It was not clear where Rajapaksa, who also holds US citizenship, was trying to go. He resigned as finance minister in early April as street protests grew against shortages of fuel, food and other essentials, and resigned from his seat in parliament in June. His older brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa will step down as president on Wednesday to pave the way for a unity government after thousands of protesters stormed his and the prime minister’s official residences on Saturday demanding their ouster....

Comment For years, Steve Bannon has been poking holes in America’s democratic institutions – demonizing the press, spreading lies and hatred about immigrants, fueling an insurgency, defying the law. So far, he’s always gotten away with it. Indicted on charges of defrauding donors to a private group that claimed to be raising money for Donald Trump’s border wall, he received a presidential pardon. Accused of registering to vote in Florida, where he did not live, he managed to avoid prosecution....

S&P 500-linked futures rose 1.1% on Monday after the broad index closed higher on Friday, snapping a five-day losing streak. Blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average futures added 1% while high-tech Nasdaq-100 futures gained 1.3%.

“I just had confidence that my teammates would put some good at-bats together and we’d tie the game and win the ball game,” he said. Hernandez hit an RBI single as part of a three-run 10th inning for the Toronto Blue Jays as they came from behind to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 at the Rogers Center on Saturday. After Vinnie Pasquantino hit a two-run home run in the top of the 10th inning to put the Royals (36-55) up 5-3, the Blue Jays (49-43) chipped away at the deficit....

Author of the article: Associated Press Mark Scolforo This 2020 photo provided by Kelly Titchenell shows her mother, Diania Kronk. Photo by Kelly Titchenell /via AP Content of the article A Pennsylvania 911 operator faces a rare involuntary manslaughter charge for failing to send an ambulance to the rural home of a woman who died of internal bleeding a day later, despite pleas from the woman’s daughter that without medical help she was “going to die....

Despite “moving heaven and earth” to try to keep Gaudreau a Flame, Treliving said the player decided to turn down a more lucrative contract offer with the Flames for family reasons. Gaudreau signed for seven years and a reported US$68 million with Columbus. The Flames were reported to have offered an eight-year deal with an average annual salary in excess of $10 million per year. “Johnny Gaudreau is a superstar in the National Hockey League and we couldn’t be more welcoming to the Columbus Blue Jackets family,” Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen said in a press release Wednesday night....

Comment The US Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that granted a constitutional right to abortion. The decision is expected to lead to abortion bans in about half of the states, although the timing of those laws going into effect varies. Some Republican-led states banned or severely restricted abortions immediately, while other restrictions will take effect later. At least one state, Texas, is waiting until the Supreme Court issues its formal decision on the case, which is separate from the June opinion and could take about a month....

The allegations date back a decade, when British troops were still fighting the Taliban alongside allies in Afghanistan. The BBC obtained detailed military reports of SAS night raids and revealed a “pattern of strikingly similar reports of Afghan men being shot dead for pulling AK-47 rifles or grenades behind furniture after being captured”. It found that 54 people were killed in suspicious circumstances by one SAS unit in Helmand between 2010 and 2011....

TORONTO — Multiple heart surgeries and near-death experiences earned 12-year-old Mariam Tannous the nickname Mariam Miracle, her mom says. And for good reason: About a year ago, the now thriving pre-teen became the youngest person in Canada, and among the youngest in the world, to receive a device known as a total artificial heart. Her doctors at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children on Monday outlined their last-ditch effort to save her life when an earlier transplant began to fail....

My quick surprise is that Rishi Sunak has done nothing to torpedo his position as the current front-runner among MPs, even if he hadn’t put up a performance that would have wowed the audience. Tugendhat was clearly the favorite candidate for the studio audience, but he’s not really credible to make the bottom two, which leaves Badenoch, Truss and Mordaunt. I don’t think any of the three had a particularly stellar night....

Non, Thibaut Pinot n’a pas pu, ou plutôt pas voulu faire l’évasion du jour à “sa” montée de la Planche. Marc Madiot, son manager, a reconnu que le Franc-Comtois avait carte blanche si «Grande équipe« Une vingtaine d’unités sont sorties. Ce n’était pas le cas, mais les quelques tentatives faites l’ont empêché de jouer l’autre rôle qui lui était assigné : celui d’ange gardien de son jeune chef. Pinot s est déçu, mais cela n’a pas suffi à lui faire emporter les sourires des hommes en bleu-blanc-rouge en haut de la Planche....

