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Forest Evacuation: Taraba Emir Issues 30-Day Ultimatum To Herders

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Forest Evacuation: Taraba Emir Issues 30-Day Ultimatum To Herders

The Emir of Muri Empire in Taraba State, Abbas Tafida, has issued a 30-day ultimatum to herders terrorising residents of the state to vacate forests within the state or be forced to do so.

The Emir gave the ultimatum on Tuesday.

This follows a rising spate of kidnappings, killings, and attacks in the state by criminals suspected to be herders.

He claimed that Fulani herders are responsible for perpetrating crimes in the state and should therefore vacate forests in the state within 30 days or be forced out.

The Emir, who spoke in the Hausa language, urged the leadership of Fulani herdsmen to fish out the bad eggs among them.

“Our Fulani herdsmen in the forests, you came into this state and we accepted you, why then will you be coming to towns and villages to kidnap residents, even up to the extent of raping our women?

“Because of this unending menace, every Fulani herdsman in this state have been given 30 days ultimatum to vacate the forests. We are tired of having sleepless nights and the hunger alone in the land is enormous and we will not allow it to continue,” the Emir said.

Taraba, located in the Northeast, is faced with heinous crimes ranging from kidnapping to bandit attacks.

Basketball: Bucks Power To First NBA Title Since 1971

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Basketball: Bucks Power To First NBA Title Since 1971

Giannis Antetokounmpo delivered a historic 50-point performance when it mattered most in leading the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA title since 1971 by defeating the Phoenix Suns 105-98 on Tuesday.

The Bucks captured the best-of-seven NBA Finals by four games to two, becoming only the fifth team to claim the crown after dropping the first two contests.

Antetokounmpo, only the seventh player in finals history with a 50-point game, made 17-of-19 free throws while adding 14 rebounds and five blocked shots as the Bucks went an NBA-best 10-1 at home in the playoffs to end a half-century title drought.

“I want to thank Milwaukee for believing in me. I want to thank my teammates for playing hard with me,” Antetokounmpo said. “I’m thankful I was able to get it done.”

The 26-year-old Greek forward matched the greatest scoring night in a close-out game in finals history, the 50-point effort by Bob Pettit in 1958 for the St. Louis Hawks over Boston.

“He put us on his back. When we needed him, he told us to just feed him,” Bucks guard Khris Middleton said. “It’s amazing to be on this journey with him.”

Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Antetokounmpo, who had been questionable for the opener with a hyperextended knee, also equaled Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players to take NBA Finals MVP and NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards in the same season.

“He’s a special human being. I’ve learned so much from him. He’s a special leader,” said Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer. “These players are champions every day. They’ve embraced getting better every day.”

An expanded “Deer District” party zone outside the sold-out 20,000-seat arena welcomed 65,000 people watching on videoscreens and they had the celebration they had hoped to enjoy.

“I’m happy I was able to do it with this team for Milwaukee,” said Antetokounmpo. “And Coach Bud says we have to do it again.”

The Suns were foiled in their bid for the first crown in their 53-year history. Phoenix guard Chris Paul, playing in the first NBA Finals of his 16-year at age 36, led the Suns with 26 points.

“It hurts. Badly,” Suns coach Monty Williams said. “But I’m also grateful we had this chance to play for a championship. The fourth quarter, it was pretty evident we just couldn’t score enough. We just couldn’t convert.”

Relentless Antetokounmpo scored 12 of his 20 third-quarter points in a 16-8 Bucks run that gave Milwaukee a 58-55 lead only 4:34 into the second half.

He was the first with a 20-point quarter in the finals since Jordan and the game hung on a knife’s edge, deadlocked at 77-77 entering the fourth quarter.

Antetokounmpo scored eight for the Bucks in a 10-6 Milwaukee run for a 94-88 lead midway into the fourth quarter and time and again he would drive to the basket when the Suns cut into the Bucks’ lead.

Australian Regulator To Probe Amazon, ebay Among Online Markets

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Australian Regulator To Probe Amazon, ebay Among Online Markets

The Australian antitrust regulator on Thursday began an inquiry into the local units of Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc and other online markets to ensure fairness in a sector where sales have soared through the pandemic.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which previously slapped the world’s toughest content licencing rules on Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google, said it was now looking at retail as part of a wider examination of so-called Big Tech.

“Online marketplaces are an important and growing segment of the economy so it is important that we understand how online marketplaces operate and whether they are working effectively for consumers and businesses,” ACCC Chair Rod Sims said in a statement.

“We want to be sure that the rules that apply to traditional retail are also complied with in the online context.”

The ACCC would take submissions until mid-August with a final report due in March 2022, the regulator said.

