Brazen thieves have been caught on camera using an allegedly stolen car to ram into a Gold Coast home and steal two more vehicles in an early morning crime spree.
Moments later stealing a Kia four-wheel-drive in Benowa Water at around 6.30am today, the thieves were then seen jumping over another home’s gate and rummaging through another vehicle.
After finding a remote to the home’s garage, the group could be seen ramming the Kia through the property’s front gate, to then get away with a Lexus and a Mercedes Benz as the home’s owner raced out and failed to catch them.
Brazen thieves have been caught on camera using an allegedly stolen car to ram into a Gold Coast home and steal two more vehicles. (Supplied)the group could be seen ramming the Kia through the property’s front gate, to then get away with a Lexus and a Mercedes-Benz. (Supplied)Local residents have told 9News crime in the area has recently increased so much that they have started their own neighbourhood watch. (Supplied)
Local residents have told 9News crime in the area has recently increased so much that they have started their own neighbourhood watch.
“The wife is distraught, very shaken up. The husband is very angry this is what’s happening – anger is building in our community,” resident Critton Astras said.
“We’ve got about ten husbands and fathers who are risking their lives chasing crooks out of the neighbourhood.”
The incident has drawn calls from Surfers Paradise MP John-Paul Langbroek for more police resources to be delegated by the Queensland Government.
“That’s the level of frustration, that local residents are feeling they want to take matters into their own hands, because they think police have their hands tied and the courts aren’t doing their job either,” he said.
India will on Monday get its very own natural gas trading platform that will help discover local market price for gas through transparent demand-supply matching.
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will launch the Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) to kickstart natural gas trading, official sources said.
IGX is India’s first automated national level trading platform to promote and sustain an efficient and robust gas market and foster gas trading in the country.
The platform will feature multiple buyers and sellers trading in spot and forward contracts at designated physical hubs. IGX is a neutral and transparent market-place where both buyers and sellers will trade gas as the underlying commodity.
The contracts traded at IGX are for compulsory specific physical delivery and settlement of the trade is subject to the condition that such contracts are non-transferable in nature and without any netting-off thereby.
Sources said IGX will enable efficient and competitive discovery of gas prices and one of its most important objectives is also to maintain market integrity.
Initially, trading is proposed to commence at the physical hubs at Hazira and Dahej in Gujarat and Oduru/Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. Going forward, new hubs would be introduced, they said.
For price discovery, the exchange will invite time scheduled bids from buyers and sellers, on which a price discovery mechanism will be run to settle delivery of gas. It will offer six market products — day-ahead, daily, weekly, weekdays, fortnightly and monthly.
Some of these contracts will be available on Day 1 of trading, that is June 15, while some will be introduced later, sources said.
IGX has successfully held three mock trading sessions (March 20, April 9 and May 21) with significant participation from the industry.
IGX technology platform provides rapid, accurate, secure and efficient trade, catering to the requirements of pre-and post-trade functionalities with the capability to handle complex orders.
The bidding is done in an anonymous manner, where the buyer and seller do not know their counterpart.
The price discovery will be either through double-sided closed auction with uniform price mechanism or through continuous trade mechanisms.
In a double-sided closed auction, the participants input their bids to buy/sell at a specific price point. The market will determine one single uniform market clearing price. In continuous trade, the price will be matched based on bids and offers in continuous sessions.
Sources said the bids will be monitored securely to ensure the highest integrity and efficacy of the marketplace. The platform also provides counterpart guarantee in terms of fund obligation to its members.
DETROIT — Principal Jacqueline Dungey was searching for one of her kindergartners.
She’d called every number she had for his family. She’d sent urgent notes to his parents. She’d reached out to a social worker who’d worked with his family in the past.
But more than a month after the coronavirus threat forced the New Paradigm Loving Academy in Detroit to move its classes online, the little boy, Legend, hadn’t been in touch with his teachers. His family had not shown up for the meals the school distributes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. No one seemed to know where he was.
Dungey was determined to find him.
“I just wanted to make sure he was safe,†she said.
