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RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia teacher has been reunited with her mother after 50 years, according to WTVR.
Bonnie Davis has been searching for her biological family her entire life. Her mother was 15 when she gave birth to her in Louisville, Kentucky.
Five weeks ago Davis made one last attempt to find her by submitting a DNA test to Ancestry.com. Three weeks later she heard back.
“I got a text saying my DNA results were back,” Davis said. “It listed 312 possibilities that might be first to fourth cousins.”
The middle school English teacher connected with some of those cousins and received a call at school from one of them that would change her life.
“I think I know who your mother is,” explained her cousin. “I lost it, I had a panic attack in the halls, my students were running to the door,” said Davis.
She was given the name Sheila Richardson, and after a search of Facebook, she sent her mother a message.
“I stepped out on faith last Saturday night and sent her a text message and it said you are a very beautiful lady. I don’t want to scare you, but look at these pictures and tell me what you think,” said Davis.
The church music director attended Sunday service the next morning and as her preacher was delivering his message she said something told her to check her phone.
“I looked at my cell phone and I got a message from her (her mother) that stunned me it said call me right away,” explained Davis. “[Her mother] She said I’m so happy I can’t contain myself.”
“I ran out the back of the church," Davis said. "I called her and I remember it felt like forever. The phone was ringing, tears streaming down my face, and when she answered the phone and I heard her voice my mouth went dry and couldn’t speak. She called me by my birth name and we both lost it on the phone,” Davis said.
For the first time, she heard her mom’s voice and the words Latonya Dean, the name Davis was given at birth.
“She said, 'I got to find my way to you.' I said, 'no, I’m coming,'” said Davis. “We got in the car and we drove to South Carolina exactly a week to the day those test results came back.”
She pulled into her mother’s driveway where her biological brother was waiting for her.
“It was a long time coming,” said Davis’ brother Cortney Leonard. “I’m overjoyed that one she’s been found and we’re together, we’re complete, mom is complete.”
Richardson had two children die soon after birth; a daughter and a son.
“I was meant to have these two children I cherish so, because they survived," Richardson said.
“They had to walk me to my mother and I could only see the silhouette of her, and when I walked up those steps I fell into her arms and I kept touching her and couldn’t take my eyes off her, couldn’t believe she was real,” explained Davis.
“I promised her if I don’t live but one more day, I’m going to spend it loving the hell out of you,” said Davis’ mother Sheila Richardson.
Davis has already submitted paperwork to legally change her name back to Latonya Dean. She says it should be official in the next month.
Meanwhile, she will have to decide what day she will celebrate her 51st birthday next June.
“She was born on June the 30th, they have her listed for the 28th,” said Richardson. “I told Tonya I would never forget that day because exactly 7 days later I turned 16.”
Davis will meet more than 100 relatives who are flying in from around the country to meet her at a reunion in the DC area on Saturday. She says she plans to move her mom to Richmond in the near future.
Davis’ adopted parents are deceased.

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Mumbai: The state government is mulling creating a sperm bank exclusively for cancer patients. Health Minister Deepak Sawant said that the government may also collaborate in setting up such a facility with a private entity.
But why a separate sperm bank for cancer patients? This is because frequent chemotherapy and exposure to radiation reduces the fertility of those afflicted by cancer. The sperm of such people can be preserved before the treatment begins.
“Though chemotherapy has increased the life expectancy of cancer patients, such a treatment reduces the sperm count by as much as 90 per cent. The result could be impotency. Moreover, preserving the sperm in private facilities is a costly affair, out of the reach of the poor,” said Dr Sajid Quereshi, cancer surgeon at the Tata Memorial Hospital.
Social worker Rajeev Patil, who works with poor cancer patients, said that many of the men he looks after are keen to become fathers. “But the stumbling block is the cost involved to store their sperms. Private facilities charge over Rs 20,000 per year to do the job,” Patil told FPJ.
Patil said he had written a letter to the health minister requesting him for government support to start a sperm bank. At least, he had pleaded with the minister, the state should subsidise sperm preservation in private hospitals.
Health Minister Sawant had assured him that he would discuss the matter with the Tata Memorial Hospital. And, till such a bank is set up in government hospitals, he would ask private institutions to reduce the prices for poor patients.
“The prices are actually high for poor people. We will be coming up with government-run sperm banks,” Health Minister Deepak Sawant said.

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Holtby made one of his biggest saves of the night with just under two minutes left to play, diving to his right, stopping Alex Tuch's point-blank shot with his stick to keep the score 3-2.
The Knights continued to push pulling Fleury for an extra attacker, but Holtby and the Capitals kept them off the scoreboard the rest of the way to knot the series and wrestle away home-ice advantage.
The usual pre-game pomp at T-Mobile Arena, which includes showgirls lining the glass in the Washington end of the rink during warmups and a knight defeating an opponent in a sword battle on the ice, also featured a performance by Las Vegas band Imagine Dragons and an appearance by UFC legend Randy Couture.
Both teams promised a tighter checking game after Monday's 10-goal outburst, and Holtby and Fleury looked much better early before Neal opened the scoring at 7:58 of the first.
The winger knocked teammate Luca Sbisa's flipped clearing attempt out of midair at the offensive blue line in front of Dmitry Orlov, who tried to knock the puck down with his glove, before stepping past the Capitals defenceman and beating Holtby for his fifth.
The Knights have scored first in all nine of their playoff home games, with each occurring in first period and six coming in the first eight minutes.
Washington forward Evgeny Kuznetsov, who tops the post-season scoring race with 25 points, took a big hit from Brayden McNabb later in the period and crumpled to the ice holding his left arm.
The Russian centre, who skated quickly to the bench and went straight to the locker room, did not return with what the team called an upper-body injury.
The same way Wilson's hit on Vegas leading scorer Jonathan Marchessault in Game 1 sparked the Knights, the collision seemed to wake up the Capitals as Eller finished off a nice passing play by scoring his sixth with 2:33 left on the clock.
With the teams playing 4-on-4, Andre Burakovsky fed Michal Kempny, who fooled Fleury by passing to Eller for a wide-open net instead of shooting.
Eller signed a five-year, US$17.5-million contract extension in February, and now has the same amount of goals (six) in these playoffs as he did in the first 50 post-season games of his career.
Notes: The Knights are the first team to make the Stanley Cup in their first season since the 1967-68 St. Louis Blues, although an expansion club was guaranteed a spot in the final after the NHL expanded from six to 12 franchises. ... The Capitals' only other trip the Cup came in 1998 when they were swept by the Detroit Red Wings.
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There was no end of intrigue at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year.
Rumor, the German shepherd who narrowly lost at last year's show, had come close to simply hanging up her leash and retiring. Instead, she stormed back to win her category again this year — and then, to top it all off, beat out more than 2,800 dogs to take Best in Show on Tuesday, as well.
The triumph makes her only the second German shepherd to win the top prize in Westminster's 141-year history. Considering Westminster is the second-longest continuously running sporting event in the U.S. — second only to the Kentucky Derby — the redemptive win for the 5 1/2-year-old female is no mean feat.
Not only that, but as NPR's Merrit Kennedy noted earlier this month, Westminster also played host to another rarity at this year's dog show: cats. The featured felines shared a showcase with the dogs called Meet & Compete.
