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The new subcompact SUV features a few interesting touches inside and out to go along with its larger size and new powertrain. The new 2025 Nissan Kicks is different in a big way, with a new powertrain, newly available all-wheel drive, and a larger footprint. But it's more interesting in smaller ways too, as the designers slipped in plenty of details and easter eggs that make the Kicks a bit more interesting to look at than your average subcompact SUV. Hidden C-Pillar Badge You'll have to look closely to spot this cool-looking exposed "KICKS" script in the C-pillar aft of the rear quarter windows. The cutout is etched into the tinted glass to expose a body panel behind it, so it shows up in whatever body color you opt for on your Kicks. Shoe-Inspired Cladding We're used to seeing black plastic body cladding on all manner of crossovers and SUVs, but the Kicks' cladding has a bit more visual interest. Nissan says this texture on the side skirts is meant to look like a sneaker. Get it, like Kicks? Headrest Speakers The optional 10-speaker Bose audio system includes headrest-mounted speakers for both the driver and passenger. The previous Kicks had a similar system, but the headrest speakers were only for the driver's seat. Headlight Logo This small Nissan logo is embossed in the headlights. Mirror Logo Lest you forget which model you're driving, this emblem on the plastic molding for the side mirrors will remind you. Front "Signature" Lights While all Kicks models have shiny chrome trim on the lower grille slats, only the SR comes with these six additional LED accent light strips. Zero-Gravity Rear Seats Nissan previously only touted its "Zero Gravity" seats in the front, but now the outboard rear seats feature this setup. This special cushioning and seat design is supposed to help with posture and comfort. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g60268933/2025-nissan-kicks-easter-eggs-details/

Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes W15 retires with engine failure on lap 17. Photograph: Eric Alonso/DPPI/Shutterstock Mercedes driver admits this season is ‘worse than 2009’ Team principle Toto Wolff says lack of progress has been brutal Hamilton laments ‘worst season ever’ after retiring from Australian Grand Prix Mercedes driver admits this season is ‘worse than 2009’ Team principle Toto Wolff says lack of progress has been brutal Giles Richards Sun 24 Mar 2024 17.43 GMT Share Lewis Hamilton described the worst Formula One season start of his career as tough on the spirit and warned it was a challenge leaving him in danger of just going through the motions, after he and Mercedes endured a dismal weekend at the Australian Grand Prix. The seven-time champion’s team principal at Mercedes, Toto Wolff, was equally blunt in his assessment, describing it as brutally painful, conceding it was a fair question to ask if it was time he stepped down from the role and that he felt neither positive nor optimistic about his team’s situation. Hamilton retired with an engine failure on lap 17 of the race in Melbourne, which was won by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. The British driver has been off the pace all weekend, qualifying only in 11th and making little progress in the race when his engine gave out. He has scored only eight points in three races this season, taking seventh in Bahrain and ninth in Saudi Arabia, a worse return than his previous opening nadir in 2009 of a disqualification, sixth and seventh. This is the third year in succession Mercedes have failed to deliver a car capable of competing at the front and this season have been outpaced not only by world champions Red Bull, but also by Ferrari and on this form in Australia, McLaren. After leaving his stricken car at the side of the track in Albert Park Hamilton admitted another season of struggle to little avail was far from inspiring. “This is the worst start to the season I’ve ever had for sure and it’s worse than 2009,” he said. “It’s tough on the spirit for everyone in the team. When so much work is going on throughout the winter for everybody, you come in excited, motivated and driven, and then you’re with the mindset that you’re going to be fighting for wins. “Then obviously that’s not the case and you’re like: ‘Okay, maybe second, third’. No, it’s not the case, and it cascades a bit further down and you just go through the motions. It’s challenging.” George Russell is helped from his car after crashing out of the final lap. Photograph: Paul Crock/AFP/Getty Images His teammate George Russell crashed out on the final lap but had made it no higher than seventh, ending a very disappointing weekend for Mercedes. They had entered the year having adopted an entirely new design philosophy for their car and were optimistic the new season would bring greater returns. Instead the problems seem all too familiar, the car is not performing as predicted in the wind tunnel and does not present a stable, reliable platform from one race to the next. Wolff, who joined Mercedes in 2013 – the same year as Hamilton – and who has been beside the British driver as he secured six titles with the team, conceded it had been a bitter start to 2024. “You see the progress that McLaren and Ferrari have made, so on one side, I