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Canada expels China diplomat for alleged threats to lawmaker

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is expelling a Chinese diplomat whom Canada’s spy agency alleged was involved in a plot to intimidate an opposition lawmaker and his relatives in Hong Kong.A senior government official said Toronto-based diplomat Zhao Wei has five days to leave the country. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. It’s wasn’t immediately clear if he’s left yet. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said in a statement that Canada declared Toronto-based diplomat Zhao Wei “persona non grata.”“We will not tolerate any form of foreign interference in our internal affairs,” she wrote. “Diplomats in Canada have been warned that if they engage in this type of behavior, they will be sent home.”Canada’s spy service indicated that in 2021 opposition Conservative lawmaker Michael Chong and his Hong Kong relatives were targeted after Chong criticized B...

Seattle’s Logan Gilbert loses perfect game in 7th vs Rangers

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mariners right-hander Logan Gilbert lost his bid for a perfect game against the Texas Rangers when Marcus Semien led off the seventh inning with a single.Gilbert had been overpowering against one of the top offenses in baseball Monday night. He matched a franchise record with seven straight strikeouts from the second through the fourth and threw only 72 pitches over the first six innings, striking out nine.But he ran into trouble in the seventh and was pulled after 6 2/3 innings trailing 2-1. Semien ended Gilbert’s bid for perfection with a sharp single up the middle that eluded the reach of shortstop Jose Caballero to open the inning. Gilbert got help from his defense earlier. Josh Jung’s long fly to center field was tracked down by Julio Rodriguez for the second out of the fifth. Jarred Kelenic made a leaping catch against the wall of Jonah Heim’s foul ball down the left-field line to end that inning.Second baseman Kolten Wong made a nice b...

Montevideo toma agua más salada ante la sequía y falta de reservas en embalses

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

(CNN Español) –– Pese a estar ubicado sobre una de las mayores reservas de agua dulce del mundo, Uruguay sufre desde hace un par de semanas problemas desabastecimiento de agua potable en su capital.El agua sigue fluyendo por las cañerías, pero desde hace varios días su sabor es más salado por el exceso de sodio, lo cual generó quejas de los usuarios y preocupaciones de salud entre los médicos.¿A qué se debe este cambio? A que, ante el déficit hídrico y la escasez de agua dulce en el río Santa Lucía y en sus embalses por la sequía que sufre el país, la empresa estatal Obras Sanitarias del Estado (OSE) decidió empezar a partir del 26 de abril a realizar una mezcla diferente del agua disponible. Eso supone tomar una parte del agua de una fuente más cercana al río de la Plata, el estuario que recibe aguas oceánicas saladas.“Decidimos en el día de hoy empezar a mezclar en forma diferente (…) El agua ‘aguas abajo’ puede tener mayor salinidad, pero nos vemos obligados a que por lo menos la...

China reports its exports grew in April by 8.5% compared with a year earlier

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — China reports its exports grew in April by 8.5% compared with a year earlier.Source

Wiemer, Adames homer as Brewers win 9-3 to cool off Dodgers

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joey Wiemer has made more of an impact with his glove than with his bat thus far in his rookie season.But the Milwaukee Brewers outfielder showed Monday night just how much potential he has to produce at the plate.Wiemer and Willy Adames hit three-run homers to back Freddy Peralta’s strong pitching and the Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-3.Wiemer rebounded from a tough road trip by going 2 of 3 with a career-high four RBIs.“When I get my feet under me, I’ll get going,” Wiemer said. “It’s a hard game and it humbles you quick.”The Brewers have won their last two games after losing six straight. Milwaukee ended its longest skid of the young season Sunday with a 7-3 victory at San Francisco.Chris Taylor hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the Dodgers, who lost for just the second time in 10 games.Wiemer has played great defense and made a seamless transition when a shoulder injury to fellow rookie Garrett Mitchell caused him to shift his primary position fro...

