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Despite an attempt to take the boat to the nearest port, the yacht sank near the entrance to the port of Tanger Med, about an hour’s drive east of the city of Tangiers. Grazie Mamma II. A yacht sank after it was attacked by a pod of orcas for 45 minutes, a sailing company has said, marking the latest assault on a boat by the sea mammals this year. Polish tour operator Morskie Mile — which means "sea miles" — said in a Facebook post that its yacht Grazie Mamma II was attacked while sailing the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco on Oct. 31. The whales attacked the boat's rudder, the company said, causing major damage and a leak. Despite an attempt by the captain to take the boat to the nearest port, and a rescue attempt that involved the Moroccan Navy, the yacht sank near the entrance to the port of Tanger Med, about an hour's drive east of the city of Tangiers. The boat's crew were unharmed, the company said in a statement that NBC News translated from Polish. The same statement was posted to the company's website by company owner Lech Lewandowski. "For us, this yacht was everything that was great about sea sailing," he said. "Long-term friendships were formed onboard. We sailed this yacht through the most beautiful places in Europe and the Atlantic archipelagos, trained numerous yacht helmsmen, discovered the beautiful and unknown, tasted Mediterranean specialties and sailed, sailed, sailed," Lewandowski continued. The company said it was planning to honor forthcoming cruise bookings by using "friends' yachts." Future trips will take in the Baltic Sea, Norway, Italy and the Canary Islands, according to the company's website. A single leg of a voyage can cost 1,800 Polish zloty ($432). In May, it emerged that orcas were responsible for attacking and sinking three boats in southern Europe. Encounters between orcas and humans have been increasing since 2020, researchers say, but no human deaths have been reported. The increased orca-boat activity has led to a slew of internet memes this year, with some claiming they were joining the "orca wars" on the side of the orcas. In September, a Russian boat on a round-the-world trip was sunk after a prolonged attack by tiny cookiecutter sharks. Link

Mini's hot small SUV arrives powerful and great(ly proportioned) The new (and massive) third-generation Mini Countryman is already here. Now BMW has provided more detail about the infinitely more interesting John Cooper Works variant. Underneath those blocky new flanks sits a 2.0-litre four-pot engine rated at 296bhp and 295lb ft of torque, thanks in part to a dual-drive turbocharger working with a dethrottled air intake. Together with its 'All4' 4WD setup, it'll shift from 0-62mph in 5.4 seconds and top out at 155mph. Of course, this being a hot Mini means there's yet more infuriating mention of 'the typical Mini go-kart feeling'; said 4WD, together with high-performance brakes and fat tyres (19s or 20s) will at least provide ample grip. The old one was a pretty composed small SUV. Ah yes, SUV. It’s true, it's big. At least for a Mini. But when compared with other cars of the same power output – think Vauxhall Grandland GSe or Peugeot 3008 GT – size-wise, the Countryman is still smaller, even with this third-gen's extra length and height. The racing-inspired styling, with all–black bodywork, an accented red roof line, front air intakes, wing mirrors and brake calipers give the JCW Countryman a fairly sedate look, considering. Should sound fruity, mind. Mini said it’s created a flap to produce the characteristic JCW exhaust note and added a sound extension, which boosts the engine initiation note. More sensible stuff arrives in the form of 12 ultrasonic sensors, four surround-view cameras and LED headlights adorned with the JCW Signature horizontal bars. BMW reckons they’ll ‘see’ the JCW Countryman good for L2 ‘partially automated driving’ – an optional extra as part of the Driving Assistant Professional pack – and, where authorised (of course), it'll enable Mini drivers to take their hands off the wheel if they’re prepared to supervise the car. In the cabin, the Mini JCW Countryman gets minimalist. The stitched upholstery brings the exterior red accents inside, and it’s got the practicality for family needs with rear folded seats growing boot space to 1,450 litres. Luckily, touches like the sports seats and JCW badges remind you it's not just any family car, or just a Mini. Whaddya reckon? Link

