Jan 30 (Reuters) - Russian carmaker Avtotor on Monday said it has begun production of Chinese Kaiyi cars at its plant in Kaliningrad, Russia's exclave on the Baltic coast.
The company is preparing to start
sales of the Kaiyi model E5 early this year and launch production of another
three models by the end of the year.
People fish on the frozen Gull Lake during the 2023 Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza near Brainerd, Minnesota. Reuters/Drone
Almost 12,000 anglers from all over the world —
including New York, France and Australia took to the ice for the charitable
fishing contest, which benefits various non-profit organizations.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Bust, painted by
Rembrandt van Rijn, is unpacked by the Hermitage Museum. More than 30 paintings from the Leiden
Collection are due to arrive in Amsterdam.
Under the title Rembrandt and Contemporaries, these pieces will be
exhibited to the public from February to the end of August. Photograph:
Hollandse Hoogte/Rex/Shutterstock
Kharkiv, Ukraine
A woman carries her baby
outside of their residential building destroyed after a missile strike. Photograph:
Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images
Alex Murdaugh becomes emotional after seeing his family in the courtroom as opening statements begin in his double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023.
POOL PHOTO BY GRACE BEAHM ALFORD
29 January 2023 : Spectators watch the "Van Gogh 360" digital immersive experience exhibition in Mumbai, India
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Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates with his team including his mother Dijana, second left, after defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in the men’s singles final at the Australian Open in Melbourne. AP
Memphis, US
Darin Obston Jr prays at a
makeshift memorial to Tyre Nichols near the spot where he received a fatal
beating from police officers.
Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty
Images
Emergency personnel at the
scene of a landslide. Photograph: Cameron
Avery/EPA
Novak Djokovic has admitted he was “hurt” by the absence of his father at the Australian Open last night but he and his team decided it was best that Srdjan Djokovic not be courtside for his final. His father was therefore watching from outside the stadium as his son defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets 6-3, 7-6, 7-6.
London. UK
Home wood burning played a
large role in the pollution peaks last weekend, according to data from Imperial College
London on the chemical composition of the particle
pollution in London, especially during the evenings.
The camera
on Victoria’s Mount Hotham was designed to catch anyone who was avoiding paying
a resort entry fee – about $60 during ski season.
But
police allege that at 9.48am on 21 March 2020 it captured something else: a
Nissan Patrol being driven by a man who had just committed a double murder.
In her 36 years living in Alice Springs, Donna Ah Chee’s home had never been burgled. But recently, her home was broken into twice. The first time, she thinks it was just kids, rummaging through drawers and cupboards. The second time, two drunk men, one of them brandishing a large industrial spanner, smashed through her kitchen window while she was home alone. https://tinyurl.com/28rrw3hx
Quairading, a small shire in Western Australia’s wheatbelt, 16
kms east of Perth, is looking for a doctor.
On the table for a replacement GP willing to make the move is an annual
package worth $800,000.
The Shire has offered to cover all staffing and running costs of operating the town’s practice, leaving more than $800,000 in estimated gross billings to the doctor.
On top of that, the GP can also take advantage of rent-free accommodation in a modern four-bedroom, two-bathroom home, and could also pocket thousands more if they stick around thanks to the Federal Government’s Workforce Incentive Program Doctor Stream.
Srdjan Djokovic:
"So there is
no disruption to tonight’s semi-final for my son or for the other player, I
have chosen to watch from home.
My family has lived through the horror of war, and we wish only for peace."
Photograph:
Srdan Stevanovic/Getty Images
Over the past year, property offences in Alice Springs have jumped by almost 60%, assaults increased by 38% and domestic violence assaults have doubled. According to local health organisations, this is the result of the easing of alcohol restrictions……..
Germany's new Defence Minister Boris Pistorius stands in front of Puma infantry fighting vehicles at Altengrabow, near Moeckern, Germany. The country will provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks along with ammunition, servicing and training. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images of the Sydney
The sails of the Sydney Opera House are illuminated by a projection of artwork by Kamilaroi woman and artist Rhonda Sampson. Getty Images
People take shelter inside a
metro station during Russian missile attacks.
Photograph: Viacheslav
Ratynskyi/Reuters
At a press
briefing, a reporter challenged McCarthy on why he had removed Democratic Rep.
Adam Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee on the basis of accusations
he lied, while Santos continues to hold the committee assignments.
Anthony
Albanese has challenged political colleagues across the spectrum to put the
Indigenous voice debate “above politics”, declaring his “door is open” if
leaders of other parties want to offer constructive suggestions on points of
detail.
As
the Greens senator Lidia Thorpe signalled she could break ranks and vote
against legislation enacting the advisory body unless Labor provided
“guarantees” that First Nations sovereignty would not be not ceded, the prime
minister made a public appeal for parliamentarians to prioritise the national
interest……
Australian property owners have been urged to start paying a weekly
'rent' tax to the traditional owners of the land their homes were built on
ahead of Australia Day.
