Renegotiating the Safe Third Country Agreement is not a priority

Renegotiating the Safe Third Country Agreement is not a priority for Washington

Under the 19-year-old Safe Third Country Agreement, Canada and the United States recognize each other as safe havens in which people can seek shelter.

This means that Canada can turn away potential refugees who are at official land ports of entry along the Canada-US border on the grounds that they must submit their application in the United States, the country where they first arrived .

However, since the agreement only applies to official border crossings, many refugees use irregular border crossings, including the now famous Roxham Road, which ends in Montérégie near Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle. Once in Canada, their asylum application can be processed by the authorities.

In 2022, a record 39,171 people crossed the border irregularly, according to the number of apprehensions reported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated on Wednesday that modernizing the Safe Third Countries Agreement is a solution to limit the flow of irregular refugees. According to him, these renegotiations have been going on for months, years, and we are making progress.

But in an interview with CBC’s Power & Politics, the US Ambassador to Ottawa said no one in the US will confirm that there are specific discussions about the Safe Third Countries Agreement, and I will not be the first American official to say so does.

Mr. Cohen sits in front of a camera with the American flag behind him.

David Cohen is the United States Ambassador to Canada.

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The diplomat acknowledges that irregular migration is a major problem for Western countries, including Canada and the United States, but says Roxham Road is just a symptom of the problem.

“No matter what we do with the Safe Third Countries Agreement, there will be no solution, or it will solve very little, [le problème de] irregular migration. […] It is a mistake to think that by only treating the symptoms you will solve the problem. […] If you’re serious, you need to attack the root cause of the problem. And yes, there have been discussions [avec le Canada] To this topic. »

— A quote from David Cohen, US Ambassador to Canada

We are keen to continue productive discussions with Canada on this issue, he added, recalling that the issue of irregular migration was at the heart of the Los Angeles Declaration, an agreement signed last June with Canada and some twenty Latin American governments Limiting the migration flow was signed by migrants in the region.

“I think we need to focus on the problem, not the symptoms of the problem,” he reiterated.

The Roxham Road mystery has caused widespread concern, particularly in Quebec, and prompted Prime Minister François Legault to launch an offensive towards Ottawa, demanding the crossing be closed. On Sunday he wrote to Mr. Trudeau to demand that all people crossing this temporary passage be diverted to other provinces.

The message was echoed by the leader of the official federal opposition, Canada’s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, who on Tuesday also called for Roxham Road to be closed within 30 days. In his view, there is no need to review or even suspend the Safe Third Countries Agreement in order to close Roxham Road.

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Yolanda Díaz calls for an autonomous security project for Europe

The second vice-president, Yolanda Díaz, together with MEP Ernest Urtasun (left) and adviser Carlos Corrochano, this Wednesday at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.The second vice-president, Yolanda Díaz, together with MEP Ernest Urtasun (left) and adviser Carlos Corrochano, this Wednesday at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid Mariscal (EFE)

Two days after the one-year anniversary of the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yolanda Díaz this Wednesday defended that Europe must “make new diplomatic efforts” to end the conflict. In an extensive article for the French magazine Le Grand Continent, which she presented in the afternoon at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the second vice-president addresses a sensitive issue of the governing coalition, which fell into a deep crisis in March, when the executive of Pedro Sánchez decided to send arms to the government of Volodimir Zelenski in the face of direct opposition from Podemos. The Labor leader, who once supported the President’s decision, advocates an “autonomous reading” of the US on security and rules out that the solution would involve major investments in weapons. Just this morning Defense Secretary Margarita Robles confirmed the delivery of six refurbished Leopard tanks to Ukraine. Accompanied by MEP Ernest Urtasun, one of the profiles that form the central nucleus of Sumar, the political project she promotes in the face of the generals, and international political adviser Carlos Corrochano, Díaz has defended a transformative Europeanism, an “emancipatory project” for the EU with new fiscal rules that is green, feminist and focuses on labor rights.

