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2023-11-23 19:58:20

A major fire raged Thursday followingnoon in a snack bar on Place Saint-Antoine in Etterbeek. No injuries were reported but the facility was heavily damaged. The cause of the fire was accidental, report the Brussels firefighters.

The fire broke out around 5 p.m. in the fryer in the snack bar kitchen and the flames spread quickly.

“It is a four-story building with apartments above the snack bar,” explained fire brigade spokesman Walter Derieuw. “The stairwell to these apartments has been completely closed, so we can evacuate residents safely. »

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2023-11-23 19:44:00

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CONWAY, Ark. – The Central Arkansas women’s basketball team continues its road swing, playing two games in Denver, Colo. The Sugar Bears start with a game once morest Denver at 2 p.m. CT on Friday before playing Nevada at 12 p.m. CT on Saturday.

Central Arkansas (2-2) goes to Mile High following a hard-fought loss at Arkansas on Monday. Despite falling 81-67, the Sugar Bears looked more than competitive during stretches once morest the Razorbacks, winning both the second and fourth quarters. Jade Upshaw led the way with 16 points, tying her season-high since joining the Sugar Bears. She was one of four players in double-figures once morest the Razorbacks, and hit four of the team’s ten three-pointers. The double-digit connections from beyond the arc were the most by a Sugar Bear team since 2018.

The scoring remains very balanced for Central Arkansas, with six players averaging at least seven points per game. Upshaw, whose 12.5 points per game lead the team, has shooting splits of 46/47/100, and has nine three-pointers to her name already.

The Sugar Bears still rank in the top-20 in field goal percentage defense following playing an SEC team, holding opponents to 31.6 percent shooting from the field. Arkansas was the first team in four tries to shoot over 33.3 percent, but still needed 20 free throws to really put the Sugar Bears away. Central Arkansas also leads the ASUN in most scoring and rebounding numbers, outrebounding teams by 12 boards per game and outscoring opponents by 13.5 points per game.

Denver hosts the Sugar Bears for the first time in program history following starting the season 1-2, with a win over North Alabama sandwiched between losses to Air Force and Wyoming. The home-opening loss to Wyoming was marked by a tough shooting day, with the Pioneers shooting less than 30 percent from the field and under 20 percent from three. Emily Counsel played well despite the loss, scoring 15 points and pulling down five rebounds.

Emma Smith leads the Pioneers in scoring, averaging 15.0 points through three contests, and is second on the team averaging 7.0 rebounds per game. She is the only double-digit scorer for a team that averages 57 points per game. Denver enters the week having shot the seventh-most threes in the country this season, letting loose on more than 27 triples per game. The downside for the Pioneers, however, is the 23 percent success rate on those shots, coming in at 305th in Division I.

Nevada (2-2) has played three of its four games at home this season, defeating Sacramento State and Pepperdine in Reno. Most recently, however, it was a loss to Oregon that evened the Wolf Pack’s record at 2-2. Trailing by one at half, Nevada was only able to muster 15 points in the second half, while surrendering 43 to the Ducks. Claire Jacobs led the team in scoring once morest Oregon, netting 12 points while connecting on a pair of triples.

Like Denver, the Wolf Pack only has one player averaging double-digit points this season: Audrey Roden. The junior guard was averaging over 17 points through the three games before Oregon, but scored just three once morest the Ducks, dropping her scoring number to 13.8 points per game. The West Linn, Oregon native also leads the team with nine assists and 13 steals.

Central Arkansas and Nevada have met on the court once, playing in the semifinal game of the 2018 CBI. In a 65-56 win for the Sugar Bears, Taylor Baudoin dominated en route to a game-high 24 points, part of a Central Arkansas team that shot 50 percent from the floor.

Tip-off once morest the Pioneers is set for 2 p.m. CT on Friday, and is followed by a noon start on Saturday once morest Nevada. Both games will be streamed on The Summit League Network, with live stats available online. Fans can also follow all the action on The Bear 91.3, with Steve Owens on the call.

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2023-11-23 19:30:00

Tom Van Grieken, the president of Vlaams Belang, told Gazet van Antwerpen that he already sees himself having a coffee with Geert Wilders at the “Torentje”, the residence of the Dutch Prime Minister in The Hague. He dreams, even if he knows that anything can still happen, of seeing “his friend Geert” succeed Mark Rutte, who has now resigned. What is certain is that the victory of the Dutch Islamophobic party, as overwhelming as it was unexpected, gives wings to the followers of Tom Van Grieken in Flanders. Vlaams Belang has always claimed that migration policy in our country remains a huge failure. However, in the Netherlands, this theme was at the heart of the legislative campaign. Just like the cost of living…

Jan Jambon does not completely close the door to Belang

Purchasing power above all

The victory of the Islamophobic party of Geert Wilders, nicknamed the Bulldozer, confirms what most political observers had predicted: the Dutch are very concerned regarding the migratory puzzle. Exactly like in Flanders. Even if the guarantee of purchasing power remains the top priority for many Flemish people.

