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Puerto Ricans to decry austerity, hurricane help at hearing

Hundreds of Puerto Ricans are filling up a coliseum to speak at a first of its kind public hearing held by a group of U.S. legislators visiting the U.S. territory amid complaints about austerity measures and the pace of federal hurricane recovery funds nearly two years after Hurricane Maria hit.

The crowd came from cities and towns across the island and included students, retirees, people in construction boots and others in high heels. Some even brought gamecocks to protest a recent federal ban on the island's cockfighting industry.

Friday's public hearing comes a day after the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report stating in part that some Puerto Rico municipalities are struggling financially because they have not been fully reimbursed for work already completed after the Category 4 storm.

Source: Fox News World

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Second Wave of Flu Hitting United States

Flu season will apparently continue well into April and even May in the United States this year as the virus remains widespread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) weekly report.

Forty-eight states and Puerto Rico have been reporting a continued elevated flu activity.

A second wave of the flu – with a new, stronger strain – is already prevalent in the southeast, according to Healthline.

Dr. David Cutler of the Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, warned "Since there are multiple strains of flu virus going around, it is certainly possible to get the flu more than once."

This is so even though you cannot catch the same strain twice, because you can get another strain if you are not immunized.

Cutler said "The best way to reduce your chance of getting the flu is to get the flu vaccine," emphasizing "this year's flu vaccine has definitely been effective in reducing flu cases and case severity."

Cutler stressed "The people at greatest risk of the flu are the elderly (over age 65), the very young (under age 5), and those with compromised immune systems."

The CDC recently estimated the vaccine "reduced the risk of medically attended influenza-related illness by almost half (47 percent) in vaccinated people this year."

Cutler added it can take up to two weeks after receiving the shot to build up immunity, so it is preferable to get the shot as soon as possible.

There have already been more than 26 million cases of the flu in the U.S. since Oct. 1, with more than 12.4 million flu-related medical visits and up to 31,200 deaths caused by the virus.

Source: NewsMax America

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BOJ to predict inflation falling short of its target for three years: sources

A Japanese flag flutters atop the Bank of Japan building under construction in Tokyo
FILE PHOTO: A Japanese flag flutters atop the Bank of Japan building under construction in Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

April 18, 2019

By Leika Kihara

TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is expected to forecast next week that inflation will remain below its 2 percent target through the fiscal year that ends in March 2022, sources say, a sign its massive stimulus will stay in place for the foreseeable future.

The estimate highlights the dilemma the BOJ faces as subdued inflation forces it to maintain its ultra-easy policy, even as years of near-zero interest rates strain financial institutions.

In quarterly projections due next week, the central bank may slightly cut its growth and price forecasts for the current fiscal year, ending in March 2020, due to headwinds from slowing overseas growth, say sources familiar with its thinking.

For the first time, the BOJ will also release forecasts for fiscal 2021 that will project inflation to move above 1.5 percent but fall short of 2 percent, the sources said on condition of anonymity.

“Inflation is holding up but isn’t accelerating much either,” said one source. “Inflation will gradually head toward 2 percent but the pace will be moderate at best.”

With its 2 percent inflation target seen out of reach, the BOJ will join other major central banks that are being forced to delay plans to end crisis-mode policies due to soft inflation and growing signs of a global economic slowdown.

STICKING TO ITS VIEW

At the two-day rate review ending on Thursday, April 25, the BOJ is widely expected to maintain its pledge to guide short-term rates at minus 0.1 percent and long-term yields around zero under a policy dubbed yield curve control (YCC).

The central bank is also seen sticking to its view that Japan’s economy will emerge from a soft patch and resume a moderate expansion in the second half of 2019, they said.

“As long as the economy is in good shape and there is no major external shock, the BOJ can stay pat even if inflation does not hit 2 percent,” another source said.

Under projections issued in January, the BOJ expects core consumer inflation to hit 1.1 percent in the current fiscal year and accelerate to 1.5 percent the following year.

It also predicts the economy will grow 0.9 percent this fiscal year and 1.0 percent the following year.

The BOJ is in a bind. Years of heavy money printing have failed to fire up inflation to 2 percent and left it with little ammunition to fight the next recession.

Prolonged easing has also added to pains for regional banks, already facing slumping profits due to an aging population and an exodus of borrowers to big cities.

The BOJ has notched up its warning against the rising drawbacks of its policy. In a semi-annual report analyzing the banking system on Wednesday, it said nearly 60 percent of regional banks could suffer net losses a decade from now if corporate borrowing keeps falling in line with the current trend.

(Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Richard Borsuk)

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Wealthy CrossFit Co-Founder to Marry Man Charged With Murder

CrossFit co-founder Lauren Jenai is set to marry her childhood sweetheart, who she reconnected with after 30 years, but there is just one (huge) snag – he is currently jailed on charges of murder. Jenai is worth approximately $20 million and is not asking for a prenup.