“European citizens should not and cannot forever rely on American security guarantees. We need, we need, an autonomous reading of the world,” emphasizes the Vice President in her article. “As long as we depend on the United States for our security, we will not have autonomy to decide and organize our own role vis-à-vis China, for example,” he says in the text published under the title “Transforming Europe to protect the”. People. “We must shift this responsibility from an unstable NATO to a democratically controlled European security area,” asks the Vice President. “We don’t need to spend more on defense, but rather more coordination in spending, joint purchases and investment programs,” he says.

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In his article, Díaz stresses that Europe must lead “a new diplomatic effort, aligned with the aspirations of Ukrainian citizens,” which will “increase” humanitarian aid and “devise” a recovery plan for the country that is “based on aid, not on credit based”.

The vice president did not go into any of these details during her speech this Wednesday, but stressed the illegal nature of the invasion and, in line with Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, called for “a peace just and lasting.” “We need a Europe with an autonomous project in economic, fiscal and security terms. A strong Europe, which has an impact on European citizenship and serves to transform people’s lives,” he stressed in his speech.

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This Wednesday, the vice-president outlined the lines of her “emancipatory project”, a “transformative Europeanism that wants to protect ordinary people and the planet”, as described in the text.

“To speak of a transformative Europeanism means to speak of a new social contract at European level and a gradual and ambitious reform program,” says Díaz, before listing the axes of this transformation: work, green, feminist, democratic, with fair taxation, multilateral and for human rights. Among her proposals, the vice-president calls for the renewal of the treaties (“putting them at the service of working people”), full legislative powers for the European Parliament and improving the method of electing the European Commission and change some paradigms, such as B. the “agility of decision-making”.

In the full build up of Sumar, Díaz has finished his speech appealing to the need to build a European political alternative. “I am in favor of Europe also being added (…). Let’s think big, especially because the Orbanes exist and we want a hopeful future for our children,” he warned. In the published text, the vice president alludes to “duty”. “to build a new political movement at European level and with a transversal vocation that unites and inspires the greens, left and progressives of very different traditions and origins, feminisms, civic movements and the trade union world” to articulate “broad blocs and consensus”, Reshaping Europe “in an ecological and social key”.

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The US Supreme Court has accused Twitter of being blind

The US Supreme Court has accused Twitter of being “blind” to terrorism

Twitter was accused on Wednesday of ignoring the online actions of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) during a hearing in the United States Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction to decide whether the social network could be sued for complicity in terrorism.

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“Here is an allegation of willful blindness… You knew ISIS was using your platform,” Judge Sonia Sotomayor said in an interview with the social network’s attorney.

The nine judges of the instance took up a complaint filed by relatives of a victim of an IS attack in an Istanbul nightclub in 2017.

According to the family, Twitter is complicit in this act of terrorism because it failed to remove tweets from the group or stop recommending those tweets (via automated algorithms).

The US Supreme Court has accused Twitter of being

For its part, the platform, supported by its competitors (Google, Facebook, etc.), assures that the fact that it is a service used by tens of millions of people around the world is not proof that it is linked to terrorist groups “knowingly helps”.

A hearing was held on Tuesday on a similar issue: the family of a victim of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks accuses YouTube (a subsidiary of Google) of supporting the growth of ISIS by suggesting videos of the group to some users.

The US Supreme Court has accused Twitter of being

At the heart of both complaints is Section 230, a 1996 law that grants digital companies legal immunity to content uploaded by internet users to their platforms.

The industry’s big players vigorously defend that status of host—rather than publisher—which they believe enabled the birth of the Internet in its form.

The US Supreme Court has accused Twitter of being

Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed doubts about Section 230’s relevance today, but also their reluctance to influence the fate of a law that has become fundamental to the digital economy.

On Wednesday, they put forward numerous hypotheses to determine how the platforms could be complicit in acts of terrorism.

In 1997, “CNN gave an interview with Osama Bin Laden, a very famous interview…According to your theory, could CNN have been prosecuted for complicity in the 9/11 attacks?” asked Judge Brett Kavanaugh, for example.

