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FOREIGN POLICY Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden Snowden has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the U.S. after leaking classified documents detailing government surveillance programs. Snowden said in 2019 that he was willing to return to the U.S. if he’s guaranteed a fair trial.<br/> | Rosdiana Ciaravolo/Getty Images By ASSOCIATED PRESS 09/26/2022 01:27 PM EDT MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden, according to a decree signed by the Russian leader on Monday. Snowden is one of 75 foreign nationals listed by the decree as being granted Russian citizenship. The decree was published on an official government website. Snowden, a former contractor with the U.S. National Security Agency, has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the U.S. after leaking classified documents detailing government surveillance programs. He was granted permanent residency in 2020 and said at the time that he planned to apply for Russian citizenship, without renouncing his U.S. citizenship. Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti that the former contractor’s wife Lindsay Mills, an American who has been living with him in Russia, will also be applying for a Russian passport. The couple had a child in December 2020. Snowden, who has kept a low profile in Russia and occasionally criticized Russian government policies on social media, said in 2019 that he was willing to return to the U.S. if he’s guaranteed a fair trial. He hasn’t commented on being granted Russian citizenship. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/26/putin-grants-russian-citizenship-to-edward-snowden-00058851

Arrivederci, raging bull: this is the last ever Lamborghini Aventador Production of Lambo's V12 hypercar has come to an end. Got something in your eye? If life is a Lamborghini Aventador, then the mad king's lament from That Scottish Play rings true. It has strut and fret its hour upon the stage, and it will soon be heard no more. Because that sky blue supercar in the gallery below is the last ever Lamborghini Aventador. There's been lots of talk about the replacement to a car that takes its name, like all good Lambos, after a particularly famous bull. And yet it has become so inextricably linked to Sant'Agata's modern success – outselling the sum total of all of its previous V12 cars, 11,465 – that its follow-up has big shoes to fill. Hybrid shoes, if the analogy isn't too weird. The exiting Aventador takes with it the last ever free-breathing V12 the company will ever build before an electrified powerplant arrives, and you may well work up your own lament to that. “The V12 engine has been part of Lamborghini’s heritage since the company’s earliest days,” explains boss Stephan Winkelmann, “the beating heart of models from Miura to Diablo, Countach to Murcielago.” Lamborghini wants its future cars to be socially acceptable Indeed, it was following the Murcielago’s curtain call that the Aventador stepped onto the stage. Unveiled in another dimension commonly known as '2011', the LP 700-4 – longitudinally positioned rear engine, 700 metric horsepower, four-wheel-drive – packed a brand new 6.5-litre V12 that, barring a few changes over the years, survived to this day. Lamborghini explains the Aventador was a ‘clean-sheet’ car, taking nothing from before other than the notion that, like the Bard’s aforementioned protagonist, it was mad. That ISR gearbox certainly fitted the brief, along with the carbon-fibre monocoque clothed in “complex surfaces” and every angle known to mathematics. With the famous scissor-opening doors, the V12 Aventador was not short of visual drama. Opinion: the awfully brilliant first impression of a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Though owners thought otherwise, with apparently 85 per cent of Aventadors featuring some level of customization. Lamborghini tells us more than 200 bespoke trims and colors have been cooked up by its Ad Personam department in pursuit of that last tenth of visual madness. Roadster followed Coupe. Super Veloce trumped them all for a while, featuring more power, more aero, less weight and a Nürburgring time (and video) that cemented the big Lambo's credentials. Though, that was just a starter, because the Aventador SVJ improved that ‘Ring time and packed the-then most powerful iteration of the 6.5-litre V12. An even more powerful version sits at the heart of this last car, the 780-4 ‘Ultimae’, which is basically a Greatest Hits of Aventador all rolled into one sold-out package. Aptly named, of course, the ‘Ultimae’, because it means ‘final act’. Though, in this the mad King was wrong. Though it is indeed now just a tale, full of sound and fury, it does signify something… Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae review: last dance for non-hybrid V12 Lambos https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/arrivederci-raging-bull-last-ever-lamborghini-aventador

