РНБО закликала ухвалити закон про легалізацію в Україні медичного канабісу

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«Виникнення станів, спричинених війною, ще більше актуалізувало питання забезпечення доступу пацієнтів до лікарських засобів на основі медичного канабісу»
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Iowa Republicans Pass Bill Banning Most Abortions After About 6 Weeks; Governor to Sign Friday

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Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature passed a bill banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy during a marathon special session Tuesday that continued late into the night. Governor Kim Reynolds immediately said in a statement she would sign the bill Friday. 

The bill passed with exclusively Republican support in a rare, one-day legislative burst lasting more than 14 hours over the vocal — and sometimes tense — objections from Democratic lawmakers and abortion rights advocates protesting at the Capitol.  

Just after 11 p.m., lingering protesters in the gallery booed and yelled “shame” to state senators in the minutes after the bill was approved. 

Reynolds ordered the rare session after the state Supreme Court declined in June to reinstate a practically identical law that she signed in 2018. 

“The Iowa Supreme Court questioned whether this legislature would pass the same law they did in 2018, and today they have a clear answer,” Reynolds said in a statement. “The voices of Iowans and their democratically elected representatives cannot be ignored any longer, and justice for the unborn should not be delayed.”  

Abortion is currently legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. The legislation will take immediate effect with the governor’s signature on Friday. It will prohibit almost all abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. 

Preparations were already underway to quickly file legal challenges in court and get the measure blocked, once Reynolds signs it into law. 

“The ACLU of Iowa, Planned Parenthood, and the Emma Goldman Clinic remain committed to protecting the reproductive rights of Iowans to control their bodies and their lives, their health, and their safety — including filing a lawsuit to block this reckless, cruel law,” ACLU of Iowa Executive Director Mark Stringer said in a statement. 

In the meantime, Planned Parenthood North Central States has said they will refer patients out of state if they’re scheduled for abortions in the next few weeks. The organization, the largest abortion provider in the state, will continue to provide care to patients who present before cardiac activity is detected. 

There are limited circumstances under the measure that would allow for abortion after that point in a pregnancy where cardiac activity is detected — such as rape, if reported to law enforcement or a health provider within 45 days; incest, if reported within 145 days; if the fetus has a fetal abnormality “incompatible with life;” and if the pregnancy is endangering the life of the pregnant woman. 

For much of the morning and afternoon, chants from abortion rights advocates echoed through the rotunda and could be heard from rooms where state representatives and senators were meeting in the morning and afternoon. Members of the public for and against the bill alternated conveying their viewpoints to lawmakers from both chambers for nearly four hours in total. 

Sara Eide of the Iowa Catholic Conference encouraged lawmakers to vote in favor. 

“The unborn child is a distinct human life with her own value, with her own DNA, and with her own right to life and right to legal protections,” she said. “As a state and as a society, we should commit ourselves to protect all vulnerable populations wherever we find them.” 

Hilary McAdoo, a fertility nurse, said her two daughters motivated her to voice her opposition Tuesday. 

“Just because a person has the ability to become pregnant does not mean they should be forced to become a mother,” she said. “The people before me want to govern women’s bodies without understanding how they work.” 

McAdoo called the six-week cutoff “impossible and irresponsible.” 

Laws such as Iowa’s ban abortion when a “fetal heartbeat” can be detected, a concept that does not easily translate to medical science. That’s because at the point where advanced technology can detect that first visual flutter, the embryo isn’t yet a fetus, and it doesn’t have a heart. An embryo is termed a fetus beginning in the 11th week of pregnancy, medical experts say. 

A district court found the 2018 law unconstitutional in 2019 based on rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and Iowa’s Supreme Court that had affirmed a woman’s fundamental constitutional right to abortion.  

After both bodies overturned those rulings last year, the governor sought to reinstate the 2018 law. But the state’s high court deadlocked last month without ruling on the merits of an abortion ban, leaving the law permanently blocked.  

And so Reynolds called lawmakers back to Des Moines. 

Democratic lawmakers proposed amendments to the language to expand the exceptions, which were swiftly rejected. 

