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Al Manar
12-06-2025
- Sport
- Al Manar
الأمن الداخلي: توقيف مروّج للمخدرات في مدينة صيدا
FORT LAUDERDALE — Kris Knoblauch is mixing things up for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final. The Edmonton Oilers head coach is making two lineup changes with his team down 2-1 to the Florida Panthers in the best-of-seven title series. Troy Stecher will replace John Klingberg on the blue line, while Jeff Skinner enters the fray up front for Viktor Arvidsson. Knoblauch also put his lines and defence pairings in the blender, including bumping Connor Brown up to play alongside Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Stecher is poised to reunite with Darnell Nurse on the back end. Stuart Skinner will get the start despite allowing five goals in each of his last two games — a 5-4 overtime defeat and a 6-1 drubbing. Nugent-Hopkins will dress after missing Monday's practice with an upper-body injury. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 12, 2025. The Canadian Press
Al Manar
09-04-2025
- Business
- Al Manar
ترامب: كنت سأحتفظ بقاعدة باغرام الأفغانية تحت سيطرتنا لكونها تبعد نحو ساعة من موقع تصنيع الصين الأسلحة النووية
Sarah Bagley of Windswept with RYA CW Impact Award. Photo: Windswept (© Windswept) The inspirational founder of a watersports centre in Pembrokeshire has been presented an RYA Cymru Wales Impact Award in recognition of her work to make activities afloat accessible and inclusive for all. The awards are made by sailing's governing body in Wales to celebrate those who go above and beyond to help people enjoy getting on the water. Sarah Bagley, Director of Windswept in Dale, was nominated for the award by local mum-of-four Rebecca Bell for her commitment to watersports and for supporting and encouraging children and young people. Rebecca said all her children developed a love of watersports thanks to Sarah and the Windswept team, including her eldest son, who has autism, and daughter Keira, aged 15, who now enjoys competing and volunteers her own time as an assistant sailing instructor for the junior section at Neyland Yacht Club. Instructing at Windswept. Photo: Cara Gaskell (© Cara Gaskell) In the nomination, Rebecca explained: 'Sarah is kind-hearted and knowledgeable and a brilliant role model. She is an inspiration to young people and a constant on the watersports scene, happy to help anyone learning new skills, and deserves recognition for her amazing attitude to supporting others.' Windswept is a not-for-profit community interest company, set up by Sarah in 2020 with a mission to provide affordable opportunities for everyone to enjoy watersports by removing barriers and finding new ways to promote participation. Activities include lessons for all kinds of boardsports - including windsurfing, winging and paddleboarding – plus outreach sessions for schools and community groups, Paddle-Ability with adaptive equipment for those with disabilities, and weekly clubs for children, teenagers and adults. Sarah Bagley of Windswept. Photo: Cara Gaskell (© Cara Gaskell) 'I'm really honoured to have an Impact Award,' said Sarah. 'Watersports can be expensive so my passion is making it accessible and creating opportunities for everyone, and I've been lucky enough to start Windswept to make that happen. 'I enjoy teaching on the water and seeing people smiling and having a good time, including children who might be excited, or may be a bit scared or thinking they're not good at anything, then realising they can do it! To see young people change and become more independent and confident is really rewarding.' Windswept is dedicated to creating pathways for young people and offers subsidised training for aspiring watersports instructors. In partnership with Celtic Deep there is also a scheme for anyone aged 14-25 to gain qualifications to work on the water, or access other education and employment opportunities. In addition to running Windswept's activities, Sarah and her team regularly volunteer to support community activities and events. The RYA Cymru Wales Impact Awards recognise those who go the extra mile to support activities afloat. Presenting the award, Club Development Officer Hester Walker said : 'Windswept provides sessions for the local community and children at very low cost to make the sport accessible, and Sarah is creative, passionate and fun, promoting innovation and the continual development of staff, equipment and new projects.' Find out more about opportunities to get on the water with Windswept Watersports or explore how to begin sailing at
Al Manar
24-02-2025
- Politics
- Al Manar
الجهاد الاسلامي: لقد تجاوز الاحتلال كل الحدود في مشروع الضم الفعلي لمناطق الضفة الغربية
GENEVA (Reuters) – Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. Some 450,0000 people are without shelter after 90 displacement camps were destroyed, Judith Suminwa Tuluka added. The M23's advance is the gravest escalation in more than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo. Rwanda rejects allegations from Congo, the United Nations and Western powers that it supports M23 with arms and troops. (Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Miranda Murray)
Al Manar
16-12-2024
- Al Manar
استشهاد طفلة في قصف طائرات الاحتلال منزلاً لعائلة الترك بمحيط موقف جباليا في حي الدرج وسط مدينة غزة
KVIA Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute. The lethal injection of Christopher Collings on Dec. 3 left just eight men on Missouri's death row. By contrast, nearly 100 people were living with a death sentence three decades ago. Missouri isn't alone. Across the nation, the number of people awaiting the ultimate punishment has declined sharply over the past three decades. There are several reasons. Prosecutors are hesitant to take on the expense of a capital case. The Supreme Court has banned execution of those who were minors at the time of the crime, and the mentally disabled.
