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South Africa wing Makazole Mapimpi is out of the Rugby World Cup with a fractured eye socket

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

TOULON, France (AP) — South Africa wing Makazole Mapimpi is out of the Rugby World Cup with a fractured eye socket, Springboks director of rugby Rassie Erasmus said Monday.Mapimpi was injured in a tackle by Tonga scrumhalf Augustine Pulu that led to the players clashing heads in Sunday’s Pool B game in Marseille. Mapimpi left the field right after.Erasmus said Mapimpi was facing 4-6 weeks out and might also have a fractured cheekbone.The 33-year-old Mapimpi was a Rugby World Cup winner with South Africa in 2019 but came to this tournament as a backup to first-choice wings Cheslin Kolbe and Kurt-Lee Arendse.The Springboks will call up an injury replacement but weren’t ready to name him yet, Erasmus said.South Africa beat Tonga 49-18 in its final pool game to move to the brink of the quarterfinals. The defending champions have to wait for the match between Ireland and Scotland on Saturday to be certain of a place in the last eight.___AP Rugby World Cup: https://apnews.com/...

Al menos 38 heridos deja el incendio en una comisaría de Egipto

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

Al menos 38 personas resultaron heridas este lunes de madrugada en un incendio en una comisaría en el norte de Egipto, según las autoridades. Los bomberos tardaron varias horas en extinguir las llamas.En un primer momento se desconocía qué había iniciado el fuego, que se extendió por el edificio de varias plantas en la provincia de Ismailia, donde se encuentra el Canal de Suez.El ministro del Interior, Mahoud Tawfiq, responsable de las fuerzas de seguridad, acudió al lugar en la ciudad de Ismailia, unas 77 millas al nordeste de El Cairo. Se había formado un comité para investigar el suceso, señaló.Doce de los heridos fueron atendidos en el lugar, mientras que otros 26 fueron trasladados a hospitales, según Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, vocero del Ministerio de Salud. Todos salvo dos sufrían problemas respiratorios, y siete de los afectados fueron atendidos y dados de alta, añadió. Incendio mortal en discotecas de España: localizan con vida a cinco personas que estaban desapare...

Spain’s women’s team players Putellas, Rodríguez and Paredes appear before judge in Rubiales probe

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas and two of her teammates in Spain’s women’s national team appeared before a judge Monday as witnesses in the investigation of former soccer federation president Luis Rubiales for his kiss on a player.Putellas, Irene Paredes and Misa Rodríguez all answered questions from the judge in Madrid. Rodríguez appeared in court in the Spanish capital, while Putellas and Paredes testified through video conference from Barcelona.Spanish state prosecutors have accused Rubiales of sexual assault and coercion for kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips without her consent during the awards ceremony after the Women’s World Cup final in August.A couple of federation officials and former national team coach Jorge Vilda, who was replaced not long after winning the World Cup in Australia, have been summoned as investigated parties. They are set to appear before the judge next week. Vilda was among those accused of allegedly trying to convince Hermoso ...

Paddle boat for sale: Why an Eastern Shore town is looking for a new owner

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

The Town of Snow Hill is looking for someone to buy Black-Eyed Susan, the stern-wheeler paddle boat acquired by the town in 2020. (Courtesy Snow Hill)When the small Eastern Shore town of Snow Hill, Maryland, bought a 34-year-old paddle boat three years ago, the goal was to attract more visitors with it and see revenue spike.“On paper, it was a great idea,” said Mayor Michael Pruitt. “We wanted to get people from afar, ride that beautiful Pocomoke River and when you get done, walk back down to your car and say ‘Oh, there’s downtown Snow Hill.’”It worked for a while.But the plan soured last year, when the town learned that a five-year Coast Guard operating permit was about to expire. Before town leaders could renew the boat’s license, it needed an in-depth, costly inspection.The probe discovered at least $600,000 in repairs to make the vessel, called the Black-Eyed Susan, seaworthy and up to code. The tab is almost 25% of the town’s entire operating budget.What’s more, maintenance on ...

Typhoon Koinu strengthens as it moves toward Taiwan

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Typhoon Koinu, traveling westward from the Pacific, was strengthening as it moved toward Taiwan, meteorologists on the island said Monday.The storm was expanding in size and was expected to make landfall by Thursday morning, they said.The typhoon was moving northwest with sustained winds of 144 kph (89 mph) and gusts of up to 180 kph (112 mph), according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau. Forecasters predict the center of the storm will hit the island’s southern cities, while bringing heavy rains to the east coast including the city of Taitung.Typhoon Koinu, also known as Typhoon Jenny, is “forecast to steadily intensify throughout the forecast period and may reach its peak intensity tomorrow,” said a typhoon bulletin from the Philippines weather bureau. The storm, traveling at 15 kph (9.3 mph), will bring rains to Taiwan starting Tuesday with its outer bands.Authorities are expected to issue a sea warning Monday night, local media reported, as the storm...

