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Liz Truss’s campaign to become prime minister cannot continue to offer “magic money tree” promises of tax cuts, a Rishi Sunak supporter has warned. Asked about plans to support leadership candidates’ living costs, Thirsk and Malton MP Kevin Hollinrake praised the former chancellor’s “affordable” and “targeted support package”. Referring to the Foreign Secretary’s proposals, he told Sky News: “You see in the Truss camp a promise to spend £65 billion on tax cuts and extra spending, without even providing those targeted support measures that will inevitably be needed....

In a memo to council, Deputy General Manager of Public Works Quentin Levesque says a customer died in an incident at the Trail Road dump on Saturday. “The Department of Public Works sends its condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the customer who was fatally injured in the incident,” Levesque said. “The Department also provided support to landfill staff on site at the time.” No other details were released by the city....

Android 13 is out. Google’s Pixel devices have already received the update. and Samsung and OnePlus have launched beta programs to test their upcoming updates. But one device that may not be taking it in a hurry is the Nothing Phone (1). The company has confirmed that Android 13 won’t be available for the phone until the first half of 2023 — meaning it could arrive as late as June....

City police say the driver showed signs of impairment and was cited for refusing to provide a breath sample. Police say a Jeep driven by a 34-year-old Ontario man crashed into the front entrance of Water Street Fish & Chips around 1:50 a.m. A 20-year-old pedestrian was pinned between the vehicle and the building. The person was taken to the hospital and later released with non-life threatening injuries. “The driver showed signs of alcohol impairment and was arrested at the scene,” said Cpl....

A national drought alert was issued on Friday as a long and intense heatwave in densely populated southwest China is forecast to continue into September. The loss of water flow in China’s extensive hydroelectric system has sparked a “serious situation” in Sichuan, which gets more than 80% of its energy from hydropower. On Sunday, the provincial government said it was at its highest warning level of “extremely serious”, with the flow of water in Sichuan’s hydropower reservoirs halved....

The subpoena was revealed in a court document on Monday. Musk and Twitter have been embroiled in a legal battle after the billionaire entrepreneur offered to buy the company — and then tried to back down, claiming Twitter had not provided enough information about the number of fake or “spam bot” accounts on the platform. Twitter argues that Musk’s reasons for backing down are simply a cover for buyer’s remorse....

Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Mitrovic hits the onion for Fulham against Brentford and looks to have put them 2-0 up but it’s offside. Updated at 15.19 BST “Yes, Everton are dominating Forest so far,” he emails Mary Waltz (watching, I believe, from across the pond). “But like the first two games, we have no idea when we’re getting close to the box. The fact that we have to rely on a prime Rondon to score is not a positive sign for Toffee fans....

Posted: 06:22, 22 August 2022 | Updated: 07:35, 22 August 2022 A Florida car thief was chased by police on a wild ride through the suburbs, gardens and woods in the central state city of Ocala. Dale Shrewsbury, 35, is the alleged driver behind the wheel of the frenzied chase that saw several police cars try to tackle him. Once the vehicle was thrown off the road, he could be seen running for it, but he couldn’t outrun the force’s K-9 officer named Jet, who grabbed his butt and dragged him to the ground....

19.08.2022, 18:08 Uhr Die Pipeline Nord Stream 1 soll wieder in Betrieb genommen werden. Daher kündigt Gazprom die Einstellung der Erdgaslieferungen vom 31. August bis 2. September an. Danach sollen wieder 20 Prozent der Tageshöchstleistung durch die Leitung fließen. Dadurch steigt der Erdgaspreis. Russland hat angekündigt, Ende August die Erdgaslieferungen durch die Ostseepipeline Nord Stream 1 für drei Tage auszusetzen. Die staatliche Gazprom hat angekündigt, dass wegen Wartungsarbeiten vom 31....

Kemp said, among other reasons, that the investigation is “currently being prosecuted for improper political purposes,” according to a filing. “Through delays and artificial deadlines, the DA’s Office has engineered the Governor’s interaction with the investigation to reach a crescendo in the middle of an election cycle,” Kemp’s lawyers allege in the motion, noting that “this timing cannot be ignored ». Endorsed by Trump in 2018, Kemp reportedly resisted the then-president’s calls to overturn the state’s 2020 election results....

