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UBC president Santa Ono is reportedly leaving to become president of the University of Michigan. Photo by NICK PROCAYLO /PNG Content of the article UBC President Santa Ono will be named the University of Michigan’s 15th president, according to the Detroit Free Press. Content of the article Citing multiple sources, Detroit Free Press education reporter David Jessie reported that the UofM Board of Regents will officially hire Ono at its meeting Wednesday....

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on Monday launched a 12-week consultation on the “biggest electricity market shake-up in decades” in response to over-billing and Britain’s move towards renewables. One proposal suggests introducing incentives for consumers to draw energy from the grid at cheaper prices when demand is low or if the weather is particularly sunny and windy, saving households money. Officials said such a move could send “sharp” messages to encourage consumers to be more flexible in their use and seek cheaper, greener energy at certain times....

Iryna Vereshchuk went on Ukrainian national television to warn of fighting and artillery shelling in the coming days, according to Reuters. “I know for sure that there should not be women and children there and that they should not become human shields,” Vereschuk said. Russia’s war in Ukraine, now entering its fifth month, is now being fought mainly in the Donbas, the country’s industrial heartland to the east. Russian forces captured the city of Kherson, located northwest of the Crimean peninsula, early in the invasion this spring....

Canada’s Natural Services Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced on social media on Saturday that turbines from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline — which supplies natural gas from Russia to Germany — that had been sent to Montreal for scheduled repairs would be allowed to be returned. In June, Siemens Energy said Canadian sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine meant the company could not return the turbines. In his recent announcement, Wilkinson said turbine maker Siemens Canada would be given “limited and revocable permission” to return the equipment – effectively giving it an exemption....

Russian troops have fired artillery shells and rockets at Sloviansk and surrounding towns in the past day, keeping the pressure on a heavily fortified stronghold still held by Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk region. A targeted rocket strike hit a makeshift military base at a factory in the village of Konstantinovka on Saturday afternoon, sending naked Ukrainian soldiers running from the area after the explosion. A follow-up cluster munition strike minutes later missed its mark, instead landing in a nearby residential neighborhood, setting fire to buildings, shredding tree bark and blowing out windows....

The US Congress passed a Defense Authorization Act this week that contained a $100 million amendment to help transition Ukraine’s military hardware away from aging Soviet-era technology, which currently includes MiG-29s and Sukhoi jets. “Ukrainian pilots will be taught to fly F-15 and F-16 fighters in the US,” Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, said on Saturday. “This amendment to the US defense budget bill for fiscal year 2023 was supported by the House of Representatives....

The orders dismissing SBU chief Ivan Bakanov, a childhood friend of Zelensky, and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who led the effort to prosecute Russian war crimes in Ukraine, were published on the president’s official website. In a separate Telegram post, Zelensky said he had fired the top officials because many cases had come to light of members of their agencies collaborating with Russia. He said 651 treason and collaboration cases had been opened against prosecutorial and law enforcement officials, and that over 60 officials from Bakanov and Venediktova’s agencies were now working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territories....

Ukraine said on Tuesday it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counteroffensive using hundreds of thousands of troops. According to Ukraine, the strike hit an ammunition dump in the town of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region and killed 52 Russians. It came after Washington supplied Ukraine with HIMARS mobile artillery systems which Kyiv says its forces are using with ever greater efficacy....

Ce lundi, jour de pic de chaleur en France, pourrait entrer dans l’histoire comme la journée la plus chaude jamais enregistrée dans les relevés météorologiques. Selon Météo-France, “lundi marquera le pic de cet épisode caniculaire dans l’ouest du pays avec des valeurs parfois remarquables : les 40°C seront souvent approchés, atteints ou dépassés”. “Des records seront sûrement battus”, s’attendaient-ils. L’ensemble du territoire sera affecté par des températures très élevées, dépassant potentiellement le record de l’indice de chaleur national, établi à 29,4°C en juillet 2019, par rapport au 5 août 2003....

Detectives from the Victoria Crimes Unit are hoping to locate and locate two men who may have witnessed an April 20 arson attack on the home of a Ukrainian priest and his family. Neither is suspected of arson, but police believe they may have information about the ongoing investigation. The fire sent a young girl to the hospital after she suffered serious injuries while escaping from the fire through a second floor window at her home on Caledonia Avenue....

In 1992 I took a train from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to the Russian city of Kaliningrad. Until 1945 Kaliningrad was the German, or more precisely East Prussian, city of Königsberg. Immanuel Kant, the philosopher who never left the area, even briefly became Russian when Königsberg fell under Tsarist control from 1758 to 1762 in the Seven Years’ War. Russian officers attended his university lectures. Now tensions are building around Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave bordering Poland and Lithuania, over another war – Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine....

Bildnachweis: AP Photo/Denis Kaminev Die geringste Kritik am Einmarsch in die Ukraine könnte zu drakonischen Sanktionen in Russland führen. Dennoch finden einige Kriegsgegner Wege, ihre Stimme zu erheben. Seit Beginn der russischen Invasion in der Ukraine schreibt Anastasia jeden Morgen eine Antikriegsbotschaft. “Glauben Sie nicht der Propaganda im Fernsehen, lesen Sie die unabhängigen Medien!” ist in einem der Zettel zu lesen, dass die 31-jährige Lehrerin jeden Tag am Eingang ihres Wohnhauses in der Industriestadt Perm den Hörer auflegt....

Winnipeg pastor Mary Anne Isaak is one of 15 women leaders who contributed to On Holy Ground: Stories By and About Women in Ministry Leadership in the Mennonite Brethren Church, which was released publicly last month. Three of the pages written by Isaak were removed from the book at the last minute at the request and expense of the Canadian and US designation agencies. “I thought about my whole journey as a pastor, but for three pages I also think about a question that came up in all three churches where I pastored, and that was about LGBTQ inclusion,” said Isaak, who pastored River East Church in last seven years....

WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engelbert addressed Brittney Griner’s suspension Sunday ahead of the league’s annual All-Star Game. Griner pleaded guilty in a Russian court on Thursday to a drug charge. He was accused of possessing vapor cartridges containing cannabis-derived oils through a Moscow airport. He has been held since February and has made few public appearances. WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert addresses the crowd during the 2022 WNBA All-Star Game on July 10, 2022, at Wintrust Arena in Chicago....

The game uses the same rules as Scrabble, where only real words are allowed in both the guesses and the result. If you find a letter in the correct spot and form the correct word, the square turns green. But if the guessed letter is in the word but not in the correct spot, the square turns yellow. The letters that are wrong are grayed out to help the elimination process for the six attempts....

For the second time in two starts, Xander Schauffele came out on top. After nearly a two-shot lead at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland, Schauffele rallied with two birdies in the final five holes of the day to claim the Scottish Open. “That was stressful. I’m not going to put makeup on the pig here,” Schauffele told CBS. “It was a very average day, probably my worst this week… You really can’t get ahead of yourself in links golf....

ARIES (March 21 – April 20): It is of utmost importance today to make sure that people in positions of power know who you are and what you can do. If you don’t sing your own praises, you risk letting rivals jump ahead of you in the long line for promotion. TAURUS (April 21 – May 21): Others may not approve of what you do, but that won’t worry you in the least – in fact, you’ll really enjoy being at odds with the world....