Many voices in the United States Congress are calling for an overhaul of Section 230. However, given the very different perspectives left and right, lawmakers’ efforts to change the text have never been successful.

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Megantic as sensitive as it is spectacular

“Mégantic”: as sensitive as it is spectacular

Alexis Durand-Brault has made it from commercial to screen, from camera to production. In each of the series he produces there is a visual research that makes them unique. The sequence recordings ofhelp Beatrice like the graphic of Portrait Robot are proof of that.

With his accomplice Sophie Lorain, he also produced Sortez-moi de moi and Désobéir, which narrates the fight of Chantal Daigle. For Mégantic, he delved into the heart of one of the worst railway disasters, at the heart of a tightly knit city whose true protagonists have become friends.

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As a tribute to her, he has delivered a series that is as sensitive as it is spectacular. Because as they say over there, as long as you’re in people’s minds, you stay alive.

They inspired the will to make a luminous series despite the pain of the events. how did you edit the picture

As I read the lyrics, the term fire was inevitable, so the warm light imposed itself. No talk of playing with the cold light against it. Therefore there is a slightly yellow light. Throughout the show we integrated points of light everywhere. give “glow”. Even if it’s subtle. It adds a little dreamy side. It’s a show that could be difficult given its subject matter. It was expensive. We want people to listen to that. We could have thought we were going there, but we don’t make a documentary. Light, like music, allows us to take a step back, to see things differently. And it was clear to me from the start that the camera would always be in the thick of things. It’s immersive filmmaking.

It is a “choir” series. We see similar scenes from one episode to another through the eyes of different characters. How do these scenes end?

I hate shooting with more than one camera. So we shot each scene by adapting it to each character’s point of view. The intensity is not always the same because we see it according to our perception. It’s subtle, but the viewer doesn’t feel quite the same emotion. For scenes with lots of explosions I used 2-6 cameras. It was real fire, real explosions. When it comes to action scenes, I want to avoid cutting too much. I make few plans. I think it’s important that people have a sense of geography. It’s like stepping into a tube. You just get sucked into the story, the characters point of view.

The actors had intense scores to play. How did they manage to reproduce this level of play for multiple takes?

It’s all a matter of time. It could have taken us 45 minutes to an hour to place a scene. I had time to try things out with the actors. If you’re not sure, I can do it. The scene in which Luc Senay’s character receives his daughter’s body in a small box took five hours to film. It is creation that we do.

This project must have taken you into uncharted territory, if only technically.

We did business with Louis Craig, who worked on a hundred major American films. It requires expertise to handle fire, explosions and propane gas. If you start a fire, it costs $1,000 a minute in propane gas. It’s not done with a snap of your fingers. You must maximize your plans. With explosives, we saw that there are 12,000 ways to create explosions. As reported, we had to recreate a fire geyser. My job was also to manage the danger. As an actor, I can’t always use stuntmen. Sometimes there are things I need to add in the post, but otherwise everything is generally true. Playing firefighters was the dream of many little boys. We don’t often get the chance to shoot scenes like that in Quebec.

Where did you reproduce the city of Mégantic?

We went to Ormstown. Artistic director Jules Ricard has recreated a dozen facades, including that of the Musi-Café. But there was no railroad or church. We added them in 3D and added a piece of road to have the right geography. It was work to destroy the city too. It was reproduced in a snow dump in Longueuil. It was important for the residents of Mégantic to recognize their city. Out of respect for them.

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Rising rents during the visit

Rising rents… during the visit

Landlords are taking advantage of the strong demand and driving up rents at the end of a lease or even before the end of a prospective tenant’s visit, leaving low-income people no chance.

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“I was looking at a 4 1/2 for me and my son that was listed at $1,420. But at the end of the visit [le propriétaire] told me he has to top it up with the $1,520 request because there are “too many people who want it,” laments Vincent Michaux St-Louis, who is looking for an apartment after a breakup.

