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Kuwait City, Dec 22 (PTI) India and Kuwait on Sunday elevated their ties to a strategic partnership, inked a key pact on boosting defence cooperation and vowed to soon finalise an ambitious investment treaty as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held extensive talks with Emir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and other top leaders of the Gulf nation to broad-base the bilateral relations. The two sides also discussed ways to transform the existing 'buyer-seller' relationship in the energy sector to a comprehensive engagement with greater collaboration in upstream and downstream sectors and agreed to explore the participation of Kuwait in India's strategic petroleum reserve programme. Besides the Emir, Modi held separate talks with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Crown Prince Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah with a larger focus on imparting a new momentum to the overall ties. "This visit was historic and will greatly enhance our bilateral relations," Modi said on 'X' at the end of his two-day trip. In a special gesture, the Kuwaiti prime minister came to see off Modi at the airport. According to a joint statement, both sides directed each other's concerned authorities to "fast-track and complete the ongoing negotiations on the bilateral investment treaty". To ramp up energy cooperation, the two sides expressed keenness to support companies of the two countries to increase cooperation in the fields of exploration and production of oil and gas, refining and engineering services and petrochemical industries, it added. A total of four agreements, including the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on defence, were inked. The other pacts will provide for cooperation in areas of sports, culture and solar energy. The MoU on defence will provide for cooperation in the areas of defence industries, supply of defence equipment, joint exercises, training, exchange of personnel and experts and collaboration in research and development, Arun Kumar Chatterjee, Secretary (Overseas Indian Affairs) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), said at a media briefing. The defence pact will facilitate cooperation in coastal defence, maritime safety and joint development and production of defence equipment, the joint statement noted. In the talks, the two sides unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms, including cross-border terrorism, and called for disrupting of terrorism financing networks and safe havens, it said. Both sides also agreed to enhance counter-terror cooperation, information and intelligence sharing and exchange best practices and technologies. In their delegation-level talks, the two prime ministers discussed a roadmap to strengthen the strategic partnership in areas of trade, investment, energy, defence, security, health, education, technology, cultural and people-to-people ties, according to the MEA. In a post on 'X', Modi described his talks with the Kuwaiti counterpart as "fruitful". "Our talks covered the full range of India-Kuwait relations, including trade, commerce, people-to-people ties and more. Key MoUs and Agreements were also exchanged, which will add strength to bilateral relations," he said. The Indian prime minister also invited a delegation comprising the Kuwaiti Investment Authority and other stakeholders to visit India to look at new opportunities in the fields of energy, defence, medical devices, pharma and food parks, among others. In the meetings, the Indian side also showed keen interest in intensifying its cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) through Kuwait's presidency of the influential grouping. In their discussions, Modi and the Emir largely deliberated on boosting ties in areas of information technology, pharmaceuticals, fintech, infrastructure and security. Modi thanked the Emir for ensuring the well-being of over one million Indians in Kuwait, while the Kuwaiti leader expressed appreciation for the contribution of the community in the development journey of the Gulf nation. "Excellent meeting with His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah. We discussed cooperation in key sectors like pharmaceuticals, IT, FinTech, Infrastructure and security," Modi said in another post on 'X'. "In line with the close ties between our nations, we have elevated our partnership to a strategic one and I am optimistic that our friendship will flourish even more in the times to come," he added. Chatterjee said the Indian side is confident that "this historic visit of the prime minister will open up a new chapter in relations between India and Kuwait." Both sides have been able to identify several important areas of cooperation and the two sides will be working to fulfil them, he said. In the meeting with Crown Prince Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Modi conveyed that India attaches utmost importance to its bilateral relations with Kuwait. "The discussions covered ways to deepen economic and cultural linkages between our nations. We are extremely optimistic about the India-Kuwait Strategic Partnership scaling new heights of success in the times to come," Modi said. The MEA said the two leaders also emphasised close coordination between both sides in the UN and other multilateral fora. "The prime minister expressed confidence that India-GCC relations will be further strengthened under the Presidency of Kuwait," it said. The Crown Prince hosted a banquet in honour of Modi. In their delegation-level talks, the two prime ministers welcomed the recent signing of the Joint Commission for Cooperation (JCC). Under the JCC, new joint working groups in the areas of trade, investment, education, technology, agriculture, security and culture have been set up in addition to the existing JWGs on health, manpower and hydrocarbons. The MoUs included one on a cultural exchange programme and another on an 'executive programme on cooperation in the field of sports. The fourth one is a framework agreement on Kuwait joining the International Solar Alliance. Earlier in the day, Modi was given a ceremonial welcome at the Bayan Palace and was received by the Kuwaiti PM. