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After a far-right pro-Russia candidate secured a surprise lead in Romania's presidential election Monday, the eastern European NATO member is bracing for a high-stakes parliamentary vote on Sunday, amid fears it could bring about a strategic shift in the country. Calin Georgescu was in pole position with almost 23 percent after the first round of voting, a political earthquake in the country of 19 million people that has so far resisted nationalist appeals that have gained traction in Hungary and Slovakia. His victory ahead of centre-right mayor Elena Lasconi -- who scored 19.18 percent -- ended the hopes of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to compete for the presidency in the December runoff. After coming third at 19.15, Ciolacu said his Social Democratic Party (PSD) won't challenge the narrow result, and announced his resignation as party leader. Experts say the far right's surprise success could affect the parliamentary elections later this week, and even influence the chances of forming a future government. In the runoff ballot on December 8, Lasconi will face Georgescu, a NATO critic who in the past expressed his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Georgescu's popularity surged ahead of the vote with a viral TikTok campaign calling for an end to aid for Ukraine, which shares a 650-kilometre (400-mile) border with Romania. In a first reaction on his YouTube channel, the 62-year-old independent candidate insisted "there is no East or West", stressing that neutrality was "absolutely necessary". "I am not an extremist, I am not a fascist -- I am a Romanian who loves his country," he said in reference to media reports that "tried to portray" him in a wrongful way. For his rival Lasconi, the upcoming runoff represents "an existential battle", "a historic confrontation" between those who wish to "preserve Romania's young democracy" and those who want to "return to the Russian sphere of influence". "We must not allow anger to throw us back into the past," she said to thunderous applause from her supporters, vowing to stand up for Europe and NATO. The political earthquake comes amid soaring inflation and mounting fears of Romania being potentially dragged into Russia's war in neighbouring Ukraine, as the country has emerged as a key player on the alliance's eastern flank. In Sunday's vote, another far-right contender, AUR party leader George Simion, secured nearly 14 percent. Already pounding the campaign trail for this week's parliamentary elections, Simion said Romania now has "the chance to have a sovereign government and a sovereign president". Overall, the far right won more than a third of all votes in Sunday's presidential ballot. "The far right is by far the big winner of this election," political scientist Cristian Pirvulescu told AFP, predicting a possible "contagion effect" in the parliamentary vote. Extremist forces and Lasconi's centre-right party now have "wind in their sails", sociologist Gelu Duminica said, though "it remains to be seen if they know how to capitalise" on it. The PSD, which has shaped the country's politics for more than three decades, has never before been eliminated in the first round of a presidential election. The National Liberal Party (PNL) party, with whom the PSD currently governs, also suffered a defeat. While many expressed their disbelief over the poll in the streets of the capital Bucharest, others were enthused. Maria Chis, 70, said she was surprised by Georgescu's lead in the first round but had been impressed after watching his TikTok videos. "He seems a man of integrity, serious and patriotic. He inspires seriousness. I think only someone like him can bring change," said the pensioner, who was planning to vote for him in the second round. Alex Tudose, the owner of a construction company, was gloomy. "There is sorrow, disappointment, that after so many years in Euro-Atlantic structures we voted for a pro-Russian by over 20 percent," the 42-year-old said. "There is clearly a strong fragmentation both in society and in the political class, and I think we saw that yesterday," he said. ani-anb-kym/sbk
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By Lori Powers Henderson I’ve been living in the Near Southside since I was 2. We lived in a house that my great-great uncle Andy (W.A. Powers) owned in Fairmount, and we were right next door to him. We ended up moving to Euless when I was in high school, but I grew up on the Southside of Fort Worth. I moved away to college, graduated and lived in Dallas, because you always want to get out of your town and do bigger and better things. And it’s funny that I ended up here; I would never go back to Dallas. It’s crazy chaotic. Fort Worth is such a great town to be in. You have everything that you need. It kind of feels like a small town but also a big city. It’s so walkable and it’s hard for us to leave this neighborhood. If we’re going to dinner with the family, we can all get in the car and drive someplace and