Impossible for this teacher to pay this price. Because even with a good salary, it would account for more than 63% of his net income.

“At $1,520 a month it’s not complicated, I just can’t do it. With a child, I would put myself in the hole,” explains the family man.

So because of the prices, the latter even starts looking at the 3 1/2.

“With a teacher’s salary, it seems possible for me to live in a 4 1/2 in Hochelaga,” he said angrily.

Other tenants notice that their landlord raises the rent very significantly if they do not renew the lease. This is especially true for a Repentigny tenant who saw the price of her apartment go from $810 to $1,050.

“There’s mold in the floor and we have cockroaches, so we’re leaving. We were very surprised to see that he wanted to rent for so much. […] I don’t see how single people can afford these apartments,” says Sophie Bélanger Daoust, 24.

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While Mr Michaux St-Louis understands that nothing prevents landlords from raising prices at will, he regrets that rents are now set by supply and demand.

“The owners abuse a market, but at the same time we cannot blame them. Anyone who wants to make money would do the same. Just posting an ad will get the guy 50 visits so for sure he’ll raise the price, it’s legal so why wouldn’t he? he says.

For the latter, the government needs to put in place a system to regulate these increases, which prevent many people from finding decent housing.

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And this kind of surge in response to demand is becoming more and more common, laments Véronique Laflamme of the Popular Action Front in Urban Redevelopment (FRAPRU).

“We are really in an environment where there are all kinds of abuses, but the planned measures are not sufficient to prevent the rental costs from exploding,” supports the spokeswoman for the organization Véronique Laflamme.

Martin Blanchard, co-spokesperson for the Regrouping of Housing Committees and Tenant Associations of Quebec (RCLALQ), agrees.

“It’s totally illegal to fix the rent, but the problem is that it’s absolutely not marked or controlled by the Housing Administration Court [TAL] and of the law who stubbornly ignore this facet of the problem,” he denounces.

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Blue Cross vs. Atlas: Liga MX Match Schedule and TV Channel

Blue Cross vs Atlas Liga MX Match Schedule and TV

When and where to watch Cruz Azul vs Atlas? Here’s everything you need to know about today’s game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico.

WATCH Cruz Azul vs. Atlas LIVE AND DIRECT HERE This Wednesday, February 22nd, the 7th matchday of the final tournament will take place League MX 2023. The duel will start at 21:05 (Peruvian time) and 20:05 (Mexican time) and will take place at Azteca Stadium. The game will include broadcasting of TUDN, ViX. In addition, today this and other games will be broadcast FREE ONLINE on the La República Deportes website.

Blue Cross vs. Atlas: Game Sheet

when do they playWednesday February 22nd
What’s the time?9:05 p.m. (Peruvian time) and 8:05 p.m. (Mexican time)
Where?Aztec Stadium
Channel?TUDN and ViX

When do Cruz Azul vs. Atlas play?

  • Mexico: 20:05 (CDMX)
  • PeruColombia, Ecuador: 9:05 p.m
  • Bolivia, Venezuela: 10:05 p.m
  • Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay: 11:05 p.m

Which channel will broadcast the game between Cruz Azul vs. Atlas?

The signals that will broadcast this meeting are the following: TUDN and ViX. In case you are unable to access the above channels, you can watch the FREE ONLINE broadcast that Sports Republic will be running.

How did Cruz Azul vs. Atlas?

Both teams are at the bottom of the table. In the case of Cruz Azul, it ranks 16th and has 4 points. On the other hand, Atlas positions itself in 13th place with 7 points. In this way, both teams feel the need to add a win.

Where do Cruz Azul vs Atlas play?

The sports venue where this game will be played is the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. It has a capacity for about 100,000 spectators.

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I fall asleep with my contacts on and a carnivorous

I fall asleep with my contacts on and a carnivorous bug ate my EYE

A young Florida man has gone partially blind after falling asleep with his contact lenses on and a flesh-eating bacterium ripped through his eye.