Will Brazil’s COVID disaster sway its presidential election? President Jair Bolsonaro is up for re-election, but his policies failed to slow the coronavirus’s spread. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03015-w#author-0 According to official government statistics, more than 685,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil, placing it among the nations with the most fatalities. As infections skyrocketed in Brazil between 2020 and 2021, the country spread the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus beyond its borders, exporting the virus ten times more often than it imported it, according to a study published in Nature Microbiology last month1. The results suggest that the nation — Latin America’s largest — was a COVID-19 epicenter, and that policies implemented by its government, and its leader Jair Bolsonaro, failed to curb the virus. The report comes as Brazil gears up to elect its next president in October. Bolsonaro is up for re-election and faces 11 challengers, including former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who led the nation from 2003 to 2010. It remains to be seen whether Bolsonaro's questionable pandemic response will work against him during the election. Public-health researchers have described his refusal to implement lockdown measures, his spreading of misinformation about vaccines and his backing of ineffective drugs such as hydroxychloroquine to combat COVID-19. “For most of the pandemic, the government did not offer a coordinated response, giving room to a wave of disinformation — at times spurred by leaders in the federal government,” says Otávio Ranzani, an epidemiologist at the University of São Paulo and at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Spain. Many of the presidential candidates, including Bolsonaro, are promising to bolster Brazil's health system, known as SUS. But the country is also now grappling with other issues, including food security and economic inflation, which could trump pandemic concerns when Brazilians head to the voting booth. According to a recent study from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a higher-education think tank based in Rio de Janeiro, one in three Brazilians could not afford to eat properly in 2021 — the highest proportion in more than a decade. Still, it’s exciting that health care is being discussed in this presidential election, says Rosana Onocko Campos, president of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health in Campinas, São Paulo. “It is the first time I’ve seen the great majority of candidates say they agree that an increase in federal funding for SUS is needed,” she says. virus export According to the Nature Microbiology study, SARS-CoV-2 was introduced to Brazil mainly from Europe in early 2020, before the country had implemented any response measures. But between then and September 2021, the nation spread the virus to many countries; the highest number of virus exports went to other South American nations, ten of which border Brazil (see ‘Super spreader’). To draw these conclusions, the team sequenced 3,800 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from infected people in 8 Brazilian states and one neighboring country, Paraguay. The researchers also analyzed genome sequences in the po[CENSORED]r data repository GISAID — more than 13,000 from Brazil and about 100 from Paraguay — to understand which coronavirus variants were prevalent, and at what times, between 2020 and 2021. And they compared their sequences with more than 25,000 global sequences to draw conclusions about viral spread. They found that Brazil had most often exported the Gamma variant, which first emerged within its borders. The main point of the study, says lead author Marta Giovanetti, a visiting virologist at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, “is to discuss the role of po[CENSORED]tional mobility and the emergence of the first variants of concern” in Brazil. To Marcelo Gomes, a public-health specialist and computational scientist, the findings make sense, because COVID-19 infections in Brazil remained at a consistently high level from 2020 through 2021, September making transmission to other countries possible. Gomes is based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, of which the institute is a part. The SUS was overwhelmed by COVID-19, revealing a resource deficit, Onocko says. “We need to requalify services and personnel to increase technical capacity for faster service [and have] better coordination among the federal, state and local governments. It will take an extraordinary effort,” she says. Promises, promises Acknowledging that the SUS was overworked during the pandemic, Bolsonaro has promised a 250% increase in funding for health-care workers if he is re-elected. He and Lula — who are leading the polls — have pledged to bolster Brazil's post-pandemic response, and Lula wants to improve women's access to public services for the prevention and treatment of disease. How these promises would be implemented and paid for isn't clear to many researchers, however. “The proposals are superficial and don’t go into concrete steps on how they will face the challenges we have,” says physician Gonzalo Vecina Neto, who directed Brazil’s Health Regulatory Agency between 1999 and 2003. Vecina worries that even though the candidates have acknowledged the impact of the pandemic, and made various pledges in response, public-health concerns are being overshadowed by the economy and other issues during the run-up to the election. “The sensation I have is we are forgetting what happened”, he says, “and we are now facing new outbreaks such as monkeypox without having learned enough from the pandemic.” Others agree. Ranzani says he wants to see more emphasis on strengthening the SUS and Brazilian research in election discussions. “It is fundamental for us to face what the pandemic has caused and still causes.” The Brazilian presidential election takes place on 2 October. If none of the candidates gets more than 50% of the vote, the two front-runners will advance to a run-off, which will take place on 30 October. must:https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03015-w https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03015-w