try to find a parking place. But why do that when we can walk out the door and have a choice of every kind of food? Get essential daily news for the Fort Worth area. Sign up for insightful, in-depth stories — completely free. Two Sundays a month, we have gigantic markets. The Fort Worth Community Market has live music and 50 vendors selling fresh vegetables, artisan goods like candles and soaps, and flowers and plants. And then we have the Rock ’n’ Roll Rummage Sale with local art, jewelry and vintage clothing. It has 130 vendors and live music throughout the day. A Fort Worth couple, Blake and Tiffany Parish, with Honeysuckle Rose Events , put these events together. They bring thousands of people to the neighborhood. It’s been so amazing. People come to the event and end up walking our area and then walk over to the next block and go to a different restaurant that’s not part of SOMA , our development. They’ll go over to HopFusion and have a beer and discover what a great part of Fort Worth this is. There are so many fun businesses popping up and new residential. I can’t imagine what it’ll look like in 10 years. My buildings at SOMA are restaurant and retail. We now have Morgan Mercantile , Winton and Waits , Southside Cellar , Tarantula Tiki Lounge , Panther City Tattoo , South Barbershop and Tinies Mexican as tenants, plus all of our food truck vendors. When we first moved here, there weren’t that many people or retail restaurant-type businesses. Just a few small apartment buildings and industrial warehouses. None of these big apartment complexes was here. The growth is amazing. It’s been fun watching the changes. My kids have never known any different. Walking out their back door, there’s 100 small businesses out there with their pop-ups, and they love it. They can walk out and get churros on a Thursday evening from Leo’s Churro Bar . And just the fact that we’ve been able to do Volt Cowtown , our electric surf shop, has been great. About three years ago, my kids started coaching people on how to ride an electric surfboard called Lift . It evolved, and we decided to cut a tiny little piece out of our big Daggett Avenue warehouse and make Volt our family business. We sell personal electric vehicles plus all kinds of fun clothing and accessories. The triplets created their own candle line for Volt, collaborating with a Near Southside neighbor and candle maker, Apothenne . The kids mixed the scents and even created the label design on their school computers. The kids work in the shop. They run the cash register. They handle inventory. They help me with every part of it — and they’re great at it. They’re never going to have any fear about starting up a business, because they’ve been doing it their whole life. It’d be interesting if we were to move what the kids would like better. Would they like having a backyard to run around in or would they rather have this urban backyard? The micro park has been their play space. They come out here and play soccer, and they ride their Onewheels and electric skateboards. It’s very easy from here to get onto the Trinity Trails. My husband, Tucker, and the kids will just go through downtown, hop on the trail, ride all around and then come back. They do that most weekends when the weather is nice. And we get on the TEXRail train at T&P Station across the street and go to the airport for vacations. We just walk out the back door with our rollaboards. We’ve gone to concerts, games at American Airlines Center and the State Fair on the TRE train. When Tucker and I were living in Dallas, we had heard about all this stuff happening with this group called Near Southside Inc. We never imagined it would become what it is today. I’m so glad we took the chance, sold our house and started our projects here on South Main. My dad had been here since he was 17. And he watched it evolve to this bustling little area from way way back to where all the windows were boarded up. We had bars on the windows of all our South Main properties when we took them over. He couldn’t imagine it would be what it is today, because he’d been there so long watching it kind of deteriorate. I just started talking to him and asking why don’t we start developing it. I said, “Let me do it. Sell me some of the properties, and I’ll just start doing it.” And that’s what we did. We have partners in the buildings. We have a group called SOMA District Development, which is mostly family members. My parents, Tucker’s parents, us and then a couple of friends got together to buy the buildings from my dad and uncle and get the money together to get them ready to lease. Tucker and I are the managing partners, so I’m here for the day-to-day operations. Tucker and I redid the warehouse — our home — in 2014. We designated it historic. We’re not sure when it was built. We’re thinking sometime in the early 1900s. It was used for storage, and we gutted it. We have four bedrooms, three baths, a huge living area, 6,200 square feet in total. It’s really way, way too big for us as a family. So big that when the