When was the last time a cell phone actually made you happy? For me, it was in March, when I spotted my son in a market in Hong Kong, lying in a glass display case between two infants its same size.
To industry outsiders, it was a shock. What could have brought down one of Boeing's newest, most technologically sophisticated airplanes? But those closer to the airplane's development knew better: there had been warning signs from the start.
Homeownership rates have been down the past few years, but it's still a surprise that there's only one state in the country where owning a house is cheaper than renting.
Barcelona have managed to grab a 3-0 lead in their Champions League semifinal against Liverpool, thanks to two goals from Lionel Messi. The first, a tap-in off a rebound. The second, this piece of absolute magic.
This is something that I've been lucky enough to see on some prototypes, but it's more than a little valuable for the public to get a sense of what a self-driving car "sees" when driving down the road.
Python can be your gateway to everything from a lucrative career in development, to an in-demand position in data analytics. This Python Programming Bootcamp 2.0 fast tracks your learning so you can put this powerful all-purpose language on your resume for just $19.
The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun's magnetic field and the possibility of even more exotic physics.
The abdication of Akihito as Japan's emperor marked the end of the country's Hesei period, and the Japanese stayed out late to celebrate the end of the era and the start of a new one. One reveler took things a bit too far.
Four years after the US Supreme Court affirmed his right to marry, Buttigieg has become the first openly gay person to make a serious bid for the presidency.
If the early numbers are any indication, Biden's team understand that the internet is perhaps their most powerful tool. And they're going capitalize on it.
In Strasbourg's Hôpital civil, a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape would be prescribed for bloating, while a Côtes de Provence rosé was used to treat obesity.
Instead of more, the North Carolina legislature has in recent years provided less and less to public schools. What once was a leader in public education is now a shell of its former self.
Calling everyone who still regrets not copping a KitchenAid mixer this past Black Friday: The white 4.5-quart Classic Series is $60.99 off at Walmart. A KitchenAid mixer for less than $200 is pretty rare in itself, but it's especially exciting when the same model is still full price on KitchenAid's site.
These mixers get a lot of attention during winter months for being the ultimate holiday dinner and cookie companion, but spring and summer events could use a KitchenAid's versatility just as much — you can't rely on a juicer or Instant Pot for everything.
With 10 optimized speeds and a mighty dough hook, you can make your own rolls for burgers, use in-season berries to make a pie, or whip up a carnival-style monkey bread. A KitchenAid is also an excuse to bring fancy cupcakes to every BBQ and stunt on everyone who went with a store-bought dessert. Read more...
It's not always a viable option to hire a cleaning crew to come to your home and make the place spotless — that’s going to run up quite the bill, real quick. Instead of dishing out major cash for housekeeping, you can always go with a robot vacuum. While it won’t reach high places or deep-clean your shower, it will check off one of the more time-consuming chores on your to-do list.
The iRobot Roomba 680 vacuum is currently $60 off at Walmart, and $90 cheaper than iRobot has it listed on its own website. The one thing better than taking home a brand new robo-vac is scoring one with a bargain like this. Read more...
Subscription boxes continue to increase in popularity, and we're not surprised, because they make a lot of sense. You get a regular dose of something you need, at a great price. What's not to love?
When we think of subscription boxes, the first things that come to mind are meals and cosmetics. There are plenty more services out there that you can subscribe to though, like shaving supplies.
You can now subscribe to the Gillette Club, and save on all of your shaving essentials. A subscription to the service starts at just £4.95, and can save you up to £10 on a Gillette starter pack with free delivery. Read more...
Helps users stay focused and unplug from their phones • The app offers a bunch of customization opportunities • along with group settings • It's fun • easy to use • and can help the environment
The Bad
The virtual coin rewards aren't very large unless you pay for in-app extras • The app isn't visible on a phone's lock screen when it's running
The Bottom Line
Forest offers users a delightful escape from their phones and significantly helps with time management and focus. Overall, it's a wonderful investment I wish I'd learned about sooner.
May has got to be up there as one of the best months of the year, for a number of reasons. You have the improving weather, the longer days, and the bank holiday. There is another reason though, and it's cheesy.
There is an abundance of fantastic young cheeses that come into their prime at this time of year, especially those made with ewe’s and goat’s milk. Some of the finest of these have been selected by Pong Cheese as part of its May Day range.
Don't get us wrong, cheese is always a fantastic option, whatever the month. We're all for an excuse to indulge though, and that excuse has come in the form of a promotional code on the May Day range. You can get a 10 percent discount until May 31 with the code MAYDAY10. You can only use the code once per person, so make sure you stock up on the good stuff. Read more...
You might think that your music collection is outstanding and beyond reproach, but the reality is that your family probably doesn't want to listen to classic rock on repeat.
With an Amazon Music Unlimited Family Plan, you can keep everyone happy. Six separate accounts can connect to the service, with access to 50 million songs. That should be just about enough. Even for the pickiest of listeners.
If you need a little more convincing, you can start a 30-day free trial of the service, to test things out fully. If you choose to continue after the trial, the price increases to just £14.99 a month. As an added bonus, you can pick up an Echo Dot for just £0.99 when you make your first Family Plan payment after your free trial has finished. Within one week of subscribing, you will receive an email with info on how to redeem the offer. Read more...
Leave it to The Daily Show to put the properly absurd spin on Attorney General William Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee over the Mueller Report.
Host Trevor Noah had no problem pointing out how bonkers the entire thing was. When Noah compares Barr's answers to a mangled subway announcement, the joke lands not because it's silly (which it is) but because how true it rings.
Calling one exchange between Barr and Sen. Dick Durbin, "the most exciting boring fight I've seen in my life," Noah nails the dichotomy of Wednesday's drama: dry and slow and yet somehow bewildering and bonkers. After all, Barr even managed to incur the wrath of Mueller himself. Read more...
Do you need a 5G TV? Probably not (at least for a while), but that, reportedly, won't stop China's Huawei from launching an 8K TV with a built-in 5G chip.
