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President Joe Biden prepares to order the release of up to one million barrels a day from strategic oil reserves in a bid to control prices that have soared after US and allied Russia imposed tough sanctions on Russia. in Ukraine. The announcement could be made on Thursday, according to reports. Mr Biden spoke with Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the situation in Ukraine. The call comes as Ukrainian and Russian negotiators discuss a de-escalation deal that could lead Russia to withdraw troops from the area near Kyiv....

BioNTech (BNTX) – Drug maker shares jumped 5.9% in premarket after reporting significantly better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. BioNTech also reiterated its previous guidelines for vaccine revenue for 2022. Five Below (FIVE) – The discounted retailer’s share fell 3.4% in pre-market trading after a mixed quarterly report. Five Below exceeded estimates by a penny with quarterly earnings of $ 2.49 per share, but both revenue and comparable sales were below analysts’ forecasts....

Herry Wirawan raped girls between the ages of 11 and 14 between 2016 and 2021 in a school, hotel or apartment in Bandung. At least nine babies were born as a result of the rapes and the case has caused public outcry. On Monday, judges at the Bandung High Court upheld the prosecutors’ appeal of the death sentence, saying in the ruling: “What he did had caused trauma and suffering to the victims and their parents....

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR PROFITER DE CETTE OFFRE Idéale pour booster la mémoire d’un ordinateur fixe ou portable, la SanDisk Ultra est une clé USB 3.0 qui a la capacité de transférer et de stocker des fichiers volumineux jusqu’à dix fois plus rapidement qu’une clé USB. Norme 2.0. De plus, sa vitesse de lecture peut avoisiner les 130 Mo/s. L’accessoire inclus dans le logiciel SanDiskSecureAccess (protége la confidentialité des fichiers) s’emporte partout grâce à ses dimensions 11 x 22 x 8 mm....

Kieran McNamara, 23, of Wimborne Road in Bournemouth, was one of six men jailed for a series of drug offenses gathered in Bournemouth and Southend, Essex. In a music video, rapper Jeff Onuh and two other gang members, Leon Frroku and Dylan Mills, appear to be discussing the management of a class A drug. Onuh, 27, who uses the stage name “VI”, was quoted in the lyrics as saying he paid for “Da Vinci (designer) teeth” using the money he made from selling cocaine, Essex police said....

In a letter to members received by CBC News, Calgary Police Association President John Orr wrote: “We encourage each of you to wear this important symbol in defiance of the commission’s mandate.” After a year of deliberation, the Calgary Police Commission announced its decision Wednesday that police officers on duty are not allowed to wear Canadian-flag patches with a thin blue line through them. Thin blue patches have a history of correlation with white supremacy....

“You can promise the moon and the stars. If you can not get the money out the door, then it has no value,” said Andrew Leslie, a former Liberal MP and retired general. In an excerpt on Saturday, Leslie told The CBC House that the Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trindade had failed to provide the leadership needed to break down bureaucratic hurdles and push for significant revitalization. ....

(CNN) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added no new destinations to its list of “high” Covid-19 risk nations and regions on Monday. But “high” risk sites — defined as Level 3 — still account for nearly 130 of the roughly 235 sites monitored by the CDC. These are more than half of the places on the CDC website, and some of these destinations are among the most popular for tourists around the world....

Cesar Rodriguez | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lift a sweeping public health mandate that has allowed the United States to deport more than 1.7 million migrants, mostly across the southern border, since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement on Friday, the CDC said it would lift the order on May 23 to give the Department of Homeland Security time to step up a program to provide vaccination to immigrants passing through the U....

There were no immediate reports of injuries or reports of missing construction, state officials said at a news conference on Sunday. Mike Smith of the Boulder Incident Management Team said he was “very happy” with the NCAR firefighting efforts that began Saturday afternoon. “We had more than 200 firefighters from more than 30 services,” Smith told reporters Sunday. “This, combined with all the fuel reduction treatments we have done in this area, is one of the reasons we have been so successful....

The field, which is co-owned by Shell and Siccar Point Energy, has drawn significant opposition from militants, with government regulators considering whether or not to grant a final drilling permit last year. In December 2021, Shell withdrew from the project before any decision was made, citing the possibility of delays and the weak financial case for investment. Since then, the fight to remove Russian fossil fuels due to the war in Ukraine has changed the landscape for the oil and gas industry, and the UK government has signaled that supporting domestic mining will be part of a new energy security strategy....

