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‘Last of the Mohicans’: Chad’s elite keep horseracing tradition alive amid fading interest

CHAD, Dec 18 — Through a cloud of dust in the late afternoon sunshine, Chadian jockeys, some riding bareback, raced their sleek, muscular steeds around the oval track marked out just a few days earlier to the cheers of a large crowd.

Horse racing in the central African country draws the wealthy and elite who venture far from the comforts of the big city to camp out in the bush to enjoy it.

From members of the president’s family to the stable owners, businessmen, diplomats and high-ranking officials, race season is a prestigious affair in one of the poorest countries in the world.

“Winning a race in Chad is like winning the Champion’s League,” said racehorse breeder and owner Amir Adoudou Artine, puffing on a small cigar, referring to the annual football competition of top-division European clubs.

Less well-heeled racegoers climbed trees or sat on the roofs of 4×4 pick-up trucks to get a good view of the Biligoni racecourse, in a town midway between the bush and the desert in the southwest of Barh el Gazel province.

Jockeys are positioned on the starting line ahead of the first horse race of the season at the Biligoni racecourse in Chad on November 30, 2024. — AFP pic

Jockeys are positioned on the starting line ahead of the first horse race of the season at the Biligoni racecourse in Chad on November 30, 2024. — AFP pic

Horse racing in Chad evolved decades ago from links with its former colonial ruler France, which has suffered a series of setbacks in the turbulent Sahel recently as Chad and others have ended military cooperation with Paris.

This year’s location was chosen as it is the home of Idriss Ahmed Idriss, a racehorse owner who is head of an association promoting improvements in horse…

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Swimming: Results, recaps and photos for Thursday, Dec. 19

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Girls: No. 2 Chatham vs. Mount St. Mary, 7:30

Girls: No. 14 Our Lady of Mercy 106, No. 6 Cherry Hill East 64

Boys: No. 2 St. Augustine 110, No. 5 Cherry Hill East 60

Boys Top 20 Scoreboard

Girls Top 20 Scoreboard

  • No. 2 Chatham vs. Mount St. Mary, 7:30
  • No. 3 Trinity Hall vs. Holmdel, 8:30
  • No. 5 Princeton vs. West Windsor-Plainsboro South, 4
  • No. 14 Our Lady of Mercy 106, No. 6 Cherry Hill East 64
  • No. 10 Kingsway at No. 17 Mainland, 4
  • No. 12 Ridgewood vs. No. 19 Bridgewater-Raritan, 3:30
  • No. 13 Shawnee at Seneca, 5:30
  • No. 18 Ocean City vs. Absegami, 4

Boys Statewide Scoreboard

Thursday, Dec. 19

CAPE-ATLANTIC

Ocean City 0, Absegami 0 – Box Score

St. Augustine 110, Cherry Hill East 60 – Box Score

GMC

South Plainfield 117, Piscataway 53 – Box Score

NJAC

Morris Hills 87, Randolph 81 – Box Score

SHORE

Southern 125, Donovan Catholic 42 – Box Score

SJSL

St. Augustine 110, Cherry Hill East 60 – Box Score

SKYLAND

North Hunterdon 110, Voorhees 52 – Box Score

Montgomery 111, Watchung Hills 58 – Box Score

Boys Statewide Schedule

Thursday, Dec. 19

BIG NORTH

Becton (2-0) at Clifton (0-5), 3pm

Ridgewood (3-0) at Bridgewater-Raritan (2-0), 3:30pm

Paramus Catholic (0-3) at Hackensack (2-3), 4pm

River Dell (1-0) at Mahwah (0-3), 4:30pm

Lakeland (2-2) at Pequannock (0-1), 5:30pm

Fair Lawn (1-2) at Ramsey (3-0), 7:30pm

CAPE-ATLANTIC

Absegami (2-0) at Ocean City (3-1), 4pm

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Iran FM, UN special envoy to Iraq discuss regional developments

 

TABNAK, Dec 18: During the meeting the two sides emphasized preventing the spread of insecurity and instability in the region.

 

During the meeting, Al Hassan gave a report on the most important activities of the UNAMI.

 

The two sides also highlighted the need for cooperation and coordination among regional countries to stop further insecurity and instability in the region.

Since the fall of the Syrian president, the Israeli army continues to seize more territory in the Arab state, after occupying Jabal Sheikh (Mount Hermon) and the buffer zone in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

The occupation forces are now only 15 kilometers away from the international highway between Damascus and Beirut.

Moreover, the UN’s refugee agency estimates that around 560,000 individuals have sought refuge in Syria, fleeing Lebanon since September 23, after the Israeli army intensified its air attack on Lebanon in an escalation of conflict with Hezbollah.

Israel launched relentless air and ground attacks on Gaza, including hospitals, residences, and houses of worship, after Palestinian resistance movements carried out an unprecedented military operation dubbed Al-Aqsa Flood against the regime on October 7, 2023.

At least 44,176 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed while 104,473 individuals have sustained injuries.

Hezbollah opened a support front for Palestinians in Gaza only a day after the Israeli regime unleashed its genocidal war against the besieged territory last October.

After the Israeli regime conducted a series of attacks involving pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon in September, it intensified its aggression against Hezbollah, resulting in significant loss of life and destruction.

According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, at least 3,670 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Arab country since October 2023.

In late September, the regime also assassinated Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a strike in southern Beirut.



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Nanticoke woman arrested, charged with murder of infant daughter

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A Nanticoke woman was arrested Monday on murder charges in connection with the death of a one-month-old girl.

According to the Pennsylvania State Police, Natalee Michele Rasmus, 19, was charged with murder of the third degree, involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child following the death of her infant daughter, Avaya Jade Rasmus-Alberto, in October 2022.

