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Minggu, 04 September 2022

Teen and two children killed in 'violent incident' in Dublin - Sky News

A teenager and two children have died following a violent incident at a house in Dublin, police have said.

The 18-year-old girl and her twin 8-year-old siblings - a boy and a girl - were taken by ambulance to Children's Health Ireland (CHI) in Crumlin, but all three were later pronounced dead.

Officers were called to a property on the Rossfield Estate in Tallaght at about 12.30am on Sunday, describing the incident as violent, challenging and traumatic.

A 14-year-old boy was also taken from the scene to hospital with serious injuries, however they are not thought to be life-threatening.

A man in his early 20s was subsequently arrested at the scene by the Garda Armed Support Unit.

He is being held at Tallaght Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.

The mother of the children, who was not injured, was also taken to CHI and is currently receiving medical treatment.

Gardai said everyone involved is believed to be known to each other and officers are not looking for anyone else in connection to the incident.

The scene in Rossfield Estate remains sealed off and a forensic examination will take place on Sunday by the Garda Technical Bureau.

Post-mortem examinations are also due to take place.

An Garda Siochana said it has appointed a family liaison officer and will continue to support those involved, in conjunction with other state agencies.

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2022-09-04 10:41:15Z
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Donald Trump: What we learned from his rally in Pennsylvania - BBC

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022.

Donald Trump has called President Joe Biden an "enemy of the state" at his first rally since the FBI searched his Florida resort for sensitive files.

Speaking to thousands of supporters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the ex-president accused Mr Biden of weaponizing the FBI against him.

The raid was "one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history", Mr Trump claimed.

He was in the state to promote two Republican candidates.

Dr Mehmet Oz is running for the US Senate, and state Senator Doug Mastriano is in the race to become Pennsylvania's next governor.

Both spoke only briefly - as always, the rally on Saturday night was really about one person: the headliner.

Mr Trump, 76, spent the first part of his nearly two-hour speech criticising the FBI search early last month.

FBI agents conducting the search found dozens of empty folders marked as classified, and top secret files were recovered from his personal office.

Mr Trump, who is being investigated over his handling of classified records, denies wrongdoing.

Apart from the raid, the former president returned to familiar themes at the Pennsylvania rally: false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, attacks on rivals in the Democratic Party, and promises to "save our country".

Several times, he called for people who deal drugs to receive the death penalty.

Here are four key things you need to know about Donald Trump's rally.

Punching back at the Department of Justice (DoJ)

The former president is currently involved in a legal tussle with federal authorities over a cache of classified documents that the FBI seized last month.

Government authorities say Mr Trump improperly took and stored White House documents, including some marked "top secret," at his Florida home - the Mar-a-Lago resort.

Federal prosecutors now say he may have obstructed the investigation into his possession of the documents.

Supporters cheer Donald Trump at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Photo: 3 September 2022

Mr Trump has previously spun investigations and attacks against him as "witch hunts," and it was no different on Saturday.

He came out swinging, calling the FBI's search "the shameful raid and break-in on my home in Mar-a-Lago" a "travesty".

The former president has long built his appeal by casting himself and his supporters as political outsiders and persecuted figures.

Mr Trump linked his personal legal troubles to his supporters' political frustrations, claiming: "We are being assaulted… by the FBI and DOJ".

"It was not just my home that was raided… it was the hopes and dreams of every citizen who I've been fighting for since the moment I came down the golden escalator in 2015, wanting to represent the people," he said, drawing boos from the crowd.

Supporters think Trump was 'set up'

The crowd was on his side when it came to the FBI's search.

This region supported Mr Trump in the 2020 election, even though Pennsylvania overall slipped from his grasp and chose Mr Biden.

Two supporters had already procured "Defund the FBI" T-shirts to wear to the rally.

Gail McCloskey, from the city of Altoona, nearly a three-hour drive away, told the BBC she thought the FBI visit was "a set up".

Meanwhile, Kelly Borgogelli, 60, who had driven four hours from Buffalo, New York, to see Mr Trump, said: "They're just going after him for pure hate."

Asked if she believed any of the multiple accusations made against Mr Trump over the years - that he incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol last year, that he improperly pressured Ukraine's president to investigate his political enemies, or that he falsified claims of election fraud in 2020 - Mrs Borgogelli replied she did not.

"They've never given us any proof," she said.

Her companion, Maureen Ewart, 62, said if the justice department actually charged Mr Trump, the country would be "divided".

"It will be crowded out there, the streets will be full," Ms Ewart said, emphasising that she did not condone violence - but feared any criminal charges against the former president could spark civil unrest.

At one point, Mr Trump himself claimed that the latest investigation into his possession of government documents was "going to produce a backlash" the likes of which the country had not seen before.