This is according to Nikkei Asian Review, which cites sources familiar with Huawei's plans. These sources claim that such a TV could be used to download special types of data-heavy content, including 360-degree videos and virtual reality videos.
The report is interesting because currently, Huawei doesn't sell TVs. It does sell an awful lot of phones, 5G equipment, and chips used in other brands' TVs, so a Huawei-branded TV isn't a very far-fetched notion. The idea behind the move, reportedly, is to catch up with companies such as Samsung, which sells a wider array of electronics devices, including TVs, smartphones and audio equipment. Read more...
So you want to be a vlogger. First, a pop quiz: Which came first, the video or the camera? This is not a trick question.
The camera, duh! Which means if you want to create dope videos that will have the whole world interested in what you do or say, you should start with the right piece of recording equipment.
Sure, everyone has a pretty good camera on their smartphone. But as more people flock to YouTube to upload their latest iCaptured shenanigans, you have to invest in the right camera if you want to be a shot above the rest — and a legitimate vlogger. Read more...
Everyone loves a good barbecue, but there are a few things you need before you can master the art. You need food, and lots of it. You need a high-quality barbecue, that actually fits into your garden. And you need a neat and tidy garden, that guests will actually want to spend time in.
We have lined up the best deals on all the products you need to be the King or Queen of barbecues this summer. We have tracked down offers on gardening equipment, barbecues, and even hot tubs, so that your garden parties make a big impression.
We have also highlighted the best offers on kitchen appliances and products for the home, for when it inevitably starts to rain and everyone heads inside. Read more...
You would think, if you were a publicist who had Charlize Theron as a client, that she would probably be the favourite.
Well think again. As Theron explained to Seth Meyers, she shares a publicist with Rihanna. And the birthday messages said publicist sends to each of them aren't exactly... equal.
Theron got a fairly standard "happy bday" message, for instance. Rihanna, meanwhile, got something so excitably complimentary that she put the email on a T-shirt purely to roast Theron. Read more...
Princess Charlotte is celebrating her fourth birthday and that means one thing: new photos!
Interestingly, in the latest dispatch of photos of the royal kids, Princess Charlotte bears a striking resemblance to her great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
It was quite a long wait for UK citizens, who were able to reserve their place in line to get a Model 3 as far back as 2016 — but better late than never, no?
The pricing (with destination and documentation fee included) starts at £38,900 for the Partial Premium Interior model with a rear-wheel drive. The Long Range model with a dual motor and an all-wheel drive costs £47,900, and the Performance variant costs £56,900.
Image: Tesla
If you switch to the Payment screen on the Model 3 order page you'll also get Tesla's estimate on fuel savings; for example, for the £38,900 variant, this estimate is £9,500. Note that in the U.S., this number is far lower at $4,500 — and while the U.S. does have cheaper gas than the UK, I'm still not certain that I understand Tesla's math here. Read more...
Are you currently paying for a personal trainer? If you grab the Fitbit Ionic on sale for $217.76 on Amazon, you may not need one. It can personalize workouts for you on your wrist with step-by-step coaching. Track your distance and routes with the built-in GPS, plus get feedback on things like pace, swimming, and sleep.
While there are a slew of beginner-friendly languages out there, one that generates almost no hype — but really deserves more attention — is Ruby on Rails.
To be clear, Ruby on Rails isn't a programming language, per se. Rather, it's a web application framework: a collection of shortcuts written in Ruby, which enables users to circumvent learning a bunch of esoteric programming jargon while building web apps super fast. Ruby on Rails — unlike, say, the Notorious P.H.P. — won't make you sob after few minutes of coding, because it actually reads like English.
It's the 21st century, and tech is performing small miracles everywhere from urban agriculture to gene editing. Yet somehow misplacing your everyday belongings is easier than ever, what with a busy, on-the-go lifestyle in which you look up bleary eyed from your phone or computer screen only to notice you have no freaking idea where you put your keys.
But losing your keys or any other items should not be a regular exercise in self-torture. If you're tired of having your days resemble a constant scavenger hunt for one thing or another, here are seven ways to make your life a lot easier. Read more...
From the very first scene of the very first season of Game of Thrones, the story seemed to make us a promise: There is a larger mystery at the heart of this world. And you should not forget it.
Before even learning their names, we watch the three characters who open the show fall victim to an ancient and sinister otherworldliness. All but one is systematically slaughtered by creatures of untold power, unknown motivation, and inhuman brutality.
It was the enigma that launched the largest cultural phenomenon in TV history. Who were these beings? What did they want? Why were they massacring humans? What made them come back? Read more...
Ever wanted to sit in the Iron Throne? Well, Jimmy Kimmel gave a bunch of random pedestrians in LA the chance. But there was a price to be paid.
"The gang at Game of Thrones was kind enough to lend us the Iron Throne," explains Kimmel in the clip above. "We gave some people walking by on Hollywood Boulevard the chance to sit in it and share the most menacing thing they have ever done."
Some of the anecdotes above are indeed menacing. But mainly they're a mixture of disturbing, awkward and — especially in the case of the final woman, who is clearly an IRL Lady Olenna — just plain hilarious. Read more...
Emilia Clarke, actual royalty, dropped into Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about "The Long Night," the epic third episode of Game Of Thrones' eighth season.
It took 55 nights to film the extraordinary episode, and the cast and crew would stay up all night to shoot its long, fiery scenes.
"What you saw was really what it was like shooting it," Clarke told of the Battle of Winterfell episode. "You saw blood and mud, and angry, screaming people."
Clarke also talked through how her scenes on the dragon came together, and how co-star Kit Harington learnt to ride them — although with much more pain. Read more...
Drake knows an MVP when he sees one, and this week's was definitely Arya Stark.
The hip hop superstar accepted his Billboard Music Award on Wednesday with a cheeky shout out to the Stark powerhouse and her work in Game of Thrones Season 8, episode 3, when that happened.
Before leaving the stage with the Top Billboard 200 Album award for his whopper of a double album, Scorpion, Drake dropped some unexpected recognition for the biggest badass in Westeros.
