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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — First it was Canada , then the Panama Canal . Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland . The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he's picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20. In a Sunday announcement naming his ambassador to Denmark, Trump wrote that, “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity." Trump again having designs on Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the U.S. could retake control of the Panama Canal if something isn't done to ease rising shipping costs required for using the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He's also been suggesting that Canada become the 51st U.S. state and referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the “Great State of Canada.” Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, said Trump tweaking friendly countries harkens back to an aggressive style he used during his days in business. “You ask something unreasonable and it’s more likely you can get something less unreasonable,” said Farnsworth, who is also author of the book “Presidential Communication and Character.” Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large U.S. military base. It gained home rule from Denmark in 1979 and its head of government, Múte Bourup Egede, suggested that Trump’s latest calls for U.S. control would be as meaningless as those made in his first term. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” he said in a statement. “We must not lose our years-long fight for freedom.” The Danish Prime Minister’s Office said in its own statement that the government is “looking forward to welcoming the new American ambassador. And the Government is looking forward to working with the new administration.” “In a complex security political situation as the one we currently experience, transatlantic cooperation is crucial,” the statement said. It noted that it had no comment on Greenland except for it “not being for sale, but open for cooperation.” Trump canceled a 2019 visit to Denmark after his offer to buy Greenland was rejected by Copenhagen, and ultimately came to nothing . He also suggested Sunday that the U.S. is getting “ripped off” at the Panama Canal. Story continues below video “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question,” he said. Panama President José Raúl Mulino responded in a video that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to,” but Trump fired back on his social media site, “We’ll see about that!” The president-elect also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!” The United States built the canal in the early 1900s but relinquished control to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter . The canal depends on reservoirs that were hit by 2023 droughts that forced it to substantially reduce the number of daily slots for crossing ships. With fewer ships, administrators also increased the fees that shippers are charged to reserve slots to use the canal. The Greenland and Panama flareups followed Trump recently posting that “Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State" and offering an image of himself superimposed on a mountaintop surveying surrounding territory next to a Canadian flag. Trudeau suggested that Trump was joking about annexing his country, but the pair met recently at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump's threats to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods. “Canada is not going to become part of the United States, but Trump’s comments are more about leveraging what he says to get concessions from Canada by putting Canada off balance, particularly given the precarious current political environment in Canada,” Farnsworth said. “Maybe claim a win on trade concessions, a tighter border or other things.” He said the situation is similar with Greenland. “What Trump wants is a win," Farnsworth said. "And even if the American flag doesn’t raise over Greenland, Europeans may be more willing to say yes to something else because of the pressure.” Associated Press writers Gary Fields in Washington and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.

National security officials meet with US telecom execs to share intel on Chinese cyber espionage campaign, White House saysALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2024-- Agilysys, Inc . (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that on December 5, 2024, it increased the size of its Board of Directors from seven to eight members and appointed Lisa Pope to fill this newly created directorship. Ms. Pope is expected to be nominated for election by the Company’s stockholders at its 2025 annual stockholders meeting. