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Dodgers’ offense hot on chilly night in 8-2 win over D-backs

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith went 3 for 5 and drove in three runs, James Outman homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-2 on Thursday night in their season opener.Julio Urías (1-0), last year’s NL ERA leader at 2.16, got the victory in his first career opening-day start. The left-hander allowed four hits and two runs in six innings. He struck out six.All three of Smith’s hits went to right field in a game that lasted 2 hours, 35 minutes under new rules this season designed to speed things up.The game-time temperature was 55 degrees — 15 degrees lower than Los Angeles’ average of 70 in March. Batting practice was rained out and the tarp covered the infield. But the clouds cleared before first pitch, revealing rare snow atop the San Gabriel Mountains that frame the outfield.The Dodgers won a franchise-record 111 games last season only to lose to the rival San Diego Padres in their National League Division Series. They bid farewell to Trea Turner,...

35 bodies found inside well after collapse at Indian temple

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thirty-five bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people fell into the muddy water when the well’s cover collapsed, officials said Friday. Video of Thursday’s collapse at the temple complex in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state showed chaos afterward, with people rushing toward the exits. An excavator pulled down a wall of the decades-old temple to help people flee. Nearly 140 rescuers, including army personnel, used ropes and ladders to pull the bodies from the well after pumping out the water. A narrow path and debris in the well made the task difficult.Witnesses said a large crowd of devotees had thronged the temple to perform a fire ritual and celebrate the festival for the deity Rama. Dozens of people fell into the water when the structure over the well collapsed and were covered by falling debris, police Commissioner Makrand Deoskar said. Kantibhai Patel, president of a residents’ association, told reporters ...

Huracanes en el Atlántico: dos nombres quedan fuera del listado para denominarlos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

MIAMI – Los nombres de los devastadores huracanes Fiona e Ian, formados en 2022 en el Atlántico, fueron retirados de la lista oficial rotativa que elabora la Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM).Un comité de la OMM retiró a Fiona e Ian de las listas rotativas de nombres de ciclones tropicales del Atlántico “debido a la muerte y destrucción que causaron en América Central, el Caribe, Estados Unidos y Canadá”, señaló el organismo internacional en su sitio web.Los sustitutos son Idris (por Ian) y Farrah (en lugar de Fiona), pero no se usarán hasta 2028, cuando, según el orden establecido, corresponde volver a usar la misma lista de nombres de la temporada 2022.En total, 96 nombres han sido retirados de la lista de huracanes de la cuenca atlántica desde 1953, cuando las tormentas comenzaron a ser nombradas bajo el sistema actual, agregó la OMM.Catorce tormentas con nombre, de las cuales ocho llegaron a huracanes, dos de ellos mayores, se registraron en la cuenca at...

Couture scores in OT to lift Sharks past Golden Knights

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Logan Couture scored at 50 seconds of overtime to give the San Jose Sharks a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday night.Mario Ferraro had a goal and assist, Oskar Lindblom and Tomas Hertl also scored and former Harvard defenseman Henry Thrun had two assists in his NHL debut. James Reimer made 23 saves.Thrun is the second Sharks defenseman to have a multi-point game in his NHL debut, joining Scott Hannan, who also had two assists in his first game in October 1998.Nicolas Hague, Ivan Barbashev and Michael Amadio scored for the Golden Knights. Laurent Brossoit made 20 saves. Vegas wrapped up a playoff spot earlier when Pittsburgh beat Nashville.Amadio tied it at 10:07 of the third with his 14th goal of the season.UP NEXTGolden Knights: Host Minnesota on Saturday night.Sharks: At Arizona on Saturday night.___More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Guiding institution-to-citizen communication

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

Citizens are different from consumers, aren’t they? They don’t buy anything. They have different needs, opinions and values. Understanding this difference is key for institutions and for those who support them, as we do.Pomilio Blumm made a choice decades ago to deal exclusively with communication for public institutions. Many experts back in the day told us at Pomilio Blumm that it was too difficult a challenge. How many companies work exclusively in public communication? Not so many, which is exactly what makes Pomilio Blumm’s know-how quite unique.A fast-growing enterprise, confirmed by Financial Times and ForbesFT 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies awards Pomilio BlummToday Pomilio Blumm is the second most ‘successful’ firm in European public communications, according to C4P index. It is a leading communication agency, as stated by the Financial Times in its FT 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies list, for the second time in a row. The Forbes Social Awards r...