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https://ibb.co/k80cJjd Sept. 21, 2022 Horrified onlookers gathered last month around a fallen carriage horse where it had collapsed on a street in Midtown Manhattan. As the horse’s driver frantically tried to rouse it — and police officers sprayed it with hoses to cool it down — the crowd captured the moment with cellphones. Video of the horse, thin and prone on the pavement, has now reignited calls from residents, celebrities and politicians to ban the horse-drawn carriage industry which has existed in New York City for more than 150 years. The Manhattan district attorney is investigating the incident, and a bill before the City Council would replace the carriages with electric versions. Eighty miles north and a world away from Manhattan, the fallen horse, named Ryder, is recuperating at a grassy farm, with a little goat for company. It is a quiet retirement for an animal who may have set in motion the end of a way of life for scores of drivers or — depending on whom you ask — the liberation of nearly 200 of his equine peers. https://ibb.co/VQBK2Vx A horse named Ryder collapsed on a Manhattan street in August.Credit...L2FTV/Freedomnews.tv Existential battles are not new for the city's tourism carriage industry, which takes visitors on rides through Central Park for about $165 an hour. It has weathered them all, from Mayor Bill de Blasio's unmet campaign promise to ban it “on day one” of his administration, all the way back to 1866 when the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was established — its founder inspired by the abuse of carriage horses. But today's threats seem potent: a public losing its taste for working animals, from circuses to rodeo, and an urbanized audience unfamiliar with the realities of large animal husbandry. Even those who might admire the big horses cocking a hoof on 59th Street are armed with recording devices that can amplify the sight of a colicky or spooked horse — conditions experts say can befall any equine, whether in a pasture or on a city street — into the stratosphere. https://ibb.co/GPQTBV7 Detractors say the industry is inherently exploitative and abusive, bent on evading the city's many regulations designed to keep horses safe, though the number of recorded violations appears relatively small. They say carriages are outmoded, urging New York to join Chicago, Montreal and several other cities that have banned them. “Anyone with a heart can see that these horses are abused and suffering,” said Councilman Robert F. Holden, a Democrat from Queens who introduced the bill to replace horse carriages with electric versions. “This is one more barbaric trend that we are doing now that should be eliminated.” Drivers and their supporters insist that they care for their animals, on whom their livelihood depends. They say there are just a handful of accidents and illnesses each year — and that they are unavoidable, even within a highly regulated industry. Christina Hansen, a spokeswoman for the carriage industry, says the notion that horses don't belong among cars and buildings is misguided. “People have forgotten what horses are like, what they are capable of,” said Ms. Hansen, who drives three horses stabled in Manhattan. “We are doing more than just giving people nice rides in Central Park,” she added. “We are this living connection to humanity's partnership with horses.” A three story stable Up on the second and third floors of a low brick building on West 52nd Street live about 90 of the city's carriage horses. It is one of three such stables in New York, all on Manhattan's West Side. Inside, it could pass for many other barns, except for the rubber-covered ramp the animals must climb to access each floor of stalls. “In nature, it’s called a ‘hill’,” Ms. Hansen said on a recent tour, responding to criticism that walking up the incline is unnatural for horses. Indeed, the Manhattan barns appear tidier and better equipped than many pastoral stables: Electric fans aimed at the stalled horses whir overhead, and automatic waterers refill each trough. It is mucked and swept by rotating shifts of stablehands on a 24-hour schedule. What troubles animal welfare advocates is what the stables lack: anywhere for the horses to run free. While the city mandates each animal have five weeks of vacation a year, at their urban home base there are no pastures or paddocks, known as “turnout,” for these horses. “They are deprived of everything that would add any enrichment or joy to their lives,” said Ashley Byrne, a spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Supporters of the carriage industry disagree: “It’s anthropomorphizing,” said Dr. Joseph Bertone, a veterinarian who in 2015 conducted a study that compared stress levels in a group of Manhattan carriage horses and their counterparts on city-mandated vacation. The study, which Dr. Bertone, then a professor of equine medicine at the Western University College of Veterinary Medicine in California, said was independently funded, showed that the horses in their Midtown stalls evicted fewer chemical signs of stress than those in the unfamiliar agrarian setting of holiday. “People in cities think that they are a wild animal, and they are not,” Dr. Bertone said in an interview. “They are very used to that lifestyle, and with habituation they are very happy.” https://ibb.co/B4xgQCg https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/nyregion/carriage-horses-new-york.html

