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Heavy machinery was spotted behind a green privacy fence at the foot of the nearly 80-meter (260-foot) obelisk shortly before it was cut down. The pillar, which stood like a high-rise in the center of Riga, fell into a nearby lake, causing a huge noise in Victory Park. A Latvian media outlet broadcast the event live as spectators, some with Latvian flags draped over their shoulders, cheered and clapped. The obelisk, consisting of five cones with three Soviet stars on top, stood between two groups of statues: a group of three Red Army soldiers; and a woman representing the “Mother Country” with her hands up....

DEA / S. VANNINI / De Agostini via Getty Images Le glacier de la Brenva, dans le massif du Mont-Blanc, où s’est effondré le bivouac de La Fourche. ENVIRONNEMENT – « RIP le bivouac de La Fourche. Ainsi Ludovic Ravanel, membre de la Compagnie des Guss de Chamonix et géomorphologue chargé de recherche au CNRS, a malheureusement annoncé jeudi 25 août sur son compte Facebook l’effondrement du célèbre camp italien, situé dans le massif du Mont-Blanc....

Photo: File photo UPDATE: 12:55 p.m The investigation into an overnight shooting in Surrey has been turned into a homicide after the victim died in hospital. The 37-year-old man was shot in the 16600 block of 19th Avenue in Surrey at about 11:00 p.m. Saturday night. The man was taken to hospital with what police described as “serious injuries”, but has since succumbed to those injuries. Surrey RCMP say it appears the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two parties who were known to each other....

“Taiwan is our strongest partner in the Indo-Pacific region. Regular high-level visits to Taipei are long-standing US policy,” Blackburn said in a statement on Thursday. The visit by Pelosi, who earlier this month became the highest-ranking US official to visit the island in 25 years, was cited by Beijing as the trigger for several days of large-scale military exercises in which China fired missiles over Taiwan and flew waves of warplanes into the air defense reconnaissance zone....

Bruckner ergänzt: „Ich übernehme die Gesamtverantwortung für den aktuellen Zustand unseres Vereins. Die nach den Wahlen vor drei Jahren vorherrschende negative Stimmung, die uns trotz zweiter Plätze in den Spielzeiten 2019/20 und 2020/21 und zweimaliger Teilnahme an der Gruppenphase der UEFA Europa begleitet hat, konnten wir leider nie umkehren Link . Die Corona-Pandemie hat vieles erschwert, obwohl wir es geschafft haben, die schwerste Finanzkrise seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg finanziell stabil zu überstehen und unser neues Ausbildungszentrum im Prater aus eigener Kraft zu errichten....

Er liess sie drei Tage nach Aylens Geburt im Stich Elena Miras packt neue Details über die Beziehung mit ihrem Ex-Freund Mike Heiter aus. Er soll sie und Tochter Aylen schon drei Tage nach der Geburt allein gelassen haben. 1/10 Elena Miras schiesst erneut gegen Ex-Freund Mike Heiter. Als die Beziehung von Elena Miras (30) und Mike Heiter (30) im September 2020 in die Brüche ging, blieb Töchterchen Aylen (4) bei ihrer Mama in der Schweiz....

Durham Region Health Department says it received confirmation on Thursday that three traps tested positive for mosquitoes. One trap is in Ajax, the site of a previous positive mosquito batch reported on August 19, another trap is in Clarington which was also the site of a positive batch reported on July 21, and the third trap is in north Oshawa. A total of six positive batches of mosquitoes have been found in the area so far this year....

The Mars rover found that the floor of the Jezero crater is composed of volcanic rocks that have interacted with water. NASA scientists were in for a big surprise when the Perseverance Mars rover began analyzing rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in the spring of 2021: They expected to find sedimentary rocks because the crater held a lake billions of years ago. This would have formed when sand and mud settled in a once watery environment....

“Energy-intensive industries need to make some investments to be able to adapt. The investments companies will make depend on how they respond to this initiative.” Factories could switch to diesel fuel, reduce their output or start using combined heat and power units to provide heat and electricity for less energy-intensive processes such as chemicals, paper and food and beverage production. UK ministers have been warned that energy-intensive industries are at risk from rising energy prices by PwC in November 2021....