"Shout out to Arya Stark for putting in that work last week," he said. Read more...
With Tesla test drives scaled back, your options to check out a Model 3 or Model S sedan are limited enough that you may need to turn to virtual reality to see the car before you buy it.
Oculus's new VR headset could become the next best way to check out cars without going to a dealership or car lot — or in Tesla's case, without buying the car sight unseen.
The Oculus Quest was officially announced this week at Facebook's F8 conference and when it arrives on May 21 for $399 most of the attention will be on how it performs for gaming apps. For the non-gamers out there, however, the headset can give you a glimpse at what thousands of cars look like. It's one of the many non-gaming uses for VR that's getting a boost with the new device. Read more...
"The future is private," Mark Zuckerberg declared, as he awkward-laughed his way through his annual keynote at Facebook's F8 conference. For Zuckerberg, the event was his chance to sell the world on his vision to turn Facebook into a a "privacy-focused" social network.
To make that happen he plans to rebuild many of the company's core services, including:
A redesigned Facebook that emphasizes groups and Stories more than News Feed
A redesigned Messenger app that also allows you to chat with friends on WhatsApp and Instagram (details on how are still sketchy). It will also have a new social tab for interacting with small groups of friends.
Volvo's performance brand brought its new all-electric sedan, the Polestar 2, to North America on Wednesday. This marked the first time this side of the world got a peek at the first car to use Google to natively power the infotainment system.
An 11-inch center console screen and a 12.3-inch driver seat screen display an Android Automotive operating system with voice-activated Google Assistant, Google Maps, the Google Play Store, and all its Android Automotive apps.
With the $63,000 car's arrival in San Francisco, Google opened up app development for the Polestar 2 and other cars planning to use Google for its infotainment system for everything from mapping to sending texts to listening to audio books. Read more...
Twitter user @Apex_sH posted a video of his niece's stunning powers on Tuesday. The girl has the absolutely incredible ability to sic her pet bird on whoever she screams at.
In the video, she stands on a bed while her bird perches on the bed frame. Then, she turns to face the camera and lets out an unholy shriek. Without any hesitation, her bird launches itself at the poor soul recording the video.
Anticipating her family's inevitable questions, Mary Beth Barone prepared an informational pamphlet before going on a date.
"They are a CURIOUS bunch," she told Mashable through Twitter DM.
Barone, who's a comedian based in New York, attended a wedding in North Carolina last year and hit it off with another guest, who was from Miami. Barone happened to have a family vacation planned about an hour from Miami a few weeks later, and wanted to sneak away from her family for the date. But there was a flaw in her plan — as the youngest of five siblings traveling with 20 to 30 extended family members, it would be difficult for her to leave without a decent excuse. Barone said she had three options in order to successfully sneak away with the family's rental car: lie, try to hide it, or over communicate. Read more...
In 2000, at the back of my high school physics classroom, there was a computer with access to the internet, and for me, a whole new network of friends.
I was one of the very few people who had access to the password and knew how to navigate a little program we called "America Online." Sure, plenty of my fellow students knew how to set up a personal AIM account. But I was the only one who actually knew how to use a search engine (thank you, Yahoo! and WebCrawler) to explore a kewl new phenomenon: viral videos.
It was these profoundly useless, morbidly stupid videos — of babies getting attacked by cats, of people getting hit (gently) by motorbikes — that brought me out of isolation and helped me discover community. Read more...
Sleep can make or break your day. If you wake up feeling energized and refreshed, concentrating and functioning will be a breeze. On the other hand, if you spend most of your nights tossing and turning, the whole day can feel like a challenge. You’ll be fatigued, irritable, and reaching for the nearest caffeine source.
According to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, sleep deprivation might lead to serious health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity. So it’s something to take seriously. If you need to improve your quality of sleep, it might be time for you to buy a new mattress. Read more...
Waymo One now lets you stream music through screens in its self-driving cars.
Those tunes are provided by Google Play Music, the Spotify competitor that offers millions of songs for $9.99 a month. It’s perfect corporate synergy: Waymo and Google have the same parent company, Alphabet.
Currently, the self-driving taxi service is only offered in the Phoenix area. One of those users posted about their experience on Reddit, saying they had eight different playlist options and a Google-esque "I'm feeling lucky" button to play a random assortment of songs. They did feel lucky, and ended up with 25 minutes of Lorde, Vampire Weekend, The Black Keys, and other artists. Read more...
Keeping a clean house is a job that never ends. Having a great vacuum that can handle it all is absolutely essential. (Especially if you have pets.) After you've decluttered your junk drawers, reorganized your closet, and wiped down months of outdoor water buildup from your windows, it's time to focus on vacuuming the rugs, carpets, cushions, and everywhere else dust, dander, and debris has been hiding. (Can't stand the thought of vacuuming? Check out these robot vacuums instead.)
If you haven't introduced your home to a new vacuum in a while, you'll be shocked at just how many modern features that vacuums have these days. From robot vacuums that both mop and suction your floors to handheld mini vacuums that collapse down to store more easily, we scoured the 'net to find the best options to help with your spring cleaning regime and beyond. Read more...
So asks a large wooden wall painted Facebook blue in the Festival Hall of San Jose's McEnery convention center. It's the annual F8 developer conference, and adjacent a series of mock living rooms showing off Portal video conferencing devices sits an attempt by the Menlo Park-based company to highlight the positives of its scandal-plagued platform in attendees' own words. And it's getting trolled.
The interactive booth asks people to write their personal definition of community on a piece of paper and tack it to a giant circular Facebook logo. Messages like "love," and "support" dot the wallIronically, one such note reads "local news." Read more...
Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated Wednesday that US military action in Venezuela is an option in the wake of this week's violent protests, despite military officials and experts casting doubt on the prudence of such a move.
"The President has been crystal clear and incredibly consistent. Military action is possible. If that's what's required, that's what the United States will do," Pompeo said on Fox Business Network. "We're trying to do everything we can to avoid violence. We've asked all the parties involved not to engage in the kind of activity. We'd prefer a peaceful transition of government there, where Maduro leaves and a new election is held. But the President has made clear, in the event that there comes a moment -- and we'll all have to make decisions about when that moment is -- and the President will have to ultimately make that decision. He is prepared to do that if that's what's required."
