Month: May 2023

(Bloomberg) — Chilean assets gained Monday after opposition conservatives dealt a significant blow to President Gabriel Boric’s progressive agenda in elections for a new Constitutional Council. Read more from Bloomberg The peso strengthened as much as 0.9% against the dollar, leading emerging market currencies higher, while the benchmark S&P IPSA rose as much as 1.9%, heading into the close highest since September 14. Right-wing candidates won 33 seats in the Council tasked with drafting a new constitution on Sunday, more than the three-fifths majority needed to approve the articles without the support of the left. While the vote does not…

The head of the Parliament, Virgilio Saquicela, has called a session for tomorrow at 10.45 local time to deal with the report that the Supervisory Commission has not approved, because it has requested that the prosecution of Lasso, accused of embezzlement, be filed. In accordance with the internal regulations of the Assembly, in cases where my legislatures do not reach an agreement, it is up to the plenary to decide. For this reason, all assembly members must determine whether or not to proceed with the procedure that could lead to the impeachment of the governor. If the continuation of the…

Labor leader Merav Michaeli blasts the coalition’s planned allocation of NIS 12 billion to partner party priorities as “political protection payments,” speaking at the start of her party’s factional meeting of Monday’s centre-left opposition in the Knesset. Touching on Sunday night reports that the coalition plans to distribute a significant amount of discretionary funding to political priorities, it says the funds are “a bribe to the ultra-Orthodox, a bribe to the settlers and a bribe to the extreme and dangerous “. Messianic right, which endangers Israel”. By holding the coalition together through discretionary allocations, Michaeli says, the funds will foster…

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) – A Fayette County employee has died after being hit by a car Saturday night. The Fayette County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 60-year-old Lynette Laine. Laine was a nurse at Rise Academy. She was pronounced dead at UK Medical Center after being struck by a motor vehicle at Sandersville Road and Atoma Drive. The coroner has ruled the death an accident and the cause of death is traumatic injuries to the head, torso and extremities. LPD is investigating the incident. ORIGINAL A pedestrian is in critical condition after being injured in a hit-and-run Saturday…

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) — A handful of protesters over Jordan Neely’s death are being sought by police for jumping onto subway tracks and disrupting service over the weekend. The sailor at the center of this controversy has not been arrested. Officials say protesters took to the tracks at the Q train station near Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street. The NYPD has already arrested 13 other people after this protest in the wake of Neely’s death. A grand jury is expected to decide whether Marine Daniel Penny, 24, will face criminal charges for choking Neely to death aboard a…

(Image credit: AdobeStock/wladmire1804) Eyenovia Inc. FDA announced Mydcombi (tropicamide hydrochloride and phenylephrine ophthalmic spray) 1%/2.5% to induce mydriasis for diagnostic procedures and in conditions where short-term pupillary dilation is desired. According to the company, this represents the first fixed-dose combination of tropicamide and phenylephrine approved in the United States and also the first product using Eyenovia’s patented Optejet device to be approved by any regulatory authority. Mydcombi is designed to improve the efficiency of the 106 million comprehensive eye exams performed each year in the United States, as well as the estimated 4 million applications of pharmacologic mydriasis for cataract…

North Indian Canyon Drive was closed to all traffic Monday morning due to low visibility from blowing sand. The closure extends across the Whitewater Wash between the city and Interstate 10 from Sunrise Parkway to Palm Springs Station Road. Drivers can use detours such as the Gene Autry Trail, Highway 111 or Ramon Road and Dinah Shore Drive. Stay with KESQ News Channel 3 for updates. BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION News Channel 3 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation. Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can view our Community Guidelines by clicking…

ISTANBUL (AP) – More than a dozen people have been arrested over violence against an opposition election rally in Turkey’s eastern city of Erzurum over the weekend, Turkey’s justice minister said Monday. country Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of the opposition Republican People’s Party, CHP, was speaking atop a campaign bus on Sunday afternoon when a large group of about 200 protesters began throwing stones. Imamoglu was campaigning on behalf of CHP leader and presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the main opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, days before the May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections. He claimed that police and pro-Erdogan…