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Howard paid visit by VP Harris in 1st NCAA tourney since ’92
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The primary look for Howard College within the NCAA Event since 1992 included a go to by one of many faculty’s most distinguished alums.
Vice President Kamala Harris watched Howard’s 96-68 first-round loss to Kansas from a collection at Wells Fargo Enviornment on Thursday afternoon and met with the team afterward.
As supporters within the hallway chanted “H-U, you realize!” gamers trickled into the locker room. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, walked in a couple of minutes later.
“You performed exhausting. You performed to the final second. You made all us Bisons proud,” Harris mentioned, in line with the press pool account of her tackle of the gamers. “You might be good. You might be disciplined. You set all the things you had into the sport. You guys didn’t cease, and that’s so inspiring. So you retain taking part in with chin up and shoulders again since you confirmed the world who Bison are.”
Harris, who graduated in 1986 from the traditionally Black college within the nation’s capital, mentioned she has heard alumni everywhere in the world speaking about their delight within the group.
“So I do know you will not be feeling nice proper now, OK, however know who you’re,” Harris mentioned. “You might be excellence. You might be exhausting work. You might be highly effective, and you’re winners.”
The gamers have been subdued after the top of their season however nonetheless in a position to acknowledge the importance of assembly Harris.
“It’s superb to know we’ve folks of such energy which might be affiliated with us and supporting us on the identical time,” freshman ahead Shy Odom mentioned.
When Harris was proven on the video board in the course of the recreation, the boos — Kansas and Iowa are Republican-leaning states, in spite of everything — outweighed the applause.
Carrying their Black Historical past Month jerseys with inexperienced trim and a purple script “The Mecca” on the entrance — in reference to Howard’s nickname because the nation’s most distinguished traditionally Black college — the Mid-Jap Athletic Convention champion Bison took the courtroom with loads of confidence.
“I simply love how they’ve grown as folks and have change into higher males over the course of this season,” coach Kenny Blakeney mentioned. “That’s a victory nobody can take away from us. I’m thrilled that we have been in a position to symbolize Howard College in a cultured method that honored so many individuals earlier than us.”
This was simply the third NCAA Event look in program historical past for Howard.
“We have now had loads of video games on nationwide TV,” Blakeney mentioned, “however actually being within the NCAA Event there are extra eyes and visibility on you, which is superb as a result of we’ve an opportunity to speak about our college as one of many best on the face of this planet.”
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Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway, pausing traffic
A group of climate protesters have been arrested in Germany after breaking into an airport and gluing themselves to the runway.
Six activists broke through security fencing at Munich airport in the German state of Bavaria on Saturday, according to the news outlet dpa.
Approximately sixty flights were canceled after the half-dozen protesters glued themselves to the tarmac, forcing officials to temporarily close the airport.
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An additional fourteen flights into Munich were forced to divert to other nearby airports to avoid the disruption.
Climate protest coalition Last Generation took credit for the stunt, claiming it was intended to draw attention to the German government’s inaction on the airline industry’s environmental impact.
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All six protesters were arrested and charged by law enforcement.
“Trespassing in the aviation security area is no trivial offense. Over hundreds of thousands of passengers were prevented from a relaxed and punctual start to their Pentecost holiday,” German Airports Association General Manager Ralph Beisel told dpa.
“Such criminal actions threaten air traffic and harm climate protection because they only cause lack of understanding and anger,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wrote about the protests on social media platform X.
The Munich incident was just one of many similar protests around the world against air transportation. Last Generation has performed at least two similar airport disruptions in Germany since last year.
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Russian court seizes two European banks’ assets amid Western sanctions
Freezing hundreds of billions of dollars in lenders’ assets was part of dispute over gas project halted by sanctions.
A Russian court has ordered the seizure of the assets, accounts, property and shares of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank in the country as part of a lawsuit involving the German banks, court documents showed.
The banks are among the guarantor lenders under a contract for the construction of a gas processing plant in Russia with the German company Linde. The project was terminated due to Western sanctions.
European banks have largely exited Russia after Moscow launched its offensive on Ukraine in 2022.
A court in St Petersburg ruled in favour of seizing 239 million euros ($260m) from Deutsche Bank, documents dated May 16 showed.
Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt said it had already provisioned about 260 million euros ($283m) for the case.
“We will need to see how this claim is implemented by the Russian courts and assess the immediate operational impact in Russia,” the bank added in a statement.
The court also seized the assets of Commerzbank, another German financial institution, worth 93.7 million euros ($101.85m) as well as securities and the bank’s building in central Moscow.
The bank is yet to comment on the case.
In a parallel lawsuit on Friday, the Russian court also ordered UniCredit’s assets, accounts and property, as well as shares in two subsidiaries, to be seized. The ruling covered 462.7 million euros ($503m) in assets.
UniCredit said it “has been made aware” of the decision and was “reviewing” the situation in detail. The bank was one of the most exposed European banks when Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, with a large local subsidiary operating in Russia.
It began preliminary discussions on a sale last year, but the talks have not advanced. Chief executive Andrea Orcel said UniCredit wants to leave Russia, but added that gifting an operation worth three billion euros ($3.3bn) was not a good way to respect the spirit of Western sanctions on Moscow over the conflict.
Russia has faced heavy Western sanctions, including on its banking sector, since the start of the war in Ukraine. Dozens of US and European companies have also stopped doing business in the country.
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