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The cause of the fire, which caused huge amounts of smoke at Abu Sefein Church in the working-class neighborhood of Imbaba, was not immediately known. According to a police statement, the initial investigation indicated an electrical short circuit. The Coptic Church reported the death toll, citing health officials. He said the fire broke out while a service was in progress on Sunday morning. 15 fire engines rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire, while ambulances transported the injured to nearby hospitals....

Posted August 13, 2022 at 3:19 pm Smaller font Decrease the font size of the article -ONE Larger Font Increase the font size of the article A+ British Columbia Premier John Horgan has called a by-election for the Surrey South constituency. The position was left vacant after the departure of Liberal Stephanie Cadieux, who resigned in April to become Canada’s first accessibility director. Read more: Former federal candidate Anjali Appadurai challenges David Eby for BC NDP leadership Following Horgan’s announcement, the BC Green Party announced the candidacy of Simon Fraser University student Simran Sarai....

Photo: RCMP FSOC Some of the drugs found in trucker Sarbjit Chahal’s rig. A Surrey trucker has been sentenced to four years in prison after he was found to have smuggled 33 kilograms of methamphetamine into Canada from the United States, BC RCMP announced Aug. 15. Sarbjit Chahal was arrested on November 18, 2018, after Canada Border Services Agency inspected his inbound tractor-trailer at the Pacific Highway border crossing in Surrey....

„Das Recht auf Trunkenheit sollte in einer Stadt der Freiheit wie Berlin selbstverständlich sein, es funktioniert auch ohne die Mentalität der bayerischen Dorfpolizei“, sagte Grünen-Fraktionschef Werner Graf am Freitag kurz vor der sogenannten Hanfparade an Samstagen in Berlin. Polizei im Görlitzer Park, Berlins berühmtem Drogenpark Foto: Sven Meißner Daher sollten Strafverfahren in Berlin auch wegen des Besitzes geringer Mengen harter Drogen eingestellt werden – so wie es bei Cannabisprodukten wie Marihuana und Cannabis der Fall ist....

Scholz erkundigte sich auch nach dem Strom der Kirche Heimspiel für die Kanzlerin! Olaf Scholz (64, SPD) war am Freitag zu Hause in Potsdam, um die Stadtwerke zu besuchen, bei denen er auch Kunde ist. Trotzdem keine einfache Leistung. Denn: BILD hatte berichtet, dass die Stadtwerke Potsdam Katholiken und Protestanten riesige Sonderrabatte auf Strom gewähren – bis zu 35 Prozent unter dem Normalpreis. Erdgas hingegen ist nur für Katholiken billiger....

David King said: “This could be the worst possible time for the leadership of this country to simply fall behind. Wait until what? We have an energy crisis right now and we need good leadership. We need alert leadership, leadership that thinks about it – and that’s missing.” Johnson, who has vowed not to make major decisions for the remainder of his term, attended an inconclusive meeting of energy companies last week and is now on his second vacation since resigning last month....

With parts of England the driest since records began – after five months of below-average rainfall – some homes have run out of water, rivers have dried up and farmers are facing crop failures. Many are furious with companies that have failed to invest in tanks, fix leaks and stop sewage from polluting their pipes. Bosses at England’s water companies have been criticized for bankrolling £58m in pay and benefits over the past five years....

That formal warning was not given to Joe Biden, who is poised to sign America’s first major legislation designed to address the climate crisis, but in a report given to his presidential predecessor Lyndon Johnson in 1965, a year when the now 79-year-old old Biden was still in college. That it has taken nearly six decades for the US to significantly address global warming, despite being responsible for a quarter of all emissions that have warmed the planet during modern civilization, is indicative of a long-running climate war....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Aug 16 (Reuters) – It looks like the ethereum mega-upgrade is happening. After all. After years of delays, the “Merger” looks almost certain to happen in September, with the cryptography underlying the blockchain undergoing a radical change to a system where creating new ether tokens becomes much less energy-intensive. “This is an exciting time for the ethereum ecosystem,” said Omar Syed, co-founder of smart contract platform Shardeum....

After about a month of work, Olivia Kendall says she’s finished turning an old motorboat into a backyard pool. “It looked very beautiful. It was obviously very old,” Kendall said of the boat. “But I figured if he could keep the water out, he could probably keep the water in.” Since buying her home in 2017, she said she has been working on renovating the property. She initially looked to stock pools—which use shallow galvanized steel tanks typically found on livestock farms—for her home, as they’ve recently become a trendy swimming pool alternative....

