WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) � The busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing was open Monday after protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 measures blocked it for nearly a week, but a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa, persisted as city residents seethed over authorities’ inability to reclaim the streets. Demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions and other issues have blocked several crossings […]

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‘1985’ is fictie. Gebaseerd op waargebeurde feiten. Scenarioschrijver Willem Wallyn heeft het in elk interview herhaald. En de kijker wordt voor elke aflevering verwittigd. Maar het onderscheid maken wordt elke aflevering lastiger en dat is niet zonder risico. “Ik kijk elke week met verbijstering naar de reeks.”

Met Office predicts settled conditions for rest of the period but warns of below-average temperatures trending up by end of the month

Newly-added words include koha – a gift or offering – and kōrero, meaning a conversation or chat

New Zealanders will now see the common and casual te reo Māori greeting Kia ora e hoa! – meaning “hi mate” – in their Oxford English Dictionaries, as the institution moves to recognise the “profound and lasting impact” the Indigenous tongue has had on New Zealand’s language.

E hoa, or friend, is one of 47 New Zealand English words or expressions added to the dictionary in its latest update – most of them in te reo Māori, which is an official language of New Zealand. The OED describes itself as the definitive record of the English language.

Coco cried tears of joy in court and said she would continue raising the alarm on the climate emergency

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A 15-month jail sentence imposed on a climate protester who blocked one lane on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a truck has been quashed.

Deanna “Violet” Coco, 32, was issued with a 12-month conditional release order on Wednesday after district court judge Mark Williams heard she had been initially imprisoned on false information provided by the NSW police.

Experts liken act known as ‘ICEing’ to parking at a fuel bowser, and say high penalties are necessary to encourage EV uptake

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Drivers could be fined as much as $3,200 for parking in spaces for electric vehicles as part of little-known penalties introduced in four states and territories.

The fines, some of them added to road rules late last year, range from $3,200 in the Australian Capital Territory to $369 in Victoria.

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Energy regulators issue draft default market offer, which set cap for this year’s increases

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Power bills for households in three states will rise as much as 23.7% from 1 July if the Australian Energy Regulator’s draft determination, announced on Wednesday, is confirmed. Prices in Victoria may rise by almost a third.

The AER chair, Clare Savage, said the increases were “significant” but they could have been as much as 40% to 50% without the federal government’s intervention in December to cap domestic gas and black coal prices.

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People in Malawi and Mozambique picking up the pieces after fierce storm swept through at the weekend

The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi and Mozambique has risen past 200 on Tuesday, after the record-breaking storm triggered floods and landslips.

Rescue workers warned that more victims were likely as they scoured destroyed neighbourhoods for survivors even as hopes dwindled.

Justyna Wydrzynska sentenced to community service after telling court she sent pills to victim of domestic violence

A court in Poland has convicted an activist for helping a pregnant woman access abortion pills, sentencing her to eight months of community service in a landmark case over abortion rights in the predominantly Catholic country.

“I do not feel that I am facing the court alone,” said Justyna Wydrzynska at the hearing on Tuesday. “Behind me are my friends and hundreds of women I have not had the luck to meet yet.”

After a year of murder, rape, disease and looting, aid workers ask the international community: ‘Where the hell have you been?’

More than 300,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have had to abandon their homes because of fighting between the M23 rebel group and the government last month.

According to the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, more than 800,000 people have now been displaced by the conflict since last March, and there is a humanitarian crisis that regional and international powers have allowed to fester.

Activists fear a systematic ‘witch-hunt’ against sexual minorities by parliament, police and religious conservatives

A dramatic surge in attacks on LGBTQ+ people in Uganda has been recorded by rights groups this year, as the environment for sexual minorities turns increasingly hostile.

More than 110 people reported incidents including arrests, sexual violence, evictions and public undressing, to advocacy group Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug) in February alone. Transgender people were disproportionately affected, said the group.

One of the strongest storms recorded in the southern hemisphere hit region for second time in a month

Mozambique and Malawi have been left counting the cost of Tropical Storm Freddy, which killed more than 100 people, injured scores and left a trail of destruction as it ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend.