WNU Editor: I doubt that the U.S. military will be launching military strikes in Venezuela anytime soon. But the Washington and U.S. media narrative is that such operations may take place very soon (see links below). Why the narrative? To put pressure on President Maduro.
* Mike Pence visited the USS Harry S. Truman on Tuesday in Norfolk, Virginia * Sailors were reportedly told to clap loudly for Pence before he arrived yesterday * Pence told the sailors there were no plans to retire the veteran vessel early
US Navy soldiers were reportedly told to clap 'like they were at a strip club' before the arrival of Mike Pence yesterday.
The Vice President was making a visit to the USS Harry S. Truman on Tuesday to reassure sailors that the veteran warship was not going to be retired ahead of schedule.
But according to CNN, just hours before his arrival at the naval base in Norfolk, Virginia, crewmembers were informed by the ship's senior enlisted sailor that they would be expected to 'clap like we're at a strip club'.
KABUL (Reuters) - American and Taliban officials resumed talks in Qatar on Wednesday aimed at ending a 17-year war in Afghanistan, while the Afghan government hosted a rare assembly in Kabul to ensure its interests are upheld in any peace deal.
The Taliban issued a statement saying the U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, had met the Taliban's political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who is heading the Islamist militants' delegation.
"Views were exchanged about key aspects for a peaceful resolution of the Afghan issue," its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.
* China's naval force is growing at an incredible rate, not just in size but also in combat capability. It's reportedly growing faster than any other great power navy. * The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy is fielding a variety of new warships and submarines, as well as new weapons, to tip the scales in its favor in the region. * Here are some of the vessels the PLAN is adding to its expanding arsenal.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy is one of the largest naval forces in the world, and it continues to grow. More importantly, though, China is rapidly building and fielding increasingly capable naval vessels, weapons that could tip the scales in the US-dominated Pacific.
The Chinese PLAN has probably benefitted the most from the country's major military modernization plan, the goal of which is to transform the Chinese armed services into a world-class fighting force able to defeat another great power.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The American military command in Afghanistan has halted regular assessments of how many people and districts the government and insurgents there control, it emerged on Wednesday — eliminating what has long been an important public measure of progress in the war.
The military said the assessments had "limited decision-making value" for commanders. As recently as November 2017, the previous American commander in Afghanistan had called them "the metric that's most telling in a counterinsurgency."
The decision to end the assessments, which have been produced in various forms since at least 2010, was published in the latest quarterly report by the American special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.
"We're troubled by it," the inspector general, John F. Sopko, said in an interview. "It's like turning off the scoreboard at a football game and saying scoring a touchdown or field goal isn't important."
WNU Editor: The Long War Journal keeps an up-to-date assessment on what the Taliban are controlling in Afghanistan .... Mapping Taliban Control in Afghanistan (Long War Journal).
* The so-called Black Bloc anti-capitalist movement were involved in clashes with police this afternoon * By 2pm there had been a total of 165 arrests in the French capital with huge parts of the city on lockdown * Some 7400 police were on the streets for May Day, when workers traditionally protest against the ruling elite
Rioting broke out in Paris today as thousands gathered for May Day protests dubbed 'Armageddon' by extremist demonstrators.
Thugs from the so-called Black Bloc anti-capitalist movement were involved in running battles with police soon after 1pm.
By 2pm, there had been 165 arrests in Paris, most for public order offences related to the rioting.
Weapons were also confiscated as the police used tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges to try and restore order.
"We made hard choices inside of our budget," McCarthy said. We wanted to do that so we can protect them in the out years if it's a flat fiscal environment."
The U.S. Army is slowing, cutting and canceling hundreds of weapons programs in order to free up cash for just six kinds of new hardware.
The "Big Six" are key to winning high-tech wars against modern armies such as Russia's or China's, according to the ground-combat branch.
The Army's $190-billion budget proposal, which represents an $8-billion boost compared to the branch's 2019 budget, channels $9 billion into six main efforts.
ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that an F-35 fighter jet project would collapse if Turkey did not participate, and that it would be an injustice to exclude Ankara over its plan to buy the Russian S-400 air defense system.
Turkey's announcement has strained its ties with Washington, which has said it would compromise the security of Lockheed Martin F-35 jets and warned of potential U.S. sanctions.
Like other NATO allies of Washington, Turkey is both a prospective buyer and a partner in production of the F-35, which has been beset by cost overruns and delays, and entered service in the United States in 2015.
Ankara has proposed a working group with the United States to assess the impact of the S-400s, but says it has not received a response from U.S. officials.
WNU Editor: The F-35 will survive without Turkey. As for President Erdogan's insistence that Turkey should be permitted to buy the F-35, I think he has to do a lot more to get the waiver that he wants.
American-backed forces have largely driven the Islamic State from Raqqa, above. The big question is who will rule it next. Credit Ivor Prickett for The New York Times
The U.S. military's biggest successes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria involved uprooting the militants first from Mosul, Iraq, and then Raqqa, Syria.
But those operations are also catching the most flak for what many human rights groups and international organizations viewed as a callous use of artillery and air power that killed too many civilians.
The battles, as terrible as they were, serve as an important bellwether that may mark a new era of urban warfare involving mega-cities, according to retired Army Maj. John W. Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point's Modern War Institute.
A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet (left) flies alongside a PLA H-6K bomber that reportedly flew over the Bashi Channel, south of Taiwan, in a drill last year. Photo: AFP
* It's not known when or where the incident happened, but source tells local newspaper the 'defensive act did not lead to an exchange of fire' * There was a similar incident when a US surveillance plane was being monitored near the island
A Taiwanese fighter jet pilot mistakenly fired a self-defence weapon during a recent encounter with a PLA warplane, according to a local newspaper.
It was not known when or where the incident took place, but an unidentified source familiar with the matter told China Times on Monday that the situation did not escalate further.