Colorado passes property tax bill

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The 2023 legislative session is officially wrapping up and with it comes the passage of several bills, including a potential fix to high property tax bills. Republicans walked out of the House in the session's final hours, upset with the Democrats’ bill on property taxes.House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, R-Wellington, issued a statement in response."For 120 days, our minority caucus came to the House Chamber with the intention of collaborating despite not having a seat at the table and being told to wait outside while real decisions were being made inside. Invoking rarely — if ever — used rules doesn’t just silence us, it takes away the opportunity for the people we represent to hear what we have to say.By walking out in protest, we sent a message to the Majority, who are mostly Metro area Democrats, that our state includes much more than the concrete and steel parts of Colorado. Our voices - that fill the Front Range and the Western Slope — deserve to have...

One-on-one with Gannon Stauch's mother, Landon Bullard

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Three years after an 11-year-old Colorado boy’s murder, a jury found his stepmother, Letecia Stauch, guilty on all counts.A judge sentenced her to life without parole. FOX31 sat down one on one with Gannon Stauch's biological mother, Landon Bullard, just hours after the verdict.Bullard invited FOX31 into her El Paso County home. After three years, five long weeks of testimony and an agonizing weekend of waiting for this verdict, Monday was unlike any feeling she said she's ever been through.Bullard recalled some of the most difficult parts of the trial, including at one point when Letecia Stauch "imitates his last breath. That really got to me. I think that was a huge jab and it just shows you how evil a person can be," Bullard said."She is the definition of coward and evil in my eyes," Bullard said.Watch parts of the interview in the video player above.Read FOX31’s coverage of the trial:‘She was killing the demons in her life’: Sanity the focus in St...

Reform or die? If the US gets its way, the WTO might do both

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

GENEVA — The United States put the World Trade Organization into intensive care by single-handedly killing off its highest court four years ago — in so doing endangering the global rules-based trading system.Now Washington is — ever so quietly — floating the idea of a new-look appeals process that could help get the WTO off life support. And that is leading some trade diplomats in Geneva to question whether the patient would survive the operation that Joe Biden’s administration has in mind.“It’s reform or die,” one senior Geneva trade diplomat told POLITICO, setting out the scale of the task before the WTO and its director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.“[Major powers] are contesting the norms, they are pushing the rules. And if we don’t accommodate and adjust and find a way to keep the big players in the system, then … we do fade into irrelevance,” they added.The creation of the WTO in 1995 represented the high-water mark of globalization and the liberal world order follo...

An 8-run 6th inning dooms the Chicago White Sox in a 12-5 loss to the Kansas City Royals

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

Dylan Cease believed he had a better feel for getting pitches in the strike zone Monday than he had in recent starts.“In that terms it was better,” the Chicago White Sox starter said, “but obviously the results were still not good.”The right-hander allowed a season-high seven earned runs as the Kansas City Royals throttled the Sox 12-5 in front of 9,814 at Kauffman Stadium.“This was a tough one,” Sox manager Pedro Grifol said. “We accomplished some things that we wanted to get accomplished, which was to get ahead in the count. Our (goal of) two out of three (strikes to a batter) was really high.“But when we got them on two strikes, we just couldn’t put them away. I think they got about seven hits with two strikes — three extra-base hits, including a homer and a couple doubles. That was the game right there.”One day after a blowout win against the Cincinnati Reds, the Sox suffered a blowout loss.In both cases, one big ...

Franks: We failed to learn 2008 banking crisis

Published Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:36:33 GMT

How can billions of dollars be lost, and nobody can figure out who got the money or where it all went.In the last banking crisis in 2008 – which led to a crippling recession in America and around the world – a deep-dive investigation revealed that bankers knew exactly what they were doing when they made residential real estate red hot.They issued subprime loans to those with poor credit histories; held and sold artificially overvalued properties that went underwater – thanks to appraisers; and packaged bad or toxic loans which were doomed non-performing loans to unassuming investors and banks worldwide. As a result, the whole banking sector was a giant balloon just waiting for a pin to come along.So, why were hundreds of bankers not arrested during a banking crisis that led to our Great Recession from late 2007 to 2009? Apparently, the banks were deemed too big to fail and the bankers were too clever to get caught.When we do not show respect for the law, society crumbles. That is ex...