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The move comes as the Government launches a radio advertising blitz with advice for Brits and EU citizens alike about travel arrangements and settlement rights after Brexit. The first go live on commercial stations at 6am today.
A Whitehall source last night insisted the letter was a response from Cabinet Ministers for clarification over how money could be accessed in emergencies. Departments are separately being urged to make a submission for extra No Deal preparation cash for 2018-2019 by January 14.
The Chancellor last month released £2 billion of ‘No Deal’ funding for 2019-2020. The Sun revealed for just £530 million was spent by Government departments on 2018-2019.
It is the first time a Kenyan presidential election has ever been nullified.
NAIROBI — Kenya’s Supreme Court on Friday overturned last month's presidential election, citing voting irregularities, and ordered a new election within 60 days. It declared President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election null and void.
It is the first time a presidential election in East Africa's economic hub has been nullified. Supporters of opposition candidate Raila Odinga, 72, danced and cheered in the streets, and said they felt vindicated because he had contended that he lost because the electronic tally had been hacked.
"We are happy as Kenyans because justice has finally been found," said Chris Omondi, a supporter of Odinga outside the court. "Raila has to win this election."
The country’s top court ruled 4-2 in favor of a petition by Odinga, whose lawyer said a scrutiny of the forms used to tally the results had anomalies affecting nearly 5 million votes. Kenyatta won by about 1.5 million votes out of 20 million cast.
“After considering the evidence, we are satisfied that the elections were not conducted in the accordance to the dictates of the constitution,” said Chief Justice David Maraga, who delivered the ruling.
Chris Msando, the head of the electoral commissions' IT programs, was tortured and murdered shortly before the election, something the opposition said proved a conspiracy against Odinga.
Violence broke out, killing 24 people, after Kenyatta won a second term in the Aug. 8 election with 54% of the vote. However it was not the feared mass killings of a decade ago when more than 1,000 people died in violence following Odinga's loss in 2007 elections.
The Supreme Court said the election commission “committed illegalities and irregularities … in the transmission of results, substance of which will be given in the detailed judgment of the court” that will be published within 21 days.
“It’s a very historic day for the people of Kenya and by extension the people of Africa,” said Odinga, the leader of the National Super Alliance (Nasa) party.
“For the first time in the history of African democratization, a ruling has been made by a court nullifying irregular election of a president. This is a precedent-setting ruling,” he added.
Analysts echoed Odinga, saying that Kenya was setting a standard for the entire continent, where courts regularly side with the ruling parties and incumbents, often in power for decades by fraud in elections or outright repression of the opposition.
The decision has "refreshed Kenyans trust in the judiciary, given the long evasive democracy an opportunity to take root in our deeply divided nation and set the agenda for democracy and the free will of the people," said Nazlin Umar Rajput, a political analyst in Kenya, and chairwoman of the National Muslim Council of...
"This is a win-win for the entire African continent whichever side of the divide anyone may be on," she said. "Whether we like it or not, we go down in history."
Kenyatta said he personally disagreed with the ruling, but accepted it. " I urge you to maintain peace and love each other. We believe in democracy and we are ready for the second round. We believe in the peace and unity of our country," Kenyatta said after the Supreme Court ruling.
The court did not place any blame on Kenyatta or his Jubilee party, which has denied any vote tampering. The country's electoral commission said there was a failed hacking attempt, while international election observers said they saw no interference with the vote.
“I’m very happy today, I can now go back home and have peace,” said Victor Wesonga, a resident of Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, where Odinga enjoys huge support. “I knew Raila won this election but he was denied the victory."
“We are very bitter with the decision of the Supreme Court," said Janet Wamboi, a Kenyatta supporter.
“But we’ll still vote for Uhuru Kenyatta in large numbers. We have the advantage in both houses (of parliament) and we are sure of winning the elections,” she added.
CLOSE to two-thirds of the drivers who were killed in highway crashes and tested for drugs afterward had opioids, marijuana or some combination of the two in their bodies, according to a new report on driving drugged in the United States.