want to punch myself on the nose,” he said. “We have got to really dig deep because it is brutally painful. “I would be lying if I said I feel positive and optimistic about the situation. You need to overcome the negative thoughts and say ‘we will turn it around’, but today it feels very, very, very brutal.” The 52-year-old, who is a one-third shareholder in Mercedes, also admitted it was reasonable to ask if he was the right person to lead the team but insisted he would not be stepping down. “I look at myself in the mirror every single day about everything I do and it is a fair question but it [leaving] is not what I feel that I should do at the moment,” he said. “If you ask the manager question, I cannot go to Chelsea or Liverpool or over to Ferrari, I have not got that choice [as a co-owner] which is also unfortunate. I am not a contractor or an employee, who has said: ‘I have had enough of this’. My hamster wheel keeps spinning and I cannot jump out.” https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/24/lewis-hamilton-worst-season-ever-australian-grand-prix-formula-one

‘It is harder to feel for others and to emotionally connect with them when this was mostly missing from our own upbringing.’ Photograph: Jaren Jai Wicklund/Shutterstock The dilemma I have been with my girlfriend for eight years. We have never lived together, which has worked well for us due to our shared love of us each having our own space. My girlfriend has recently become pregnant, and I am struggling with the decision of whether to continue our relationship living separately and supporting the child, or to end our relationship and provide financial support from a distance. I have always been clear about my desire not to have children. However, she wants to keep the child. I have lost my attraction to her lately and become increasingly depressed. We would have different parenting approaches; I am more pragmatic and disciplined, while she is more empathic and loving. I had a troubled childhood and can find it difficult to connect emotionally or socially with most people. I do not feel a bond with the child or the idea of raising one. I am unsure of what to do and would appreciate your guidance. Philippa’s answer It’s difficult to have a bond until we’ve met a baby. We bond with babies by being with them and interacting with them. They don’t speak of course, but they do learn turn-taking very early on. For example, you look at them, you do something like smile or stick your tongue out and they mimic it back to you. Bonding can take time and it’s not easy to bond to someone who isn’t here yet. It’s “most people” you find it difficult to relate to, it’s not everyone. It is harder to feel for others and to emotionally connect with them when this was mostly missing from our own upbringing. We gain a lot of our blueprint for relating from how we were related to as babies, as infants, as children. It is difficult to give to others what was not given to us, but it is not impossible. (I’m not criticising your parents for this. I expect they did the best they could in whatever circumstances they were in.) I’m not sure if you are being sympathetic enough to yourself in your current situation and I am guessing you are understandably fearful. When we don’t allow a feeling, we don’t just numb the fear, we numb other emotions too, such as love and joy, for example. We press most other feelings down along with the fear, and then the result, unsurprisingly, is depression. The way out from this is, I expect, to acknowledge fear and what it is that is scaring you. Don’t hide the fear behind anger, or behind not feeling anything at all, but look at it, take it out, unpack it, accept it, put it into words. We gain a lot of our blueprint for relating from how we were related to as babies, as infants, as children Now I’m going to state the blinking obvious: every time we have sexual intercourse, conception is the potential consequence of it. It is a responsibility of the parties involved to accept that possible outcome. I can see it isn’t particularly sexy. Fear isn’t very sexy either, nor is repressing emotions. It is understandable that you don’t fancy your girlfriend; this probably isn’t permanent, and it will also be to do with your reaction to her decision to continue with the pregnancy. It isn’t important that you don’t fancy her while you work through your feelings. A human will (all being well) be born and will be carrying your genes. So there really isn’t any running away from being a father. And if you do, there is always the risk that your child will take it personally and it will affect their self-esteem. It might affect yours, too. My book The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did may be hard for you to read it, because it will encourage you to feel again what you felt as a baby and a child and how it felt for you growing up. It’s hard for anyone to feel things we’ve been running away from, but if we are brave enough to face them, they are rarely as frightening as we might have imagined. When you can reconnect with the baby and child you once were and love him, rather than wanting to push him away, then the idea of being a parent may be easier. Whether to break up with your girlfriend might not even seem to be the most important point. The main point is