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‘Cigarettes’ and chocolate ‘coins’: Justice declares Pan bankrupt

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The company recognized the inability to continue operating and honor debts, in the amount of R$ 260 million and currently had 52 employees. (Credit: Reproduction/Disclosure)
Pan Produtos Alimentícios, known for its chocolate products in the shape of cigarettes and coins, was declared bankrupt this Monday (27) by the 1st Regional Court of Business Competence and Conflicts Related to Arbitration in São Paulo.
The company, which had been in judicial recovery since 2021, had filed for self-bankruptcy in court, in the 1st RAJ (Judicial Administrative Region) of the TJ-SP (São Paulo Court of Justice), on the 13th.
+ Justice of RJ decrees bankruptcy of the company of the “pharaoh of bitcoins”
The company recognized the inability to continue operating and honor debts, in the amount of R$ 260 million and currently had 52 employees. Pan had requested a 90-day extension to the court-supervised reorganization period.
In the decision, judge Marcello do Amaral Perino said he agreed with the conversion, transformation of a judicial recovery process into bankruptcy, “in view of the unfeasibility of maintaining the company that has a long list of debts and does not present a viable plan for judicial recovery and also evidenced its economic unfeasibility.
With bankruptcy decreed, the trustee will begin the definitive closure of the factory founded in 1935 in ABC Paulista, selling the remaining assets to pay creditors.
Pan was notable for products such as chocolate cigarettes, as well as others in the shape of squares, coins and fish, and the first diet milk chocolate in Brazil. It also produced Paulistinha candies, inspired by the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932.

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February 28, 2023
‘Decisive breakthrough’: UK PM Rishi Sunak declares new Brexit pact

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London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday unveiled a “decisive breakthrough” in achieving a new deal with the European Union (EU) to resolve the post-Brexit trade dispute related to Northern Ireland.
After weeks of intensive negotiations, Sunak was joined by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a final set of in-person talks in Windsor, south east England, after which the duo addressed the media to confirm a new “Windsor Framework”.
It replaces the previous Northern Ireland Protocol, agreed by Sunak’s former boss Boris Johnson to prevent a hard border between UK territory Northern Ireland and EU member-state Ireland but eventually proving unworkable and causing much tension between the UK and EU.
“I’m pleased to report that we have now made a decisive breakthrough. Together we have changed the original protocol and are today announcing the new Windsor framework,” Sunak told reporters.
“Today’s agreement delivers smooth-flowing trade within the whole United Kingdom, protects Northern Ireland’s place in our union and safeguards sovereignty for the people of Northern Ireland and [removes] any sense of a border in the Irish Sea,” he said.
Von der Leyen echoed Sunak’s optimism to say that the UK and EU can now open a new chapter in their post-Brexit relationship.
They detailed “big steps forward” to deliver trade flow with goods destined for Northern Ireland travelling through a new “green lane” with a separate “red lane” reserved for items expected to move on to the EU.
“We will end the situation where food made to UK rules could not be sent to and sold in Northern Ireland. This means that if food is available on supermarket shelves in Great Britain, then it will be available on supermarket in Northern Ireland,” said Sunak.

The legal text of the Northern Ireland Protocol has been amended to ensure critical VAT and excise changes for the whole of the UK can be made and the devolved Northern
Irish parliament in Stormont would have a say on the changes. “These negotiations have not always been easy, but I’d like to pay an enormous personal tribute to Ursula for her vision in recognising the possibility of a new way forward… Today’s agreement is about preserving that delicate balance and charting a new way forward for the people of Northern Ireland,” added Sunak.
The British Indian leader now faces the uphill task of getting Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on board with the new Windsor Framework.
The DUP had been strongly opposed to the earlier protocol, which meant goods arriving from England, Scotland and Wales within the United Kingdom were checked when they arrived at Northern Irish ports. This was seen as undermining the region’s position within the rest of the UK, besides severely impacting trade.
The other group likely to make things difficult for Sunak in the House of Commons include the hard Brexiteers within the Conservative Party, including backbencher Johnson, who had warned against backing down over Northern Ireland Protocol Bill which would have given the UK Parliament a chance to unilaterally change parts of the protocol.
However, Sunak had indicated that a fresh negotiated agreement with the EU was preferable over the controversial Bill that would have put the UK on a legal collision course with its European neighbours.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 27, 2023
Centre Declares “Ghaznavi Force” As Terrorist Organisation

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SRINAGAR: The Union Home Ministry on Friday declared “Jammu & Kashmir Ghaznavi Force” as a “terrorist organization” under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act-1967.
Quoting a notification news agency KNO reported that the MHA has listed the “Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force” in the first schedule of the UAPA law containing the list of such organisations.
The MHA said the “Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF)” surfaced in the year 2020 as a terrorist outfit and it draws its cadres from various proscribed terrorist organisations, such as Lashker-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul—Jehad-E-Islami, etc.
“The “Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF)” is involved in infiltration bids, narcotics and weapon smuggling and carrying out terror attacks in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” the MHA said.
According to the MHA, JKGF regularly issues threats to Indian security forces and uses various social media platforms for inciting people of Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to join terrorist outfits against India.
“The activities of “Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF)” are detrimental to the national security and sovereignty of India,” the MHA said, adding that the Central Government believes that the “Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF)” is involved in terrorism and it has committed and participated in various acts of terrorism in India.
With the addition of JKGF, the number of organisations declared as terrorist organisations has gone up to 43.
Under the UAPA law, the Centre also designates individuals involved in subversive and violent activities as terrorists.

