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NEW DELHI -- The Bangladeshi prime minister has vowed to hunt down and prosecute those who fatally stabbed two men, including a gay rights activist who also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and accused the country s opposition party and allied militants of orchestrating the attack.The killings Monday night were the latest in an ongoing wave of attacks claimed by radical Islamists and targeting the country s outspoken atheists, moderates and foreigners. The banned group Ansar-al Islam, the Bangladeshi branch of al Qaeda on adidas og the Indian subcontinent, claimed responsibility in a Twitter message Tuesday for what it called a blessed attack. Gay Rights activist killed in Bangladesh Al Qaeda explains why they killed studentUniversity professor hacked going to workIt said the two were killed because they were pioneers of practicing and promoting homosexuality in Bangladesh and were working day and night to promote homosexuality ... with the help of their masters, adidas samba the U.S. crusaders and its Indian allies. The victims were identified as USAID employee Xulhaz Mannan, who salomon speedcross previously worked as a U.S. Embassy protocol officer, and his friend, theater actor Tanay Majumder.Mannan, a cousin of former Foreign Minister Dipu Moni of the governing party, was also an editor of Bangladesh s first gay rights magazine, Roopbaan, and Majumder sometimes helped him with the publishing, local media said. A Bangladeshi medical assistant pushes a trolley with the Mmuy Pope Francis reaches out to followers by phone
TEHRAN, Iran - Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani lost his position on Tuesday as the head of a powerful clerical body charged wi stanley water bottle th choosing or dismissing Iran s supreme leader.Rafsanjani is a bitter enemy of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and tacitly supported his rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Iran s bitter dispute over the 2009 presidential elections.Hardliners and supporters of Ahmadinejad had lobbied stanley us hard in recent weeks to push Rafsanjani out of the post and supported Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani to replace him as the head of the Assembly of Experts. Kani is a moderate conservative not seen as a supporter of the opposition.The Experts Assembly monitors the all-powerful supreme leader and picks a successor after his death. That makes it potentially one of the most powerful institutions in Iran, although it does not involve itself the daily affairs of state.Rafsanjani told the assembly that he wouldn t seek re-election to avoid division if Kani ran for the post, and Kani got 63 votes as the sole candidate fo stanley cup r the post. Rafsanjani, who had chaired the assembly since 2007, will remain a member of the 86-member assembly.The 77-year-old Rafsanjani 151; who served as president from 1989-1997 151; still heads the powerful Expediency Council -a body arbitrating between legislators and the Guardian Council, the hard-line constitutional watchdog that approves candidates for parliament, president and the Assembly.The Assembly s real clout kicks

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Brussels - The European Union said Friday that it was alarmed by Russian military activities close to Ukraine s border. The bloc voiced its concern after Washington demanded an explanation from Moscow about the troop movements, and amid mounting tension between the U.S. and Europe in the west, and Russia and its small ally Belarus in the east. We continue to watch the situation and the information we gathered so far is rather worrying, EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano told journalists. He said the 27-nation bloc was monitoring the situation with partners including the United States and Britain and we are open to look at further steps as necessary. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on We dunks shoes dnesday warned Rus dunk homme sia against making another serious mistake on Ukraine, as Washington sought clarity about Russian troop movements near the border. Unusual Russian activity Welcoming Ukraine s foreign minister nike air max to Washington, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned with reports of the unusual Russian activity near Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukraine s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hold a news conference following the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Dialogue talks at the State Department in Washington, November 10, 2021. LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP/Getty We don t have clarity into Moscow s intentions, but we do know its playbook, Blinken told a joint news conferen Widk What happens to Wagner Group now What Prigozhin s presumed death could mean for the mercenary troops
