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Azerbaijani and US officials believe a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the deadly crash of an Azerbaijani passenger jet, media reports and a US official said Thursday, as the Kremlin cautioned against "hypotheses" over the disaster. The Azerbaijan Airlines jet crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau, an oil and gas hub, on Wednesday after going off course for undetermined reasons. Thirty-eight of the 67 people on board died. The Embraer 190 aircraft was supposed to fly northwest from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the city of Grozny in Chechnya, southern Russia, but instead diverted far off course across the Caspian Sea. An investigation is underway, with pro-government Azerbaijani website Caliber citing unnamed officials as saying they believed a Russian missile fired from a Pantsir-S air defence system downed the plane. The claim was also reported by The New York Times, broadcaster Euronews and the Turkish news agency Anadolu. Some aviation and military experts said the plane might have been accidentally shot by Russian air defence systems because it was flying in an area where Ukrainian drone activity had been reported. A former expert at France's BEA air accident investigation agency said there appeared to be "a lot of shrapnel" damage on the wreckage. Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said the damage was "reminiscent" of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was downed with a surface-to-air missile by Russia-backed rebels over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "It would be wrong to make any hypotheses before the investigation's conclusions." Euronews cited Azerbaijani government sources as saying that "shrapnel hit the passengers and cabin crew as it exploded next to the aircraft mid-flight". A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said early indications suggested a Russian anti-aircraft system struck the plane. Kazakhstan news agency Kazinform cited a regional prosecutor as saying that two black-box flight recorders had been recovered. Azerbaijan Airlines initially said the plane flew through a flock of birds, before withdrawing the statement. Kazakh officials said 38 people had been killed and there were 29 survivors, including three children. Jalil Aliyev, the father of flight attendant Hokume Aliyeva, told AFP that this was supposed to have been her last flight before starting a job as a lawyer for the airline. "Why did her young life have to end so tragically?" the man said in a trembling voice before hanging up the phone. Eleven of the injured are in intensive care, the Kazakh health ministry said. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared Thursday a day of mourning and cancelled a planned visit to Russia for an informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a grouping of former Soviet nations. "I extend my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the crash... and wish a speedy recovery to the injured," Aliyev said in a social media post Wednesday. The Flight Radar website showed the plane deviating from its normal route, crossing the Caspian Sea and then circling over the area where it eventually crashed near Aktau, on the eastern shore of the sea. Kazakhstan said the plane was carrying 37 Azerbaijani passengers, six Kazakhs, three Kyrgyz and 16 Russians. A Kazakh woman told the local branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) she was near where the plane crashed and rushed to the site to help survivors. "They were covered in blood. They were crying. They were calling for help," said the woman, who gave her name as Elmira. She said they saved some teenagers. "I'll never forget their look, full of pain and despair," said Elmira. "A girl pleaded: 'Save my mother, my mother is back there'." Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with Aliyev and "expressed his condolences in connection with the crash", Peskov told a news conference. bur/rlp/jsPresident-elect Donald Trump’s net worth climbed to $6.1 billion in 2024 despite his facing various legal challenges, according to Forbes. Trump’s net worth was around $2.5 billion early in 2024, according to Forbes. Trump’s majority stake in Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, largely contributed to his growth in net worth this year. The president-elect’s net worth as of Dec. 23 made him the 530th wealthiest person in the world, and he is now back on Forbes list of America’s richest people, according to Forbes. Trump’s net worth hit over $8.1 billion in May, an all time high, Forbes reported . (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Trump owes over $1.5 billion in liabilities, as well as owing the more than $480 million, plus interest, from his New York civil fraud trial, according to Forbes. Trump said in November that he would not sell his Truth Social shares. During his first presidential term, Trump made more money as the sitting president than any previous president, Forbes reported . Trump is set to make an annual salary of $400,000 as president, according to Fortune. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump vowed to donate his salary if he was elected, and he donated at least $1.4 million of the $1.6 million he earned as president to various federal agencies, according to Forbes. Whether or not Trump plans to donate his presidential salary during his second term remains to be seen, according to Yahoo Finance. (RELATED: Biden Admin Invoked ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Cut Alaska Drilling, But Some Tribal Leaders Are Ready For Trump) Trump has faced various legal challenges over the past year, including being convicted in May for falsifying business records. New York Judge Juan Merchan ruled on Dec. 16 that Trump’s felony conviction in his non-disclosure agreement case should not be thrown out despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on his presidential immunity. New York Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in February that Trump must pay over $350 million in damages as part