Legend was among about a dozen Loving students who went missing in the weeks after COVID-19 began battering this community. Panic, sickness and death sent many Detroiters into financial and emotional turmoil, scattering some families from their homes, just as one of the safest places in a child’s life — school — was abruptly forced to close.
That’s meant that educators like Dungey, who work in the hardest-hit parts of the country, have not only had to adapt to a radically new way of teaching. They’ve also had to become detectives.
Dungey and her staff have spent the last three months knocking on doors and scouring social media in search of students needing help. They’ve pestered students’ friends. They’ve searched for their relatives — all to make sure that some of the nation’s most vulnerable children don’t get lost in the middle of a global pandemic.
“I need to make sure my kids are getting the education they deserve,†she said.
Principal Jacqueline Dungey checks her phone after knocking on a family’s door a few blocks from her school and learning that the family had moved.Jake Whitman / NBC News
All of the 127 students enrolled this year in grades K-5 at the Loving Academy, a tiny elementary school in Detroit’s North End, were considered economically disadvantaged by the state. Many of them, according to last year’s state test scores, already lagged behind their peers academically. And many faced significant challenges long before a deadly virus stole the lives of their loved ones or put their parents out of work.
So if Dungey couldn’t find them — and couldn’t make sure they got the food they needed, or the grief counseling, or the internet connection required to attend their online classes — they wouldn’t be able to learn.
“They’re going to fall further behind,†Dungey said as she prepared to knock on a student’s door last month. “The achievement gap is going to continue to grow, and it’s already wide enough.â€
It’s not clear how many schools have the resources to track down students during a crisis. Many states have not required schools to log attendance these last few months and educators have been overwhelmed with the demands of shifting to remote instruction, changing the way they distribute meals to needy families and figuring out how to support students with disabilities while also suddenly having to instruct their own children, who have been underfoot.
And the intensity of the crisis has made tracking families difficult.
At the University YES Academy, which, like Loving, is in Detroit’s six-school New Paradigm for Education charter network, Principal Robert Hines said his staff found one student by convincing his friends to reach out to him through a multiplayer online video game. They found another through the student’s comments on the TikTok video sharing app.
One missing student — a first grader — turned up when her mother called to report that the girl was in the hospital with the virus and nearly died. “She flatlined,†Hines said.
Other parents said they were coping with loss or overwhelmed with financial stress. Some had phones that stopped working. Some were too sick or exhausted to figure out the technology for online learning.
But, whatever their reason, Dungey said, there’s too much at stake to let students fall through the cracks.
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The grief and anger that have ignited protests across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last month have only made the need to reach children more crucial, Dungey said, since school can be a source of hope.
“It’s a very powerful piece for them to be able to not just understand the academic piece but where they’ve come from, what they need to do to be successful and how they can change the world,†she said.
Even as the school year comes to a close next week, she plans to keep following up with students, connecting them with summer school and making sure they’re ready for the fall, regardless of whether schools are able to open.
“We’re relentless,†Dungey said. “If we don’t go to some of these homes, those kids would never be online, and those kids deserve what everybody else has.â€
‘Just know you’re not by yourself’
A second grader at the New Paradigm Glazer Academy, a K-8 school a few miles from Loving, had been absent from his online classes. His teacher called the boy’s father repeatedly and left messages. When she hadn’t heard anything by mid-April, she drove to the family’s house and left a note on the door, asking for someone to call.
The next day, someone did. It was the boy’s 22-year-old brother, who reported that their father had died. The young man now planned to raise his little brother.
“He said, ‘You know, my brother keeps asking for my dad and I don’t know what to tell him,’†said Yolanda Eddins, the director of community and parent affairs for the 2,400-student New Paradigm network, who reached out to the young man when she heard his family’s news.
COVID-19 has pummeled Detroit, killing more than 1,400 residents, one of the highest death rates in the nation.
The pain and grief that have shrouded Detroit have also rippled through the schools in the New Paradigm network.