Jenai, grew up with Franklin Tyrone Tucker in Philadelphia, but the two lost touch after going their separate ways. Jenai married Greg Glassman, with whom she founded the multi-million-dollar CrossFit movement, but after a messy divorce, the two childhood pals got back in touch, Page Six noted.

However, before things could develop in person for the couple, Tucker was arrested on first-degree murder charges for his alleged involvement in a Florida Keys case in 2017. According to Fox News, he and another man are accused of robbing a woman who lived in a tree house on Stock Island, while a third man, Rory Hank Wilson, allegedly slit her throat while looking for drugs and cash.

According to the report, Tucker and his compatriot were leaving the tree house when the woman's neighbor confronted them. Things escalated and Tucker allegedly stabbed the man several times. He succumbed to his injuries later that day.

Tucker has maintained he is innocent and Jenai has been fighting for his freedom. Now they are planning their wedding and, while they have not seen each other in person due to the jail's prohibition of in-person visitation, they say it is the real deal.

"We hadn't seen each other in 30 years . . . We started having feelings for each other . . . We're going to get married," Jenai said, according to Page Six.

Earlier this year, Tucker was denied bail and the couple are now planning to say "I do" at the detention center where he is being held. Jenai, who allegedly sold her CrossFit shares for around $20 million as part of her divorce settlement, said she will not have Tucker sign a prenup, as it felt inappropriate.

"Our relationship is very open and we are a team," she said. "I trust him. I love him. My house is his house."

Source: NewsMax America

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India bursts with color in celebration of Holi

A woman reacts as colour powder is thrown on her face during Holi celebrations in Mumbai
A woman reacts as colour powder is thrown on her face during Holi celebrations in Mumbai, India, March 21, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

March 21, 2019

(Reuters) – Hindus across India this week celebrate the two-day festival of Holi, which marks the beginning of spring, with an explosion of colors, chanting of devotional songs and prayer.

For many, the festival, also known as the “festival of colors” or the “festival of love,” which began on Wednesday, is a time to laugh, forgive and mend broken relationships.

During the festival, participants sing and dance and shower each other with flower petals and brightly colored powders of pink, yellow, blue and green.

Smiling college students smear their faces with green, yellow and red powder, some in a trance-like state under a cloud of pink.

Inside their temples, priests spray pink and gold colors at hundreds of Hindu devotees with their arms raised in prayer as they sing religious hymns.

(Writing by Diane Craft; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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Estonian prosecutor receives criminal complaint against Swedbank from Browder

FILE PHOTO: Swedbank signs are seen on a building in Vilnius
FILE PHOTO: Swedbank signs are seen on a building in Vilnius, Lithuania March 30, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

April 3, 2019

TALLINN (Reuters) – Estonia’s State Prosecutor on April 2 received a criminal complaint against Swedbank brought by investor Bill Browder, and will decided whether to begin an investigation within the next 10 days, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors’ office said on Wednesday.

“At the moment the prosecutor is analyzing the data and the decision on whether to start an investigation will be made within 10 days,” said the spokeswoman, who declined to comment on the content of the filing.

(Reporting by Tarmo Virki, editing by Johannes Hellstrom)

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New US Consumer Watchdog Chief to Continue Review of Complaints Database, Fair Lending

The new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue with reviews, begun by her predecessor, of its public complaints database and how the agency enforces discriminatory lending laws, she told Reuters.

Speaking to Reuters in her first interview since taking office in December, Kathy Kraninger said the agency was discussing how the public complaints database, a key source of the bureau's investigations, should operate.

"It is on the agenda this year to address what is the public kind of discussion about what the database should be," she said on Wednesday.

The financial industry and consumer advocates have been watching closely to see whether Kraninger would continue with a number of controversial projects begun by Mick Mulvaney, formerly the agency's interim director and now President Donald Trump's chief of staff.

Kraninger acknowledged the database, which went public in 2012 to boost transparency of consumer issues, supported the bureau's mission to protect borrowers, but did not rule out making it private.

Shielding the complaints from the public gaze would mark a major win for the industry, which has lobbied against being publicly named and shamed. However, it would spark opposition from consumer advocates and Democrats who say keeping it public encourages companies to address customer complaints.

Mulvaney, who worked with Kraninger in her previous role at the Office of Management and Budget, had questioned the policy of publishing the complaints.

Kraninger's comments suggest she may continue with Mulvaney's efforts to curtail the bureau's powers, after the administration of President Barack Obama built it into a powerful watchdog.

Created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to crack down on predatory lenders, the CFPB sits at the heart of a battle between Democrats and Republicans over the future of consumer financial protections under the business-friendly Trump administration.