“Iowa women are less free than they were a week ago and it’s because of the work of Republicans in the legislature and the governor,” said House Minority Leader Jennifer Konfrst, who voiced concerned that there will be instant chaos and confusion when the bill is signed into law.  

“We will spend every day between now and Election Day letting voters know that the Republican Legislature was too extreme, went too far and voted against the interests of everyday Iowans,” she added. 

Most Republican-led states have drastically limited abortion access in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and handed authority on abortion law to the states. More than a dozen states have bans with limited exceptions and one state, Georgia, bans abortion after cardiac activity is detected. Several other states have similar restrictions that are on hold pending court rulings. 
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Шольц, Трюдо, Сунак – Зеленський повідомив про зустрічі з лідерами Німеччини, Канади та Британії

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Президент України Володимир Зеленський повідомив, що у другий день саміту НАТО у Вільнюсі провів переговори із лідерами Німеччини, Канади та Британії.

«Зустріч з паном прем’єр-міністром Канади Джастіном Трюдо. Змістовний початок дня на саміті. Обговорюємо гарантії безпеки для України на шляху в НАТО – маємо розуміння Канади, буде розуміння світу, готуємо важливу безпекову перемогу для України. Вдячний Джастіну і Канаді за посилення наших воїнів бронетехнікою. Є потужні домовленості», – написав Зеленський у соцмережі.

Крім того, він провів розмову про гарантії безпеки для України на шляху в НАТО з канцлером Німеччини Олаф Шольцем.

«Є домовленість про додаткові пускові установки «Петріот» та ракети для них від Німеччини. Це дуже важливо для захисту життя в Україні від російського терору. Вдячний за готовність Німеччини до тривалої, багатолітньої підтримки України та нашого захисту свободи. Тривалі програми підтримки – це найкращий сигнал всім у світі, що наша Європа залишиться простором безпеки та миру», – зазначив Зеленський.

Президент України також повідомив і про зустріч з прем’єр-міністром Великобританії Ріші Сунаком.

«Наші переговори завжди зміцнюють глобальну безпеку», – прокоментував Зеленський і зазначив, що згодом буде більше новин.

 
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Trump Can Be Held Liable in Writer’s Defamation Lawsuit After Justice Department Reverses Course

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The Justice Department on Tuesday said that Donald Trump can be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape — a reversal of its position that Trump was protected because he was president when he made the remarks. 

In a letter filed with the judge presiding over a defamation lawsuit that columnist E. Jean Carroll brought in Manhattan federal court in 2020, the department says it no longer has “a sufficient basis” to conclude that Trump was motivated in his statements about Carroll’s claims by more than an insignificant desire to serve the United States. 

Previously, the department had agreed with Trump’s attorneys that he was protected from the lawsuit by the Westfall Act, which provides federal employees absolute immunity from lawsuits brought over conduct occurring within the scope of their employment. 

Lawyers for Trump did not immediately comment. 

In May, a jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages after concluding that Trump sexually abused her in 1996 at a midtown Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman store and then defamed her last fall with comments he made about her and her claims. While the jury concluded Trump sexually abused Carroll, it rejected her rape claim. 

The trial resulted from a lawsuit Carroll brought last November after New York state temporarily allowed victims of sexual abuse to make civil claims for attacks that occurred even decades earlier. 

In the government’s letter, U.S. lawyers cited the jury’s verdict, Trump’s October deposition, and new claims Carroll has since made that Trump defamed her again with comments he made during a CNN town hall a day after the verdict. 

The letter gives fresh fuel to Carroll’s original defamation lawsuit, which had been delayed by appeals over whether Trump could be held liable for statements he made while president. 

The original claims are scheduled for trial next January and stem from comments Trump made in 2019 after Carroll first went public in a memoir with her claims about being sexually attacked by Trump. 

Carroll’s lawyer, Robbie Kaplan, welcomed the DOJ submission, saying it was one of the “last obstacles” to the lawsuit reaching trial. 

“We are grateful that the Department of Justice has reconsidered its position,” she said in a statement. “We have always believed that Donald Trump made his defamatory statements about our client in June 2019 out of personal animus, ill will, and spite, and not as President of the United States.” 

