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The only problem? We don't know what dealers have the last two LCs. Help us find them. The Toyota Land Cruiser returns to dealers in the United States this spring after a three-year hiatus. However, the new model is much different, a smaller return to its roots and not a large V8 luxury off-roader. If you'd prefer to have the previous generation, we have good news: There are exactly two new examples left at dealers in the United States, a Toyota spokesperson confirmed to Motor1. When asked which dealers were holding on to the treasured Cruisers, a Toyota spokesperson told Motor1 the company didn't have insight to their whereabouts. They could be anywhere. Searches on major car-selling websites didn't yield any results, suggesting they might be stored in a showroom's inventory but not listed for sale. As much as we'd like to call every Toyota dealer across the nation to ask if they have new Land Cruisers for sale, we have a lot to do and there are hundreds of dealers. So we're turning to you for help. If you know of one holding a new Land Cruiser, or if you are that dealer, please comment on this post or email us at tips@motor1.com. Maybe we can help you find a buyer. Toyota discontinued the Land Cruiser in the US for the 2021 model year, but a handful of them have remained at dealers since then. The company moved 3,711 examples the last year they were available. The figure fell to 48 examples in 2022. Toyota sold seven new examples of the old Land Cruiser in the US in 2023 through old stock languishing on dealer lots. Clearly, there are a small handful of people out there who would prefer to have the old V8-powered model over the upcoming new SUV's turbocharged four-cylinder power plant, even if it means paying more money. Complete pricing for the 2024 Land Cruiser is not yet available. Toyota says the truck will start in the mid-$50,000 range, substantially less than the $82,010 MSRP for the SUV in 2021. The new one should live up to the model's rugged legacy by coming standard with off-roading tech like full-time four-wheel drive, a two-speed transfer case, and low-speed crawl control. But if you prefer the full-sizer with a V8, you'll have to find one of the remaining two Land Cruisers currently in hiding, as the new big-boy 300-Series Land Cruiser is only sold overseas. Like the Lexus LFA, this is one Toyota product that dealer owners might be holding for their own personal collections. Can't blame them, the final V8 LC for the US will surely be a collector item in the future. When one with 20-miles on the clock sells for $350,000 on Bring a Trailer in 15 years, it'll probably be one of these final two. Source: Toyota https://www.motor1.com/news/703102/2023-toyota-land-cruiser-sales/

In-form Endo ‘wants to stay’ but also wants to win Asian Cup Japan captain is Liverpool’s player of the month for December Wataru Endo has been in fine form deputising for Alexis Mac Allister in Liverpool’s midfield. Photograph: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC/Getty Images The Liverpool midfielder Wataru Endo has admitted he has conflicting feelings in leaving Merseyside for the Asian Cup just when he had started to find his form. The Japan captain, a £16m signing from Stuttgart, started the past six matches as he deputised for the injured Alexis Mac Allister and that regular rhythm undoubtedly helped the 30-year-old find his feet after a tough introduction to English football. He was voted Liverpool’s men’s player of the month for December by supporters. However, the New Year’s Day win over Newcastle that extended Liverpool’s lead at the top of the Premier League table to three points was his last game for a month as he flies out to Qatar to begin preparations for the tournament, which begins next Friday. Unlike Mohamed Salah, who is now away with Egypt at the African Nations Cup, when Endo returns he will have lost his place. Mac Allister has been first choice in the holding role all season. “Of course I want to stay here but as a national team player it is important for me as I am captain. I am now focused on the national team and just doing my best,” said Endo. “I want to have good results at the Asian Cup, but that’ll mean I have to stay longer in Qatar. . “I want to come back with the Asian Cup title. I’m confident Liverpool can do well in the absence of me and Mo.” Endo’s arrival in mid-August meant his integration into the side took longer and, as a result, he was mainly restricted to starts in the Europa League and Carabao Cup. However, Mac Allister’s injury and a heavy December workload meant Jürgen Klopp had little option but to play him every week and that made a significant difference. “It has been the toughest Christmas and new year in my life but to play football is amazing so I’ve enjoyed it also,” Endo said. “It’s a very tough schedule but I needed to keep playing. Playing the games is the most important way for me to improve. We have so many injured players. I was thinking, I am a very important player on the pitch so I needed to show why I came here. “The team played well and I also played better than before and we are now top of the table so I feel I did my job. I feel like I’ve got to grips more with playing in England. Confidence is a big thing also. The manager has shown a lot of faith in me. The other players know me better now as well.” Liverpool have recalled the 20-year-old James Balagizi from his loan spell at Wigan, where he madeseven appearances, three of which were in League One. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/04/liverpool-wataru-endo-admits-mixed-feelings-asian-cup-departure