Rauch kritisiert das Verhalten der Bundesländer bei der Coronavirus-Pandemie. © APA / GEORG HOCHMUTH (Symbolbild) Gesundheitsminister Johannes Rauch (Grüne) kritisierte das Verhalten der Bundesländer in der Coronavirus-Pandemie. Findet Föderalisten bei gutem Wetter in den Ländern. „Wir leben gerade bei schönem Wetter im Föderalismus. Wenn die Sonne scheint, sind die Länder dran, wenn es regnet, ist der Gesundheitsminister schuld“, sagte er in einem Standard-Interview, bis vor kurzem noch Landesrat in Vorarlberg....

Aktuelle Corona-Regeln in Bayern: Diese Auflagen gelten weiterhin in Bayern Die meisten bisherigen Corona-Regeln gelten in Bayern nicht mehr. Konkret heißt das: Ab heute (3. April 2022) gibt es in Bayern keine 2G- oder 3G-Zugangsregeln mehr – auch Ungeimpfte haben wieder ohne Gegenleistung Zugang zu allen Bereichen des öffentlichen Lebens. Nur in Kliniken, Pflegeheimen und Pflegekräften sollten Besucher und Personal täglich oder regelmäßig zu Kontrolluntersuchungen kommen. Auch in Schulen und Kindergärten werden die Prüfungen fortgesetzt – zunächst bis Ostern....

Could Russia use chemical weapons in Ukraine? Russia is one of 193 countries that have signed an international treaty banning the production, storage and use of chemical weapons – and Moscow denies having or using such weapons. However, Russian agents used a deadly nerve agent, novichok, in Salisbury in 2018, killing a woman. It was used again by agents to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August 2020. Investigative journalists believe Russia maintains a secret chemical weapons program, while its ally Syria is accused of repeatedly using a series of chemical weapons....

Experts say the high number of cases in these areas is likely due to the fact that some of these provinces have fewer restrictions on who is eligible for the COVID-19 test. According to the CTVNews.ca monitoring program that compares provinces and territories of Canada with US states, Prince Edward Island reports an average of 350.6 daily cases in the last seven days since Saturday. That translates to 2,216.6 cases per million, which is more than any other jurisdiction on either side of the border....

He said 4.9 million people in the UK were estimated to have the virus, up from 4.3 million last week. In England, about one in 13 people were likely to test positive for COVID last week, or 4.1 million people – up from one in 16, or 3.5 million people – in the week to March 19. The latest COVID-19 news as hospital admissions for people over 65, the highest since early 2021 In Wales, the estimate has risen from 192,900, or one in 16, to 212,000, or one in 14....

Shanghai has been battling a new wave of coronavirus for nearly a month and on Saturday reported the highest daily number of cases since the outbreak of the original epidemic in China. Authorities decided to use the Huangpu River, which flows through the city, as a dividing line, as it locks in two stages over a nine-day period. The regions on one side will be locked and tested between March 28 and April 1, while the other between April 1 and April 5....

The increase in recently reported cases in Oregon this week was relatively small, with the one-day daily average rising from 200 cases on Monday to 252 on Friday. But the blow comes after nine consecutive weeks of rapid decline and could predict more infections in the coming weeks. The upward and downward course of infections has often shifted throughout the pandemic. Oregon recorded record numbers of cases during the increase in cases in January, averaging more than 8,000 cases a day before falling to its lowest levels since last summer....

Le CHSF a déclenché un plan blanc dimanche. Cette attaque rend « pour l’heure inaccessibles tous les logiciels métiers de l’hôpital, les systèmes de stockage (notamment d’imagerie médicale) et le système d’information ayant trait aux admissions de la patientèle », a détaillé l’établissement dans un communiqué. Voir aussi notre dossier : Attaques aux rançongiciels : la déferlante L’Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (Anssi) a été « rapidement saisie par la cellule de crise », selon le même communiqué....

Venu montrer son soutien à la Pologne, pays de la rive est de l’Alliance atlantique limitrophe de l’Ukraine, Joe Biden a qualifié la guerre dans ce pays d’« échec stratégique de la Russie » et a averti les autorités de Moscou de ne « même pas [penser] s’avancer d’un centimètre sur le territoire de l’OTAN. » Pour Biden, Poutine est un “boucher” Avant son discours devant le chef du Kremlin plus tôt dans la nuit, le président américain avait qualifié Vladimir Poutine de “boucher” pour ce qu’il a qualifié de crimes commis par l’armée russe en Ukraine....