of his civil fraud trial, a figure that was revised to $454 million , after ruling he was liable for fraud in September 2023. Trump submitted a $175 million bond in April as part of his appeal against his civil fraud judgment. The president-elect announced plans on Dec. 16 to sue the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over her survey finding Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa ahead of the November presidential election. Earlier in December, ABC News and one of its leading hosts, George Stephanopoulos, agreed to pay $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit against them. All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org .NBA legend Carmelo Anthony was usually a mild-tempered player during his career, but he was pushed over the limit during an infamous 2013 confrontation with fellow legend Kevin Garnett. During this week's episode of 7PM in Brooklyn presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment, Anthony and his former New York Knicks teammate Iman Shumpert had a lengthy discussion that shed some light on what led to the situation. "He [Kevin Garnett] told me some bugged-out s--t. He told me some wild s--t that we don't speak about. At that moment he really crossed the line," Anthony said around the 35:30 mark. He went on to reveal Garnett's comments that started the escalation at the 37:39 mark. At the time, it was reported that Garnett made disparaging comments about Anthony's then-wife La La Anthony. Garnett has since denied that he made the comments , and Anthony and Shumpert acknowledged that what was reported wasn't what he said. "I've never said anything about anyone's family. I've never said anything to Melo about La La," Garnett said in a 2021 interview with GQ . "I'm a Frosted Flakes man. I'm not a Honey Nut Cheerios guy." Still, whatever was said sent Anthony over the edge, and he notoriously waited outside the team bus to confront Garnett. "He is always the last one out of the locker room. My man gets treatment, ice, he might lift, my boy got a lot of stuff for recovery he gotta do," Shumpert explained about Anthony's urgency to settle things with Garnett. "Scratched it all off the list." Anthony told Shumpert, "I need to have a conversation," and went outside to wait for Garnett to emerge from the locker room. Shumpert and Baron Davis accompanied him, and they waited 20-25 minutes before Garnett finally came out surrounded by security and ushers. After Anthony gestured for Garnett to come over, Shumpert recalled Garnett hilariously responding, "Melo, over a basketball game?!" Anthony said he hoped to have a personal conversation with Garnett when they were teammates in the All-Star Game, but he never got that opportunity. He ended by inviting Garnett to his podcast to squash the situation. "I'm a Peace God now, so Ticket, you want to come on the brown couch, you want to come holla at us, have some fun?" Anthony said.
But it is not the largest prize a person has won in this country. Here are the 10 biggest UK lottery winners – all from EuroMillions draws – and what some of them did with their fortunes. – Anonymous, £195,707,000 A UK ticket-holder scooped the record EuroMillions jackpot of £195 million on July 19 2022 – the biggest National Lottery win of all time. – Joe and Jess Thwaite, £184,262,899.10 Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, scooped a then record-breaking £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the draw on May 10 2022. At the time, Joe was a communications sales engineer, and Jess ran a hairdressing salon with her sister. – Unclaimed ticket holder, £177 million Tuesday’s winner is wealthier than former One Direction member Harry Styles and heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua, who are both worth £175 million, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List. Players have been urged to check their tickets to see if they can claim the prize. – Anonymous, £170,221,000 The fourth biggest winner of the National Lottery to date scooped £170 million in October 2019, after matching all the numbers in a Must Be Won draw. – Colin and Chris Weir, £161,653,000 Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, bagged their historic winnings in July 2011, making them the biggest UK winners at the time. Colin used £2.5 million of his fortune to invest in his beloved Partick Thistle Football Club, which led to one of the stands at the stadium being named after him. He later acquired a 55% shareholding in the club, which was to be passed into the hands of the local community upon his death. He died in December 2019, aged 71. The couple also set up the Weir Charitable Trust in 2013 and donated £1 million to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. They divorced in the same year as Colin’s death. – Adrian and Gillian Bayford, £148,656,000 Adrian and Gillian won 190 million euros in a EuroMillions draw in August 2012, which came to just over £148 million. The couple bought a Grade II listed estate in Cambridgeshire, complete with cinema and billiards room, but it was sold in 2021, some years after the pair divorced, as reported by The Mirror. – Anonymous, £123,458,008 The seventh biggest National Lottery winner won a Superdraw rollover jackpot in June 2019, and decided not to go public with their success. – Anonymous, £122,550,350 After nine rollovers, one lucky anonymous ticket-holder bagged more than £122 million in April 2021. – Anonymous, £121,328,187 Another of the UK’s top 10 lottery winners found their fortune through a Superdraw jackpot rollover, this time in April 2018. – Frances and Patrick Connolly, £114,969,775 Former social worker and teacher Frances set up two charitable foundations after she and her husband won almost £115 million on New Year’s Day 2019. She estimates that she has already given away £60 million to charitable causes, as well as friends and family. She considers helping others to be an addiction, saying: “It gives you a buzz and it’s addictive. I’m addicted to it now.”The other 51 weeks: what happens before and after Davos?TSM Share Price in Taiwan: A Gamer’s Investment Opportunity?