"The firing of an infrared decoy projectile is a defensive act, so it did not lead to an exchange of fire," the source was quoted as saying.
Decoy projectiles are usually used during conflict to avoid being hit by an incoming missile.
WNU Editor: The above article is short on details, but it appears that the Taiwanese pilot felt the need to fire an infrared decoy projectile to defend itself. If so, this must have been one tense encounter with the PLA.
(LONDON) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was facing a court hearing Thursday over a U.S. request to extradite him for allegedly conspiring to hack a Pentagon computer.
Assange is expected to appear by video link from prison for the hearing at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
The 47-year-old Australian was sentenced Wednesday to 50 weeks in prison for jumping bail in 2012 and holing up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. At the time, he was facing extradition to Sweden for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations made by two women.
Assange says he feared being sent to the U.S. to face charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication of classified U.S. military documents.
Assange was arrested last month after his relationship with his embassy hosts went sour and Ecuador revoked his political asylum.
Lawyers say Assange will fight extradition to the U.S., where authorities have charged him with conspiring to break into a Pentagon computer system.
He is accused of scheming with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to break a password for a classified government computer.
Manning served several years in prison for leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. She was jailed again in March after refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said Wednesday that the extradition battle was “a question of life and death” for Assange.
Authorities are issuing mass evacuation orders along India’s eastern coast as Cyclone Fani, a Category 4 equivalent hurricane, approaches landfall with more than 100 million in its path.
According to the India Meteorological Department, Fani has been classified as an “Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm.” It is forecast to move inland at wind speeds as high as 130 mph on Friday and touch down in Puri in Odisha state.
Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm FANI about 450 km south-southwest of Puri at 0530 hrs IST of 02nd May, 2019. To cross Odisha coast around Puri by afternoon of 3rd May. https://t.co/wRl94BRtm1pic.twitter.com/nzGmV2Jr6O
Around 800,000 people are to be evacuated to safety by Thursday evening, local broadcaster NDTV reported. Total suspension of fishing operations has been advised and boating activity also discouraged.
Cyclone Fani may be the strongest storm to hit India’s eastern coast since Storm Hudhud, which killed 124 when it made landfall in Andhra Pradesh in October 2014, and the biggest to form in April in 43 years. Severe cyclones in India tend to be concentrated toward year-end.
The Bay of Bengal on the eastern coast has a history of producing deadly tropical storms, with the 1999 super cyclone that hit Odisha killing more than 10,000 people.
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who put the motion forward, called the move “a huge step forward,” according to the BBC. “This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe.”
The motion asks the U.K. government to achieve net-zero emissions before 2050. It also calls for government officials to come up with proposals on how to fix the U.K.’s natural environment and deliver a “zero waste economy” within the next 6 months, according to the BBC.
The state of emergency was one of the key demands of the environmental group Extinction Rebellion, which led extensive climate protests in London in April. The protests – which were joined by celebrities like Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson and teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg – paralyzed parts of London.
Extinction Rebellion reacted to the news on Twitter, saying “this has seen them start to #TellTheTruth.”
Several U.K. cities, including London and Manchester, and Scotland and Wales have already declared climate emergencies. Although there is no single agreed definition for a climate emergency, the BBC reports that areas are working on different plans to promote carbon neutrality.
A 2018 report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that greenhouse gas emissions would have to be lowered to net zero by 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5ºC. The report urged governments to act quickly to avert disaster.
“We pledge to work as closely as possible with countries that are serious about ending the climate catastrophe and make clear to U.S. President Donald Trump that he cannot ignore international agreements and action on the climate crisis,” Corbyn said, according to the BBC.
Former CIA officer Jerry Chung Shing Lee pleaded guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage for China at a court in Virginia on Wednesday.
Some intelligence officers suspect the U.S. Army veteran and Hong Kong native compromised CIA sources in China, leading to the collapse of the agency’s network there, reports the Washington Post. Several CIA agents were killed as China pushed the agency out of the country.
“Lee sold out his country, conspired to become a spy for a foreign government, and then repeatedly lied to investigators about his conduct,” said G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, reports the Post.
Lee, 54, left the CIA in 2007 after 13 years of service. He was approached by Chinese intelligence officers in 2010 while living in Hong Kong, according to a Department of Justice press release. In exchange for information he had gained while working as a CIA case officer, the Chinese officers offered him $100,000 and said they would take care of him “for life.”
Lee received multiple requests for information between May 2010 and at least 2011 and deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars into his bank account between May 2010 and December 2013, according to the DoJ.
The FBI became suspicious of Lee after receiving information from an informant in China, according to the Post. They got him to return to the U.S. in 2012 by offering him the chance to re-join the CIA. When law enforcement searched his Honolulu hotel room, they found a thumb drive containing a document detailing a secret CIA operation and notebooks with the real names and phone numbers of operatives and details about secret facilities written in them, according to the Post.
The CIA interviewed Lee multiple times during 2012, during which he did not disclose that he had received requests from Chinese intelligence agents. In 2013, the FBI also interviewed him multiple times. During one he admitted that he had received tasks from China. He also denied knowledge of the thumb drive and document found in his hotel room, before later admitting that he created the document but had not passed it on. In further interviews, Lee changed his story several times.
“By knowingly aiding a foreign government, Mr. Lee put our country’s national security at serious risk and also threatened the safety and personal security of innocent people, namely his former intelligence colleagues,” said John Brown, Assistant Director for Counterintelligence for FBI, according to the Department of Justice.
He was arrested in 2018, and faces up to life in prison, but is likely to receive less time because he admitted to disclosing “secret” not “top secret” information to the Chinese, according to the Post. His sentencing is set for August.
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — An Iranian oil tanker carrying over 1 million barrels of fuel oil suffered a malfunction in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia, authorities said Thursday, raising concerns that the vessel could be leaking.
The incident involving the Happiness I came as U.S. oil exemptions for Iranian crude oil purchases expired, part of President Donald Trump’s maximalist approach against Tehran.
