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A serial killer who picks his victims among older women and strikes every Wednesday. At least three people were killed by the suspect, a 31-year-old Serbian national who was arrested by German police in the Schwäbisch Hall area, a distinctive German village in Baden-Württemberg, near Stuttgart.

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The arrest follows the death of an 89-year-old woman last week. The story referred to the deaths of two other elderly women from 2020 in the same area, also on Wednesday. The 89-year-old was found dead in her apartment in the village of Michelbach an der Bilz. Police then re-investigated a similar case, that of a 77-year-old woman who was found dead in her Schwaebisch Hall apartment last December. And so analogies were drawn to the October 2020 death of a 94-year-old, a neighbor of the 77-year-old. The story had been filed with no certainty as to whether there had been a murder, but the case has now been reopened.

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The arrested man, a 31-year-old Serbian national who lives in Germany with his wife and two children, is also suspected of robbing an 83-year-old man at gunpoint. Stopped by the special forces, he offered no resistance, police said. Investigations are ongoing to determine whether he is responsible for other crimes, particularly against elderly women. According to the Stuttgarter Zeitung, the apartment complex where two of the alleged murders took place was extensively searched yesterday. Witnesses reported the presence of a dozen plainclothes officers cordoning off the area and also inspecting the trash cans. A man was later taken away in handcuffs. Police said they had 75 officers assigned to the case.

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Miami-Dade police on Sunday discovered a cockfighting ring in a rural area in the far northwest of the county.

As a result of that operation, a southwest Miami-Dade woman was arrested and charged with taking part in an animal fighting event, news channel Local 10 reported.

Last Sunday, a Miami-Dade Homicide detective called another officer to 18180 NW 129th Ave., a rural property off a dirt road south of the Broward County line.

This detective led the investigating officer to several roosters in cages with shaved feathers, a large cockfighting ring with chairs, and an outdoor viewing platform, all in a makeshift shelter.

“Inside the cockfighting ring, I observed dried blood as well as cockfighting paraphernalia such as spurs and scales near the ring,” the officer explained.

The detained woman responds by the name of Elsa Sastureias, 57, identified as a “waitress” at the property who works for tips.

Sastureias claimed she was a friend of the property owner, but he does not employ or pay her.

The woman was taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she was being held on $1,000 bail.

The police reportedly obtained a confession from the woman. No other arrests have been announced in connection with the case.

In late December last year, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents investigating a possible kidnapping in southwest Miami-Dade were arrested a man who ran a large cockfighting ring in his home.

Subject identified as Leonardo Cabrera, 59, was arrested following a police raid on his property at 24000 Southwest 123rd Avenue in a semi-rural part of the community of Princeton in Homestead.

There, agents discovered cockfighting equipment, including a ring, as well as paraphernalia common to this type of illegal event, such as syringes and spurs.

Last June, Lázaro Agramonte, a 62-year-old man of Cuban origin, was indicted in the Miami-Dade court Organize cockfights and marijuana possession.

Also at Homestead, at the time of Agramonte’s arrest, they seized fighting cocks and paraphernalia usual for this type of activity, as well as five pounds of marijuana.

Also in April, 47-year-old Cuban Miguel Ángel Rodríguez was arrested after the Kendall General Investigations Unit in Miami-Dade issued a search warrant at his home They found about a hundred roosters.

In this case, the defendant faced several charges of animal cruelty because the authorities found two training rings for bird fights as well as medicines, syringes and spurs on his property in addition to the hundred roosters, some of whom were dead.

Cockfighting is illegal in all US states and Florida is one of 42 US territories where it is a crime.

You annual college and university rankings they had a certain credibility, especially when carried out by major newspapers like the News World Report. Many families and students have looked at these annual rankings to find out which American university is the best for them to enroll in. However, recently the strength of this university rankings, is increasingly declining, mainly due to the departure of large universities from the list.

lost credibility

Recent scandals, data falsification and even bribery: these are some of the reasons these rankings have lost credibility nationwide. Check it out below:

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At one of the most prestigious colleges in the United States, Columbia, a professor accused it of falsifying data in order to get better placed in these major newspaper rankings. That story happened last year, causing the institution to fall out of this year’s rankings and plummeting from second to eighteenth in the 2023 rankings.