Freddy is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere and could be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

Independent media barred from building to avoid ‘disorder’, as president tightens autocratic grip

Independent and foreign journalists have been barred from attending the first session of Tunisia’s new parliament, which has been largely stripped of its powers by the increasingly autocratic president.

The ban on journalists entering the parliament building is the first since the revolution that ousted the late dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.

In view of the humanitarian crisis resulting from the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the Council decided to introduce exceptions to restrictive measures for exclusively humanitarian purposes in Ukraine.

In een conflict rondom een bedrijf aan de Kleasterwei in Tzummarum had gemeente Waadhoeke intern een aantal zaken beter kunnen aanpakken. Dat blijkt uit onafhankelijk onderzoek in opdracht van de provincie.

Steward Health Care Malta (SHCM) has filed an appeal against the Maltese Civil Court judgement on the hospitals' concession agreement and requested a European Court of Justice (ECJ) Preliminary Ruling, the company said in a statement.

A Maltese court had annulled the concession agreement in February, ruling that three hospitals that were being managed by Steward Health Care are to be returned to government control. The three hospitals in question are St Luke's, Karin Grech and the Gozo General Hospital. The case had been filed by PN MP Adrian Delia when he was Opposition Leader in 2018. Delia had argued that Vitals Global Healthcare, and their heirs in title Steward Healthcare, had not fulfilled the contractual obligations tied to the deal. The court nullified the contracts awarded in a damning ruling which read that the concessionaires acted "fraudulently."

In a statement on Wednesday, the company said that it "emphatically rejects the narrative of the judge's findings in relation to SHCM, an assessment that was made with no basis in evidence. This narrative is erroneous and could have been disproven had SHCM simply been asked to supply evidence on these counts to court - a request that was never made. This failing - along with most others present in the judgement - presents major concerns for the rule of law in Malta and has serious implications for the future of foreign investment in the country. Steward has filed, together with the appeal, an ECJ Preliminary Ruling request from the High Court."

"While SHCM has no position on or knowledge of events that took place while the concession was being awarded, the company has supplied significant documentary and other evidence to counter any claims made in its respect as part of its appeal. This evidence, which includes relevant interactions with the Government of Malta and documents outlining how Steward Health Care International transformed a bankrupt enterprise into a professionally managed operation with a sound financial footing, will help to inform the understanding of the Maltese people about the concession."

"SHCM notes that it kept the US Embassy and State Department - which was on several occasions present at negotiations on the concession terms - fully informed at all times of all relevant events and engagements with the Government of Malta. SHCM remains committed to operate at all times in accordance with its highest professional standards and values. Our priority was and remains always the provision of optimal healthcare to the communities and patients we are entrusted to serve."

The judgment by Mr Justice Francesco Depasquale had found that Steward had failed to live up to its end of the deal, by which it was given responisbility for the three hospitals.

"None of these completion milestones were observed or achieved by Vitals, today Steward," the judge said.

The judge also had words of reprimand for the way the government acted. "The government of Malta, instead of defending the interests of the Maltese people... incredibly accepted a change to the agreement," said the judge.

Steward had already said in its initial reaction to the judgement that it would pursue action contesting all allegations of wrongdoing raised in the court judgement, allegations which they considered "outrageous and without merit".

"From a preliminary review of the judgement, we believe there to be significant flaws in reasoning and award," the company had said. "We believe that the judgement, which goes far beyond the court's remit, presents major concerns for the rule of law in Malta and has serious implications for the future of foreign investment in the country," it added.

Following the judgement Prime Minister Robert Abela had successfully petitioned for the time in which Steward could file an appeal to be reduced, and had also said that if an appeal were to be filed then the government would petition for it to be heard with urgency.

PN leader Bernard Grech and Delia meanwhile have blasted the government on the deal, organising two protests - with a third to take place on Thursday when Parliament discusses a motion to condemn the deal and to oblige the government to get the money paid to Steward back.