That number is likely to increase as more states move to effectively legalise marijuana while struggling to find ways to detect its active use in motorists.
With legislation to legalise recreational marijuana pending in 21 states, the new Governors Highway Safety Association report urges states to move faster towards developing reliable roadside testing devices and providing better training for law enforcement to detect drivers under the influence of such drugs.
That's because studies and federal crash data suggest that more people are getting behind the wheel after getting high. In 2006, for example, nearly 28 per cent of drivers who were tested for drugs also tested positive; that number increased to 43.6 per cent in 2016.
Thursday's report, using a February 2018 survey and other data, acknowledges that the science on whether legalising marijuana has contributed to higher crash rates - or even significantly impairs one's ability to drive - is not settled.
Tests that detect marijuana's active ingredient, THC, don't always do so in a way that reflects whether a person is impaired, as traces of THC can remain in the system long after use and individual tolerance varies widely.
But the group says it is reasonably certain to believe that marijuana has contributed to the causes of some crashes and increased the risk of driving for some motorists.
In addition to speedier development of new roadside tests, such as those that use saliva or sweat from a driver's fingertips, the group calls for better research on the issue. For example, testing of fatally injured drivers varies widely by state, with some conducting toxicology tests on only 2 per cent of those killed...
Are mean people born that way?
Let's face it - everyone isn't nice. In fact, being nice is more difficult for some people than others. But is it possible that "niceness" is predetermined by our genes?
A new study in the journal Psychological Science suggests this: If you think the world is full of threatening people, you're not going feel compelled to be generous by doing things like volunteering and donating to charity. But if you have certain gene variants, you're more likely to be nice anyway.
Now hold on a minute - this doesn't give your mean neighbor an excuse to blame his DNA for not letting kids on the block play on his lawn.
When Marvi Lacar¹s father died in 2008, she experienced feelings she wasn¹t aware existed. Her conflicting emotions – those of resentment, guilt, love, yearning to forgive and yearning to not forgive - spiraled her into acute clinical depression.
Today, the CNN Photo Blog features her photographs of depression.
"Did you hear what she did?" "Guess what I just found out about our new co-worker!" These could be the starts of nasty rumors, but a new study suggests the act of gossiping can also serve important purposes in maintaining social order.
Researchers report their findings in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"Gossip gets a bad rap," said Robb Willer, social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "Much of what we call gossip is driven by a sincere desire to help others."
MOSCOW — Despite Russia’s ban from the upcoming Olympics, officials in the country still expect more than 200 of their athletes to compete at the Pyeongchang Games.
“Potentially more than 200 athletes are in a position to qualify,” ROC president Alexander Zhukov said after the organization held a closed congress on Tuesday.
The decision to ban Russia came after the country was found to have run a sophisticated doping program at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. On Tuesday, the IOC disqualified the Russian women’s hockey team because six players were implicated in doping offenses. That brings the total of Russians banned from Sochi to 31.
Zhukov said the Olympic committee unanimously voted for the athletes to compete despite the restrictions placed on the national team.
“The opinion of all taking part was united, and that was that our athletes need to go to South Korea, compete and win,” Zhukov said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his backing last week.
The ROC will submit rosters of its preferred athletes to the IOC, which will then issue invitations to Russian competitors.
“I think the IOC will make sure that the strongest Russian athletes get the invitations, so that, for example, our hockey team consists of the best players,” Zhukov said.
Russian athletes going to Pyeongchang still need to pass a screening from an IOC committee which will examine their history of drug testing.
Zhukov said Russia still denies operating a doping program at the 2014 Olympics and rejected any suggestion he had made a deal with the IOC to avoid harsher sanctions.
“It’s unacceptable to take away an athlete’s right to represent his country. In my view, it breaks not only the Olympic charter, but human rights,” Zhukov said. “So you really can’t talk about a deal here.
Individual athletes could still decide to skip the Olympics in protest, but the ROC said it has carried out a survey which didn’t find any who intend to boycott.