https://ibb.co/gm9bLt0 Strasbourg, 20.09.2022 – The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published today its conclusions on the implementation of its priority recommendations addressed to Albania, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland in 2020. The priority recommendations addressed to the authorities of Albania were about finding a speedy solution to the long-running housing crises affecting the Roma and Egyptian communities in the Kabash and Guri i Kuq areas of the Pogradec municipality, as well as finalising the necessary bylaws (secondary legislation) for the Law on Legal Aid and the Law on Social Housing. ECRI recognises the significant efforts and positive steps taken and concludes that both recommendations have been partially implemented As for Austria, ECRI recommended, as a matter of priority, to ensure that free legal aid and advice is provided to asylum seekers by a fully independent structure. ECRI welcomes the action taken for strengthening the independence of the Federal Agency for Care and Support Services and strongly encourages the authorities to take due account of the suggestions made by the Quality Advisory Board. This recommendation has been partially implemented, ECRI concludes. The second priority recommendation was about revising the provisions of the new Social Welfare Act, which would have required greater language proficiency in German or in English as a condition for receiving the higher level of social benefit. However, in the meantime the Austrian Constitutional Court found these provisions to be unconstitutional. ECRI therefore considered that this recommendation had already been implemented. In its report on Belgium published in 2020, ECRI recommended, as a matter of priority, to ensure that no public or private service provider is required to report persons it suspects of being irregularly present on Belgian territory for the purposes of immigration control and enforcement. This recommendation applied in particular to providers in the areas of labor protection and justice, the aim being to prevent any obstacles to the effective enjoyment by migrant workers, irrespective of their residence status, of their right to recover back pay owed by their employers and to have full access to complaints mechanisms. ECRI concluded that its recommendation has not been implemented. As far as Germany is concerned, ECRI recommended, as a matter of priority, that the German authorities establish a coherent system of organizations providing victims of discrimination with effective support, including legal assistance throughout the country, which would also imply setting up independent equality bodies at the level of the German Lander. ECRI concludes that its recommendation has been partially implemented and recognizes that significant efforts were made and positive steps taken. ECRI also recommended that the police authorities of the Federation and the Länder commission a study on racial profiling and participate in it, with the aim of developing and implementing measures addressing any racial profiling in policing. Despite some welcome initiatives, ECRI concludes that its recommendation has not yet been implemented. ECRI recommended to the authorities of Switzerland that the Counseling Centers for Victims of Racism be strengthened by human resources and increased funding (from a separate budget from the Cantonal Integration Programmes). It also recommended that the authorities grant a regular residence status to persons who cannot be returned to their country of origin after a maximum period of six years. ECRI concludes that neither of these two priority recommendations have been implemented. These conclusions are based on government responses and information gathered from other sources. They concern only ECRI’s priority recommendations and do not aim at providing a comprehensive analysis of all developments in the fight against racism and intolerance in the countries concerned. * * * The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) is a unique human rights monitoring body which specializes in questions relating to the fight against racism, discrimination (on grounds of “race”, ethnic/national origin, colour, citizenship, religion, language, sexual orientation and gender identity), xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance in Europe; it prepares reports and issues recommendations to member States. https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/anti-racism-commission-releases-new-conclusions-on-albania-austria-belgium-germany-and-switzerland