An Amazon spokesperson said the company looked “forward to engaging with the ACCC on these important topics in the coming months”, while an eBay representative was not immediately available for comment.

The Australian regulator said it would examine the relationships between large online markets and third-party sellers and shoppers, including competition impacts and handling of data, complaints and reviews.

Amazon has not reached the market dominance in Australia since launching in 2017 that it experiences elsewhere, but still doubled sales in calendar 2020, the ACCC said.

Overall, Australian online purchases jumped 57% in 2020 for a record $50.5 billion spend amid a series of coronavirus lockdowns, it added.

The ACCC said it had received wide-ranging complaints, including the “quality of goods sold on marketplaces, the timeliness of payment remittance to sellers, how goods are put on display on marketplaces, and the level of support provided by marketplaces to consumers when disputes arise”.

The ACCC has been conducting a series of investigations in recent months as part of a broader Digital Platform Services Inquiry.

Nigerian Scientist develops non-electric Ventilators

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Nigerian Scientist develops non-electric Ventilators

Yusuf Bilesanmi has won the Africa Prize for Engineering for developing an efficient and working ventilator that does not require electricity and uses way less oxygen to carry out the same function as a regular ventilator.

The Lagos State University graduate owns Shifa Technology, the company that created the ShiVent system which allows non-specialized workers to treat patients with coronavirus.

The team comprising of Yusuf Bilesanmi, Ricardo Nascimento, Dr Yusuf Shittu, Gaurav Nanajkar and Pawel Nycz designed the ventilator with four key features: Simple to use- by the average health workers and takes only 30 minutes of training; Low-Cost, that is it can be produced at a very small fraction of the price of the average ventilator; Non-Electric, making it suitable for hospital settings with unreliable power supply; Oxygen-Efficient, requiring almost as little as a third of the average oxygen consumption of High Flow Oxygen systems.

ShiVent has been tested at Loughborough’s National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) and the Leicester Royal Infirmary Hospital.

It has also had a preliminary clinical functionality test at Glenfield Hospital.

A shipment of five units has been sent to Lagos, Nigeria, with more ventilators sent to Pune, in India. Following trials in Lagos and Pune, the team plans to roll out the system in Sub Saharan Africa and Asia and is in the process of exploring opportunities in South America as well.

ShiVent is designed for under-resourced areas where mechanical ventilators are scarce and expensive, with unreliable electricity supply and limited specialist knowledge.

The ShiVent is a simple, low-cost ventilatory alternative which does not depend on electricity and is widely replicable.

Russian Rocket Departs To Deliver New Science Module To International Space Station

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Russian Rocket Departs To Deliver New Science Module To International Space Station

A Russian rocket has departed the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to deliver a new science module to the International space station (ISS).

The 13m-long, 20-tonne Nauka laboratory will go on the rear of the orbiting platform, connected to the other major Russian segments, Zvezda and Zarya.

The new module carries with it a large robotic arm (ERA) supplied by the European Space Agency (Esa).

Nauka is much delayed. It was originally supposed to launch in 2007.

But it suffered repeated slips in schedule, in part because of budget difficulties but also because engineers encountered a raft of technical problems during development.

The module will result in a significant boost inhabitable volume for the ISS, raising it by 70 cubic metres.

Cosmonauts will use the extra space to conduct experiments and store cargo. They’ll also use it as a rest area.

The last sizeable Russian segment sent to the station was Rassvet. This 6m-long storage unit was lifted into place in 2010 by one of the last US shuttle flights.

Nauka goes up just as Russia has been questioning its future role in the ISS project.

Moscow officials recently warned about the more-than-20-year age of some of their on-orbit hardware and intimated the country could pull out of the station in 2025. And Russia has shown little interest in joining the US-led lunar platform, known as the Gateway, which will be assembled this decade.

Nauka’s long gestation has severely impacted the schedule of its 11m-long European robotic arm (ERA).

The ERA was completed so long ago that it had to be put in storage.

Engineers would occasionally pull it out to test its systems.

The ERA will be able to operate all around the Russian end of the ISS. With the aid of an “elbow” joint, it will shift position by moving hand over hand.

It’s capable of grappling components of up to eight tonnes in mass with a precision of 5mm.

ISS crewmembers will also be able to use the arm to move themselves when on a spacewalk.

Nauka’s flight to the ISS will take just over the week.

Controllers need first to remove a freighter and an old docking port from the location where the new module will be linked to the station.

Final attachment is not expected until 29 July at the earliest.

Mars Rover: NASA’s Perseverance To Drill First Rock Sample

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Mars Rover: NASA’s Perseverance To Drill First Rock Sample

The US space agency’s Perseverance rover is getting ready to take its first sample of Mars rock.