Soleiman Faqiri was living with schizophrenia and died during a fight with prison guards at the Central East Correctional Facility in Lindsay, Ont., on Dec. 11, 2016. In the days before his death, he was waiting to be transferred to a medical facility. “Why are people with mental illness treated with this humiliation? Why are people with mental illness given to their families in bags?” Faqiri’s older brother, Yusuf, told CTV News....

A United States Coast Guard vessel was unable to make a routine trip to a port in the Solomon Islands because the country’s government did not respond to a request for supplies and fuel, a US official said. Authorities did not immediately respond to a Reuters news agency request for comment. Solomon Islands has had strained relations with the US and its allies since agreeing to a security deal with China in May....

The electricity grid operators of Denmark, Finland and Sweden took the unusual step of warning Norway that its proposal to stop exporting electricity amid concerns in Oslo over its hydropower generation undermined the European market. “It would be the first country in Europe to do it in electricity. It would be a very dangerous and nationalistic step. It’s very selfish behaviour,” Jukka Ruusunen, CEO of Finland’s grid operator Fingrid, told the Financial Times....

Merseyside Police said armed officers arrested the man in Lunsford Road, Dovecot, on Friday afternoon. He was also arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder and remains in custody for questioning, the force said. A Merseyside Police spokesman said: “The investigation into Olivia’s tragic murder is ongoing and we still need to build a strong body of evidence so we can bring those responsible to justice.” Earlier on Friday night, detectives released an image of a black Audi Q3 believed to be taking the intended target of the attack, Joseph Nee, to hospital....

Merseyside Police have issued a stern warning to people who may be hiding facts about the nine-year-old’s death. Olivia died when a gunman broke into the family’s home in the Liverpool suburb of Dovecot last Monday night while chasing another intruder. He opened fire, shooting the girl in the chest and injuring her mother. In a shocking video, police have warned that people are protecting the killers if they withhold information about the murder....

The 27-year-old athlete was arrested by police in west London earlier this month when officers thought he was using his phone while driving. Scotland Yard made a voluntary referral to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) during the stop, but the complaint has been sent back to the Met Police. The police added that Mr Dos Santos had been informed of the information. In a statement on Thursday, the Met Police said officers had “clearly indicated” the car to overturn but it “did not”, after which they called for further assistance....

The animal welfare organization said in a post on its Facebook page that the poison was left in a live trap at an undisclosed location in the city. He says that when the animal entered the enclosure and consumed the bread, “the door was quickly closed,” trapping it. “By the time he was found the poor animal was vomiting inside the confined space,” the post reads. “At the centre, our medical teams immediately went to work to save this young life....

Das Kölner VR-Startup RAUM zeigt, wie eine professionelle Metaverse-Plattform mit Business-Fähigkeiten aussehen kann. Die intuitive Plattform für VR-Meetings ist von menschlicher Interaktion inspiriert, die Technologie vergessen macht. Und das bei optimalem Datenschutz. Weitere Informationen zu Raum finden Sie unter RAUM.app. Du kannst die RAUM App kostenlos im Oculus App Lab herunterladen und ohne Registrierung direkt ausprobieren. Gutes Design ist unsichtbar, wie wir vom Schweizer Soziologen Lucius Burckhardt lernen. Doch wer zum ersten Mal die virtuellen Locations des Kölner VR-Startups RAUM betritt, wird unweigerlich über dieses unübersehbare Design staunen....

A Russian strike killed 25 civilians when rockets hit a train station and a residential area in eastern Ukraine, officials in the capital Kyiv said, as the nation celebrated its Independence Day under heavy shelling. The death toll rose from 22 initially reported after three more bodies were pulled from the rubble in the town of Chaplyne as rescue operations there ended, an aide to Ukraine’s president, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said on Thursday....

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that the “multi-pill” effectively prevented secondary adverse cardiovascular events in people who had previously had a heart attack, reducing cardiovascular mortality by 33 percent in this patient population. “The polypill, which is a very simple strategy that combines three main treatments for this type of patient, has proven to be worthwhile because improved adherence means that these patients receive better treatment and therefore have a lower risk of recurrent cardiovascular events,” the researcher said....

Comment A school district in southwest Missouri is bringing back a measure it last resorted to two decades ago to deal with disciplinary problems: beating students. Classes started Monday for the 1,900 students in the Cassville R-IV School District, about an hour west of Branson and about 15 miles from the Arkansas border. During the open house, families were informed that the school board had adopted a policy in June allowing “the use of physical force as a method of correcting student behavior....