Still, whatever words we can offer on the event seem a little beside the point. The dogs — big and small, noble and loony — are the main event.
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Question: Indian IT Outsourcers Anxious Over Potential Changes To H1-B Visas

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With the Trump administration vowing to tighten rules for skilled workers entering the United States, India's software services companies are worried. Indian IT giants outsource tens of thousands of tech specialists to the United States each year, and limiting the visa program that brings them in could disrupt their multibillion-dollar industry.
Congress and the White House have targeted what is arguably the most coveted of U.S. visas: the H1-B. It's "a kind of temporary work visa that allows professionals from other countries to work in the United States for a designated U.S. employer," explains Stephen Yale-Loehr, a Cornell University immigration law professor.
Yale-Loehr says that with the economy picking up, the program is in particularly big demand. Last year, U.S. companies that sought to bring highly skilled workers to the U.S. filed 236,000 petitions that went into a lottery for just 85,000 H1-B visas, the legal cap. The bulk of the winners: Indian computer specialists, many of them graduates of U.S. universities.
Yale-Loehr says that places like Europe and Australia have special visas to attract such talent, but that the United States doesn't.
"We have to shoehorn high-tech workers into categories like the H1-B, and it's getting more difficult every year," he says.
For many H1-B holders, the temporary work visa — issued for a maximum of six years-- has been a stepping stone to obtaining a green card. That grants permanent residence in the U.S., and in turn provides a path to citizenship.
But newly introduced legislation in Congress and drafts of executive orders reportedly circulating in the Trump White House would tighten the H1-B program.
Indian software services firms last year earned 60 percent of their $108 billion in export revenues from the U.S. Their executives will travel to Washington this month to lobby against measures that take aim at one of India's most successful industries.
One bill proposes more than doubling the minimum wage of H1-B holders, which by law is set at $60,000. Critics argue the H1-B has been misused to displace American workers, and that there has been an incentive to prefer Indian IT workers because they are cheaper.
Shailesh Chitnis, with the data mining and analysis company Compile, says that while the median salary for all H1-B holders is $71,000, most but not all Indian outsourcers pay below that. If they had to double salaries, Chitnis says, Indian IT companies would have to change their 20-year-old business model.
"Because these organizations are not going to be bringing in people at $120,000 to fill those jobs — it would simply be too expensive," he says. "They'll have to look at some other alternatives."
But Shevendra Singh with India's National Association of Software Services Companies, or NASSCOM, refutes allegations that Indian companies are dislocating American workers or supplying low-paid labor. Singh says there is demand in the U.S. for Indian technical talent because of a severe shortage of qualified Americans with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.
"The crux of the issue is the STEM skill shortage in the U.S.," Singh says.
In its 2012 report, the U.S. president's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology found that "fewer than 40-percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree." The council concluded that in the next decade, economic forecasts point to a need to produce "approximately 1 million more college graduates in STEM fields than expected under current assumptions."
R. Chandrashekhar, president of NASSCOM, says that if the skills aren't available in the U.S. — and companies can't bring workers in — the jobs either won't get done or they will go out of the country and be done remotely.
"Talent has become more important than investment or trade," he says. "And those who consciously cut themselves off from the global supply chains of talent are depriving themselves of a good thing."
Chandrashekhar notes that the intermingling of American and Indian ingenuity helped build Silicon Valley, and says protectionist impulses could weaken the United States, and what makes it unique.
"America is No. 1," Chandrashekhar says. "What has really helped them to rise, absolutely, to the top, is that they have attracted talent from across the world. ... It would be really a pity if that was reversed without thinking it through."
Immigration expert Yale-Loehr, co-author of a 21-volume treatise on immigration law, agrees that the United States faces a crisis in maintaining its innovative and competitive edge, and says it should be inviting more, not less, IT talent to its shores.
"In a globalized economy, the best and the brightest want to work in the best places — and if they're unable work in the United States, or it takes too long or is too difficult, they'll find a place in Canada or Europe or India where their talents can be appreciated," he says.
If implemented, Yale-Loehr says the draft executive order would initiate a review of the H1-B program but likely have no direct, immediate impact.
However, he says "it sends a strong signal that we no longer like foreign workers — we're all about only U.S. workers."
That, Yale-Loehr says, is eventually going to hurt the U.S.
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In India, tech companies are worried that the Trump administration is preparing to limit visas for foreign skilled workers. A huge number of those visas called H-1Bs are held by Indians, but Congress and the White House say the program could be a threat to American jobs. From New Delhi, NPR's Julie McCarthy has more.
JULIE MCCARTHY, BYLINE: In the alphabet soup of U.S. visas, the H-1B is arguably the most coveted.
STHEPHEN YALE-LOEHR: An H-1B visa is a kind of temporary work visa that allows professionals from other countries to work in the United States for a designated U.S. employer.
MCCARTHY: Cornell immigration law professor Stephen Yale-Loehr says the program is in big demand. Last year, U.S. companies that sought to bring high-skilled workers to the states filed 236,000 petitions that went to a lottery that drew just 85,000 H-1B visas. The bulk of the winners - Indian computer specialists, many graduates from U.S. universities. Yale-Loehr says places like Europe and Australia have special visas to attract such talent.
YALE-LOEHR: We don't, and so we have to shoehorn those high-tech workers into existing categories like the H-1B. And it's getting more difficult every year.
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Newly introduced legislation in Congress and drafts of executive orders reportedly circulating in the Trump White House would tighten the H-1B program. The stakes are high for Indian IT firms. Using H-1Bs, they earn tens of billions of dollars each year outsourcing tech talent to the U.S. One bill proposes doubling the minimum wage of H-1B holders.
Critics say there's an incentive to prefer Indian IT workers because they are cheap. Analyst Shailesh Chitnis says if the median salary for all H-1B holders is $71,000, several - not all - Indian outsourcers pay slightly below that. And if they had to double salaries, he says Indian IT companies would have to change their business model.
SHAILESH CHITNES: These organizations are not going to be bringing in people at $120,000 to fill those jobs. It would simply be too expensive. They'll have to look at some other alternatives.
MCCARTHY: India's IT executives refute allegations that Indians are displacing American workers. There is a demand in the U.S. for Indian technical talent, they argue, because of a severe shortage of Americans with degrees in science, engineering and math. The president of the group representing Indian software services companies, R. Chandrashekhar, says talent has become more important than investment or trade.
R. CHANDRASHEKHAR: And those who consciously cut themselves off from the global supply chains of talent are depriving themselves of a good thing.
MCCARTHY: Chandrashekhar notes that intermingling of American and Indian ingenuity helped build Silicon Valley and says protectionist impulses would weaken the U.S. and what makes it unique.
CHANDRASHEKAR: America is number one. What has really helped them to rise absolutely to the top is that they have attracted talent from across the world, from every corner of the world. And that's what has made them who they are. It would be really a pity if that was reversed without thinking it through.
MCCARTHY: Immigration expert Stephen Yale-Loehr says if implemented, the draft executive order would initiate a review of the H-1B program and likely have no direct immediate impact.
YALE-LOEHR: But it sends a strong signal that we'd no longer like foreign workers. We're all about only U.S. workers. That is eventually going to hurt us.