This fact caught the attention of the community, which began to question the reliability and changeability of the rankings. This was a new shock to the grading system, as it was based on data provided by the faculties themselves and by some students chosen by the universities.

left Yale and Harvard

Such was the shock that two of the country’s largest universities wanted to leave the ranking, claiming their reputations cannot be associated with lists without credibility. You recently requested through official channels that the names of the institutions should not be mentioned in it rankings.

bribery scandals

Despite recent events, there were old scandals related to leaderboard falsification. Previously, it was highlighted in newspapers at the time that some universities were bribing journalists to improve grades and make positive comments for the university in order to boost the university’s popularity.

Since nothing was actually proven, the case was hushed up, but since then the credibility of these rankings has declined to the point where we are today.

internet effect

The advent of the internet and the consequent decline in newspaper popularity was another reason that rankings are not as highly regarded as they used to be. Nevertheless, many universities want to continue to cooperate with these lists because they see them as free advertising and unintentionally attract new students to the campus.

Immigrants penalized by a federal law that barred them from buying real estate will finally be able to purchase the home of their dreams as a Supreme Court ruling has ruled in their favour.

• Also read: Victims of federal law, a French family blocked from buying a home

• Also read: Home buying ban: Immigrants’ dream in the water because of Ottawa

“It’s hard to believe it’s true, that we really have the right to buy our house and lock it all up. We were very pessimistic, our world was collapsing,” says Charlotte Cance Beneito, a 36-year-old French immigrant who has lived in Quebec for almost three years, with relief.

With her husband Nathan Beneito and their two daughters, Lola and Emma, ​​ages ten and eight, she planned to buy a house in the Capitale-Nationale. After finding their property, the two parents signed a purchase agreement on December 15 and were due to finalize the transaction at the notary on February 1.

But on Jan. 1, the enactment of the law banning the purchase of residential property by non-Canadians almost broke her family’s cocoon purchase.

This measure prevents foreigners who are not permanent residents from acquiring real estate in the country. According to the federal government, this should prevent real estate speculation by foreign investors, which is driving up house prices significantly, for at least two years.

Ready to leave it all behind

For her, this dream turned into a nightmare almost made her leave everything here and return to France.

“We were ready to give up and go back to France, but that’s where we’re going to stick,” explains Mr. Beneito.

But a Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday changed everything. The Supreme Court concluded that the law ultimately does not apply to a purchase agreement signed after January 1, 2023 if the promise to purchase was signed before that deadline.

Luckily for the family, the seller had decided to wait out the verdict before canceling the promise to buy and turning to another buyer.

“We’re really lucky they agreed to wait,” the couple added.

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Desjardins prudent

And the Cance-Beneito family is far from alone in this situation. At Desjardins alone, a hundred buyers were affected by the new federal law.

As a result, the Quebec financial institution had suspended the funding of promises to buy from its customers who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents since late December.

In light of the verdict, Desjardins is currently reviewing its positioning. Even if it assesses the risk as “very low” that this judgment will be appealed and this decision reversed, the organization advises caution.

“At the end of the appeal period (30 days), if no appeal is made, the cases covered by a purchase promise validly signed before January 1, 2023 will therefore be excluded from the application of the law. These cases can therefore be settled thanks to this decision and our members can buy,” said spokeswoman Chantal Corbeil.

The lawyer Stéphane Chatigny, who specializes in real estate law, does not expect an appeal against this decision. He points out that the Trudeau government approved the decision and the defendants did not object to the conclusions sought in the trial.

“We believe there is a good chance that the Canadian government will change the law or regulations to provide clarification and align with the Supreme Court decision,” said Me Chatigny.

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British sovereigns will disappear from banknotes in Australia, where the portrait of Elizabeth II on the new five-dollar bills will be replaced with a design honoring indigenous culture rather than the likeness of Charles III, the country’s central bank announced on known Thursday.

The five dollar note is the only one currently bearing the effigy of a British monarch in Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia said Aborigines would be consulted on a new design that “honored the culture and history of early Australians”.

