The White House
WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate seven individuals to fill key roles in the State Department:
Director General of the Foreign Service and the Chair of the Board of the Foreign Service
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations and Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization
April 14, 2021 01:00 PM
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1 PM April 14th for the webinar,
Guardians of the Straits: Turkey’s Plans for a Bypass Canal and the Future of Montreux.
On April 7, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that work on Kanal Istanbul would begin this summer. The $9.2 billion project, which will create a canal that will run parallel to the Bosporus Strait, has been marred in controversy, with critics alleging that it could threaten the Montreux Convention that has governed passage through the Straits since its signing in 1936. More than 100 former high-ranking Turkish naval personnel signed a statement criticizing the project to that effect. To date, Turkish officials have said that Kanal Istanbul would not affect the rules of the Convention, which limit the size and number of warships that can traverse the Straits. However, the new man-made waterway could allow the transportation of LNG shipments, potentially opening the Black Sea reg
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SAULT STE. MARIE War Memorial has installed bleeding control kits throughout the hospital and at offsite clinic locations.
Each kit contains resources to stop or control bleeding such as tourniquets, trauma bandages, gauze, shears, an emergency blanket, and personal protective equipment.
Stop the Bleed is a nationwide initiative that was launched in 2015. The goal of Stop the Bleed is to encourage bystanders to provide immediate assistance to help stop bleeding in injured persons before trained responders arrive. Bleeding control kits are intended to provide the essential life-saving equipment necessary in a major trauma event. Each kit is mounted to the wall and contains a laminated sheet inside with simple instructions for civilians to use in unfortunate but realistic scenarios.
Michael Balsamo, Nomaan Merchant and Colleen Long
WASHINGTON A Capitol Police officer was killed Friday after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. It was the second line-of-duty death this year for a department still struggling to heal from the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Video shows the driver of the crashed car emerging with a knife in his hand and starting to run at the pair of officers, Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman told reporters. The driver stabbed one of the officers, Pittman said. Authorities shot the suspect, who died at a hospital.