The core, about the size of a finger, will be packaged in a sealed tube for eventual return to Earth.

Scientists say their best chance of determining whether Mars ever hosted life is to study its surface materials in sophisticated home laboratories.

Perseverance landed on the Red Planet in February, in a 45km-wide (30 miles) crater called Jezero.

Satellite images indicate this deep depression once held a lake, fed by a deltaic river.

As such, it is considered a great candidate for the preservation of ancient microbial organisms – if they ever existed.

The NASA robot has driven about 1km (3,000ft) south from where it touched down in dramatic fashion five months ago.

It’s now stopped at a location that’s been dubbed the “Paver Stones”, or “Fractured Rough”.

An area on Mars nicknamed the “Cratered Floor Fractured Rough”

This is a collection of pale-coloured rocks that the mission team believes represents the base, or floor, of Jezero.

The scientists want to determine whether these Paver Stones are sedimentary or volcanic in origin. Either is interesting, but the special quality of volcanic rocks is that they can be dated with very high precision and accuracy in a lab, says chief scientist Ken Farley.

“That would really pin down the timing of many of the things we are looking at on Mars,” he told reporters.

Perseverance will first abrade the surface of a chosen section of Paver Stone, to remove Mars’ obscuring dust, and then examine the site with its powerful instruments.

China Flood: Train Carriage Submerged, Hundreds Saved

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China Flood: Train Carriage Submerged, Hundreds Saved

As floodwater crashed through a busy subway station in China on Tuesday, desperate passengers tried to flee while others were swept helplessly off platforms.

In one train carriage, water seeped in and rose from ankle, to waist, to neck-height. Panicked commuters stretched upwards to breathe, while others lifted shorter people into the shrinking air pocket above.

In terrifying videos shared on social media, some passengers can be seen standing on chairs and clinging to the ceiling as the floodwater creeps upwards. One tried to smash a window, before realising that there was even more water outside the carriage.

Some filmed the unfolding tragedy, while others called loved ones or posted pleas for help. “I can’t speak any more,” one woman wrote on the social media site Weibo. “If no rescue comes in 20 minutes, hundreds of us will lose our lives.”

“We were all standing on the seats, and the water was already on our knees,” a woman who gave her name as Ms Li said.

“Some shorter passengers had water up to their necks,” she said, adding that as time went on the air supply began to diminish.

After about an hour, the train carriage was plunged into darkness and the oxygen level waned further. “I was really scared, but the most terrifying thing was not the water, but the diminishing air supply,” one person told Reuters news agency.

Hundreds of people were eventually saved from the flooded subway tunnel in Zhengzhou, a city of 12 million people that sits on the banks of the Yellow River in central Henan province.

But at least 12 are known to have died and five were injured in the subway disaster, which came after the region saw more rainfall in three days than it usually would in a year.

This is a rainy time of year in China and floods happen annually. However, Chinese scientists say global warming has made the situation more dangerous and warn that extreme weather could become more frequent in the future.

Today In History – July 22 – Dick Smith Makes 1st Solo Helicopter Flight Around The World

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Today In History – July 22 – Dick Smith Makes 1st Solo Helicopter Flight Around The World

259 Saint Dionysius elected as Pope, succeeding Sixtus II

1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem

1298 English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk

1306 King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France

1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats Sultan Murad II

1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair – a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured

1489 “Tractate Niddah” a talmudic edition, 1st printed

1489 Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France

1515 First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence

1535 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa

1582 Willem of Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft

1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina

1632 Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro Palace for King Philip IV

1648 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising

1686 City of Albany, NY chartered

1691 Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France

1729 Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil

1731 Spain signs Treaty of Vienna

1739 Ottoman Empire defeats Austria at Crocyka (Krotzka) in Serbia and then successfully lays siege to Belgrade

1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada

1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland. Originally called ‘Cleaveland’, the public adopted the current name after a newspaper editor noticed the name was too long to fit on the page.