She was arraigned before District Judge Donald Whittaker and bail was denied. She remains in custody at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.

Police said they were dispatched to 167 West Green Street in Nanticoke on Oct. 24, 2022 for the reported death of an infant, who was at the time in the custody of her mother, Rasmus.

An autopsy report determined the cause of death was asphyxia due to mechanical compression.

It was previously reported by the Times Leader in April that the death was being investigated by Pennsylvania State Police at Wilkes-Barre and the Luzerne County district attorney’s office as a criminal homicide.

An autopsy by forensic pathologist Dr. Gary Ross initially ruled the manner of death as accidental, but investigators then said they uncovered suspicious online searches from the phone of the mother, who was 17 at the time.

A review of the mother’s phone uncovered online searches about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is it safe to give a newborn melatonin drops, pictures of shaken baby syndrome, why a newborn won’t stop crying, and can an infant sleep on their stomach, stated search warrant affidavits filed at the time.

After the autopsy, Ross gave a medical opinion that the infant did not have the strength to wiggle into a position to cause death, according to search…

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Whose land is this land? Sisters, Native tribes begin process of land justice

In late August, when the cooler afternoons of autumn would soon beckon, 10 members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians in Wisconsin, eight of them young people, stood in shady, forested land in the Hudson River Valley that once nurtured their ancestors.

“I can breathe,” said Janiyakuha Webster, 23, marveling at the cool expanse of trees, hills and trails. “It feels like home.”

Shawn Stevens, an adult chaperon on the trip, pulled out a wooden flute, sat down on a rock and began playing a soulful melody. He said it felt right.

“This was the land of our ancestors,” he said, recognizing the return to the land as happy and joyful — but also tinged with hurt and pain.

It is difficult, he said, “not to be bitter about the history” — a history of forced removal following the American Revolution in which tribal communities from the Hudson River Valley eventually ended up in different parts of the United States, including what would become the state of Wisconsin.

The dialogues with Catholic sisters come amid a moment when numerous Native tribes have sought to reacquire control over their ancestral lands, known as the land back movement. In September, Onondaga County, in upstate New York, signed documents to transfer 1,000 acres of land to the Onondaga Nation, in line with a 1794 treaty. A similar return was reached in California with the Shasta Indian Nation, and the U.S. Interior Department transferred nearly 3 million acres in 15 states back to Native tribes over the past decade.

The weeklong homelands immersion to the Ossining, New York, area was shepherded by the Dominican Sisters of Hope, whose sponsored ministry, the Center at Mariandale, hosted the visitors and are engaged in efforts to promote land justice: the process of what one advocate calls “centering…

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Senior Iranian diplomat warns of Syria’s disintegration, spread of insecurity to Iraq

A high-ranking Iranian diplomat says destruction of Syria and rendering it weak in the face of the Israeli regime’s aggression have always formed part of the United States and the regime’s agenda, warning that the Arab country could fall apart amid the conflicting foreign interests that have come to affect it.

Kamal Kharrazi, head of the Islamic Republic’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, made the remarks in Tehran on Wednesday, in a meeting with Mohamed al-Hassan, the United Nations special representative for Iraq and head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

“The macro plan consisting of decreasing the regional countries’ capability in the face of the Zionist regime’s violations, including destruction of Syria as a country that supports the resistance, has always been on the US and the regime’s agenda,” the former foreign minister said.

Kharrazi cited remarks made by former US president Barack Obama during his tenure, in which he said, “Assad must go” as an example of Washington’s destructive ambitions towards Syria.

The veteran diplomat pointed to the Israeli regime’s having markedly intensified its deadly attacks against Syria, especially targeting its military infrastructure, in the aftermath of the country’s takeover by the anti-Damascus militants, who are widely reported to have been receiving extensive military support and cooperation on the part of Tel Aviv and the West since the outbreak of foreign-backed militancy in the country in 2011.

Kharrazi expressed concern regarding the developments, especially the Israeli regime’s efforts at availing itself of the power vacuum in the Arab country as well as Tel Aviv’s violation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity through extensive bombing of its military and civilian infrastructure.

The official warned about Syria’s disintegration on the back of the opposing interests of the foreign parties that have thrown their support behind the militants.



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Hand-pinched perfection at NEPA’rogi in Nanticoke

While many are checking off those shopping lists and getting those gifts wrapped, one business in Luzerne County is pinching their way into the holidays.

NANTICOKE, Pa. — Dough is stretching for miles, as pierogi pinching is in full force in Luzerne County. Tens of thousands of pierogi will take shape at NEPA’rogi in Nanticoke.

The Polish staple is a Christmas tradition on many tables across Northeast PA, which means it comes with quite the demand this holiday season.

“I also think it’s the nostalgia of the smell and taste of the food, reminding you of the happiest of holidays growing up in Northeast PA. Of course, you could go to the grocery store and buy pierogi, but I think the magic of what we’re doing here, that hand pinching, is what gives it that extra spark,” said Lauren Gorney, owner of NEPA’rogi.

This is the shop’s first Christmas in their new space on South Market Street, and with it, they’re able to take on more orders than ever: 1,000 dozen, or 12,000 pierogi to be exact.

“These ladies are working on 200 dozen a day. Of course, we’re trying to push past that. We could always automate and do more, but the magic of the hand-pinched pierogi can’t be matched,” said Gorney.

To meet the demand, they’re also accepting walk-ins this year, which means owner Lauren Gorney will be doubling that pre-order count—totaling more than 24,000 pierogi throughout the season.

“We stock up mainly on potato and cheese—that’s our best seller. Farmer’s cheese is more traditional, and we try to have cabbage available, but as you can see, even until the last minute, we’re cooking cabbage to finish the orders,” said Gorney.

And before they even get through Christmas, NEPA’rogi already has their sights set on…

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