what sort of relationship will you be able to offer to your child. When you have compassion for yourself as a baby, as a child, you will be able to relate to yourself and to the baby as a person, not as a thing to be repressed, controlled, ordered or ignored. When we have a baby, they are wholly dependent. They cannot even contain their own emotions and so they look to you to do this and everything else for them. This requires a huge shift in the adult person’s priorities, and it is enough to send the wisest and most loving of us into a panic, and such anxiety, understandably, tempts us to run away from the source of our fears instead of facing up to them. It’s a big shock you’ve had. Give yourself time, give your relationship time, and what you want to do going forward will unfold in its due course. When you find that inner child of yours and treat him with compassion, then I think you will find the decisions you need to formulate about your own future are easier to make. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/24/ask-philippa-perry-i-never-wanted-kids-but-now-my-partner-is-pregnant

Robinson estimated that the number of cats in his home had swelled to 298, including 15 who were pregnant. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA An animal welfare charity in western Canada is scrambling to secure the resources needed to care for about 300 cats – all of them seemingly in good condition – after a call came in from a man who described himself as being “overwhelmed” by the sheer number of cats and kittens in his home. Bruce Robinson told the British Columbia SPCA that he had taken in cats that had been abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic but that the cost of caring for them had become a herculean task after he lost his job. The charity had sent staff to his home in the small town of Houston to assess the situation, said Eileen Drever of the BC SPCA. “When asked how many cats he had, I think he said it was like counting bubbles in boiling water.” The cats were sociable and seemed to be in good condition, she told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “You know, he had a huge heart, and he was caring for them,” she said. “And then they just kept multiplying. One cat can have three litters in a year.” Robinson estimated that the number of cats in his home had swelled to 298, including 15 pregnant cats that were expected to deliver in the coming days. “I ended up in a crazy situation,” he told the broadcaster. “I made a bad decision … I thought I could handle the cats.” He had tried to give away the cats, but with little luck. Instead, he found himself spending thousands of dollars a month – at times going without food himself – to ensure they had the 28kg of food a day they needed and to buy cat litter for their 10 litter boxes. He said he had named each one of the cats. “I love every one of them,” he said. “I wanted to give them a safe home.” Drever said the SPCA was racing to raise funds and find a building capable of housing the cats while they are assessed by a veterinarian, vaccinated and spayed or neutered before being put up for adoption at centres across the province. “This is a huge undertaking and it’s going to take resources from around the province to bring these animals in,” she said. In the meantime, SPCA staff were helping to provide food, supplies and litter for the cats. “He had, the other day, between 70 and 80 newborn kittens,” she said. “That’s why we need to move as quickly as we can.” She said charges against the cat’s guardian were not being considered, as he was the one who had reached out for help. “Kudos to him for recognising he was overwhelmed,” she said. It also appeared that he had done his best to care for the animals, even as their po[CENSORED]tion rocketed. “I have never seen so many cats in good condition, they appear to be in good condition,” she said. “And the fact that they’re sociable is incredible. It’s quite shocking, actually.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/charity-steps-in-to-rehome-cats-man-in-canada

Protesters hold an effigy of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a rally to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 9, 2024 [Ismail Shakil/Reuters] Alex Cosh is an editor with the status-quo-allergic independent Canadian news upstart, The Maple. Cosh is a young reporter with an old-style muckraker’s temperament. His bunkum antennae are tuned to detect and expose the state-sanctioned flimflam that much of Canada’s establishment media hand-deliver like obedient couriers. So, while the big, corporate mastheads fell promptly and predictably in line behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s fulsome support for Israel’s plans to erase Gaza, Cosh has put his experience and dexterous skills to work, revealing Canada’s complicity in that ugly enterprise. This has translated into a stream of stories detailing how military “aid” flows from Canada to Israel through private companies; what type of military “goods” are exported to Israel, often via the United States; and how Canada’s arms trade with Israel has grown exponentially over the past decade and is now worth tens of millions of dollars per year. Cosh has also dissected the rhetorical shenanigans of senior government officials meant not only to