• Lire aussi : Pénurie de frites à cause des sanctions contre le « McDo russe » • À lire aussi : Troque ses chaussons de danse contre une AK-47 Cette décision a été prise après de nombreuses discussions avec l’Ukraine, l’Allemagne et la Commission européenne, mais aussi avec l’Agence internationale de l’énergie, a précisé le ministre des Ressources naturelles, Jonathan Wilkinson. « À la suite de ces pourparlers, le Canada accordera à Siemens Canada une licence révocable et limitée dans le temps pour permettre aux turbines Nordstream 1 réparées de retourner en Allemagne, ce qui soutiendra la capacité de l’Europe à accéder à une énergie fiable....

Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor posted Friday that the board is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to take legal action to enforce the agreement merger. We are confident that we will prevail in the Delaware Court of First Instance.” Twitter could have pushed for a $1 billion US fee that Musk agreed to pay under those circumstances. Instead, it appears ready to fight for the deal, which the company’s board has approved and chief executive Parag Agrawal has insisted he wants to complete....

By Liam McConnell Posted July 14, 2022 at 5:58 pm Two Uxbridge residents have been charged with more than 100 counts of fraud for an alleged multi-million dollar real estate fraud scheme in the greater Toronto area. Peel police allege an extensive fraud scheme took place over two-and-a-half years between January 2019 and July 2021. In each of the several incidents, the victims approached the couple expressing interest in purchasing a property....

Loot boxes have drawn comparisons to gambling because they allow players to spend money to unlock in-game rewards, such as special characters, weapons or clothing, without knowing what they will receive. The features, popular in games such as Call of Duty and the Fifa football series, were effectively banned in Belgium in 2018, but Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the UK would not follow suit. Instead, after a 22-month consultation, he said the government would discuss tougher “industry-led” protections with the UK’s £7bn gaming industry, drawing claims from one expert that “the foxes are guarding the hen house”....

Das sei vor nicht allzu langer Zeit anders gewesen, so Medwedew weiter. Russland habe zwar an den G-8-Treffen der größten Industrieländer der Welt teilgenommen, sei aber zu einigen Treffen der anderen sieben Teilnehmer nicht eingeladen worden, “bei denen wirtschafts- und verteidigungspolitische Fragen der westlichen Länder diskutiert wurden”. Vor allem westliche Staaten haben den Angriff Russlands auf die Ukraine seit Wochen scharf verurteilt, gegen Moskau wurden zahlreiche Sanktionen verhängt. Einige G-20-Führer haben ihre Teilnahme an einem November-Gipfel in Frage gestellt, falls der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin persönlich anwesend sein sollte....

23 Menschen starben, darunter LIza und zwei Jungen im Alter von sieben und acht Jahren. Ihre Mutter, Iryna Dmytrieva, 33, überlebte mit schweren Verletzungen. „Ihrer Mutter wurde das Wichtigste genommen, was sie hatte“, sagte Irynas Tante Tetiana Dmytrysyna der Nachrichtenagentur Associated Press. Kurz vor der Explosion teilte Dmitrieva ein Video ihrer Tochter in den sozialen Medien. Es zeigt das Mädchen in einer Jeansjacke und einer weißen Hose, die sich streckt, um ihren eigenen Kinderwagen zu schieben....

Le juge a déclaré l’homme de 60 ans coupable d’avoir “diffusé des informations manifestement fausses” sur l’armée russe en utilisant “ses fonctions officielles” et de l’avoir fait dans le cadre d’un groupe organisé motivé par la haine politique. “Le rétablissement de l’accusé est impossible sans une peine privative de liberté”, a déclaré le juge avant de le condamner à sept ans de bagne. Avant de prononcer cette sentence, le public du procès a applaudi l’accusé, entraînant l’expulsion de la salle des spectateurs venus le soutenir....

“Quand il a annulé l’installation de gazon pour la quatrième fois, c’est là que j’ai cru que j’étais foutue”, raconte Vanessa Attick. Ce dernier avait donné une avance de 1 750 $ à Éric Paul, propriétaire du Groupe PLBC, pour garantir le projet. Capture d’écran / group-plbc.c Site Web de la société du groupe PLBC. Mme Attick a d’abord contacté l’homme d’affaires sur Facebook Marketplace en mai dernier. Elle voulait mettre du gazon synthétique dans une aire de jeux pour enfants à son camping de Bromont, dont elle est propriétaire....