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Date: September 15, 2022 Source: Smithsonian Summary: Researchers have discovered a new extinct species of lizard-like reptile that belongs to the same ancient lineage as New Zealand's living tuatara. A team of scientists describe the new species Opisthiamimus gregori, which once inhabited Jurassic North America about 150 million years ago alongside dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. In life, this prehistoric reptile would have been about 16 centimeters (about 6 inches) from nose to tail -- and would fit curled up in the palm of an adult human hand -- and likely survived on a diet of insects and other invertebrates. FULL STORY Smithsonian researchers have discovered a new extinct species of lizard-like reptile that belongs to the same ancient lineage as New Zealand's living tuatara. A team of scientists, including the National Museum of Natural History's curator of Dinosauria Matthew Carrano and research associate David DeMar Jr. as well as University College London and Natural History Museum, London scientific associate Marc Jones, describe the new species Opisthiamimus gregori, which once inhabited Jurassic North America about 150 million years ago alongside dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Allosaurus, in a paper published today in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. In life, this prehistoric reptile would have been about 16 centimeters (about 6 inches) from nose to tail -- and would fit curled up in the palm of an adult human hand -- and likely survived on a diet of insects and other invertebrates. "What's important about the tuatara is that it represents this enormous evolutionary story that we are lucky enough to catch in what is likely its closing act," Carrano said. "Even though it looks like a relatively simple lizard, it embodies an entire evolutionary epic going back more than 200 million years." The discovery comes from a handful of specimens including an extraordinarily complete and well-preserved fossil skeleton excavated from a site centered around an Allosaurus nest in northern Wyoming's Morrison Formation. Further study of the find could help reveal why this animal's ancient order of reptiles were winnowed down from being diverse and numerous in the Jurassic to just New Zealand's tuatara surviving today. The tuatara looks a bit like a particularly stout iguana, but the tuatara and its newly discovered relative are in fact not lizards at all. They are actually rhynchocephalians, an order that diverged from lizards at least 230 million years ago, Carrano said. In their Jurassic heyday, rhynchocephalians were found nearly worldwide, came in sizes large and small, and filled ecological roles ranging from aquatic fish hunters to bulky plant munchers. But for reasons that still are not fully understood, rhynchocephalians all but disappeared as lizards and snakes grew to be the most common and more diverse reptiles across the globe. This evolutionary chasm between lizards and rhynchocephalians helps explain the tuatara's odd features such as teeth fused to the jaw bone, a unique chewing motion that slides the lower jaw back and forth like a saw blade, a 100-year-plus lifespan and a tolerance for colder climates. Following O. gregori's formal description, Carrano said the fossil has been added to the museum's collections where it will remain available for future study, perhaps one day helping researchers figure out why the tuatara is all that remains of the rhynchocephalians, while lizards are now found across the globe. "These animals may have disappeared partly because of competition from lizards but perhaps also due to global shifts in climate and changing habitats," Carrano said. "It's fascinating when you have the dominance of one group giving way to another group over evolutionary time, and we still need more evidence to explain exactly what happened, but fossils like this one are how we will put it together." The researchers named the new species after museum volunteer Joseph Gregor who spent hundreds of hours meticulously scraping and chiseling the bones from a block of stone that first caught museum fossil preparator Pete Kroehler's eye back in 2010. "Pete is one of those people who has a kind of X-ray vision for this sort of thing," Carrano said. "He noticed two tiny specks of bone on the side of this block and marked it to be brought back with no real idea what was in it. As it turns out, he hit the jackpot." The fossil is almost entirely complete, with the exception of the tail and parts of the hind legs. Carrano said that such a complete skeleton is rare for small prehistoric creatures like this because their frail bones were often destroyed either before they fossilized or as they emerge from an eroding rock formation in the present day. As a result, rhynchocephalians are mostly known to paleontologists from small fragments of their jaws and teeth. After Kroehler, Gregor and others had freed as much of the tiny fossil from the rock as was practical given its fragility, the team, led by DeMar, set about scanning the fossil with high-resolution computerized tomography (CT), a method that uses multiple X-ray images from different angles to create a 3D representation of the specimen. The team used three separate CT scanning facilities, including one housed at the National Museum of Natural History, to capture everything