В організації підтверджують, що загальне число переселенців перевищило 100 тисяч осіб
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Блащак: Британія перекинула винищувачі Typhoon до Польщі
«Британські пілоти разом із нашими пілотами F-16 патрулюватимуть повітряний простір Польщі»
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Кілька вірменських високопосадовців залишаться в Карабаху до завершення пошуково-рятувальних робіт
Омбудсмен Нагірного Карабаху ввечері 1 жовтня повідомив, що до Вірменії прибув останній автобус із 15 пасажирами з Нагірного Карабаху
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Болгарія з 2 жовтня забороняє вʼїзд автомобілів із російськими номерами
Заборона вже діє в Литві, Латвії, Естонії, Польщі, Фінляндії та Норвегії. Обмеження запроваджуються на підставі санкцій, запроваджених ЄС проти Росії
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Трамп постане перед судом у справі про шахрайство 2 жовтня
Трамп назвав генерального прокурора Нью-Йорка «корумпованою», а суддю у справі «розгубиленим»
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До Вірменії прибула чергова група переселенців з Нагірного Карабаху
У канцелярії прем’єра Вірменії повідомили, що станом на вечір 1 жовтня в країні перебувають 100 514 вимушених переселенців із Нагірного Карабаху
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НАТО підтримує Туреччину в боротьбі з тероризмом – Столтенберґ
Генеральний секретар НАТО Єнс Столтенберґ рішуче засудив напад на МВС Туреччини в Анкарі.
«НАТО солідарний з Туреччиною в боротьбі з тероризмом», – заявив він 1 жовтня у твітері, побажавши двом пораненим поліцейським швидкого і повного одужання.
В Анкарі у неділю поблизу будівлі Міністерства внутрішніх справ Туреччини пролунав потужний вибух. Влада заявила про теракт, і повідомила про двох нападників, один з яких себе підірвав, а іншого було знешкоджено. Під час пожежі двоє поліцейських зазнали легких поранень.
Вибух стався у день відкриття сесії парламенту після літніх канікул. Серед питань порядку денного парламенту було голосування щодо заявки Швеції на вступ до НАТО, повідомив державний мовник TRT.
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Swiss-Led Team Drives Electric Vans From Geneva to Doha, Qatar
A Swiss-led team has driven electric vans across Europe and the Arabian Peninsula to Qatar to showcase zero-emission battery powered vehicles, organizers said Sunday.
The five-strong Swiss and German team set out from Geneva on August 28 in two electric Volkswagen vans on a 6,500 kilometer (4,000 mile) journey that ended in Doha on Saturday.
“The motivation was really to do something unusual,” the group’s leader Frank Rinderknecht told AFP. “Certainly we did have the risk of not arriving — technical issues, health issues or an accident.”
The journey aimed to raise awareness about the environmental benefits of electric vehicles, he said. “If our trip put just a little bit of rethinking, of initiative, into people’s minds then I am not unhappy.”
The journey started with a crossing of the Swiss Alps and included what organizers believe was the first west-to-east crossing of Saudi Arabia with electric vehicles.
The team’s ID. Buzz VW vans — modelled on the German manufacturer’s Combi campervan — travelled across 12 countries, reaching Aqaba in Jordan from Turkey by ship.
However, the trip highlighted shortcomings of the charging infrastructure, Rinderknecht said, comparing the mismatch of technologies to the “early days of telecommunication.”
In Europe, the team had to use numerous apps to pay for charging points across different regions. In Jordan, they had to adapt their European systems to the Chinese hardware they found.
The journey to Doha was completed in partnership with the Geneva International Motor Show, which is being held outside the Swiss city for the first time since its inception in 1905.
The 10-day motor show to be held in Qatar from October 5 will feature 31 automotive brands and overlap with the October 8 Qatar Grand Prix at the Lusail International Circuit on Doha’s northern outskirts.
Saad Ali Al Kharji, deputy chairman of Qatar Tourism, said holding events like the motor show was part the gas-rich Gulf state’s “strategic vision of becoming the fastest-growing destination in the Middle East by 2030.”
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Байден закликав Конгрес домовитися щодо допомоги Україні
«Ми за жодних обставин не можемо допустити припинення американської допомоги Україні»
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«Українські воїни й надалі матимуть сильну підтримку на полі бою» – Умєров про розмову з міністром оборони США
Розмова відбулася незабаром після того, як у США затвердили тимчасовий бюджет, який не включає допомогу Україні
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Польська опозиція скликала у Варшаві «Марш мільйонів сердець» за два тижні до виборів (фото)
У столиці Польщі Варшаві 1 жовтня відбувся марш опозиції, який організували для мобілізації виборців і боротьби за голоси людей, які ще не визначилися, за кого голосувати на майбутніх парламентських виборах.
«Неможливе стало можливим. Коли я бачу ці сотні тисяч усміхнених облич, відчуваю, що наближається цей знаковий момент в історії нашої батьківщини», – сказав, відкриваючи марш, лідер партії «Громадянська платформа» Дональд Туск.
На «Марш мільйонів сердець» приїхали люди з різних куточків Польщі. Учасники ходи розповідали, що аби встигнути виїжджали посеред ночі.