Designing and printing the new banknote will take “a few years,” she said. Banknotes already in circulation bearing the portrait of the late Queen will remain legal tender.

The death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8 was marked by a day of national mourning in Australia, a Commonwealth member country whose official head of state is King Charles III, represented by a governor-general. However, some indigenous groups denounced the destructive consequences of British colonization and called for the abolition of the monarchy.

The central bank said its decision was backed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left Labor government, which supports a possible move towards an Australian republic.

The disappearance of the sovereign’s effigy was welcomed by the Australian Republican Movement (ARM), which pointed out that the Indigenous peoples lived 65,000 years before British colonization.

“Australia believes in meritocracy and the idea that someone can be in our currency by birthright is incompatible, as is the idea that they can be our head of state by birth,” said Craig Foster, WARC President.

“To think that an unelected king should stand in our imprint in the place of First Nations chiefs and elders and prominent Australians is no longer justifiable in the hour of truth, reconciliation and ultimately peace, formal, cultural and intellectual independence “, he added.

Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy hails the swimmer, who came second to Lia Thomas to introduce legislation ensuring men play on men’s teams and women on women’s teams.

• House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted an event Wednesday to mark National Girls & Women In Sports Day alongside conservative women lawmakers
• He issued a statement on behalf of Florida GOP Rep. Greg Steube reintroducing Steube’s bill entitled The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act
• It would force schools that receive federal dollars to ban transgender students from participating in sports teams that match their gender identity

By Elizabeth Elkind, US Political Reporter

Published: 22:00 GMT, 01 February 2023 | Updated: 02:35 GMT, 2 February 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday introduced legislation aimed at barring student-athletes who were born biological males from women’s sports.

The Republican leader hosted an event to mark National Girls & Women In Sports Day, where he moderated a panel discussion featuring female athletes, each sharing stories of how they have been outperformed in their respective sports by a transgender woman.

Among the four panelists was Riley Gaines, a star swimmer from Kentucky. The 22-year-old has become an activist against the participation of transgender women on women’s sports teams after being forced to compete with University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.

Gaines also moderated the panel during the event and later traded for McCarthy’s microphone to hear from Republican Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lisa McLain of Michigan and Virginia Foxx of North Carolina.

The speaker opened his event by commenting on the absence of Rep. Greg Steube of Florida, who introduced the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act in the Democrat-controlled House last year.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California hosted an event featuring women competing on school athletic teams against biologically male-born transgender women

Steube has been recovering at his Florida home for nearly two weeks after falling from a 25-foot ladder while performing maintenance on his property.

McCarthy read out Steube’s statement planned for the event: “House Republicans are committed to protecting women’s sports. Today we keep this promise.”

“As I have said many times, it’s a sad day in America when we have to introduce a bill that says men will play on men’s teams and women on women’s teams,” McCarthy read.

“But we’ve seen time and time again how the left favors only fairness consistent with their bright agenda.”

He said Americans were “rightfully outraged” when Thomas, a championship-level transgender swimmer, beat biologically female Sarasota swimmer Emma Weyant for the 2022 NCAA title.

“That’s why I’m pleased to have reintroduced legislation today that offers women and girls a fair playing field in competitive sports,” McCarthy read.

“It ensures that school sports conform to Title IX recognition of an individual’s reproductive biological and genetic characteristics at birth.”

In addition to Gaines, panellists included volleyball player Macey Petty, former track star Margo Knorr and retired tennis player Chloe Satterfield.

One of the keynote speakers was Kentucky star swimmer Riley Gaines, who previously competed against University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas

Thomas’ participation on the UPenn girls’ swim team has brought the issue of transgender students’ participation in school sports teams of their chosen gender to the forefront of current culture clashes

During Gaines’ subsequent panel with the three Conservative lawmakers, Michigan Rep. McLain tore down rules allowing students to use school locker rooms that match their chosen gender.

‘Where is the equality?’ McLain was angry.

“As a mother, I have no idea what I would have done if my daughter had come home and said, ‘Mom, I had to undress in a dressing room in front of a man with a penis.’

She continued, “You know what I call this? I call that indecent exposure. So let’s just start calling it out for what it is.’

Conservative efforts to crack down on transgender participation in school sports have gained momentum in recent years, particularly since the rise of Lia Thomas.