The ROC’s approval, however, doesn’t mean Russia is abandoning legal challenges against the IOC sanctions, Zhukov said.
Twenty-five of the athletes banned from Sochi have filed appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. IOC rules bar Russians from Pyeongchang if they have previously served doping bans.
Russia will send a delegation to Switzerland on Friday to discuss details such as neutral uniforms and whether athletes can wear national colors.
Last week, the IOC ruled that Russia’s suspension could be “partially or fully” lifted in time for the closing ceremony on Feb. 25 if Russia complies with its rulings.
Russia national hockey team captain Ilya Kovalchuk said he didn’t mind being known as an Olympic Athlete from Russia, competing without his country’s flag.
Intel has changed its strategy when it comes to talking about its next generation technology. Back at IDF 2012, the company mentioned Haswell second generation 22nm CPUs and even explained some of its core technology, although it didn’t actually show any demos.
People got excited about Core i5 and Core i7 next generation Haswell parts that can ship with 10W TDP, but Intel hasn’t actually shown anything. When we asked a few people inside the company, they said that Intel isn't planning on revealing too much, as they want to surprise the competition a bit more than they used to...
It’s quite clear that Haswell has every chance to beat AMD’s including 2013 Vishera successors. Intel obviously wants to see the market's reaction to many ARM competitors, since some of them run Windows 8 RT just fine.
Intel wants to keep things secret until the time is right and the fact that Haswell is expected in the later part of Q2 2013, almost nine months from now, doesn’t help. A few years back, the IDF would have taken place in September and Intel would roll out its new architecture in the first part of Q4, a month or two aft...
Foursquare just announced its latest feature, Radar, on its blog.
Radar uses iOS5 and sends alerts to users in real time so they can interact with people and places that are important to them.
Now, if you walk near a venue on one of your Foursquare To-Do lists, you'll receive a notification. And if three of your friends check into a bar down the street, that is notification-worthy too.
Foursquare calls Radar a "huge step in the evolution of the Foursquare vision."
It's worth noting that Apple announced a similar feature last week, "Find My Friends."
A person who tried to smuggle in ten sachets of heroin, a mobile phone and a phone charger into the Galle Prison on Esala Full Moon Poya Day Wednesday was nabbed.
The suspect had brought in the items hidden inside a packet of milk powder and intended to give them to one of his friends held in the prison remand, prison sources said.
They said the suspect had managed to bring in the milk packet into the prison premises but failed to pass it on to his inmate friend detained over his alleged involvement in a brawl.
Later, the smuggler sought the assistance of another prisoner serving in the prison canteen to pass the parcel to his inmate friend. As the latter was opposed to the idea, the suspect dumped the milk packet containing heroin and mobile phone with a charger into a trash bin and tried to flee but prison authorities nabbe...
The suspect is a resident of Baddegama area. He was handed over to Galle Police for further investigations by Chief Jailer V. R. Prabhath on the instructions of Galle Acting Superintendent Prisons C. Liyanage.
Galle police are conducting further investigations.
3D Systems launched the Sense today, its first 3D scanner geared towards entry level consumers. If this product can deliver what it promises, it is an incredible achievement for the company at $399.
The new 3D Systems Sense 3D scanner was launched today, and could mark a major break through for 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD). At $399 for a complete integrated 3D scanner and software, this product competes head on with the Stratasys, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) Makerbot Digitizer scanner, which retails for $1400.
At $1,000 cheaper, the Sense scanner looks to be major blow to the Digitizer, but time and user reviews will be the ultimate judge of who wins in the entry-level scanning arena. For investors and 3D-printing aficionados, this could mark a big turning point in making 3D design more accessible to entry-level users, and c...
Investors and fans shouldn't assume the new Sense will only be used in concert with 3D printers, though. This inexpensive scanner should appeal to multiple disciplines, like graphic and video game design, to name a few. Engaget has done a feature-length story on the new scanner.