Michael Krumholz, 21, a sports management student from Lake Worth, near Miami, took a 40-minute nap in December while wearing his daily contacts. When he woke up, his left eye was blood red and his vision was distorted.

He shrugged and simply took off his contact lenses. In the days to come, he would slowly lose his sight and experience excruciating pain.

After a month of uncertainty, doctors finally diagnosed him with a flesh-eating bacterial infection known as acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), which can cause permanent and significant vision loss.

Mr. Krumholz can no longer see anything with his left eye, apart from “black and gray” flashing colors, which he compares to the noise of a television.

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Michael Krumholz, 21, of Lake Worth, near Miami, was attending college and was working part-time last year while working with children when he contracted an eye infection He says the bacteria ate away a large part of his cornea

Michael Krumholz, 21, of Lake Worth, near Miami, was attending college and was working part-time last year while working with children when he was diagnosed with an eye infection. He says it was caused by sleeping while wearing his contacts

AK is a rare bacterial infection that eats away at the surface of the eye.  If not treated quickly, it can lead to vision loss

AK is a rare bacterial infection that eats away at the surface of the eye. If not treated quickly, it can lead to vision loss

Doctors say he may only be able to regain 10 percent of his vision after a cornea transplant, but the patient told he would take 1 percent.

The infection has forced him to quit his job and hobbies, including hanging out with friends, baseball and working out at the gym.

He told : “I’m 21 years old and I’ve been trying to find a sports management job in the industry but it seems impossible.

“Nowadays it’s no work, no social life, really, social media gets you through the day.”

He has also developed photosensitivity, which means that exposure to direct sunlight is painful for him.

The Floridian now spends most of his time indoors, with the curtains drawn and a pair of sunglasses.

Mr. Krumholz wore Acuvue Oasys daily lenses for two to three years prior to the infection. The vision in his right eye is unaffected.

The condition is a rare bacterial infection. About 80 percent of cases occur in people who wear contact lenses, with a rate of one to two cases per million people per year.

The bacteria that cause the infection are usually harmless and very common.

They are found in lakes, streams, oceans and soil. They can also get into tap water, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.

If they get into the eyes through microcracks and scratches, they can provoke infection.

Every contact lens wearer is at risk. However, people who wear their contact lenses at night are at greater risk as they can cause abrasions.

They also deprive the cornea of ​​oxygen at night—which is avoided by blinking during the day—which can reduce its ability to fight off bacterial infection.

Contact lens manufacturers advise users not to wear their lenses at night to reduce the risk. They also urge people to wash their hands when inserting or removing lenses and to take spare glasses with them.

After taking a nap on December 19, Mr. Krumholz said his eyes felt uncomfortable.

“My contact lenses just felt very irritated, like they were floating in my eye [after I woke up from the nap]’ he told the British newspaper Daily Star.

“So I took them out and there was nothing wrong. I woke up the next morning, went to play baseball and immediately had to take out my contact lenses.

“I said to my parents: ‘I have to go to the eye doctor, something is wrong’.

“I thought I had conjunctivitis or something and he [the doctor] took a picture of the back of my eye after the dilation and he said something is wrong.”

Doctors first diagnosed Mr. Krumholz with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) – which people can get by touching a cold sore and then touching their eyes.

But despite treatment with antibiotics, the inflammation in his eye got worse every day. Doctors next tried steroids, but the inflammation in his eye kept getting worse.

Five ophthalmologists and two corneal specialists finally took a scratch from his eye on January 21, which tested positive for AK.

Doctors first diagnosed Mr. Krumholz with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) - which people can get by touching a cold sore and then touching their eyes

Doctors first diagnosed Mr. Krumholz with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) – which people can get by touching a cold sore and then touching their eyes

Doctors also tried steroids on his eyes, but the situation only got worse

Doctors also tried steroids on his eyes, but the situation only got worse

He was in his senior year of college studying sports management and living with two friends when the infection struck

He was in his senior year of college studying sports management and living with two friends when the infection struck

Of the pain the infection caused, he said: “I couldn’t really explain the pain in my life like that.