It has become a new culture war front and was even mentioned as a campaign issue in several races in the 2022 election.

The left and LGBTQ activists have pushed back, claiming that policies that force students to participate in school activities marked by sex — rather than gender identity — are oppressive to transgender youth.

According to the LGBT-MAP Project, 18 states currently have laws that prohibit students from participating in school sports that match their gender identity.

MOSCOW – Russia on Wednesday warned Israel against arms sales to Ukraine after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was considering military aid to Kyiv and was ready to mediate in the conflict.

“We say that all countries that supply arms [to Ukraine] should understand that we will take these into account [weapons] to be legitimate targets for Russian forces,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters.

The Kremlin has warned of an escalation in the conflict as Ukraine’s western partners promise to ship more arms to Kyiv.

“Any attempt – carried out or even not realized but announced to deliver additional, new or different weapons – will lead to an escalation of this crisis. And everyone should be aware of that,” Zakharova said.

In an interview with CNN that aired on Tuesday, Netanyahu said he was “looking into” providing “other types of assistance” besides humanitarian aid to Kyiv, amid concerns about Israel’s “complex relationship” with Russia and its need to ” freedom of action”. in Syria in an effort to “keep Iran in check”.

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Washington and Berlin said this month they would supply Kyiv with modern tanks, but Ukraine is also asking its supporters for fighter jets and long-range artillery.

The warning from Moscow also comes after reports in recent weeks that Israel has refused US requests to hand over ten Hawk anti-aircraft batteries and hundreds of interceptor missiles for delivery to Ukraine.

A Leopard 2 tank is seen in action during a visit by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to the Bundeswehr Panzer Battalion 203 at the Field Marshal Rommel barracks in Augustdorf, Germany, February 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

However, the New York Times reported last month that the US military is quietly shipping hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine from a huge stockpile it stores in Israel.

Israel has refused to supply arms to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion. A key reason for Israel’s hesitation appears to be its strategic need to maintain freedom of operation in Syria, where Russian forces largely control the airspace.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CNN in an interview aired on January 31, 2023. (Screenshot/CNN, used under Section 27a of the Copyright Act)

The affair has strained relations between Jerusalem and Kyiv, as Ukrainians have constantly pressed Israel for more defense aid. Ukraine’s ambassador earlier this month called on Israel to provide its country with anti-missile systems in the face of continued deadly Russian attacks.

Israel has been providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and Netanyahu’s new government has said it intends to keep those supplies flowing.

This week Israel sent three armored ambulances to Ukraine.

Netanyahu told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he had previously been asked to mediate in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and that he would “certainly consider” it if asked again, but only if the US agreed would.

“When I’m asked by both sides, and frankly when I’m asked by the United States — because I think you know you can’t have too many cooks in the kitchen … and you know we have our own backyards to deal with,” Netanyahu said.

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They got nothing. No classified document was found in a search of Joe Biden’s seaside residence this Wednesday. The US President’s attorney said federal police have committed to searching the US President’s seaside residence in Rehoboth, East Delaware, with the “full cooperation” of the head of state. In his press release, Bob Bauer specifies that this operation, which lasted 3:30 a.m. under the direction of the Justice Department, was “planned.” However, investigators took away documents related to his tenure as Vice President (2009-2017).

“For security and procedural reasons [le FBI] wanted to proceed with this action without prior public communication and we decided to work together,” he said. Federal police earlier searched another home of Joe Biden in Delaware in the city of Wilmington for confidential documents from the 80-year-old Democrat’s previous roles as vice president and senator.

Earlier puzzling discoveries

The President spends most of his weekends either in Wilmington or, less frequently, in Rehoboth. Since last November, a number of confidential documents, the exact number and contents of which are unknown to this day, have been found either in an office occupied by Joe Biden in a Washington think tank or in the Wilmington home.

These documents come from Joe Biden’s vice presidency (2009-2017) and his three decades in the Senate, during which he dealt intensively with foreign policy. The Justice Department has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate these discoveries, which are embarrassing for the Democratic president because, despite many differences, they recall a case of official archives brought to Florida by his predecessor Donald Trump.