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241211960965/en/ Lisa Pope Elected to Agilysys Board of Directors (Photo: Business Wire) Ms. Pope currently serves as President of Epicor, where she successfully led the global enterprise software company’s transition from a traditional on-premises software license operation to a cloud-first, subscription-based SaaS company, driving growth through both direct and indirect channels. Epicor serves more than 23,000 customers in 150 countries through a workforce of 4,600 personnel located in 34 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Canada, Mexico and China. Ms. Pope led a similar successful global growth transition to cloud solutions at Infor as Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales, for Infor’s CloudSuite and Value Engineering industry-specific solutions across eight vertical markets, including hospitality. Infor delivers enterprise cloud solutions to more than 60,000 customers across 175 countries. “Lisa is a highly talented SAAS-focused executive with a long history of successfully growing industry-tailored enterprise cloud solutions globally at scale,” said Agilysys Chairman of the Board Michael Kaufman. “Her experience makes Lisa an ideal candidate to help further our Board of Directors’ mission to significantly increase shareholder value in the years to come,” Mr. Kaufman added. Agilysys President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Director Ramesh Srinivasan noted Ms. Pope’s experience shaping go-to-market success in global “land and expand” cloud software models in which the value of initial sales to new customers expands over time through upselling and cross-selling additional solutions on an end-to-end enterprise platform. “Now that we have completed the cloud-native modernization of our end-to-end hospitality enterprise platforms for property management systems (PMS), omnichannel point-of-sale solutions (POS) and food-and-beverage inventory and procurement (F&B I&P) solutions, we are focused on accelerating global growth at scale,” Mr. Srinivasan emphasized. “Lisa is a global enterprise leader with proven experience accelerating new customer wins for companies that similarly have transitioned enterprise solutions to the cloud. Lisa has been instrumental in helping those companies achieve impressive global presence. We also appreciate her background driving customer success and retention to create ‘customer-for-life’ value,” Mr. Srinivasan added. Ms. Pope serves on the Board of Directors for supplier risk management and recovery solutions provider apexanalytix, and previously helped create initial go-to-market plans for behavioral analytics software start-up Pretaa. Her more than 30 years of corporate leadership experience also includes leading go-to-market growth during manufacturing and supply chain solution provider QAD’s transition from on-premises licensed software to cloud-native SaaS as Senior Vice President, Global Sales Strategy. She also was the profit-and-loss owner for QAD’s North America Region. QAD grew revenue to approximately $340 million before being acquired in an approximately $2 billion cash transaction by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo in 2021. Noting how well her corporate executive experience aligns with growth opportunities facing Agilysys, Ms. Pope commented, “I am energized by the ‘scale in the cloud’ future for Agilysys. The similarities with respect to growth, customer engagement, technology transition and micro-vertical transformation between ‘what’s next’ for Agilysys and the global expansion initiatives I have led for similar technology-forward, scale-up companies make this Board of Directors position a perfect fit – not only with my proven expertise but also with the challenges I find most rewarding. I look forward to collaborating with my Board of Director colleagues and the Agilysys leadership team to scale to the next level.” Ms. Pope was recognized for her customer-centric revenue growth success, ability to strategically lead and scale partnerships, and effective mentorship and women empowerment with the 2022 “Woman of the Year” Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service, a global annual award honoring customer service, business development and executive sales leadership. She also was named the 2021 Silver Best in Biz Award for Sales Executive of the Year by a panel of judges from the Associated Press, Barron’s , Consumer Affairs, Inc., USA Today and Wired . Ms. Pope holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and in Communications and Media Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. About Agilysys Agilysys exclusively delivers state-of-the-art software solutions and services that help organizations achieve High Return HospitalityTM by maximizing Return on Experience (ROE) through interactions that make ‘personal’ profitable. Customers around the world use Agilysys Property Management Systems (PMS), Point-of-Sale (POS) solutions, Food & Beverage Inventory and Procurement (I&P) systems and accompanying hospitality ecosystem solutions to consistently delight guests, retain staff and grow margins. The Agilysys 100% hospitality customer base includes branded and independent hotels; multi-amenity resorts; casinos; property, hotel and resort management companies; cruise lines; corporate dining providers; higher education campus dining providers; food service management companies; hospitals; lifestyle communities; senior living facilities; stadiums; and theme parks. www.agilysys.com View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241211960965/en/ CONTACT: Media NORAM: Jen Reeves, Agilysys, 770-810-6007,jennifer.reeves@agilysys.com Media Rest-of-World: Alan Edwards/Champion +44 207 030 3818,agilysys@championcomms.com Investors:Jessica Hennessy, Agilysys, 770-810-6116,investorrelations@agilysys.com KEYWORD: GEORGIA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE MOBILE/WIRELESS RESTAURANT/BAR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS DATA MANAGEMENT PAYMENTS OTHER TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY LODGING TRAVEL RETAIL SOURCE: Agilysys, Inc. 