His visit to Pennsylvania is a strategic choice

Mr Trump's name might not be on the ballot in Pennsylvania this year, but Trumpism certainly is.

He hand-picked the US Senate candidate, celebrity medical expert Dr Oz, and endorsed the far-right election conspiracy theorist Mr Mastriano for governor after his surprising primary win.

Dr Mehmet Oz speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Photo: 3 September 2022

Their performance in the November election will be seen as a referendum on the strength of Mr Trump's endorsement, and the political ideologies he's unleashed on the Republican Party.

The outcome could have ramifications for 2024.

Mr Trump has not announced another presidential campaign, but has left the door wide open.

A simple guide to the US midterm elections

Should his candidates prevail, the Republican Party will see it as a sign of Mr Trump's continued dominance of their base voters.

Should they lose, however, it could indicate to Mr Trump's potential 2024 rivals that they may have a chance at the White House after all.

Rallygoers were far more enthused about Mr Mastriano - a candidate more closely forged in the former president's mould - than they were about Dr Oz.

The crowd roared when Mr Mastriano was brought onstage. However Dr Oz was invited to join Mr Trump onstage well over an hour into the rally.

The celebrity doctor spoke for less than two minutes, and after his remarks, someone in the back of the crowd shouted "he's a Rino!" or "Republican in name only," a criticism that Dr Oz is not sufficiently conservative.

Both parties eye Pennsylvania

The state is vital to Democrats' hopes as well. They want to pick up a US Senate seat by propelling Lt Gov John Fetterman to victory.

The governor's race has taken on extra significance with Mr Mastriano's landslide win in the Republican primary. He attended the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Congress and played a key role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania.

Should he win the governorship, he would have significant power over the state's election implementation.

To oppose him, Democrats have put forth the state's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, and President Biden held several high-profile events in the state in recent days to help whip up the Democratic base.

In fact, he also visited Wilkes-Barre, on 30 August to give a major speech about guns and public safety and two days ago he gave a primetime address in Philadelphia.

He argued that Trump's ideology - which he called "Maga Republicans" after his predecessor's famous campaign slogan - threatened American democracy.

"Not every Republican, not even a majority of Republicans, are Maga Republicans," Mr Biden said.

"But there's no question the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans, and that is a threat to this country."

On Saturday, Mr Trump called Mr Biden's address the most "vicious hateful and divisive speech ever delivered by an American president".

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Sabtu, 03 September 2022

Pilot 'threatening to crash stolen' plane into Walmart in Mississippi - Sky News

The pilot of a plane in Mississippi is threatening to "intentionally" crash his aircraft into a Walmart store.

A statement put out by Tupelo Police Department (TPD) says at about 5am local time (11am UK time) they were notified in an emergency 911 call that a pilot was making the threat.

The aircraft is believed to be a King Air propeller type.

AP said it had spoken to sources who revealed the aircraft is thought to be stolen and are trying to find out if the pilot is a worker at a local airport.

The Department of Homeland Security is now working with multiple other agencies to discern a motive, AP said it had been told.

Officers have been trying to clear the area and talk to the pilot, who is said to have been circling the scene in the air since, flying at low altitude.

The local newspaper the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that the plane is believed to have moved to an area near a Toyota factory in nearby Blue Springs - a situation that appears to be confirmed by images from flight tracking websites.

Police said in the statement: "On 09-03-2022 at approximately 05:00am TPD was notified that a pilot of an airplane (possibly King Air type) was flying over Tupelo. The pilot has made contact with E911 and is threatening to intentionally crash into Wal Mart on West Main.

"TPD has worked with Wal-Mart West and Dodges on West Main to evacuate the stores and disperse people as much as practical. TPD also has been able to begin talking with the pilot directly.

"At this time the situation is ongoing with TPD and all Emergency Services in our area on alert.

"Citizens are asked to avoid that area until an all clear is given. With the mobility of an airplane of that type the danger zone is much larger than even Tupelo."

State governor Tate Reeves said authorities were tracking the situation.

He said on Twitter: "State law enforcement and emergency managers are closely tracking this dangerous situation. All citizens should be on alert and aware of updates from the Tupelo Police Department."

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2022-09-03 14:44:00Z
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No going back to reliance on Russian gas from here - BBC

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in Lubmin, Germany

This is no coincidence. Russia's state-controlled gas giant announced an indefinite extension to a three-day maintenance halt to flows of gas through the continent's key energy artery, hours after leading western finance ministers vowed to escalate sanctions on Russian oil.

Gazprom's official reason is that an oil leak has been found and the pipeline cannot work without German imports of technology, which are now subject to sanctions.

