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Russia is trying to destabilise Moldova by sponsoring protests and conducting cyber attacks, the country’s prime minister told Euronews on Tuesday.”We are seeing elements of hybrid war. We are seeing, for example, pro-Russian forces trying to destabilise the country politically through paid protests which quickly subsided when the oligarchs that fled Moldova were put on the sanctions lists and their money flows were restricted,” Natalia Gavrilița said.”We are seeing cyber attacks. We’ve had the biggest cyber attacks in 2022 in the history of our country, and we are seeing bomb threats.”A lot of the situation in Moldova will depend on the…

Rescue efforts continue as precipitation soaks regions like Arequipa, a centre for recent antigovernment protests.Landslides in southern Peru have left at least 15 people dead, 20 injured and two missing, authorities said, warning that the toll from the disaster could rise. “The number of people dead so far has risen to 15,” according to the directorate of the National Civil Defense Institute in the Arequipa region, where mud and rock slides began on Sunday as a result of torrential rains, on Monday. Twenty more people were treated for minor injuries, according to a bureau for Peru’s Ministry of Health in…

CNN  —  New York City this week will end a controversial Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city employees, ending a policy that has at times pitted the city’s leadership against its municipal workforce. The mandate, which has prompted numerous lawsuits, is set to end on Friday after the city’s Board of Health adopts amendments to the city’s vaccination policy, City Hall said in a news release. “With more than 96% of city workers and more than 80 percent of New Yorkers having received their primary Covid-19 series and more tools readily available to keep us healthy, this is the right moment…

Nearly a year after an off-duty cop was captured on video kneeling on the neck of a 12-year-old girl at a Wisconsin middle school, her family filed a lawsuit alleging the officer violated her constitutional rights.The federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against officer Shawn Guetschow, the city of Kenosha and the Kenosha Unified School District Monday in U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin. The suit was filed by the father of the victim, Jerrel Perez, and the student, identified only as Jane Doe because she is a minor.In the March 4, 2022, incident at Lincoln Middle School, Guetschow, a…

The opening night festivities for Super Bowl 2023 got off to a cringeworthy start Monday. As Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni fielded questions during his media availability at the Footprint Center in Arizona, the conversation took an unexpected turn to his young daughter, Taylor. When asked who on the Eagles roster he wouldn’t let date his daughter, Sirianni replied, “My daughter is 5 years old.” It is unclear if the reporter’s line of questioning continued, though it’s hard to believe that Sirianni would entertain such a topic — especially as he and the Eagles prepare to face the Chiefs at…

Zoom on Tuesday said it will lay off about 1,300 employees, or approximately 15% of its staff, becoming the latest tech company to announce significant job cuts as a pandemic-fueled surge in demand for digital services wanes. In a memo to employees, Zoom’s CEO Eric Yuan said the layoffs would impact every part of the organization. Yuan also said he and other executives would take a significant pay cut, after acknowledging he made “mistakes” in how quickly the company grew during the pandemic. “As the CEO and founder of Zoom, I am accountable for these mistakes and the actions we…

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A Massachusetts nurse, who’s accused of killing her three children before attempting suicide, cut her neck before she jumped over 20 feet from her home, according to 911 dispatch recordings.First responders tended to Lindsay Clancy, 32, outside her Duxbury home after her husband called 911 on Jan. 24 at 6:11 p.m., and less than 10 minutes later found “two pediatrics” in the basement in cardiac arrest. “A female party jumped off the top floor of the house. Impact injury, neck lacerations. She’s conscious at this time … It was over a 20-foot fall,” a dispatcher said three minutes after the 911…

Jupiter Asset Management has sold its stake in digital bank Starling and has created a policy to stop its open-ended funds buying into private companies to reduce risks for investors.The fund group has signed a deal with institutional investors to offload its stake in Starling, according to a letter from Jupiter to its clients seen by the FT. The stake amounts to 6 per cent of the £1bn Jupiter UK Mid Cap fund. Jupiter also holds Starling in a small number of its other products.The buyers of the Starling stake are existing shareholders of the digital bank, including the investment…

The career criminal suspected of shooting an off-duty NYPD cop during a robbery gone wrong will be charged with attempted murder, police officials said Tuesday — with the charges to be upgraded if gravely wounded officer is pronounced dead. Randy “Popper” Jones, 38, was hauled back to Brooklyn on Monday after police hunted him down at a Rockland County hotel. “He fled but he could not evade our reach,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said at a press briefing. “In less than 46 hours he was handcuffed by an NYPD detective assigned to the US Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force. “The…