2021, Trump speech, titled "Remarks on National Healing," shows several key phrases crossed out that would have more strongly denounced the siege. It also shows suggested edits for added words. "It looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day," Trump's daughter and former senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump told a committee investigator during her recorded video interview. She said plans for the speech began the evening after the riot. The investigator asked her if she recognized the handwriting on the page, and she responded she did.
NPR
Abortion is now illegal or heavily restricted in at least 12 states following the Supreme Court's historic decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade. At least ten other states have laws in place that pave the way to quickly ban or severely restrict access to abortion. State laws shown here include those with near-total bans on abortion and states with bans after the detection of fetal cardiac activity, or roughly at six weeks gestational age. Some of these laws are currently blocked by courts while legal challenges make their way through the courts. Some states have older laws on the books that leave the current legal status of abortion unclear.
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x Guy Fieri, TV’s spike-haired rhapsodist of roadside eats, is still playing it for laughs. But he’s also winning food-world respect as a sort of graying eminence. — The New York Times (@nytimes) June 9, 2022
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