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Dallion Johnson scored 25 points as FGCU beat Florida Tech 79-62 on Sunday. Johnson shot 9 for 16, including 6 for 12 from beyond the arc for the Eagles (4-8). Keeshawn Kellman added 14 points while shooting 6 of 8 from the field while he also had nine rebounds. Rahmir Barno shot 5 of 6 from the field and 2 for 3 from the line to finish with 12 points, while adding seven assists and six steals. The Panthers were led in scoring by Donovan Brown, who finished with 26 points, six rebounds and six assists. Can Kaan Turgut added 13 points and six rebounds for Florida Tech. Logan Allen also had nine points. FGCU visits Richmond in its next matchup on Saturday. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from . The Associated Press
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Pep Guardiola’s side avoided the indignity of a sixth successive defeat in all competitions and looked on course for a welcome victory thanks to a double from Erling Haaland – the first from the penalty spot – and a deflected effort from Ilkay Gundogan. Yet Guardiola was left with his head in hands as Feyenoord roared back in the last 15 minutes with goals from Anis Hadj Moussa, Sergio Gimenez and David Hancko, two of them after Josko Gvardiol errors. FULL-TIME | A point apiece. 🩵 3-3 ⚫️ #ManCity | #UCL pic.twitter.com/6oj1nEOIwm — Manchester City (@ManCity) November 26, 2024 Arsenal delivered the statement Champions League win Mikel Arteta had demanded as they swept aside Sporting Lisbon 5-1. Arteta wanted his team to prove their European credentials, and goals from Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz, Gabriel, Bukayo Saka and Leandro Trossard got their continental campaign back on track in style following the 1-0 defeat at Inter Milan last time out. A memorable victory also ended Sporting’s unbeaten start to the season, a streak of 17 wins and one draw, the vast majority of which prompted Manchester United to prise away head coach Ruben Amorim. Putting on a show at Sporting 🌟 pic.twitter.com/Yi9MgRZEkl — Arsenal (@Arsenal) November 26, 2024 Paris St Germain were left in serious of danger of failing to progress in the Champions League as they fell to a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. Kim Min-jae’s header late in the first half was enough to send PSG to a third defeat in the competition this season, leaving them six points off the automatic qualification places for the last 16 with three games to play. Luis Enrique’s side, who had Ousmane Dembele sent off, were deservedly beaten by Bayern who dominated chances and possession. 🔔 FULL TIME – Victory at home! +3 in the #UCL 👏❤️ #FCBayern #MiaSanMia | #FCBPSG #UCL pic.twitter.com/BYE23dXXih — FC Bayern (@FCBayernEN) November 26, 2024 Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid were 6-0 winners away to Sparta Prague, Julian Alvarez and Angel Correa each scoring twice whilst there were also goals from Marcos Llorente and Antoine Griezmann. Barcelona ended tournament debutants Brest’s unbeaten start with a 3-0 victory courtesy of two goals from Robert Lewandowski – one a penalty – and Dani Olmo. Lewandowski’s first was his 100th Champions League goal, only the third man to reach the mark after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. A Castello Lukeba own goal saw Inter Milan go top of the standings with a narrow 1-0 win over RB Leipzig at San Siro, whilst Bayer Leverkusen were emphatic victors against Red Bull Salzburg, Florian Wirtz scoring twice to move Xabi Alonso’s side into the automatic qualification places. Atalanta continued their strong start, albeit whilst conceding a first goal in Europe this season in a 6-1 win away to Young Boys, whilst Tammy Abraham scored the decisive goal as AC Milan beat Slovan Bratislava 3-2.Ex-presidential aide to President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Doyin Okupe, has described the opponents of the proposed Tax Reform Bills as enemies of the country. Okupe, who spoke in Lagos, said no right thinking person would oppose the reforms meant to protect the poor and tackle corruption. “Any right-thinking human being who has had the opportunity in these last two months or so to listen and to read what the tax reforms are all about and goes against it, is an enemy of the country. “We are saying that majority of poor people should not pay tax, how can anybody be against that? “These reform bills are saying that companies that are not making money cannot be taxed arbitrarily. Their taxation will be based on revenue that they have generated and profit that made, not on turnover. “And if your turnover is below 50 million, you are exempted, should anyone oppose this? “If these tax bills can be passed, they will also help reduce corruption ,” Okupe, former Director- General of Mr Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation, said. On the North opposition to the Tax Reform Bills before the National Assembly, Okupe said that the North had no justifiable reason to oppose the bills. He said that Nigeria’s democracy had been based on oil and not on taxation, which he said, was not sustainable, hence the need for a reform. “Go and look at all countries in the world, the major source of revenue for government is taxation, but we don’t consider tax as an issue because we just take the oil, and then look at what are we going to get in the next 12 months for budget,” he said. He said that the First Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) hadachieved