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General Sir Patrick Saunders issued a “battle cry” to all classes, as well as to civil servants, in the form of a memo saying that the conflict in Ukraine reinforced the main purpose of the army “to be ready to fight and win wars on land.” ». Senior military officials said the intervention, last Thursday during his first week at work, served as a reminder to the government to invest in land-based capabilities....

HIE said it had reallocated uncommitted funds from the wider investment package of the Cairngorm ski resort masterplan to cover the additional costs. The agency added that the Scottish Government has also made available £7m of additional funding in June 2022. Opened in 2001 at a cost of £26m, the cable car links a base station with a restaurant and ski area 1,097 meters (3,599 ft) up the Cairn Gorm mountain near Aviemore....

FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, one of the highest-profile cryptocurrency breakouts, after traders rushed to withdraw $6 billion from the platform in just 72 hours and rival exchange Binance abandoned a proposed bailout deal. In a statement on Sunday, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said: “In light of the collapse of FTX Worldwide and the provisional liquidation of FTX Digital Markets Ltd., a team of financial investigators from the Financial Crimes Investigation Branch is working closely with Bahamas Securities Commission to investigate whether any misconduct of criminal conduct occurred....

The federal flu surveillance report from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, released Monday, said “Nationwide, flu activity has exceeded the seasonal threshold, indicating the beginning of an influenza epidemic.” “We are very concerned,” said Dr. Jana Davidson, chief medical officer at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. “Emergency room presentations are up 20 percent year over year.” On Monday in Ontario, that province’s chief medical officer recommended that Ontarians wear masks in all public places, including schools and daycare centers, as the health care system is strained by the triple threat of COVID-19 infections, a increase respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza....

The Netherlands is joining other European nations to return to coal amid an energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This week, the Netherlands announced that restrictions on coal-fired power plants would be lifted. Previously, fossil fuels accounted for only one third of production. ARCHIVE: Chemical tanker barges moored near silos and refining towers at the Royal Dutch Shell Plc Pernis refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Tuesday 27 April 2021....

Police found the remains last week in a section of the landfill that they had cordoned off to search for Rebecca Contois’s remains. The search of the landfill began on June 2, with police saying they were investigating an area the size of four to six football pitches. The Contois family has been informed of the discovery. The news comes after some of the remains of Contois, 24, were found outside an Edison Avenue apartment building on May 15....

The World Health Organization guidelines for physical activity and sedentary behavior recognize the impact of prolonged sedentary behavior on the risk of cardiovascular disease in both adults and children, noting that higher levels of sedentary behavior are associated with adverse effects on mortality. mortality from cardiovascular disease and cancer. mortality and incidence of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. Although increased levels of physical activity are generally required to improve cardiovascular disease risk in the general population, a 2019 systematic review concluded that higher levels of total daily sitting time were associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, regardless of activity....

Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot after more than three months without anyone winning the top prize. The winning numbers were drawn on Tuesday morning, nearly 10 hours after the scheduled drawing on Monday night, due to problems processing sales data in one of the game’s member lotteries. Lottery officials acknowledged the unprecedented delay for such a high-profile draw, but said the game’s security process took priority....

One was Michael Landingin, 36, a resident of the central beach town of Bat Yam, who was stabbed by the killer. He left behind a wife and two children, according to Bat Yam Mayor Tzvika Brot, who added that Ladygin had moved to Israel five years ago. The second was Motti Ashkenazi, 59, a resident of the central city of Yavne. He worked as a supplier for gas distributor Amisragas in the West Bank region....

The Panthers were able to shake off their poor performance against the Bengals on Sunday to defeat the Falcons 25-15 on Thursday night. While Atlanta cut Carolina’s lead to three at one point in the third quarter, the Panthers were in control throughout the game. On a rainy night in Charlotte, the Panthers had a 13-0 lead late in the second quarter before a Falcons field goal made it 13-3 at halftime....

The storm sent Florida homes overturning into the Atlantic Ocean earlier Thursday and threatened a string of apartment buildings in places where Hurricane Ian washed ashore and damaged seawalls just weeks ago. At 10 p.m., an advisory from the National Hurricane Center said the storm’s center was about 20 miles (35 kilometers) north of Tallahassee with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kmh). It was moving northwest at 15 mph (24 kmh)....

Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Sif, citing a federal judge, said Trump and his allies “probably violated many federal laws” by pressuring government officials to reverse the results and validate the ballots. He cited U.S. District Judge David Carter, who in a previous court case described the conspiracy of Trump and his allies as a “coup d’etat in search of a legal theory.” Schiff, a former U.S. attorney general, said Trump could be guilty of “conspiracy to defraud the United States....

The endless legal troubles swirling around former President Donald Trump are already at the center of his newly announced 2024 presidential campaign. Trump himself, in his nomination speech on Tuesday, spoke of how he was a “victim” of “weaponizing the justice system” as he spoke out against the FBI’s search of his Florida home as part of a criminal research. to his White House mishandling of documents. Regardless of whether Trump’s criminal exposé politically undermines his campaign or rallies his supporters, investigations that could implicate him — which also include federal and state probes into 2020 election gamesmanship — are unlikely legal obstacle to his candidacy....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register ANKARA, June 20 (Reuters) – Talks between Turkey, Finland and Sweden on the Nordic countries’ NATO membership will continue and next week’s alliance summit in Madrid is not a deadline, Turkey said after talks in Brussels. Monday. Finland and Sweden have applied to join NATO in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, the offers met with opposition from Turkey, which has been outraged by Helsinki and Stockholm’s support for Kurdish fighters and the arms embargo in Ankara....

The interior minister says police have arrested “the person who left the bomb” that exploded on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue. Turkish police have arrested a suspect in a bomb attack in central Istanbul that left at least eight dead and 81 others injured, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told the news agency on Monday that the suspect taken into custody was “the person who left the bomb that caused the explosion” on a busy street in Turkey’s largest city....

The Quintana Roo killings follow the deadly shooting in January of two Canadians with criminal records in nearby Cancun. A senior government official told Reuters that the man, whose identity has not been released, is wanted by Interpol. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register “He was not a tourist,” the official said, adding that the man had been hiding in Mexico for about four years. Mexican media reported that the victims had had their necks cut off, citing a local police report....

Although we really should all know better, “password” itself is the top choice nationwide – and minor variations like “password1” and “password123” aren’t far behind. It surpassed last year’s “123456” as the nation’s favorite chocolate teapot for website security, according to password management company NordPass’ annual survey. Other common key combinations that feature highly on the list are “qwerty” and “abc123”, while many of us are confident enough in our counting skills to get our codes up to “12345678”....