Eddins estimated that as many as a third of students and staff at the six schools lost someone close to them to the virus — a number that would climb if she included extended families.
One Glazer parent lost her mother and father within a few days of each other, Eddins said. Another lost her father and two cousins in quick succession.
“Her kids were really clinging and crying,†Eddins said of that mom. “They saw so much loss.â€
Yolanda Eddins estimates that as many as a third of students and staff in the New Paradigm for Education charter school network lost someone close to them to the virus.Jake Whitman / NBC News
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Eddins used some of the money from a COVID relief fund that New Paradigm put together with donations to buy groceries and toys for that distraught family. While shopping for them, she said, she stopped by the clothing section to pick up a cozy sweater for the mom, who was feeling isolated in her grief at home.
“I remember her saying how alone she felt,†Eddins said.
When she handed that package over later — wearing a mask and gloves on the sidewalk in front of the family’s home — Eddins told the mother to take some comfort from the sweater.
“I told her when you put that on, it’s going to soothe you,†Eddins said. “She started crying and I said, ‘Just know you’re not by yourself.’â€
Detective work is only one of the new duties that educators in cities like Detroit have had to shoulder during this crisis, Eddins said. “We also have to be good listeners.â€
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Teachers and staff at New Paradigm schools have used shared spreadsheets to log daily calls to families, making note of those who’ve lost someone or who need support. They flag family members who are sick, and those who are struggling financially.
Eddins and New Paradigm President Ralph Bland review the tracker to decide who might need a gift card or a contribution from the community fund. They decide who might need grief counseling or a bouquet of flowers.
When the Glazer second grader who lost his father celebrated a recent birthday, they used some of the money to buy him a Spider-Man watch as a gift.
Hines, the University YES principal, said the network sent him a condolence card when he recorded his own loss in the tracker — a 62-year-old cousin who succumbed to the virus.
The network also offered to help the mother whose young daughter was in the hospital on life support, but she didn’t need much, Hines said. “She just asked for our prayers.â€
Support from the school makes a difference, said Loretta Sailes, whose son, Jeremiah, 6, is about to finish kindergarten at Loving.
Jeremiah’s father died on April 5, just days after Jeremiah and his mom grieved the death of a cousin who lived in their building and had watched Jeremiah when his mother needed a babysitter.
The deaths have been hard on her son, Sailes said. But the online grief counseling the school set up for him has been helpful.
“They do some activities, like coloring and stuff, and they talk about his dad and about how he feels,†Sailes said.
‘Things change in a day or two’
It was a rainy Tuesday morning in mid-May when Dungey, the Loving Academy principal, pulled up in front of a small two-story house a few blocks from the school to meet with a third grader and her mother.
She adjusted her mask, put on her gloves and walked up the wooden porch steps to knock on the family’s door. But a woman called down from an upstairs window and said the family was gone.
“She didn’t tell you they were moving?†the woman asked.
Dungey had confirmed the appointment that morning with a phone call and a text but somehow hadn’t heard about a move. She pulled out her phone to call the child’s mother, but her call went straight to voicemail.
“I’m definitely confused,†she said, shaking her head.
Many of Dungey’s home visits end this way, with crossed wires and missed appointments. “Things change in a day or two and anything can happen,†she said.
It’s frustrating, but she gets it, she said. As a veteran educator with six children herself — including three still at home who need support with their online coursework — she knows families are busy and overwhelmed. She’ll keep calling until she can connect with this family, she said.
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This has become her life in the months since March 16, when Michigan’s schools closed. When she’s not consulting with teachers about instruction, posting video greetings for students or stopping by online classrooms, she’s been on the hunt for students.
By May, she’d managed to track down all of Loving’s students. But finding them once has proved insufficient. Sometimes they disappear again. And sometimes she has to return, week after week, to help families that need support.
“She came to my home at least four to five times,†said Doshinique Green, who has seven children, including three at Loving.
Green didn’t realize the school had been trying to get in touch with her until Dungey showed up on her doorstep one morning in early April.
