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Jair Bolsonaro stood in a Shell forecourt on London’s Bayswater Street and pointed to the price of lead-free on the electronic sign. He said the cost of 161.9p per liter was “practically double the average of several Brazilian states” and claimed fuel in his country was among the cheapest in the world. The video was posted the night before the Queen’s funeral and was criticized by some on social media who said it was not a fair comparison as Brazil’s minimum wage is several times lower than the UK’s....

The most delicate task fell to eight soldiers from the Queen’s Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, who first had to lift the coffin with precision from its resting place in Westminster Hall and transplant it to the gun carriage. Minutes later, they had to do it again, lifting the coffin from the carriage outside Westminster Abbey, hoisting it on their shoulders and carrying it into the heart of the ancient church as they walked around the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in the nave....

Officers from the Strathmore detachment were called to Highway 1 east of Calgary on Sept. 10 for reports of a road rage incident involving a handgun. Mounties stopped the suspect on Highway 1 near Range Road 270, arresting him and a passenger in the vehicle. RCMP say officers found a loaded 9mm handgun in a holster under the driver’s seat and a 12-gauge shotgun with ammunition behind the back seat....

Rocker Elton John will hold his farewell tour on the South Lawn on Friday, the White House announced Tuesday, a week after singer James Taylor and hosts Jonathan and Drew Scott of HGTV’s “Property Brothers” helped celebrate a new health care and climate change. law. John is among a number of entertainers who refused to perform for then-President Donald Trump. Taylor sang and strummed his guitar to open last week’s event while the Scotts were among hundreds of people in the audience....

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng dismissed suggestions his mini-budget is “a gamble” as the market reaction sent the pound to a new 37-year low against the dollar. The pound plummeted after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced the biggest round of tax cuts in half a century in a bid to boost falling living standards by boosting growth. Using more than 70 billion pounds of increased borrowing, Mr Kwarteng on Friday unveiled a package that included scrapping the top rate of income tax for the highest earners....

To a lesser extent, adults’ resistance to the flu is also lower than it otherwise would be because fewer people received the immune boost of a recent winter infection, says infectious disease expert Dr. Susy Hota, emphasizing the added importance of flu shots this season. “Our immune responses are enhanced to some extent when we see these viruses more often,” said Hota, medical director of infection prevention and control at the University Health Network....

Une distanciation. “Ce sont ses paroles, pas les miennes”, déclare la députée rebelle Clémentine Otten dans Le Parisien ce mardi après que Jean-Luc Mélenchon a salué le “courage” et la “dignité” d’Adrien Quatennens ce dimanche. Le député du Nord avait en effet annoncé dans un communiqué le jour même qu’il démissionnerait de son poste de coordinateur de la France récalcitrante, alors qu’il est visé par l’homme de main de sa femme Céline Quatenens pour des actes de violence....

Posted September 20, 2022 at 12:07 pm Smaller font Decrease the font size of the article -ONE Larger font Increase the font size of the article A+ The complainant in the sexual-assault trial of the Army officer who led the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign says her perpetrator in an alleged 1988 assault was, “without a doubt,” Maj. Danny Fortin. During the emotional conclusion of her testimony in a Gatineau, Que....

A new estimate of the total number of burrowing and buzzing ants on Earth reaches a whopping total of nearly 20 four billion individuals. That staggering number—20,000,000,000,000,000, or 20,000 trillion—reveals the astonishing ubiquity of ants, even as scientists grow concerned that a potential mass insect die-off could upend ecosystems. In a paper released Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists from the University of Hong Kong analyzed 489 studies and concluded that the total mass of ants on Earth weighs about 12 megatons of dry carbon....

Raducanu sealed her third straight sets victory in the South Korean capital and has now won three consecutive tournament matches for the first time since her stunning 2021 US Open title. The 19-year-old will face Latvian top seed Jelena Ostapenko or Andorran teenager Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva for a place in the final. Raducanu, who fell at the first hurdle in defending her US Open title last month, has dropped to 77th in the world rankings from a career high of No 10....

The European Court of Human Rights ruled against the parents of missing Briton Madeleine McCann on Tuesday, saying Portugal had given them a fair hearing in their defamation battle against a former Portuguese police officer. Police officer Goncalo Amaral, who worked on the investigation into Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance on a family holiday in Portugal, suggested in a book he wrote, Truth of the Lie, that the youngster’s parents were involved....