Montenegro vote pits incumbent president against new blood

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Voters in small Montenegro go to the polls this weekend to choose their next president in a runoff between pro-Western incumbent Milo Djukanovic and Jakov Milatovic, a newcomer supported by the shaky governing coalition with links to neighboring Serbia.Observers say Milatovic, a politician on the rise, stands a better chance than Djukanovic, who is credited with leading the Balkan nation to independence from Serbia and into NATO but whose long presence in Montenegrin politics has fueled a desire for change.The ballot is being held after none of the candidates won enough support in the first round of voting two weeks ago. Here is a look at the main facts on Montenegro, Sunday’s election and the two candidates:MONTENEGRO, IN A NUTSHELLMontenegro is a small nation of some 620,000 people, located in Europe’s Balkan peninsula, by the Adriatic Sea. The country became independent after a referendum in 2006 following decades in a union with Serbia, b...

World Bank says recoveries in Asian economies losing steam

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Developing economies in Asia have mostly regained ground lost during the pandemic but are seeing their recoveries stall as productivity lags, the World Bank said in a report released Friday.The report forecasts that growth in the region including China will pick up pace this year after the world’s No. 2 economy relaxed pandemic restrictions on travel and other activities. But recoveries elsewhere in the region, excluding China, will moderate as pressures of inflation and growing household debt slow consumer spending, it said. Across the Asia-Pacific, economies are expected to grow at a 5.1% annual pace this year, up from 3.5% in 2022, the report said. But not including China, growth is expected to slip to 4.9% in 2023 after a rebound from the worst of the pandemic of 5.8% in 2022, it said. Major Asian economies like Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam will see their recoveries slow and meanwhile face risks from weakening global growth, spillover from th...

Poor Albanian town pins tourism hopes on communist tunnels

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

KUKES, Albania (AP) — If you’d like to walk for miles in concrete burrows built to defend an isolationist totalitarian regime that nobody wanted to attack, Kukes in northeastern Albania is the place for you.The small Balkan country’s post World War II communist dictatorship reveled in massive defensive works; the countryside is still littered with the crumbling remains of 175,000 concrete mini-bunkers — again built to stop imaginary invaders. But Kukes’ tunnels take the prize.Dug from the 1970s to the early 1990s — just in time for the communist regime’s collapse — the underground network was meant to house the town’s entire population of 16,000 for up to six months in case of war. Equipped with amenities running from a prosecutor’s office to a maternity clinic, it was Albania’s biggest fortification project with tunnels extending for up to seven kilometers (4 miles).Now, local authorities hope to turn it into a tourist attraction, with the ...

Gas pipeline under repair in Siberia catches fire -Tass

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

An oil pipeline in northern Siberia that was being repaired caught fire Wednesday (29 March), but there was no interruption to supplies, Tass reported, Gazprom said.Pelym is located approximately 430km (270 miles) from Tyumen, the Siberian energy hub. Gazprom reported that there was a depressurization of the Yamburg–Yelets 1 pipeline and then a fire."There were no casualties. "The depressurization occurred when the gas pipeline section was turned off for repairs, and was not involved with gas transportation," Tass quoted Gazprom as saying.It stated "Consumers are being fully suppled with gas via parallel pipes," adding that the cause of the incident is unknown. Tass previously cited a local official who said that the pipeline caught on fire following an explosion.

Ukraine hits Russian-held city deep behind front lines

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:19:26 GMT

Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind front lines on Wednesday (29 March) amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault against Russian forces worn out by a failed winter offensive.Unverified images on the internet showed explosions lighting up the night sky with streaks of contrails in Melitopol, base of the Russian-controlled administration in Zaporizhzhia, one of five Ukrainian provinces Russia claims to have annexed.Ukraine's exiled mayor of the city confirmed there were explosions there. Russia's state TASS news agency, citing Moscow-installed officials, said a railway depot was damaged and power knocked out to the city and nearby villages.Melitopol, which had a pre-war population of around 150,000, is a railway logistics hub for Russian forces in southern Ukraine and part of the land bridge linking Russia to the occupied Crimea peninsula.There was no public information about the weapons Ukraine might have u...