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Sri Lanka’s Parliament to vote on debt restructuring plan in an attempt to overcome economic crisis

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Parliament will vote on a proposal to restructure staggering domestic debt in a special session on Saturday as the country struggles with an unprecedented economic crisis.Sri Lanka’s total debt has exceeded $83 billion, of which $41.5 billion is foreign and $42.1 billion is domestic. The proposed restructuring plan is part of the prerequisites of a bailout package approved by the International Monterey Fund — which has described Sri Lanka’s debt as unsustainable — to help alleviate the country’s humanitarian crisis.Under the proposed domestic debt restructuring program, the bulk of the debt will be shared by the Central Bank and superannuation funds from which the government already borrowed money, while national banks will be spared because of possible negative ramifications on deposits, according to top government officials.Central Bank governor, Nandalal Weerasinghe, previously said the treasury bills owned by the bank would be converte...

Migrante que murió bajo custodia fue retenido durante meses, a pesar de la recomendación de liberación, dice el Southern Poverty Law Center

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

(CNN) — Un ciudadano nicaragüense que murió la semana pasada bajo custodia federal de inmigración había pasado más de un año detenido. A pesar de haber sido recomendado para su liberación hace más de siete meses, continuó bajo custodia de inmigración, según el Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)Ernesto Rocha-Cuadra, de 42 años, falleció el pasado viernes. Su causa preliminar de muerte fue un paro cardíaco, según un comunicado del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE.UU.En noviembre de 2022, un panel de ICE recomendó que se liberara a Rocha-Cuadra, pero los funcionarios de la instalación se negaron a liberarlo, según un comunicado del SPLC.“Los detalles que condujeron a esta trágica muerte aún no están claros, y sus abogados dicen que Ernesto nunca mencionó tener, ni sus registros médicos reflejaron, ningún problema médico relacionado con el corazón”, dijo un comunicado del SPLC.El SPLC dijo que la muerte de Rocha-Cuadra fue la quinta desde 2016 en las instalacione...

Police investigating shooting in Mission Hill that left two with life-threatening injuries

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

Two people were shot in Mission Hill early Saturday morning, and both victims have life-threatening injuries, officials said.Police, including the homicide unit, responded to 27 McGreevey Way around 12:11 a.m. and shut down part of the street to search for evidence and put down evidence markers.Both victims were transported to the hospital.No other information was immediately available.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara, son involved in car crash in Jamaica Plain

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

A Boston city councilor was involved in a car crash Friday in Jamaica Plain that sent her son to the hospital.Councilor Kendra Lara, who represents Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, released a statement that said the crash took place “near the Monument” by South and Centre Streets.Her office also said her son was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital where he received several stitches.“It was a scary situation for everyone involved but thankfully Councilor Lara and Zaire are expected to make a full recovery, ” the statement said. “She asks for privacy at this time.”They are both expected to make a full recovery.

Bill Madden: I had my own perfect record when it came to the Yankees and baseball history

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

You’ll have to forgive me for not shouting for joy when Domingo German completed his perfect game Wednesday night in Oakland.Nothing against him. He had no way knowing, of course, that he had just destroyed a special little niche I had enjoyed for the last two decades as one of the few people who could claim to have been present at Yankee Stadium for all three Yankee perfect games — Don Larsen’s on Oct. 8, 1956, David Wells’ May 17, 1998 and David Cone’s July 18, 1999.It was after Cone hurled his perfecto, on Yogi Berra Day with a 33-minute rain delay interruption no less, that Joe Torre and Don Zimmer got to talking in the Yankee manager’s office about how both of them had been at all three Yankee perfect games. Torre explained that he had been to Larsen’s as a fan, sitting in the left field seats, while Zimmer was in the visiting Dodger dugout as an inactive player having suffered a severe beaning back in June that limited him to 17 games ...