Earlier in the day, Carroll’s lawyers filed papers challenging a counterclaim in the defamation lawsuit by Trump’s lawyers who maintained that Carroll had defamed him with comments she made after the May verdict — in part because she repeated statements that he had raped her. 

The lawyers wrote that his counterclaim was “nothing more than his latest effort to spin his loss at trial.” 

They said the sexual abuse Trump was found liable for was equivalent to rape under some criminal statutes and would require him to register for the rest of his life as a sex offender if it had been a criminal claim. 

The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
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Global Energy Demand to Rise 23% by 2045, OPEC Says

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Global demand for all forms of energy is forecast to rise by 23% through 2045, OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais told a Nigerian oil and gas conference on Tuesday.

Oil executives and officials from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have repeatedly made the case for continued investment in oil, warning that prices will otherwise spike higher.

Al Ghais also said calls to limit or stop funding new oil projects were unrealistic and unwise. He acknowledged, however, the need for technology to tackle continued fossil fuel emissions.

“Global primary energy demand is forecast to increase by a significant 23% in the period up to 2045, which means we will need all forms of energy,” he said.

“We will require innovative solutions such as carbon capture utilization and storage, and hydrogen projects in addition to a circular carbon economy, which has received a positive endorsement from the G20.”

The global oil industry needs $12.1 trillion in investment during the same period, Al Ghais said, adding the industry was not on track to reach that level of investment yet.

Sources close to OPEC have said it will likely maintain an upbeat view on oil demand growth for next year when it publishes its first outlook later this month, predicting a slowdown from this year but still an above-average increase.

OPEC’s forecast for 2024 will likely be lower than the growth it expects for this year of 2.35 million barrels per day, or 2.4%, an abnormally high rate as the world moves out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Через обстріл Херсона постраждали 5 людей, зокрема дитина – оновлені дані

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Голова Херсонської ОВА Олександр Прокудін повідомив про пʼятьох постраждалих через російські обстріли Херсона у вівторок вдень.

«Серед них – 8-річна дівчинка, в котрої діагностували поранення середнього ступеня тяжкості. На момент ворожого удару вона знаходилася на подвірʼї будинку. У 68-річного чоловіка – важкі поранення. Йому уламками травмувало голову, шию, грудну клітину, руки та ноги. Двоє людей, 56-річна жінка та 52-річний чоловік, дістали поранення середнього ступеня тяжкості. Ще один чоловік постраждав у Кіндійці. Усіх потерпілих шпиталізували, лікарі надають їм необхідну медичну допомогу», – повідомив Прокудін у Telegram.

Раніше сьогодні повідомлялось, що російські війська обстріляли житлові квартали Херсона, в тому числі гуманітарний штаб. Влада також попереджала про ймовірний російський обстріл залізничного вокзалу Херсона.

Крім того, армія РФ у вівторок вдарила з «Градів» по Софіївці Станіславської громади Херсонщини, загинула жінка, ще один чоловік зазнав поранень.

Російські війська практично щодня обстрілюють Херсон та частину області. При цьому Москва заперечує обстріли цивільного населення в Україні.

 
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У КМДА заявили, що не мають стосунку до сповіщень про повітряну тривогу із «гучним сигналом»

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11 липня близько 15:00 у Києві ненадовго була оголошена повітряна тривога. Уже не вперше, абонентам у столиці на мобільні телефони, крім традиційного сповіщення від міського застосунку, прийшов гучний сигнал від ДСНС
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Суддя, який збив на смерть нацгвардійця на блокпосту в Києві, був за кермом п’яний – висновки експерти

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У ніч на 26 травня в Києві на блокпосту голова Макарівського районного суду Київської області Олексій Тандир скоїв ДТП. Унаслідок аварії загинув 23-річний Вадим Бондаренко, який проходив строкову службу в Нацгвардії
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Убитий в Краснодарі Ржицький, ймовірно, причетний до ракетного удару по Вінниці – дані розвідки

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Він був командиром підводного човна «Краснодар», який завдавав ракетні удари ракетами «Калібр» по українських містах, заявляє Управління управління розвідки
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