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It looked like a recipe for disaster. So, when his country's swimmers were being accused of doping earlier this year, one Chinese official cooked up something fast. He blamed it on contaminated noodles. In fact, he argued, it could have been a culinary conspiracy concocted by criminals, whose actions led to the cooking wine used to prepare the noodles being laced with a banned heart drug that found its way into an athlete's system. This theory was spelled out to international anti-doping officials during a meeting and, after weeks of wrangling, finally made it into the thousands of pages of data handed over to the lawyer who investigated the case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for that same drug. The attorney, appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, refused to consider that scenario as he sifted through the evidence. In spelling out his reasoning, lawyer Eric Cottier paid heed to the half-baked nature of the theory. "The Investigator considers this scenario, which he has described in the conditional tense, to be possible, no less, no more," Cottier wrote. Even without the contaminated-noodles theory, Cottier found problems with the way WADA and the Chinese handled the case but ultimately determined WADA had acted reasonably in not appealing China's conclusion that its athletes had been inadvertently contaminated. Critics of the way the China case was handled can't help but wonder if a wider exploration of the noodle theory, details of which were discovered by The Associated Press via notes and emails from after the meeting where it was delivered, might have lent a different flavor to Cottier's conclusions. "There are more story twists to the ways the Chinese explain the TMZ case than a James Bond movie," said Rob Koehler, the director general of the advocacy group Global Athlete. "And all of it is complete fiction." In April, reporting from the New York Times and the German broadcaster ARD revealed that the 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, also known as TMZ. China's anti-doping agency determined the athletes had been contaminated, and so, did not sanction them. WADA accepted that explanation, did not press the case further, and China was never made to deliver a public notice about the "no-fault findings," as is often seen in similar cases. The stock explanation for the contamination was that traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers were staying. In his 58-page report, Cottier relayed some suspicions about the feasibility of that chain of events — noting that WADA's chief scientist "saw no other solution than to accept it, even if he continued to have doubts about the reality of contamination as described by the Chinese authorities." But without evidence to support pursuing the case, and with the chance of winning an appeal at almost nil, Cottier determined WADA's "decision not to appeal appears indisputably reasonable." A mystery remained: How did those traces of TMZ get into the kitchen? Shortly after the doping positives were revealed, the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations held a meeting on April 30 where it heard from the leader of China's agency, Li Zhiquan. Li's presentation was mostly filled with the same talking points that have been delivered throughout the saga — that the positive tests resulted from contamination from the kitchen. But he expanded on one way the kitchen might have become contaminated, harkening to another case in China involving a low-level TMZ positive. A pharmaceutical factory, he explained, had used industrial alcohol in the distillation process for producing TMZ. The industrial alcohol laced with the drug "then entered the market through illegal channels," he said. The alcohol "was re-used by the perpetrators to process and produce cooking wine, which is an important seasoning used locally to make beef noodles," Li said. "The contaminated beef noodles were consumed by that athlete, resulting in an extremely low concentration of TMZ in the positive sample. "The wrongdoers involved have been brought to justice." This new information raised eyebrows among the anti-doping leaders listening to Li's report. So much so that over the next month, several emails ensued to make sure the details about the noodles and wine made their way to WADA lawyers, who could then pass it onto Cottier. Eventually, Li did pass on the information to WADA general counsel Ross Wenzel and, just to be sure, one of the anti-doping leaders forwarded it, as well, according to the emails seen by the AP. All this came with Li's request that the noodles story be kept confidential. Turns out, it made it into Cottier's report, though he took the information with a grain of salt. "Indeed, giving it more attention would have required it to be documented, then scientifically verified and validated," he