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Russia reports fierce fighting, Zelenskyy praises troops says counter-offensive 'progressing well'

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

Russia reported fierce fighting on Sunday (18 June) on three sections of the front line in Ukraine while Ukraine's president (pictured) praised his troops for repelling enemy advances and said their counter-offensive was progressing well.The assesments of action along the 1,000-km (600-mile) long front were made a day after an African peace mission wrapped up talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The mission failed to spark enthusiasm from either Moscow or Kyiv.The United Nations, meanwhile, accused Moscow of failing to allow it to provide assistance to Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine affected by the breach of a big power dam that flooded vast areas of land and left thousands homeless.A Russian-installed official said Ukraine had recaptured Piatykhatky, a village in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, and were entrenching themselves there while coming under fire from Russian artillery."The enemy's 'wave-like' offensives yielded results, despite enormous losses," the officia...

Horoscopes June 20, 2023: Nicole Kidman, a healthy lifestyle is favored

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Alisan Porter, 42; Nicole Kidman, 56; John Goodman, 71; Lionel Richie, 74.Happy Birthday: Be careful who you trust. Don’t share sensitive information or get involved in something you cannot control. Take the time to check out the possibilities, and choose a plan that will help you inch forward with the least amount of interference. Focus on home enhancements and self-improvement, and personal growth and happiness will follow. Love is apparent, and a healthy lifestyle is favored. Your numbers are 7, 12, 23, 28, 30, 35, 46.ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep adding knowledge and experience to your qualifications, and participate in events that offer unique networking opportunities. Refuse to let your emotions take over, costing you a chance to get ahead. Use your intelligence and connections strategically to get the desired results. 2 starsTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let your basic instincts take over, and you’ll find the path you want to pursue. Do...

Ask Amy: I met too many men with the same unpleasant personality

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

Dear Readers: Like you, I’m often curious about what happens to the advice I offer once it leaves my desk, and so I’ve asked readers to send in updates.The responses have flowed in, and I’m interested and often gratified to learn what impact this experience has had on readers.Publishing these updates reminds me that we have been through a lot over these past decades.To refresh all of our memories, I’m running the original Q&A, followed by the update.Dear Amy: I am a divorced 52-year-old woman who is experiencing a disturbing situation. Men I meet for possible relationships have what I describe as argumentative personalities.They are never agreeable on any topics that come up in conversation.The topics range from personal decisions to politics to differences between men and women. These men come across as misogynistic, condescending, critical of everything around them, yet they see themselves as decent normal good guys who know how to treat women. They couldn’t be more wrong.Rela...

Harriette Cole: He refused to pull over, and her new car got damaged

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

DEAR HARRIETTE: My oldest sister is hardly talking to my dad because of an incident that resulted in him breaking her car and costing her thousands of dollars.This happened in October 2022, and the mistake left my sister without a car for weeks in the city she had just moved to.Related ArticlesAdvice | Harriette Cole: My former teacher tells stories about me that aren’t true Advice | Harriette Cole: I’m afraid my son made a huge mistake, and I don’t know what to do Advice | Harriette Cole: It hurt my feelings when he treated me like a buddy Advice | Harriette Cole: I feel terrible that I hurt their feelings on social media Advice | Harriette Cole: I wonder if they think I’m trying to poach their men She is having a difficult time forgiving my dad. She told him multiple times to pull over because she heard something wrong with her car, but he refused.This was her first car, which s...

Germany unveils a teddy bear as the mascot for Euro 2024, but this time with pants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — The mascot for next year’s European Championship in Germany will be a teddy bear — and this time it won’t be naked from the waist down.The mascot made its first appearance Tuesday morning by surprising children at a primary school in Gelsenkirchen, where it was set to appear again later before the team’s friendly game against Colombia.The large-headed mascot with big eyes has shorts — in contrast to the 2006 World Cup mascot, a lion named “Goleo” that was widely ridiculed for not having pants.The as-yet unnamed teddy bear also has a soccer jersey, socks and boots. Fans were to help name it by choosing between Albärt, Bärnardo, Bärnheart or Herzi von Bär. “Bär” is the German word for bear.“As a parent, I know how important it is to stimulate children’s imagination,” Euro 2024 tournament director Philipp Lahm said. “With the launch of our tournament mascot, we hope to create a fun and likeable character that will inspire them to enjoy playing ...