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AFC standouts meet when Herbert, Chargers host Jackson's Ravens on Monday nightOKEMOS, Mich. -- For a brief moment, the world slowed down for Ethan Carter. The Hudsonville senior linebacker had just made a great read on a Rochester Adams pass play through the middle of the field and was able to tip the ball up into the air.CALGARY, AB / ACCESSWIRE / December 16, 2024 / NXT Energy Solutions Inc. ("NXT" or the "Company") (TSX:SFD)(OTCQB:NSFDF) today announced that. John Tilson has retired from the Board of Directors (the "Board"), and that Jeffrey S. Tilson has been appointed to the Board. John Tilson is a substantial long-term shareholder of NXT and has served on the Board since 2015. His depth of experience and focus on results have provided invaluable guidance to the Company. The Board will miss his advice and mentorship and wishes him well in his retirement. Jeffrey Tilson is the son of John Tilson and will carry on a tradition of support for NXT. He holds a Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance and Information Systems E-Commerce from California State University-Long Beach and has worked as an Investment Advisor for over 23 years. Since 2012 he has managed his own referral-only investment consulting firm, JST Investment Consulting Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Jeff has successfully served in leadership roles on the boards of non-profit organizations and will bring finance, customer focus and leadership skills to the Board. Jeff and his wife have significant shareholdings in NXT and Jeff is a trustee for the Tilson Family Trust. Bruce G. Wilcox, CEO of NXT Energy, noted, "While we will miss John's formal participation as an NXT director, we expect to continue profiting by his experience and advice in an informal capacity. It has been an honor to have him on the Board. I have the greatest respect for John and his views. Also, over the years I have gotten to know Jeff as a highly skilled financial professional with great expertise and integrity. Our Company will benefit from his knowledge and experience." About NXT Energy Solutions Inc. NXT Energy Solutions Inc. is a Calgary-based technology company whose proprietary airborne SFD® survey system, applied in numerous basins around the world, uses the principles of quantum mechanics to infer stress anomalies of exploration interest. The method can be used both onshore and offshore to remotely identify areas conducive to fluid entrapment in order to recommend areas with commercial hydrocarbon and/or geothermal potential. The SFD® survey system enables our clients to focus their exploration decisions concerning land commitments, data acquisition expenditures and prospect prioritization on areas with the greatest potential. SFD® is environmentally friendly and unaffected by ground security issues or difficult terrain and is the registered trademark of NXT Energy Solutions Inc. NXT Energy Solutions Inc. provides its clients with an effective and reliable method to reduce time, costs, and risks related to exploration. Contact Information For investor and media inquiries please contact: SOURCE: NXT Energy Solutions, Inc. View the original on accesswire.com

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Epic Carhartt Black Friday sale — 11 deals I’d shop right now from $20LOS ANGELES — The NBA announced Monday afternoon that Cade Cunningham had been named the NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played from Dec. 16-22. Related Articles Detroit Pistons | Cunningham has 28 points, 13 assists to lead the Pistons past the Suns 133-125 Detroit Pistons | Collin Sexton and Keyonte George lead Jazz past Pistons, 126-119 Detroit Pistons | Hardaway’s hot shooting in OT helps Pistons nip Heat 125-124 Detroit Pistons | Pritchard scores 27 and hits 7 3-pointers to help Celtics earn 20th win, power past Pistons 123-99 Detroit Pistons | Cunningham has a triple-double to lead the Pistons to a 120-111 victory over the Knicks Cunningham led the Pistons to a 2-1 record with averages of 27 points on 49.2% shooting from the field, 40.9% on 3-point shooting, 5.3 rebounds, 12.7 assists, 2.3 blocks and one steal. The Player of the Week honor comes two days after Cunningham led Detroit to a 133-125 win over the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night at the Footprint Center. He finished the game with 28 points, 13 assists, two blocks, and a pair of steals. His most impressive game was on Dec. 16, when the Pistons beat the Miami Heat 125-124 in overtime at Little Caesars Arena. Cunningham recorded his sixth triple-double of the season, scoring 20 points and 11 rebounds and posting a career-best 18 assists. With 33 seconds remaining, he scored a game-winning layup to give the Pistons the win. Detroit’s lone loss came Thursday night against the Utah Jazz . However, Cunningham still put on an All-Star-worthy performance, recording 33 points, four rebounds, seven assists, and four blocks in 38 minutes. This marks the first time Cunningham’s has received the Player of the Week award. The San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama joins him from the Western Conference with averages of 36 points, 6.5 rebounds and four assists.