At least 180 children have died in Afghanistan s coldest winter in years, the health minister said Tuesday, amid warnings that the final toll from stanley website the subzero temperatures and heavy snow could run into the thousands.Also on Tuesday, Senator John McCain, who is visiting Afghanistan as part of a Senate delegation, called for permanent U.S. bases in the country to safeguard American security interests in the region.McCain said he was committed to a strategic partnership with Afghanistan that would entail economic and technical assistance, cultural exchanges and joint military permanent bases. The Afghan government has yet to give an estimate of nationwide casualties stanley mugs from the freeze that has left many remote regions snowbound, though the Intern stanley flasche ational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said that 260 people have perished.In Zabul, a southeastern province haunted by Taliban militants, Gov. Khan Mohammed Husseini told The Associated Press on Monday that 135 people had died, mostly of cold, hunger and disease, but that two of them had been attacked by wolves. Health Minister Mohammed Amin Fatemi told AP that in other parts of Afghanistan, the toll among children alone has risen to 180, almost half of them in the Hindu Kush province of Ghor where scores of villages have been cut off by snow.Another 29 people have been killed in avalanches this year, Fatemi said.But Fatemi has decried as alarmist forecasts by relief groups that the death toll could top 1,000.On

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Updated 12:31 p.m. ETMOSCOW A lawyer advising National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says his asylum status has not been resolved and that he is going to stay at the Moscow airport for now.Anatoly Kucherena, who was visiting the American at Moscow s Sheremetyevo airport on Wednesday, said that migration officials are still looking at this asylum request and that t adidas originals ultraboost his process had been drawn out. Kucherena said that Snowden is staying in the transit zone for now and intends to stay in Russia, study Russian culture. The la adidas originals wyer said has enough money to survive for some period of time, but he is not rich. Kucherena also said Snowden won t give interviews now as he fears for his safety, and that he will stay in Russia for the period necessary to get a temporary asylum, and then may think about applying for a citizenship in Russia. The lawyer did not immediately comment on a Russian news report that said Snowden had received a document earlier Wednesday allowing him to enter Russia from the airport.The American applied for temporary asylum in Russia last week after adidas campus 80s his attempts to leave the airport and fly out of Russia were thwarted. The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage.In response to the news about Snowden s new immigration documents, the White House said it is seeking clarity from Russian authorities about his status.White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday the Obama administration has made clear to the Ru Sqzk At least 20 killed, more than 150 injured in violent clashes in India s capital
In a defiant declaration that triggered alarm in foreign capitals, North Korea said Sunday that it had begun removing U.N. seals and surveillance cameras from nuclear facilities that U.S. officials say could yield weapons within months.The United States and its allies urged the communist country to rescind its decision.The announcemen stanley flask t raised fears of a nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula similar to one involving the same facilities in 1994. At that time, many officials in Seoul and Washington believed there was a heightened possibility of war with North Korea.Conflict was averted when North Korea agreed to freeze the facilities in a deal with the United States, but it said Dec. 12 that it planned to reactivate them. The removal of U.N. monitoring devices appeared to be the first step in that process.North Korea said the Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog failed to respond to its request to remove the equipment, compelling it to immediately start the work of removing the seals and monitoring cameras from the frozen nuclear facilities for their stanley cup normal operation to produce electricity. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said a day earlier that North Korea had cut most of the seals and impeded the functioning of surveillance equipment at its 5-megawatt, Soviet-designed reactor in Yongbyon, 50 miles north of Pyongyang.The IAEA said it continues to maintain a permanent inspector presence in North Korea and is monitoring the situation very closely stanley deutschland .