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the talks between the prime minister and the Emir focused on exploring ways to take India-Kuwait ties to "new heights". In their discussions, Modi and the Kuwaiti Emir recalled the strong historical and friendly ties between the two countries and reaffirmed their full commitment to further expanding and deepening bilateral cooperation. The MEA said Modi appreciated the new initiatives being undertaken by Kuwait to fulfill its 'Vision 2035' and congratulated the Emir for successfully holding the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) earlier this month. The GCC is an influential grouping comprising the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait. The total volume of India's trade with GCC countries stood at USD 184.46 billion in the financial year 2022-23. Modi also expressed his gratitude for inviting him on Saturday as a 'Guest of Honour' at the opening ceremony of the Arabian Gulf Cup. The Emir reciprocated Modi's sentiments and expressed appreciation for India's role as a valued partner in Kuwait and the Gulf region, the MEA said in a statement. It said the Kuwaiti leader looked forward to the greater role and contribution of India towards the realisation of Kuwait's 'Vision 2035'. Modi invited the Emir, the Crown Prince and the Kuwaiti PM to visit India. The Gulf nation is among India's top trading partners, with bilateral trade valued at USD 10.47 billion in the financial year 2023-24. Kuwait is India's sixth largest crude supplier, meeting 3 per cent of the country's energy needs. Indian exports to Kuwait reached USD 2 billion for the first time, while investments by the Kuwait Investment Authority in India exceeded USD 10 billion. The last Indian prime minister to visit Kuwait was Indira Gandhi in 1981. The Indian community is the largest expatriate community in Kuwait. (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)Demand at Edmonton's Food Bank is reaching levels never seen before, and the need is causing so much strain that the food bank will soon put limits on how often clients can use its services. Executive director Marjorie Bencz said about 45,000 people a month are now being served through the food bank's hamper program, . "We're running at capacity all the time," Bencz said in an interview. "This is not sustainable over time." The food bank started reducing the size of its hampers in January 2023 to accommodate growing demand. Among other pressures, the city's population has increased by nearly 13 per cent in the past five years, according to provincial data. Marjorie Bencz is the executive director of Edmonton's Food Bank. (Samuel Martin/CBC) Currently, there are no restrictions on the number of hampers a client can receive. But starting as early as February, the food bank will have to limit the number of times that people can use it, Bencz said. Decisions will soon be made on restricting the number of visits, though details still need to be ironed out over whether there would be monthly or yearly constraints. "It's a rough situation for us because, of course, we don't want people going hungry in our community. At the same time, we have to be able to serve as many people as we can," she said. Food banks across Canada are facing big challenges as demand soars, thanks in part to the high cost of living and inflation. According , 56 per cent of food banks across Canada either reduced frequency of service or gave out less food; in 2021, it was 20 per cent. Calgary's Muslim Food Bank has no plans to introduce similar limits, according to operations assistant Mariam Wajhi, but it is seeing the pressure. The food bank, which offers halal options but is open to everyone, distributed hampers to 30 families when it opened in 2022, she said. Calgary's Muslim Food Bank opened its doors in April 2022. (Justin Pennell/CBC) Now, it is at capacity with 300 families registered to receive monthly hampers and another 200 families on the waitlist. "I have heard that some families, they said that 'We go to other food banks and they're at their full capacity so we looked up online and we saw you guys,'" Wajhi said. "Every day, we have 10 to 12 walk-in families." While there is some concern that the organization might not be able to keep up with growing demand, she said it will continue to rely on support and donations from the community. The Veterans Association in Edmonton, which provides monthly food hampers to military members, is also seeing exponential growth in demand. Outreach lead Chris Casey, left, speaks with a volunteer inside a warehouse for Veterans Association food bank. (Julia Wong/CBC) Roughly three years ago, the Veterans Association food bank was filling 55 hampers a month; now, it expects to surpass 300 hampers in December. "It's almost scary just trying to keep up with it. Fortunately we're able to get some very, very good donations that come in to help us," said outreach lead Chris Casey. "But at the same time, you have to worry about a society where we have that many people in that kind of trouble." Casey said growth is expected to continue into the new year and the organization is hoping to keep up by leaning on donations. Eric Monahan and his family have been relying on food hampers from the Veterans Association for roughly two years. (Samuel Martin/CBC News) Eric Monahan and his large family started using the Veterans Association food bank about two years ago. Monahan retired from the Royal Canadian Navy in 2019. What he thought was a one-off for a Christmas hamper ended up becoming a monthly routine. He said that some months, it was the difference between succeeding and failing. "I'm the breadwinner and our incomes aren't really ... they're barely making it," he said. Shelves inside the Veterans Association in Edmonton are stocked with non-perishable items destined for food hampers. (Julia Wong/CBC News) Monahan has an 11-person household to support and said it is "consistently frustrating" to try and stretch the family's income. "Every time I seem to go out, the prices are consistently going higher," he said. Monahan said that without the hampers, his family would have to make difficult decisions and he is grateful for the support. "When we first got this assistance, my pride was [getting] the better of me, that there's other people that are more unfortunate that would need this help," he said. "But it has become our lifeline."