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two days before recording another milestone, resume-building sack on Sunday at Cincinnati, Myles Garrett delivered a jarring hit — on the Browns. In this case, any roughness could be deemed necessary. Garrett piled on to what has been a painful and puzzling season in Cleveland by saying he doesn't have any interest in going through another rebuild and wants to know exactly what the organization's offseason plans are to fix things. If that wasn't enough, Garrett indicated for the first time that he would consider leaving the Browns if his vision doesn't mesh with the team's ambitions. “It’s a possibility,” he said of playing elsewhere. "But I want to be a Cleveland Brown. I want to play my career here.” It's unclear how Garrett's comments were received by owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam, who have plenty to consider as the Browns (3-12) head into the final two weeks of a season that began with playoff expectations and could be followed by upheaval. The Browns haven't been this bad since going 0-16 in 2017. Garrett, who reached 100 career sacks by taking down Cincinnati's Joe Burrow late in the first half of Sunday's 24-6 loss , may have either added to the Haslams' long list of concerns — the Deshaun Watson contract situation is a priority — or brought them clarity. There's no denying that Garrett's remarks carry substantial weight, which is partly why he spoke up. He's the Browns' best player, a franchise cornerstone, a future Hall of Famer and arguably the most disruptive defensive force in the game today. He's also leading with actions. Garrett showed extraordinary effort in chasing down and tackling Burrow before tumbling out of bounds and crashing into Cleveland's bench and some portable heaters. He might be frustrated, but he's not giving up. “A testament of who he is as a player and who he is as a person,” linebacker Jordan Hicks said. What the reigning Defensive Player of the Year says matters. It will be interesting to see if the Haslams listen. At this point, there are indications the Browns intend to stick with coach Kevin Stefanski and general manager Andrew Berry, whose major misses in recent drafts have become more magnified with each loss. There will be changes; it's just a matter of how drastic and if they'll be enough to satisfy Garrett's wishes. He turns 29 on Dec. 29 and has two years left on a $125 million contract extension. The All-Pro is in his prime and doesn't want to waste another season in a pointless pursuit of a Super Bowl title. His goal is to win a championship with Cleveland — or someone. Garrett's serious. He's asking the Browns to show him they are, too. Cleveland's defense is doing its part. For the second week in a row, the Browns contained one of the NFL's most talented offenses, holding the Bengals and their top-ranked passing game below most of their season averages. Burrow did throw three TD passes — for the seventh game in a row — but Cincinnati scored fewer than 27 points for the first time in seven games. The Browns continue to beat themselves with costly turnovers, some more costly than others. They drove to the Cincinnati 1-yard line in the opening minutes only to have D'Onta Foreman fumble as he neared the goal line. The Bengals capitalized by driving 99 yards to take a 7-0 lead that could have been Cleveland's. Running back Jerome Ford is making the most of a heavier workload and finishing strong. He ripped off a 66-yard run on the game's first play and finished with 131 all-purpose yards, including 92 on 11 carries and scored Cleveland's only TD. Ford's emergence as a potential No. 1 back — Nick Chubb's injuries have clouded his future — gives the team one less thing to worry about as it retools the roster. Kicker Dustin Hopkins hasn't shaken a startling slump. After being benched for a week to work through his struggles, Hopkins missed his only kick, pushing an extra point to the right. Hopkins felt confident going in, but he's back to trying to identify issues that could be equally mechanical and mental. He's just 16 of 25 on field goals, 16 of 19 on PATs and the Browns' decision to sign him to a three-year, $15.9 million extension this summer looks worse every week. QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson injured his calf early in Sunday's game, leaving his status in doubt for a second straight start this week. If Thompson-Robinson can't go, the Browns could go back to Jameis Winston, but he's dealing with a sore right shoulder. ... Tight end David Njoku is dealing with yet another injury after hurting his knee. The team is awaiting results on an MRI, perhaps a sign of the severity. Njoku has missed time with injuries all season. He finished with eight catches for 66 yards. 20 — Interceptions for the Browns this season. Thompson-Robinson's two picks on Sunday gave the team 10 in the last four games. Probably a half-empty stadium for a final home game on Sunday against the Miami Dolphins, who are still in the hunt for a wild-card spot. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflSEVEN months into the war in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Said al-Halimy began documenting his daily routine in earnest. Al-Halimy, known by his friends and online as Medo, already had a teenager’s knack for capturing sunsets, songs and life’s milestones in short video snippets. That life was fractured after Israeli bombs fell on Gaza in response to the Hamas-led Oct 7, 2023, attack, destroying his university and forcing him into a makeshift beach campsite. As months of fighting ground into the summer, and his displacement became more entrenched, al-Halimy turned his phone camera to the surreal experience of everyday reality in dystopian circumstances. “I wanted to show something positive, some resilience despite the daily suffering,” al-Halimy, 19, said in a July interview, adding that he hoped to capture an “unseen side of our lifestyle.” Palestinians trapped in Gaza have been recording the war since it began, in often harrowing videos that have given a close-up view of the Israeli bombardment to millions of people worldwide. Many of their posts – raw, personal and at times graphic – went viral early in the conflict as traditional news media outlets struggled to get reporters into the blockaded enclave. Now, young Palestinians in Gaza are sharing a different window into their lives: their routines amid a year-old war with seemingly no end in sight. Al-Halimy began posting about the hourslong wait to fill containers with drinking water, about concocting recipes with limited food supplies, and about a new garden plot he created in the soil beside the tent encampment that had for months been his family’s shelter. Showing his new baby mint plant to his Instagram followers, he asked, “Tell me in the comments, what should I name her?” More than 6,000 miles away in central Florida, Sierra Taft, 36, was watching, checking al-Halimy’s accounts regularly for updates and worrying about his wellbeing. “He felt like somebody that if I had met face to face, I could be best friends with,” she said. A still image from a video on the Instagram account of Mohammed Said alHalimy in Gaza. Life in Gaza through Instagram Some Palestinians in Gaza document how they cook meals over open fires, using whatever few ingredients are available. Others unpack aid boxes or share exercise routines where doorways double as pull-up bars. And some show how friendly football and chess games are squeezed between piles of rubble and long lines for water. With a command of English and growing followings, these Palestinian creators share their perspectives and appeal for help using the language of online influencers around the world who have amassed vast audiences by filming the minutiae of their lives. So, when Palestinian creators like al-Halimy portray normal activities such as exercising or cooking against the backdrop of war, it is “a language that reaches,” said Laura Cervi, an associate professor of journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona who has studied Palestinian activism online. “It’s not a number. It’s not like the complex journalistic vernacular,” she said, adding that from the perspective of viewers, “It’s a guy like me that is telling me that he exists – in the way I exist.” Before the war, Mohammed Faris said his favourite place was the gym. Faris, a Khan Younis resident, had just started his first year at Al-Aqsa University when the war broke out. His parents, employees of UNRWA, the main United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, encouraged him to start documenting his life. Since April, he has been sharing his diet and exercise routines under the account “Gymrat in Gaza,” which has gained more than 180,000 followers. “Why not grab this opportunity to talk to the world?” he said in a recent interview from Khan Younis while refilling his supply of water. Faris said he had raised nearly US$13,000 (RM58,062) online since he started posting videos, and hoped eventually to evacuate his family from Gaza. He said his audience enjoyed it when he incorporated memes and jokes. “I like to add this touch of sense of humour,” he said. But he struggles with the instability of being displaced from his home and the scarcity of healthy foods, he said. Finding stable internet connections can be a challenge, and he sometimes waits hours for a video to upload. “What I want people to receive from my vlogs is that we are trying to cope with the situation,” he said. The fighting has pushed most Palestinians in Gaza into shrinking areas designated by Israel as “humanitarian zones,” though UN officials and aid groups have said that no place in Gaza is safe and they fear famine. Some viewers have criticised al-Halimy and others like him, accusing them of sharing misinformation, or questioning their struggle given their lighthearted messaging. “I’m just showing you the 1% of my life – the 1% that I’m trying to have fun,” he said in a video posted in May. He added: “We’ve been through hell.” A global reach Even before the war, young Palestinians were adopting the lighter tone of online social media to conduct what Cervi calls “playful activism,” pointing to TikTok trends that incorporate humour to make political points. The insistence on sharing everyday routines or incorporating a lighter tone into material about the war, she added, is its own form of defiance. “It’s very political because they’re saying, ‘We’re surviving and we will keep on,’” she said. Framing these videos as lifestyle content, she said, makes it more likely that social media algorithms will share them with a broader audience. Activists elsewhere have used playfully framed videos on social media platforms to share messaging about other causes, Cervi said, such as the struggle to combat the killing of women in Latin America. Researchers say that social media postings not only can elevate causes but tend to simplify them by removing nuance and centring on each creator’s perspective. What seem like candid moments can actually be carefully chosen and edited for effect. Al-Halimy said creating videos helped him endure his everyday hardships. “I do my best to set up new, bright sides of my tent life and make it a day to