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Death toll from floods in Afghanistan increases to over 200 Mehr News Agency - English Version
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Flash floods from heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed over 1,000 houses, the UN food agency said.
The World Food Programme said it was distributing fortified biscuits to the survivors of one of the many floods that hit Afghanistan over the last few weeks, mostly in the northern province of Baghlan, which bore the brunt of the deluges on Friday.
In neighbouring Takhar province, state-owned media outlets reported the floods had killed at least 20 people.
Zabihullah Mujahid, chief spokesman for the Taliban government, said hundreds have succumbed to these calamitous floods, while a substantial number have sustained injuries.
He said the provinces of Badakhshan, Baghlan, Ghor and Herat were the worst hit, adding that the extensive devastation has resulted in significant financial losses.
He said the government had ordered all available resources mobilised to rescue people, transport the injured and recover the dead.
The floods hit as Afghanistan is still reeling from a string of earthquakes at the beginning of the year as well as severe flooding in March, said Salma Ben Aissa, Afghanistan director for the International Rescue Committee.
Communities have lost entire families, while livelihoods have been decimated as a result, she said.
This should sound an alarm bell for world leaders and international donors: we call upon them to not forget Afghanistan during these turbulent global times.
The IRC said that apart from the lives lost, infrastructure including roads and power lines had been destroyed in Baghlan, Ghor, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Samangan, Badghis and Takhar provinces.
It said the agency is preparing to scale up its emergency response in affected areas.
The Taliban Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the countrys air force is evacuating people in Baghlan and has rescued a large number who were stuck in flooded areas and transported 100 injured people to military hospitals in the region.
Richard Bennett, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, said the floods are a stark reminder of Afghanistans vulnerability to the climate crisis and both immediate aid and long-term planning by the Taliban and international actors are needed.
Videos posted on social media showed dozens of people gathered on Saturday behind the hospital in Baghlan looking for their loved ones. An official tells them they should start digging graves while staff prepare the bodies.
At least 70 people died from heavy rains and flash flooding in April in the country, officials said. About 2,000 homes, three mosques and four schools were also damaged.
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CSI: Miami delighted many fans over the course of ten seasons, and now CBS is currently working on a project that will include cases from real life. According to Deadline, the network is developing The Real CSI: Miami, a docuseries that will explore real-world crimes and the forensic science that helped solve them. The premise of the CSI franchise always includes different ways in which the detectives use technological equipment and their own instincts to solve what actually happened to the victims they are trying to help.
The Real CSI: Miami will be produced by Anthony Zuiker, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Magical Elves. The project will be in good hands, considering Zuiker created the franchise and Bruckheimer has served as a producer for some of the titles under the brand before. The docuseries is currently scheduled to premiere on June 26, officially becoming a part of the network's summer schedule. As the CSI franchise continues to expand, The Real CSI: Miami opens the door for similar projects to spawn under the banner, with George Cheeks, the CEO of CBS, adding during a press conference: "That franchise is very much alive and vibrant, and you could imagine it coming back in many different ways."
CSI: Miami followed the team led by Lieutenant Horatio Caine (David Caruso), the fearless officer who constantly dropped one-liners before The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" arrived with the show's intro. Some of the team's most famous members included Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter), Erick Delko (Adam Rodriguez), and Alexx Woods (Khandi Alexander), as everyone worked together to protect the community of Miami from a wide variety of dangerous criminals. CSI: Miami premiered in 2002, and it was the first direct spin-off of the main show, which took place in Las Vegas.
The story of CSI: Miami might have come to a close more than a decade ago, but that doesn't mean the franchise came to an end. The Real CSI: Miami will lead a new era for the IP now that the flagship television series and its spin-offs have solved their final case. CSI: Vegas marked the return of Gil Grissom (William Petersen), with the new story serving as an epilogue for the franchise's flagship title. The reboot was cancelled after three seasons.
The Real CSI: Miami premieres on CBS on June 26. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Follows the cases of the Miami-Dade Police Department's Crime Scene Investigation unit as they try to unveil the conditions behind mysterious deaths and crimes.
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Today'sU.S. v. Duarte, written by Judge Carlos Bea and joined by Judge Lawrence VanDyke, concludes that the Second Amendment protects some felons (at least after the end of their criminal sentences). The majority begins with the principle that:
[The Supreme Court's decision in] Bruen instructs us to assess all Second Amendment challenges through the dual lenses of text and history. If the Second Amendment's plain text protects the person, his arm, and his proposed course of conduct, it then becomes the Government's burden to prove that the challenged law is consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.
It reasons, much historical analysis later, with the view that:
A more faithful application of Bruen requires the Government to proffer Founding-era felony analogues that are "distinctly similar" to Duarte's underlying offenses and would have been punishable either with execution, with life in prison, or permanent forfeiture of the offender's estate.
And, the majority concludes, this defendant's particular past convictionsfor vandalism, drug possession, evading a peace officer, and being a felon in possession of a firearmdid not qualify.
Judge Milan Smith dissents, concluding that pre-BruenNinth Circuit precedent categorically holds that all felons lack Second Amendment rights; the majority and the dissent disagree on whether Bruenoverruled that precedent. The dissent, in particular, argues that (1) Bruen"repeatedly limited its definition of the scope of the right to 'law-abiding' citizens, using that phrase no fewer than fourteen times throughout the opinion," (2) "Nothing in Bruen reflects a retreat from the Court's earlier statement in Heller that 'longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill' are 'presumptively lawful,'" and (3) concurrences in Bruen reaffirmed theHellerview with regard to felons.
The panel majority responds, among other things, that "we do not think that the Supreme Court, without any textual or historical analysis of the Second Amendment, intended to decide the constitutional fate of so large a population in so few words and with such little guidance. [W]e agree with the Third Circuit that Bruen's scattered references to 'law-abiding' and 'responsible' citizens did not implicitly decide the issue in this case." It also takes the view that, "'Simply repeat[ing] Heller's language' about the 'presumptive[] lawful[ness]' of felon firearm bans will no longer do after Bruen," given Bruen's call for a historical analysis, and given that "the historical pedigree of felon firearm bans was never an issue the Heller Court purported to resolve."
The government will very likely petition for rehearing and for en banc review in this case. That review will probably be influenced by the Supreme Court's Rahimicase, which deals with whether people subject to domestic violence restraining orders lose their Second Amendment rights, and which is due to come down from the Court by June 30. The question inRahimiand the question in this case aren't identical, but they share considerable similarities.
Note also that the government has already asked the Supreme Court to consider the Third Circuit'sRangecase, which reached a similar result. That the petition is being held, pendingRahimi. It seems likely that the Court will instruct the Third Circuit to reconsider the question in light of theRahimiholding, just as the Ninth Circuit panel (and perhaps the en banc court) will be doing the same.
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Ninth Circuit Panel Concludes That Some Felons May Have Second Amendment Rights - Reason
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