3 Takeaways From Utah’s 5-2 Win Over SabresNoneWASHINGTON (AP) — The House shut down Democrats' efforts Thursday to release the long-awaited ethics report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz , pushing the fate of any resolution to the yearslong investigation of sexual misconduct allegations into further uncertainty. The nearly party-line votes came after Democrats had been pressing for the findings to be published even though the Florida Republican left Congress and withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., was the sole Republican to support the effort. Most Republicans have argued that any congressional probe into Gaetz ended when he resigned from the House. Speaker Mike Johnson also requested that the committee not publish its report, saying it would be a terrible precedent to set. While ethics reports have previously been released after a member’s resignation, it is extremely rare. Shortly before the votes took place, Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., who introduced one of the bills to force the release, said that if Republicans reject the release, they will have “succeeded in sweeping credible allegations of sexual misconduct under the rug.” Gaetz has repeatedly denied the claims. Earlier Thursday, the Ethics panel met to discuss the Gaetz report but made no decision, saying in a short statement that the matter is still being discussed. It's unclear now whether the document will ever see the light of day as lawmakers only have a few weeks left before a new session of Congress begins. It's the culmination of weeks of pressure on the Ethics committee's five Republicans and five Democrats who mostly work in secret as they investigate allegations of misconduct against lawmakers. The status of the Gaetz investigation became an open question last month when he abruptly resigned from Congress after Trump's announcement that he wanted his ally in the Cabinet. It is standard practice for the committee to end investigations when members of Congress depart, but the circumstances surrounding Gaetz were unusual, given his potential role in the new administration. Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., the committee chairman, said Wednesday that there is no longer the same urgency to release the report given that Gaetz has left Congress and stepped aside as Trump's choice to head the Justice Department. “I’ve been steadfast about that. He’s no longer a member. He is no longer going to be confirmed by the Senate because he withdrew his nomination to be the attorney general,” Guest said. The Gaetz report has also caused tensions between lawmakers on the bipartisan committee. Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the panel, publicly admonished Guest last month for mischaracterizing a previous meeting to the press. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and said last year that the Justice Department’s separate investigation against him into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls ended without federal charges. His onetime political ally Joel Greenberg , a fellow Republican who served as the tax collector in Florida’s Seminole County, admitted as part of a plea deal with prosecutors in 2021 that he paid women and an underage girl to have sex with him and other men. The men were not identified in court documents when he pleaded guilty. Greenberg was sentenced in late 2022 to 11 years in prison.
The semifinal round in the Connecticut high school football playoffs has come to an end, and matchups are set for this weekend's finals. Here's a look at who will be playing where in the state title games, and how they got there after Sunday's results.WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell’s decision to head the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense will give the outgoing GOP leader sweeping influence on funding for personnel, operations, equipment and modernization efforts across the U.S. military. It will also mean that Kentucky’s major military bases — including Fort Knox, Fort Campbell and the Blue Grass Army Depot — are likely to reap benefits from the senior senator’s oversight of hundreds of billions of dollars. “McConnell’s clearly indicating the priority he puts on defense appropriations,” said John Bolton, who served as national security adviser in the first Trump administration in an interview Friday. “I’m very happy to hear that.” In describing the current threat to America as the “gravest...since the Second World War,” McConnell said he welcomed the responsibility to mold the future of U.S. national security. “I intend to play an active role in this urgent mission as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and I look forward to working closely with incoming Chair Susan Collins to accomplish our shared goal,” McConnell said. McConnell had been contemplating a move to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee once he formally relinquishes his role as leader next year, but decided he could still wield ample power in this subcommittee role under the appropriations umbrella. The subcommittee’s work is critical in responding to evolving global threats, particularly from nations like China and Russia. It allocates funds for advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and hypersonic weapons. The role is often in tension with the president’s defense budget request. For instance, this year’s Senate bill for military appropriations included $852 billion in funding, exceeding President Biden’s proposal by $2.4 billion. McConnell has consistently argued that defense allocations are too low, a point of contention that could set up another clash with President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on ending foreign involvement in wars overseas, like Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression. But Bolton expects McConnell to stand as a bulwark against the isolationist tendencies in his party. The defense budget is “inadequate,” in the eyes of military hawks like Bolton, who said, “McConnell undoubtedly sees that and that’s what he’ll try to fix.” McConnell’s seniority on Capitol Hill has long benefited Kentucky’s military installations. The Blue Grass Army Depot, a storage facility located about 40 miles south of Lexington, has received more than $4 billion to complete one of its missions of destroying dangerous chemical materials. As a major employer of 1,450 people that pays some of the highest wages in the region, the army depot is crucial to the economic vitality of Madison County. McConnell has also directed significant resources to Fort Campbell, securing $135 million for the renovation of the nearly 50-year-old barracks and $38 million for the construction of a large-scale vehicle and aerial gunnery training range over the last year. In 2019, he helped secure $26 million for a new range at Fort Knox designed to enhance training and operational readiness for military units. The following year, the U.S. Army announced Fort Knox as its headquarters for its V Corps, a unit designed for military deployments across Europe. “As Leader, Mr. McConnell was a master of the Senate on par with LBJ,” said Austin Durrer, a former senior adviser to members on the House Defense Subcommittee on Appropriations. “I suspect he’ll carry a big stick as Chair of Defense Appropriations, benefiting both his home state and national defense priorities writ large.” ©2024 McClatchy Washington Bureau. Visit at mcclatchydc.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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