Green, whose children range from a preschooler to a high schooler, works nights as a home health care aide and sleeps much of the day. In the early days of the pandemic, when a colleague was sick, she was working 12-hour shifts, six to seven days a week. She wasn’t able to help her children log into their classes.
“I couldn’t get them online because I was working and sleeping,†she said. “I couldn’t get up and be like, ‘OK, let me get them to do it.’ I was so exhausted.â€
Green rarely answers her phone, which her children are often using, she said.
She was stunned when Dungey showed up at her door.
At that first visit, Dungey handed over a large bag with meals for the family. She came back the next week with a laptop, then again to show Green and her children how to log into the school’s online platform. But still, Dungey said, Green’s children weren’t doing their coursework so she kept calling — and kept visiting.
Eventually, in early May, Dungey masked up, came into the house, sat Green and her children around their dining room table, and showed them what they needed to do to access the school’s online platform.
That time, it finally clicked, Green said, and now her children know how to log in themselves.
“They can go online and talk to their teacher with no problem,†she said. And they don’t need help from their exhausted mother.
Dungey was thrilled when she saw all three of Green’s Loving students — in second, fourth and fifth grades — turn up for their classes the next day.
“They actually came to gym class,†Dungey said. “I’m, like, success!â€
Dungey visited a student, Larrone, 9, and his mother, Lasheena Price, to help connect Larrone with his online classes. His family had moved and had trouble getting online in their new apartment. Jake Whitman / NBC News
Finding students is not all about knocking on doors. Staff at University YES found a missing fifth grader by getting the child’s friends to convey a message from the school through his video gaming headset.
Jumar Motley, a school social worker, said the boy called the next day, claiming he’d been under the impression that the state’s emergency order closing schools exempted him from having to do school work. Motley corrected him — and warned him that he’d be the biggest fifth grader next fall if he couldn’t advance to the sixth grade.
“Now he’s plugging in with his class and doing his work,†he said.
University YES Academy social worker Jumar Motley says he wants students to know that “we didn’t leave anybody behind” during the crisis. Jake Whitman / NBC News
Another University YES student surfaced when principal Hines posted a video of himself singing and dancing to TikTok. Several students responded — including a boy the school had been trying to reach.
“There was one kid that commented, ‘Yeah, Mr. Hines, you still got it.’ This was a kid we could not get in contact with at all,†Hines said. “I replied back on my TikTok: ‘Hey what’s your phone number? We’re trying to get in contact with you.’â€
The child sent his number and soon began logging into his classes, Hines said.
‘We didn’t quit on them’
In late March and early April when Dungey was looking for Legend, her missing kindergartner, she didn’t realize that his grandmother, Mekialena Durham, was also trying to get in touch with the school.
Durham had become a foster parent to the 6-year-old and his younger siblings in early March but hadn’t told the school before it shut down. Later, with staff largely working from home, she hadn’t been able to reach anyone.
She had tried to coach her grandson on his letters and numbers, but worried he would fall behind without support from his teachers. “He needs a little bit of extra help,†she said.
Finally, on April 17, Dungey happened to be in the school’s office when the phone rang. It was a social worker now working with Legend and his family. The social worker gave Dungey a number for Legend’s grandmother and she immediately reached out.
“That very same day, she dropped homework off right onto my porch — a big old box of homework,†Durham said.
A week later, Dungey returned with a tablet so Legend could connect with his teacher online. She stood on the grandmother’s porch — from a distance, in a mask — to walk her through the steps to access the online platform.
“It was awesome!†Durham said. “She’s been really supportive. She said whenever you need me, just let me know.â€
As the end of the school year approaches, educators in the New Paradigm network say they still have students struggling to regularly log into their classes. They plan to stay on them — and keep at it through the summer so students can make up what they missed in summer school.
Lasheena Price and her son, Larrone, 9, a second grader at Detroit’s New Paradigm Loving Academy, wave goodbye to Dungey. Jake Whitman / NBC News
When it’s over, families will know “that we didn’t leave anybody behind,†said Motley, the social worker at University YES.