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United Nationsmdash; Parts of northern Ethiopia s war-torn Tigray region are on the brink of famine, the head of the United Nations said on Monday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was the most senior voice in a unified warning cry from a range of U.N. agencies that the grinding conflict remained unchecked, with a devastating impact on civilians. The magnitude and gravity of child rights violations taking place across Tigray show no sign of abating, nike sb dunk nearly seven months since fighting broke out in northern Ethiopia, said Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of U.N. children s agency UNICEF. She said more than 6,000 unaccompanied or separated children had been identified as needing protection and assistance. Much of the region has remained inaccessible to humanitarian workers, meaning health care, food and other supplies haven t got in since fighting broke out in November 2020 between Ethiopian forces and ethnic Tigrayan sep salomon hombre aratists in the region. For months neighboring Eritrea has sent forces across the border to he yeezy 350 lp Ethiopian government troops battle the Tigrayans, drawing widespread condemnation from the international community as all factions in the fight have been accused of atrocities. Women and girls are still being subjected to appalling acts of sexual violence, Fore said, adding that adolescent boys speak of fear of recruitment and use by parties to the conflict. Dnqu Shimon Peres Wins Israel s Presidency
Assassins killed a popular Baghdad television comedian and a professor at a university south of the capital on Monday, but failed in attempts to kill two government officials as the country s leader met with Syria s foreign minister about improving security and reopening diplomatic relations.In all, 20 Iraqis were killed in a series of attacks in Baghdad, Ramadi and Baqouba, and the bodies of 25 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured were found on the streets of the capit stanley thermobecher al and in Dujail, north of Baghdad, police said.The attacks raised Iraq s death toll to at least 1,368 already in November, well above the 1,216 wh stanley cups uk o died in all of October, which was the deadliest month in Iraq since The Associated Press began tracking the figure in April 2005.The actual totals are likely considerably higher because many deaths are not reported. Victims in those cases are quickly buried according to Muslim custom and never reach morgues or hospitals to be counted.In other developments:President Bush said Monday that he has cups stanley n t decided yet on whether to send more U.S. troops to Iraq or to begin bringing them home, saying he is awaiting recommendations from the military. He made the comment during a joint news conference in Indonesia s presidential palace with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.British and Iraqi forces raided homes in southern Iraq on Monday and arrested four suspects in the kidnapping of four American security guards and their Austrian co-worker, an official said

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SEOUL, South Korea -- Overturning an salomon xt appeals court s decision, South Korea s Supreme Court said Tuesday the family of a Samsung worker who died of a brain tumor should be eligible for state compensation for occupational disease.The ruling on Lee Yoon-jung, who was diagnosed with brain tumor at 30 and died two years later, reflects a shift in the handling of such cases in South Korea.Workers used to have the onus of proving the cause of a disease resulting from their work. But after years of campaigning by labor advocates to raise awareness about the obstacles workers face in getting information adidas campus herren about chemicals used in manufacturing, courts sometimes have begun to rule in favor of workers.Billionaire Samsung heir convicted in mega bribery caseLee worked at a Samsung chip factory for six years from 1997 to 2003 but there was no record available of the levels of chemicals she was exposed to while working there.An appeals court denied the claim filed by Lee, based on government investigations into the factory conducted after she left the company. The investigations reported the workers exposure to some toxins, such as benzene, formaldehyde and lead, were lower than maximum permissible limits. They did not measure exposure l salomon mujer evels of other chemicals or investigate their health risks.In the latest ruling, the Supreme Court said such limitations in government investigations should not be held against a worker with a rare disease whose cause is unknown. The case filed by Lee s Xiei Netanyahu places hope in Trump after United Nations vote
Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officia stanley cup ls and survivors said Tuesday.Rains that began Monday evening continued through the night, triggering landslides in the Bududa region, 170 miles 275 kilometers east of Kampala.Uganda s minister of state for disaster preparedness said the army would join the rescue effort. Many people, including over 50 students who had taken refuge in Namatsi hospital, are either dead or missing, said the minister, Musa Ecweru. The government stanley mug is doing all it can to re stanley mugs scue those still alive. President Yoweri Museveni has instructed the army to join the organizations and volunteers who carrying out rescue work. Wilson Watira, a district chairman, said that rescuers had recovered 70 bodies by Tuesday evening but that around 250 people were still missing. One survivor said he was at a church service when the rains began. All of a sudden the church collapsed. Mud covered the whole place. Five people seated next to me died. I only survived because my head was above the mud, James Kasawi, 20, told The Associated Press from a hospital in Bududa, where he was recovering from a broken leg and arm.Another survivor, Mohamed Mudindi, said the landslide took him by surprise. I was up in the mountain standing then I heard a loud bang then we saw smoke, then the landslide, he said. So we started running away from the sc