Few observers believe, however, that this is anything other than an attempt essentially to blackmail Europe over supplies.

The G7 world's main economies, including the UK, agreed to cap the price they pay for oil from Russia. This is a way to limit the revenues that fund the Kremlin's war in Ukraine - it earns more from oil exports than gas.

But this is a very serious development. Even during the height of the Cold War, Russia kept supplies of its gas flowing into Europe.

This cut-off though - and the pointed attempt by Gazprom to blame the German energy giant Siemens for the malfunction - is the culmination of decades of dysfunction in the energy relationship between Russia and Germany.

For most of that time, of course, Bonn and then Berlin were delighted to avail themselves of cheap Russian gas.

A younger Vladimir Putin did his PhD thesis on the importance of Russian energy exports.

When I visited Gazprom's headquarters a decade ago and its fields in Siberia, I was told menacingly "anyone who artificially tries to diminish the role of Russian gas is playing a very dangerous game". A visit to the Novi Urengoy field showed Gazprom consolidating its hold on the Russian state, with some assistance from Berlin.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder enshrined this dependence with the building of this same Nordstream pipeline, which then gave him a job on its board. Gazprom sponsored German football, Europe's premier football competition the Champions League, and bankrolled various Russian soft power projects.

Perhaps most incredibly, German industry swapped the gas storage facilities under its soil for privileged access to deep-lying gas reserves under the Siberian tundra.

The very facilities, including Germany's largest, designed for resilience in the face of Russian energy diplomacy were passed into Russian ownership. It beggars belief that this was completed in 2015, after Russia's annexation of Crimea.

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One sliver of hope, though, now lies in those same storage facilities. The German government seized ownership of the storage facilities that had been left at very low levels last year.

There, and across the continent, energy companies backed by government loans have spent the summer buying up as much gas as possible at any price.

The major economies are now on course to fill massive stores of gas, designed to cope with a cut to supplies of several weeks. Germany's huge stores are now 84% full, having been less than half full in June.

As a result, gas prices traded in international markets have come down from extreme highs over the past week. But they are still very high by normal standards.

There remains a dash to secure alternative supplies that is pushing up the price for all countries, including Britain. And the true impact of all this will depend on just how long the pipeline outage lasts.

But surely now, for Germany and the rest of Europe, there will be no going back to reliance on Russia.

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2022-09-03 12:25:36Z
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Nasa: Artemis Moon rocket to make second launch attempt - BBC

The US space agency will attempt once again in the coming hours to launch its most powerful ever rocket.

Nasa was thwarted by a mix of technical and weather woes when it tried to get the Artemis I Moon mission off Earth on Monday.

But the mood remains positive at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.

"We've got to show up, we've got to be ready and we've got to see what the day brings," Mike Sarafin, Nasa's Artemis mission manager, told reporters.

Saturday's attempt to despatch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has been scheduled for the start of a two-hour window that begins at 14:17 local time (19:17 BST; 18:17 GMT).

The 100m-tall vehicle's objective will be to hurl a human-rated capsule in the direction of the Moon, something that hasn't happened since Project Apollo ended in 1972.

Artemis I is a technology demonstration, so there will be no crew aboard on this occasion, but should everything go to plan on the mission then Artemis II, expected to fly in 2024, very definitely will be carrying humans.

Nasa astronaut Jessica Mier said everyone should therefore show some patience as the SLS moves towards its maiden flight, and to not be surprised if there is a further postponement.

"Yeah, of course it's frustrating for everybody, but it's not unexpected," she told BBC News.

"It's part of how we do things at Nasa. The SLS will eventually have humans on it, my friends, my colleagues. So, we need to make sure this test flight goes well."

How we get humans back to the Moon

Monday's bid to fly SLS was ultimately scrubbed because controllers couldn't be sure the four big engines under the rocket's core-stage were properly prepared for flight.

The shuttle-era power units are chilled during countdown to -240C to prevent them being shocked by the sudden injection of cryogenic propellants at the moment of launch. But a sensor was indicating that Engine No 3 might be 15-30 degrees short of where its temperature needed to be.

Bill Muddle from manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne is confident though that the sensor was faulty, and if it plays up again on Saturday it will likely just be ignored.

"Having reviewed the data and all the other indicators, Engine No 3 could even have been a little bit colder than the others on Monday," he said.

"We now understand what we need to go look at to get comfortable to go launch."

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If the SLS does get away this time, it is sure to be a spectacular sight.

"It's gonna be 'shuttle on steroids'," said Doug Hurley, who was the pilot on the very last shuttle mission in 2011.

The former astronaut now works for Northrop Grumman who make the big white solid boosters on the sides of the SLS.