“They’ll see that we didn’t quit on them.â€
It seems the Italian government has temporarily backed away from a military deal with Egypt. Foreign Minister Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on June 10 that his country had not yet approved it, adding that the government is still weighing political considerations and analyzing the deal.
Italy’s news agency ANSA had reported June 8 that the Italian government approved the sale of two FREMM frigates to Egypt and that the top management of the Italian Fincantieri marine industries company was involved in the sale.
Rumors about the approval of the deal came after after a phone call between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on June 7, during which they discussed bilateral relations at the commercial, military and energy levels.
According to a statement from the Egyptian presidency, Conte stressed his country’s readiness to boost cooperation with Egypt in various fields.
The reports about the deal were met with wide opposition among Italian rights groups and parliamentarians. The parents of Italian student Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Egypt, said on June 8 they feel betrayed by the Italian government’s plan to sell warships to Cairo, as they accuse Egyptian security forces of being behind their son’s death.
Giorgio Beretta, an analyst specializing in arms deals at the Permanent Observatory on Small Arms in Italy, told Al-Monitor via email that the two frigates are part of a much larger military deal worth more than nine billion euros (about $10.2 billion). This deal, according to Beretta, is currently under discussion and would be one of the largest sales for Italy since World War II.
The head of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, revealed on Feb. 18 that negotiations were ongoing to reach a deal on the sale of two FREMM frigates valued at 1.2 billion euros (about $1.3 billion).
Speaking June 10 before a parliamentary session, Maio linked the approval of the deal with Egypt to the progress achieved so far in the ongoing investigation into the death of Regeni.
Relations between Egypt and Italy were severely affected by the murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni, whose mutilated body was found in February 2016 on a road on the outskirts of Cairo.
After Regeni’s body was returned to Rome, an Italian autopsy showed he had been hit hard on the back of his head and suffered multiple fractures throughout his body.
Italy accused the Egyptian authorities of not cooperating in the investigations that have been ongoing for more than four years into Regeni’s death. In January, after Conte visited Cairo and met with Sisi, Egypt formed a new team of investigators to work on the case.
 The deal includes frigates, missile launchers and Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper revealed May 29.Â
The Naval News international website revealed on May 31 that the deal includes two FREMM Bergamini frigates that were originally intended for the Italian navy, in addition to four other frigates that will be specifically built for Egypt.
In addition to the six frigates, the deal includes 20 missile launchers, 24 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter bombers, 24 M-346 light combat and trainer jets and a military satellite.
Beretta added that such a mega deal must be thoroughly discussed in parliament before its is approved, given its direct effect on Italy’s foreign and defense policies.
The Italian Analisidifesa website reported May 18 that the deal was supposed to be announced in April but was delayed due to pressure by prominent members of the populist Five Star movement, which has a parliamentary majority, on the Italian government. Italy’s parliament speaker Roberto Fico as well as parliamentarians Alessandro di Battista and Lia Quartapelle reject the deal due to the murder of Regeni, yet to be resolved, also pointing to Egypt’s a poor human rights record.
Italian human rights groups are demanding the release of Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki, who was studying at the University of Bologna and was arrested by the Egyptian authorities upon his return on Feb. 7. Zaki is awaiting trial after he was accused of spreading false news, inciting demonstrations and attempting to overthrow the government. A mural recently painted in Bologna demanded Zaki’s release.
However, the Italian foreign and defense ministries had no problem approving the deal with Egypt, Alberto Cutillo, director of the Arms Licensing Unit at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said March 3 before a parliamentary committee following up on the issue of Regeni’s killing. The committee discussed blocking the deal until the identity of the killers is revealed.
On June 3, the Italian civil society organization Disarmo objected to the possible deal and called on the government to back out.Â
Beretta opposes the deal, which he considers violates the laws regulating arms trade in Italy. Criticizing Egypt’s human rights record, he asked, “What country would sell such a massive military arsenal to a repressive [nation] that allowed one of its own nationals to get killed?†he said, referring to Regeni.