wrote. Neither Wenzel nor officials at the Chinese anti-doping agency returned messages from AP asking about the noodles conspiracy and the other athlete who Li suggested had been contaminated by them. Meanwhile, 11 of the swimmers who originally tested positive competed at the Paris Games earlier this year in a meet held under the cloud of the Chinese doping case. Though WADA considers the case closed, Koehler and others point to situations like this as one of many reasons that an investigation by someone other than Cottier, who was hired by WADA, is still needed. "It gives the appearance that people are just making things up as they go along on this, and hoping the story just goes away," Koehler said. "Which clearly it has not." Get local news delivered to your inbox!Garcia’s 16 help McNeese beat Illinois State 76-68CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Kobe Knox's 13 points helped South Florida defeat Portland 74-68 on Thursday. Knox also had six rebounds for the Bulls (3-2). Brandon Stroud added 11 points while shooting 4 for 12 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 2 of 4 from the free-throw line while he also had six rebounds. Jamille Reynolds shot 3 of 6 from the field and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 10 points. The Pilots (2-3) were led in scoring by Max Mackinnon, who finished with 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Vincent Delano added 14 points for Portland. A.Rapp also had 11 points and eight rebounds. South Florida went into the half ahead of Portland 38-33. Knox scored eight second-half points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
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was named the National League's Most Valuable Player unanimously on Thursday, capping the first 50/50 season in baseball history by becoming the first full-time designated hitter to ever win MVP honors. Ohtani joined , who was named American League MVP unanimously moments earlier on MLB Network's broadcast. The announcement came three weeks after Ohtani's defeated Judge's in the World Series and two years after Judge's record-breaking 2022 season was enough to edge Ohtani's two-way prowess for the AL MVP. If not for Judge, Ohtani -- a unanimous MVP three times, an unprecedented feat throughout baseball history -- would be sitting on four consecutive MVPs. He'll instead settle for three in four years, becoming the 12th player ever to win three MVPs and the second to do so within his first seven seasons, joining Stan Musial. This last year has seen Ohtani sign an unprecedented $700 million contract and put together another historic season while recovering from a second elbow surgery. He led the NL in homers (54), RBIs (13) and OPS (1.036) while adding 59 stolen bases, 33 more than his previous career high. Judge's second MVP came on the heels of one of the greatest offensive seasons in baseball history. Judge led the majors in homers (58), RBIs (144), OPS (1.159) and FanGraphs wins above replacement (11.2) in a 2024 season that saw the 6-foot-7, 282-pound slugger spend most of his time in center field and lead the Yankees to a pennant. Judge's 223 adjusted OPS was the highest among right-handed hitters since 1900, according to ESPN Research. He became the third player ever with at least 50 homers and an adjusted OPS of 200 or more, joining Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds. Judge is the seventh Yankee to win multiple MVPs, joining Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Alex Rodriguez and Roger Maris. Before Judge, Mantle's 1956 season was the only one in Yankees history to yield a unanimous MVP. Of Judge's 58 home runs, a whopping 23 gave his team the lead. But his season ended with a World Series loss against Ohtani's Dodgers, with Judge going 4-for-18 and making a key error in the decisive Game 5. ., the Kansas City Royals' young superstar shortstop, received all 30 second-place votes. Judge's Yankee counterpart, current free agent , finished third. In the National League, shortstop finished second with 23 second-place votes and second baseman finished third, capturing five second-place votes. Ohtani's first season as a Dodger began with his longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, stealing millions in a betting scandal and ended in a World Series victory to cap his first ever trip to the playoffs. In between, Ohtani set the Dodgers' single-season record with 54 home runs and 99 extra-base hits, stole more bases than any Japanese-born player in baseball history, became the first primary designated hitter to lead his league in wins above replacement and joined Ty Cobb as the only player to finish within the top two in the majors in both home runs and steals. Shortly after the season, Ohtani underwent surgery to repair a labrum tear in his left, non-throwing shoulder, the result of an injury he suffered on an attempted steal in Game 2 of the World Series. The Dodgers believe Ohtani will be ready for spring training, at which point he will attempt to return as a two-way player.South Florida defeats Portland 74-68
