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Lawrow hat dieses Foto von dem Treffen mit Cassi getwittert. Bei einem Treffen mit Bundespräsident Ignazio Cassis in New York forderte der russische Aussenminister Sergej Lawrow die Schweiz auf, zu ihrer “Neutralitätspolitik” zurückzukehren. Das schrieb das russische Außenministerium auf Twitter. Diese Neutralität habe der Schweiz in den vergangenen Jahren internationale Anerkennung eingebracht, berichtete der amtliche Sender am frühen Donnerstagmorgen. Kassis sagte nach dem Treffen, er habe Lawrow gebeten, auf die Abhaltung sogenannter Referenden in den besetzten Gebieten der Ukraine zu verzichten....

The highly sensitive face mask can detect the new bug in the air and alert the user via an app on their phone. It can also catch swine flu and bird flu. These diseases are spread through airborne droplets released by infected people when they talk, cough or sneeze. Tiny, invisible molecules can remain suspended in the air for a long time, and people catch diseases by breathing in a large cluster of molecules as they lurk....

ONE Hawk 9 rocket with 52 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida on Saturday at 7:32 p.m. EDT (2332 GMT). Just under nine minutes later, the Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth for a precision landing on SpaceX’s “droneship” A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the fourth takeoff and landing for this booster, according to a SpaceX mission description (opens in a new tab)....

A 42-year-old man was killed around 9:30 a.m. Sunday, police said, when a truck crashed into a bus shelter and building in southeast Calgary. Monday, police said the driver, a 70-year-old man, was traveling northbound on 36th Street SE through the intersection at 17th Avenue in Forest Lawn when the Ram truck mounted the eastbound curb. The truck continued along the curb while “scraping against the wall of a nearby business” before striking the bus shelter and eventually a building, police said....

FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images The Swiss National Bank on Thursday raised its benchmark interest rate to 0.5%, a move that brings an end to an era of negative interest rates in Europe. The 75 basis point increase follows a rise to -0.25% on June 16, which was the first rate hike in 15 years. Before that, the Swiss central bank had kept interest rates steady at -0....

Tesla’s Elkhorn battery storage facility, located in Monterey County, California, caught fire last night around 1:30 a.m. after a Tesla Megapack reportedly caught fire. PG&E told Teslarati that it was notified of the fire at 1:30 a.m. and that, as of 9:28 a.m., the fire is still being fought by local firefighters along with assistance from PG&E. The fire appears to have started in an isolated Megapack, according to details released by PG&E....

Alabama officials halted Thursday’s lethal injection of a man convicted of a 1999 workplace shooting, citing timing concerns and problems accessing the inmate’s veins. Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the state halted the planned execution of Alan Miller after they determined they could not administer the lethal injection before midnight. Corrections officials made the decision at about 11:30 p.m. The last-minute stay came nearly three hours after a divided US Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to begin....

“To this day, we still see customers coming in and out, ‘Oh, I heard about the secret menu,’” said Alan Liu, the owner of Salad King. The popular dish dates back to the restaurant’s early days when Liu’s parents made a noodle curry and decided to make it special. It was such a popular option that people kept asking for it even after it was no longer offered. Liu says the noodle dish is their second best-selling item....

L’enjeu : faire le point sur les manquements et surtout organiser la réponse. Le président de la République entend donner “une impulsion” à la résolution de la crise, dit-on à l’Elysée, pour que d’ici deux ou trois jours des améliorations soient visibles. Emmanuel Macron a notamment tenu à ce que, suite aux réductions d’effectifs ordonnées par le gouvernement, les stations-service soient correctement approvisionnées. « Je me tiens aux côtés de tous nos compatriotes qui peinent et en ont marre de cette situation », a-t-il assuré plus tôt dans la journée lors de son passage au Mondial de l’Auto, avant de débuter : « Je veux que ça soit réglé au plus vite....

Head coach Kyle Shanahan on Monday said on a conference call that he expects the young signal-caller to be around the team as much as possible after his injury. “I’m sure he’s going to be here the whole time and he’s going to rehab here and we haven’t even talked about it, but I’d be shocked if he wasn’t,” Shanahan said. “Well, right now, he just came out of surgery a while ago....

