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Tyson to close poultry facilities in Virginia, Arkansas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

Tyson Foods is closing two facilities that employ more than 1,600 people in an effort to streamline its U.S. poultry business.The company said Tuesday it plans to close its processing, broiler and hatching operations in Glen Allen, Virginia, and a plant in Van Buren, Arkansas. Both closures are scheduled for May 12.Tyson said the closures will help it better use all available capacity at remaining plants.The Springdale, Arkansas-based company said it will work with its 692 employees in Glen Allen and its 969 employees in Van Buren to apply for open positions at other plants.Tyson has made other efforts to consolidate its operations in recent months. Last October, the company announced it would relocate 1,000 corporate staff from offices in Illinois and South Dakota to Arkansas.Tyson said operating inefficiencies were partly to blame for its lower-than-expected profit in its fiscal first quarter, which ended Dec. 31. The company said its operating income dropped 68% to $467 million i...

Una réplica de magnitud 4,6 golpea el centro de Turquía

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

(CNN) — Una réplica de magnitud 4,6 golpeó la provincia central turca de Kahramanmaras este martes, más de un mes después de que un terremoto masivo dejara partes de Turquía y Siria destruidas, según mostraron datos del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés).Kahramanmaras es el epicentro del enorme terremoto de magnitud 7,8 que sacudió Turquía y Siria el 6 de febrero y mató a más de 54.000 personas.Otra réplica de magnitud 4,6 el martes por la mañana golpeó las partes del sur de Afşin, dijo el USGS.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Canadian driver faces murder charges in ramming, 2 killed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — A 38-year-old Canadian man is facing murder charges after allegedly ramming a pickup truck through pedestrians in an eastern Canada town, killing two men and injuring nine people who were walking alongside a road.Police declined to comment on a possible motive for the attack Monday afternoon in the Quebec province town of Amqui, about 350 kilometers (220 miles) northeast of Quebec City. A senior Canadian official ruled out terrorism.An Amqui resident turned himself in immediately after the ramming and is facing murder charges, police said. He was due in court later Tuesday, provincial police Sgt. Claude Doiron said.An initial investigation suggests the driver swerved from one side of the road to the other to hit victims chosen at random and ranging in age from less than one year to 77, Doiron said.Gérald Charest, 65, and Jean Lafrenière, 73, were killed during the alleged attack. Three of the injured were in critical condition, police said. The injured also include tw...

Hungary to delay vote on NATO membership for Sweden, Finland

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A long-delayed vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying the NATO accession bids of Sweden and Finland will likely be postponed again following a proposal from a senior government official. In a letter published Tuesday by Hungarian news website hvg.hu, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen requested that a parliamentary session scheduled to begin on March 20 — during which lawmakers were expected to vote on the two Nordic countries joining the military alliance — be postponed to a week later. Semjen cited Hungary’s ongoing negotiations with the European Union’s executive branch over Budapest’s alleged breaches of the bloc’s rule-of-law requirements as the reason for the delay. The speaker of Hungary’s parliament, himself a member of Semjen’s ruling coalition, must approve the request for a postponement.Hungary remains the only NATO member country — besides Turkey — that hasn’t yet approved the two Nordic countries’ bid...

Zendejas will represent US long-term instead of Mexico

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Alejandro Zendejas says he is committing to the U.S. national team over Mexico.The 25-year-old forward made his U.S. debut in a Jan. 25 exhibition against Serbia but remained eligible to ask FIFA for a one-time switch of affiliation to Mexico.Zendejas started three matches for the U.S. at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup, where he was a teammate of Christian Pulisic and Tyler Adams, then played for Mexico in friendlies against Ecuador in October 2021 and Guatemala last April plus three under-23 matches for El Tri.Mexico was ordered to forfeit all five matches and fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,900) by FIFA for using Zendejas while he was affiliated with the U.S.“I am very proud of being Mexican-American. Values from both cultures have made me the person I am today,” Zendejas said in a statement Tuesday. “Making a decision on your international career is very difficult, and I believe in following your heart. Mine tells me that my future lies representing the USA.”Zend...

