Василий Мусин арестован на один месяц 29 суток, до 17 августа 2024 года.
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Решение Швейцарии депутат назвал «вершиной позора швейцарской политики».
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday targeted a ship farther away from nearly all of the previous assaults they’ve launched in the Gulf of Aden, potentially part of a widening escalation by the group.
The attack comes as the U.S. has sent the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower back home after an eight-month deployment in which it led the American response to the Houthi assaults. Those attacks have reduced shipping drastically through the route crucial to Asian, Middle East and European markets in a campaign the Houthis say will continue as long as the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages on.
The attack happened Monday morning in the Gulf of Aden about 450 kilometers southeast of Nishtun, a town in the far reaches of Yemen that’s close to the border with Oman, according to the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center. That region has long been held by forces allied to Yemen’s exiled government, which has battled the Houthis since the rebels took the capital, Sanaa, back in 2014.
The attack was just off to the northeast of Yemen’s Socotra Island, also held by allies of the exiled government.
“The master of a merchant vessel reports an explosion in close proximity to the vessel,” the UKMTO said. “The crew are reported safe and the vessel is proceeding to its next port of call.”
The Joint Maritime Information Center, which is overseen by the U.S. Navy, identified the vessel attacked as the Liberian-flagged, Greek-managed container ship MSC Sarah V, which is bound for Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
“The vessel was not hit and all crew on board are safe,” it said. “JMIC assesses that the vessel was likely attacked due to perceived Israeli association.”
Another MSC-associated vessel, the MSC Orion, was targeted in May in a deep-sea attack claimed by the Houthis.
Late Tuesday, Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed the attack in a prerecorded message, saying without providing more details that they used a new ballistic missile in the assault.
The attack happened near the outer reaches of the Gulf of Aden where it becomes the Arabian Sea and then ultimately the Indian Ocean. Of the more than 60 attacks launched by the Houthis since November that specifically targeted vessels, this would be one of the farthest.
In the MSC Orion attack in May, the distance at which it was struck led experts to question whether Iran, the Houthis’ main benefactor, could have launched the attack. The Houthis have claimed attacks later assessed to have been conducted by Iran, including the 2019 attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields that temporarily halved the kingdom’s energy production.
The Houthis have made a series of claims without evidence they’ve targeted vessels at even greater distances, even though there’s been no independent confirmation of any of those attacks actually taking place.
The rebels have fired off other missiles and drones in their campaign that has killed a total of four sailors. They have seized one vessel and sunk two since November. A U.S.-led airstrike campaign has targeted the Houthis since January, with a series of strikes on May 30 killing at least 16 people and wounding 42 others, the rebels say.
The Houthis have maintained that their attacks target ships linked to Israel, the United States or Britain. However, many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the Israel-Hamas war — including those bound for Iran.
Brazil’s Supreme Court decided on Tuesday to decriminalize the possession of marijuana for personal use, by majority vote, undermining the already tense relationship with the Congress.
The decision does not legalize possession of small amounts for personal use, but it will no longer be treated as a crime. The Supreme Court hasn’t decided at what level—quantity or amount—to draw the line between dealers and users.
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While the Supreme Court was analyzing the decriminalization, the Senate presented and approved a constitutional amendment criminalizing the possession of marijuana in any quantity. This bill is now in the lower house. In a broadly conservative Congress, the proposal was approved by the constitution and justice committee in a 47-17 vote 10 days ago.
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President of Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, who is the author of the bill criminalizing personal use of drugs, slammed the Supreme Court decision.
“I disagree with the decision, it can only be made through the legislative process,” he told journalists Tuesday evening.
Brazilian drug law states that it is a crime to buy, keep, transport or bring drugs for personal use, in this case with a light penalty. Each judge can decide what quantity or amount of marijuana is consistent with personal use or drug trafficking. According to top judges that vote in favor of the decriminalization, this perception reinforces bias, especially against poor and Black people.
North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile that appears to have failed in flight, in an attempted show of force about a week after it struck a military pact with Russia that alarmed the U.S. and its allies.
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The missile was launched at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday from an area near Pyongyang and is presumed to have failed shortly after it was fired, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a message sent to reporters. An analysis was being done by South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities to find out more details, it said.
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The missile launched Wednesday morning appears to have come down in waters outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone, officials in Tokyo said. Further details on the flight were not immediately available and it’s the first launch since Kim Jong Un’s regime fired off a simultaneous barrage of short-range ballistic missiles in late May.
North Korea has largely avoided missile failures over the past few years as Kim has rolled out a new array of rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads and designed to strike the U.S. mainland as well as America’s allies Japan and South Korea. It has suffered setbacks with its rockets for deploying satellites, with its latest attempt in late May ending in failure when the rocket broke apart in a fireball soon after its launch.
Before the latest missile test, North Korea assailed the U.S. for sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier group to the Korean Peninsula for joint training drills that included Japan and South Korea.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited the aircraft carrier Tuesday as it was docked in the southeastern city of Busan. He said the visit was meant to show Kim the U.S. commitment to deploy its nuclear umbrella to protect his country, formally known as the Republic of Korea.
North Korea has denounced joint drills as a prelude to invasion and bristled at U.S. aircraft carrier groups positioned off South Korea.