Miami woman says burglar stole French bulldog, valuables and cash from apartment

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

A South Florida woman is pleading for the public’s help in finding the man who, she said, broke into her apartment and took off with valuables, money and, most painful of all, her beloved pet.The 25-year-old victim spoke with 7News about this past Tuesday’s burglary inside her unit in Miami’s Little Havana section.“We don’t feel safe in this house,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified or show her face on camera.The victim said she feels violated and is scared of being at home. She believes the subject has been watching her for quite some time and knew exactly when to strike.“He was here for like a good 30 minutes. He knew we were playing soccer,” she said.The woman said the burglar was captured on surveillance video breaking into her first-floor apartment through her balcony, inside The Vibes Miami Apartments along Southwest First Street.Once inside, the woman said, the perpetrator stole thousands of dollars in cash, persona...

Tory conference descends into Brexit punch-up as protester Steve Bray turfed out

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

MANCHESTER, England — Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray came to blows with a delegate at the Conservative Party conference Monday.Bray, who has for years protested loudly against Brexit outside parliament, became involved in a physical altercation at an event organized by the Bruges Group.Bray was heard to shout “where are your Brexit benefits?” before being accosted by a man attending the event.The pair were then involved in a scuffle before Bray was escorted from the room.IBruge Group fringe meeting at the Tory conference. Nice sandwiches but that was about it pic.twitter.com/drwZGZdbr1— Steve Bray on Mastodon @[email protected] (@snb19692) October 2, 2023Bray told POLITICO afterward that he believed he had been “assaulted” and that he had been acting in self-defense. But he said he would not be pressing charges.The protester has been barracking ministers and Conservative MPs in public for years over their support of Brexit. He can frequently be heard from inside...

Maros Šefčovič hearing: Live updates on new Green Deal chief’s European Parliament grilling

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

Maroš Šefčovič, the Slovak commissioner nominated to oversee the Green Deal, faces a grilling in the Parliament about his expanded portfolio on Tuesday.Šefčovič — a senior member of Ursula von der Leyen’s college known as a steady pair of hands in Brussels — was tapped to take over former Dutch Commissioner Frans Timmermans’ duties as executive vice president, including oversight of the European Green Deal’s rollout, last month. As part of the reshuffle, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also decided to split off the climate-action portion of the portfolio and nominated former Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra as climate action commissioner, a position “under the guidance” of Šefčovič. A member of the center-left Social Democrats, Šefčovič is up for the Green leadership post at a perilous moment for EU climate policy. EU efforts to reduce greenhouse gases are being met with growing resistance as concerns mount over the costs to busine...

Trump’s bashing electric cars. He has lots of company in Europe.

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

Former U.S. President Donald Trump and a chorus of conservative politicians in Europe are sharpening their attacks on electric cars, turning the economic disruption caused by the shift away from gasoline into a campaign issue on both sides of the Atlantic.Trump’s months of broadsides against the Biden administration’s “draconian and indefensible” electric vehicle policies provided a major theme for his visit last week to Michigan, where he told a crowd at an auto parts plant near Detroit that abandoning the internal combustion engine would be “a transition to unemployment and inflation without end.”As for the electric cars themselves, he said Wednesday night, they’re too expensive and “built specifically for people that want to take very short trips,” leaving drivers “panicked” about finding a place to charge. “They say the happiest day when you buy an electric car is the first 10 minutes you’re driving it.”In Europe, meanwhile, electric vehicles are being swept up in a wave of popu...

Scientists who paved way for COVID-19 mRNA vaccines win Nobel prize

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:39:24 GMT

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for their work on messenger RNA technology, which enabled the development of the first vaccines against COVID-19. The Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, which is responsible for selecting the winner of one of science’s most prestigious prizes, said on Monday that the discoveries “were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”mRNA vaccines work by delivering into the body genetic instructions for building proteins that are present in the virus being immunized against. That spurs cells to create those proteins, which the body then recognizes as foreign and attacks; training the immune system and creating protection against the actual virus. In the early 1990s, Karikó, from Hungary, was working at the University of Pennsylvania looking at how mRNA could be used in medicine. She was joined in her research by U.S. colleague Weissman, an immunologis...