«Ми з Ольштина, виїжджали потягом о 5-й ранку, бо хочемо, щоб життя в нашій державі змінилося. Ми хочемо, щоб теперішній уряд пішов, щоб громадське телебачення було правдивим. Я маю дві доньки, дружину і хочу, щоб наше майбутнє було справжній і реальним, а не заснованим на брехні. Ми віримо, що після 15 жовтня буде краще і настануть зміни», – сказав Радіо Свобода пан Марек з Ольштина.
«Я не хочу уряду безправʼя, не хочу нищення Польщі. Боюся майбутнього і вважаю, що якщо виграє ПІС, то це майбутнє буде нестерпним. Якщо вони залишаться при владі, то буде олігархічна система, як в Росії, цього я побоююся», – сказала радіо Свобода пані Малгожата з-під Варшави.
На ході люди тримали у руках прапори Польщі і Євросоюзу, а також плакати з написами «Переможемо», «Думаю, тому я тут».
«Марш мільйонів сердець» влаштували центральними вулицями Варшави. Велику частину міста перекрили, щоб у разі потреби, могли проїхати екстрені служби.
За два тижні у Польщі відбуватимуться парламентські вибори. Згідно з опитуванням, проведеним 27 вересня компанією IBRiS для порталу Onet, 35,1% респондентів проголосували б за партію «Право і справедливість». «Громадянська платформа» могла б розраховувати на підтримку 27%. У трійці лідерів коаліція – «Третій Шлях» з 10,4%. Досі не визначилися, за кого голосувати, 5,6% поляків.
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Проросійський експрем’єр-популіст здобув перемогу на парламентських виборах у Словаччині
Роберт Фіцо, серед іншого, будував свою передвиборчу кампанію у Словаччині на тому, щоб припинити військову допомогу Україні
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Росія готується до «багатьох років війни» – британська розвідка
«Повна інформація про російські витрати на оборону завжди засекречена, але ці цифри свідчать, що Росія готується до подальших багатьох років бойових дій в Україні»
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Biden Signs Bill to Fund US Government, Avoid Shutdown
President Joe Biden has signed a bill to fund the U.S. government through mid-November and avoid a shutdown, less than an hour before money for federal agencies was set to run out.
Biden posted a picture of himself signing the bill on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, late Saturday night. In the message, he urged Congress to get to work immediately to pass funding bills for the full fiscal year.
The U.S. Senate, in a rare weekend meeting, approved a funding bill Saturday night, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature and averting a widely dreaded shutdown of the federal government.
The bill, which passed the Senate 88-9 after winning approval in the House of Representatives, would fund the federal government through Nov. 17. The bill contains $16 billion in disaster aid sought by Biden but did not include money to help Ukraine in its war against Russia’s invasion.
After the vote, Biden released a statement saying the bill’s passage prevented “an unnecessary crisis that would have inflicted needless pain on millions of hardworking Americans.”
“We will have avoided a shutdown,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement after the vote. “Bipartisanship, which has been the trademark of the Senate, has prevailed. And the American people can breathe a sigh of relief.”
Had the bill not been approved by Congress and signed by the president by midnight Saturday, the federal government would have shut down.
More than 4 million U.S. military service personnel and government workers would not be paid, although essential services, such as air traffic control and official border entry points would still be staffed. Pensioners might not get their monthly government payments in time to pay bills and buy groceries, and national parks could be closed.
For days all of that seemed inevitable.
The abrupt turn of events began Saturday when Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy changed tactics and put forward the funding bill that hard-line members of his Republican caucus opposed.
The House passed the bill, 335-91. More Democrats supported it than Republicans, even though it does not contain aid for Ukraine, a priority for Biden, Democrats and many Senate Republicans.
“Extreme MAGA Republicans have lost, the American people have won,” top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries told reporters ahead of the vote.
Republican Representative Lauren Boebert criticized the passage of the short-term stopgap bill.
“We should have forced the Senate to take up the four appropriations bills that the House has passed. That should have been our play,” she told CNN. “We should have forced them to come to the negotiating table, to come to conference, to hash out our differences.”
McCarthy is likely to face a motion from the right-wing members of his party to remove him as speaker.
“If somebody wants to remove me because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy said of the threat to oust him. “But I think this country is too important.”
Ukraine aid still likely
In his statement, Biden noted the lack of funding for Ukraine in the bill and said, “We cannot under any circumstances allow American support for Ukraine to be interrupted.”
Support for Ukraine remains strong in Congress and late Saturday night, a bipartisan group of Senate leadership members, led by Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, released a statement vowing to ensure the United States continues “to provide critical and sustained security and economic support for Ukraine.”
NBC News quoted an unnamed U.S. official as saying Biden and the Defense Department have funds to meet Ukraine’s battlefield needs “for a bit longer,” but it is “imperative” that Congress pass a Ukraine funding bill soon.
In the House, the lone Democrat to vote against the funding bill was Representative Mike Quigley of Illinois, the co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus. “Protecting Ukraine is in our national interest,” he said.