US Secretary of State Blinken to visit nine countries as Israel’s war on Gaza widens to Lebanon and threatens to engulf region. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to reporters prior to a meeting with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv, Israel, on November 30, 2023 [Saul Loeb/Reuters] 4 Jan 2024 | Updated: 7 hours ago The United States is to engage in a renewed diplomatic push to calm tensions in the Middle East as the region teeters on the brink of a regional conflagration following a suspected Israeli strike on a Hamas leader in Lebanon, twin bombings in Iran and no end in sight to Israel’s war on Gaza. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will engage in some shuttle diplomacy while on a weeklong whistlestop tour of several countries that begins on Thursday. Blinken will visit Israel, the West Bank, Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters. He will discuss immediate measures to increase humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip, while also stressing to Israel that it needs to do more to lower tensions in the occupied West Bank, Miller said. Blinken will also focus on preventing the conflict from expanding to other countries. “He will discuss specific steps parties can take, including how they can use their influence with others in the region, to avoid escalation,” Miller added. Ahead of Blinken’s visit, special envoy Amos Hochstein, an experienced hand who has helped broker maritime talks between Israel and Lebanon in the past, is expected to lay the groundwork. Blinken’s trip, the fourth since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, comes as interlinked conflicts in the region reach boiling point. In recent days, Israel has ramped up its attacks on Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Syria, and on Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon, and is suspected of killing top Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut on Tuesday. Palestinians attend a protest against the killing of senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri, in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on January 3, 2024 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters] Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels have been disrupting global commerce, targeting vessels linked to Israel in the Red Sea in support of Hamas. Leading a multination maritime coalition, Washington has issued what appeared to be a final warning to the Houthis. Over the weekend, US-led multinational forces sank three rebel ships and killed a number of rebels, leading Iran to deploy a warship to the region. ‘Important time’ On Wednesday, Iran was hit by twin explosions that killed more than 80 people commemorating the death of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike four years ago. Esmail Qaani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, blamed the US and Israel for the attack. The US State Department’s Miller rebutted the claims, calling suggestions of US involvement “ridiculous” and adding that he had “no reason to believe that Israel was involved”. Reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan said that the US “absolutely” wanted to “restore some calm”. “This comes at a very important time,” she said, adding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has already said he’s fighting a war on seven fronts”, in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran. Hochstein will be looking specifically at the northern border dispute between Hezbollah and Israel, where there has been crossfire and heightened tensions since the killing of al-Arouri, our correspondent said. Palestinian women mourn after an Israeli military raid on Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank [Majdi Mohammed/AP] Blinken’s planned visit also comes as Israel faces a high-stakes legal showdown at the UN’s International Court of Justice next week after South Africa filed a case accusing Israel of genocide. The hearing, set for January 11-12, will bring some measure of discomfort to the US, which has lent staunch support for Israel since the war began, fast-tracking $14.3bn in aid in November. On Tuesday, however, the US State Department distanced itself from recent pronouncements by hardline Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir advocating the displacement of Palestinians as a solution to the crisis. “We have been clear, consistent and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of its future and with no terror groups able to threaten Israel,” Miller said. In Washington, US national security spokesperson John Kirby denied that apparent US support for Israel’s extraterritorial killing of Hamas leadership and its deployment of strike groups to the Eastern Mediterranean to challenge Yemen’s Houthi rebels were contributing to the escalation. “I stand by my answer. No,” he said on Wednesday, in response to a question by Al Jazeera correspondent Kimberly Halkett. Responding to the killing of al-Arouri, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the strike was “a major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent”. However, in a delicate balancing act, he underlined that he did not fear war with Israel, but stopped short of announcing a large-scale escalation. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/4/us-to-send-top-diplomats-to-middle-east-as-regional-tensions-spread

