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EU Energy Platform: Commission invites international suppliers to respond to third EU tender for over 16 bcm of gas for joint purchases 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

The Commission invites international reliable gas suppliers to submit their bids in the third EU tender for the joint purchasing of gas, starting today. This third tendering round under the EU Energy Platform ran until yesterday (4 October). It covers gas deliveries from December 2023 to March 2025. In this third tender, the aggregated gas needs amount to 16,49 bcm, based on requests submitted by 39 European companies. This level of aggregated demand shows a steady increase in volumes across the three rounds so far. Executive Vice President Maroš Šefčovič said: "After another successful round of demand aggregation, we see clearly that European market players value our mechanism to pool demand and procure gas from reliable suppliers at competitive prices. Once again, today, I encourage international suppliers to seize the opportunity to expand their customer base in Europe and contribute to stabilising the global gas market as the winter approaches." The joint purchasing of gas ...

Armed dog walker for hire in Orange County 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

A dog-loving retired police sergeant in Orange County has taken it upon herself to protect the furriest of family members by offering armed dog walking escorts.  Unfortunately, it’s has become an all too familiar and terrifying trend, thieves targeting dog owners often with a violent outcome.  Probably one of the most memorable of these pup heists was the violent attack on Ryan Fischer, Lady Gaga’s dog walker, in West Hollywood in Feb. 2021. Fischer was walking the pop star’s French Bulldogs when a car pulled up, three men got out and shot him before fleeing. Both of the dogs were later returned to Lady Gaga.  The man responsible for shooting Fischer, James Howard Jackson, was later captured and sentenced to 21 years in prison.  That famous dognapping was enough for Carol Salvatierra, now retired from the Santa Ana Police Department, to launch Leash and Shield, an armed dog walking and bodyguard service where the motto is "To Protect and Walk." “I was in sho...

Pakistan still searching for right starting lineup ahead of World Cup game against Netherlands

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

Pakistan captain Babar Azam feels like he’s playing a Cricket World Cup at home, even if his lineup is unsettled.The world’s top-ranked ODI batter — for more than two years — is searching for the right balance for his starting XI going into Pakistan’s opening day-nighter against Netherlands on Friday at Hyderabad.Babar was in good touch despite Pakistan’s losses in warm-up games to New Zealand and Australia, scoring 80 and an unbeaten 90. Mohammad Rizwan, Saud Shakeel and Iftikhar Ahmed were also among the runs as Pakistan went close to 350-run marks in both games before finishing on the wrong side of the results.“We are here for a week in Hyderabad, so we do not feel like we are in India, it’s like we are at home,” Babar said of the central Indian city, which has a large population of Muslim people, during a pre-tournament news conference.The six-week tournament was opening Thursday with a rematch of the 2019 final between England and New Zealand.Babar and his teammates...

MLB playoffs 2023: Rangers, Twins, Diamondbacks and Phillies advance with Wild Card Series sweeps

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

Two and done. Across the board.Texas, Minnesota, Arizona and Philadelphia finished off postseason sweeps Wednesday as all four best-of-three Wild Card Series ended in two games.A pair of road teams advanced — the Rangers and Diamondbacks — while the Twins and Phillies won at home. That makes seven sweeps in eight Wild Card Series during the first two years of expanded playoffs.In the American League, Texas will play AL East champion Baltimore in the Division Series, and AL Central champ Minnesota takes on defending World Series champion Houston, which won the AL West, as Twins star shortstop Carlos Correa faces his former team.In the National League, the young Diamondbacks square off against the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers, and the defending NL champion Phillies head to Atlanta for a playoff rematch with the major league-best Braves, who won their sixth straight NL East title this year.The schedule is quiet for two days before all four best-of-five Division Series begin Sat...

Powerball: el premio mayor sube a US$ 1.400 y estos son los números ganadores del 4 de octubre

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

(CNN) — Otro sorteo de Powerball sin premios está elevando el premio mayor por las nubes. Nadie acertó todos los números en el sorteo de este miércoles por la noche, que tuvo un valor estimado de US$ 1.200 millones, según la Asociación de Lotería Multiestatal.El sorteo produjo un gran número de personas que acertaron las cinco bolas blancas, pero no el Powerball, con diez boletos de este tipo que valen al menos US$ 1 millón cada uno.El premio mayor de Powerball es enorme, pero aquí hay 3 formas mejores de aumentar tu riquezaEl premio mayor estimado para el próximo sorteo de este sábado es de US$ 1.400 millones. El último premio mayor de Powerball que se ganó se sorteó el 19 de julio por US$ 1.080 millones. Esta es la primera vez en la historia del juego que dos ganadores consecutivos del premio mayor valdrán más de US$ 1.000 millones.Los números ganadores de este miércoles por la noche fueron 9-35-54-63-64, con el Powerball 1.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Ne...