Funding to keep the government open is set to expire on Nov. 17, and there's no deal on how to avoid it. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at the Capitol last week. WASHINGTON — House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline. They pulled a transportation-housing bill late Tuesday as some coastal Republicans opposed cuts to Amtrak. And they yanked a financial services and general government measure on Thursday morning that included divisive anti-abortion language. It's a step backward for Johnson, R-La., who had hoped to show progress on appropriations bills championed by his party's conservative wing in order to secure their votes to pass a short-term bill that would keep the government open beyond the Nov. 17 deadline. And it shows how ungovernable the House continues to be after right-wing Republicans ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy over complaints about his handling of government funding. "I don't think the Lord Jesus himself could manage this group," said Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas. He added that he would pray for the new speaker as the House adjourned for a long weekend. "We’re still dealing with the same divisions we always have had," said another House Republican. "We’re ungovernable." On Capitol Hill, questions abound about how the new speaker will handle his first big test in a divided government, where he must balance the demands of ultraconservatives with a Democratic-led Senate and president. "I think there's a honeymoon period here. I'm not sure how long it lasts, maybe 30 days," said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. "But with what's going on on the floor today, I think that indicates the honeymoon might be shorter than we thought." This week, Johnson held multiple meetings with groups of rank-and-file Republicans about a path forward on a short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR. He privately indicated his interest in a staggered bill in a meeting with allied Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., two sources said. The proposal would fund the government temporarily and impose two-tiered expiration dates: one in January and another in February. In meetings with Johnson, some members thought he'd go with a “clean” CR without controversial add-ons to fund the government into January, while others believed the speaker would back a similar two-step CR proposed by members of the far-right Freedom Caucus. "He wants a simple plan that will pass the Senate," said moderate Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who met with Johnson on Wednesday along with roughly 20 other lawmakers. "We should do the hard fights on appropriations and the border, and all that stuff. We shouldn't have the hard fight on the CR — let's keep the government open and make it bipartisan." Republicans said Johnson will need to make a call on a CR strategy by Friday to abide by the 72-hour rule, which gives lawmakers sufficient time to read the legislation before voting on it early next week. Members departed Washington on Thursday afternoon and will return on Monday. "We've got to get the Senate something, and you'll see us get the Senate something," said conservative Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who met with Johnson and is pushing for the two-step process that's been termed a "laddered CR." The GOP also hopes to hammer out some of its differences on the stalled spending bills and to try to move them through the chamber. Like the financial services measure, several of the remaining House appropriations bills have anti-abortion provisions, which could make it similarly difficult to win the votes of politically endangered Republicans. The issue has sparked fresh anxiety within the GOP after another poor election night earlier this week in which voters in a diverse array of states punished the party for its hard-line opposition to legal abortion. Before they pulled the financial services bill on Thursday, 165 Republicans voted for an amendment by Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., to cut White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's salary to $1. The measure failed as 54 GOP lawmakers joined Democrats to vote it down, but it revealed how an appropriations process that must be bipartisan to succeed has become a venue for partisan sniping. Conservatives also were furious over the failure of another amendment — authored by a key Trump ally, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. — that would have barred funding to acquire property for the new planned FBI headquarters. Seventy Republicans joined all but one Democrat in voting no, a roll call that came shortly after the Biden administration announced the new multi-billion-dollar complex would be built in Greenbelt, Maryland. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., poured cold water on a multi-step approach, telling reporters on Thursday a "clean" stopgap bill at agreed-to budget levels is "the only way forward." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for passing a stopgap bill "as quickly as possible" and emphasized on Tuesday that it must be "bipartisan." But he hasn't publicly weighed in on how long he believes the funding should last. The Senate has also struggled to move appropriations bills after a strong start and a bipartisan path. It has passed just three out of 12 funding bills, fewer than the House's seven. The upper chamber's appropriations process has fallen prey to demands by conservative senators who have used their powers under Senate rules to dramatically slow things down. "Well, I don't want a shutdown," said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. "And I'm very optimistic that we will avoid one." Asked why he's so optimistic when there's no plan, Kennedy said: "I realize that. But it's happened before that we go up to the deadline." He predicted both chambers would pass a short-term bill in time. Link

