A6 | Sunday, September 25, 2022 NATION&WORLD Napa Valley Register

DIGEST
EPA will launch a point of previewing Washing-
ton’s plans to address climate
new justice office‌ change, food insecurity, health
WARRENTON, N.C. — Forty and other issues during the pre-
years after a predominantly Black mier annual gathering.
community in Warren County,
North Carolina, rallied against BRIEFLY
hosting a hazardous waste land- PUERTO RICO: Half of Puerto
fill, President Joe Biden’s top en- Rico is without power more
vironment official visited what is than five days after Hurricane
considered the birthplace of the Fiona struck — including an en-
environmental justice movement tire town where not a single work
Saturday to unveil a national of- crew has arrived. Many residents
fice that will distribute $3 billion are angry and calls are growing
in block grants to underserved for the ouster of the island’s
communities. private electricity transmission
Michael Regan, the first Black and distribution company. Fuel
administrator of the Environ- disruptions are worsening the
mental Protection Agency, an- situation.
nounced he is dedicating a new
senior level of leadership to the FLORIDA: Gov. Ron DeSantis
environmental justice movement on Saturday declared a state of
they ignited. emergency for Florida as Tropical
The Office of Environmental Storm Ian gathers strength over
Justice and External Civil Rights the Caribbean. NASA is skipping
DARREN CALABRESE, THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP‌
will merge three existing EPA next week’s launch attempt of
programs to oversee a portion of its new moon rocket because of
POST-TROPICAL STORM FIONA STRIKES CANADA’S EAST COAST Democrats’ $60 billion invest- the storm, the third delay in the
Georgina Scott surveys the damage Saturday on her street in Halifax as post tropical storm Fiona continues to ment in environmental justice past month for the unmanned
batter the area. Strong rains and winds lashed the Atlantic Canada region as Fiona closed in early Saturday as a initiatives created by the Infla- lunar-orbiting test flight.
big, powerful post-tropical cyclone, and Canadian forecasters warned it could be one of the most severe storms tion Reduction Act. The presi-
in the country’s history. The storm left tens of thousands of people without electricity and officials estimated dent will nominate an assistant BOAT SINKING: The death toll in
eight to 12 buildings were washed out to sea. administrator to lead the new the sinking of a boat carrying mi-
office. grants off the coast of Syria this
past week rose Saturday evening
to 94, according to Syrian state

Russia launches fresh strikes

Voting in captured
regions, protests against
mobilization underway
KARL RITTER AND HANNA ARHIROVA
Associated Press‌
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia
launched new strikes on Ukrainian
cities Saturday as Kremlin-or-
chestrated votes took place in oc-
cupied regions to create a pretext
for their annexation by Moscow,
while hundreds of people were
arrested in Russia for protesting
a military mobilization order.
Ukraine’s presidential office
said the latest Russian shelling
killed at least three people and
wounded 19. Oleksandr Starukh,
Ukrainian governor of Zapor-
izhzhia, one of the regions where
Moscow-installed officials or-
ganized votes on joining Rus-
sia, said a Russian missile hit an
apartment building in the city of
Zaporizhzhia, killing one person
and injuring seven others.
Meanwhile, Russia made its
case to the world Saturday for its
war in Ukraine, repeating griev-
ances about its neighbor and the
West and telling the U.N. General
Assembly meeting of world lead-
ers that Moscow had “no choice”
but to take military action. At the
heart of Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov’s address was a claim that
the U.S. and its allies — not Russia
— are undermining the interna-
tional system that the U.N. rep-
resents.
Ukraine and its allies say the
votes underway in Kherson and
Zaporizhzhia in the south and the
eastern Luhansk and Donetsk re-
gions are an illegitimate attempt
by Moscow to seize Ukrainian
territory.
Ukrainian President Volody-
myr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians
in occupied regions to undermine
the referendums. He also called
on Russian recruits to sabotage
and desert the military if they are
called up.
Russian President Vladimir Pu-
tin on Saturday signed a bill that
toughens the punishment for sol-
diers who disobey officers’ orders,
desert or surrender to the enemy.
And police moved quickly Satur-
day to disperse protests against the
military mobilization, arresting
hundreds in cities across Russia.
UN leaders worry TV. The Lebanese army said
crises are eclipsed‌ troops detained the man who al-
legedly organized the deadly trip.
UNITED NATIONS — In
speech after speech, world leaders INDIA: Hazardous weather has
dwelled on the topic consuming killed at least 36 people in north-
this year’s U.N. General Assembly ern India from Friday to Satur-
meeting: Russia’s war in Ukraine. day, including 12 who were struck
A few, like Nigerian President by lightning, officials said.
Muhammadu Buhari, prodded
the world not to forget every- ABORTION: Arizona Democrats
thing else. He, too, was quick to vowed Saturday to fight for
bring up Ukraine but he wasn’t women’s rights after a court rein-
there to discuss that conflict, nor stated a law first enacted during
its disruption of food, fuel and the Civil War that bans abortion
fertilizer markets. He went on to in nearly all circumstances.
name a few other concerns: in-
equality, nuclear disarmament, ISRAEL: Israeli troops on Satur-
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict day shot and killed a Palestinian
and the more than 1 million Ro- motorist who allegedly tried to
hingya refugees from Myanmar ram his car into a group of sol-
who have been living in limbo for diers patrolling near the city of
years in Bangladesh. Nablus in the occupied West
In response to concerns, the Bank, according to Israeli sol-
United States’ U.N. ambassador, diers and media.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, made — Associated Press

Cardiac Hospice

NOW MORE THAN EVER,

SHOPPING
LOCAL
MATTERS.
The best home-based care when
your loved one has advanced
OUR SHOP LOCAL
heart disease. DIRECTORY FEATURES:
Call us for a consultation
Local products & services
707.258.9080 Special offers and promotions from the newspaper
Intuitive keyword & category searches

Navigate to our local news website,

search for Shop Local in the Buy & Sell channel,
and start shopping!

00
1