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Controversial Belarusian Businessmen Went to COP29 on Zimbabwe’s DelegationNo secrets as Bucs visit Dave Canales, Panthers for NFC South showdownBears interim coach Thomas Brown has had a lot thrown at him in his whirlwind of promotions over the past month, but there’s still one clear priority for him and the organization: Keep rookie quarterback Caleb Williams on the rise. Williams took flight again when Brown stepped in as offensive coordinator and play caller ahead of the Week 11 Packers game, and the biggest concern about making him head coach after Matt Eberflus got fired was that it seemed unwise to tinker with a structure that was working so well for Williams. The Bears had a lot of problems — virtually everything but the punter, who had a busy day — in their 38-13 loss to the 49ers on Sunday . And while Williams finished with a 116.9 passer rating for his fourth consecutive game at 95 or higher, he hardly looked like he was making progress. The game was over at halftime, when the Bears were down 24-0, had four net yards on offense, had yet to cross midfield, punted on all five possessions and Williams was 6 for 9 for 27 yards. The rest of what he did to finish 17 of 23 for 134 yards and two touchdowns was only mildly encouraging. Brown is adjusting to the new role in a hurry and has a little bit of margin this week to tweak his approach ahead of the Bears’ visit to the Vikings on Monday, but didn’t see any difference in his and Williams’ in-game communication on the sideline than when he was offensive coordinator up in the booth. “As far as what we discussed, it was the same as it was before,” Brown said. “It just happened faster and obviously in real time because I was on the grass.” Williams remains the driver of the Bears’ long-range ambition of being a contender. His short-term success matters, too, regardless of the team being 4-9, and it’s Brown’s best path to a head-coaching job here or elsewhere. In a total reversal of their plan going into the season, the Bears once again are hoping their rookie can carry them as everything around him crumbles. That’s not good.

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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — A Ukrainian girls’ hockey team is in Canada for a few days of peace and hockey in an arena that doesn’t have a missile-sized hole in its roof. After 56 hours of travel to Calgary, including a 24-hour bus ride from Dnipro to Warsaw, Poland, that required army escort for a portion of it, the Ukrainian Wings will join Wickfest, Hayley Wickenheiser’s annual girls’ hockey festival, on Thursday. The squad of players aged 11 to 13 was drawn from eight different cities in Ukraine, where sport facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Russia started its invasion in February 2022. “They all have a personal story of something awful happening,” said Wickenheiser. “We give them a week of peace and joy here, and I hope they can carry that with them. “We know full well they’re going back to difficult circumstances. It’s tough that way.” Nine players are from Kharkiv, where pictures show a large hole in the roof of the Saltovskiy Led arena where the girls’ team WHC Panthers once skated. “It was our home ice arena, and we played all our national team championships in this ice arena,” said Kateryna Seredenko, who oversees the Panthers program and is the Wings general manager. Ukraine’s Olympic Committee posted photos and wrote in a Facebook post Sept. 1 that Kharkiv’s Sport Palace, which was home to multiple hockey teams, was also destroyed in an attack on the city. Seredenko says the Wings’ arduous journey to Calgary was worth it because it gives the girls hope. “It’s not a good situation in Ukraine, but when they come here, they can believe that everything will be good, everything will be fine, of course we will win soon and we must play hockey. We can’t stop because we love these girls and we will do everything for them,” she said. “So many girls on this Ukrainian team are future players of the national team.” Wickenheiser, a Hockey Hall of Famer , is the assistant general manager of player development for the Toronto Maple Leafs and a doctor who works emergency room shifts in the Toronto area. The six-time Olympian and four-time gold medalist organized her first Wickfest after the 2010 Winter Games. She’s had teams from India, Mexico and the Czech Republic attend over the last decade and a half, but never a team that ran the Ukrainians’ gauntlet of logistics. The Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health took on the task of arranging visas and paying for the team’s travel. “We care about women and children’s health. Sport is such a symbol. When you see a group of girls coming off the ice all sweaty and having worked hard on the ice, it’s a symbol of a healthy girl,” said chief executive officer Julia Anderson. “That’s a healthy kid that’s able to participate in sport. We really believe if we can get girls there, whether they’re in an active war zone, or here in Canada, those girls will change the world.” The Wings aren’t the first Ukrainians to seek a hockey haven in Canada since the war began. An under-25 men’s team played four games against university squads in early 2023 to prepare for that year’s world university games. Ukrainian teams have also twice played in the Quebec City International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. “It’s the first time in Ukrainian history where a girls’ team is coming to Canada to a very good tournament,” Seredenko said. “They can see how they can play in their future. And they can see how it is to play hockey in Canada.” AP sports: https://apnews.com/sportsPresident Marcos vowed last week to end the country’s long struggle to comply with international laws on money laundering and terrorist financing. “I know that it’s not spoken about a great deal in the public domain but nonetheless, as an obstacle to the continuing transformation of our economy ... us exiting from the [gray] list is a significant move,” Mr. Marcos said during the 33rd Anti-Terrorism Regular Council Meeting in Malacañang. The President was referring to the gray list of the Paris-based watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental body that sets international standards against money laundering and terrorist financing. Since 2000, the Philippines has been on and off this list of countries actively working with the agency to improve their anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism regimes. Mr. Marcos said he was looking forward to the country’s delisting next year as forecast by local and international financial authorities, an event that will “benefit millions of Filipinos, from smoother remittances for overseas workers to increased investor confidence that bolsters our economy.” The Philippines has actually made substantial progress in complying with the FATF requirements. In 2021, the country remained on the gray list over regulatory supervision of gambling operations, weaknesses in the implementation of targeted financial sanctions, and delays in the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. But since then, the FATF has observed improvements in the Philippines’ money laundering and terror financing controls, and the agency is set to hold an onsite assessment next year. During its latest meeting last October, the FATF commended the country for plugging 18 concerns in its fight against dirty money. “The Philippines has already passed through this process and we’re very happy to report that [it] has indeed substantially completed this action plan,” FATF president Elisa de Anda Madrazo said. Before the Philippines can finally leave the gray list, the FATF will be sending a team to the country to verify the progress that the country had reported, and be assured that “necessary political commitment remains in place,” according to the FATF’s De Anda. If all goes well, the Philippines can leave the gray list by February next year. “The onsite assessment will verify if the implementation of (anti-money laundering and terror financing) reforms has begun and is being sustained, and that the necessary political commitment is in place to sustain implementation of reforms,” according to the FATF. This is the final step toward the country’s removal from the gray list. The country had 18 recommended actions imposed by the FATF in June 2021. This is now down to three: the Philippines has to demonstrate the use of credible controls against money laundering and terrorist financing risks from casino junkets; intensify cross-border measures at all main seaports and airports, including detection of false declarations of currency and confiscation action, and increase the prosecution of cases related to terrorist financing and money laundering. In a Senate panel on finance hearing last August, Executive Director Matthew David of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) said the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. is addressing concern on junket operators, while the Bureau of Customs noted that the issue on implementation of cross-border measures is about submission of customs declaration, which has been addressed “because of our e-travel system now that is up and running.” More than this, however, the government must pursue the lifting of the restrictive bank secrecy law, a major drag to the prosecution and conviction of money launderers and terrorist financiers. The Philippines has long been under international pressure to lift its bank secrecy laws due to the global trend toward financial transparency. While the FATF has agreed that the Philippines has substantially complied with its requirement on financial transactions, it raised concern about government efforts in addressing the problems arising from the bank secrecy law. The AMLC is now able to obtain bank records for intelligence and regulatory purposes as the anti-money laundering law expressly amended the bank secrecy law. But the FATF earlier noted that AMLC is the only investigating authority that has this authority and other agencies must enter into memoranda of agreement and understanding (MOAs/MOUs) with AMLC to obtain such information. Since there is no requirement in such MOAs/MOUs on the provision of the requested information in a timely manner, “relying on AMLC’s exclusive powers to obtain up to date information ... may, in practice, impede other competent authorities from determining information on beneficial ownership of a company in a timely manner,” the FATF pointed out. This, in turn, can derail efforts at freezing the assets and prosecuting money laundering and terrorist financing cases. It seems very likely that the Philippines may be headed to exiting the FATF’s gray list in early 2025, but concerns about the bank secrecy law may lead the country back to the list if these are not addressed now. Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy .

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