Two years after it seized power, Myanmar's military is looking weak - and beatable The military-installed president of Myanmar has warned that the country is in danger of breaking apart if the government cannot control fighting which has broken out in Shan State. Former General Myint Swe, who was appointed after a coup in 2021, was speaking at an emergency meeting held by the ruling military council to address a series of co-ordinated attacks by anti-military insurgents which have inflicted serious losses on the armed forces. Three ethnic insurgent armies in Shan State, supported by other armed groups opposing the government, have overrun dozens of military posts, and captured border crossings and the roads carrying most of the overland trade with China. It is the most serious setback suffered by the junta since it seized power in February 2021. After two-and-half years of battling the armed uprising it provoked with its disastrous coup, the military is looking weak, and possibly beatable. The government has responded with airstrikes and artillery bombardments, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. But it has been unable to bring in reinforcements or recover the ground it has lost. Among hundreds of troops killed is believed to be the commander of government forces in northern Shan State, Brigadier General Aung Kyaw Lwin, the most senior officer killed in combat since the coup. What makes this attack even more significant is that it marks the first time that the well-armed insurgents operating in Shan State have explicitly aligned themselves and their military operations with the wider campaign to overthrow the junta and restore democratic rule. However, there are other factors at play. These three insurgent groups have long-held ambitions to expand the territory they hold. And crucially China, which normally acts as a restraining influence on all the groups along its border with Myanmar, has not prevented this operation from going ahead. That is probably because of its frustration over the military government's inaction over the scam centres which have proliferated in Shan State. Thousands of Chinese citizens and other foreigners have been forced to work in these scam centres. The insurgents say one of their aims is to close them down. A rocket being fired amid heavy fighting in Shan State on 28 October Back in 2021, when peaceful protests against the coup were violently crushed by the military and police, opposition activists decided they had no choice but to call for a nationwide armed uprising against the junta. Many fled to areas controlled by ethnic insurgents along Myanmar's borders with Thailand, China and India, where they hoped to get access to the training and weapons most of them lacked. Some well-established ethnic armies, like the Karen, the Kachin, the Karenni and Chin, decided to ally themselves with the National Unity Government (NUG), which was set up by the elected administration that was deposed by the coup. Others did not, notably the various groups in Shan State, a huge, lawless region bordering Thailand and China. Perhaps best known as one of the world's biggest producers of illicit narcotics, Shan State has also recently begun hosting a booming business in casinos and scam centres. It has been blighted by conflict and poverty since Myanmar's independence in 1948, fragmented into the fiefdoms of different warlords, drug bosses or ethnic rebels who have been fighting each other and the army. Two rival insurgent forces claim to represent the Shan, the largest ethnic group, but in recent years four smaller ethnic groups have built up powerful armies. The strongest of all of them are the Wa, with sophisticated modern weapons and around 20,000 troops backed by China. Then there are the Kokang, an ethnically Chinese group with a long tradition of insurgency; the Palaung, or Ta'ang, people of remote hilltop villages whose army has grown rapidly since its formation in 2009; and the Rakhine, who are actually from Rakhine State on the other side of Myanmar. But they have a large migrant po[CENSORED]tion in the east of the country which helped establish the Arakan Army, now one of the best-equipped forces in Myanmar. The Wa agreed a ceasefire with the Myanmar military back in 1989, and have generally avoided armed clashes. They say they are neutral in the conflict between the junta and the opposition. But they are presumed to be the source of many of the weapons heading to the anti-military resistance groups in the rest of the country. The other three ethnic armies - the Kokang MNDAA, the Ta'ang TNLA and the Arakan Army - have formed themselves into what they call the Brotherhood Alliance. They have all clashed repeatedly with the military since the coup, but always over their own territorial interests, not in support of the NUG. These three insurgent groups have discreetly given sanctuary, military training and some weapons to dissidents from other parts of Myanmar. But, situated as they are on the Chinese border, they have also had to consider China's concerns, which are to keep the border