It is a fitting form for what is something of a temple to recycling. In 2003, Kamikatsu became the first place in Japan to pass a zero-waste declaration after the municipality was forced to close its polluting waste incinerator. Since then, the remote village (population 1,500, an hour’s drive from the nearest town) has become an unlikely leader in the fight against landfill and incineration. Residents now sort their rubbish into 45 different categories – separating white paper from newspapers, aluminum-coated paper from cardboard tubes and bottles from their caps – leading to an 80% recycling rate, compared to the national Japan average 20%....

Elektronik Stand heute, 09:34 Uhr Ottnang am Hausruck. Ein Zusammenstoß mit einem Auto in Ottnang am Hausruck (Kreis Vöcklabruck) endete am Sonntag für einen 57-jährigen E-Bike-Fahrer tödlich. „Ein 57-jähriger Mann aus dem Raum Vöcklabruck ist am 14.08.2022 um 13:30 Uhr in der Gemeinde Ottnang am Hausruck, von Grünbach kommend in Richtung L1261 Thomasroither Straße, mit seinem E-Bike gefahren. An der Kreuzung damit fuhr er auf der L1261 Thomasroither Straße und kollidierte mit einem von links kommenden Auto, das von einem 40-jährigen Mann aus Wels-Land gefahren wurde....

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted early Wednesday morning that he was only joking when he said he was buying English soccer team Manchester United. When asked if he was serious about the purchase, Must replied: “No, that’s a long running joke on Twitter. I’m not buying any sports teams.” He said, however, that if he were to buy a sports team it would be Manchester United because it was his favorite team as a child....

It is the first meeting between the pair and comes in a tournament that is a key warm-up match for the US Open. Raducanu’s form has been up since her stunning triumph at Flushing Meadows last year and she will be desperate to get things right ahead of her title defence. Since last year’s US Open, the Briton has played in 16 tournaments and been knocked out by a lower-ranked player 14 times....

Helfer versuchen Karpfen aus einem fast ausgetrockneten See in Mettmann zu retten Ab Mittwoch soll es etwas breiter regnen – „und jeder braune Grashalm wird wohl mindestens ein paar Tropfen haben“, sagt Vogt. Trockener Boden muss erst „aufgeweicht“ werden. Das Ideal beschreibt er so: Erst ein paar Tropfen, um harten, trockenen Boden aufzuweichen – dann kann er Feuchtigkeit aufnehmen. Und dann soll es ab Donnerstag und Freitag noch etwas regnen....

Crews removed a replica of a T-34 tank that sat atop the monument outside the city of Narva in Russian-speaking eastern Estonia and placed it on a truck that transported it to the Estonian War Museum in Viimsi, a town north of the capital. Tallinn. The monument commemorates Soviet soldiers who died fighting Nazi Germany during World War II. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said a neutral grave would replace the tank replica and the memorial outside Narva “will remain a dignified place to remember the dead....

The seven nominated cities were announced by Scott Mills live on Zoë Ball’s Radio 2 breakfast show. This year’s Eurovision was won in Turin by the Kalush Orchestra, representing Ukraine. That would normally have meant Ukraine would host in 2023, which its government wanted to happen, but in June the European Broadcasting Union announced that next year’s contest could not be held there because of the war. Instead, the United Kingdom, which came second with Sam Ryder’s song Space Man, was invited to host the 67th Eurovision....

Photos of the threatening flyers, which give homeless people seven days to leave the neighborhood, circulated on social media on Monday. “We are working to identify the person or persons responsible for these messages, which have reasonably caused fear and anxiety in the Downtown Eastside,” said Sgt. Steve Addison said in an emailed statement. “Until we know more, we’re asking everyone to be extra vigilant, watch out for their neighbors and report suspicious activity....

Si les coéquipiers de Benjamin Bourigeaud ont eu environ 70% de possession de balle tout au long de la partie, ils auraient même pu quitter la Principauté les mains vides n’eut été d’un jet de sauvegarde d’Alemdar devant Jakobs à la fin du temps additionnel. Ligue 1 Calimuendo se rend à Rennes HIER A 19:23 Le début cauchemardesque de l’ASM Eliminés mardi de la Ligue des champions par le PSV Eindhoven, les hommes de Philippe Clément ont dû se reprendre devant leur public ce samedi au Stade Louis-II....

Publié à 6h16 Thibault MARCHAND Agence France-Presse Dans le même temps, un navire humanitaire transportant des céréales vers l’Afrique a quitté mardi l’Ukraine : pour la première fois depuis que Kyiv et Moscou ont signé en juillet, avec la médiation de la Turquie et sous l’égide de l’ONU, les accords sur l’exportation ont été bloqués de céréales ukrainiennes en raison du conflit. La guerre, qui a débuté le 24 février, s’est traduite par de très lourdes sanctions occidentales contre la Russie et une aide économique et militaire historique à l’Ukraine, provoquant des tensions sans précédent, notamment entre Washington et Moscou....