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Sean Havey/AP Alex Fuentes coaches Furia, a female Bengal Tiger, during a performance with the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, June 22, 2014. For five yeezy slide generations, Fuentes family has been runnin asics gel g the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, but a new law has him worried about its future. Last week Mexico City s legislative assembly banned the use of animals in circuses, responding to months of pressure from animal activists.The law is set to take effect a year from now, and it promises steep fines for noncompliance. Mexico City Sean Havey/AP Aineses Macias waits to perform during the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, June 22, 2014. Like many of the performers in the circus Macias was born and raised in the circus. Many circus performers fear theyrsquo;ll be out of work without animals because people wonrsquo;t want to come to the circus only to see the acrobatic, trapeze and performances by clowns. Mexico City hoka Sean Havey/AP Brenda Huerta, 6, and her sister, Daniela, 5, react to circus animals during a performance of the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, June 22, 2014. Mexico City Sean Havey/AP Cxyq Global Economy to Grow 4.2% This Year, IMF Says
The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary s massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry.Government officials lowered their estimate of the size of Monday s catastrophic spill - but even those figures were mind-boggling. They said the reservoir break at an alumina plant dumped up to 700,000 cubic meters of sludge onto three villages - not much less in a few hours than the 200 million gallons the blown-out BP oil well gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over several months beginning in April.The disaster s confirmed de stanley cup ath toll rose from four to seven. An 81-year-old man died Friday from injuries sustained in the torrent and two bodies were found on the outskirts of Devecser. The unidentified victims were likely two of the three Kolontar residents still missing, rescue agency spokesman Tibor Dobson said.Pictures: Toxic stanley cup Sludge FloodVideo: Red Sludge in HungaryDobson gave no further details, but the location of the bodies suggested they were swept over 3 kilometers by the torrent. One Kolontar resident was still missing. The red sludge devastated creeks and rivers near the spill site and entered the Danube on Thursday, moving downstream toward Hungary s immediate neighbors, Croatia, Serbia and Romania. Monitors were taking samples every few hours Friday to measure damage from the spill but the sheer volume flowing in Europe s second largest riv
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CHAPADA DOS GUIMARAES, Brazil -- Maia grunts and nervously moves her huge body back and forth while being released from a transport container to a new home. Here, there are no gawking crowds for the Asian elephant that has spent her life in captivity. There are no blows from bull hooks, no one demanding tricks like people did when she was in the circus.Instead, the first elephant sanctuary in Latin America, on about 2,800 acres in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, will allow Maia and Guida, another Asian elephant th samba rose at arrived this week, to simply roam. The two, along with possibly dozens more elephants in the future, will get veterinary care as they live out their lives in forested areas, pas adidas samba ture lands with hills, large boulders, streams yeezy and springs.Societies around the world are starting to become more aware of the trauma we have caused these animals in captivity, said Scott Blais, an American who drew on his experience co-founding a similar sanctuary in Tennessee in 1995 to help get this one off the ground. We need to build solutions. Itrsquo not enough to simply say they need a different life. Asian elephants Maia, left, and Guida, back right, roam the free area for the first time at Latin Americarsquo first elephant sanctuary in Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. AP For Blais and his wife, getting to t Cnxy Russia expels U.S. embassy s second-in-command in Moscow amid Ukraine tensions
I m Barry Petersen, and this Letter from Asia comes from Tokyo. When Japan changes Prime Ministers, it usually is no big deal. After all, with rare exception, the same party has been in control since the 1950s. But not this time. The stanley mugs new man at the helm is evoking a rare sense of foreboding both in Japan and across the Asian region.Shinzo Abe is a series of contradictionshellip;the first prime minister born AFTER World War Two, and yet one of the most nationalistic prime ministers in decades. His grandfather served as prime minister after the war, a time when American occupiers imposed a pacifist constitution. Yet Abe is openly talking about renouncing the pacifist part of this document. I am going to put this firmly on the table for discussion, he said. No wonder he woke up on his first day as prime minister to see an editorial cartoon depicting him as a hawk.And many do not want change. Japanese lawyers sang at this concert to protest Abe and celebrate a country that renounced force and they want it to stay that way. The constitution was our promise and determination to repent what we had do stanley kubek ne and renounce war, says Takao Takahashi. I still believe that. Japan s military is one of Asia s most sophisticated with its American made jets and state of the art American Aegis class missile-equipped destroyers. But under the current constitution, all this can only be used in sel gourde stanley f-defense. Even when Japan sent troops to Iraq, it was on a humanitarian mission.