In the video below, Motley Fool analyst Blake Bos discusses just why this new scanner is such a breakthrough for 3D Systems, and what it could mean for the success of Makerbot's recent Digitizer scanner. Investors in 3D printing won't want to miss out on this story.
Kalashnikov assault rifles, popular with terrorists and national armies in Asia and Africa, have been given a makeover and a new logo by its Russian manufacturer that has dubbed them as "weapons of peace".
Equipped with a shiny new logo, the Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov launched a major re-branding drive here yesterday.
The Siberian weapons maker paid more than USD 380,000 for the re-branding campaign, the Russia Today reported.
The new Kalashnikov logo is a "CK" written in black and red and melded into a single block. The abbreviation stands for Kalashnikov Concern, as the producer now calls itself.
The colours were borrowed from the flag of Udmurtia in western Siberia, the region hosting Kalashnikov's main facilities, the company said in a statement. The logo is accompanied by the company's name written in Russian.
The firearms producer also has a new slogan, or rather two different slogans. In English, it is "Protecting Peace" but in Russian it translates as "Weapons of Peace" or "Weapons of the World," depending on which meaning of the Russian word "mir" is used.
The company is also branching out into fashion, launching a line of branded survival gear.
The firm, which relies heavily on the export market, is among the targets of Western sanctions imposed over Russia's role in the Ukraine conflict.
The Kalashnikov, or AK-47, is one of the world's most recognisable weapons. The gun is relatively cheap as well as easy to manufacture and maintain, contributing to its popularity with terrorists and national armies in Asia and Africa.
It is believed that more than 100 million Kalashnikov rifles have been sold worldwide. The inventor of the rifle, Soviet Lt-Gen Mikhail Kalashnikov, died last year.
The company unveiled new logos across its these three product lines — Kalashnikov for the Russian and foreign militaries; Baikal for civilian hunters; and Izhmash for sportsmen — and promised to target new markets, including South America, Asia-Pacific and Africa, to offset the damaging loss of the US civilian arms mar...
"A brand is a considerable asset for any leading company, although we have a long way to go to Apple's USD 100 billion brand," Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov told RIA Novosti. "I hope Kalashnikov will become as recognised and valuable."
Kalashnikov hopes the new strategy will allow it to become the most popular weapons maker in the world by 2020.
LOUISVILLE — Strong sales abroad helped the maker of Jack Daniel's compensate for lackluster U.S. performance and post a 5 percent increase in its second-quarter profit Thursday.
Louisville-based Brown-Forman, whose other brands include Southern Comfort and Finlandia, raised its full-year earnings forecast to a range of $3.18 to $3.42 a share, up from $2.98 to $3.38.
"Based on our first-half success, we have more confidence in our outlook for the remainder of the year and reflected that in our guidance," Brown-Forman CEO Paul Varga said in a statement.
Don Berg, Brown-Forman's chief financial officer, told investors during a conference call that the company expects "significant growth" in operating income for the rest of its fiscal year, which ends in April.
Sales also fell overall for Southern Comfort and Finlandia vodka, Canadian Mist whiskey and Korbel Champagne.
Brown-Forman's winners included el Jimador tequila, whose sales surged 21 percent, and super-premium brands Bonterra, Chambord, Herradura, Sonoma-Cutrer and Woodford Reserve, whose sales rose 4 percent.
UBS analyst Kaumil S. Gajrawala was upbeat about prospects for the spirits industry. He told investors he expects U.S. sales to keep improving as consumers trade up in brands, beer makers lose market share and spending on promotions falls.
Both gunshot victims were airlifted to Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
MILLVILLE - A pair of Millville residents were shot inside their West Broad Street home early Tuesday morning, according to police.
Millville Det. Lt. Ross Hoffman told The Daily Journal police responded to the residence around 2:30 a.m. for shots fired and located two gunshot victims — a 49-year-old female and 29-year-old male.
Police said the victims reported two men with handguns entered the rear of their home prompting a struggle to ensue that ended with the two residents getting shot.

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