1812 Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain

1835 Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is consecrated, originally commissioned by Elizabeth of Russia

1859 Underarm slow right arm bowler V E Walker takes 10-74 in 1st innings for an All-England Cricket XI v Surrey CCC at The Oval in London

1864 Battle of Atlanta: General Sherman’s Union side defeats Confederate troops under General Hood, with 8,449 Confederate and 3,641 US casualties

1865 Underarm slow right arm bowler V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancashire in a county cricket match at Old Trafford, Manchester

1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado

1898 Crew of Belgium RV Belgica see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs – 1st expedition to endure Antarctic winter

1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro

1901 British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of its members – in Taff Vale Case

1905 Philadelphia Athletic’s Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0

1912 Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in Stockholm, Sweden

1912 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea

1916 A bomb explodes during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10

1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades

1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah’s Wasatch National Park

1919 De Falla & Massine’s “Three-cornered Hat” premieres in London

1921 US Open Men’s Golf, Columbia CC: Englishman Jim Barnes wins the 3rd of his 4 major titles by 9 strokes ahead of runners-up Walter Hagen and Fred McLeod

1922 Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top

1923 Washington Senators future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson becomes 1st to reach 3,000 career strikeout milestone (en route to 3,508) with 5 K’s in 3-1 win over Cleveland Indians

1923 17th Tour de France won by Henri Pelissier of France

1925 NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Leo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)

1939 Jane Bolin becomes the 1st African American female judge in New York

1940 Dutch Prime minister Dirk Jan De Geer meets Adolf Hitler seeking peace talks

1942 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks

1942 Gasoline rationing using coupons begins

1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp

1943 US forces led by General George S. Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily

1955 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting

1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island

1959 Natural gas found at Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands

1960 Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories

1961 WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1962 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off

1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit

1971 Sudanese military counter-coup under premier Numeiry

1972 10.84″ (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)

1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus1972 2 Catholics are abducted, beaten, and shot dead in a Loyalist area of Belfast

1972 59th Tour de France: Eddy Merckx of Belgium takes 4th consecutive general classification title as well as points and combination events

1983 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world

1984 British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Seve Ballesteros of Spain

1984 71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France

1987 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome

1987 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)

1987 US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf

1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research

1994 Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees

1994 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson pleads “Absolutely 100% Not Guilty” of murder

1997 The first shipments of oil produced from Kazakhstan’s Tengiz field arrive at terminals on the Black Sea for subsequent export through the Bosphoros Strait

2003 Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard

2018 US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of “consequences” in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty To LA Sexual Assault Charges

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Harvey Weinstein Pleads Not Guilty To LA Sexual Assault Charges

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in a Los Angeles court.

He appeared in court in a wheelchair after being extradited from New York, where he is serving a 23-year jail sentence for similar crimes.

The 69-year-old faces 11 counts of sexual assault in California relating to alleged incidents with five women.

He maintains his innocence and has said any sexual activity was consensual.

The incidents are said to have occurred in hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles between 2004 and 2013.

The charges include forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual battery by restraint, and sexual penetration by use of force.

If convicted, Weinstein could face a maximum sentence of 140 years.

Wearing brown prison overalls, Weinstein only spoke only to say “thank you” to Judge Sergio Tapia after she wished him “good luck”.

His lawyer said the charges were not credible.

“They are baseless, they are from long, long ago, they are uncorroborated,” Mark Werksman said after the hearing.

Weinstein is appealing against last year’s conviction in New York.

More than 80 women have accused him of sexual misconduct, and some of the accusations date back several decades.

Allegations reported in 2017 contributed to the rise of the #MeToo movement, which encouraged people to share experiences of sexual harassment and assault.

However, very few of the allegations have led to criminal charges.

The pandemic and procedural delays meant Weinstein’s extradition to California took well over a year.

During the hearing, Werksman requested the former movie mogul have a health examination.

“He’s going blind in one eye,” he told reporters.

Weinstein has produced several hit movies including Shakespeare in Love, which won the Oscar for best picture in 1999.

Sylvester Stallone Jokes He Wishes ‘Daughters Would Stop Growing So Tall’

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Sylvester Stallone Jokes He Wishes ‘Daughters Would Stop Growing So Tall’

75-year-old “Rocky” actor, Sylvester Stallone, is father to five children: Sage, who died of heart disease at 36 in 2012, Seargeoh, about 42, Sophia, 24, Sistine, 23, and Scarlet, 19.

He shares his three daughters with former model Jennifer Flavin. The trio was selected to serve as Golden Globe ambassadors in 2017.

On Wednesday, the proud father took to social media to share a photo of himself standing with his daughters.

“I am a very very lucky man to have such wonderful, loving children who brought me nothing but joy,” Stallone wrote in the picture’s caption. “Now I wish they would stop growing so tall! Lol.”

For the photo, the actor kept his outfit simple, wearing a plain blue t-shirt and jeans while his daughters dressed it up a bit for the occasion.

Sistine, a model and actress, wore a silky green dress with a thin golden belt, Scarlet wore a black dress with light-colored decor and Sophia donned a leather-like cocktail dress with a matching black jacket.

Each of the three daughters completed their outfits with jewelry and stood about as tall as their action star father.

Many fans took to the comments to express their admiration over the family, several of whom deemed the quartet “perfect.”

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