deflect questions concerning the nature and extent of Canada’s military exports to Israel, but to deny and sow confusion about whether any permits had been approved since early October that may have helped render Gaza a barren, apocalyptic landscape. Pressed by a coalition of arms-monitoring and peace groups, scores of enlightened Canadians, Cosh and other reporters, Trudeau and company belatedly and grudgingly admitted in late January that Canada had indeed authorised military exports to Israel after October 7. Official Ottawa tried to blunt the stunning volte-face by suggesting that the permits were limited to “non-lethal equipment” – a meaningless bureaucratic concoction that has no legal and hence binding definition. In February, Cosh challenged that exculpatory construct. He obtained export data showing that the Trudeau government had approved at least 28.5 million Canadian dollars ($21m) in new permits for military exports to Israel during the opening months of its killing rage in Gaza. That figure beat the previous record of 26 million Canadian dollars ($19m) worth of weapons and equipment sold in 2021. Some of the permits allowed for the sale of products from a category that includes “bombs, torpedoes, rockets, other explosive devices and charges and related equipment and accessories”. By what cockeyed measure do any of those “goods” constitute “non-lethal equipment”? Cosh’s sleuthing discovered that the permits had been issued quickly, with one processed within four days. The dates on which some of the permits were certified indicate, as well, that Trudeau’s apparatchiks gave the green light to new military exports as late as December 6 after warnings had been issued by genocide scholars and United Nations special rapporteurs that genocide in Gaza was imminent. But the documents Cosh obtained failed to answer a critical question: How long were the permits valid for? This left open the possibility that some of the “goods” were still being shipped to Israel or will be in the future. Cosh’s scoop reverberated in the House of Commons, with New Democrats and Green Party members pressing Foreign Minister Melanie Joly for answers about the scope, scale, and timing of Canada’s military exports to Israel. Then, the leaks began – designed, I suspect, to staunch the disagreeable political fallout and burnish a damaged minister’s doddering image. The first backroom plant was published on March 14. It quoted anonymous sources who claimed that Joly had stopped approving new permits for exports of “non-lethal” military goods on January 8 because of the “extremely fluid” situation in Gaza. Describing genocide as an “extremely fluid” situation is an obscene first, even for career bureaucrats expert in nonsensical doublespeak. On the same day, CBC/Radio-Canada reported that the federal government was “slow-walking” an application to permit a Canadian manufacturer to sell armoured patrol vehicles to Israel. The implicit message: Joly was on the job. Members of the pretend socialist party of Canada, the New Democrats, were not convinced. On March 18, they put forward a nonbinding motion in Parliament calling on Canada to “suspend all trade in military goods with Israel”. Although nonbinding, had the motion been adopted, it would have amounted to a wholesale, two-way arms embargo. Not surprisingly, that motion was gutted, with Trudeau’s Liberals only agreeing to “cease the further authorisation and transfer of arms exports to Israel”. The emasculated, nonbinding motion passed with the government’s backing. Cue the confusion, backlash and hysteria. Foreign Minister Joly reached back to a 1970s tagline for a Coca-Cola ad and told the Toronto Star that the motion is the “real thing” – whatever that means. Lackadaisical editors unfamiliar with the motion’s fine print, penned headlines announcing that Canada had imposed an arms embargo on Israel. A few easily impressed “progressive” US Democrats shouted: Hurray! Meanwhile, a legion of easily upset Israeli politicians and editorial writers dismissed the motion as a performative stunt by a B-movie country with little, if any, influence to deter Israel from pursuing “total victory” in Gaza and beyond – whatever that means. Oh, wait. The arms embargo might not be an embargo at all. On March 20, Cosh wrote a long story pointing out that the military export permits authorised before January 8 will be allowed to proceed. The Trudeau government’s existing policy of pausing approvals of new applications for export permits – but not necessarily rejecting them – remains intact. This was the government’s policy before the New Democrat’s disembowelled motion won the day in Parliament. The rub: Canadian military goods will carry on flowing to Israel. New Democrats MP Heather McPherson confirmed the thrust of Cosh’s discerning analysis, telling The Maple that existing permits will not be subject to any changes; that could mean military exports worth tens of millions could be delivered to Israel. To add lunacy to a failed arms “freeze”, Trudeau et al have not ruled out buying Israeli military hardware, including those flagged by human rights groups as being “tested on” Palestinian civilians. In December, the Canadian military made public its eagerness to spend 43 million Canadian dollars ($31.6m) on an Israeli-made missile the occupation forces have strafed Gaza with yesterday and today. Canada, the true north strong and free – and still complicit. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/24/the-canadian-arms-embargo-on-israel-that-was-not