Saudi Arabia’s state-run television channels and news agency said authorities received a distress call from the Happiness I over an “engine failure and the loss of control.”
The vessel had a crew of 26, including 24 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, Saudi state media said. They described the ship’s position as some 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of Jiddah in the Red Sea.
Saudi authorities said various government agencies were involved in the operation, including those who handle environmental protection. It did not elaborate on whether oil had spilled from the tanker.
Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted the state-run National Iranian Tanker Co. as saying the tanker would be transferred to Jiddah’s port. It said the vessel, on the way to the Suez Canal, broke down over water leaking into its engine room.
No one was injured in the incident and Iran denied any fuel had leaked out. The website MarineTraffic.com, which tracks vessels at sea, put the Happiness I about 40 kilometers (25 miles) off the coast of Jiddah late Thursday morning.
The website TankerTrackers.com, whose analysts monitor oil sales on the seas, estimated the Happiness I carried at least 1.1 million barrels of fuel oil. It said the ship sailed in tandem with another smaller sister ship named the Sabiti.
The Happiness I stopped its engines Tuesday, then was shadowed by the Sabiti close enough to have its crew escape, TankerTrackers said. Two tugboats from Saudi Arabia appeared to have reached the ships, TankerTrackers said.
TankerTrackers said it did not believe there was an oil leak, though information about the incident was still murky.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are chief Mideast rivals. Iran now faces increased pressure from the U.S. over its oil sales after Trump pulled America out of its nuclear deal with world powers. Iran has warned it will respond aggressively to any attempt to cut its oil exports to zero, as the Trump administration has pledged to do.
This is the latest incident involving an Iranian tanker.
In January 2018, the Iranian oil tanker Sanchi struck the Chinese freighter CF Crystal 257 kilometers (160 miles) off the coast of Shanghai in the East China Sea. The Sanchi, carrying nearly 1 million barrels of a gassy, ultra-light oil bound for South Korea, burst into flames, killing 32 sailors on board.
(BANGKOK) — Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who will have his official coronation on Saturday, has appointed his consort as the country’s queen.
An announcement Wednesday in the Royal Gazette said Suthida Vajiralongkorn Na Ayudhya is legally married to the 66-year-old king, and is now Queen Suthida.
Although she has been in the public eye for about three years, there has been little official information released about her and the news was a surprise to many Thais. Suthida is reported to be 40 years old and to have previously worked as a flight attendant for Thai Airways International. The two reportedly met on a flight.
Suthida joined the palace guard in 2013 and became commander of the king’s security unit, currently holding a general’s rank. The new queen also has several top royal decorations.
Vajiralongkorn has had three previous marriages and divorced his previous wife, with whom he has a son, in 2014. He became king after the death in October 2016 of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Bureau of the Royal Household—APThailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, right, presents a gift to Queen Suthida Vajiralongkorn Na Ayudhya at Ampornsan Throne Hall in Bangkok.
Thai television, which broadcast the royal order Wednesday evening, showed a video of Suthida prostrating herself before the king, to whom she, according to the announcer, presented a tray of flowers and joss sticks, and in return was bestowed traditional gifts associated with royal power.
It also showed the king in a white uniform and his bride in a pink silk traditional dress formally registering their marriage on Wednesday in his palace residence in the capital, Bangkok. It showed what the television announcer said was the couple signing a marriage certificate book, which was also signed by the king’s sister, Princess Sirindhorn, and Privy Council head Prem Tinsulanonda as witnesses. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and other senior officials were also in attendance.
(JERUSALEM) — Israel on Wednesday began commemorating its Holocaust Remembrance Day in honor of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, as leaders voiced concerns about a rising wave of anti-Semitism around the world.
In emotional addresses to an opening ceremony at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, the country’s ceremonial president warned the government against getting too close to far right parties in Europe, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that last weekend’s deadly synagogue shooting in San Diego was the latest reminder of growing anti-Semitic hatred.
The 24-hour remembrance period began at sundown with the main ceremony at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, and came just hours after Israeli researchers reported that violent attacks against Jews rose significantly last year. This spike, highlighted by the San Diego attack, was most dramatic in western Europe.
President Reuven Rivlin warned of anti-Semitism in Europe, which he said “is once again raising its head, fueled by waves of immigration, by economic crises, and by disillusionment with the political establishment.”
In veiled criticism of Netanyahu, he urged the government to be cautious about forging alliances with the far-right parties in Europe.
“Every country and society has the legitimate right and even the duty to choose its policy and to protect its identity. Not every right-wing party in Europe that believes in controlling immigration or in protecting its unique character is anti-Semitic or xenophobic,” Rivlin said. “But political forces where anti-Semitism and racism are part of their language, their legacy or their ideology can never be our allies.”
“No interest and no consideration of realpolitik can justify a dishonorable alliance with racist groups or elements who do not acknowledge their past and their responsibility for the crimes of the Holocaust,” he added.
Rivlin did not identify any particular countries. But Netanyahu has come under criticism for embracing a string of eastern European leaders who have offered strong political support to Israel while promoting a distorted image of the Holocaust.
A slew of former communist nations whose leaders recently visited Israel and paid their respects at Yad Vashem, such as Hungary, Lithuania and Poland, are swept up in a wave of World War II-era revisionism that seeks to diminish their culpability in the Holocaust while making heroes out of anti-Soviet nationalists involved in the mass killing of Jews. In Israel, established in the wake of the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews, many say Netanyahu is cynically betraying the victims’ memory.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, warned of rising anti-Semitic extremism as well. He said that the extreme right, extreme left and radical Islam agree on “one thing: their hatred of Jews.”
He noted the deadly synagogue shootings in San Diego last weekend and in Pittsburgh last October as well as vandalism at Jewish cemeteries. He also took aim at a recent political cartoon in the New York Times’ international edition, saying that even “respected newspapers” have gotten swept up in the trend.
“We’re not talking about legitimate criticism of Israel,” he said, “but of systematic, poisonous and shallow hatred.”