MCCARTHY: Indian IT executives travel to Washington this month to lobby against the measures that take aim at one of India's most competitive businesses. Julie McCarthy, NPR News, New Delhi. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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With a cease-fired declared Wednesday, Israel and Hamas appear to have pulled back from a fourth war after a day of intense rocket fire and airstrikes. But the situation could explode at any moment.
Tuesday's fighting was the heaviest since a 2014 war, with Palestinian militants firing scores of rockets and mortars into Israel, and Israel carrying out dozens of airstrikes in Gaza.
Both sides appeared to have accomplished some short-term goals. But the underlying issues that helped fuel the fighting remain in place.
Hamas, weakened by a decade-long blockade of Gaza, remains defiant and in distress. A confident Israel appears unrestrained by the United States or its Middle Eastern neighbors. Palestinian militants still have an arsenal of rockets and could potentially inflict damage or casualties in Israel, followed by Israeli retaliation.
Here's a look at the current state of play and potential for escalation.
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HOW DID WE GET HERE?
Eleven years after seizing control of Gaza from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas is in trouble.
Gaza's economy has been battered by an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, imposed to prevent the group from arming. Three wars with Israel have brought widespread destruction, and the Islamic militant group has no close international allies to bail it out.
Frustrated with his inability to regain control of Gaza, Abbas has stepped up economic pressure on Hamas by cutting the electricity supply and reducing the salaries to tens of thousands of former civil servants in Gaza.
Running out of options and rejecting calls to disarm, Hamas has led a series of weekly mass protests along the Israeli border during the past two months to draw attention to Gaza's poor conditions and pressure Israel to ease the blockade.
Israel has fired live bullets and tear gas to break up the protests and prevent a mass breach of the border fence, killing over 110 Palestinians, the vast majority unarmed. Some of the Palestinian protesters hurled fire bombs, burned tires or tried to breach the fence, undermining Hamas' claims that the protests were entirely peaceful.
Israel says Hamas is responsible for the bloodshed, and accuses the group of using the demonstrations as a cover for attacks.
Still, Israel has come under heavy international criticism for its use of deadly force. But the protests have not succeeded in easing the blockade.
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HOW DID THINGS ESCALATE?
Earlier this week, Israel carried out a pair of deadly strikes on military posts belonging to Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group, contending militants planted explosives and tried to break through the border to carry out an attack. Four militants were killed.
Early Tuesday, Islamic Jihad retaliated by firing a barrage of mortar fire into southern Israel near the Gaza border. Hamas later fired rockets for the first time since the 2014 war ended with an informal cease-fire.
The cross-border exchange lasted throughout the night, but both sides showed restraint. Israel targeted empty Palestinian military training and weapons sites, while the militants avoided use of powerful longer-range rockets capable of striking deeper into Israel. Both were signs that neither side wants to go to war.
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WHAT DID EACH SIDE ACCOMPLISH?
The Palestinian militants, who accuse Israel of violating the terms of the 2014 cease-fire by targeting their military observation posts, believe they sent a powerful reminder that they still possess arsenals capable of disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis on the other side of the border.
"Israel used to initiate the strikes and end them unilaterally and impose new rules," said Adnan Abu Amer, an independent analyst in Gaza. "This time the resistance took the initiative. ... The resistance came out from this round in a superior position."
From Israel's perspective, the military delivered a measured, but powerful response that made Hamas realize quickly that fighting is not in its interest. Israel did not signal that it is willing to ease the blockade.
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
While Israel's military and the Palestinian militant groups flexed their muscles, little was resolved.
Any time Hamas or Islamic Jihad resort to firing rockets, they risk triggering a fierce Israeli response, especially if there are serious casualties on the Israeli side.
Israel's "Iron Dome" rocket defense system intercepted dozens of incoming projectiles on Tuesday. But the system is not fail-safe. One mortar shell landed next to an Israeli kindergarten shortly before it opened, and four Israelis were wounded by Palestinian fire.
It was not immediately clear if Islamic Jihad, a much smaller, Iran-backed militant group, acted independently Tuesday or at least had the tacit blessing of Hamas. At times, Islamic Jihad has pursued objectives that differ from those of Hamas.
Israel, meanwhile, appears to have made progress in defusing long-term threats posed by Hamas. Its air defenses have largely mitigated the rocket threat, and its military has made great progress in destroying Hamas' system of attack tunnels along the border.
The Trump administration has shielded Israel from critics in Europe and the human rights community who say Israel's open-fire orders are illegal because they allow deadly force even when soldiers are not in life-threatening situations.
Israel has quietly forged good behind-the-scenes ties with Egypt and Gulf Arab states that have little empathy for Hamas, an offshoot of the regional Muslim Brotherhood movement.
But Israel's apparent military and diplomatic advantage does not solve the underlying problem of having a volatile, impoverished territory on its doorstep. Many analysts and members of the international community believe it is only a matter of time before Gaza boils over again as long as the blockade remains in place.
That could happen sooner than later. Next Tuesday, Hamas plans another mass protest along the border.
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Associated Press writer Fares Akram in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, contributed to this report.

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Gaza is a coastal strip of land that lay on ancient trading and maritime routes along the Mediterranean shore.
Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to Egyptian to Israeli military rule over the last century and is now a fenced-in enclave inhabited by two million Palestinians.
Here are some of the major milestones in its recent history.
Today: Palestinian protesters use slingshots against Israeli security forces as they burn tires during the mass-protests in the first week of April, 2018
1948 - Refugees and Egyptian military rule
As British colonial rule came to an end in Palestine in the late 1940s, violence intensified between Jews and Arabs, culminating in war between the newly created State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in May 1948.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians took refuge in Gaza after fleeing or being driven from their homes. The invading Egyptian army had seized a narrow coastal strip 25 miles (40 km) long from the Sinai to just south of Ashkelon. The influx of refugees saw Gaza's population triple to around 200,000.
Egypt held the Gaza Strip for two decades under a military governor, allowing Palestinians to work and study in Egypt.
In the 1950s and 1960s armed Palestinian 'fedayeen' - many of them refugees - mounted attacks into Israel, drawing reprisals. The United Nations set up a refugee agency, UNRWA, which today provides services for 1.3 million registered Palestine refugees in Gaza, around 70 per cent of the population, as well as for Palestinians in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
1967 - War and Israeli military occupation
Israel captured the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war. An Israeli census that year put Gaza's population at 394,000, at least 60 percent of them refugees. It found that 65 percent of working-age men in the 145 sq. mile (375 sq. km) territory were employed in Gaza before the 1967 conflict, mainly in agriculture, fishing, industry and quarries.
With the Egyptians gone, the focus of many Gazan workers shifted. Thousands took jobs in the agriculture, construction and services industries inside Israel, to which they could gain easy access at that time. Israeli troops remained to administer the territory, and to guard the settlements that Israel built in the following decades. These became a source of growing Palestinian resentment.
Two sides: A Palestinian police officer, left, aims his AK-47 assault rifle at Israeli soldiers during a confrontation in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis in January 1998
1987 - First Palestinian uprising and birth of Hamas
Twenty years after the 1967 war, Palestinians launched their first intifada, or uprising. It began in December 1987 after a traffic accident in which an Israeli truck crashed into a vehicle carrying Palestinian workers in Gaza's Jabalya refugee camp, killing four. Stone-throwing protests, strikes and shutdowns followed.