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The Iraqi government said the long-awaited battle to recapture the city of Fallujah began in the early hours of Monday. Video published online overnight purportedly shows heavy bombardment of the city before t airmaxplus he advance of ground troops.Prime Minister Haider al Abadi made a televised announcement that the operation had begun, vowing that Iraqi forces would tear up the black flags of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS in Fallujah.Backed up by U.S. and coalition airstrikes, a combination of Iraqi troops, police and Shiite militias made early progress, pushing ISIS militants back out of the farmland surrounding the city and toward Fallujah itself.There are an estimated 800-1,000 ISIS fighters in Fallujah, which has been extensively fortified with trenchs and minefields. Coming after them adidas campus damen are upwards of 20,000 Iraqi forces, led by 1,500 members of the Counter Terrorism Services, 10,000 regular Army troops m af1 any trained by the U.S. and 8-10,000 Iraqi national police.Losing ground, is ISIS reverting to its roots The U.S.-led coalition carried out at least seven strikes in and around Fallujah in the last week. And the Iraqi military said its own U.S.-supplied F-16 warplanes had bombed suspected ISIS hideouts in the city. U.S. officials tell CBS News that American military advisers will not go forward into Fallujah with the Iraqi forces, but some U.S. artillery at the Taqaddum air base, west of Fallujah, can reach targets in the ISIS-held city and may be put to us Pixj Riots, looting in Venezuela over President Maduro s sudden currency manipulation
Good Friday saw the postponement of a potentially prickly beer strike in Ireland, the union-friendly end to a labor dispute in Pennsylvania, and the traditional holiday procession at the Vatican. It s Guinness as usual in Ireland s pubs this Easter holiday weekend, as company employees are working no stanley canada rmally.A strike was suspended last night after Guinness executives agreed to reconsider closing a packaging plant in the town of Dundalk. Workers upset about the closure plans had vowed to shu stanley cup t down breweries throughout the country.Negotiations between both sides are now set to resume next week.Guinness had predicted a walkout could ha stanley cupe ve cost the company up to $18 million dollars a week, not to mention the public relations fallout if pubs ran dry of Ireland s most famous drink, on Good Friday no less. Meanwhile, the holiday brought a different sort of labor dispute to the U.S. A federal judge in Pennsylvania said a Shop n Save grocery store must close its doors in observance of Easter.The United Food and Commercial Workers Union had filed suit against the store s parent company last week. Supervalue Inc., who bought the supermarket last year, announced it would keep the store open on Easter. But U.S. District Judge Robert Cindrich ruled even asking for a volunteer work force violates the union contract.Local clergy had supported the union protest.Meanwhile at the Vatican, Pope John Paul heard confessions from 12 people, hours before a solemn procession at Rome s Colosseum

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Johannesburg, South Africa mdash;The death toll from flooding brought by days of torrential rain along South Africa s east coast has risen to more than 300. President Cyril Ramaphosa was met with scenes of utter devastation Wednesday as he visited Kwa-Zulu Natal province, where search teams continued to find more victims bodies amid the wreckage.Speaking with devastated local families who ve lost loved ones and their homes, the president called it a catastrophe of enormous proportions, and vowed that his government would act with haste to help those affected. Members of the Ethekwini Metro Fire Department and local residents search for a person believed to be trapped after a mudslide hit a house in Durban, South Africa, following heavy rains and winds, April 12, 2022. RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP hoka schuhe /Getty Ramaphosa met Nonkululeko Mdlalose, who choked adidas campus damen back tears as he told the president he had lost 10 family members who were sleeping when the floods hit their home at 11 p.m. on Monday.The president assured Mdlalose that financial assistance was coming as the province would be formally declared a disaster zone. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa 2nd R and Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs of South Africa, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma R , speak to grieving fami yeezy ly members at the United Methodist Church of South Africa in Clermont, near Du Ifxv Day in pictures