they possibly could about the fossil. Once the fossil's bones had been digitally rendered with accuracy smaller than a millimeter, DeMar set about reassembling the digitized bones of the skull, some of which were crushed, out of place or missing on one side, using software to eventually create a nearly complete 3D reconstruction. The reconstructed 3D skull now provides researchers an unprecedented look at this Jurassic-age reptile's head. Given Opisthiamimus's diminutive size, tooth shape and rigid skull, it likely ate insects, said DeMar, adding that prey with harder shells such as beetles or water bugs might have also been on the menu. Broadly speaking, the new species looks quite a bit like a miniaturized version of its only surviving relative (tuataras are about five times longer). "Such a complete specimen has huge potential for making comparisons with fossils collected in the future and for identifying or reclassifying specimens already sitting in a museum drawer somewhere," DeMar said. "With the 3D models we have, at some point we could also do studies that use software to look at this critter's jaw mechanics." Funding and support for this research were provided by the Smithsonian and the Australian Research Council. Story Source: Materials provided by Smithsonian. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220915123701.htm

BySarah Zheng and Cynthia Li August 2, 2022 at 3:54 AM GMT+1Updated onAugust 2, 2022 at 10:46 AM GMT+1 Economists downgraded their forecasts for Hong Kong's economy, predicting it could contract for the third time in four years, after data Monday showed growth is being weighed down by Covid restrictions and a slump in trade. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. expects gross domestic product to decline 0.5% in 2022, down from an earlier prediction of 0.3% growth. Bloomberg Economics now sees GDP shrinking 0.6% compared with a previous projection of 0.7% expansion. The downgrades follow Monday’s worse-than-expected data showing the economy contracted 1.4% in the second quarter from a year earlier. While some relief is expected for Hong Kong in the second half, the recovery is uncertain given the drag on demand and trade from Covid restrictions locally and in mainland China. Growth momentum is also coming under pressure as Hong Kong raises interest rates in line with the hawkish Federal Reserve to maintain the local dollar's peg to the US dollar. Separate data released Tuesday showed consumer spending remained under pressure. The value of retail sales fell 1.2% in June from a year ago, weaker than economists expected. Sale volumes dropped 4.1%, led by falls in purchases of clothing and electronics, government data showed. What Bloomberg Economics Says ... Hong Kong’s weaker-than-expected 2Q GDP results highlight the challenges still facing the economy: A quicker recovery requires further reopening, but rising Covid cases have complicated that. Slowing external demand and higher interest rates aren't helping either. Given the weakness of the 2Q numbers, we now see GDP shrinking 0.6% in 2022 -- worse than the 0.7% expansion we forecast earlier. -- Eric Zhu, economist https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/RFYNRSDWRGG0 The economy shrank in 2019 when the city was engulfed by political protests, and in 2020 amid the outbreak of the pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-02/hong-kong-s-economy-seen-contracting-in-2022-as-gdp-disappoints?utm_medium=cpc_search&utm_campaign=NB_ENG_DSAXX_DSAXXXXXXXXXX_EVG_XXXX_XXX_Y0469_EN_EN_X_BLOM_GO_SE_XXX_XXXXXXXXXX&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds

PUBLISHED ON MAY 21, 2022 AT 9:00 AM UPDATED ON MAY 21, 2022 AT 9:00 AM BY NICOLAS BRIOUZE In the ID family, that of the electric Volkswagens, after the small ID3 and the family SUV ID4, here is the coupe SUV, ID5. Engine ! Or rather contact! No salvation without a coupe-SUV in its range. To be convinced of this, it suffices to see the number of pachydermic BMW X4 & X6 and other Mercedes GLC & GLE Coupé, or more commoner Renault Arkana, crisscrossing our streets and our roads. Whose interest we continue in vain to grasp. The bright idea of VW is to offer such a machine in an electric version. Nothing could be simpler, just take an ID4 and lower the roof to offer the essential touch of sportiness that will remind the good father of his GTi years! The SUV coupé is a bit like a cap worn upside down, it makes you “young”! In short, this ID5 whose mission is nothing less than to “redefine the codes of premium” (!) is none other than an ID4 with a dynamic look – rear line and coupé-style spoiler, sports shield with lowered diffuser and domed wings – and optimized Cx (a flattering 0.26). If its size is unchanged, with 4.60 m long, its trunk not only loses nothing in volume, but even gains 6 liters, to 549 liters, expandable up to 1,561 liters! In short, family sport since the habitability allows, like the ID4, to comfortably embark all the members. This ID5 is a good family SUV… And driving, what does it look like? Softness, silence, comfort and space in a zen, neat cabin, where nothing protrudes, and which can be flooded with light by an optional panoramic glass roof. Still, when it comes to pleasure and emotion, all of this remains very platonic; a remark that can be addressed to many other electric