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Ravil Maghanov, 67, chief executive of Russia’s private oil giant Lukoil – and an opponent of the war in Ukraine – died in a six-story plunge from a Moscow hospital window. The death on Thursday was reported as a suicide by Russian state media, which noted that the oil company’s board chairman had been treated for a heart attack and was taking antidepressants. In a statement, Lukoil said Maganov died after a “long illness,” according to the English-language Moscow Times....

The employee, Donald Ray Sarrett Jr., 66, encountered the gunman in the back of the store in the produce section and tried to disarm him, police spokeswoman Sheila Miller said. He described the worker as a “hero” who probably saved other people. He said the customer was 84-year-old Glen Edward Bennett of Bend, who was killed at the west entrance of the store in the popular Forum shopping center. Police identified the gunman as Ethan Miller and said he lived at the Fox Hollow Apartments in the back of the mall....

SmartThings Home Life is a new addition to the SmartThings app[1] [2]which provides centralized and comprehensive control of Samsung devices[3]. Connecting the convenience of SmartThings services, which include SmartThings Cooking and SmartThings Home Care in Canada[4] [5]SmartThings Home Life extends the quality of your home life and puts you in control, all from your smartphone. In the SmartThings app, users can simply tap the Life tab to navigate to SmartThings Home to unlock a new level of connectivity at home....

The ongoing council pay row is making some of the headlines in Scotland. The Scot leads with Nicola Sturgeon commenting that all options to increase the pay offer have been “exhausted”. The First Minister tweeted that she was keen to offer more help to councils but that Scottish Government budgets were “finite”. image caption, The Glasgow Times is leading by rejecting the unions’ latest pay offer on Monday and saying strikes will continue....

That’s according to Canmore RCMP, who also say the outdoor hot tub remains closed. Keone (Kian) James Rohatensky, 25, was at a vacation home when the incident happened Monday night. Their family told CBC News that the victim had moved out of Regina and was on her way to a new home in B.C. RCMP were dispatched to the large commercial rental property on Kananaskis Street on a report of a possible electrocution just before 10 p....

The pound fell 4.5 percent in August to $1.16 in its biggest monthly drop since October 2016. Sterling also fell nearly 3 percent against the euro. It began September with a further 0.3% decline against the dollar, although it was roughly flat against the common currency. The currency’s fall in August reflects a worsening outlook for Britain’s economy as the energy crisis hits businesses and consumers hard. The new prime minister, due to be appointed next week, could bring further uncertainty as they set new fiscal priorities....

Tea can be part of a healthy diet, and people who drink tea may be slightly more likely to live longer than those who don’t, according to a large study. Tea contains useful substances known to reduce inflammation. Previous studies in China and Japan, where green tea is popular, suggested health benefits. The new study extends the good news to the UK’s favorite drink: black tea. Scientists from the US National Cancer Institute asked about the tea habits of almost half a million adults in the UK and then followed them for up to 14 years....

Elden Ring wasn’t just a hit with fans of FromSoftware’s ultra-difficult action-RPGs. Today Tencent Holdings and Sony announced that they have acquired a 30% stake in the developer of the Souls series, splitting in favor of Tencent. FromSoftware is expected to earn $260 million from the deal. Today’s announcement from FromSoft’s parent company Kadokawa revealed that Sony and Tencent are acquiring 14.09% and 16.25% of FromSoft, respectively. The statement says that Kadokawa wants FromSoftware to be able to expand its development efforts....

Today’s “decolonization”, though superficially similar, has the opposite effect: to mutilate our culture, sow division and narrow our sympathies. Removing Shakespeare, Austen and Chaucer from the curriculum. Relating our history as unbroken violence and exploitation. Denigrating Mozart and Beethoven as products of the slave era. Rejecting “Enlightenment” ideas as racist. Characterizing the contents of museums as “loot”, however innocently acquired. Proving that science, maths and medicine – even cricket, gardening and golf!...

A statement from BC Emergency Health Services says it received a call to respond to a patient in the community of Barrierre, about 80 kilometers north of Kamloops, on August 25. The agency has not confirmed the patient’s age or cause of death, but says it has opened a review of the call for service and will work with the patient care quality office to contact the family and address any questions or concerns....