French investigators search headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers in probe into suspected corruption

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

PARIS (AP) — French investigators search headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers in probe into suspected corruption.Source

Se intensifica la desafiante búsqueda en aguas remotas del sumergible desaparecido que recorría los restos del Titanic con 5 personas a bordo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

(CNN) — La búsqueda de varias agencias se está intensificando en busca de un sumergible que desapareció con cinco personas a bordo mientras recorría los restos del Titanic; los equipos de búsqueda peinan aguas agitadas y remotas con poca visibilidad.La Guardia Costera y la Real Fuerza Aérea Canadiense están desplegando más aeronaves y embarcaciones para ayudar en la búsqueda a medida que se agota el oxígeno disponible en la embarcación de 6 metros que se perdió en el océano.La búsqueda del sumergible, que tiene solo cuatro días de capacidad de emergencia, cubre un área remota 1.500 kilómetros al este de Cape Cod y casi 4 kilómetros de profundidad, dijo el contralmirante del Distrito 1 de la Guardia Costera de EE.UU., John Mauger, durante una conferencia de prensa.“Es un desafío realizar una búsqueda en esa área remota”, dijo Mauger durante una rueda de prensa. “Pero estamos desplegando todos los recursos disponibles para asegurarnos de que podamos localizar la nave y rescatar ...

Former employee living in S. Florida shares insights on submersible disappearance, highlights safety concerns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

South Florida resident Eric Karman, a former employee of the underwater tourism company at the center of the recent submersible disappearance, has come forward to express his reaction and shed light on the safety procedures within the industry. Karman, who now ventures out to the water on a boat, used to pilot a research-based Ocean Gate submarine back in 2010. He reflected on the time he spent with the company. “If it wasn’t for them moving back to Washington, I wouldn’t have ever left,” he said, “But I did know what I was signing up for, dove pretty deep, so I knew the dangers associated with that.”A different submersible has become the focus of a massive international search effort. Karman emphasized the significant difference in diving depths between his former vessel and the one currently missing. “Our depth ceiling was 1500 feet,” he recalled. “They’re diving at deeper depths on the Titanic, I believe it’s 12,00...

NASA spacecraft captures image of ghostly lightning on Jupiter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

(CNN) — A NASA spacecraft captured the eerie glow of lightning inside a swirling vortex on Jupiter.The green lightning bolt was seen inside one of the many vortices that cluster near Jupiter’s north pole.Scientists are still trying to understand many facets of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, including its massive storms and how lightning and lightning-like events occur on the gas giant.Lightning bolts originate from water clouds on Earth, and most of the strikes occur near the equator. But on Jupiter, the strikes emerge from clouds that are the result of ammonia and water, and they occur most frequently near the planet’s poles.The Juno spacecraft, which first arrived to observe Jupiter and its moons in 2016, captured the event during its 31st close flyby of the gas giant on December 30, 2020. The mission was about 19,900 miles (32,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops when it took the image.Using raw data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam instrument, citizen scientist Ke...

Trump: I was too busy to sort through the boxes I took to Mar-a-Lago

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:11:40 GMT

Donald Trump on Monday said he did not hand over government records to the federal officials when they asked him for it because he was too busy to sift through the boxes of contents.In an interview with Fox News, the former president said that the documents that the National Archives and Records Administration insisted he return were intermingled with personal materials in containers stored at his estate in Mar-a-Lago. He added that he did not have the time to separate the personal from the governmental.“Before I send boxes over,” Trump told host Bret Baier, “I have to take all of my things out. These boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things.”“I was very busy, as you’ve sort of seen,” he explained.The comments from Trump are an admission that he did not move to satisfy the federal government’s demands that he comply with their requests to hand over the documents. It is also the fullest he has addressed the matter since being indicted for his mishandling of those documents, w...