Under the 'Pay the Rent' model, homeowners
would voluntarily pay a percentage of their income to a body led by
Indigenous elders and administered without any government intervention. https://tinyurl.com/4a8jf7tw
Alex Murdaugh insists he did not
kill his wife and son in 2021. Potential
jurors were asked whether they knew any of the nearly 200 law officers,
friends, bankers and others on the witness list as well as whether they had
heard about or followed the case.
https://tinyurl.com/tyv9nufw
Yemenis stamp on a US flag during a
demonstration in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, to condemn the recent burning of
a copy of the Koran by Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan in front of Turkey's
embassy in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Photograph: Mohammed Huwais/AFP
A pedestrian passes a mural highlighting the plight
of women in Iran on Dame Street, Dublin.
The mural by a group of female artists known as the Minaw Collective has
the words “Woman Life Freedom’ in English, Irish and Farsi and features an
image of 22 year old Mahsa Amini who died after being arrested by Iran’s
morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code. Photograph:
Niall Carson/PA
Pro-choice demonstrator gather at the state capital
to mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the supreme court
decision that had established a right to abortion until it was overturned last
year. Photograph: Eric Cox/Reuters
A woman takes pictures of
tulips at a picking garden with over 200,000 tulips created by Dutch tulip
growers on the Museumplein for National Tulip Day in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 21
January 2023.
People walk through a
decorated food court that is part of a Spring Festival light installation ahead
of Chinese Lunar New Year in Qinglonghu Park in Beijing, China, 21 January 2023
A 12 feet wide bronze
golden eagle sculpture by artist Tom Mackie.
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The
Guardian
Patriarch Kirill delivered a sermon marking Orthodox Epiphany in Moscow last week and said “We pray that the Lord admonish those madmen and help them to understand that any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world.”
Still standing: Elton John greets the roaring crowd at his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour in Sydney. Photograph: Ashley Mar
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic remonstrates
with the umpire during his second round match against France’s Enzo Couacaud,
in Melbourne Park, Australia.
A metal curtain closes off access to Montparnasse metro station in Paris as workers strike over the French President’s plan to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.
Anya Korostenska drops to her knees
at the grave of her finance Oleksiy Zavadskyi, a Ukrainian serviceman who died
in combat on 15 January 2023 in Bakhmut, during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine.
A 48-year-old man entered the Police Station in the NSW country town of Tenterfield at 4:45pm yesterday, produced a firearm and pointed it at officers inside.
The officers
from the New England Police District then shot the man. He died at the scene.
Napier, New Zealand
Jacinda Ardern with fellow MPs after
she announced her resignation as Prime Minister. PHjotograph: Kerry Marshall/Getty Images
The presence of a Russian flag in the stands at the Australian Open has prompted organisers to ban them from Melbourne Park.
The flag was visible on a fence behind fans on court 14 during a
match between Ukraine's Kateryna Baindl and Russian Kamilla Rakhimova
British Prime minister Rishi Sunak confirmed last week that the UK would provide Kyiv with 14 of its Challenger 2 main battle tanks to help its forces “push Russian troops back”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded: “They are using this country as a tool to achieve their anti-Russian goals.”
“These tanks are burning
and will burn just like the rest” he said.
UK is the first Western
power to supply the Ukrainians with main battle tanks.
British police officer David Carrick, 48, carried out 85 serious offences over 17 years committing 48 rapes to become one of the worst sex offenders in modern history.
Faith in the police has been shattered after the force ignored eight warnings about his abusive behaviour.
An Italian mob boss regarded as the last godfather of the Sicilian mafia,
Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, was arrested after investigators received a tipoff
that one of the world’s most wanted criminals had been receiving medical
treatment for a tumour at a well-known clinic in Palermo, police sources have
said.
Liberal
senator Jim Molan has died at the age of 72 after a sudden decline in his
health.
Molan
suffered a “sudden and rapid” decline after Christmas before dying peacefully
on Monday in the arms of his family.
Sweden and Finland must deport or extradite up to 130
"terrorists" to Turkey before the Turkish parliament will approve
their bids to join NATO, President Tayyip Erdogan said.
German Chancellor Olaf
Scholz attended on Saturday the opening of Germany's second liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal since its reliance on Russian gas
came to a close, celebrating the country's ability to get through the winter
while evading an energy crisis.
Battle tanks
from German industrial reserves wanted by Ukraine will not be ready
to be delivered until 2024, the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has warned.
“Even
if the decision to send our Leopard tanks to Kyiv came tomorrow, the delivery
would take until the start of next year,” Rheinmetall’s chief executive, Armin
Papperger said.
No longer allowed to
play sport, an Afghan women’s football team posed for a group photo in protest.
They chose to hide their identities because of Taliban reprisals.