“It’s like a constant shock, it’s a constant pain. I’m pretty proud of my pain tolerance, but I was screaming in pain.”

He added: “For the first two weeks this was diagnosed there was no pain at all. I wish I had exaggerated.”

Acanthamoeba Keratitis: The Eye Infection That Can Make You Blind

What is Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK)?

This is an infection of the cornea or the surface of the eye caused by a microorganism.

How do I get the disease?

It is most common in contact lens wearers but can infect anyone.

The disease is triggered when the microorganism gets into your eye, either by putting contact lenses in your eye with dirty hands, or by showering or swimming while wearing the lenses.

It then gets into the eye via tiny cracks on the surface and triggers an infection.

What are the symptoms?

Symptoms include blurred vision, a cloudy or dirty-looking cornea, eye pain, eye redness, and watery eyes.

It can take several days to weeks for these to appear after infection.

Does it affect my vision?

Left untreated, the infection can lead to permanent vision loss and complete blindness, according to the CDC.

Other complications include painful eye inflammation and partial vision loss.

What is the treatment?

Patients are usually offered an antiseptic to clear the infection from the eye, which is applied directly to the surface of the eye.

This may need to be taken for six months to a year.

Patients may also be prescribed antibiotics and, in some cases, surgery may be required.

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After being diagnosed at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, he underwent conjunctival flap surgery.

In this procedure, surgeons cut the “whites” out of the patient’s eyes and place it over their pupil to help them fight the parasite. It is left on for a period of time to help the cornea recover.

Mr. Krumholz also received photodynamic therapy – usually reserved for cancer patients – which uses light energy and a drug to destroy cancerous and pre-cancerous cells. It can also be used to kill bacteria in AK infections.

Doctors have suggested he could now have a cornea transplant to get some of his vision back. He was due to have one last week but when he got to the doctors he was told the infection in his eye was still ongoing – a month later – and he would not be able to get the transplant.

He told : “After all this, if I get a cornea transplant I might even get 10 per cent of my sight back – but I would only take 1 per cent.

“The most painful part is all the waiting.

“I’m on so many meds and eye drops and have been on treatment since January 21st – so about a month.

‘[But] The infection is still ongoing. They did a biopsy and it stopped growing and they say it might be slowing down – but it hasn’t completely gone away.

When asked how it affected his life, he said: “One day I’m screaming in pain and yelling at people I don’t want to yell at because of the pain.

“And the next minute I’m kind of fine, but I’ve spent months sitting in a dark room.

“I couldn’t leave the house except to visit the hospital.

“I used to drive. My hobbies were baseball and sports, but I can’t do them now.’

Describing his sensitivity to light, he said: “Oh my god it’s just the worst. Every light it emits is like an instant shock to your head and eyes, and they just start watering.

“I wish I wasn’t too dramatic.”

Speaking to the Daily Star, he appeared in front of the camera wearing sunglasses and in an almost completely dark room due to his sensitivity to light.

Patients who have received photodynamic therapy are advised to avoid exposure to sunlight for at least 40 hours after treatment. This is because the skin is still sensitive to light and any further exposure can cause further damage or burns.

Before the infection, Mr. Krumholz said he occasionally suffered from conjunctivitis, an inflammation of the transparent membrane lining the eyeball caused by a bacterial infection or allergies.

People who wear contact lenses have a higher risk of infection.

Mr. Krumholz added: “There are a lot of people who wear contact lenses right now who have been like, ‘Hey, I just slept in my contacts, should I go to the doctor?

“I used to sleep in my contacts with no problems, but I’m trying to get the message out that there are problems with them.

‘It’s not okay now.’

When asked what advice he would have for other contact lens wearers, he said: “It doesn’t seem to be anything I know because I used to sleep in it, but please don’t.

“Anybody in school in middle school or high school that goes to sleepovers and spends the night there has a consequence and this is like the worst case scenario.”

