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Head of Russia's largest business group steps down

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

USM Holdings, one of Russia’s largest business groups, announced today that it has appointed Oksana Gorshkova as its new CEO. She will replace current CEO Yerkozha Akylbek (pictured), who voluntarily resigned from the group and its subsidiaries.Prior to his role as CEO and through April 2022, Akylbek served as USM’s First Deputy General Director and Executive Director. He also held the position of USM Deputy General Director for Financial Planning, Control, and Internal Audit, as well as Director for Internal Audit and Strategic Projects from July 2020 to August 2021.Oksana Gorshkova has been an integral part of USM since its inception in 2012, serving in various roles in administration and operations, and as managing director at USM Telecom and other businesses within the group.USM Holdings is a diversified global conglomerate with investments in metals, mining, telecommunications and technology. USM’s portfolio includes Metalloinvest, Udokan Copper and MegaFon, Russia’s second-lar...

Elderly woman brutally attacked while gardening at her home in East Los Angeles

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

Authorities are asking the public for help Tuesday in their search for a man who assaulted an elderly woman as she was working in her garden in the East Los Angeles area over the weekend.The victim was working in her yard in the 1000 block of Fraser Avenue around 6:15 a.m. Saturday when she was approached from behind by the suspect, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.The suspect, believed to be a man in his 30s, repeatedly punched the victim in the face before pulling down her pants and underwear, the spokesperson said. A neighbor eventually came by and scared the suspect, who initially fled on foot before getting on a bicycle that was nearby. 2 men robbed while walking in Beverly Hills The suspect was described as a Hispanic man who was wearing a brown sweatshirt, gray shorts, white shoes with red laces, and a red satchel that was wrapped around him.There were no recent reports of similar attacks in the area, according to the Sheriff's Department.

Gigi Hadid arrested for marijuana in Cayman Islands

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

Gigi Hadid had a rough start on her trip to the Cayman Islands. She was arrested at the Owen Roberts International Airport on July 10 after marijuana was found in her luggage by customs officers. According to Cayman Marl Road, Hadid and her friend, Leah Nicole McCarthy, were both charged after officials found "ganja and utensils used for the consumption of ganja" in their luggage as they arrived via private plane. Both women were arrested and taken to the Prisoner Detention Center for processing and were released on bail "pending a ruling on the case by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions."On July 12, both women appeared in court and were charged. They both pleaded guilty and were fined $1,000 each and no conviction was recorded the outlet continued. Hadid's rep told E! News that the model "was traveling with marijuana purchased legally in NYC with a medical license. It has also been legal for medical use in Grand Cayman since 2017.""Her record remains clear and she en...

Man walking on Richmond freeway dies after being hit by truck

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

RICHMOND — A man walking on Interstate 580 died Tuesday morning after he was hit by a pickup truck, the California Highway Patrol said.The man’s name was not immediately released pending confirmation of his identity and notification of next of kin.The man was hit by a Chevrolet Silverado truck about 3:26 a.m. Tuesday in the westbound lanes of I-580 near Canal Boulevard, the CHP said.He was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck driver remained at the scene and was cooperating with investigators.Drugs or alcohol do not appear to be factors in the crash, according to the CHP.Investigators were trying to determine why the man was on the freeway.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | CHP: Wrong-way drunk driver killed South Bay jail deputy in freeway crash Crashes and Disasters | Driver in East Bay fatal DUI will receive up to one year in jail through plea deal Crashes and Disasters | Motorcyclist killed when he’s ejected, then ru...

New study shows Southern California is hot zone for Alzheimer’s disease

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

Southern California is a hot zone for Alzheimer’s disease, with four local counties already reporting some of the nation’s highest numbers of people diagnosed with the disease and demographic factors suggesting a flood of new patients is coming in future decades, according to a report released Monday, July 17, by the Alzheimer’s Association.Overall, Los Angeles and Orange counties both rank in the nation’s top 10 based on the sheer number of people with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. That’s to be expected; both counties also are among the nation’s 10 biggest by population.In all, the report found that 326,300 people in the four-county region that includes Riverside and San Bernardino counties have Alzheimer’s, an incurable, progressive disease that affects cognition and is one of the nation’s leading causes of death. The current Alzheimer’s headcount includes 190,300 people in Los Angeles County, 57,800 in Orange County, 46,000 in Riverside County and 32,200 in San Bernardino Co...