Sean Havey/AP Alex Fuentes coaches Furia, a female Bengal Tiger, during a performance with the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, June 22, 2014. For five yeezy slide generations, Fuentes family has been runnin asics gel g the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, but a new law has him worried about its future. Last week Mexico City s legislative assembly banned the use of animals in circuses, responding to months of pressure from animal activists.The law is set to take effect a year from now, and it promises steep fines for noncompliance. Mexico City Sean Havey/AP Aineses Macias waits to perform during the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, June 22, 2014. Like many of the performers in the circus Macias was born and raised in the circus. Many circus performers fear theyrsquo;ll be out of work without animals because people wonrsquo;t want to come to the circus only to see the acrobatic, trapeze and performances by clowns. Mexico City hoka Sean Havey/AP Brenda Huerta, 6, and her sister, Daniela, 5, react to circus animals during a performance of the Fuentes Gasca Brothers Circus in Mexico City, June 22, 2014. Mexico City Sean Havey/AP Cxyq Global Economy to Grow 4.2% This Year, IMF Says
The mighty Danube apparently absorbed Hungary s massive red sludge spill with little immediate damage Friday but laboratory tests heightened concerns about possible longer-term harm caused by toxic heavy metals in the slurry.Government officials lowered their estimate of the size of Monday s catastrophic spill - but even those figures were mind-boggling. They said the reservoir break at an alumina plant dumped up to 700,000 cubic meters of sludge onto three villages - not much less in a few hours than the 200 million gallons the blown-out BP oil well gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over several months beginning in April.The disaster s confirmed de stanley cup ath toll rose from four to seven. An 81-year-old man died Friday from injuries sustained in the torrent and two bodies were found on the outskirts of Devecser. The unidentified victims were likely two of the three Kolontar residents still missing, rescue agency spokesman Tibor Dobson said.Pictures: Toxic stanley cup Sludge FloodVideo: Red Sludge in HungaryDobson gave no further details, but the location of the bodies suggested they were swept over 3 kilometers by the torrent. One Kolontar resident was still missing. The red sludge devastated creeks and rivers near the spill site and entered the Danube on Thursday, moving downstream toward Hungary s immediate neighbors, Croatia, Serbia and Romania. Monitors were taking samples every few hours Friday to measure damage from the spill but the sheer volume flowing in Europe s second largest riv
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CHAPADA DOS GUIMARAES, Brazil -- Maia grunts and nervously moves her huge body back and forth while being released from a transport container to a new home. Here, there are no gawking crowds for the Asian elephant that has spent her life in captivity. There are no blows from bull hooks, no one demanding tricks like people did when she was in the circus.Instead, the first elephant sanctuary in Latin America, on about 2,800 acres in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, will allow Maia and Guida, another Asian elephant th samba rose at arrived this week, to simply roam. The two, along with possibly dozens more elephants in the future, will get veterinary care as they live out their lives in forested areas, pas adidas samba ture lands with hills, large boulders, streams yeezy and springs.Societies around the world are starting to become more aware of the trauma we have caused these animals in captivity, said Scott Blais, an American who drew on his experience co-founding a similar sanctuary in Tennessee in 1995 to help get this one off the ground. We need to build solutions. Itrsquo not enough to simply say they need a different life. Asian elephants Maia, left, and Guida, back right, roam the free area for the first time at Latin Americarsquo first elephant sanctuary in Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. AP For Blais and his wife, getting to t Cnxy Russia expels U.S. embassy s second-in-command in Moscow amid Ukraine tensions
I m Barry Petersen, and this Letter from Asia comes from Tokyo. When Japan changes Prime Ministers, it usually is no big deal. After all, with rare exception, the same party has been in control since the 1950s. But not this time. The stanley mugs new man at the helm is evoking a rare sense of foreboding both in Japan and across the Asian region.Shinzo Abe is a series of contradictionshellip;the first prime minister born AFTER World War Two, and yet one of the most nationalistic prime ministers in decades. His grandfather served as prime minister after the war, a time when American occupiers imposed a pacifist constitution. Yet Abe is openly talking about renouncing the pacifist part of this document. I am going to put this firmly on the table for discussion, he said. No wonder he woke up on his first day as prime minister to see an editorial cartoon depicting him as a hawk.And many do not want change. Japanese lawyers sang at this concert to protest Abe and celebrate a country that renounced force and they want it to stay that way. The constitution was our promise and determination to repent what we had do stanley kubek ne and renounce war, says Takao Takahashi. I still believe that. Japan s military is one of Asia s most sophisticated with its American made jets and state of the art American Aegis class missile-equipped destroyers. But under the current constitution, all this can only be used in sel gourde stanley f-defense. Even when Japan sent troops to Iraq, it was on a humanitarian mission.