"What I always thought was the coolest thing about shuttle launches was you saw it lift off and it was well clear of the tower before you heard anything, and then it was even a little longer before you felt it," he explained.

"Thrust to weight-wise, SLS is pretty close to what shuttle was. Apollo's Saturn V rocket was drastically different. I never saw it in person but it lumbered clear of the pad. For shuttle, it seemed like it was clear in an instant, almost as soon as the boosters were lit. SLS should be the same," he told BBC News.

The first powered phase of the SLS's ascent will last just over eight minutes.

This will put the upper-stage of the rocket, with the Orion capsule still attached, into a highly elliptical orbit that would see the two of them come crashing back to Earth without any further effort.

So, the upper-stage will have to raise and circularise the orbit before then boosting Orion in the direction of the Moon.

Confirmation that the capsule is on its own, on track and speeding through space at 30,000 km/h (19,000mph) should come two hours and five minutes after launch.

The planned mission length is just under 38 days. This would result in Orion returning to Earth for a splashdown in the ocean off San Diego in California on 11 October.

Thirty-eight days is much longer than the 21 days that capsule manufacturer Lockheed Martin says is the maximum time astronauts should spend in the spacecraft.

But Annette Hasbrook, senior advisor on the Orion programme at Nasa, said engineers wanted to stretch the spacecraft on this mission to understand its limits.

"You're trying to test the edges of your boxes, not your nominal profile," she explained.

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2022-09-02 23:21:11Z
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Jumat, 02 September 2022

Man points handgun in face of Argentina's vice president in 'attempted assassination' - Sky News

A man has pointed a loaded handgun in the face of Argentina's vice president in what is being described as an attempted assassination.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was threatened outside her home in Buenos Aires on Thursday night.

The trigger was pulled but no shots were fired - indicating the weapon jammed - before the attacker was overpowered and arrested.

Video from the scene broadcast on local television channels shows the vice president exiting her vehicle surrounded by supporters outside her home, in the upscale Recoleta area of the capital.

The alleged gunman, identified as Brazilian national Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel, does not have a criminal record, the Argentinian Security Ministry said.

He appears to extend his hand holding what has been confirmed as a .32-calibre Bersa semi-automatic pistol, before former president Ms Fernandez is seen raising her hand to her face and ducking for cover.

The suspect was overpowered within seconds by security officials.

Argentina's president, Alberto Fernandez, said the gun was loaded with five bullets.

"A man pointed a firearm at her head and pulled the trigger," he said in a national broadcast.

The weapon "didn't fire even though the trigger was pulled," Mr Fernandez added.

Who is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner?

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was the first female president of Argentina.

She took office from her husband Nestor Kirchner after he stepped down in 2007. She was then re-elected with a huge majority in 2011 following his death in 2010.

The couple met at law school in Buenos Aires and moved to Patagonia after finishing their studies.

They simultaneously rose through the political ranks there, with Mr Kirchner elected governor of Santa Cruz in the early 1990s, with his wife serving as his deputy.

Ms Fernandez de Kirchner later became senator of Buenos Aires, while her husband served as president between 2003 and 2007.

The couple's focus on human rights, increasing social spending, and improving the lives of low-income families became known as 'Kirchnerismo'.

Under her leadership, Argentina renewed contracts with the International Monetary Fund after years of hostility and became the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage.

A vocal advocate of returning the Falkland Islands to Argentina, Ms Fernandez de Kirchner wrote to then-prime minister David Cameron in 2013, claiming British rule there was the continuation of oppressive colonialism.

Now vice president to Alberto Fernandez, for the last three years she has been the subject of a corruption trial.

While she vehemently denies all charges and has described it as a "media judicial firing squad", she is one of 13 accused of awarding public contracts to a friend while she and her husband lived in Patagonia.

Over a 12-year period, prosecutors claim 51 contracts were awarded to companies owned by Lazaro Baez. The trial is expected to last until next year.

The president - who is not related to his deputy - said the attack was "the most serious incident since we recovered democracy" in 1983 after a military dictatorship.

Economy minister Sergio Massa said: "When hate and violence are imposed over the debate of ideas, societies are destroyed and generate situations like the one seen today: an assassination attempt."

The suspect was arrested nearby and a weapon was found a few metres from the scene, according to a police spokesman.

Hundreds of protesters have gathered in recent days to support the former president, who is in the midst of a corruption trial.

She vehemently denies allegations, said to have happened during her 2007 - 2015 presidency.

The president declared Friday a holiday "so the Argentine people can, in peace and harmony, express itself in defence of life, democracy and in solidarity with our vice president."

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Man points handgun in face of Argentina's vice president in 'attempted assassination' - Sky News