Holocaust Remembrance day is one of the most melancholy days on Israel’s calendar. Places of entertainment and cafes are closed. TV and radio stations broadcast Holocaust documentaries and interviews with survivors or somber music until sundown the next day.
Israelis come to a mournful, two-minute standstill to remember the dead Thursday morning when sirens wail across the country. Pedestrians stop in their tracks. Cars pull over on roads and many people exit their vehicles to stand still in contemplation.
The names of Holocaust victims are read out in parliament.
The U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said military intervention in Venezuela “is possible,” to support opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s attempts at an uprising against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
Clashes between anti-government protestors and Venezuelan security forces broke out Tuesday following a call from Guaidó for a mutiny. The demonstrations included one moment when several armored vehicles hit at least two people while driving into a group of opposition protestors, the Associated Press reports. Video footage of the unrest showed protestors running from armored vehicles, defending themselves with rocks and homemade bombs.
Maduro said Tuesday that attempted “coup” by Guaidó was defeated and that the country will never surrender to “imperialist forces” in an address on state television.
“Now you can see Venezuela largely in peace,” he said.
Pompeo, who previously claimed that Maduro was ready to fly to Cuba after the military uprising but decided to stay in Venezuela after being persuaded by Russia to remain, said Wednesday that military intervention could happen in light of the uprising.
“Military action is possible. If that’s what’s required, that’s what the United States will do,” he told Fox Business Network.
Maduro has denied Pompeo’s claim that the Venezuelan president was ready to leave to Cuba. “How crazy can things get? That I, Maduro, had a plane ready to escape to Cuba and that the Russians prohibited me from leaving,” he said during his televised address. “Mr. Pompeo, please. Such a lack of seriousness.”
Pompeo likely warned of military intervention in Venezuela as part of the U.S.’s strategy to apply enough pressure that would convince armed forces in the country to turn against Maduro, says Frank Mora, a professor at Florida International University who previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs with the Department of Defense.
“Their own logic is that if they hit themselves in the chest a lot and have a warlike rhetoric that somehow the military in Venezuela, in order to avoid the alleged intervention, will move against Maduro,” he tells TIME.
Now, both the government and the opposition are pushing forward for more demonstrations. Despite the setbacks, Guaidó has pushed forward in his calls for more protest on Wednesday. And Maduro has called for his backers to rally in support, the AP reports.
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Guaidó and Maduro have clashed over who will control Venezuela since January, when Guaidó claimed Maduro’s second term as president, won through an election that many considered rigged, was invalid and counted as a “vacuum of power.” Guaidó declared himself the rightful president of Venezuela, an assertion backed by the Trump administration and at least 54 other countries.
It’s unclear why Guaidó prompted people to begin demonstrations on Tuesday, says Mora. Over the past few weeks, the opposition leader has worked to set the stage for a big demonstration on May 1, in which people were asked to march on to the Miraflores Palace, or the presidential palace.
“It’s important and significant and not something they had done before — a critical moment to see what armed forces would do,” Mora says. By asking people to protest 24 hours in advance, Guaidó surprised everyone, including his supporters, in a call for a sudden rebellion, he says.
Guaidó has worked to get an uprising to take off for about four months to little result, which indicates that the military in Venezuela has little incentive to turn against Maduro, according to Mora. Already, drug trafficking and other issues have caused rampant corruption in the armed forces. Many officers in the military feel they have no option but to stay, he says.
“They have no other choice — it’s either jail, exile or death,” he says.
(BERLIN) — Higher salaries, better working conditions, maternity leave, minimum wage and an end to discrimination against temporary or foreign workers: These were among the concerns as hundreds of thousands of union members and labor activists rallied around the world to mark May Day.
The tradition of May Day marches for workers’ rights began in the United States in the 1880s. It quickly spread to other countries at a time when industrialization pitted poorly paid employees who had few protections and little power against increasingly dominant factory employers and landowners.
Over the decades, the May Day protests have also become an opportunity to air general economic grievances or political demands. Here’s a look at Wednesday’s protests:
Protests over high speed train in Italy
Two protesters and a police officer were injured in the Italian city of Turin when police blocked a demonstration against the construction of a high-speed rail line between France and Italy, according to ANSA, an Italian news agency.
Among the protesters were members of the 5-Star Movement, a populist party that is in Italy’s ruling coalition but is opposed to the tunnel. One member, Torino city councilor Damiano Carretto, said on Facebook that he was hit in the head and on the hand by a police truncheon.
The 35.7-mile (57.5-kilometer) long Turin-Lyon High-Speed Train tunnel link, known in Italy as TAV, is a key part of an EU project linking southern Spain with eastern Europe. But the 5-Star Movement has long opposed the project.
Russian workers march at Red Square
Oleg Nikishin—Getty ImagesThousands of Russian Communist Party (CPRF) supporters march in Moscow to mark International Workers’ Day.
Authorities in Russia said about 100,000 people took part in a May Day rally in central Moscow organized by Kremlin-friendly trade unions on Red Square. Opposition activists said more than 100 people were detained in several cities, including for participating in unsanctioned political protests.
In St. Petersburg, police arrested over 60 supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Some of them carried signs saying “Putin is not immortal,” in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been at the helm since 2000.
Police manhandled dozens of protesters in Russia’s second-largest city, including lawmaker Maxim Reznik, who was later released. Reznik told the Dozhd TV station that police detained almost everyone in his protest group but gave no reason for the arrests.
Koreans demand better working conditions
Wearing headbands and swinging their fists, protesters in South Korea’s capital of Seoul rallied near City Hall, marching under banners denouncing deteriorating working conditions and demanding equal treatment and pay for temporary workers. A major South Korean umbrella trade union also issued a joint statement with a North Korean workers’ organization calling for the Koreas to push ahead with joint economic projects, despite lack of progress in nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang.
Foreign workers protest in Hong Kong
Construction workers, bus drivers, freelancers and domestic workers from outside the country joined a Labor Day march through central Hong Kong. The protesters marched from Victoria Park to the main government offices, some carrying banners reading “Maxed Out!” The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions is demanding a maximum standard work week of 44 hours and an hourly minimum wage of at least 54.7 Hong Kong dollars ($7).