Myanmar’s Supreme Court to hear appeals of ousted leader Suu Kyi in cases brought by the army

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s Supreme Court scheduled hearings for this month to consider appeals from ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her conviction in cases that saw her receive a total of 33 years in prison, legal officials said Saturday.The cases against her are mostly brought by the military that seized power from her elected government in February 2021.The 78-year-old Suu Kyi was arrested following the military takeover and tried on a variety of charges that supporters and rights groups say were concocted to legitimize the usurpation and discredit her so she could not resume an active role in politics.She has not been seen or allowed to speak in public since she was arrested and her lawyers have been barred from speaking to the press about her cases since late 2021.Two legal officials familiar with the cases filed against her said the Supreme Court planned to hear Suu Kyi’s appeals on July 5 in two cases in which she was convicted of election fraud and breaching the country’...

Self-serve lottery kiosks, women-only construction site bathrooms part of new Ontario regulations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

From self-serve lottery terminals verifying ticket buyers’ ages to allowing pharmacists to administer certain injections to requiring women-only bathrooms on construction sites, a wide range of new provincial rules and regulations comes into effect Saturday.The changes include a recently announced step aimed at cottage country, with a ban on floating accommodations, such as rafts and barges that have buildings or structures for people to stay in overnight, on provincial waterways.Ontario is rolling out self-serve lottery ticket terminals, and a regulation change will allow the machines to verify the customer is at least 18 years old, so staff don’t have to individually check IDs.A number of regulatory health changes include allowing registered practical nurses to perform more procedures, for example, those relating to wound care, and allowing pharmacists to administer certain medications and substances via injection or inhalation.Surgeons will no longer have to send tiss...

Hungry ticks can use this static trick to land on you and your pets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows.Humans and animals naturally pick up static charges as they go about their days. And those charges are enough to give ticks a boost to their next blood meal, according to a study published Friday in the journal Current Biology.While the distance is tiny, “it’s the equivalent of us jumping three or four flights of stairs in one go,” said study author Sam England, an ecologist now at Berlin’s Natural History Museum.Ticks are “ambush predators,” explained Stephen Rich, a public health entomologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.They can’t jump or fly onto their hosts, he said. Instead, they hang out on a branch or a blade of grass with their legs outstretched — a behavior known as “questing” — and wait for people or animals to pass by so they can grab on and bite. It seemed that ticks were limited ...

4 shot, 1 fatally after shooting in Chicago Lawn: CPD

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

CHICAGO -- Four men were injured, one fatally after a shooting in the city's Chicago Lawn neighborhood Friday evening. Police said a group of men were standing on a sidewalk near the 6300 block of South Artesian Avenue around 8:15 p.m. when a black charger approached, and an unknown individual fired shots from inside the car.According to police, a 23-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the buttocks and was transported to the hospital in critical condition. He was later pronounced dead. Worker dies while setting up Chicago NASCAR race Another man, 24, sustained a gunshot wound to the left knee and was transported to Christ Hospital in good condition. Another 27-year-old man sustained three gunshot wounds to the inner thigh and was transported to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition. A fourth victim, 58, was shot in the hip and lower back and is in good condition at the hospital. There is currently no one in custody and police are investigating the incident.

California bacon law takes effect: What impact will it have on farmers, grocers?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:34:25 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A California law approved by voters that promises to get breeding pigs out of narrow cages that prevent them from standing or turning will finally take effect Saturday, after years of delays and warnings that the rules could lead to price spikes and pork shortages.But it will be six months before California grocery shoppers can be sure that pork chops they buy under the new law will be from a pig whose mother wasn’t confined in a so-called gestation crate.That’s because while the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law, the state recently agreed to allow pork slaughtered before July 1 to be sold in California markets and restaurants for the rest of the year. That decision gives farmers and grocery stores time to adjust. But it's exasperating to supporters of the new rules that the effective implementation of the law would again be delayed — four years after voters approved it.“This development compounds the instability and confusion in the marketplace, while punish...