He said he received help from the Acanthamoeba Keratitis AK Support Group Facebook group. He said they gave him regular medical advice, listened to his story and even texted and messages him on the day of his surgery.

Mr. Krumholz has started an online fundraiser to raise awareness of the risks of wearing contact lenses while you sleep.

It was published on GoFundMe and has so far raised $3,000 out of a $10,000 target.

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NATO chief urges China not to back Russia’s war in Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the military alliance had seen “some signs” that China might be planning to support Russia in its war in Ukraine and urged Beijing to refrain from violating international law.

Stoltenberg also told The Associated Press in an interview that the alliance, while not a belligerent, will support Ukraine “for as long as necessary.” He spoke to The AP in Warsaw after a meeting of NATO’s nine eastern flank members with US President Joe Biden on regional security.

When asked if NATO had any indication that China might be willing to support Russia’s war with arms or other support, Stoltenberg said, “We’ve seen some signs that they’re planning to do this, and of course it was NATO Allies to warn the United States that this shouldn’t happen. China should not support Russia’s illegal war.”

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Stoltenberg said potential Chinese aid would amount to “(direct) support for a blatant violation of international law, and of course China (as) a member of the UN Security Council should in no way support a violation of the UN Charter or international law.” Law.”

On Saturday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Blinken had said in an interview with CBS News’ Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan that China was actively considering providing deadly support, including arms and ammunition, to help Moscow in its war to help against Ukraine. But Blinken was only speaking in general terms about the type of lethal aid the Chinese are considering.

“There’s a whole range of things that fit into this category, everything from ammo to the guns themselves,” he said.

Notably, China’s top foreign policy chief Wang Yi told other leaders at the Munich Security Conference this week that China was working on a peace proposal to end the conflict. This public position contradicts the information provided by the US Secret Service.

Blinken emphasized, “We have seen that they have provided non-lethal support to Russia for the operation in Ukraine.” He continued, “The concern we have now is based on information we have that they are considering to provide deadly support and we made it very clear to them that doing so would cause serious problems for us and in our relationship.”

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin received the Chinese Communist Party’s top foreign policy leader – Wang Yi – and expressed concerns in the West that Beijing might be ready to offer Moscow stronger support in the nearly year-long war.

China has explicitly refused to criticize the invasion of Ukraine while repeating Moscow’s claim that the US and NATO are to blame for the Kremlin’s provocation. China, Russia and South Africa are conducting naval exercises in the Indian Ocean this week.

But State Department adviser Derek Chollet said the US had determined that China had not yet decided to provide lethal aid to Russia.

“In our estimation, they haven’t made that decision at this point,” Chollet told CBS News contributor Michael Morell on his Intelligence Matters podcast this week. “But there is increasing evidence that they are concerned. And that is important to us.”

Stoltenberg stressed that while NATO is “not a party” in the Ukraine conflict, its role is to “ensure Ukraine is victorious” and “to prevent this war from escalating beyond Ukraine and into a full-fledged war between Russia and NATO will”.

He said the main message of the Warsaw meeting was that “we will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”.

It would be a “tragedy for Ukrainians if President Putin wins in Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said, and also “dangerous for all of us” because “it would send the message to all authoritarian leaders that they get something if they use military force apply you want.”

The Russian attack on Ukraine has prompted Sweden and neighboring Finland to abandon decades of non-alignment and apply to join the 30-nation alliance. But their offers – especially Sweden’s – are being delayed by Turkey, which wants the two countries to crack down on mainly Kurdish groups that Ankara considers terrorists.

Stoltenberg told the AP that after last week’s talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he could see Turkey “getting closer to being ready to ratify and (too) welcome Finland.” But (Ankara continues) having some challenges with Sweden. “

He said he welcomed the fact that he and Erdogan had soon arranged a meeting “of experts and officials in Brussels” from the three countries involved “to examine how we can also move forward in ratifying Sweden as a full NATO ally “.

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