Seizing the angry mood, the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood created an armed Palestinian branch - Hamas - with its power base in Gaza. Hamas, dedicated to Israel's destruction and restoration of Islamic rule in what it saw as occupied Palestine, became a rival to Yasser Arafat's secular Fatah party that led the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1993 - The Oslo Accords, and Palestinian semi-autonomy
Israel and the Palestinians signed an historic peace accord in 1993 that led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Under the interim deal, Palestinians were first given limited control in Gaza, and Jericho in the West Bank. Arafat returned to Gaza after decades in exile.
The Oslo process gave the newly created Palestinian Authority some autonomy, and envisaged statehood after five years. But that never happened. Israel accused the Palestinians of reneging on security agreements, and Palestinians were angered by continued Israeli settlement-building.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad carried out bombings to try to derail the peace process, leading Israel to impose more restrictions on movement of Palestinians out of Gaza. Hamas also picked up on growing Palestinian criticisms of corruption, nepotism and economic mismanagement by Arafat's inner circle.
Palestinian boys and young men throw stones at an army camp in Gaza in 2000
2000 - Second Palestinian Intifada
In 2000, Israeli-Palestinian relations sank to a low with the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada. It ushered in a period of suicide bombings and shooting attacks by Palestinians, and Israeli air strikes, demolitions, no-go zones and curfews.
One casualty was Gaza International Airport, a symbol of thwarted Palestinian hopes for economic independence and the Palestinians' only direct link to the outside world that was not controlled by Israel or Egypt. Opened in 1998, was deemed a security threat by Israel three years later. Israel destroyed its radar antenna and runway a few months after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Another casualty was Gaza's fishing industry, a source of income for tens of thousands. Gaza's fishing zone, set by the Oslo deals at 20 nautical miles, was reduced by Israel to between three and 12 nautical miles. Israel said the restrictions were necessary to stop boats smuggling weapons. Palestinians accused Israel of reneging on Oslo.
United: An elderly Palestinian woman holds a rocket propelled grenade as she and others demonstrate in Gaza City in July 2006
2005 - Israel evacuates its Gaza settlements
In August 2005 Israel evacuated all its troops and settlers from Gaza, which was by then completely fenced off from the outside world by Israel.
Palestinians tore down the abandoned buildings and infrastructure for scrap. The settlements' removal led to greater freedom of movement within Gaza, and the 'tunnel economy' boomed as armed groups, smugglers and entrepreneurs quickly dug scores of tunnels into Egypt.
But the pullout also removed settlement factories, greenhouses and workshops that had employed some Gazans.
2006 to 2007 - Isolation under Hamas
In 2006, Hamas scored a surprise victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections.
Later that year, Hamas militants captured an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, and killed two others in a tunnel raid. In 2007 Hamas seized full control of Gaza, overthrowing forces loyal to Arafat's successor, President Mahmoud Abbas.
Much of the international community cut aid to the Palestinians in Hamas-controlled areas because they regard Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
Israel stopped tens of thousands of Palestinian workers from entering the country, cutting off an important source of income, and closed an industrial zone on the Gaza border.
Israeli air strikes crippled Gaza's only electrical power plant, causing widespread blackouts. Citing security concerns, Israel and Egypt also imposed tighter restrictions on the movement of people and goods through the Gaza crossings.
Gaza's economy increasingly went underground, becoming more dependent on a network of smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt. Ambitious Hamas plans to refocus Gaza's economy east, away from Israel, foundered before they even started.
White phosphorus bombs explode over Gaza city during Israel's three week offensive in January, 200
2013 - Coup in Egypt
In 2011 the Arab Spring brought a window of opportunity for the Islamist-led government in Gaza. The Muslim Brotherhood won parliamentary and presidential elections in Egypt, bolstering Hamas. But the Egyptian army slowed the flow of cash, food, building supplies, cars, petrol - and weapons that used to come through tunnels.
Egypt's newly elected president, Mohammed Mursi, was overthrown after just a year. Viewing Hamas as a threat, Egypt's new military-backed leader, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, closed the border with Gaza and blew up most of the tunnels. Once again isolated, Gaza's economy went into reverse.
2008 to 2014 - Border wars
Gaza's economy has suffered repeatedly over decades in the cycle of conflict, attack and retaliation between Israel and Palestinian militant groups, from the 1970s to recent years.
Israel and Gaza militants led by Hamas fought three wars since 2008 which resulted in widespread destruction and the killing of thousands of Palestinians and about 100 Israelis.
The worst fighting was in 2014. Hamas and other groups launched rockets at heartland cities in Israel. Israel carried out air strikes and artillery bombardment that devastated neighbourhoods in Gaza. More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, mostly civilians. Israel put the number of its dead at 67 soldiers and six civilians.
2017 - Palestinian split worsened
In 2017, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas launched a series of economic sanctions on Hamas in a bid to force the group to relinquish control of Gaza. He orchestrated a reduction of electricity for Gaza and slashed salaries of 60,000 Palestinian Authority employees there by 30 percent, weakening buying power.
2018 - US cuts aid to Palestinians
President Donald Trump announced the United States would withhold some future aid payments to Palestinians, accusing them of unwillingness to talk peace with Israel. Washington held back $65 million of a first scheduled payment to UNRWA, the U.N. agency that cares for Palestinian refugees.
It is unclear how much more, if any, it will contribute. UNRWA received $355 million from the United States in the 2017 fiscal year. UNRWA is funded mainly by voluntary contributions from U.N. member states, with the United States by far the largest donor.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces during protests at the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip in the run-up to celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel.
And last month's decision by Mr Trump to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, an issue that cuts to the heart of conflict in the region and has garnered international censure, sparked the worst outbreak of violence in four years and left more than 60 Palestinians dead.


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As Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford came off his campaign bus on Friday afternoon in Wallaceburg, the first thing he saw was the grim faces of about a dozen members of Water Wells First. And they wanted some answers and guarantees.
The grassroots environmental group is frustrated by water wells polluted with black shale sediments that they say comes from wind farm construction in Chatham-Kent. They had a tense five-minute conversation with Ford soon after he stopped off his campaign bus.
Water Wells First spokesperson Kevin Jakubec said Ford didn't give him any assurances during the stop at Country Style coffee shop that he or his party were going to help. Jakubec said Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberals have ignored their concerns and Doug Ford is not offering anything different.
Ford told Jakubec that it's a serious issue.
“We're going to address it,” Ford said, noting no one has been more vocal about wind turbines than himself.
“I can't stand wind turbines. I can't stand how they're destroying areas and communities and I am going to do everything I can to make sure we halt any other wind turbine farms and I'm going to address the ones that are going in.”
Jakubec said Ford's remarks that he will look into the issue is not a good answer.
“How are they going to take care of the problem, but how are they going to take care of the problem given that they've failed to take care of the program over the past six years,” Jakubec said.
If Ford leads the PC party to a win in the provincial election in June, Jakubec said he gets a sense that they are not going to do anything different. He notes that he feels that both local PC MPPs Rick Nicholls and Monte McNaughton have not been effective in addressing the water well issue.