stable and trade flowing. China has been giving diplomatic support to the junta and kept its distance from the NUG. The coup in 2021 drew massive protests that security forces crushed brutally In June this year, under pressure from China, the Brotherhood Alliance agreed to join peace talks with the military, although these quickly broke down. But they still appeared to be staying out of the wider civil war. Operation 1027 - so-called because it was launched on 27 October - has changed that. They have made dramatic progress. Entire army units have surrendered without a fight. The alliance say they have taken more than 100 military posts, and four towns, including the border crossing at Chinshwehaw, and Hsenwi, which straddles the road to Muse, the main gateway to China. They have blown up bridges to prevent military reinforcements from being brought in, and have surrounded the town of Laukkaing, where many scam centres are run by families allied to the junta. Thousands of foreign nationals are believed to be trapped in Laukkaing, where there is growing chaos as people queue for the limited food left in the town. China has warned all its citizens to evacuate via the nearest border crossing. The Brotherhood Alliance say their ultimate goal now, like that of the NUG, is to overthrow the military government. The NUG, whose volunteer fighters have been waging a desperately unequal armed struggle against the full might of the army and air force, has applauded the alliance's success, and talked about a new momentum in their struggle. Pro-NUG People's Defence Forces, which are not as well-armed or experienced as the Shan insurgents, have launched their own attacks in areas near Shan State to take advantage of the military's apparent weakness, and have for the first time captured a district capital from government forces. The MNDAA has released images showing its flag raised in the border city of Chinshwehaw The Brotherhood Alliance timed their attack carefully, right after an incident in Laukkaing which snapped China's patience with the junta. For the past year the Chinese government has been pressing the military government to do more to shut down the scam centres, which are largely run by Chinese syndicates. They have become an embarrassment to Beijing after widespread publicity about the brutal treatment of the trafficking victims trapped in them. Chinese pressure persuaded many of the Shan groups, like the Wa, to hand people suspected of involvement in the scams to the police in China. More than 4,000 were sent over the border between August and October. But the families in Laukkaing balked at shutting down a business which had been generating billions of dollars a year for them. Sources from the area have told the BBC that there was then an attempt to free some of the thousands of people held in Laukkaing on 20 October, which went wrong. Guards working for the scam centres are believed to have killed a number of those attempting to escape. That resulted in a strongly worded letter of protest being sent by the municipal government in the adjacent Chinese province demanding that those responsible be brought to justice. The Brotherhood Alliance saw their opportunity and attacked, promising they would shut down the scam centres to assuage China. China has publicly called for a ceasefire, but alliance spokesmen say they have received no direct request from the Chinese government to stop fighting. But their longer term aim is also to gain as much ground as they can, in anticipation of a potential collapse of the military government. This would put them in the strongest possible position for the negotiations, promised by the NUG if the junta is overthrown, on a new federal structure for Myanmar. Suspects involved in the scam centres were sent across the border to China The TNLA has long wanted to expand the area it controls beyond the small Ta'ang self-administered zone allotted to them in the constitution. The MNDAA wants to recover the control of Laukkaing and the adjacent border which it lost in a military operation in 2009, one led by none other than Myanmar's military chief General Min Aung Hlaing. And everyone is watching the Arakan Army. It has so far only been supporting the fighting in Shan State. If it chooses to attack the military in Rakhine State, where it has most of its forces and already controls many towns and villages, the junta would find itself dangerously overstretched. As a TNLA spokesman told the BBC, his group no longer sees any value in negotiating with the military government because it lacks legitimacy. Any deal they strike would be invalidated by a future elected government. The Ta'ang, the Kokang and the Wa share the goal of winning constitutional recognition of statehood for their people within a new federal system. In joining the fight these groups may help bring an end to military rule in Myanmar. But their aspirations, which are bound to conflict with the interests of other groups in Shan State, are a portent of the many challenges which will confront those trying to map out a democratic future for Myanmar. Link

