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[Regnum] Cold weather is expected in the European part of Russia in the near future. Air temperatures will drop below May norms, said Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center.
“A pronounced spread of cold weather, negative temperature anomalies, of course, different everywhere, will be observed throughout the European territory of Russia in the coming days,” he specified in a conversation with TASS.
The weather forecaster added that in the central regions the temperature is expected to be 4-7 degrees below normal, on the Volga the temperature will be 3-4 degrees below the climatic characteristics of May. It will also get colder in the Urals and in the south of European Russia, Vilfand noted.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, according to the forecast of meteorologist, candidate of technical sciences Evgeny Tishkovets, it will be cool in Moscow until May 12. In the Moscow region, there will be a possibility of light frosts. During the daytime, the air will warm up to no more than 13 degrees. According to him, the temperature in Moscow and the Moscow region will return to normal no earlier than the final ten days of spring.
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[Regnum] A possible earthquake with a subsequent tsunami off the coast of the United States, which scientists are warning about, is unlikely to happen in the coming years. This was stated on Sunday, May 11, by Petr Shebalin, Director of the Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in a conversation with Regnum News Agency.
The British publication Daily Mail published the results of research by American scientists who, in the course of various calculations and computer modeling, came to the conclusion that in the case of a negative scenario regarding seismological activity in the western part of the United States, the territory of the North American state could receive a nine-point earthquake and waves 30 meters high, which are capable of causing significant damage to the Pacific coast of the United States. According to scientists, the fault lies in the geographical fault between Canada and California, the length of which is 970 kilometers. It is in this part that an earthquake of nine points could occur.
The seismologist explained that it is impossible to prevent natural disasters of this kind, but it is unlikely that one can talk about an impending threat in the coming years, the expert specified.
"Such an earthquake is, in principle, possible, since there really is quite a large fault there. But the question is that the time scale is apparently hundreds of years," Shebalin said.
According to the expert, there is a possibility that such an earthquake will happen in the coming decades, but the chances are extremely small.
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Still waiting of the California Big One.
The earthquake foretold ages ago, and repeatedly used by the Gov and media into the 21st century as needed
to generate $$ Billions in research and Millions in pocket spending $$$$ after every 7.# quake.
Now at over 60+ years later now, and after a number of 7.#'s, the Valley is still dry, and SF & LA have not floated away.
[ZERO] The designation sent shockwaves through the political landscape.
AfD immediately challenged it in court, prompting the agency to suspend enforcement while litigation proceeds.
But the damage, Hanson said, has already been done.
This move, he argued, wasn’t about public safety—it was about political control.
"Recently, the German government announced that it is going to label or maybe relabel the Alternative for Deutschland," Hanson explained.
"The conservative party that has an antithetical agenda both to the German government of both liberal and conservative factions, but also to the EU in general."
He said the classification ensures AfD will remain on the outside of political power, regardless of how many people support them.
"It will cement this aura that no government under their parliamentary democracy system will ask them to join to form a majority government," Hanson said.
"So the process of ostracism and demonization of this party continues."
And for what? The real issue, he said, is that AfD simply offers a different vision.
"The party is advocating an alternative for the way that Germany is going."
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[Regnum] The administration of US President Donald Trump is preparing to accept a Boeing 747-8 aircraft worth about $400 million as a gift from the royal family of Qatar, ABC News reported on May 11, citing an informed source.
"This may be the most valuable gift ever given to the United States by a foreign government," the statement said.
According to these reports, the gift will be handed over next week, May 12-18, when Trump leaves for a Middle East tour. The US president is said to have seen the plane before.
The TV channel's sources noted that the plane is a real "flying palace" and will serve as Trump's new presidential aircraft, and after his term as head of state ends, ownership of the airliner will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.
It was previously reported that Trump would visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on May 13–16. The US President noted that the trip would create “a large number of jobs.”
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in April, Trump unveiled a monument to himself at his own golf club, Trump International Golf Club. The statue was presented to him by Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino. The monument was called the "Monument of Defiance" and was installed between one of the golf club buildings and the first hole of the golf course. Trump is depicted with his hand raised and his fist clenched, as he was when he was assassinated in July 2024.
Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino will unveil a bronze statue of President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... known as the "Defiance Monument" on Tuesday at the company’s headquarters in upstate New York. It will then be donated to the president’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The statue, which will be named "Defiance Monument," is inspired by the actions taken by Trump directly after the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he stood up with Secret Service agents around him and declared with a fist in the air, "Fight! Fight! Fight!."
Constantino, who is now running for Congress in New York’s 21st District to replace the seat left by UN Ambassador and former GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, said he wanted to make the statue to honor Trump’s bravery in that moment.
"Five thousand patriots stood up for me when Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... threatened to arrest me over my sign. I thought it made sense to honor the President who stood up for America after being shot, by commissioning a monument to commemorate his bravery," Constantino said.