models. Hence, no doubt, this need to move “sportiness” to the trunk! After this observation, it is clear that this iD5 is a good family SUV. Super silent, very smooth to ride, comfortable – despite our 21'' rims – and endowed with a certain dynamism thanks to its transmission to the rear wheels (unlike the GTX which becomes 4×4 by adopting a second engine on the axle before), it only suffers from a somewhat tight cavalry. If the 204 hp and 310 Nm sparks under the hood of a small ID3, they must here propel more than 2.1 tonnes (including 493 kg of batteries). As proof, during our second test run at dawn on the small Austrian roads, we had trouble following our hare who, ironically, was driving an ID3! There remains, of course, the possibility of choosing the most expensive GTX, with 299 hp and 460 Nm. Good surprise on the consumption side since at the end of our two mixed test runs, carried out in the city, on Austrian roads and motorways , without any particular restriction, our average was 18.7 kWh – a figure very close to that announced by VW (17.8) – which corresponds to a real autonomy of 411 km, compared to the 513 “maxi” announced . What almost make this ID5 the main vehicle of the home, as Volkswagen would dream. It remains to talk about the essential equipment and connectivity without which the boho-geeks-ecologists cannot leave their car park. For the first time on an ID, Software 3.0 improves a number of functions: the Travel Assist 2.5 is thus able to learn the route of a small departmental road by exchanging information with other connected VW models, the Park -Assist Plus can memorize up to five previously learned parking locations, it optimizes lane change assistance on the motorway (however, we were unable to make it work…), and trip planning which will soon be able to make the charge automatic, without a card (the flow will begin as soon as the plug is connected). Or does it reduce the recharging time. Level 2 semi-autonomous driving, intelligent Matrix-LED headlights, “augmented reality” head-up display are also part of the equipment… standard or optional. Verdict For those who wish to travel with the family, comfortably, silently and without emitting the slightest gram of CO2, this ID5 could become an alternative to a thermal car… Provided that you pay more than €50,000. To buy Volkswagen ID5 Pro Performance test Version tested: €53,050 (Pro Performance) From: €51,450 (Pro) Average manufacturer consumption/average of the test (kW/100km): 17.8/18.7 Autonomy manufacturer/actual (km): 513/411 CO2/bonus-malus: 0/2,000 € Fiscal horsepower: 5 CV Country of manufacture: Germany Range offered Electric: from 170 to 299 hp, from 51,450 to 57,950 € Conduct Motor: permanent magnet synchronous electric motor, 77 kWh lithium-ion battery Transmission: rear-wheel drive, single gear + reverse gear Power: 150 kW – 204 hp Torque (Nm): 310 Charging time: 29’ on DC 135 kW socket (5-80%), 7h30 on AC 11 kW socket (0-100%) & 42h45 on AC 1.8 kW (0-100%) Weight (kg): 2,117 Length.xwidth.xhigh. (m): 4.60×1.85×1.61 Wheelbase (m): 2.77 Turning circle: 10.20 m Max speed (km/h) https://www.auto-moto.com/essais/volkswagen-id5-volant-nouveau-suv-coupe-electrique-344319.html#item=1

The Lusail stadium will host the 2022 World Cup final. [PA Images/Icon Sport] By CNEWS Published on 09/18/2022 at 19:22 - Updated on 09/18/2022 at 19:32 Two months before the start of the World Cup in Qatar, a match, organized in the final stadium and which was to serve as a test for the organizers, turned into a fiasco, according to a local and Dutch media. Qatar is not yet ready. Far from there. Two months before the start of the World Cup (November 20-December 18), a match, which was to serve as a test for the organizers, was organized on September 9 at the Lusail stadium, which will host the final. The goal was to know the faults of the device and the possible problems in view of the World Cup. And there were many, according to Doha News and the Dutch daily Het Laatse Niews. The worries started even before the meeting between the Saudi club Al Hilal and the Egyptian team of Zamalek. While 77,575 supporters attended this match, several of them encountered difficulties in reaching the enclosure with 80,000 seats. Hundreds of buses had been set up to transport spectators to the stadium, but they were not enough. Some supporters were forced to walk for more than 45 minutes to get there, all in temperatures approaching 35°C. The problems then accumulated inside the stadium itself with a lack of drinking water at half-time and a failure of the air conditioning, then at the end of the match with a large influx of people trying to take the metro. A line of nearly 2.5 km would have formed at the end of the meeting to reach the nearest metro station, which is located just 400m from the stadium. Faced with these numerous malfunctions, the organizers of the World Cup defended themselves and recalled that this meeting should be used to identify the problems in order to resolve them before the start of the competition. They have just two months ahead of them to rectify the situation and avoid experiencing the same kind of inconvenience during the competition. SEE ALSO https://www.cnews.fr/sport/2022-09-18/coupe-du-monde-2022-un-match-test-organise-dans-le-stade-de-la-finale-tourne-au

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