In February, Italian Foreign Minister Di Maio said that the Italian government has yet to make its final decision on the Egyptian deal but hinted that the government will approve it to prevent the competing French side from seizing the opportunity should the deal with Egypt not materialize.
In a June 3 phone call, the foreign ministers of Egypt and Italy agreed to continue cooperation between their judicial authorities on the case. Spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of foreign Affairs Ahmed Hafez said in a statement following the call that the two agreed on the importance of advancing cooperation and coordination between the two countries, especially in the economic field, as well as on ways to intensify efforts to address the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic.
Two former Egyptian diplomats told Al-Monitor that the military deal will help improve the bilateral relations that were affected by Regeni’s death.
Egyptian former assistant foreign minister Hussein Haridi told Al-Monitor that the relations between the two countries have improved. “A country does not sell weapons of such value to another country unless they are bound by strong relations and common interests,†he added.
Rakha Hassan, a member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, told Al-Monitor that the Regeni incident is painful but should not define the relations between the two countries. He added that investigations into the Regeni case will continue until the identity of the perpetrators is revealed and that cooperation will be ongoing between the two countries. Haridi said that Italy is looking forward to continuous coordination with Egypt to protect its investments in the eastern Mediterranean, represented by ENI, one of its largest oil companies.
Italy’s Eni is the largest oil and gas producer in Egypt, producing about 40% of Egypt’s oil wealth, according to statements by Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Tariq Al Mulla in December 2019.
In an attempt deemed to be aimed at improving relations between the two countries, Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed accompanied medical aid that Egypt sent to Italy on April 5 in a show of solidarity and support for the Italian government in the face of the coronavirus.
On May 29, La Repubblica quoted a source close to the Italian prime minister as saying that despite many difficulties and obstacles, including Regeni’s killing, the arms sale will be the deal of the century. The source added that the deal is not only of commercial and industrial importance for Italy, it also reflects Rome’s desire to build solid relations with Cairo and maintain a political dialogue regarding many issues in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
On May 11, Egypt announced an anti-Turkish international coalition including Greece, Cyprus, the UAE and France to counter Turkish moves in Libya and the eastern Mediterranean regarding “illegal†energy exploration activities. Turkey labelled the coalition as an “alliance of evil.â€
Haridi said that the Turkish provocations in the Mediterranean and North Africa affect not only Egypt but all countries on the Mediterranean Sea and threaten security and peace in the region.
Haridi added that the talks between Egypt and Italy are mainly focused on maintaining security in the Mediterranean region and combating terrorism.
Alia Bhatt inspired by Anushka Sharma, shares sun-kissed photo
Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt shared a sun-kissed photo and thanked fellow star Anushka Sharma for inspiring her to go on sunlight hunt in the house.
The Raazi actress turned to Instagram sharing a sun-kissed photo with the caption, “happy sunlight Sunday.â€
She further wrote, “p.s – thank you my dearest @anushkasharma for inspiring me to go on sunlight hunt in my house May the light always be with you (and me).â€
Commenting on the endearing post, Anushka wrote with a heart emoji, “Always count me for random inspirationsâ€.
A few days back, Anushka had shared a sun-kissed picture with the caption “By now I know all the sunlight spots of every inch of my home.â€
Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide: Bollywood and TV celebrities pay condolences
Bollywood and TV actor Sushant Singh Rajput has reportedly committed suicide at his home in Mumbai. The actor was living alone during the lockdown. Police have reached his apartment but the reason has not been revealed yet. It is said that the actor wasn’t feeling well for a few days. According to the reports, police have informed that the actor hung himself in his Bandra home. The post-mortem reports are awaited.
The actor was rumoured to be in a relationship with Rhea Kapoor and the couple was often snapped by the paparazzi around the city. Sushant Singh Rajput earned massive fame with a TV show and made a successful transition to films. He marked his debut in Bollywood with ‘Kai Po Che!’ in 2012 and went on to deliver massive hits like ‘PK’ and ‘Kedarnath’. His biggest hit till date remains ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’. On the professional front, Sushant was to be seen in Mukesh Chhabra directed ‘Dil Bechara’ with Sanjana Sanghi. The film was an official remake of Hollywood hit ‘The Fault in Our Stars’.