Jakubec said he was hoping for some answers from Ford before the votes are cast instead of after they are possibly elected.
“Tell us now, before the election, concrete terms,” Jakubec said. “What are you going to do?”
Members of Water Wells First brought eggs prepared in homes with water well issues. The eggs were coated in a black dirt that they say is black shale. Water Wells First has said that acid in the stomach can bring out the heavy metals that are found in the black shale sediment.
Lucy DeFraeye lives by the North Kent wind farm. She said her water well is now unusable since the wind turbine construction that occurred near her Chatham Township home.
She heard Ford say he would direct his energy towards the issue.
“We looked each other in the eye and I said, 'I'll be watching you,'” DeFraeye said. “And I'm going to deliver.”
Jakubec said Water Wells First has been seeking help from Nicholls and McNaughton for a number of years, but with little to show for their efforts.
McNaughton said he wasn't taken aback about Jakubec's claim that he has been ineffective in addressing the concern, as he said he has brought the issue to light a number of times at Queen's Park for a number of years.
“The problem is that the Liberals and the NDP, every time we brought forward legislation to scrap the Green Energy Act, restore local municipal control and put a moratorium on further wind development, the Liberals and NDP always voted together to continue to build wind turbines. We need a change in government. That's the only way that's going to stop more wind turbines from being built.”
Ford said when a party is not in power their hands are tied. He said if the party is elected in June, the wind turbine issue will be taken care of.
McNaughton also noted the PCs are the only party that is proposing to scrap the Green Energy Act, do a full investigation into the water well situation at the recently built North Kent wind farm, as well as stop other wind turbine projects from being built in Ontario.
McNaughton said if the PC government is elected, the Otter Creek wind farm project that is proposed for north of Wallaceburg will be dead.
“Absolutely. Doug was clear today when he went around (Country Style) that we were going to halt wind turbine development in the province of Ontario,” McNaughton said.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday said the trials of Nasheed and eight others, many of whom had challenged President Abdulla Yameen, had violated the constitution and international law. (File photo of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed) The Supreme Court on Thursday said the trials of Nasheed and eight others, many of whom had challenged President Abdulla Yameen, had violated the constitution and international law. (File photo of former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed)
As domestic and international pressure mounts, the Maldives has delayed complying with a Supreme Court order for the immediate release and new trials of nine opposition leaders, freeing them to contest presidential elections this year.
The Indian Ocean nation has been mired in political unrest since Mohamed Nasheed, its first democratically elected leader, was ousted in 2012. He has been in exile on medical grounds from a 13-year jail sentence on terrorism charges.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the trials of Nasheed and eight others, many of whom had challenged President Abdulla Yameen, had violated the constitution and international law. It found that prosecutors and judges were unduly influenced “to conduct politically motivated investigations” against them.
On Friday, Attorney General Mohamed Anil said he had held discussions with Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed over the administration’s concerns about releasing individuals whose offences ranged from terrorism to corruption and treason.
“The prosecutor general is currently in the process of examining the cases to determine the best way to proceed with the implementation of the Supreme Court’s ruling, and the prosecutor general will present recommendations at the earliest,” the government said in a statement.
The unexpected ruling frees opposition leaders to run against Yameen in the presidential poll expected to be completed by October. The terrorism convictions would normally bar them from competing unless they received presidential pardons after completing a third of their jail terms.
The joint opposition of the Maldives expressed concern over Yameen’s refusal to abide by the order.
“We are deeply fearful that the government’s refusal to implement the Supreme Court order could escalate to unrest and incite violence across the country,” it said in a statement.
Hundreds of opposition supporters chanted slogans such as “Enforce the Supreme Court ruling,” and “Defend the constitution,” in a Friday night rally outside the opposition MDP campaign center in Male, the capital.
The United Nations, the United States, the European Union and India also urged Yameen’s government to follow the ruling.
In a statement, the office of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “The Secretary-General reiterates his belief in finding a solution to the political stalemate in the Maldives through all-party talks, which the United Nations continues to stand ready to facilitate.”
“We understand the situation is extremely tense,” Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told reporters on Friday.
The agency was “closely watching how the situation develops in the aftermath of Thursday’s decisions by the Supreme Court, and in particular, the reactions of the government, military and police,” he added.
The European Union urged the government to hold “inclusive dialogue with the leaders of all political parties that should pave the way for credible, transparent and inclusive elections”.
Nasheed, who has been in exile in Britain, had sought U.N. help to restore the political rights of which he was stripped after a trial denounced as hasty and unfair by the United Nations human rights chief.
Thursday’s decision also nullified a ruling in which 12 lawmakers lost their parliamentary seats for defecting last July from Yameen’s ruling party, costing him his majority in the 85-member legislature.
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Malaysian police arrested a woman Wednesday in the apparent assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean leader's exiled half brother who South Korean spies say once begged his sibling to spare his life.
Kim Jong Nam, who was 45 or 46, was estranged from his younger brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and had been living abroad for years.
South Korea's spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, said Wednesday that North Korea had been trying for five years to kill Kim Jong Nam. The NIS did not definitively say that North Korea was behind the killing, just that it was presumed to be a North Korean operation, according to lawmakers who briefed reporters about the closed-door meeting with the spy officials.
The NIS also cited a "genuine" attempt by North Korea to kill Kim Jong Nam in 2012, the lawmakers said. The NIS told them that Kim Jong Nam sent a letter to Kim Jong Un in April 2012, after the assassination attempt, begging for the lives of himself and his family.
Kim Jong Nam had said he had no political ambitions, although he was publicly critical of the North Korean regime and his half brother's legitimacy in the past.
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(FILES) This file photo taken on February 11, 2007 shows a man believed to be North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's eldest son, Kim Jong-Nam walking among journalists upon his arrival at the Beijing airport. Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been assassinated in Malaysia, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said on February 14, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / JAPAN POOL VIA JIJI PRESS / STRSTR/AFP/Getty Images
This photo taken on February 11, 2007 shows a man believed to be then-North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's eldest son, Kim Jong-Nam, walking amongst journalists upon his arrival at Beijing's international airport. The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who has been murdered in Malaysia, pleaded for his life after a failed assassination bid in 2012, lawmakers briefed by South Korea's spy chief said on February 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS / Japan OUTJIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images NKOREA-SKOREA-MALAYSIA-KIM-BROTHER
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Did Malaysian authorities get the last laugh?
Cops in Malaysia have reportedly arrested a woman – donning a ‘LOL’ sweater – they believe is connected to the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Kim Jong Nam’s murder made headlines Tuesday when it was reported two female operatives – believed to be North Korean – approached the 45-year-old at the Kuala Lumpur airport and sprayed him with a chemical substance that reportedly caused his death.
Police in the Malaysian capital said the suspect was detained at the airport.
"(She) was positively identified from the CCTV footage at the airport and was alone at the time of the arrest," read a statement obtained by ABC.
Kim Jong Nam, who was waiting to board a flight to Macau, was in pain as he sought help at an information centre, a source told the Associated Press. He died en route to hospital.
He reportedly fell out of favour in North Korea after being caught trying to enter Japan on a false passport in 2001, saying he wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland. He reportedly enjoyed gambling and has been living in recent years in Macau, Singapore and Malaysia.
Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Un have the same father, late dictator Kim Jong Il, but different mothers.