Could scientist Claudia Sheinbaum be Mexico’s next leader?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is a year away from electing its next head of state and the potential candidate getting the most attention is an environmental scientist who might become the first female leader of Latin America’s second-largest economy. One poll shows Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum nearly 20 points ahead of her closest rival in their ruling party. A globally recognized scientist, Sheinbaum, 60, shares the leftist ideals of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In an interview with The Associated Press Sheinbaum, like López Obrador, blamed the neoliberal economic policies of past presidents for exacerbating inequities.But the leaders would diverge on their approach.López Obrador has sought to create jobs regardless of their environmental consequences, dedicating resources to propping up Mexico’s state-owned oil company before supporting a few projects by American renewable-energy companies. In contrast, Sheinbaum holds a PhD in engineering, served on the Intergovernme...

Suspect fires at officers attempting to serve warrant in Northwest Miami-Dade

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

There was danger on duty for some police officers as they were serving a warrant. Miami-Dade Police Department’s Special Response Team (SRT) came under fire when they were serving the warrant at a home on Fifth Avenue and 82nd Terrace, Tuesday morning. “There was an individual in the master bedroom that was barricaded inside, and as they were approaching that master bedroom, multiple gunshots were fired from within that bedroom out,” said MDPD Det. Alvaro Zabaleta. According to police, the shots were fired at around 6:30 a.m. by a man at the center of a violent felony investigation. “Not only did he open fire towards our officers, but had a total disregard that he had a 1-year-old inside of that bedroom as well,” Zabaleta said. No one was hurt during the standoff. This latest incident comes days after another MDPD officer came under fire and was grazed in the head as he tried to make an arrest. Five people were arrested during that incident, which inclu...

Shooting in Dania Beach leaves 1 injured; nearby school on lockdown

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

A shooting that occurred on Tuesday has left one man injured and a nearby elementary school on lockdown. The incident took place at around noon at a duplex located on Northwest Ninth Avenue. The authorities have cordoned off the area and are currently investigating the incident.The Dania Beach Police Department and the Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies were at the scene investigating the shooting. In an abundance of caution, the nearby Collins Elementary School was put on lockdown as police searched for the shooter. According to the authorities, an adult male was shot at least once and was immediately taken to Memorial Regional Hospital by rescue crews.Live video footage captured by 7SkyForce showed the wounded man arriving at the hospital’s trauma center seeking treatment. His condition is unknown at this time.School board police officers have set up a perimeter around the school to ensure that anyone who fled from the shooting could not enter the building.Authorities h...

Abducted, Raped, and Locked in Shed: Dallas Teen’s Horrific Encounter with Online Predator in North Carolina

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

(CNN) — A 13-year-old girl reported missing in Dallas was found locked in a shed more than 1,000 miles away in North Carolina after she was abducted and raped by a man she met on a social media platform, authorities said.The girl was found in Lexington, about an hour’s drive northeast of Charlotte, the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.The sheriff’s office said it was contacted about the case Friday evening by a special agent with the FBI in Texas. The FBI, working with Dallas police, determined an adult man had been chatting with the girl online, the sheriff’s office said.“The content of the chat was consistent with grooming and enticement,” the release said.Cameras near the teen’s home captured a vehicle registered to a man living in Davidson County and the sheriff’s office, along with agents from the FBI field office in Greensboro, located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop as it was leaving the reg...

News channel France 24 suspends four journalists over anti-Semitism allegations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:48 GMT

PARIS – France’s state-funded news channel France 24 has suspended four journalists working for its Arabic service over allegations of anti-Semitism.In a press release published Monday, the international channel said that the journalists had been taken off-air pending an internal investigation into allegations made by media watchdog Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).“After the publication of an article on the CAMERA website […], implicating a journalist and three Arabic-language correspondents of France 24 regarding certain comments they allegedly posted on their personal pages on social networks, the channel’s management has immediately opened an audit on these alleged posts,” France 24 said.The media-monitoring group has accused the journalists of making references to the Holocaust and of bias in their reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on social media.France 24’s Society of Journalists, a body representing the interests of ...