Republicans have argued since its creation that the agency was given too much power and was unaccountable. They set about overhauling the agency after taking it over in November 2017, including rolling back rules and reducing enforcement actions.

Democratic lawmakers have accused the administration of bowing to industry lobbyists and warn the changes could sow the seeds of the next financial crisis.

Mulvaney had also begun a review of whether the agency should continue to apply a legal tool known as "disparate impact" when enforcing laws that guard against discriminatory lending.

Disparate impact refers to a legal theory that allows regulators to prosecute practices that adversely affect one group of people compared with others, though the rules applied may on their face be neutral.

It had not been clear whether Kraninger would take on Mulvaney's projects, or chart a new course.

Kraninger said the CFPB would continue to review whether it should build cases using disparate impact, which had served as the basis for discriminatory lending cases brought by the bureau under Democratic control.

"It's controversial, but it need not be if we have a public discourse on what the lay of the land is, try to get the evidence in one conversation, and think of the next steps that are appropriate," said Kraninger, adding the agency would discuss the application of disparate impact during public discussions over the coming months.

Kraninger told Reuters the bureau would focus enforcement efforts on "bad actors" who do not intend to follow the law, in a departure from the agency's aggressive enforcement stance under Democratic control.

"It's not a black and white issue," Kraninger added. "I can tell you that at the end of the spectrum of what is a bad actor clearly those who have no intent to comply with the law."

Source: NewsMax Politics

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said his government must make men aware of the dangers of poor hygiene after expressing dismay over the 1,000 penis amputations that apparently occur in his country each year.

“In Brazil, we have 1,000 penis amputations a year due to a lack of water and soap,” he said while speaking to reporters in Brasilia after visiting the Education Ministry. “We have to find a way to get out of the bottom of this hole.”

The far-right leader called the figure “ridiculous and sad,” Reuters reported. A spokeswoman for the Brazilian urology society told the news agency the number is based on its official data for penis amputations.

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The amputations were conducted out of necessity over untreated infections, along with complications from HIV and various cancers, she said.

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A top Russian diplomat says Russia is willing to negotiate a new nuclear weapons treaty with the United States and China.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Friday Moscow is closely following reports in the United States that the U.S. would like to reach a nuclear weapons deal with both Russia and China, and is “willing” to negotiate. The story was reported by CNN earlier Friday.

Ryabkov also said that Russia “would like to convince” the U.S. to adopt a joint statement that would condemn any use of nuclear weapons.

Ryabkov’s comments come just months after the U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a cornerstone of the post-Cold War security, and Russia followed suit. Each claims breaches by the other.

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Government dysfunction and an intelligence failure that preceded the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka are traced to simmering divisions between the president and prime minister after a weekslong political crisis that crippled the country last year.

The government has admitted to a “lapse of intelligence” after officials failed to act upon near-specific information received from foreign agencies. Suicide bombers exploded themselves last Sunday in three churches and three luxury hotels, killing 253 people and wounding 400 more. Authorities said eight Muslim militants blew themselves up at their targets while the wife of one of the attackers blasted herself on being rounded up by police.

The carnage has brought forth arguments that worshippers and holidaymakers fell victim to the rivalry and a lack of communication between the country’s two leaders — President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The Cabinet led by Wickremesinghe says neither he nor his ministers were informed of the intelligence received by the defense authorities. Sirisena is the head of state, defense minister, minister in charge of the police and head of the armed forces. He also chairs the National Security Council, which includes the heads of security agencies and departments. Traditionally the prime minister also plays an important role on the council.

According to Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, Sirisena has not included Wickremesinghe in national security affairs since a dispute between them came into the open in October last year. This is an unusual departure from the protocol, he said.

Senaratne said that Sirisena was overseas when the attacks took place and even after that, the National Security Council refused to meet with Wickremesinghe as he tried to give them instructions.

Sirisena has also said that he was not informed of the intelligence received and vowed to overhaul the leadership of the defense forces.

The top bureaucrat at the Defense Ministry, Hemasiri Fernando, has resigned at Sirisena’s insistence.

“It is a major factor,” said Jehan Perera, the head of local activist group National Peace Council, referring to the alleged lack of coordination between the leaders contributing to the failure to prevent the attacks.

“The primary responsibility has to be taken by the president, he did not give the information and he did not act,” Perera said. “He had the Ministry of Defense, took the police from the prime minister, chaired the National Security Council meetings and did nothing,” Perera said.

Kusal Perera, a journalist and political commentator, says security and intelligence officials should have acted on the information whether or not they received orders from politicians.

“If they (Wickremesinghe and his party) were not invited to the National Security Council, why did not they say in Parliament that they were not responsible for the security of the country any longer,” said Perera, who is not related to Jehan Perera.