“The DPRK bitterly condemns the provocative attempts of the US and the ROK, the heinous confrontation maniacs with the most powerful rhetoric and with all possibilities of demonstrating its overwhelming and new deterrent force,” the official Korean Central News Agency on Monday quoted Vice Defense Minister Kim Kang Il as saying. He used abbreviations to refer to North Korea and South Korea by their formal names.
On the same day, the U.S. and its allies Japan and South Korea condemned in “the strongest possible terms” the deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, calling it a grave concern and a threat to stability.
Top envoys from the three nations discussed Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim’s agreement, announced last week, to come to each other’s defense in case of attack, according to a joint statement released by the U.S. State Department. The pact was made during the Russian leader’s first visit to North Korea in 24 years.
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The U.S. and its Asian allies have said they saw the visit as advancing the transfer of munitions from Kim’s regime to help Putin’s war in Ukraine. The pact likely means the U.S. and its allies will have to recalculate what might happen if they use weapons against North Korea.
Earlier this week, North Korea sent a new batch of balloons carrying trash across the border into South Korea after Seoul said it detected parasites such as roundworms in the contents of previous dispatches.
More than 184 million people—about 61% of U.S. adults—are likely to have some type of cardiovascular disease by 2050, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported earlier this month. That will lead to a tripling in the costs related to heart disease. It’s a statistic that TIME senior health correspondent Alice Park cited to begin her discussion about the future of healthcare with AHA CEO Nancy Brown; cardiologist Kiran Musunuru; and Andres Acosta, associate professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, for a TIME100 Health panel in New York on Tuesday.
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The event was sponsored by AHA and is part of the TIME100 Talks series. The TIME100 Health list includes the most influential people in the health industry around the world.
Heart disease has been the leading killer of Americans since 1950. Brown, who has been CEO of the AHA since 2008, said the number of people in the U.S. living with the risk of heart disease—and the resulting cost—is “staggering.” Part of the issue, she said, is the lack of equal access to healthcare and to social determinants of health, such as healthy food and a living wage. But another issue is the way the U.S. healthcare system approaches these types of medical conditions.
“I think that this country focuses a lot on treating conditions,” Brown said. “But we’re not focusing enough on prevention and helping people earlier in their lives understand the power of things that make a difference in their life. You know, 80% of cardiovascular disease is preventable.”
Musunuru, a professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said cardiovascular disease can be attributed to about half genetics and about half environment or lifestyle. There are ways to reduce risk factors for developing cardiovascular disease, such as cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and even obesity. The challenge, he said, is that these risk factors develop over time. And the country’s current healthcare system attempts to cope with chronic disease with chronic treatment. While there can be merits to that approach, Musunuru said, it also puts “an outsized burden” on patients.
He suggested the healthcare system shift its focus to preventing chronic diseases, starting at an early age—like we do with vaccines to prevent infectious diseases.
“You’re not going to eliminate heart disease, but can you push off heart attack and stroke by decades?” Musunuru said. “Instead of suffering a bad heart attack at age 60, maybe dying from it, it happens at age 100 and you enjoy 40 years of life you might not have otherwise had.”
Acosta, who codirects the Nutrition Obesity Research Program and directs the Precision Medicine for Obesity Program at Mayo Clinic, discussed how some treatments can also help with reducing the risk of other diseases. Obesity, for instance, is one of the major risk factors for heart disease, and weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound are having a significant impact on treating it. AHA previously reported that people taking Wegovy decreased their risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from cardiovascular issues by 20%, compared to those taking a placebo. Acosta said this data was a “game changer” and marked a “new era” in the management of obesity and cardiovascular disease.
The panelists also highlighted the importance of genetic testing. Few people have their genetics tested, Brown said, and a priority for the AHA is encouraging people to do so.
Musunuru researches the genetics of heart disease and aims to identify genetic factors that protect against disease. Having genetic information, he said, can help medical practitioners know early on what patients’ risks are for developing certain diseases and can allow patients to take a “proactive” approach to their health.
“Your genes are the same on the day you’re born as the day you die,” Musunuru said. “If you know what’s in your genes at the time you’re born, that gives you a forecast of what your life will look like as it unfolds.”
TIME100 Talks: Reimagining the Future of Healthcare was presented by the American Heart Association.
Empire, Mich. (AP) — A man convicted of diverting a national park river to ease boat access to Lake Michigan was sentenced Tuesday to probation.
Andrew Howard was also banned from National Park Service property during the five-year period, including Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan where the incident occurred, prosecutors said.
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“Mr. Howard had a policy dispute with the National Park Service over whether to dredge the Platte River. … While Mr. Howard had the right to disagree and advocate for his position, he did not have the right to take the law into his own hands and force his favored result,” U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said.
Howard was found guilty of misdemeanor tampering and vandalism during a brief trial in February.
In August 2022, a ranger witnessed Howard digging with a shovel. Within days, the government said, a new channel to Lake Michigan grew to about 200 feet (61 meters) wide, attracting fishermen.
The Park Service no longer dredges the river. As a result, sediment and sand build up, reducing the ability to get boats to Lake Michigan.
In a court filing, defense attorney Tony Valentine said the river had already been diverted by others when Howard moved some sand and rocks.
“Anything that Mr. Howard did, characterized as ‘enhancing’ the newly created flow of the river, was in reality insignificant,” Valentine said.