Cynthia Calvillo got the better of Jessica Eye at UFC Fight Night Saskatoon
Cynthia Calvillo enhanced her credentials in the women’s flyweight division after an impressive decision win over Jessica Eye at UFC Fight Night Saskatoon.
The Mexican, making her first appearance at 125 lbs, was a comfortable winner on the scorecards against her number-one ranked opponent.
Moving to 9-1-1 (6-1-1 in the UFC), some have already clamoured for her to be next in line for current champ Valentina Shevchenko.
As in previous fights, Calvillo once again showed her prowess on the ground, felling Eye across the course of the fight – often late on as a real exclamation point in rounds.
She looked at home at 125 lbs, have struggled previously to make weight at 115 lbs, and with her 2019 team change seemingly now taking full effect.
23-fight veteran Eye arguably picked up the first round, but struggled to build any kind of momentum on the feet, and was in defence-mode when on the ground.
Despite another impressive win, at this stage it would feel more like feeding Calvillo to The Bullet rather than conceivably seeing dethroning her, but there is certainly the potential for them to clash in the not too distant future.
It was interesting to see Katlyn Chookagian immediately jumping on Twitter to put her hand up to be next in line to face Calvillo.
It is a fight that makes a lot of sense. Chookagian has failed in an attempt to wrestle the gold from Shevchenko, but a win over the champ’s sister, Antonia, last time out certainly keeps her relevant – and a genuine challenge for Calvillo at the top end of the flyweight division.
This would leave Joanne Calderwood in her rightful place at the front of the line to take on Shevchenko for the gold.
A group of men carry an injured man away after he was allegedly attacked | Luke Dray/Getty Images
The British prime minister said that violent protesters would face the ‘full force of the law.’
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned “racist thuggery†after right-wing protesters clashed with anti-racist activists and police in London on Saturday.
London police arrested 100 people, among thousands who traveled to the city to protest, on charges including violent disorder and assault on officers.
The city has become a new epicenter for protests in the weeks following the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in the U.S. as the Black Lives Matter movement has gone global. It has prompted a reckoning with the U.K.’s history of involvement in the slave trade and racism.
Monuments have become a focal point for protesters on both sides in the U.K., following the removal by protesters last week of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.
Saturday’s right-wing protests marked the start of a backlash with far-right activists shouting racial slurs and vowing to protect English culture. The protests were advertised as an effort to defend a statue in Parliament Square of Winston Churchill which was defaced during a protest last weekend with the words “was a racist” in graffiti. The monument to the wartime leader has subsequently been boarded up temporarily.
“Racist thuggery has no place on our streets,†Johnson tweeted Saturday night. “Anyone attacking the police will be met with full force of the law. These marches & protests have been subverted by violence and breach current guidelines. Racism has no part in the UK and we must work together to make that a reality.â€
While both anti-racist and rightwing protesters were on the streets, London Mayor Sadiq Khan pinned the blame for the violence squarely on the latter.
“Millions of Londoners will have been disgusted by the shameful scenes of violence, desecration and racism displayed by the right-wing extremists who gathered in our city today,†Khan tweeted late Saturday night.
Referring to the violence perpetrated by far-right protesters, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary David Lammy said, “The scenes were ugly and very very threatening.”
He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday morning that, “[Churchill’s] statue should never have been attacked. And the idiots who did it detract from the central message of Black Lives Matter.”
On Saturday, police said they were investigating an image of a man urinating next to a monument of Keith Palmer, an police officer killed by a terrorist trying to enter the Palace of Westminster in 2017.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden appeared to rule out speedy removal of any statues earlier in the day on Saturday. He tweeted that he’d written to lawmakers to argue that “heritage†should be used to “educate people about all aspects of Britain’s complex past, good and bad, rather than airbrushing history.â€
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