Lassi Lappalainen scores in 95th minute to help Montreal tie the Dynamo 1-1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

MONTREAL (AP) — Lassi Lappalainen scored in second-half stoppage time to help CF Montreal tie the Houston Dynamo 1-1 on Wednesday night.Houston (12-11-9) secured a postseason spot for the first time since 2017 in coach Ben Olsen’s debut season with the club.Montreal (11-16-5) is winless in its last seven matches, with three draws. Montreal had won its last seven home matches against Houston, the last six by shutouts.Lappalainen settled a deflected corner kick at the edge of the 18-yard box and sent a shot from distance into the back of the net. Artur opened the scoring just 10 minutes into the game. Sebastian Kowalczyk settled a cross at the penalty spot and sent it back to a wide open Artur for a shot off the post.Steve Clark, who entered tied with Seattle’s Stefan Frei for league lead with 12 clean sheets, had six saves for Houston. Jonathan Sirois stopped three shots for Montreal.Montreal will host the Portland Timbers on Saturday. Houston returns home to host the Colorado Rapids...

How I decolonized my Russian mind and retook Kyiv

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

How I decolonized my Russian mind and retook KyivUkrainians are responding to Vladimir Putin’s assault by reclaiming our identity from those who sought to erase it.Soviet symbols were never meant to be just a part of history, but an act of cultural annihilation toward Ukraine | Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty ImagesThis article is part of POLITICO’s Global Policy Lab: Living Cities, a collaborative journalism project exploring the future of cities. Sign up here.KYIV — My city is changing so fast that I am failing to keep up sometimes. It seems like only yesterday that I hopped on a tram on a street named after the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaieva. Today, that street boasts the name of Alexandra Ekster, an acclaimed international artist who was born in Poland, worked in Paris, married a lawyer from Kyiv and incorporated Ukrainian folk art into her avant-garde paintings.Listen to the storyHear the author, Veronika Melkozerova, read her story aloud. This recording was do...

Baby dies after pregnant woman shot while on bus in Holyoke

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

A baby died after its pregnant mother was shot while riding a bus in Holyoke Wednesday, the Hampden County District Attorney’s announced. The DA’s office said the shooting happened around 12:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Sargeant Street. The pregnant woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition after the shooting, according to the DA’s office. Officials said the woman’s infant was delivered and needed life-saving medical services. In an update late Wednesday afternoon, the DA’s office said the infant had died. The DA’s office said the incident appeared to have been part of an altercation between three male suspects. Officials said investigators believe one gunshot hit the pregnant woman while she was on a public bus, adding that the woman was not involved in the altercation.The DA’s office said all involved suspects “are believed to have been identified and transported to nearby hospitals and are in custody.”The incident remained under investigation as of We...

Nobel Prize in literature to be announced in Stockholm

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday, with the new laureate, or laureates, joining an illustrious list of past winners that ranges from Toni Morrison to Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre — who turned down the prize in 1964.This year’s winner or winners will be known at 1 p.m. (1100 GMT), assuming there is no slip-up similar to Wednesday, when a press release divulging the names of the three chemistry laureates was sent to Swedish media hours before the official press event to unveil the winners.Last year, French author Annie Ernaux won the prize for what the prize-giving Swedish Academy called “the courage and clinical acuity” of books rooted in her small-town background in the Normandy region of northwest France.Ernaux was just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates. The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers, as well as too male-dominated.On Wednesday, the che...

Shelling in northwestern Syria kills at least 5 civilians, activists and emergency workers say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:38:52 GMT

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government early Thursday shelled a village in the rebel-held northwestern part of the country, killing at least five civilians, activists and emergency workers said.The shelling, which comes amid a rise in strikes in the rebel-held enclave in recent days, hit a family house on the outskirts of the the village of Kafr Nouran in western Aleppo province, according to opposition-held northwestern Syria’s civil defense organization known as the White Helmets.The dead included an elderly woman and three of her daughters and her son, said Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Nine others from the family were injured, it said. Neither Syria nor its key military ally Russia commented on the shelling, but Damascus says strikes in the northwestern province target armed insurgent groups. The Syrian pro-government newspaper Al-Watan said the Syrian army had targeted the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Hayat Tahrir al Sham in ...