Al Manar
04-12-2024
- Business
- Al Manar
جيش الاحتلال ينسف منازل في بلدة يارون جنوب لبنان
EDMONTON — Alberta Technology Minister Nate Glubish says he's hoping to see $100 billion worth of artificial intelligence data centres under construction within the next five years. Such centres are filled with computer servers used by companies like Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, to develop and train large-scale artificial intelligence models. These centres, depending on size, require loads of electricity to run. In an interview, Glubish said Meta, as well as other major companies like Google and Amazon, are on the hunt for space, and he wants Alberta to be an option. "That's where the home run comes in, in terms of increased investment, increased jobs and increased economic activity," Glubish said. He added that, through the government's new data centre attraction strategy announced Wednesday, the government has created a "concierge program" to attract companies to Alberta. "We're already working with about a dozen companies that are looking very seriously at setting up a data centre in Alberta," he said. "We're working with them to help identify the fastest way through the regulatory framework to get their projects moving forward." He said the ultimate goal is to create jobs and bring in much needed new tax revenue. Glubish said since Alberta's deregulated electricity market allows for off-grid power generation — permitting power generators to strike deals with private companies and supply them directly — the province is an ideal landing spot for many companies. "The key there is off-grid means no risk to the grid in terms of reliability and affordability," he said. "Make no mistake, we are not going to let anything happen that compromises affordability or reliability for Alberta's electrical grid." "That's a no-go zone for Albertans." This past January, during an extreme cold snap, high demand and unexpected generation outages led the Alberta Electric System Operator to issue an emergency grid warning asking Albertans to conserve power to avoid rolling blackouts. The operator reported that two days before the January grid warning, Alberta had hit a record level of power demand at 12,384 megawatts. But Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf told reporters Wednesday that Alberta's electricity grid could handle data centres. "We have some room on our grid right now, but data centres can capture everything from 20 megawatts to 10,000 megawatts," Neudorf said. "We are trying to identify who's interested, what size, what are their needs and where would they like to go, so we can provide the best path for them. "We have the ability, with our private industry, to scale up our generation very, very quickly, without it being dollars spent by the taxpayer or the government on behalf of the taxpayer." On Wednesday, the Royal Bank of Canada's Climate Action Institute released a report that found if all data centre projects currently going through the regulatory approval process across the country were approved, they would account for 14 per cent of Canada's power needs by 2030. "Canadian regulators are reviewing data centre applications with an estimated combined capacity of 15 gigawatts — enough to power seven out of 10 homes nationwide," the report reads, noting that Alberta-based projects represent 6.5 gigawatts (or 6,500 megawatts) of capacity. "Alberta, with ample natural gas and lower grid pressures, prefers data centres operate off-grid, minimizing the strain on public grids," the report states. "But powering AI through natural gas comes with an emissions cost that provinces will need to weigh." The report said that if natural gas were to power six gigawatts of electricity for data centres, it would create an estimated 16 million tonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions, although the use of carbon capture and storage could provide a partial offset. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 4, 2024. Jack Farrell, The Canadian Press