remember,” he said in an interview in the summer. “A moment of pain, to a moment of hope.” A graduate of a high school for gifted students, al-Halimy had studied in Texas under a State Department program. He said in July that his family had decided to stay together in Gaza, instead of being separated. His online following was growing fast, and he hoped to raise enough money for them all to leave. On Aug 25, he shared his final video on Instagram. The next afternoon, according to a friend who was with him, al-Halimy was at a makeshift cafe in Khan Younis when he was struck in the head by shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike. His brother, Zeid al-Halimy, said that he died at a Khan Younis hospital. In the months since al-Halimy’s death, his followers have been re-watching his videos and have left dozens of tributes in the comments. Some vowed to plant mint in their own gardens to remember him, and a fundraising effort for his family has surged to more than US$137,000. Weeks after his death, Taft, who had never met al-Halimy in person, said she still thought about him every day. She compared losing him to another recent blow, the death of a close school friend. “It’s the same feeling of loss,” she said. Other Palestinians she followed online are never far from her mind. “I’m wondering who the next one is going to be,” she said. — © 2024 The New York Times Company

Amitabh Bachchan or Abhishek, who is the better actor? Jr. Bachchan says it is him during 'KBC 16'Quipt Home Medical Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2024 Financial ResultsAdani Gangavaram Port, the deepest and one of the most modern ports in India today set a new record for urea discharge, successfully offloading 19,199 MTs of urea from MV ALTUS within its first 24 hours of berthing. This achievement underscores the port’s commitment to operational excellence and efficient cargo handling. The record-breaking discharge was made possible through the strategic utilization of Mobile Harbour Cranes, Hoppers, and Warehouses. The port’s continuous investments in infrastructure and technology, coupled with a strong focus on safe and efficient operations, have been instrumental in achieving this milestone. Adani Gangavaram Port’s integrated approach, which includes seamless connectivity with railway facilities, ensures the swift and reliable transportation of fertilizer cargo to farmers across the region. Speaking on the occasion Adani Gangavaram Port Limited management sad, “This record-breaking achievement is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our entire team,” “We are committed to continuously enhancing our operational capabilities to provide efficient and reliable services to our customers and contribute to the growth of the Indian economy.” Source: Adani Gangavaram Port

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The international criminal court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the war in Gaza has been welcomed by Palestinians as a landmark moment in their decade-long fight to challenge the Israeli occupation through international institutions. Thursday’s announcement from the international criminal court’s pretrial chamber of arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has sent shockwaves through the international legal system. As the first time that officials from a democratic, western-allied state have been charged with war crimes, it is widely seen as the most significant action taken by the court since it was set up at the turn of the century. “We had no illusions about how tough this road was going to be. Every step leading to this moment was difficult, but Palestine stayed the course,” said Ammar Hijazi, who leads the Palestinian Authority’s delegation to The Hague, the seat of the ICC. “We told the world justice for Palestine will be the litmus test of the international system; we were not being hyperbolic.” Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer and former Palestinian peace negotiator, said: “The days ahead for Palestine are not good ... At the same time, Israel will struggle to remove the stain of these warrants. When countries like Canada and the Netherlands say they will implement the court’s decision, it calls weapons sales and the level of political support for Israel into question.” The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced in May his office would seek arrest warrants for the two Israelis, as well as Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Haniyeh and Sinwar have since been killed. The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Deif, who is believed to have died in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in July, although Hamas has not officially confirmed his death. In an extraordinary rebuke of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and its conduct in the war in Gaza, the chamber ruled there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bore criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”. The warrants severely curtail the Israeli officials’ ability to travel abroad, since the ICC’s 124 member states would be obliged to arrest them, further deepening the country’s growing international isolation. The move presents fresh challenges for Israel’s western allies, which are struggling to reconcile support for the Jewish state with evidence of war crimes in the conflict and respect for the rules-based order. Member states of the ICC now have a choice between “international