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With no suspects or motives announced, the FBI is joining the investigation into power outages in a North Carolina county believed to be caused by “intentional” and “targeted” attacks on substations that left about 40,000 customers in the dark Saturday night, causing curfew and declaration of emergency. A massive outage in Moore County turned into a criminal investigation after emergency crews found signs of possible equipment vandalism at different locations — including two substations that had been destroyed by fire, according to the Moore County Sheriff’s Office....

The bizarre allegation was first reported in the French news magazine Paris Match by two veteran investigative journalists. According to the report, members of the Russian president’s Federal Protection Service (FPS) are responsible for collecting his body waste in specialized packages, which are then placed in a special briefcase for the trip home. The FPS is the department in charge of protecting high-ranking government officials, including the president. According to reporters, Regis Gente, author of two books on Russia, and Mikhail Rubin, who has covered Russia for more than a decade, examples of such fecal collections were included during Putin’s visit to France on May 29, 2017 and during the during the October 2019 trip to France....

While dozens of single mothers have gone public saying they were snubbed by the Kremlin, Putin sat down with a former government official, the mother of a senior military and police official from Chechnya and other women active in state-sponsored anti-war NGOs. The Guardian has been able to confirm the identities of at least three of the women who met with Putin on Friday in a highly publicized meeting at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo on the outskirts of Moscow....

The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) said officers were called to the park just after 10 p.m. on May 3 for a report of an assault. Police arrived to find an injured man and began providing emergency medical treatment. He was taken to hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead. Police identified the man as Kyle James Craik, 27, of Winnipeg. Police said members of the homicide unit launched an investigation, which led to the arrest of a 23-year-old woman on the same day as the incident....

On Thursday, the price of a liter of unleaded gasoline reached 182.31 p, which means that the cost of filling an average family car reached 100 pounds for the first time. Some employees who have to drive for work spend up to £ 350 a week on fuel and others “pay to go to work”. The GMB warned that the increase had “crushed” its members and said staff shortages in the transport and healthcare industries “would only worsen as prices continued to rise”....

Zelensky calls for a new round of ‘even stronger’ EU sanctions against Russia. Kremlin-installed officials reportedly set up a company to sell Ukraine’s grain. Ukrainians in occupied southern regions handed Russian passports. Nearly 800 children have been killed or injured in the war, Ukraine says. Civilian killed in Odesa beach explosion amid growing concerns over mines. Ukrainian and British officials warned Saturday that Russian forces are relying on weapons able to cause mass casualties as they try to make headway in capturing Eastern Ukraine while fierce, prolonged fighting depletes resources on both sides....

The strikes targeted Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, the Air Force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. Updated at 16:34 GMT Important events Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Leyland Cecco Canadian-made parts were found in the Iranian “kamikaze” drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine, according to a report. An investigative project by the NGO Statewatch found components from 30 European and American companies, including antenna components from Tallysman Wireless, a Canadian manufacturer....

Virgin material from the asteroid Ryugu was returned to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body about 300 million kilometers away. Read also: Are you looking for a smartphone? To check the mobile finder click here. But scientists are just beginning to discover its secrets in the first studies in small portions of 5.4 grams (0.2 ounces) of dust and dark, tiny rocks. In a paper released Friday, a team of researchers led by Okayama University in western Japan said they had discovered “amino acids and other organic matter that could provide clues to the origin of life on Earth....

“The idea that I never asked for a presidential pardon for myself or other members of Congress is an outright, shameless and lifeless lie,” Perry wrote on Twitter on Friday. During a review of the commission’s investigation, Cheney, the vice president of the selection committee and one of the two Republicans, said Perry was involved in efforts to appoint Justice Department attorney Jeff Clark as attorney general. Trump wanted Clark to be the nation’s top law enforcement official to authorize him to send a letter to Georgia and other states saying, according to Cheney, that the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that may had affected the outcome of the election....

The family of six – mother and father and their four children – were fishing from Deer Island on the Merrimack River. A state police boat and Newburyport fire truck are searching for a 6-year-old boy who went missing on the Merrimack River near Deer Island in Amesbury. David L. Ryan / Globe Staff From the Associated Press Updated June 11, 2022 2:52 p.m. Newbourport, Massachusetts (AP) – A family trip on a Massachusetts fishing trip ended in tragedy with a mother dead and her 6-year-old son missing, authorities said....

One day last month, Mike Pence secretly rallied with some of Michigan’s top donors, including the DeVos royal family, as he set his vision for the Republican Party before flying to Georgia to campaign for the presidency. for governor. Tom Cotton, a Republican senator from Arkansas, has developed a powerful PowerPoint presentation on how previous presidential nominations have failed – and shown it to donors and others during meetings on how to run a successful campaign....

“Nous n’en sommes pas encore là”, a averti l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) début décembre. Alors qu’au moins 90% de la population mondiale bénéficie d’une forme d’immunité, “des lacunes dans la surveillance, les tests, le séquençage et la vaccination continuent de créer les conditions idéales pour l’émergence d’une nouvelle variante inquiétante qui pourrait entraîner une mortalité importante”, a-t-il averti. directeur général. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. L’OMS déclare la fin d’une pandémie....

The combination of humidity and hot weather in May means that despite the fact that the number of pollen is not higher than usual, the pollen itself is stronger, experts said. Yolanda Clewlow, Met Office’s health and air quality liaison officer, told the Met Office podcast Weather Snap: “The power of these pollen grains could be stronger this year because of the time we had. spring. “A warm and humid May, combined with a relatively warm spring, means that the pollen that has developed is likely to be particularly strong....