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top adviser on the pandemic, said Friday that the rapid rise in the Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — which accounted for more than 1 in 10 cases sequenced in the U.S. last week, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — is being “under serious consideration” by federal health officials. “When you get variants like that, you see what their rate of increase is as a relative proportion of the variants, and that has a pretty disturbing doubling time,” President Biden’s chief medical adviser told CBS News....

Die Bayern-Stammgäste dachten an den Abschied! Benjamin Pavard (26) wird seinen Vertrag beim FC Bayern verlängern. Das Beste bald. Gespräche sollen bald beginnen. Vor einigen Wochen dachte der Franzose noch darüber nach, sich von ihm zu verabschieden… Lesen Sie auch Pavard im TV-Sender „Telefoot“: „Ich habe mir im Sommer Fragen gestellt. Ich hatte Anrufe von verschiedenen Vereinen.” Unter anderem soll es Interesse von Paris Saint-Germain gegeben haben. Warum er sich im Sommer Gedanken über seine Zukunft machte: Mit Rechtsverteidiger Mazrawi und Innenverteidiger de Ligt kauften die Bayern zwei Spieler, die exakt Pavards Positionen besetzen....

Trevor Hooper Kilian, 47, was arrested in Naples, Fla., on Sept. 15 after a woman called police to report the assault, according to an arrest report from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. She told officers Killian had gotten out of bed shortly after 10 p.m. and minutes later she heard the children screaming, according to the arrest report. He adds that he allegedly found Killian standing in the hall with a knife in his hand, saying, “I stabbed them, I stabbed them....

Wien – Dienstag, 20. September 2022, 22:14 Uhr Eine körperliche Auseinandersetzung während eines Fußballspiels der unteren Spielklasse zwischen zwei Wiener Klubs am Mittwoch hat für einen 19-jährigen Kicker strafrechtliche Folgen. Er muss sich vor dem Landgericht wegen gefährlicher Körperverletzung verantworten, weil er am 3. April 2022 einem Kontrahenten einen Kopfstoß versetzt und ihn anschließend gegen den Kopf getreten haben soll. Der Gegner wurde schwer verletzt Kicker, der neun Jahre älter war als er, brach bewusstlos zusammen und wurde ins Krankenhaus geflogen....

Laut der Krankenkasse KKH haben mehr Kinder und Jugendliche mit Sprachstörungen zu kämpfen als noch vor zehn Jahren. Neben den Folgen der Corona-Pandemie kommen auch andere Gründe als Erklärung in Betracht. Laut einer Studie hat die Zahl der von Sprachstörungen betroffenen Kinder und Jugendlichen in Deutschland zugenommen. Allein zwischen 2019 und 2021 stieg die Zahl der Betroffenen bei den Sechs- bis 18-Jährigen um rund neun Prozent und bei den 15- bis 18-Jährigen um fast 21 Prozent....

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Canadians are bracing for the strongest storm ever to hit their country’s shores. “Every Nova Scotian should prepare today and prepare for the impact,” John Lohr, minister responsible for the province’s Office of Emergency Management, said at a news conference Thursday. Hurricane Fiona has battered the Caribbean, is forecast by Bermuda as a dangerous Category 3 storm and shows no sign of slowing before it hits Canada on Saturday morning....

The eye of the storm passed near Grand Turk, the small island of the British territory’s capital, on Tuesday morning after the government imposed a curfew and urged people to leave flood-prone areas. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 30 miles (45 kilometers) from the center. “Storms are unpredictable,” the region’s premier, Washington Misick, said in a statement from London, where he was attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. “Therefore, you must take every precaution to ensure your safety....

Tsunoda joined Faenza-based AlphaTauri at the start of the 2021 season and has spent two years to date alongside Pierre Gasly, collecting 43 points in that time (32 of which came last season) along with a best finish race in fourth place – claims at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. READ MORE: Horner addresses Gasly reports as Colton Herta linked with AlphaTauri switch Speaking about his new deal, Tsunoda said: “I want to say a huge thank you to Red Bull, Honda and Scuderia AlphaTauri for continuing to give me the opportunity to drive in F1....