Donald Trump’s legal team appeared to acknowledge that the Justice Department’s investigation into classified documents at Mar-a-Lago could lead to criminal charges, as they refused to answer questions about the “declassification” of the files. The opposition to Judge Raymond Diery, who Trump himself had requested as a special master in the case, raised eyebrows Tuesday as the New York judge prepared to hold his first press conference on the matter....

Strong repudiation by federal judges he appointed. Extensive fraud allegations by New York attorney general. It’s been a week of widening legal troubles for Donald Trump, revealing the challenges that are piling up as the former president operates without the protections provided by the White House. The bravado that has served him well in the political arena is less convenient in a legal realm dominated by verifiable evidence, where judges this week misjudged his claims and where a fraud investigation that took root when Trump was still president has exploded into public view....

The gains showed that Kyiv continues to recapture occupied territory on the same day that President Vladimir Putin and his rubber-stamp parliament sought to formalize increasingly far-fetched claims to annex four Ukrainian regions. “The commanders of the Ukrainian armed forces in the south and east are creating problems in the Russian chain of command faster than the Russians can respond effectively,” said a Western official who spoke on condition of anonymity to brief reporters on sensitive security information....

“The divisions are getting deeper. The inequalities are widening,” he said. “And the challenges are spreading further.” The annual gathering of high-level diplomats at the General Assembly is the first to be held in full in-person since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and is the first since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — an international conflict that has created deep divisions between of the organization’s most powerful members, sparking calls for UN reform and raising questions about whether it can still serve its stated purpose of “maintaining international peace and security....

Un policier a été grièvement blessé lundi après-midi à Anjin après avoir été renversé par un automobiliste après avoir refusé d’obtempérer, ont indiqué les pompiers du nord. Vers 23 heures, une course-poursuite a commencé avec les douaniers après qu’il ait refusé d’obtempérer. Selon une source policière à BFMTV, une patrouille BAC est appelée en renfort puis érige un barrage routier à un rond-point. Le conducteur du véhicule décide de prendre le rond-point à contresens et percute un policier de 29 ans....

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said users of the Avanti and TransPennine Express rail services are met with a “shrug” when they complain about the services. “And we cannot allow that to happen,” he said, speaking to LBC. “I was a minister and I would rightfully be dragged over the coals if this was the performance of a service I was responsible for.” West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin and shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh also criticized the train companies....

SASKATOON – Even Dr. Scott Napper (PhD) uses words like terrifying when describing the focus of his research—a group of diseases caused when otherwise harmless proteins go awry, creating conditions that are invariably fatal and currently untreatable. “But that’s what I love about it — it’s so interesting and so very important,” said Napper, a scientist with the Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask)....

Photo: The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh The City of Merritt is launching a four-day work week pilot program in hopes of attracting, hiring and retaining staff for the city. The City of Merritt in the BC Interior is launching a four-day work week pilot program in hopes of attracting, hiring and retaining municipal workers. Merritt’s chief administrative officer says the one-year trial, approved by council Tuesday, will close city hall on Mondays, with hours extended from Tuesday to Friday at 8 a....

Two Americans held by Russian-backed forces for more than three months returned to US soil Friday afternoon. Americans Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh arrived in New York after being released earlier this week in a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine brokered by Saudi Arabia. Their families said they believe the men are in good health. “We know they’re talking, breathing, walking and sounding like themselves,” Darla Black, the mother of Huynh’s fiancee, told CNN on Friday....

But as the week progressed and conditions worsened, the number of survivors began to dwindle. “Of the 35 whales that remained alive this morning, we were able to refloat, rescue and release 32 of these animals and that’s a tremendous result,” Brendon Clarke of the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service said in an interview. Press for FRIDAY MORNING. Rangers were forced to euthanize one whale that had re-molted Thursday night, and three other whales remained “inaccessible due to tidal conditions,” Clark said....