a lot in the revenue generation in the last one year. “Our tax to GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world, and here is a country that requires immense amount of money and revenue for development. “Population is high, land mass is big and huge. Therefore, we need money,and this tax reform is saying, ‘yes, we need money, but we cannot tax people who are already strangulated. Leave those ones alone. “There are young people who are making money, who go to clubs and spend N3million, N4 million and so on in a night. Those are the people that need to be taxed, not the man at the door earning N70,000 monthly. He faulted the concerns raised about the the timing and the speed of the bills. According to him, whatever is causing economic and financial hemorrhage must be given the speed it requires. He said that the tax reform bills would make more states’ internally generated revenue to improve, improving the lots of the people. Okupe, however, called on the President to monitor all revenue- generated agencies to remove corruption and all practices capable of shortchanging the nation. He said that with adequate technology in place ,the fight against corruption would be won and Nigerians would be free. Okupe said that if Customs, Immigration, Nigerian Communications Technology, Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), NIMASA and other revenue -generating agencies employ emerging technologies, corruption would be fought to a standstill. “When these reforms that Bola Tinubu is introducing, when they come on-stream, corruption will go,” he added. NAN recalls that on Oct. 3, Tinubu had requested the national assembly to consider and pass the bills. The bills comprise the Nigeria tax bill, Nigeria tax administration bill, Nigeria Revenue Service establishment bill, and the Joint Revenue Board establishment bill. Speaking at the presidential media chat on Monday, Tinubu reiterated that the tax reforms were initiated to “eliminate colonial-based assumptions” in the country’s tax environment
By Yuya Matsuda and Shunsuke Matsuda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers 7:00 JST, December 23, 2024 * * World Expos, which started to be held in the 19th century, had a major element of being a fair where each participating country competed to display its prowess in science and technology. In response to a wave of globalization, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) decided in 1994 for each Expo to establish a theme that would respond to the needs of a modern society. Since then, Expos have transformed into venues for the international community to share solutions to global issues facing humanity, such as those pertaining to the environment, food and energy. “Science can save lives from diseases and disasters. That is what can lead to the happiness of mankind,” Hiroshi Kawamoto, a professor at Kyoto University’s Institute for Life and Medical Sciences said emphatically. The theme of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” because universities and research institutes that are strong in advanced medical technology are concentrated in the Kansai region. At the Expo, Rebirthel Co., a Kyoto-based regenerative medicine venture firm founded by Kawamoto, will exhibit images of killer T cells targeting cells infected by viruses such as COVID-19. Killer T cells are immune cells created from iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cells or embryonic stem cells. In 2013, Prof. Kawamoto succeeded for the first time in the world in producing killer T cells from iPS cells that attack cancer cells. Killer T cells may also be useful for treating infectious diseases such as COVID-19 because the virus can be repelled by introducing a gene that recognizes virus-infected cells into killer T cells. This immunotherapy can also be used against unknown infectious diseases, and the goal is to deliver it to patients as a cure within 100 days during the next pandemic. “Potent killer T cells can be by far the strongest of all immune cells as the ultimate treatment. I want to show the next generation what future medicine will look like,” Prof. Kawamoto said. One of the challenges threatening the future of humanity is extreme heat caused by increasingly serious climate change. In Japan, the number of deaths from heatstroke exceeds 1,000 every year, and there are growing concerns about the Expo’s management during the summer months. An industry-academia team, which includes a team from Kobe University, has developed a technology to predict the risk of heatstroke on the following day with high accuracy. Using a supercomputer, the risk will be calculated in detail for each area of the venue based on 3D data at the Expo site and daily weather data. The team plans to use this technology as countermeasures against heatstroke during the Expo. Kobe University Prof. Satoru Oishi said, “Children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of heat. We want to show how society should protect the lives of all generations.” The World Bank estimates that over 200 million people will be forced to migrate by 2050 due to environmental issues such as sea level rise. Kenro Taura executive director of Kiko Network, NPO based in Kyoto working to prevent climate change, said, “It is necessary to share a sense of crisis at the Expo, where many people will be in attendance.” The question is how far we can show the path to brighten the lives of future generations.
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