ARLINGTON, TX - NOVEMBER 28: Tom Brady looks on from the field prior to an NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium on November 28, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images) Tom Brady is selling a slew of watches and pieces from his legendary football career at auction. Dozens of items owned by the retired NFL quarterback are going under the hammer at Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening, ranging from luxury design watches and Super Bowl cufflinks to game-worn jerseys and football shoulder pads, according to the auction house Sotheby’s said the pieces in the "GOAT Collection: Watches & Treasures from Tom Brady" collection could collectively fetch over $6 million. "I’m signifying a step out of my playing career, and recognizing that others will cherish these items the way I value the ones in my collection," Brady said in a statement. "This is the only time this will happen, so hopefully people will take advantage of the opportunity to put something so meaningful of mine into their own collections." TOM BRADY GETS APPROVAL TO BECOME MINORITY OWNER OF RAIDERS; CHANCES OF 2ND COMEBACK END The football apparel going up for grabs comes from both Brady’s time with the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , as well as his college football career. One of the soon-to-be-auctioned jerseys was donned by Brady as then-Buccaneers quarterback notched a new NFL record for all-time passing yards during a 2021 game against the Patriots. Brady is putting the football from that game up for auction too. Sotheby’s predicted those could go for $400,000 to $600,000 and $80,000 to $120,000, respectively. Meanwhile, Brady’s play wristband from the Super Bowl LI game that he and the Patriots won against the Atlanta Falcons had an estimated $120,000 to $180,000 value ahead of the auction. The retired NFL star also included the pair of Nike cleats he wore for Super Bowl XXXIX between the Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles. The shoes could sell for $200,000 to $300,000, per Sotheby’s. TOM BRADY JOINS GOPUFF, INSTANT COMMERCE LEADER, IN MULTIYEAR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Jerseys worn during Brady’s time at the University of Michigan, including one from his 1999 appearance at the CompUSA Florida Citrus Bowl, going under the hammer. That navy blue Bowl game jersey is projected to bring as much as a quarter of a million dollars, according to the auction house. In addition to the football-related items, there are numerous watches in the "The GOAT Collection: Watches & Treasures from Tom Brady." Their brands include Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Rolex, IWC, Richard Mille and Tudor. One of the watches – a Reference 6241 Daytona Paul Newman "John Player Special" – is expected to bring $600,000 to $900,000 at auction, according to Sotheby’s. The auction house described that Rolex as the "centerpiece" of Brady’s watch collection. Its case contains 14 karats of yellow gold. Only a "small handful" of the watch are believed to exist, making it a highly-coveted timepiece, according to Sotheby’s. Brady fans with deep pockets that admired the special Reference 26730BC Royal Oak Audemars Piguet that the retired NFL quarterback donned during Netflix’s "The Roast of Tom Brady" also have a chance to scoop up the timepiece. The comedy roast, which Netflix aired live in early May, notched 22.6 million views by the end of June, according to a September report from the streaming giant. Brady’s custom Royal Oak "replaces standard indices with his name set in calibre-cut and baguette diamonds, with the number seven in Roman numerals symbolizing his seven Super Bowl victories," according to the watch’s listing at Sotheby’s. PATRIOTS OWNER ROBER KRAFT BUYS SIGNED TOM BRADY ROOKIE CARD FOR SIX FIGURES AT AUCTION Its pre-auction projected sale price is $400,000 to $800,000. Brady’s auction of the array comes nearly two years after he announced his plans to retire from the NFL. During his career, Brady played 20 seasons with the New England Patriots and three with the Buccaneers. Six of his Super Bowl wins were with the Patriots, one was with Tampa Bay. "I really thank you guys so much to every single one of you for supporting me," he said in a social media post announcing his retirement. "My family, my friends, my teammates, my competitors ... I can go on forever. There’s too many. Thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream." Read more of this story from FOX Business .Ferguson is already one of the FTC’s five commissioners, which is currently made up of three Democrats and two Republicans. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here.