British actor and star of 1964 film died at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes on Thursday Glynis Johns in 1950. Photograph: John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Glynis Johns, the Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, has died aged 100. She died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes, according to her manager. Johns also introduced the world to the bittersweet Send in the Clowns by the American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the song for her role as Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony in 1973. Sondheim wrote the show’s hit song to suit Johns’ distinctive husky voice, but she lost the part in the 1977 film version to Elizabeth Taylor. “I’ve had other songs written for me, but nothing like that,” Johns told the Associated Press in 1990. “It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever been given in the theater.” In a statement to the Guardian, her manager, Mitch Clem, said: “My heart is heavy today with the passing of my beloved client Glynis Johns. Glynis powered her way through life with intelligence, wit and a love for performance, affecting millions of lives.” He added: “She entered my life early in my career and set a very high bar on how to navigate this industry with grace, class and truth. Your own truth. Her light shined very brightly for 100 years. She had a wit that could stop you in your tracks powered by a heart that loved deeply and purely. “Today is a somber day for Hollywood. Not only do we mourn the passing of our dear Glynis, but we mourn the end of the golden age of Hollywood.” Others who followed Johns in singing Sondheim’s most po[CENSORED]r song include Frank Sinatra, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan and Olivia Newton-John. It also appeared in season two of Yellowjackets in 2023, sung by Elijah Wood. Johns was known to be a perfectionist about her profession and insisted the roles she took were multi-faceted. “As far as I’m concerned, I’m not interested in playing the role on only one level,” she told the AP in 1990. “The whole point of first-class acting is to make a reality of it. To be real. And I have to make sense of it in my own mind in order to be real.” Johns was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1960 film The Sundowners, and starred alongside Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O’Toole in the film Under Milk Wood. She made a number of TV appearances, and starred in her own sitcom Glynis in 1963. Later on in her career, she played the role of the kooky and fragile grandmother in the 1995 romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping. She played the grandma again in her final role in the 1999 film Superstar, starring Molly Shannon. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/05/glynis-johns-dead-mrs-banks-mary-poppins

Known since Palaeolithic times, valued by the Romans and key to Portugal’s empire-building, there are now less than 3,000 Garranos left by Sam Jones in Vieira do Minho There is more life in the fog-bleached mountains of northern Portugal than the raptors wheeling overhead in search of rabbit and the invisible cows whose clanking bells ring out through the damp whiteness. The trick is finding it. Along the hillside, piles of fresh manure signpost the way to one of the region’s most emblematic and endangered species. Before long, the curve of a dark brown neck rises from a nest of mossy rocks and winter-brown ferns. It belongs to a Garrano, an ancient breed of pony that has lived on the Iberian peninsula long enough to appear in paintings by both Palaeolithic artists and Diego Velázquez. Its strong, stocky build helped Portugal build and maintain its empire. Today, however, the Garrano is struggling to hold on. After 16,000 years of domestication, the breed began to fall from favour in the middle of the 20th century as farms were mechanised and tractors and cars replaced horses. In the 1940s, there were between 40,000 and 60,000 Garranos in Portugal. Current estimates put the total po[CENSORED]tion at 1,500-3,000. “A horse needs a function,” says José Leite, a vet who serves as a technical adviser of the Association of Garrano Horse Breeders (Acerg). “Without it, they’re doomed to disappear. And that’s what was happening here. The need for the horse as an agricultural tool ended, and so this intensive breeding stopped, too.” Acerg is trying to ensure the breed’s survival by highlighting its multifaceted potential: not only has the pony been valued as a hardy trekker since at least Roman times, it can also pull buggies, do dressage and is an ideal animal for novice riders. “It’s about giving the breed back a purpose,” says Leite, “or finding a new one.” Ariana Bezerra with one of the stallions on her family’s farm in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. Photograph: Gonçalo Fonseca/The Guardian “It’s about giving the breed back a purpose,” says Leite, “or finding a new one.” In a country such as Portugal – which knows all too well the damage wildfires can do – the Garrano is now being pressed into service as a fire-prevention tool. Acerg has signed an agreement with Portugal’s largest electrical infrastructure company, REN, to provide 280 horses that will clear brush under pylons by grazing across 4,000 hectares of mountainside. Michel Pereira, who has been beguiled by Garranos since he was 11, has been breeding the ponies for three decades and has 48 animals, many of which are now roaming the Serra da Cabreira. The wildfires of 2017, which killed more than 100 people in Portugal and Spain, reached one of his stables, devouring the plastic lining of its roof and bringing it down on the ponies beneath. Although the burned animals survived, the fire was a reminder of all that could be lost. ‘Portugal would be a poorer country without these horses,’ says Michel Pereira, a Garrano breeder and trainer. Photograph: Gonçalo Fonseca/The Guardian “Portugal would be a poorer country without these horses,” says the 55-year-old breeder. “It would be a great loss to Portugal and to all the families whose lives are bound up with Garranos.” Obsolescence and the climate emergency are not the only threats the Garrano faces. The mountains of north-west Portugal are also home to around seven packs of Iberian wolves, comprising an estimated 30-40 animals. Like the ponies, the wolves have been in the area since the Palaeolithic period, and have been a protected species since 1988. Garrano foals are rich and easy pickings for the wolves. Susana Lopes, a