Is Flanders moving, following the victory of the far-right in the Netherlands, towards a populist revolution, modeled on the Dutch model? Peter Van Aelst, professor of political communication at the University of Antwerp, thinks so. “If Vlaams Belang confirms its breakthrough in June (according to polls, the far-right might garner between 25 and 30% of the votes, Editor’s note), I don’t see how the cordon santé might resist. The VVD (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, which can be compared to the N-VA) declared during the campaign that it would not automatically rule out an alliance with Wilders’ PVV. A promise from which Wilders took advantage,” underlines the professor.

After this political tidal wave beyond Moerdijk, Belang feels itself growing wings in Flanders. But to gain power in Flanders, he still has to go through several steps. “Having learned from its mistakes, the party knows that it must water its wine,” observes Peter Van Aelst. Tom Van Grieken, however, must deal with rebel elected officials on several fronts. His Dutch counterpart, Geert Wilders, does not face this problem. He’s the boss, he decides alone. Van Grieken has watered down certain points in his program and is trying to rule out rebels such as Dries Van Langenhove. But he can’t go too far either. Vlaams Belang is playing a double game on the ground by refusing to sanction certain elected officials such as Filip Dewinter.”

Our interlocutor also underlines that the far-right has appropriated themes in the economic and social sphere. “The party knows that it must appeal to the general public and not always fish in the same pool. He also knows that he does not have a monopoly on ideas on migration. Conversely, other parties (notably the centrists) have recycled the ideas of the far-right. On the reception of migrants, public opinion seems to adopt more rigid, harsher positions: it is a shift to the right which can benefit it.”

Why Vlaams Belang is making the independence of Flanders a major electoral issue

“Not the end of the world but rather the end of the month”

Patrick Van Gompel, journalist and specialist in the Netherlands in particular for VTM, observes that the Flemish far-right is surfing on the same social themes as Wilders’ Dutch PVV. ” Vlaams Belang does not talk regarding the end of the world but rather the end of the month. He says climate and migration cost the taxpayer too much. And his speech influences others. Bart De Wever decided that the N-VA campaign should focus on the cost of living and prosperity. He also wants to appropriate the theme of migration which Belang still claims to be the father of,” recalls the journalist.

“I also think that the war once morest Hamas played a role in Geert Wilders’ victory. The Netherlands has always been pro-Israel. Many Dutch believe that Islamists are responsible for the war in Gaza. Many Dutch people admire the Israeli government. At home, many human rights sympathizers (for the Palestinian people) marched in the streets. Defending the Palestinian cause in Flanders brings votes to Vlaams Belang,” recalls Patrick Van Gompel.

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2023-11-23 19:04:00

Moscow. November 23. INTERFAX.RU – The bankruptcy trustee of Otkrytie Holding, Maria Bulatova, filed an application to jointly and severally recover 9.75 billion rubles in losses from LUKOIL shareholders Vagit Alekperov and Leonid Fedun, as well as four companies, according to a message on Fedresurs.

The bankruptcy trustee demands to recover damages from the Cypriot Gatecraft Limited, JSC Capital, LLC Reserve Invest and JSC Private Assets.

Until 2017, Otkritie Holding was one of the largest financial holdings in the Russian Federation. In 2017, the company’s main asset, Otkritie Bank, as well as Trust Bank, which it was rehabilitating, came under the control of the Central Bank, which seriously worsened the financial position of the holding.

On July 19, 2022, the court declared Otkritie Holding bankrupt. As of this date, the register of its creditors includes claims in the amount of more than 920 billion rubles. The largest creditor is Trust Bank, the amount of Otkritie Holding’s debt to which is regarding 450 billion rubles.

Fedun and Alekperov were co-owners of Otkritie Holding. In addition, in 2017, shortly before the emergence of financial problems, the holding bought shares of the diamond miner AGD from LUKOIL for $1.45 billion. In 2020, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) demanded that the deal be reversed, since Otkritie Holding The company hid from the department information regarding the presence of foreign citizenship among three of its shareholders. In addition, according to the FAS, the transaction price was doubled. Considering that the main asset of the holding at that time was the Otkritie bank, which went into reorganization a few months following the transaction, the disputed transaction might cover the withdrawal of bank funds in favor of the beneficiaries of the holding with foreign citizenship, the FAS considered. The trial lasted more than two years and ended in July 2020 with the conclusion of a settlement agreement, the essence of which was not disclosed, since, according to the participants in the trial, the final court hearing was held behind closed doors.

In September of this year, the holding’s bankruptcy trustee and LUKOIL entered into a settlement agreement in the case of collecting the “difference” from the oil company on a controversial deal with AGD. Bulatova in court asked to apply the consequences of partial invalidity (a number of transactions in 2016-2017 – IF) in the form of a recovery of 12.05 billion rubles from LUKOIL. At this amount, the bankruptcy trustee of Otkritie Holding estimated the difference between the funds provided by Otkritie Holding to Lakover Trading Limited under loan agreements dated May 17 and 23, 2017, and the cost of acquired claims under them. The trial, at the request of the parties to the dispute, was held behind closed doors. According to the bankruptcy trustee, on September 18, the proceedings in the case were terminated due to the approval of the settlement agreement.

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