Insurgents assassinated the highest-ranking Iraqi official in eight months Tuesday, gunning down the governor of Baghdad province and six of his bodyguards, and a suicide truck bomber killed 10 people at an Interior Ministry commando headquarters, the latest in a string of violence ahead of Jan. 30 elections.Five American troops were slain in three separate attacks, officials said, in the deadliest stanley cup price day for the U.S. military in Iraq since a suicide bombing at a mess tent in Mosul on Dec. 21 killed 22 people, including 14 U.S. soldiers and three stanley us American contractors.The militant group of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility for killing Gov. Ali al-Haidari and his bodyguards, according to a statement posted on a Web site known for carrying such claims. stanley canada We tell every traitor and supporter of the Jews and Christians that this is your fate, the statement said. Its authenticity could not immediately be verified.Iraq s insurgents repeatedly have targeted government officials and security forces, saying they are allies of the U.S.-led coalition. More interim Iraqi government officials are saying the elections should be postponed to ensure a higher Sunni voter turnout, a sign the ongoing campaign of violence might be taking its toll on Iraqi resolve. The United States and Iraq s electoral commission, however, insist that voting take place as scheduled.Sunni Arab clerics have called for a boycott and Iraq s largest Sunni political pa

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MOSCOW -- Three members of Russian securityforces and four gunmen were killed in a shootout in southern Russia on Wednesday during a sweep formilitants before the Sochi Winter Olympics, authorities say.Russia s NationalAnti-terrorism Committee NAC said the dead gunmen included a man accused ofcarrying out a car bomb attack in the city of Pyatigorsk late last year thatkilled three people.Russia in on highalert following two suicide bombings in southern Russia last month that fueled security concerns before theOlympics. Atop rebel leader in the North Caucasus has called on his followers to attackthe Olympics.President Vladimir Putin hasstaked a lot of personal and political prestige on the success of the Games,which open on Feb. 7, and has put security forces on combat alert in Sochi.The NAC said in a statement thata group of militants had been trapped in a house i adidas samba adidas n the village of Karlanyurtin adidas campus shoes the volatile Dagestan region of the North Caucasus. Five officers were also woundedin what a spokesman called a special operation. D hoka laufschuhe agestan s capital, Makhachkala,is about 385 miles east of Sochi. The mostly Muslim region is plagued bybombings and shootings that mainly target police and state officials as part ofthe militants fight to create an Islamist state.At least 34 people were killedlast month in the suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd. Putinordered safety measures to be beefed up nationwide after the attacks.About 37,000 personnel are now inplace to provide Sqzj Taliban Targets Afghan Cellular Service
Al Qaeda s umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for this week that killed 127 stanley quencher people and wounded more than 500, warning of mo stanley website re strikes to come against the Iraqi government.The group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, said in a statement posted on the Internet that the attacks in the Iraqi capital targeted the bastions of evil and dens of apostates. It also warned the group is determined to uproot the pillars of this government in Iraq and said the list of targets has no end. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified, but it was posted on a Web site commonly used for militant messaging.The blasts Tuesday were the third major strike against government sites in the Iraqi capital since August, raising serious questions about the abilities of Iraqi security forces ahead stanley mugs of next s year national elections and the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops.Al Qaeda s claim gave renewed emphasis to U.S. military warnings that insurgents would likely continue high-profile attacks in an attempt to destabilize the Iraqi government in advance of the March 7 parliamentary elections. The claim came as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki faced questions from lawmakers during a special session in parliament, where legislators have demanded answers over security lapses that allowed the attacks.It appeared, though, that al-Maliki s top security chiefs would stay away. The prime minister arrived at the parliament without his interior and defense min

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Johannesburgmdash; Imprisoned former Paralympic gold medalist and Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday, but the South African par adidas originals mujer ole board said the decision would not take effect until Jan. 5. The board made its decision on the Olympic runner s fate more than 10 years after he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines Day 2013. The board had been expected to consider his conduct and disciplinary record in prison, his participation in educational or other training courses, his mental and physical state, whether they believed he was likely to relapse into crime and the risk he poses to the public.South Africa s national Department of Correctional Services said in a statement that the parole made its decision, having assessed Mr. Pistorius profile and other material submitted for the purposes of parole consideration, and noted that he was a first time offender with a positive support system. Steenkamp s mother June did not address the parole board directly Friday, but a representative read out a family impact statement in which June said: Rehabilitation requires someone to engage honestly, with the full truth of his crime and the consequences thereof. Nobody can claim to have remorse if they re not yeezy slide able to engage fully with the truth. asics sneaker Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius, convicted in murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, up for parole Pkkr Exporting the virus : Migrants deported by U.S. make up 20% of Guatemala s coronavirus cases