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 6:25 p.m. ESTBy PETER SMITH A social-media tribute to Coptic Christians. A billboard in Amish country. A visit to a revered Jewish gravesite. While Donald Trump’s lock on the white evangelical vote is legendary, he and his campaign allies also wooed smaller religious groups, far from the mainstream. As it turned out, Trump won by decisive margins, but his campaign aggressively courted niche communities with the understanding that every vote could be critical, particularly in swing states. Voter surveys such as exit polls, which canvass broad swaths of the electorate, aren’t able to gauge the impact of such microtargeting, but some backers say the effort was worth it. Just one week before the election, Trump directed a post on the social-media platform X to Coptic Christians in the United States —- whose church has ancient roots in Egypt. He saluted their “Steadfast Faith in God, Perseverance through Centuries of Persecution and Love for this Great Country.” “This was the first time seeing a major U.S. presidential candidate address the community in this manner,” said Mariam Wahba, a Coptic Christian and research analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based research institute. “It was really a profound moment.” She said many Copts share the conservative social views of other Christian groups in the Republican constituency, and they may already have been Trump supporters. But the posting reinforced those bonds. Coptic bishops sent the president-elect congratulations after his victory and cited their “shared social and family values.” Some Assyrian Christians — another faith group with Middle Eastern roots — similarly bonded with Trump, whose mispronunciation of “Assyrian” at a rally created a viral video moment and drew attention to their support. Sam Darmo, a Phoenix real estate agent and co-founder of Assyrians for Trump, said many community members cited the economy, illegal immigration and other prominent voter issues. They echoed other conservative Christians’ concerns, he said, on issues such as abortion, gender identity and religious expression in public. But he said Trump supported various Middle Eastern Christians recovering from the Islamic State group’s oppressive rule. Darmo also credited Massad Boulos, father-in-law to Trump’s daughter Tiffany, for mobilizing various Middle Eastern Christian groups, including Chaldean Catholics, and other voters, particularly in Michigan, such as Muslims. “He brought all these minority groups together,” he said. “We’re hoping to continue that relationship.” But members of Middle Eastern-rooted Christian groups, and their politics, are far from monolithic, said Marcus Zacharia, founder of Progressive Copts, a program of Informed Immigrants, an organization that promotes dialogue on sensitive topics among such groups in the United States and Canada. He said many younger community members question Trump’s stances on issues such as immigration, and sense that conservatives sometimes tokenize them by focusing on the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East while neglecting wider issues of repression in countries there that the U.S. supports. He said there needs to be more informed dialogue across the political divide in these communities. “There is no more high time than these next four years to have that way of conducting conversations,” he said. Republicans also made an aggressive push for Amish voters , particularly in the swing state of Pennsylvania, where they are most numerous at about 92,000 (many below voting age). The GOP has made similar efforts in the past, even though researchers have found that less than 10% of them typically vote, due to their separatism from society. But Republicans used billboards, mailers, ads and door-to-door campaigner to drive turnout in Lancaster County, home base to the nation’s largest Amish settlement. On Election Day, Amish voters Samuel Stoltzfus and his wife Lillian Stoltzfus said they were supporting Trump, citing their anti-abortion beliefs. “We basically look at it as murder,” Stoltzfus, 31, said outside a polling center in the Lancaster County community of New Holland, where dozens of other members of the local Amish community voted. Trump has wavered on the issue, dismaying some abortion opponents, though many have said Republicans still align more closely to their views. Stolzfus added: “Make America great again and keep the moral values,” he said. “Let’s go back to the roots.” Steven Nolt, a history professor at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster College who studies the Amish and their voting patterns, said that while it’s too early to say definitively without further research, he doesn’t see evidence of a larger turnout this year. Lancaster County as a whole — most of which is not Amish — is a GOP stronghold that Trump won handily, though both parties’ votes edged up from 2020, according to unofficial results posted by the Pennsylvania Department of State. Trump’s biggest increases were in urban or suburban areas with few Amish, while some areas with larger Amish populations generally saw a modest increase in the Trump vote, said Nolt, director of the college’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. “Bottom line, percentage-wise, not much change in the parts of Lancaster County where the Amish live,” he said. Trump directly reached out to members of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of Orthodox Judaism. Related Articles National Politics | Attorneys want the US Supreme Court to say Mississippi’s felony voting ban is cruel and unusual National Politics | Trump convinced Republicans to overlook his misconduct. But can he do the same for his nominees? National Politics | Trump gave Interior nominee one directive for a half-billion acres of US land: ‘Drill.’ National Politics | Trump’s team is delaying transition agreements. What does it mean for security checks and governing? National Politics | Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing in order to decide where case should go now On Oct. 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, Trump made a symbolically resonant visit to the “Ohel,” the burial site of the movement’s revered late leader, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. Wearing a yarmulke, the traditional Jewish skullcap, Trump, who has Jewish family members, brought a written prayer to the Ohel and laid a small stone at the grave in keeping with tradition. The site in New York City, while particularly central to Chabad adherents, draws an array of Jewish and other visitors, including politicians. About two-thirds of Jewish voters overall supported Trump’s opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. But the Trump campaign has made a particular outreach to Orthodox Jews, citing issues including his policies toward Israel in his first administration. Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowitz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida said it was moving for him to see images of Trump’s visit. “The mere fact that he made a huge effort, obviously it was important to him,” he said. Associated Press journalist Luis Henao contributed.BAKU: The world’s most climate-imperiled nations stormed out of consultations in protest at the deadlocked UN COP29 conference Saturday, as simmering tensions over a hard-fought finance deal erupted into the open. Diplomats from small island nations threatened by rising seas and impoverished African states angrily filed out of a meeting with summit hosts Azerbaijan over a final deal being thrashed out in a Baku sports stadium. “We came here to this COP for a fair deal. We feel that we haven’t been heard,” said Cedric Schuster, the Samoan chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). An unpublished version of the final text circulating in Baku, and seen by AFP, proposes that rich nations raise to $300 billion a year by 2035 their commitment to poorer countries to fight climate change. It is up from $100 billion now provided by wealthy nations under a commitment set to expire. COP29 hosts Azerbaijan intended to put a final draft before 198 nations for adoption or rejection on Saturday evening, a full day after the marathon summit officially ended. Sierra Leone’s climate minister Jiwoh Abdulai, whose country is among the world’s poorest, said the draft was “effectively a suicide pact for the rest of the world”. In a statement, Schuster said AOSIS and the group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have found themselves “continuously insulted by the lack of inclusion” at COP29. Schuster said that without an inclusive process, “it becomes very difficult for us to continue our involvement here at COP29”. But negotiators from AOSIS, the LDCs and wealthy nations met later with the COP29 presidency. “We’re doing our utmost to build bridges with literally everyone,” EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra said in a statement. “It is not easy,” he said. “There is no alternative to do whatever we can.” An earlier offer from rich nations of $250 billion was slammed as offensively low by developing countries, which have demanded much higher sums to build resilience against climate change and cut emissions. UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said the revised offer of $300 billion was “a significant scaling up” of the existing pledge by developed nations, which also count the United States, EU and Japan among their ranks. Harried diplomats ran to-and-fro in the stadium near the Caspian Sea searching for common ground. “Hopefully this is the storm before the calm,” said US climate envoy John Podesta in the corridors as somebody shouted “shame” in his direction. Panama’s negotiator, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, said delegates could not go home without a deal and repeat the failure of COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009. “I’m sad, I’m tired, I’m disheartened, I’m hungry, I’m sleep-deprived, but there is a tiny ray of optimism within me because this cannot become a new Copenhagen,” he told reporters. Wealthy nations say it is politically unrealistic to expect more in direct government funding. Donald Trump, a sceptic of both climate change and foreign assistance, returns to the White House in January and a number of other Western countries have seen right-wing backlashes against the green agenda. The draft deal posits a larger overall target of $1.3 trillion per year to cope with rising temperatures and disasters, but most would come from private sources. Ali Mohamed, the Kenyan chair of the African Group of Negotiators, told AFP: “No deal is better than a bad deal.” South African environment minister Dion George, however, said: “I think being ambitious at this point is not going to be very useful.” “What we are not up for is going backwards or standing still,” he said. “We might as well just have stayed at home then.” A coalition of more than 300 activist groups accused historic polluters most responsible for climate change of skirting their obligation, and urged developing nations to stand firm. A group of developing countries