But what would the situation in Ukraine be like without nuclear weapons or if they had been canceled altogether? Putin’s 20th century tactics and weapons have been found to disappear against determined defenders backed by 21st century NATO weapons and intelligence. It is only the nuclear conundrum that keeps Western powers out of Ukraine. Would Britain have attacked Europe in 1939 if we believed the Nazis had nuclear capability? Officers, many believe that Hitler did not use his vast chemical weapons capability, which would likely have choked the Allies into submission too quickly, because he believed we had “the bomb”....

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Mario Tama/Getty Images News The number of nonfarm jobs added to the U.S. economy in August fell from an unusually strong number in July, and the jobless rate rose unexpectedly as more people entered the labor force, the U.S. Labor Department reported on Friday. August non-farm payrolls: +315K vs. +293K expected and +526K prior (revised from +528K). Unemployment rate 3.7% vs. 3.5% expected and 3.5% in July. The labor force participation rate, which has remained stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels, rose 0....

A Pian-Médoc, ouverture en cette #rentrée d’un nouveau collège, situé en pleine nature. Et qui se soucie de la qualité de sa musique comme sonnerie pour les étudiants… pic.twitter.com/Nevop8ks13 — 20minutesbordeaux (@20minutesbord) 1er septembre 2022 L’accès à ce contenu a été bloqué pour respecter votre choix de consentement En cliquant sur ” J’ACCEPTE “, vous acceptez le dépôt de cookies par des services externes et ainsi vous aurez accès aux contenus de nos partenaires J’ACCEPTE Et pour récompenser au mieux les 20 minutes, n’hésitez pas à accepter tous les cookies, même pour une seule journée, via le bouton “J’accepte pour aujourd’hui” dans le bandeau ci-dessous....

Canada needs more transparency and better enforcement to protect Canadians from unlimited exposure to toxic chemicals like lead and cadmium, according to an Environmental Defense analysis Wednesday. The agency reported on tests conducted on dozens of products purchased at popular stores with Canadian dollars. One in four of the products tested tested positive for substances managed under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Many of the findings were within permissible limits, but the report says those limits are not strong enough....

• Lisez aussi : Le prix du beurre atteint de nouveaux sommets « Le beurre ne se remplace pas, mais il existe des moyens d’en réduire l’utilisation », explique le chef et animateur Danny St-Pierre. Pour ce chef, remplacer le beurre est difficile car il est utilisé en petite quantité. Cependant, il recommande aux personnes qui aiment tant la margarine de continuer à utiliser ce produit de substitution. “Il y a des gens qui vont préférer la margarine et c’est une question de goût....

Separately, a team from the UN nuclear watchdog set off from Kyiv to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to assess any damage after shelling that sparked fears of a radioactive fallout. read more Ukraine, armed with sophisticated weaponry supplied by the West, launched a new push this week to reclaim territory in its south. Zelensky, who urged Russian soldiers to flee for their lives, said his forces were also under attack in the east....

Au début, cependant, nous avons cru à un malaise, suivi d’une chute soudaine. Vers midi et demi lundi, les pompiers ont été appelés pour soigner une grand-mère, retrouvée inconsciente dans les couloirs de sa résidence de Cannes-la-Boca. Mais les bleus et bleus laissés sur l’infortunée ont sans doute mis la puce à l’oreille du gardien, qui a eu la présence d’esprit de regarder les images de vidéosurveillance, d’apercevoir les mailles du cœur....

Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing for another wave of Covid cases. Over the past two years, fall and winter have brought devastating Covid surges that took hundreds of thousands of lives and pushed hospitals to the breaking point. But US health officials say the nation is in a much different place today due to the arsenal of tools doctors now have to fight the virus....

Publié à 7h12 “Certains signes précoces encourageants, comme ceux observés en France, en Allemagne, au Portugal, en Espagne, au Royaume-Uni et dans d’autres pays, montrent que l’épidémie pourrait ralentir”, a déclaré le directeur régional de l’OMS pour l’Europe, Hans Kluge, lors d’une conférence de presse. “Ça va dans la bonne direction”, a-t-il déclaré. Cependant, “pour progresser vers l’éradication dans notre région, nous devons de toute urgence intensifier nos efforts”. Dans les 53 pays de la région, qui comprend la Russie et les pays d’Asie centrale, plus de 22 000 cas ont été enregistrés dans 43 pays, ce qui représente plus d’un tiers du nombre mondial d’infections....