“Saying that now is taking political advantage, not taking responsibility,” he said.

Sirisena and Wickremesinghe belong to different political parties but came together for Sirisena’s presidential campaign in 2015. Their relationships broke down and their differences exploded last year when Sirisena suddenly sacked Wickremesinghe as prime minister and appointed in his place former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa, whom he defeated in the presidential election. The crisis crippled the country for more than seven weeks to the point of not being able to pass this year’s national budget on time.

A court decision compelled Sirisena to reappoint Wickremesinghe, but the two leaders have been rivals within the same government.

Rajapaksa, who is the minority leader in Parliament, blames the government for weakening intelligence and dropping its guard, which he had maintained to defeat the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels 10 years ago to end the 26-year-old civil war. He also criticized the government for the detention of intelligence officers accused of extrajudicial killings and abductions during the closing days of the war, which he said crippled the security apparatus before the bombings. According to conservative U.N estimates, some 100,000 people were killed in Sri Lanka’s conflict.

Sirisena summoned an all-party conference Thursday to which Wickremesinghe was also invited. At the conference, Sirisena stressed “setting aside all the political beliefs and difference (so that) everybody should collectively commit towards building a peaceful environment within the country,” a statement from his office said.

“It is not a secret that the disagreements between me and the government aggravated over the past two years,” Sirisena told the country’s media executives Friday. “One of the reasons for that is weakening of military intelligence and arresting military officials unnecessarily and my speaking up against it within and outside the government.”

Jehan Perera said that the security threat could prove politically advantageous to Rajapaksa and his family, with a presidential election scheduled at the end of this year. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a younger brother of Mahinda, was the powerful defense secretary during his brother’s reign and has expressed his interest to join the contest.

“People are saying we want a stronger leader and they are talking about Gotabhaya. It (the blasts) has worked to their benefit,” Perera said.

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Cyprus police are intensifying a search for the remains of more victims at locations where an army officer, who authorities say admitted to killing five women and two girls, allegedly had dumped their bodies.

Police said Friday’s search will concentrate on a military firing range, a reservoir and a man-made lake near an abandoned mine approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) west of the capital Nicosia.

On Thursday, the 35-year-old suspect told investigators that he had killed four more people than he had previously admitted to. All the suspect’s alleged victims are foreign nationals.

Police have already found the bodies of a 38-year-old Filipino woman and two as yet unidentified women.

Search crews are now looking for the daughter of the 38-year-old, a Romanian mother and daughter and another Filipino woman.

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A California man who allegedly fatally shot his ex-girlfriend in broad daylight last month before fleeing the country has been returned to the U.S. following his arrest in Mexico on Wednesday, authorities said.

Julio Cesar Rocha, 25, of Montlcair, is accused of shooting his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend Thalia Flores and a second unidentified male victim March 21 around 2:45 p.m. while the two were sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot of a discount store in Chino. Both communities are about 36 miles east of Los Angeles.

ARREST MADE IN DOUBLE HOMICIDE OF EX-PRO HOCKEY PLAYER, COMMUNITY ADVOCATE, POLICE SAY

Julio Cesar Rocha, 25, of Montlcair, Calif. was located in Mexico Wednesday and returned to California where he faces murder and attempted murder charges related to the death of his ex-girlfriend, Thalia Flores.

Julio Cesar Rocha, 25, of Montlcair, Calif. was located in Mexico Wednesday and returned to California where he faces murder and attempted murder charges related to the death of his ex-girlfriend, Thalia Flores. (City of Chino Police Department)

Flores died at the scene. The man, whose name was not released, walked to a nearby hospital where he’s recovering from his gunshot wounds.

Rocha allegedly fled the scene and remained at large for more than a month, the Daily Bulletin reported. He was formally arrested at 4:30 p.m. after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport from Mexico, KTLA-TV reported.

The suspect was booked at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on murder and attempted murder charges, the City of Chino Police Department said on Facebook.

Flores ended her seven-year relationship with Rocha just two months before her death and still lived in fear of him until that point, a sister of the victim, Bernice Flores, told the Daily Bulletin.

“He said himself so many times to other people, ‘If I can’t have her, no one will.’ ” Flores said, adding that her sister stayed in the relationship longer that she would have liked in fear that Rocha would hurt her or her family if they broke up.

Rocha was convicted on misdemeanor battery in 2016 and sentenced to 60 days in prison. He was originally charged with misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon, but the charges were lowered in a plea deal, the Daily Bulletin reported.

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Rocha was convicted of misdemeanor resisting or obstructing a peace officer in 2014. A second charge of misdemeanor battery was dropped in a plea deal, and Rocha was ordered to complete a 26-week anger management course, according to San Bernardino County Superior Court records. Rocha was later arrested and sentenced to 10 days behind bars for failing to complete the course.

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