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WASHINGTON — After a visit to Beijing, U. S. Treasury Secretary has been working on the U. S. U. S. Secretary of State Janet Yellen is returning to India for the third time in nine months, this time to meet with Group of 20 finance ministers on demanding global economic situations, such as the increased risk of default to low-income countries.
Yellen will use her time in Gandhinagar to announce warmer U. S. -India relations. He also plans a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, to discuss supply chain reliability, transitioning to blank energy and other economic issues.
Yellen’s goals for her time in India: boosting debt restructuring in economically troubled emerging countries, pushing for the modernization of growth banks to focus more on climate, and deepening U. S. -India relations.
Yellen’s stops in the country testify to the importance of this meeting at a time of tension with China. India’s long rendezvous with Russia looms as the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine continues.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he was feeling “very well” after being rushed to hospital for what doctors said was dehydrating.
Doctors ordered him to stay in the hospital overnight for further observation, and his weekly closet meeting was delayed a day and postponed until Monday, his office said.
Netanyahu’s workplace said he was hospitalized after feeling a slight dizziness. He said he had spent the last day in the heat of the Sea of Galilee, a popular hotel in northern Israel and, after testing, the initial assessment that the veteran Israeli leader was dehydrated.
Later Saturday, a smiling Netanyahu posted a video from the hospital. He said he had “one request”: that other people drink water and stay out of the sun.
MASSIVE SHOOTING: The Georgian government has searched for a man who stayed for long hours after being suspected of shooting 3 men and a woguy defeated Saturday morning in a suburban community south of Atlanta. Andre Longmore, 40, suspected of being armed and dangerous, police officer said.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Tesla said its first production Cybertruck electric pickup truck rolled off the assembly line about two years ago. The company tweeted a photo Saturday of staff surrounding the van.
CHEMICAL PLANT: A chimney at a Louisiana chemical plant triggered explosions that shook homes miles away and sent flames and smoke into the air, prompting emergency officials to urge many citizens to shelter indoors and turn off their air conditioners. Flames broke out Friday night at Dow Chemical’s plant near Plaquemine and crews struggled to extinguish it Saturday.
SHOOTING AT POLICE: A gunman opened fire on police and firefighters “for no known reason” Friday as they responded to a turn of traffic in North Dakota, killing one officer and wounding two others before another officer killed him, the Fargo police leader said Saturday. . A 25-year-old woman was also injured.
Days of heavy rain in South Korea have left at least 26 other people dead and 10 others missing in landslides, floods and other incidents, the government said Saturday.
CIVIL RIGHTS: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 81, announced Saturday that he will step down as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Chicago-based civil rights organization he founded more than 50 years ago. He gave a low-key farewell speech at the organization’s meeting. Annual conference one day after your plans were announced.
WAR IN UKRAINE
A giant convoy carrying fighters from Wagner’s personal army was spotted in Belarus from Russia on Saturday morning, a monitoring organization reported after the country’s Defense Ministry said it planned for mercenaries and Minsk’s own armed forces to hold joint military exercises.
The independent tracking organization Belaruski Hajun, which tracks the movements of the armed forces in Belarus, said at least 60 trucks, buses and giant cars entered the Eastern European country accompanied by Belarusian police.
The organization did not provide photographs or videos of the vehicles, but said they had license plates from Russian-occupied spaces in eastern Ukraine, where Wagner’s mercenaries fought alongside Russian troops until a short-lived mutiny last month.
The convoy headed to a military base on the outskirts of Osipovichi, a town 230 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border, Belaruski Hajun said. Built at the base between 15 and 30 June.
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko said at the time that Minsk could use Wagner’s experience and experience and presented fighters with an “abandoned military unit” to set up camp. That same week, a leader of an anti-Lukashenko guerrilla organization told the AP that the structure of a site for mercenaries is underway near Osipovichi.
The Ukrainian Center for National Resistance, a branch of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry that helps guerrilla teams in Russian-occupied territories, said later Saturday that some 240 Wagner fighters, 40 trucks and “a giant amount of weapons” had arrived in the Osipovichi region. He cited unspecified members of Belarus’ underground anti-Lukashenko opposition as the source of the information, which can be independently verified.
Separately, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Border Guard Service said Saturday that the force observed “certain groups” of Wagnerian fighters crossing Russia into Belarus. The spokesman, Andriy Demchenko, made the remarks in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper.
Belarus’ Defense Ministry said online Friday that it had drawn up a “roadmap” with Wagner’s leadership for joint educational trainings through the country’s army’s personal mercenary and worker corps.
Early Friday, the Defense Ministry said Wagner’s fighters had started with Belarusian soldiers.
On June 23, the founder and leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ordered his fighters to leave their camps in Ukraine and head to Moscow to call for the dismissal of the Russian defense minister and the leader of the general staff. The mutiny rocked Russia has already posed the biggest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his decades in power. It lasted less than 24 hours.