Officers launched a murder investigation after attending a house in Kingsheath Avenue, Knotty Ash, at 10pm following reports that an unknown man had fired a gun into the property, Merseyside Police said. The nine-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to hospital in critical condition, where she later died. A man received gunshot wounds to his body and a woman to the arm. Both were taken to hospital....

During a stop in Kentucky on Thursday, McConnell admitted that the House is more likely to turn red than the Senate — a statement that, while in line with election forecasts, shows how Republicans are less worried about upper chamber races from three months before the midterm elections. “I think there’s probably a better chance of flipping the House than the Senate,” McConnell told reporters when asked about his midterm expectations, according to NBC News....

Israel and Lebanon have been engaged for more than a year in rare US-brokered talks aimed at resolving a dispute over rights to offshore fields believed to be rich in natural gas. Both countries claim about 860 square kilometers (330 sq mi) of the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon also claims the Karish gas field is in disputed territory under ongoing maritime border negotiations, while Israel says it is within its internationally recognized economic waters....

The weapons, which will be launched from ships or aircraft, will be mainly stationed around the southern Nansei Islands and will be able to reach the coastal areas of North Korea and China, Yomiuri said. Spokesmen for Japan’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report. Japan, which interprets its postwar constitution to mean it can only use its military for self-defense, has stepped up military spending and adopted a more assertive strategy in recent years....

Click the arrow below for more coverage of Kiely Rodni, a Northern California teenager who was possibly found by a group of volunteer divers after she had been missing since early August Develop all A more than two-week search for missing 16-year-old Kiely Rodni came to an end Sunday when dive teams with a volunteer search and rescue organization said they found her body and vehicle submerged in the water near where she disappeared....

Face aux avertissements concernant l’escalade des défis environnementaux, le cofondateur de l’entreprise, Samuel Lemire Dupont, estime que “les produits en tablette n’ont pas de sens” avec leur emballage. Selon lui, la grande majorité de la population veut réduire ses déchets et n’a pas de solutions faciles pour faire la transition. Par conséquent, il a lancé Kiima en 2019 et c’est sur le marché des déodorants que lui et sa femme ont décidé de s’aventurer....

Les frappes russes se sont intensifiées dans le nord-est de l’Ukraine dans la soirée des mercredi 17 et jeudi 18 août, notamment à Kharkiv : au moins quatre morts et une vingtaine de blessés jeudi matin, après sept personnes dans la soirée, selon les Ukrainiens. Les raids ont également ciblé Belgorod et Krasnograd près de la deuxième ville du pays. Mais au Sud, l’Ukraine continue de contre-attaquer et met les Russes dans une position difficile....

Les responsables allemands passeront une grande partie de la journée de lundi à Montréal pour s’entretenir avec les principaux ministres (Finances, Affaires étrangères, Science et Innovation, Ressources naturelles) avant de se rendre à Toronto. Le chancelier allemand Olaf Scholz, qui entame une visite de trois jours au Canada, discutera d’une série de questions avec le premier ministre Justin Trudeau, notamment l’énergie et la guerre en Ukraine. Photo : La Presse canadienne/Graham Hughes De passage aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine vendredi, le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a réitéré que l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie a mis en évidence la nécessité de faire une transition énergétique et d’aider l’Europe à devenir moins dépendante de la Russie pour l’énergie....

Agé de 26 ans et originaire d’Annecy, il avait été hospitalisé, tandis que le passager, un Lyonnais de 20 ans, a été tué sur le coup lors de ce contrôle. Selon le parquet, les deux policiers ont agi en “légitime défense”. La tutelle des deux fonctionnaires est révoquée La garde à vue de deux fonctionnaires a été levée vendredi 19 août, a annoncé vendredi soir le parquet de Lyon. Elle a été menée “dans le cadre de l’enquête confiée à l’IGPN et ouverte aux chefs de violences volontaires par personnes dépositaires de l’autorité publique, ayant entraîné la mort sans intention de la donner”....

• À lire aussi : Les allégations à caractère sexuel contre le cardinal Marc Ouellet ont eu un retentissement international • À lire aussi : Les allégations contre le cardinal Ouellet risquent d’ébranler l’Église catholique jusqu’à Rome • À lire aussi : Cardinal Ouellet : ‘Respect des victimes, on se demande où elles sont’, dit l’avocat “Le pape François dit qu’il n’y a pas suffisamment de preuves pour lancer une enquête régulière (religieuse, ndlr) sur les agressions sexuelles du cardinal Welle contre la personne F”....