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All-terrain tires and subtle design tweaks look great on Honda’s midsize truck They say the only things that are certain in this world are death and taxes. But you can also be pretty darn certain that once an automaker finds a successful sub-brand, it’ll apply it to as many models as it can. Such is the case with Honda’s TrailSport trim – now that this rugged updo is offered on the Passport and Pilot SUVs, it’s time for platform-mate Ridgeline to get the same kit. The Ridgeline TrailSport follows the same playbook as its SUV siblings, with 18-inch wheels wrapped in all-terrain tires, skid plates for added underbody protection, orange interior accents and a trim-specific Diffused Sky Blue hue. TrailSport-specific springs rates, damper tuning, and revised stabilizer bars should make this midsize truck a little more capable on rough roads, but make no mistake, this is by no means a rock-crawler. It's just better able to tackle some rough trails, with a standard torque-vectoring all-wheel-drive system helping to manage power and traction. Every Ridgeline continues to be powered by Honda’s 3.5-liter V6 with 280hp, 262lb ft of torque, and a 9-speed automatic transmission. Honda’s midsize truck might not be as outright capable as body-on-frame competitors like the Chevrolet Colorado, GMC Canyon, or Toyota Tacoma, but it can still handle 1,583 pounds of payload and tow a 5,000-pound trailer. Inside, all Ridgeline models get a few spiffy upgrades, including a 9-inch touchscreen with a faster processor, as well as wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. There’s a redesigned center console, too, with a wireless charging pad, so you can make full use of that aforementioned smartphone compatibility. Honda hasn’t released pricing for the Ridgeline TrailSport – or any trim level, for that matter – but we expect to have that in the coming weeks. Look for the full roster of 2024 model year Ridgeline trucks to land at dealers before the end of the year. Link

The White House announced $16.4 billion in funding for passenger rail projects in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. President Joe Biden speaks in Washington on Oct. 14. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden traveled to Bear, Delaware, on Monday to deliver remarks touting his economic platform as the White House announced $16.4 billion in funding for passenger rail projects. The funding comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the White House said, which the president frequently highlights as a signature part of his economic agenda. "How can you be the leading country in the world and have a second-rate infrastructure?" Biden said in his remarks. "It's not possible," he added. The funds specifically target 25 projects on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, which runs from Boston to Washington, D.C. "The investments announced today will rebuild tunnels and bridges that are over 100 years old; upgrade tracks, power systems, signals, stations, and other infrastructure; and, advance future projects to significantly improve travel times by increasing operating speeds and reducing delays," a White House fact sheet said. The White House branded the event as remarks on "Bidenomics," though the president did not mention the term by name. "We're building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, where no one's left behind," Biden said. Despite the president's frequently touting Bidenomics, the branding has sparked both pushback and confusion from Democratic operatives and politicians, as well as voters. Swing voters have trouble pinning down the meaning of Bidenomics, said Rich Thau, president of the research firm Engagious and moderator of focus groups for the Swing Voter Project. “Consistently when I ask them about what the term Bidenomics means, for example, they just start chuckling, because they can’t define it,” he said. “They’re not sure what it means. And a number of them are still struggling economically. So there’s a disconnect between the president touting good economic news and the personal struggles that these swing voters experience every day when it comes to their finances.” The administration has said that Bidenomics is centered on growing the economy “from the middle out and the bottom up” — a phrase that makes its way into many of the president’s speeches. He often paints his economic agenda as a contrast to trickle-down economics, or “MAGAnomics” — the term he has used to bash Republican economic policies. "While the Biden-Harris Administration is trying to make travel faster, safer and more reliable, House Republicans are trying to make it slower, harder and less safe," a White House official said in a statement highlighting the rail funding. "House Republicans are turning their backs on their communities—both urban and rural—and undermining American infrastructure with an appropriations bill that guts funding for Amtrak and makes draconian cuts to transportation and infrastructure programs." Monday's speech comes just one day after the release of new polling by The New York Times and Siena College that showed that Biden trailed Donald Trump in five out of six swing states. Trump was favored in Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, while Biden led in Wisconsin. Some Democrats — and the Biden campaign — urge caution when looking at polling a year before the election. "Predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year later. Don’t take our word for it: Gallup predicted an eight point loss for President Obama only for him to win handedly a year later," Biden campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement sent in a fundraising email. Jim Messina, who served as President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, said in an interview before the Times-Siena poll was released that this moment of time reminded him of handling the Obama campaign in 2011, when the campaign struggled with “terrible economic numbers.” “We were going through the end of the recession, and it takes a while for voters to equate his policies with how they’re doing,” Messina said of the 2012 Obama campaign. “So it’s going to take a while.” Link

Albania's Edi Rama and Italy's Giorgia Meloni announced the plans at a press conference in Rome Italy will build two centres in Albania to host tens of thousands of illegal migrants, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said. She announced the plan at a news conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Rome. Ms Meloni said the centres - due to open next spring - will be able to process up to 36,000 people a year. The plan will apply to migrants rescued at sea by Italian boats, and not to those who arrive on Italian shores. The migrants will stay in the centres while Italy examines their asylum requests, Ms Meloni said, adding that the plan would not apply to pregnant women, children and vulnerable people. She said the structures - which will be built at Italy's expense - would be able to accommodate 3,000 people each month "for the time necessary to quickly process asylum applications and, if necessary, for repatriation". The centres will be built at the port of Shengjin and the Gjader area in north-west Albania. Security personnel and police officers will be provided by Albania. Ms Meloni said that, although Albania is not an EU member state, "it is already behaving like one". She added that she believes "Albania is, for all intents and purposes, a European country" and stated her support for Albania's entry into the EU. Speaking in Italian, Mr Rama used warm words to describe his country's relationship with Italy, saying that Italy's citizens and institutions had helped Albanians in the 1990s after the fall of the Communist regime. "This debt cannot be repaid," Mr Rama said. "But if Italy calls, Albania responds." Mr Rama added: "Everyone can see this is a difficult situation for Italy. Geography has become a curse for Italy, because if you arrive in Italy, you arrive in the EU. But when it comes to managing these arrivals as the EU, we know how things go." "We might not have the capacity to be the sole solution, but we have the duty to... help Italy," he added. Mr Rama said he and Ms Meloni discussed the migrants centre agreement while the Italian PM was on holiday in Albania over the summer. Opposition politicians in both Italy and Albania have criticised the agreement. Riccardo Magi, the leader of Italian liberal party +Europa (More Europe), said the plan was "frightening" and that the centres would be like "a sort of Italian Guantanamo". Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Magi said: "It's also an illegitimate agreement: Italy can't ship people rescued at sea to a country outside of the EU, as if they were parcels or goods." Belind Kellici of Albania's Democratic Party criticised the the "lack of transparency" surrounding the deal. "This is treason against Albania and it is the biggest disloyalty that Rama could do to our country," Mr Kellici wrote on X. "The biggest anti-Albanian today is called Edi Rama, who every year expels hundreds of thousands of young people from the country to replace them with illegal immigrants." Andrea Costa, president of Rome-based migrant aid association Baobab Experience, told the BBC that the announcement "caught everyone by surprise" and showed that the Italian government's immigration policies were "heading in the wrong direction". Mr Costa said the centres risked becoming "like a Lampedusa in the Albanian hinterland," referring to the Italian island that is one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach Europe. He also made a reference to the British government's attempt to send thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying: "We don't know if the centres in Albania will be a sort of Guantanamo, a Lampedusa, a Rwanda - or a bit of all three." Ms Meloni, who heads the right-wing, nationalist Brothers of Italy party, is known for her staunch anti-immigration views. Since becoming PM, she has announced a string of interventions to end illegal immigration, including the detention of irregular migrants. However, more than 145,000 migrants have entered Italy this year - 52,000 more than the same period in 2021. In April, Italian ministers called a six-month state of emergency in response to a rise in migrant numbers crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa. Link