A U.S. security company helicopter crashed as it flew over a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in the central Baghdad where insurgents and Iraqi security troops fought a prolonged gunbattle, and a U.S. official said five American civilians on board were killed.A senior Iraqi military official said Tuesday the aircraft was shot stanley cup down, but this was disputed by a U.S. military official in Washington. The Iraqi said the helicopter was hit by a machine gunner over the Fadhil neighborhood on the east side of the Tigris River, while the American official said there was no indication in initial reports that the aircraft, owned by Blackwater USA, had been shot down.A U.S. official in Baghdad had said there was no information to substantiate reports that the bodies had been shot.All the officials demanded stanley france anonymity because the details had not been made public. The Americans said they did not know what caused the aircraft to crash.Blackwater USA confirmed that five Americans employed by the North Carolina-based company as security professionals were killed. The statement from spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell did not provide identities or any details of the fighting. The New York Times reported the helicopter went down as it came under attack and plummeted to the pavement through a tangle of electrical wires, but it was unclear if the crash res stanley cup usa ulted from gunfire, the wires or an effort to land.Quoting unnamed American officials, the newspaper said the helicopter s four-man crew was killed along

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Toronto mdash; Wildfire season has arrived in full force in Western Canada, prompting evacuation orders and alerts in several towns in British Columbia and neighboring Alberta due to the danger of uncontrolled blazes. According to the BC administration s latest wildfire situation report, seven evacu adidas campus ation orders and five alerts had been issued in the province since Friday, driving about 4,700 residents from their homes. The situation is evolving rapidly, British Columbia s emergency management minister Bowninn Ma warned Monday, as officials said there were 130 active wildfires burning, 14 of them deemed out of control. Thousands more people got evacuation orders Tuesday as strong winds pushed a raging nike air max fire closer to the oil-rich town of Fort McMurray, in Alberta province. Josee St-Onge, a spokesperson for the Alberta wildfire service, said that due to the intensity of the blaze, firefighting crews were pulled back from the front line Tuesday for safety reasons. We are seeing extreme fire behavior. Smoke columns are developing, and the skies are covered in smoke, St-Onge said at a news c hoka trekkingschuhe onference. The 2023 wildfire season in Canada was the worst on record, with 6,551 fires scorching nearly 46 million acres, from the West Coast to the Atlantic provinces and the far north. The impact on the environment, particularly air quality, in both Canada and the United States was profound. As predicted, 2024 is shaping up to be another devastating wildfire season, and disaster and clima Mwke Britain Eases Safety Rules Over Ash Cloud
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and the founders of the Google search engine have landed on Forbes magazine s annual list of billionaires.Rallying stocks and a strong euro swelled the list to the longest it has ever been.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is No. 1 for the 10th straight year, but investor Warren Buffett is nipping at his heels. Gates net worth is now estimated at $46.6 billion, less than half the $100 billion it peaked at in 1998, but up about 13 percent from 2003.Newcomers to the list included Rowling and G stanley cups oogle founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. All three debuted at No. 552 with $1 billion each. A number of billionaires share the same rank because Forbes reported their wealth as being the same.Buffett wins the bragging rights for reaping the best gains of the year. He increased his net worth by $12.4 billion to $42.9 billion, significantly narrowing the gap between him and Gates. German supermarket magnate Karl Albrecht remained stanley quencher in third place, with a fortune of $23 billion. Close behind were Saudi Arabia s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, whose $21.5 billion nest egg put him j stanley kubek ust ahead of Microsoft s other co-founder, Paul Allen, fifth with $21 billion.Rounding out the top 10 were Helen Walton, wife of the late Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, and four members of her family. They were each worth an estimated $20 billion.The magazine counted some 587 billionaires around the world, up from 476 in 2003. Their total net worth was put at $1.9 trillion, up