Since taking power in late 2011, Kim Jong Un has executed or purged a slew of high-level government officials in what the South Korean government has described as a “reign of terror.”
The most spectacular among them was the 2013 execution of his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, once considered the country’s second most powerful man, for what the North alleged was treason. The South’s government has said the North also executed a vice-premier for education in 2016 for unspecified anti-revolutionary and factional acts, and a defence minister in 2015 for treason.
As of midday Tuesday, officials in Kuala Lumpur were still searching for the alleged assassins.
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THE KIM JONG NAM FILE
Age: 45
Born: May 10, 1971 – Pyongyang, North Korea
Died: Feb. 14, 2017 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
FIVE FACTS
*Kim Jong Nam was the first-born child of late North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who conceived him with his first mistress, Song Hye Rim.
*As Kim Jong Il’s oldest son, Kim Jong Nam once was considered his father’s heir. But in 2001, Nam was busted in Japan for attempting to sneak into the country using a falsified passport from the Dominican Republic. He told authorities his intention was to visit Tokyo’s Disneyland. The Independent reported Kim Jong Il was so embarrassed by his son’s actions that he cancelled a looming trip to China.
*Citing South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, the Telegraph reports Kim Jong Nam previously worked for North Korea’s foreign ministry to Japan, where he attended school. It’s believed Kim Jong Un offered him the position in an effort to keep close reins on his half-brother he viewed as a threat.
*Around the same time of his father’s death, Kim Jong Nam survived an attempt on his life six years ago in Macau – the site of a bloody shootout with his bodyguards. From then, reports indicate he was aware his life was in danger. It forced him to frequently travel throughout southeast Asia.
*The Independent reports Kim Jong Nam was close to his uncle, Jang Song Thaek – the man Kim Jong Un executed in 2013. It’s believed Jang Song Thaek funnelled money to Kim Jong Nam, who lived what’s widely described as a “playboy” lifestyle – something that could have bothered his vindictive brother.


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Hearing word from multiple sources out of Mitchell over the weekend that Bill Kluck of Mud Butte is possibly considering a run for the legislature. Kluck is a former State president of South Dakota Stockgrowers.
In looking, Kluck is registered as a Republican in District 29, meaning no matter what seat he chose (Senate or House), he’d likely trigger a primary election. If he runs for the Senate, he would be challenging Gary Cammack for the seat, and if he chooses the House, he’d be challenging Larry Rhoden & Tom Brunner.
Kluck is already registered to run as a precinct committeeman for his area out west.
Why is word of this coming out of Mitchell? From what I’m hearing, there was some gathering that took place in Mitchell where Kluck’s candidacy was brought up and discussed at length.
Only a week to go until petitions are due. Stay tuned!
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Former Democrat House and Senate Member Paul Dennert has filed to run as a State Representative in District 1 this morning, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
If elected, the 80 year-old Dennert would possibly serve at the same time as grandson Drew Dennert who represents District 3, and is running for re-election.
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ZURICH, July 4 (Reuters) - Switzerland, which permits low potency cannabis but bans most marijuana for recreational use, aims to allow pilot studies on ways to relax its laws, its government said on Wednesday.
It also proposed making it easier for people to access medical marijuana to treat conditions like multiple sclerosis or cancer.
Cannabis is now regularly used recreationally by about 200,000 people in Switzerland, the government said.
"Although current laws forbid its consumption and seek to punish it, this number is not declining," the government said. "At the same time, the black market is flourishing, and the safety of consumers cannot be guaranteed due to a lack of quality control."
Several cities and cantons in Switzerland are seeking to undertake studies to test different models for regulation, said the statement from the seven-member Federal Council, which serves as Switzerland's government. It recommended changes to laws to allow such pilot studies to proceed.
"The scientific pilot studies would be limited and restricted to specific areas," the government said. "Participant numbers would also be limited, and minors would be excluded."
A consultation on the pilot study proposal will run through Oct. 25 to take comment from interested parties.
Since 2011, Switzerland has allowed the sale of low potency cannabis, with minimal concentrations of the chemical that makes people high. Sales have taken off in recent years, bringing in tax revenue for the state. But some users say the "marijuana-light" simply isn't strong enough.
For medical marijuana use, Swiss law requires users to obtain an exemption from the federal health ministry. The government says this makes it difficult for the roughly 3,000 patients who now use the drug to get it.
It asked the Swiss Interior Ministry to come up with a proposal by next summer to streamline the process, and the Health Ministry to examine how to resolve insurance reimbursement issues for treatment with medical marijuana. (Reporting by John Miller Editing by Peter Graff)

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Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\nJurgen Klopp claims a top four finish this season would be a success.\nEven before his countryman Didi Hamann became the latest Anfield old boy suggesting he needs a trophy to avoid the sack, the German was aware of the brutal demands a Liverpool boss faces.\nYet Klopp is also a pragmatist who knows that, despite their history, his club has no divine right to success any more... and is now placed firmly behind the bigger-spending aristocrats of Manchester's United and City, Chelsea and Arsenal in the pecking order of English football.\nThat is why he talks of winning the title being the dream he starts with every season, when finishing ahead of at least two clubs who spend more than Liverpool on wages is a more realistic marker of success in football’s nuclear arms race.\n(Image: Liverpool FC via Getty)\nA home win over rivals Tottenham on Sunday, in a game he cheerfully admits is a “six-pointer” would take them a step closer to that goal this season, and he said: “Top four, for sure, is a success.\n“When you start a season, you can dream of something and you have to make a realistic target as well. I think being champion is probably the dream — not only at Liverpool, but especially at Liverpool.\n“Because of the season City is playing, that is quite difficult. Then I would prefer to be second if you cannot be first. But if you are second, third or fourth at the end of the season, when you look back all three positions are good — and similarly difficult to reach.\n(Image: PA)\nVideo Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play now\n“Arsenal are not out of it. Tottenham is behind all of us at the moment, but only a couple of points. 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Orphaned bear cubs Seymour and River are staying at the Critter Care wildlife rehabilitation facility in Langley until they can be returned to the wild. Photo supplied
A video of two bear cubs splashing in a pool is generating a lot of positive feedback online after the Critter Care wildlife rehabilitation facility in Langley posted a clip of Seymour and River playing.
Thousands have viewed the online footage showing the pair having fun after they were recently moved into the large bear enclosure at the facility.
Critter Care Wildlife Society founder Gail Martin said the five- to six-month-old brother and sister were orphaned in May in North Vancouver.
“The mother was getting in trouble, getting into garbage,” Martin said.
Since they arrived, the cubs have gained weight and have begun to do playful “bear things” like the splashing and wrestling with each other, Martin said.
“They’re doing really well,” Martin said.
Plans call for the siblings to be reintroduced back into the wild after the spring bear hunt next year, following their hibernation, which is expected to last from December to March.
Langley’s Critter Care Wildlife Society will host its 19th annual open house next month
READ MORE: Critter Care annual open house set for July 21 and 22
The society, expects to see between 1,500 and 2,000 people come through the gate during the two-day open house, scheduled for July 21 and 22. The grounds will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.
Admission is $5 for adults and free for children 12 and under. The price of admission includes the tour (the bear cubs will not be part of the tour).
