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Royal Canadian Mint to start replacing image of late queen with King Charles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

WINNIPEG — The Royal Canadian Mint will soon begin producing Canadian coins bearing the face of King Charles.The Winnipeg-based manufacturing facility is set today to showcase its design of the King that will appear on one side of all its coins, replacing the current image of the late Queen Elizabeth II. A design by Canadian portrait artist Steven Rosati was chosen out of 350 artists. The winning design was sent to Buckingham Palace for approval. The monarch’s effigy is to be pressed onto a loonie for the first time at the mint. The mint said a small amount of 2023-dated coins with the King’s likeness are to circulate in early December. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 14, 2023. The Canadian Press

Dozens of Canadians hoping to leave Gaza Strip

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

OTTAWA — Scores of Canadians are still hoping to leave the Gaza Strip, as Canadians and Israelis mourn the loss of peace activist Vivian Silver in last month’s attack by Hamas militants.Global Affairs Canada said Monday afternoon it is in touch with more than 250 Canadians, permanent residents and their eligible family members in the war-torn Palestinian territory.Ottawa says 356 Canadians and their relatives have made it out of the Gaza Strip so far, including 10 on Monday.Israeli officials said late Monday that Silver, a dual national previously believed to have been taken hostage, had died in the brutal attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7.Israel has declared war against Hamas, and airstrikes on Gaza have killed thousands, with the United Nations declaring that nowhere in the territory is safe.Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza’s largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the sprawling...

Stock market today: Global shares are mostly higher ahead of US inflation data and a US-China summit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Tuesday ahead of potentially market-moving developments, including a U.S.-China summit and data releases in the U.S., Japan and China. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices also logged modest gains. President Joe Biden is set to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this week on the sidelines of a Pacific Rim summit in California. It will be the first face-to-face encounter in a year between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies. Investors also are awaiting an update on consumer inflation in the U.S. Economists expect it to show consumers paid prices that were 3.3% higher in October than a year earlier, down from September’s inflation rate of 3.7%.Early Tuesday, France’s CAC 40 was up 0.3% at 7,105.69. Germany’s DAX picked up 0.5% to 15,422.24. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged 2 points higher, to 7,427.77. The future for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1% while that for the S&P 500 edged 0.2% hig...

Daily horoscope for November 14, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Sagittarius.Happy Birthday for Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023:You have a playful, affectionate quality. Nevertheless, you’re earnest and sincere. You like to help others. This year is a year of change. Stay flexible and be ready to go off in a new direction. Seek out new opportunities and be ready to act fast. Expect to travel.ARIES(March 21-April 19) ★★★★★This is a great day to study. It’s also a wonderful day to pursue opportunities in publishing, the media, medicine and the law. Partners and close friends will be cooperative and fair-minded today, which is good news for you. Do something different to stretch your wings! Tonight: Explore!TAURUS(April 20-May 20) ★★★★Discussions about inheritances, shared property or insurance disputes will go well today. People are in a mutually cooperative mood. This almost guarantees a mutually beneficial result for everyone! Work agreements will re...

EU nature restoration law: MEPs strike deal to restore 20% of EU’s land and sea  

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

The new law, agreed with member states, sets a target for the EU to restore at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050, AGRI, ENVI, PECH.Negotiators from the Parliament and Council reached a provisional political agreement on the EU nature restoration law.Nature restoration targetsCo-legislators agreed on an EU target to restore at least 20% of land and 20% of sea areas by 2030 and all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050. To reach these targets, EU countries must restore at least 30% of habitat types covered by the new law that are in poor condition to a good condition by 2030, increasing to 60% by 2040, and 90% by 2050.Member states will have to adopt, through an open, transparent and inclusive process, national restoration plans detailing how they intend to achieve these targets. In line with Parliament’s position, EU countries should give priority to areas located in Natura 2000 sites until 2030. The co-legislators ...