Rory McIlroy is laying low ahead of the British Open as he tries to end his major drought

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — The most telling comment from Rory McIlroy about this British Open, and his hopes of ending an astonishing nine-year drought in the majors, is that he said nothing at all.For the second straight major, McIlroy removed himself from the lineup of pre-tournament news conferences, instead offering a few vague quotes through the R&A and random interviews.The attention on him is greater than ever, on and off the golf course.He has been the strongest voice for the PGA Tour in its battle with LIV Golf, now shockingly a proposed partnership. Inside the ropes, he is coming off a win at the Scottish Open and now returns to Royal Liverpool, where he won wire-to-wire the last time the Open was here in 2014.Rain fell on the already green links of Hoylake on Tuesday, conditions that suited McIlroy in his previous four major titles, all of which led Padraig Harrington to refer to McIlroy as a “person of interest” this week.“Everything seems to be setting up nicely,” Harr...

G20 finance chiefs end their meeting in India without consensus on the war in Ukraine

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — A meeting of finance chiefs and central bank governors of the Group of 20 leading economies ended on Tuesday in India without a consensus because of differences between countries over the war in Ukraine.Following two days of talks, there was no final communique. Instead, India, as the host nation, was forced to issue the G20 Chair’s summary and an outcome document. Speaking to reporters after the meeting concluded in Gandhinagar, a city in the western state of Gujarat, India’s finance minister said the reason for the chair statement was “because we still don’t have a common language on the Russia Ukraine war”.Nirmala Sitharaman said that the language describing the war had been drawn directly from last year’s G20 leaders summit declaration in Indonesia. “We don’t have the mandate to change that,” she said, adding that this was something the leaders would have to decide when they gather in the capital, New Delhi, for the main summit in September.According to th...

Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skeletons intertwined. The find comes from a site known as “China’s Pompeii,” where mud and debris from long-ago volcanoes buried creatures in their tracks. “It does seem like this is a prehistoric hunt, captured in stone, like a freeze frame,” University of Edinburgh paleontologist Steve Brusatte, who was not involved with the study, said in an email.The fossil, described Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, shows two creatures from around 125 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. Even though the mammal is much smaller, researchers think it was attacking the dinosaur when they both got caught in the volcanic flow, said study author Jordan Mallon, a paleobiologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The mammal is perched on the dinosaur, its paws gripping the reptile’s ja...

Panama Ex-President Martinelli is sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison for money laundering.Martinelli, 71, had been trying to mount a political comeback in next year’s general elections, but a judge sentenced him to 128 months in prison in a case that revolved around the purchase of a media company.The supermarket magnate who governed Panama from 2009 to 2014 was elected by his party last month as its presidential candidate for the May 5 election.The case, known locally as “New Business,” dates back to 2017 and concerns the 2010 purchase of a publishing company that owns national newspapers.Prosecutors said companies that had won lucrative government contracts during Martinelli’s presidency funneled money to a front company that was then used to purchase the publisher. The transactions involved a complex series of foreign money transfers totally $43 million. The front company collecting the money was called “New Business.”In closing ...

Trump notified he's target of probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department's investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, an indication he could soon be charged by U.S. prosecutors.New federal charges, on top of existing state and federal counts in New York and Florida and a separate election-interference investigation nearing conclusion in Georgia, would add to the list of legal problems for Trump as he pursues the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Trump disclosed the existence of a target letter in a post on his Truth Social platform, saying he received it Sunday night and that he anticipates being indicted. Such a letter often precedes an indictment and is used to advise individuals under investigation that prosecutors have gathered evidence linking them to a crime; Trump, for instance, received one soon before being charged last month in a separate investigation...