A satellite image shows an aerial view of the city of Sevastopol after a missile attack struck the headquarters of Moscow's Black Sea Fleet in Russia-annexed Crimea on September 2023 [File: Handout Planet Labs PBC/via AFP] The Ukrainian military has said it hit two large Russian landing ships in overnight attacks on the occupied Crimean peninsula as well as other infrastructure used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea. “The defence forces of Ukraine successfully hit the Azov and Yamal large landing ships, a communications centre and also several infrastructure facilities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in temporarily occupied Crimea,” Ukraine’s military said on Sunday. The military’s statement did not say how it hit the targets, but a Moscow-installed official in the region reported a major Ukrainian air attack, and said air defences had shot down more than 10 missiles over the Crimean port of Sevastopol. “It was the most massive attack in recent times,” the Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said in a Telegram post. He said that a 65-year-old man was killed and four people were injured and that transport infrastructure including passenger boats and buses were partially damaged, with windows broken on five boats. Three passenger buses, 13 school buses and one trolley bus were among the vehicles damaged, he added. Footage shared on social media showed a large blast in the city sending a fireball and plume of black smoke into the air, as well as what appeared to be Russian air defences intercepting incoming projectiles. Ukraine has claimed to have destroyed around a third of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, usually in attacks at night using sea-based drones packed with explosives. Satellite images show Russia has moved much of the fleet further east, to the port of Novorossiysk, amid the spate of attacks. Patrick Bury, defence and security analyst at the University of Bath, said the attack would not have a strategic impact on the war. “Up until a few weeks ago, this would have been really important because the Russians were using those landing crafts to resupply troops down south. But it looks like they have now engineered a railway line, so it won’t have a strategic impact,” Bury told Al Jazeera. “But by pushing the Black Sea Fleet back further east and out of the Black Sea essentially, it is allowing Ukraine to get more grains exports out which is important to the war economy,” he added. Increased frequency of Russian attacks Russia has significantly escalated its air attacks against Ukraine in recent days, in what it says is retaliation for a wave of Ukrainian strikes on its border regions. In the early hours of Friday, Moscow launched its largest aerial barrages against Ukraine’s energy sector since the start of the war. Moscow has also resumed targeting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. On Sunday, Kyiv and the western region of Lviv came under a “massive” Russian air attack, according to Ukrainian officials. They said that while there were no casualties, Russia had fired 29 cruise missiles and 28 drones at its territory overnight. Russian forces are also seeking to press their advantage in manpower and ammunition as Kyiv faces delays in supplies of additional Western aid. On Saturday, Moscow claimed to have seized a village on the western outskirts of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. Its capture last month of Adviivka, near the Russian-held stronghold of Donetsk, was the first major territorial gain made by Russia since the devastated city of Bakhmut was seized 10 months ago. Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed that success as a sign that Russian forces were back on the offensive. “[Ukraine’s President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy himself said that Russia has won the winter, and I think the momentum has shifted to the Russian forces on the ground at least. Adviivka is proof of that,” Bury said. “The big question now is whether there is something brewing in probably the month of May once the mud starts to dry in that area of Ukraine. So we will have to wait and see,” he said, adding that the Russians will be doing their absolute best to camouflage any kind of troop build-up if a spring offensive is on the cards. Russian missile breaches Polish airspace Meanwhile, Poland’s army said that one of the Russian missiles fired at western Ukraine had entered its airspace. “Polish airspace was breached by one of the cruise missiles fired in the night by the air forces… of the Russian Federation,” the army posted on X. “The object flew through Polish airspace above the village of Oserdow [in Lublin province] and stayed for 39 seconds,” it said. Poland, which has been a staunch ally of its neighbour Ukraine in the two years since the invasion, said on Sunday that it would demand an explanation from Moscow. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/24/ukraine-says-it-hit-two-russian-ships-off-occupied-crimea

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