had demanded at least $500 billion, with some saying that increases were less than met the eye due to inflation. Experts commissioned by the United Nations to assess the needs of developing countries said $250 billion was “too low” and by 2035 rich nations should be providing at least $390 billion. The US and EU have wanted newly wealthy emerging economies like China — the world’s largest emitter — to chip in. China, which remains classified as a developing nation under the UN framework, provides climate assistance but wants to keep doing so on its own voluntary terms. The EU and other countries have also tussled with Saudi Arabia over including strong language on moving away from fossil fuels, which negotiators say the oil-producing country has resisted. “We will not allow the most vulnerable, especially the small island states, to be ripped off by the new, few rich fossil fuel emitters,” said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. – AFP
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Saturday's verdict gave the Hemant Soren-led INDIA bloc in the state a bigger mandate compared to 2019, dismissing the BJP-led NDA's narrative of Bangladeshi infiltration and corruption charges, among others. While Kalpana retained the Gandey seat by defeating BJP's Muniya Devi by 17,142 votes, poll debutant Purnima trounced former Congress MP Ajoy Kumar by 42,871 votes in Jamshedpur East. "This victory belongs to all women. I thank the people of Gandey as well as that of Jharkhand for supporting politics of development by standing with INDIA bloc," Kalpana said. Purnima said, "The work done by my father-in-law in the past 25 years helped me win the seat. My aim will be to continue the good work." Maharashtra Jharkhand Maharashtra Alliance View i Party View Seats: 288 Results Majority: 145 BJP+ 229 MVA 47 OTH 12 Results : 288 / 288 BJP+ WON Jharkhand Alliance View i Party View Seats: 81 Results Majority: 41 INDIA 56 NDA 24 OTH 1 Results : 81 / 81 INDIA WON Source: PValue However, three former tribal CMs couldn't help their family members win the seats that were reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST). The wife of former CM and ex-Union minister Arjun Munda, BJP's Meera Munda, who plunged into the electoral fray for the first time from Potka, lost to outgoing JMM MLA Sanjib Sardar by 27,902 votes. The son of former CM and JMM turncoat Champai Soren, debutant Babulal Soren of BJP, trailed behind JMM's outgoing MLA and minister Ramdas Soren by 22,446 votes in Ghatshila. The wife of former CM Madhu Koda and BJP candidate Geeta Koda lost to Congress's Sona Ram Sinku by 7,383 votes in Jagannathpur. Geeta, who was Congress MP from Singhbhum in the Lok Sabha polls held early this year, joined BJP to contest the parliamentary polls on the saffron camp's ticket. She was defeated by Joba Majhi then. JMM supremo Shibu Soren's elder daughter-in-law Sita Soren, who was fielded by BJP from Jamtara against Congress's Irfan Ansari, lost the battle by 43,676 votes. With this win, Irfan clinched Jamtara for the third time. Sita had won from Jama twice earlier. ASSOCIATIONS MATTER CANDIDATE —- PARTY — SEAT — VOTES POLLED Kalpana Soren — JMM — Won Gandey — 1,19,372 Purnima Sahu — BJP -- Won Jamshedpur East — 1,07,191 Babulal Soren — BJP — Lost Ghatshila — 75,910 Geeta Koda — BJP — Lost Jagannathpur — 49,682 Meera Munda -- BJP — Lost Potka — 92,420 Sita Soren — BJP — Lost Jamtara — 89,590 Basant Soren — JMM — Won Dumka — 95,685 Photos by Mahadeo Sen
FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks on, on the day he makes an announcement at Aylesbury Public School in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, November 22, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/ File Photo Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday condemned violence and antisemitism at anti-NATO and pro-Palestinian protests in downtown Montreal on Friday night, where NATO delegates have gathered for the alliance's annual assembly. Around 300 delegates from NATO members and partner states are meeting in Montreal from Nov. 22-25. Local media reported that protesters burned an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and lit smoke bombs. Two separate protest groups merged into a march, and some protesters started throwing smoke bombs and metal objects at officers policing the demonstration, Montreal police said. Police used tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd and three people were arrested for assaulting officers and obstructing police work. Protesters set two cars on fire and smashed windows as the march was dispersed around 7 pm ET, police said. Videos and pictures posted to social media showed masked rioters burning flares and battering storefront windows. "What we saw on the streets of Montreal last night was appalling. Acts of antisemitism, intimidation, and violence must be condemned wherever we see them," Trudeau said in a post on social media website X. Pro-Palestinian protests have been taking place across Canada since the Israel-Gaza war started late last year. Israel's 13-month campaign in Gaza has killed more than 44,000 people and displaced nearly all the enclave's population at least once, according to Gaza officials. The war was launched in response to an attack by Hamas-led fighters who killed 1,200 people and captured more than 250 hostages in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has said. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you. Read 3 articles and stand to win rewards Spin the wheel now
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