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February 17, 2023
Cyclone Gabrielle: New Zealand declares emergency

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Wellington: New Zealand declared a state of emergency on Monday as Cyclone Gabrielle started to lash the North Island.
People in several regions such as Northland and Auckland, the country’s largest city, have been warned of high risk of tidal flooding by the civil defense department. Thousands of people are cut off power in the North Island, Xinhua reported.
According to forecast, 400 millimeters of rain and wind gusts of 130 km/hour are expected over the next 20 hours.
The national carrier Air NZ cancelled all domestic flights in and out of Auckland on Sunday, and many international flights are also cancelled.
Most schools and childcare centres in the region have closed, and 26 emergency shelters and civil defense centers have been set up across Auckland, according to the civil defense department.
Auckland and many other places in the region were upgraded to red alert on Sunday as MetService, the national meteorological service of the country, warned that the worst weather is yet to come.
The government asked residents to prepare sandbags to buffer their homes, store food and water, and be ready for necessary evacuations in the coming days. Many sandbag stations are set up across Auckland overnight, and locals are encouraged to prepare their own sandbags for extreme situations.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins urged people to “take the severe weather warning seriously” and “stay at home, cancel all unnecessary travels.”

This is only two weeks after Auckland and the adjacent region Waikato were inundated by record downpours and floods.
Red Warnings are only issued for the most significant weather events, and this is the second time in the year 2023.
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February 13, 2023
Erdogan declares 7 days of national mourning after earthquakes

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Ankara: Turkey has declared seven days of national mourning after earthquakes jolted southern provinces of the country.
At least 1,762 people were killed and 12,068 others were injured when two earthquakes hit southern provinces of Turkey on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported citing Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.7, centered in the Pazarcik district, jolted Kahramanmaras and hit several provinces, including Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Diyarbakir, Adana, Adiyaman, Malatya, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis, as per the Anadolu Agency report.
Later, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 centered in Kahramanmaras’s Elbistan district jolted the region. Fuat Oktay said that earthquakes had a total of 145 aftershocks and 3,741 buildings collapsed, as per the news report. The earthquake was also felt in several neighboring countries, including Lebanon and Syria.
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said that nearly 9700 search and rescue personnel have been working in the region, as per the news report. According to AFAD, there is no tsunami threat to the Eastern Mediterranean coasts in Turkey.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey was shaken by the “biggest disaster” since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake. Erdogan spoke to the mayors of Adana, Osmaniye, Hatay, and Kilis on the phone and was informed about search and rescue efforts, according to the Turkish presidency, as per the Anadolu Agency report.
Turkey’s National Education Minister Mahmut Ozer said education in Turkey is suspended until February 13. Meanwhile, Turkey’s Youth and Sports Minister Mehmet Kasapoglu said all national sports events in the country have been suspended until further notice, according to an Anadolu Agency report.
AFAD in a statement said that Turkey issued a level 4 alarm, which includes a call for international aid. AFAD said that international assistance was called for through the Emergency Response Coordination Center (ERCC) after a discussion with the Turkish Foreign Ministry, as per the news report.

The death toll in Syria due to the earthquake has reached 237 deaths and 639 injured, mostly in Lattakia, Aleppo, Hama, and Tartous, SANA reported. As per the news report, Syria has called on United Nations member states and other international organizations to help support the efforts made by the Syrian government to face the effects of the earthquake that jolted the nation
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February 7, 2023
Kemp declares state of emergency in Georgia over ‘Cop City’ protests

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Police allege that Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, 26, shot first, although activists who were present during the raid dispute authorities’ version of events. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, the officers involved were not wearing body cameras at the time of the shooting.
Teran’s death sparked global protests against police violence, as activists held vigils from Akron, Ohio, to Kurdistan. Atlanta protests turned violent Saturday, with protesters throwing rocks at the skyscraper that houses the Atlanta Police Foundation and setting fire to a police cruiser.
In his State of the State address on Wednesday, Kemp decried the protesters as “out-of-state rioters” who “tried to bring violence to the streets of our capital city.” He said it was “just the latest example of why here in Georgia, we’ll always back the blue.”
Kemp called out the National Guard to guard the state Capitol, the governor’s mansion and other public facilities during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and kept them mobilized and providing security at the Capitol well into 2021.
Since the summer of 2021, Defend the Atlanta Forest protesters have engaged in extended tree-sits, rallies, and other forms of resistance against the development of over 380 acres of forest land to build a mock city and tactical training ground for police.
Standoffs between protesters and police have escalated recently, with protesters throwing Molotov cocktails at officers and police employing tear gas and rubber bullets to remove protesters from treehouse encampments. Since December, a dozen protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism under a state law that can carry up to a 35-year prison term.
Activists argue that the construction of the training complex would exacerbate police violence against the predominantly Black and brown communities in the county and perpetuate environmental racism due to chemical runoff from weapons testing.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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January 27, 2023