vet who joined Acerg eight years ago, says that wolves are killing up to 70% of the foals in some areas. “If there aren’t too many wolves, the Garranos can do OK,” she says. “It’s OK if the wolves take the odd sick foal, but we’ve got to the point where … there’s no balance.” In the 1940s, there were between 40,000 and 60,000 Garranos in Portugal. Current estimates put the total po[CENSORED]tion at 1,500-3,000. Photograph: Gonçalo Fonseca/The Guardian The Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF), the state body responsible for managing Portugal’s natural heritage, points out that wolves are protected by law, adding that the government pays compensation to farmers whose livestock are killed by the carnivores. A spokesperson for the ICNF says the institute and its partners have launched a range of projects “to raise awareness among livestock farmers of the importance of conserving this large carnivore and to support them in implementing the most appropriate protection measures to prevent wolf attacks”. Such programmes, she adds, include the use of traditional Portuguese livestock dogs and the building of fenced enclosures. But the Garrano breeders argue that neither measure is suited to roaming ponies, and say the only sustainable way to address the attacks would be to introduce other animals for the wolves to eat, such as goats. In the meantime, many breeders are bringing their pregnant mares down from the mountains so they can give birth and raise their foals in safety. Garrano breeder Fernando Bezerra fell in love with the breed after visiting a local horse fair as a young boy, says his daughter. Photograph: Gonçalo Fonseca/The Guardian Ariana Bezerra and her father, Fernando, have six Garranos on their farm on the outskirts of the ancient town of Ponte de Lima. Keeping them stabled, she says, is a mixed blessing. “To protect the bloodlines and the foals, people like us keep their horses at home, but by doing that, you lose a lot of their wildness,” says Bezerra, as her father – who fell in love with the breed when he visited the local horse fair as a young boy – shows off his Garrano saddles and plies his visitors with bowlfuls of the wine he makes in a cellar beneath the stables. “Losing the Garranos would be like having your heart broken and losing the pieces forever,” she says. “They’re not just part of Portugal’s history, they’re part of the world’s history.” Losing the Garrano ponies ‘would be like having your heart broken and losing the pieces forever’, Ariana Bezerra. Photograph: Gonçalo Fonseca/The Guardian Leite says the breed’s disappearance would be the environmental equivalent of losing Lisbon’s famous Jerónimos monastery. What is more, he adds, if the ponies go, they could take their predators with them. “We’d be losing all that very important genetic heritage,” he says. “And if the Garranos disappeared, the wolf packs in the mountains would disappear.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/01/portugal-efforts-to-save-the-garrano-pony-ancient-breed-extinction

The United States also expressed concerns that Russia is seeking close-range ballistic missiles from Iran. Missiles launched from Russia fly towards eastern Ukraine [File: Vadym Bielikov/AFP] 4 Jan 2024 The United States has said that Russia is using ballistic missiles from North Korea and is seeking close-range ballistic missiles from Iran. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday that recently declassified intelligence found that North Korea had provided Moscow with the weapons, at least one of which was fired into Ukraine on December 30, landing in an open field in the Zaporizhia region. Russia also launched “multiple” of the North Korean missiles on Tuesday during an overnight attack, he added. Kirby also said that a Russia-Iran deal had not been completed but that the US “is concerned that Russia’s negotiations to acquire close-range ballistic missiles from Iran are actively advancing”. He said Washington and its allies will now raise the matter at the United Nations Security Council as it signals a breach of US sanctions against North Korea. The Biden administration has repeatedly looked to make the case that the Kremlin has become dependent on North Korea and Iran for the weapons it needs to continue its military operation in Ukraine and has disclosed findings it says prove that. So far, North Korea and Iran are largely isolated on the international stage for their nuclear programmes and human rights records. In October, the White House said that North Korea had delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Moscow. Britain on Thursday condemned Russia’s use of North Korean missiles in recent attacks against Ukraine. “We urge North Korea to cease its arms supply to Russia,” the UK’s Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement. Crimean attacks Earlier on Thursday, Ukraine announced that its air force had conducted a raid on a Russian command post near the occupied city of Sevastopol and hit a military unit in a separate attack on the Crimean Peninsula. Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk posted a video on the Telegram app showing smoke rising from an explosion near Sevastopol, a Crimean port that serves as the main headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. “Thanks again to the Air Force pilots and everyone who planned the operation for perfect combat work,” he said. The Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, described the attack as “the most massive in recent times”. He said one person was hospitalised after a piece of shrapnel struck. Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had foiled a Ukrainian attack, destroying 10 incoming missiles over the peninsula. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/4/russia-used-north-korean-missiles-in-ukraine-us-says

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