Meanwhile, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited Ukraine on Saturday, toasting his own to the country in its war with Russia and demonstrating his own country’s cooperation with NATO.
Yoon said he traveled to Ukraine with his wife, Kim Keon Hee, after trips to Lithuania for a NATO-Poland summit. This is his first stop since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
SWEDEN | DEMONSTRATION
STOCKHOLM — The guy who said he would burn the Torah and Bible outdoors at Israel’s embassy in Stockholm abandoned his plan and instead staged an individual protest Saturday against the burning of holy books, media reported.
At the scene, he said he was a Muslim and threw a lighter he was holding to the ground, saying he had never intended to burn holy books.
The man, who is in his thirties and obtained a protest permit from Stockholm police, said such an action would be contrary to the Koran, the Muslim holy book, and that it would “be burned,” according to the sueca. TT news agency.
The man, who lives in western Sweden, also said “no one does this,” according to the report.
The day before, Israel asked the Swedish government to end the demonstration and the burning of holy books on Saturday afternoon in front of the diplomatic mission. Israeli President Isaac Herzog and the World Jewish Congress condemned the action in advance, as did Israeli Foreign Minister Eli. Cohen and Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
The Times of Israel reported that the guy left the Israeli diplomatic project on Saturday afternoon with a copy of the Koran and said he never intended to burn Jewish or Christian holy books, only to protest the recent burning of the Koran.
Swedish public broadcaster SVT said the guy threw the lighter to the ground and wanted it.
“I’m a Muslim, we don’t burn (books). I need to show that we have to respect others,” the man said, according to SVT, adding that he did not aim to wear down his initial plan.
Sweden has recently received strong complaints from Muslim countries for allowing protesters to burn the Koran in small anti-Islamic demonstrations.
The guy who applied for Saturday’s protest said he tried to burn the Torah and Bible outside the Israeli embassy in reaction to an Iraqi immigrant who burned the Koran outside a Stockholm mosque last month.
The right to hold public demonstrations is strong in Sweden and is protected by the constitution. Blasphemy legislation was abandoned in the 1970s. Police allow events based on whether a public gathering can take place without primary disruption or threat to public safety.
On Wednesday, the United Nations’ most sensible human rights framework overwhelmingly approved a measure urging countries to do more to save devout hatred in the wake of the Koran fires. It passed despite objections from Western countries who fear tougher measures through governments would trample on free speech.
Last month, an Iraqi Christian immigrant burned a copy of the Koran outdoors in a mosque in Stockholm, the main Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, prompting widespread condemnation across the Islamic world.
A similar demonstration by a far-right activist positioned himself in front of the Turkish embassy earlier this year, complicating Sweden’s efforts to convince Turkey to let it join NATO.
Turkey on Monday withdrew its objections to Sweden’s club in the alliance, a step toward unity that Western leaders are eager to show in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Erdogan’s resolution is a vital step toward Sweden’s entry and came after days of extensive meetings.
He also referred to a point of contention over Sweden’s candidacy: what Ankara perceives as its comfortable stance on terrorism, namely Kurdish militants and those affiliated with a coup attempt against Erdogan in 2016.
United Airlines and the union representing its pilots said Saturday they had reached an agreement on a contract that will increase pilots’ pay by up to 40 in 4 years.
The union valued the deal at about $10 billion. This followed over 4 years of tumultuous negotiations that included picketing and discussions about a strike vote.
The deal reflects the influence enjoyed by worker groups, especially pilots, as airline revenues rise thanks to the strong recovery in travel.
The Air Line Pilots Association said the agreement, which is subject to a ratification vote, would put United pilots on par with their Delta Air Lines counterparts, who approved a pay deal this year. The union said the agreement includes really extensive increases in wages, pensions and job security.
At least on the pay front, the deal looks like a lot more than the one United’s drivers rejected last November.
Once the deal is approved, pilots will get immediate pay increases of 13. 8% to 18. 7%, depending on the plane they fly, followed by 4 smaller annual raises, according to a summary on the union’s website.
During the course of the contract, pilots’ remuneration would increase from 34. 5% to 40. 2%.
Garth Thompson, president of the United Pilots Union, called it a “historic agreement” imaginable thanks to the determination of the 16,000 pilots.
On a LinkedIn social media site, CEO Scott Kirby said, “We have promised our world-class drivers the state-of-the-art contract they deserve, and we are excited to have reached an agreement with ALPA on this. “
American Airlines pilots are expected to begin voting on July 24 on an offer that includes cumulative average increases of 41. 5% over 4 years. Southwest Airlines pilots are still negotiating. American and Southwest have independent unions, while Delta and United pilots are represented through ALPA.
Unions are in a strong position to negotiate with airlines, which have received $54 billion in federal aid to help overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.
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