In past years, the open house has raised close to $30,000 for the society over two days.
The money raised is used to buy medicine and specialized food, as well as vaccine for the raccoons.
READ MORE: Opossums deserve love too, says Critter Care founder
For 30 years, Critter Care Wildlife Society has specialized in the treatment, care and release of sick, injured and orphaned native mammal species in southern B.C. and the Lower Mainland.
The society cares for injured animals that are brought to them by citizens, including newborn animals that can require round-the-clock bottle feeding, going through more than 100 pounds of vegetables, fruits and meats a day.
It is the only facility in BC specializing in the care of mammals and one of only four bear rehabilitation facilities in the province.
READ MORE: Tiny bear cubs Romeo and Juliet saved from tragedy
In addition to rehabilitation the charity carries out community based education programs at primary, secondary, and collegiate levels.
Critter Care interns stay on site and come from around the world to gain experience with wildlife for training to become veterinarians or zoo keepers in their own countries.
Critter Care is closed to the public except during the open houses.
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A group of truck-driving good Samaritans answered a call to help save a man threatening to commit suicide by jumping off a freeway overpass on Tuesday.
Michigan State Police and local officials rounded up a group of 13 semitruck drivers to form a line below a bridge over a Detroit freeway — Interstate 696 — to significantly shorten the fall of the unnamed man if he had leaped.
He was first reported standing on the edge of the bridge above oncoming traffic just before 1 a.m., Lt. Mike Shaw, a Michigan State Police spokesman, told NPR.
Officers responded by closing down traffic across all six lanes heading in both directions.
"It's the first step in potential jumper situations," Shaw said, explaining that it helps calm down suicidal people, keeps cars driving below from crashing into each other and eliminates the possibility of anyone encouraging an unstable person to jump.
Next, troopers began sending semitruck drivers on a detour that re-routed them to end up below the overpass.
According to Shaw, that is standard protocol.
"It provides a safety net for the person in case they happen to lose their grip and fall or if they decide to jump," Shaw said. "With the trucks lined up underneath they're only falling about five to six feet as opposed 15 or 16."
After about two hours of engaging with officials the distressed man willingly backed off the edge and is receiving help, Shaw said.
"He was looking to take his own life but we were able to talk to him and find out what his specific trigger was and helped correct it," Shaw said.
In all, the ordeal lasted about three hours.
State police authorities posted a photo of the "truck wall" on Twitter using it as an opportunity to remind the public of help available 24 hours a day to anyone thinking about suicide.
"In that photo is a man struggling with the decision to take his own life. Please remember help is available through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255," it read.

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LONDON — British police declared a major incident Wednesday after a man and a woman were exposed to an unknown substance close to the city of Salisbury, where a Russian former spy and his daughter were poisoned with nerve agent four months ago.
Emergency services were called to the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire county in southern England, after the pair, both in their 40s, were found unconscious in a property Saturday evening.
“They are both currently receiving treatment for suspected exposure to an unknown substance at Salisbury District Hospital. They are both in a critical condition,” Wiltshire Police said in a statement.
Police said the two were initially thought to have used heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch of drugs, but that more testing was now being carried out to determine the nature of the substance.
British tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that the two were poisoned and that samples were sent to Porton Down, the nearby government laboratory, for testing.
The Sun reported that security chiefs fear that they could have been poisoned with same batch of Soviet-developed nerve agent used on Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, who were found unresponsive on a bench about 10 miles away in Salisbury on March 4.
More: Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal discharged from hospital after poisoning
Related: Yulia Skripal says nerve agent recovery slow and painful
London’s Metropolitan Police Service said that counterterrorism officers were working with local police on the investigation, “given the recent events in Salisbury."
The places the Amesbury pair — whose identities weren’t immediately released — frequented before they became ill have been cordoned off in Amesbury and Salisbury as a precaution and police patrols have increased. The Sun reported that they are not known to have any links to Russia or security services.
Public health officials said there is not believed to be a significant health risk to the public, but this “will be continually assessed as further information becomes known.”
More: Who is Sergei Skripal? Russian spy found unconscious in English park sparks intrigue
Britain says the Skripals were poisoned with Novichok nerve agent and blames Russia. The Kremlin denies any responsibility. Sergei Skripal was jailed in Russia in 2006 for passing state secrets to Britain. He was released as part of a spy swap in 2010 and moved to Salisbury.
That poisoning incident has soured relations between Russia and many British allies including the expulsion of hundreds of diplomats on both sides.
Yulia was discharged from Salisbury District Hospital in April and her father was discharged from the same hospital in May. Both were taken to an undisclosed location for their protection.
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LONDON (AP) – Big Ben will fall silent next week in London as a major restoration project gets underway.
The bongs of the iconic bell will be stopped on August 21 to protect workers during a 4 year $38 million conservation project that includes repair of the Queen Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben and its clock.
Steve Jaggs, keeper of the Great Clock, said Monday that the mechanism will be dismantled piece by piece and its four dials will be cleaned and repaired.
Big Ben has been stopped several times since it first sounded in 1859, but the current restoration project will mark the longest period of silence for the bell. It will still sound on big occasions, such as Remembrance Sunday.
It will still sound on big occasions, such as Remembrance Sunday.
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Police submitted the final charge sheet in the murder case of 18-year-old Zafir Zubairi, who was gunned down in Karachi’s Do Darya area last year, to a judicial magistrate on Monday.
Prime accused Khawar Burney, his guard Abdul Rehman, his three underage brothers — Haider Hussain Burney, Hasan Hussain Burney and Hasnain Hussain Burney — as well as several absconding accomplices have been booked for the murder of Zubairi.
Zubairi was on his way to breakfast with friends near Seaview on Dec 3 when he hit motorcyclist Dr Abdul Raheem, who had been racing his motorcycle on Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue.
After Zubairi and his friend fled the site of the accident, Raheem’s entourage which was travelling in a Vigo chased and opened indiscriminate fire on their car.
Police with the help of eyewitnesses had identified Khawar as the prime suspect in the case and said that he, along with the other suspects, had gunned down the teenager and injured his friend.
Police, in the charge sheet presented in court today, framed charges of murder, intent to kill, carrying of unlicensed weapons and damaging of public property against all the suspects in the case. In a previous hearing of the case, Hammad, the man whose motorcycle Dr Raheem was riding at the time of the accident, ran away from court after the judicial magistrate cancelled his interim bail. The police have been unable to arrest the suspect since then.
At the moment, three of the five key suspects in the case are in police custody while two others — including Hammad — are absconding from court.

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President Trump on Monday authorized his top trade official to look into whether China is guilty of intellectual property theft, a move that could eventually lead to trade sanctions.
Trump called his action "a very big move" against practices that cost our nation "millions of jobs and billions and billions of dollars each and every year."
He cited not just the theft of intellectual property such as computer software, but also Beijing's requirement that U.S. companies turn over proprietary technology as a condition of entering China's markets.
"We will safeguard the copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property that is so vital to our security and to our prosperity," Trump said at the White House. He was flanked by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and members of his economic team.
Monday's steps were very preliminary, and analysts say that it could be a long time, if ever, before significant trade sanctions are imposed on China.
Eventually, it could lead the administration to initiate what's called a Section 301 investigation, a sanctions mechanism that's part of the Trade Act of 1974.
