‼️ Japan imposes additional sanctions against 29 organizations from Russia, hundreds of individuals - Foreign Ministry
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🚨 US State Department orders non-essential personnel to leave Shanghai amid COVID-19 surge
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📉 Once a retail giant, Kmart nears extinction
The number of Kmarts in the US — once well over 2,000 — will be down to three in the continental US and a handful of stores elsewhere.
Struggling to compete with Walmart’s low prices and Target’s trendier offerings, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early 2002 and announced it would close more than 250 stores.
Kmarts continue to operate in Westwood, New Jersey; Bridgehampton, on New York’s Long Island; and in Miami, Florida. Nationwide, some former Kmarts remain vacant, while others have been replaced by other big-box stores, fitness centers, self-storage facilities, or even churches. One former site in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is now a popular dine-in movie theater.
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The number of Kmarts in the US — once well over 2,000 — will be down to three in the continental US and a handful of stores elsewhere.
Struggling to compete with Walmart’s low prices and Target’s trendier offerings, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early 2002 and announced it would close more than 250 stores.
Kmarts continue to operate in Westwood, New Jersey; Bridgehampton, on New York’s Long Island; and in Miami, Florida. Nationwide, some former Kmarts remain vacant, while others have been replaced by other big-box stores, fitness centers, self-storage facilities, or even churches. One former site in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is now a popular dine-in movie theater.
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🔥 California utility to pay $55 million for massive wildfires
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by aging Northern California power lines belonging to the nation’s largest utility, prosecutors announced Monday. The deals expedite damage payments to the hundreds of people whose homes were destroyed.
Pacific Gas & Electric has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires since 2017 that wiped out more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people. It previously reached settlements with wildfire victims of more than $25.5 billion.
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Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by aging Northern California power lines belonging to the nation’s largest utility, prosecutors announced Monday. The deals expedite damage payments to the hundreds of people whose homes were destroyed.
Pacific Gas & Electric has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires since 2017 that wiped out more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people. It previously reached settlements with wildfire victims of more than $25.5 billion.
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Iowa’s political swing makes Obama’s win harder to repeat
In 2008, Iowa - a predominantly white state - was Barack Obama’s unlikely launching pad to become the nation’s first Black president. Fourteen years later, Iowans aren’t showing a similar embrace for the woman running to become its first Black governor.
Educated younger adults who were once reliable Democratic voters have fled rural Iowa seeking opportunities elsewhere. The strength of organized labor has eroded. In 2020, 90.4% of Iowans were white, according to census data, which also indicated that roughly 62% of the nation’s population was white, and more than 13% Black.
After decades of divided state government, Republicans have controlled the legislature and the governorship for six consecutive years, cutting taxes and reining in voting and abortion rights. Today, five of Iowa’s six members of Congress are Republicans.
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In 2008, Iowa - a predominantly white state - was Barack Obama’s unlikely launching pad to become the nation’s first Black president. Fourteen years later, Iowans aren’t showing a similar embrace for the woman running to become its first Black governor.
Educated younger adults who were once reliable Democratic voters have fled rural Iowa seeking opportunities elsewhere. The strength of organized labor has eroded. In 2020, 90.4% of Iowans were white, according to census data, which also indicated that roughly 62% of the nation’s population was white, and more than 13% Black.
After decades of divided state government, Republicans have controlled the legislature and the governorship for six consecutive years, cutting taxes and reining in voting and abortion rights. Today, five of Iowa’s six members of Congress are Republicans.
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⚡️ OSCE monitoring mission must stop its activities on DPR territory until 30 April, Foreign Ministry says
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❗️ Correpondent from Russia's Channel One wounded as Ukrainian radicals open fire in Mariupol
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⚡️📹 The Russian MoD has released footage showing how a Ukrainian Bayraktar drone was destroyed off the western coast of Crimea by a Black Sea Fleet frigate
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❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ The remnants of Ukrainian troops surrounded on the premises of the Ilyich plant in Mariupol made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the city on the night of 1 April. This attempted breakthrough was thwarted by air and artillery strikes.
▪️ High-precision air and sea-based missiles destroyed a munitions depot and a protected hangar housing Ukrainian aircraft at the Starokonstantinov military airfield in the Khmelnytsky region, as well as a munitions depot near the village of Gavrilovka in Kiev region overnight.
▪️ The operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 32 Ukrainian military facilities.
▪️ Russian air defence systems shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Berdyansk and Melitopol.
▪️ Some 130 aircraft, 99 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems, 443 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,139 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 241 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 917 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,046 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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▪️ The remnants of Ukrainian troops surrounded on the premises of the Ilyich plant in Mariupol made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the city on the night of 1 April. This attempted breakthrough was thwarted by air and artillery strikes.
▪️ High-precision air and sea-based missiles destroyed a munitions depot and a protected hangar housing Ukrainian aircraft at the Starokonstantinov military airfield in the Khmelnytsky region, as well as a munitions depot near the village of Gavrilovka in Kiev region overnight.
▪️ The operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 32 Ukrainian military facilities.
▪️ Russian air defence systems shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Berdyansk and Melitopol.
▪️ Some 130 aircraft, 99 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems, 443 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,139 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 241 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 917 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,046 special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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⚡️ Moscow to retaliate tit-for-tat after France expels six Russian diplomats, embassy in Paris says
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⚡️📹 The Russian MoD has published footage depicting the launch of "Kalibr" cruise missiles from a ship on military infrastructure in Ukraine
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⚡️ No doubt aims, objectives of special op in Ukraine will be implemented - Putin
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⚡️ No doubt aims, objectives of special op in Ukraine will be implemented - Putin
⚡️ Putin: Impossible to isolate Russia
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⚡️ Russia to resume lunar programme - Putin
⚡️ Russia to team up with Belarus to develop high-tech spacecraft - Putin
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⚡️ Russian President Putin's latest statements on the special military op in Ukraine:
▪️ There is no doubt that the goals and objectives of the operation will be fulfilled. The goal is to help the people of Donbass.
▪️ Kiev publicly refused to comply with the Minsk agreements, it was impossible to continue to tolerate the genocide there.
▪️ Ukraine has been turning into an anti-Russian springboard to nurture the seeds of nationalism that existed there.
▪️ A clash with Moscow was inevitable due to the neo-Nazi offshoots being specially cultivated in Ukraine – it was only a matter of time.
▪️ Russia is not going to isolate itself, and it is also impossible to isolate it from the outside.
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▪️ There is no doubt that the goals and objectives of the operation will be fulfilled. The goal is to help the people of Donbass.
▪️ Kiev publicly refused to comply with the Minsk agreements, it was impossible to continue to tolerate the genocide there.
▪️ Ukraine has been turning into an anti-Russian springboard to nurture the seeds of nationalism that existed there.
▪️ A clash with Moscow was inevitable due to the neo-Nazi offshoots being specially cultivated in Ukraine – it was only a matter of time.
▪️ Russia is not going to isolate itself, and it is also impossible to isolate it from the outside.
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