“This does look very chaotic, but this is not the first time it’s happened,” Todd Belt, director of the school of political management at The George Washington University, told VOA. “There is a price that has to be paid here. But that is the price of democracy. It does seem very messy sometimes. But eventually, usually you get some compromise.”
Such shutdowns have occurred four times in the last decade in the U.S., but often have lasted just a day or two until lawmakers reach a compromise to fully restart government operations. However, one shutdown that occurred during the administration of former President Donald Trump lasted 35 days, as he unsuccessfully sought funding to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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7 Months After Entering Hospice, Former President Jimmy Carter Celebrates 99th Birthday
Seven months after the Carter Center announced he was entering end of life hospice care, former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn made a rare, surprise appearance during a peanut festival in their hometown of Plains, Georgia.
As they waved to bystanders while riding in an SUV that proceeded down the main street of Plains, it marked the beginning of a week celebrating Jimmy Carter’s 99th birthday on Sunday – a milestone few thought the longest living U.S. President might reach.
“I think there is a misunderstanding about hospice that its only for people who are days away from death,” explains author Jonathan Alter. “That’s not what the hospice movements says.”
Alter, who wrote a biography about Jimmy Carter titled His Very Best, says the Carters are choosing to spend the end of their lives in much the same way as the rest of it. “Do as much as you can for as many as you can for as long as you can,” he says.
While retired from public life, Alter says announcing Carter’s transition to hospice, and revealing that Rosalynn Carter has dementia, provides the former president and first lady the opportunity to use their journey as another teachable moment for others.
“It was very intentional on their part to do some good for the world by sending a message that you don’t have to shrink from these end-of-life decisions, and there are other options for letting go,” he says.
While they have let go of the day-to-day operations of the global non-profit they founded in 1982, Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander says thousands of employees and volunteers around the world continue their work without interruption promoting peace and combating neglected tropical diseases.
“The last time we talked, he didn’t ask me about politics, he didn’t ask me about anything except guinea worm numbers,” Alexander told VOA during a recent Skype interview.
In a 2015 press conference announcing he was battling life threatening cancer, which he recovered from, Carter expressed his greatest wish: “I want the last guinea worm to die before I do,” he told the assembled crowd.
When the Carter Center took on guinea worm in the 1980s, there were 3.5 million cases in 21 countries. Alexander says the complete eradication of the neglected tropical disease is now closer than ever. “We’re down to six human cases in two countries,” she says.
Alexander told VOA she continues to have occasional phone conversations with President Carter.
“When I spoke to him last to wish him a happy birthday early, he said ‘I’m not quite sure how happy it is to be turning 99.’ His body is failing him. He doesn’t have the same physical abilities he used to have, but mentally, he remains pretty sharp, and I think that keeps him going,” Alexander said.
She notes that Carter is aware, and appreciative of the continued outpouring of support and admiration, most recently the stream of happy birthday wishes by video and photos the Carter Center is collecting for an interactive online mosaic.
“I think it might be the special sauce of what keeps him going right now. That and peanut butter ice cream,” she said.
It is a special dessert Alexander says the Carters enjoy together, sometimes surrounded by family, in the small community they have called home since the 1920s.
“They are exactly where they want to be – together … in their hometown of Plains, Georgia,” says Alexander.
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Apple to Fix Software Bug Making iPhone 15 Models Too Hot to Handle
Apple is blaming a software bug and other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to heat up and spark complaints about becoming too hot to handle.
The Cupertino, California, company said Saturday that it is working on an update to the iOS17 system that powers the iPhone 15 lineup to prevent the devices from becoming uncomfortably hot and is working with apps that are running in ways “causing them to overload the system.”
Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms, modified its social media app earlier this week to prevent it from heating up the device on the latest iPhone operating system.
Uber and other apps such as the video game Asphalt 9 are in the process of rolling out their updates, Apple said. It didn’t specify a timeline for when its own software fix would be issued but said no safety issues should prevent iPhone 15 owners from using their devices while awaiting the update.
“We have identified a few conditions which can cause iPhone to run warmer than expected,” Apple in a short statement provided to The Associated Press after media reports detailed overheating complaints that are peppering online message boards.
The Wall Street Journal amplified the worries in a story citing the overheating problem in its own testing of the new iPhones, which went on sale a week ago.
It’s not unusual for new iPhones to get uncomfortably warm during the first few days of use or when they are being restored with backup information stored in the cloud — issues that Apple already flagged for users. The devices also can get hot when using apps such as video games and augmented reality technology that require a lot of processing power, but the heating issues with the iPhone 15 models have gone beyond those typical situations.
In its acknowledgement, Apple stressed that the trouble isn’t related to the sleek titanium casing that houses the high-end iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max instead of the stainless steel used on older smartphones.
Apple also dismissed speculation that the overheating problem in the new models might be tied to a shift from its proprietary Lightning charging cable to the more widely used USB-C port that allowed it to comply with a mandate issued by European regulators.
Although Apple expressed confidence that the overheating issue can be quickly fixed with the upcoming software updates, the problem still could dampen sales of its marquee product at a time when the company has faced three consecutive quarters of year-over-year declines in overall sales.
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