Miss Manners: Her husband got whiny, and suddenly I was on the hook for $100

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Several times when I have invited and offered to treat someone at a restaurant, my guest has added a to-go order.Related ArticlesAdvice | Miss Manners: What do you mean what’s wrong with my arm? Advice | Miss Manners: My child was upset by this drama on the train. Who was in the wrong? Advice | Miss Manners: I was at the game, too, but I lied to my friend about it Advice | Miss Manners: My neighbor is convinced I’m making this noise. How do I get him to drop it? Advice | Miss Manners: My wife rebuked cinema patrons who walked in front of us. Who was rude? For instance, mid-celebration, a birthday celebrant received a whiny hungry call from her husband, and, zap, my bill increased by $100. On another occasion, a client ordered a to-go dessert and made a faint gesture to pay — no reaching for his wallet or asking the waiter for separate checks. Of course I ate the bill....

Dear Abby: I don’t know what’s in my husband’s trailer, but I want it gone

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

DEAR ABBY: I have been married 33 years. We have no savings. We live paycheck to paycheck.Related ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: I brought up my moral issue with the restaurant, and this man exploded at me Advice | Dear Abby: These men hijacked our sentimental lunch. Am I wrong to be upset? Advice | Dear Abby: The bride is my best friend, but I’m not comfortable with her plan Advice | Dear Abby: At 3 a.m. there were two strange girls in my house Advice | Dear Abby: My son is in tears when my mother tells him he must walk My husband keeps borrowing more and more, and our credit cards are out of hand. He still works. I am retired.He has a 28-foot enclosed trailer stuffed with mechanical items, hobby items, collectibles and who knows what else, as well as a double garage filled with so much you can’t walk in. There is $10,000 to $15,000 worth of stuff. He refuses to sell anything even though he has...

Huge crowd expected on DC’s National Mall for ‘March for Israel’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather on the National Mall for a “March for Israel” on Tuesday afternoon, more than a month after the Oct. 7 attack by the Hamas terrorist organization.The Jewish Federations of North America and Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations put the event together. Organizers said security gates on the National Mall will open at 10 a.m. The rally is scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.The demonstration’s National Park Service permit, which is based upon information provided by the organizers, said up to 60,000 people are anticipated at the event. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed that city leaders are getting ready for a large crowd.“I think we can expect in the tens of thousands of people,” Bowser said. “I understand they’re calling it a march, but it’s actually a rally. It’s going to be static on the National Mall.”The National Guard will be assisting D.C. police by “supporting some traffic safety points...

DC filmmaker Aviva Kempner chronicles family of Holocaust victims, survivors at Avalon Theatre

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

She directed “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” (1998) about the first major Jewish star in Major League Baseball, followed by “The Spy Behind Home Plate” (2019) about enigmatic Jewish catcher Moe Berg who secretly became a U.S. spy investigating the Nazis’ atomic bomb program.Now, filmmaker Aviva Kempner turns the lens inward on her own family in “A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings” (2023), which screens for three more days at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week at The Avalon Theatre in D.C., as well as an additional screening and Q&A at the Bender JCC in Rockville, Maryland on Thursday.“For over 40 years, I’ve been making films about under-known Jewish heroes,” Kempner told WTOP. “My mother and uncle never talked about the war, my mother was in a slave camp, my uncle survived Auschwitz, their sister and parents died, so I said let me go back. … I realized that I could tell the story...

Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:31:21 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization’s efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the U.N. health agency’s history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly Ebola outbreak.According to an internal WHO report from Dr. Gaya Gamhewage’s trip in March, one of the abused women she met gave birth to a baby with “a malformation that required special medical treatment,” meaning even more costs for the young mother in one of the world’s poorest countries.To help victims like her, the WHO has paid $250 each to at least 104 women in Congo who say they were sexually abused or exploited by officials working to stop Ebola. That amount per victim is less than a single day’s expenses for some U.N. officials working in the Congolese capital — and $19 more than what Gamhewage received per day during her three-day visit — according to internal documents ob...