Section 301 was widely used in the 1980s under the Reagan administration, but subsequent presidents have chosen to hear trade disputes at the World Trade Organization.
Matt Gold, a former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative, told NPR that Section 301 can be imposed unilaterally and is generally seen as quicker than the alternatives, such as the WTO.
"It saves time," he said. A WTO case "would take a few years for us to bring it to a WTO panel, get a decision, then it will get appealed to the WTO appellate body. Then we get another decision. Then we have to go through another WTO process to get authorization for specific types of trade barriers. ... So it can take a few years to get the WTO authorization."
The White House move was applauded by technology groups, which have long complained about intellectual property theft. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation issued a statement saying "for too long China has flouted the spirit, if not always the letter of its commitments under the WTO and other agreements."
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said launching the investigation sends a strong signal to China that it will be held accountable if it doesn't work with the United States to level the playing field. But he said the Trump administration needs to go further to address dumping of products such as steel.
"We need to follow through with meaningful action and that means the president needs to get serious about trade enforcement, especially on steel," Brown said.
But there are risks to the White House approach. Carolyn Freund, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says U.S. companies that try to do business with China could get hurt in several ways.
"China is likely to retaliate with tariffs on their own of U.S. goods, and then U.S. companies will be further hurt in China," she said. "It won't lead to anything positive."
In an editorial on Monday, the state-run newspaper China Daily said the investigation will "poison" relations.
But Freund also points out that for all of Trump's rhetoric about China while on the campaign trail, the White House so far has been slow to take action against unfair trade practices. Trump backed off of labeling China a currency manipulator for instance, and a long promised report on steel dumping has been delayed.
She says that's because it's one thing to talk about steel tariffs, but imposing them hurts other U.S. manufacturers, such as automakers and appliance companies.

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Vehicular traffic to and from Lethem resumed on Friday following the completion of emergency works on the Hunt Oil stretch of road that was washed away for several weeks, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure said Monday.
Prior to the repairs, all filling stations in the southern Guyanese town had run out of gasoline because tankers had been unable to cross that section of then badly deteriorated road.
“Following reports of deterioration of the stretch due to prolonged rainfall, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure sprang into action to have the situation remedied as quickly as possible. The efforts even saw the hauling of laterite from more than 20 kilometres away to ensure the sourcing of quality material,” the ministry said in a statement.
The contractor, JR Ranch Inc. reportedly stated that sections at the side of the roadway, before the particularly bad areas, were first filled to create turnaround spots for the trucks due to the road’s narrowness. The company said three areas along the stretch were also filled and compacted. Furthermore, an excavator was used to form two cofferdams at the sides of the eroded spot in an effort to remove all accumulated slush and water prior to filling and compaction.
The Public Infrastructure Ministry said it would be teaming up with the contractor to monitor the stretch of road to ensure that there is no further need for filling and compaction and that the issue does not reoccur.
Meanwhile, the ministry said a maintenance programme under the Ministry’s Hinterland Department will soon be coming on-stream to rehabilitate a number of corridors, including those from Linden-Lethem; Ituni-Kwakwani; and Mabura-Mahdia.
That programme is slated to last for one year, government said.
The Chairman of Region Nine (Upper Takatu- Upper Essequibo), Bryan Allicock has said that government has taken too long to repair the Hunt Oil stretch of road, resulting in greater deterioration and higher repair cost.
Allicock has said that government has effectively turned down budgetary requests for Region Nine to purchase its own road repair and maintenance equipment but little has been done.

— in protest over deplorable condition of road
RESIDENTS of the Region 10 community of Kwakwani are now forced to pay one-way minibus fares to Linden at $2,500, an increase of $500.
Bus drivers have blamed the increase on the state of the Linden to Kwakwani trail, which state has been described as deplorable, especially when it rains.
Not only is the state of the road resulting in frequent trips to mechanic shops, according to the drivers, but more gasoline, since the commute is sometimes up the two hours longer, given the state of the road.
Speaking to the Guyana Chronicle, chairman for the Kwakwani Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Merna Adrian bemoaned the situation, since it has created a ripple economic effect on the entire community.
Adrian said the increased fare means an increase in the prices for goods that have to be transported in Linden. Given the lack of jobs in Kwakwani and the stagnation of the economy, residents have protested the situation, but can do little about it since the drivers too have a valid point.
“With the fares going up, everything gone up and when fares go up, it don’t go back down, is now $2,500. We have to pay to go to Linden and they are saying is because of the road; last week, I travel on the road and it was bad, because the rain fall but I don’t know what is the state now with the sun shining,” Adrian said.
Speaking to another resident on the matter, the pensioner said the road situation is one that has been plaguing the residents for decades now and while works are currently being done, very little improvement is being seen.
“I really don’t understand what going on, because y’all hearing monies allocated for the road, contractor working on the road and the road not getting better and now they up the fare, and you can’t vex with them bus man, I was a driver and I know what it is like,” the resident expressed.
Regional Vice-Chairman Elroy Adolph, who is also a resident of Kwakwani, told the Guyana Chronicle that extensive repair works had commenced on the road, the first phase being from Linden to Kwakwani, but the rainy season has interrupted the smooth flow.
“What really happen is that they start the road late and when the rains start, the work was affected, but now that the sunny season coming up back, they should be able to start back.”
Adolph said that he hopes the government expedites the repair works and takes advantage of the sunny season. He also revealed that the bus drivers promised to return the fare to $2,000, once the road is fixed.
Member of Parliament Audwin Rutherford who has responsibility for Kwakwani, when asked whether he has made representation to central Government on behalf of the residents, answered in the affirmative and said that he was currently in conversation with the engineer with responsibility for the road.
Rutherford also said that Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, is also aware of the situation. Residents have also laid part of the blame at the feet of the contractor, whom they deemed incompetent and it has been alleged by an official who sought anonymity, that the materials used to construct the road are sluggishly thrown on the surface and roughly graded down.
When heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles pass, the road is opened and the road is left with huge holes. When it rains, the vehicles experience tremendous difficulty to pass and have to engage in teams pushing as the vehicle is most times stuck. Under normal weather conditions, it would take a bus driver approximately three hours to reach their destination, but in inclement weather conditions, it would take about 4-5 hours.


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BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott is scheduled to discuss progress on an extension of a municipal waterline to private wells suspected to be contaminated with the chemical PFOA.
The Bennington Banner reports Scott’s office announced Friday the extension will start providing the first phase of homes in Bennington and North Bennington with clean water. Scott is discussing the extension project Monday along with the attorney general and deputy secretary with the Agency of Natural Resources.
Construction on the waterline began in the fall. The project is being funded by a $20 million settlement between the state and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics.
PFOA, or Perfluorooctanoic acid, is a suspected carcinogen. The chemical was used at a now-closed plant in North Bennington owned by Saint-Gobain.
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Information from: Bennington Banner, http://www.benningtonbanner.com

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12th District Senator Brad Hawkins joins Chris Hansen on the KOHO Morning Show for his weekly chat from Olympia. Hawkins talks about a deadline this Friday for bills to pass out of their policy committees and bills he is sponsoring – forest health, vehicle registration, contract harvesting, compensation for agriculture workers and regional transportation planning.