Violent radicals disrupt May Day in France
Kenzo Tribouillard—AFP/Getty ImagesA man in costume holds a banner that reads, ‘What are we going to leave our children, wake up’ during a May Day rally in Paris.
French police clashed with stone-throwing protesters who set fires and smashed up vehicles as thousands of people gathered for May Day rallies under tight security. About 165 arrests were made.
Police repeatedly used tear gas to try to control the crowd gathering near Paris’ Montparnasse train station for the main protest. Some protesters were injured. Associated Press reporters saw groups of hooded, black-clad people shouting anti-police slogans, mixing with other protesters wearing yellow vests or waving union flags.
France’s interior minister warned earlier that “radical activists” could join the protests in Paris and elsewhere, and deployed 7,400 police to counter them.
German unions denounce nationalism
Germany’s biggest trade union urged voters to participate in this month’s European Parliament election and reject nationalism and right-wing populism.
The DGB, a confederation of unions with almost 6 million members, warned that the political and economic turmoil in Britain following its vote to leave the European Union nationalism “shows what happens if those who stoke fear but have no plan for the future gain the upper hand.”
Detentions at Turkey’s May Day rallies
Turkish police detained May Day demonstrators trying to march toward Istanbul’s main square, which has been declared off-limits by authorities, who cited security concerns. Still, small groups chanting “May Day is Taksim and it cannot be banned,” attempted to break the blockade, with dozens reportedly detained. Taksim Square has held symbolic value for Turkey’s labor movement since 34 people were killed there during a May Day rally in 1977 when shots were fired into the crowd from a nearby building.
Garment workers seek maternity leave
Mamunur Rashid—NurPhoto/Getty ImagesBangladeshi garment workers and other labor organization activists take part in a rally to mark May Day in Dhaka.
In Bangladesh, hundreds of garment workers and members of labor organizations rallied in Dhaka, the capital, to demand better working conditions and higher wages. Nazma Akter, president of one of Bangladesh’s largest unions, said female garment workers were also demanding six months of maternity leave and protection against sexual abuse and violence in the workplace.
Clashes in Sweden, Denmark
Protesters threw cobblestones and fireworks at police, included mounted officers, who were trying to keep them away from a neo-Nazi rally in Goteborg, Sweden’s second largest city. In neighboring Denmark, helmeted police circled their vans around hooded people in black shouting anti-police slogans to keep them away from other May Day demonstrations in Copenhagen, the capital.
A handful people were detained in both countries.
South Africa’s May Day turns political
An opposition party in South Africa used May Day to rally voters a week before the country’s national election. Economic Freedom Fighters members, wearing their signature red shirts and berets, gathered at a stadium in Johannesburg to cheer populist stances that have put pressure on the ruling African National Congress to address topics like economic inequality and land reform.
Filipino workers demand minimum wage raise
Jes Aznar—Getty ImagesWorkers march on the streets to mark May Day on May 1, 2019 in Manila.
In the Philippines, thousands of workers and labor activists marched near the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila to demand that President Rodrigo Duterte‘s government address labor issues including a minimum wage increase and the lack of contracts for many workers. One labor group said its members would not vote for any candidate endorsed by Duterte in upcoming senate elections and burned an effigy of the president.
Low-paid workers protest in Jakarta
Thousands of low-paid workers took to the streets in Indonesia in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Laborers in Jakarta, the capital, gathered at national monuments and elsewhere, shouting demands for higher wages, better benefits and improved working conditions.
May Day paralyzes transport in Greece
Union rallies in Greece paralyzed national rail, island ferry and other transport services. Hundreds of people gathered in central Athens on Wednesday for three separate marches to parliament organized by rival unions and left-wing groups.
Spanish workers press new Government
Spain’s workers marched in its major cities to make their voices heard days before acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez starts negotiating with other parties to form a new government. Leading labor unions are pressing Sánchez to roll back business-friendly labor and fiscal reforms that have remained in place since the conservatives were in charge.
Sri Lanka calls off May Day rallies
In Sri Lanka, major political parties called off the traditional May Day rallies due to security concerns following the Easter bombings, which killed 253 people and were claimed by militants linked to the Islamic State group.
(LONDON) — British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson was summarily fired Wednesday after an investigation into leaks from a secret government meeting about the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, but he denied any involvement in the case.
An investigation was launched last week after newspapers reported that Britain’s National Security Council, which meets in private, had agreed to let Huawei participate in some aspects of Britain’s new 5G wireless communications network.
The Conservative government insists that no decision has been made yet about Huawei.
The security council includes senior ministers, who receive briefings from top military and intelligence officials, and its meetings are considered highly sensitive.
In a letter to Williamson, British Prime Minister Theresa May said she “can no longer have full confidence” in Williamson in the wake of the investigation.
In the letter released by her Downing St. office, May told Williamson that there was “compelling evidence” suggesting his “responsibility for the unauthorized disclosure” from the National Security Council.
“No other, credible version of events to explain this leak has been identified,” she said.
"It is therefore with great sadness that I have concluded that I can no longer have full confidence in you"
But Williamson, 42, denied he was the source of the leak in a letter posted on Twitter. He said he was confident that a formal and thorough inquiry would have vindicated him.
He says that he appreciated being offered a chance to resign but “to resign would have been to accept that I, my civil servants, my military advisers or my staff were responsible: this was not the case.”
Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, was appointed to replace Williamson. She becomes the first woman to hold the post.
The United States has been lobbying allies like Britain to exclude Huawei from all 5G networks, noting that the Chinese government can force the company to give it backdoor access to data on its networks.
The leak at the security council comes amid a Brexit-fueled breakdown in government discipline. With May weakened by her failure so far to take Britain out of the European Union, multiple ministers are positioning themselves to try to replace her, partly by cultivating positive press coverage.
The Daily Telegraph said last week it had obtained details of security council meetings about Huawei. It said several ministers, including Williamson, had opposed letting Huawei work on Britain’s 5G network.
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