law and accountability for all or none at all”, Hijazi said. “They can’t pretend that the system has relevance and works if they give Israel a free pass. If states that have declared their compliance with and respect for the court match their words with actions, Israel will feel the impact on many fronts.” Israel is not a member of the ICC and denies committing war crimes in the war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 2023. Many in Israel have long maintained that the UN and associated bodies such as the ICC are biased against it. Palestine was recognised as a member of the court in 2015. The Guardian revealed in May how Israel ran a nine-year-long secret “war” against the court , deploying its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, smear and allegedly threaten senior ICC staff in an effort to derail the court’s inquiries. Earlier this year, after the court’s chief prosecutor applied for arrest warrants, Palestinian civil society hoped the growing threat of prosecution might have had a deterrent effect on Israel’s actions. Sign up to Observed Analysis and opinion on the week's news and culture brought to you by the best Observer writers after newsletter promotion Instead, the country reacted by announcing new settlements in the occupied West Bank, which were described as a punitive measure for Palestinian cooperation with the court. Israel also stepped up its military campaign on Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, which at that point was the last place of relative safety for civilians in the Palestinian territory. “Palestinian civil society has been working towards this moment since 2009; the fact that it has taken this long is an indictment of the international system. Eight thousand people have died in Gaza since [warrants were sought]. Maybe those lives could have been saved,” Buttu said. The US president-elect, Donald Trump, is expected to impose renewed sanctions on the ICC in support of Israel, and is even less likely than Joe Biden to exert any kind of pressure on its ally to end the occupation or return to peace talks. The US, like Israel, is not a member of the court. “If Trump has an agenda to potentially upend international politics and diplomacy as we know it, defending the international order from such a threat is an international and collective responsibility; understanding that throwing Palestine under the bus will not achieve that is critical,” Hijazi said. Buttu added: “We are going to pay a very heavy price for Trump being elected. But I hope the ICC decision means Netanyahu will also pay a heavy price for his actions.”DEAR ABBY : My best friend of 40 years, "Savannah," has been in a bad marriage for 20 of those. Her husband has cheated on her repeatedly. He can't keep a job, and he emotionally abuses her and her daughter. Now that she's finally fed up, he refuses to leave the house. Despite how bad his behavior has been, Savannah is doing nothing to move the divorce forward. She continues paying for his travel and includes him in family get-togethers in what she calls a "sacrifice," made at her daughter's request. It has been incredibly difficult to be supportive, hear about how harmful this has been, support her when she says she's getting out, and then hear that for one reason or another he's still there. When I challenge her and suggest she's making excuses for not progressing with the divorce, she becomes defensive and shuts down the conversation. Over the last two years, she has taken to calling me twice a day, and becomes frustrated if I don't answer. I have asked her to stop telling me stories about her husband's behavior -- which usually lasts a week or two. I am at my wits' end about how to be a good friend without taking on the stress of her horrible situation and feeling generally overwhelmed by her outreach. What can I do to help her, but also prevent our friendship from imploding? — WEARY FRIEND IN MICHIGAN DEAR WEARY FRIEND : What you may need to do is accept that one of the reasons Savannah's dysfunctional marriage has lasted as long as it has is because she wants it to. She doesn't need to move forward because she has you to dump on when the pressure becomes too great. It may be time to stop focusing on what you can do to help Savannah and concentrate on what you need to do to help yourself. If that means stepping back and letting her find solutions to her problems without your help, don't feel guilty for doing it. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our Podcasts DEAR ABBY : For years, a group of us former co-workers has been going out to dinner once a month. My daughter is part of the group and is also the youngest. Lately, she has been dismissed and ignored by two members of our group (there are six of us). Being her mother, I am hurt by how they have treated her. She has stopped going out with us, but I'm uncertain if I should also stop. They have been nothing but nice to me. I'm lost on what to do anymore -- to go, or not to go? — HURT IN THE MIDWEST DEAR HURT : Have you asked these two former co-workers why they made your daughter feel unwelcome? Their behavior was rude. Have you asked the two who were welcoming what they think about all of this? Perhaps you (and your daughter) would feel more comfortable socializing with only them. That said, I do not think you should drop out of the group if you enjoy their company. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. 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