The Sticker Mule CEO was challenged in Oct 2024 by the city of Amsterdam, New York when he erected a 100-foot "Vote for Trump" sign on top of a building owned by the sticker company.
A blurb from Sticker Mule detailed the statue to be unveiled on Tuesday this week, "The statue was handcrafted by sculptor George Lundeen of Loveland, Colorado. Lundeen is known for his realistic bronze sculptures, including the Benjamin Franklin Statue at UPenn and the Apollo 11 Monument at the Kennedy Space Center. This masterpiece will be donated to the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach."
More about the airplane that L3Harris is renovating:
US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... is ready to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... during his trip to the Middle East this coming week, and US officials say it could be converted into a potential presidential aircraft.
The Qatari government said a final decision hadn’t been made. Still, Trump defended the idea — which would amount to a US president accepting an astonishingly valuable gift from a foreign government — as a fiscally smart move for the country.
"So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane," Trump posted on his social media site on Sunday night. "Anybody can do that!"
ABC News reported that Trump will use the aircraft as his presidential plane until shortly before he leaves office in January 2029, when ownership will be transferred to the foundation overseeing his yet-to-be-built presidential library.
The gift was expected to be announced when Trump visits Qatar, according to ABC’s report, as part of a trip that also includes stops in Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... and the United Arab Emirates — but not Israel — the first extended foreign travel of his second term.
Before Trump’s post trumpeting the idea, Ali al-Ansari, Qatar’s media attaché, said in a statement that the "possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under consideration between Qatar’s Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense."
"But the matter remains under review by the respective legal departments, and no decision has been made," the statement added.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... US administration officials, anticipating ethics concerns, have prepared an analysis arguing that accepting the plane would be legal, according to ABC. The Constitution’s Emoluments Clause bars anyone holding government office from accepting any present, emolument, office or title from any "King, Prince, or foreign State," without congressional consent.
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The plane would have to be taken apart and every nut, bolt, cable, chip (containing billions of transistors) etc would have to be subjected to a thorough security inspection.
[FoxBusiness] Ground delay in place at EWR following brief ground stop
A third equipment outage reported Sunday morning impacted flights at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).
A ground stop was in place Sunday morning for about 45 minutes, after radar screens briefly went dark, local TV station ABC 7 reported.
"There was a telecommunications issue at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace," the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed in a statement to FOX Business.
"The FAA briefly slowed aircraft in and out of the airport while we ensured redundancies were working as designed. Operations have returned to normal," the statement said. No additional details were given.
Flight tracking website FlightAware says there have been 70 flight cancellations at EWR in the last 24 hours.
On Saturday, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby did a pre-recorded interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation," where he maintained his stance that flying is safe and backup procedures are in place for equipment outages.
"It's the safest way to travel by far," Kirby said. "I understand how people feel and empathize with that, but I know it's safe because I've spent my whole career in it. I know all the people in aviation, whether they work at United Airlines, other airlines, the FAA. Safety is number one, and it is in the core DNA of everyone."
The FAA will hold a "scheduling reduction meeting" on Wednesday morning regarding flights at EWR, even though both Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Kirby said EWR flights have already been scaled back.
"I hate delays, I hate cancellations and I hate families who come with little kids that are sitting there for four hours," Duffy said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
"I've done that myself on occasion. It's hard. But I want you to get to where you're traveling, and if that means slowing down flights into Newark, we slow them down to make sure we can do it safely," he said.
Newark was not the only airport that saw delays amid problems.
On Sunday afternoon, the FAA said it "has temporarily slowed arrivals into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport due to a runway equipment issue" and that "technicians are working to address the problem."
The delay was requested by Delta Air Lines and only impacts their flights, an FAA spokesperson told FOX Business.
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[Regnum] At least 16 people have died as a result of a passenger bus falling off a cliff in the Republic of Sri Lanka. This was reported by the Daily Mirror, citing the police.
The tragedy occurred on the morning of May 11 on the Nuwara Eliya-Gampola road in Kotmale district. The bus, which was travelling from Kataragama to Kurunegala and belonged to the Sri Lanka Transport Authority (SLTB), skidded off the road and fell into a precipice.
It is reported that at least 35 people were injured. About 25 of the injured were taken to hospitals in Nuwara Eliya and Kotmale. The identities of the deceased are being established.
According to the Sri Lanka First News Agency, 21 people were killed and 59 were injured. Of the injured, 22 are in hospital in critical condition.
The SLTB has sent a special team to establish the causes of the incident, and the country's transport ministry is also investigating.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported on a traffic accident involving a bus in Sri Lanka carrying Russian tourists. The accident occurred in January on the Southern Highway. A passenger bus crashed into the rear of a cement truck at high speed, killing the bus driver. Twelve Russians were hospitalized with injuries, two were in serious condition.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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...every time you hear the phrase 
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