weather is bad, the kids skateboard through the house. My triplets have grown up in our house since they were probably 11⁄2, almost 2, so this is the only home they’ve known. Fort Worth is so cool these days I’d imagine they’ll come back after college and pick up right where they left off in the family business. There is really something for everybody here. This side of downtown is more artsy, creative. You can’t walk too far without running into an artist or entrepreneur. North of downtown is just as interesting with the Stockyards, where you can hardly go without seeing somebody wearing boots or a cowboy hat. To me, Fort Worth is just a really fun, diverse town. Lori Powers Henderson, her husband, Tucker, and their 12-year-old triplets live in a warehouse in South Main Village that they bought from her father and converted into a home. Her great-great uncle W.A. Powers was a longtime business owner and property owner on South Main. Henderson has purchased those properties from her family and gradually redeveloped them with restaurant and retail tenants and urban amenities like permanently stationed food trucks and the South Main District Micro Park . 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If you share our stories on social media, please tag us in your posts using @FortWorthReport on Facebook and @FortWorthReport on Twitter. by The FWR Staff, Fort Worth Report December 28, 2024Sir Keir Starmer has been warned by a trade union not to impose “blunt headcount targets” for the size of the Civil Service but Government sources insisted there would be no set limit, although the number “cannot keep growing”. Departments have been ordered to find 5% “efficiency savings” as part of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spending review, potentially putting jobs at risk. The size of the Civil Service has increased from a low of around 384,000 in mid-2016, and the Tories went into the general election promising to reduce numbers by 70,000 to fund extra defence spending. Any reduction under Labour would be more modest, with the Guardian reporting more than 10,000 jobs could be lost. A Government spokesman said: “Under our plan for change, we are making sure every part of government is delivering on working people’s priorities — delivering growth, putting more money in people’s pockets, getting the NHS back on its feet, rebuilding Britain and securing our borders in a decade of national renewal. “We are committed to making the Civil Service more efficient and effective, with bold measures to improve skills and harness new technologies.” Mike Clancy, general secretary of the Prospect trade union said: “We need a clear plan for the future of the civil service that goes beyond the blunt headcount targets that have failed in the past. “This plan needs to be developed in partnership with civil servants and their unions, and we look forward to deeper engagement with the government in the coming months.” A Government source said: “The number of civil servants cannot keep growing. “But we will not set an arbitrary cap. “The last government tried that and ended up spending loads on more expensive consultants.” The Government is already risking a confrontation with unions over proposals to limit pay rises for more than a million public servants to 2.8%, a figure only just over the projected 2.6% rate of inflation next year. Unions representing teachers, doctors and nurses have condemned the proposals. In the face of the union backlash, Downing Street said the public sector must improve productivity to justify real-terms pay increases. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “It’s vital that pay awards are fair for both taxpayers and workers.” Asked whether higher pay settlements to staff would mean departmental cuts elsewhere, the spokesman said: “Real-terms pay increases must be matched by productivity gains and departments will only be able to fund pay awards above inflation over the medium-term if they become more productive and workforces become more productive.” TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “It’s hard to see how you address the crisis in our services without meaningful pay rises. “And it’s hard to see how services cut to the bone by 14 years of Tory government will find significant cash savings. “The Government must now engage unions and the millions of public sector workers we represent in a serious conversation about public service reform and delivery.”India vs Australia 4th Test Day 4 Live Updates: Jasprit Bumrah's battle against Sam Konstas goes in the favour of the India pacer this time as he removed him early. Bumrah bowled an absolute ripper to dismiss the young Australian batter. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Mohammed Siraj didn't manage to hang on for long, with the all-rounder becoming the 10th wicket to fall as the tourists were bowled out for 369 runs. Pat Cummins, Scott Boland, and Nathan Lyon picked up three wickets each as India were bowled out on Day 4 of the 4th Test against Australia at the MCG. It was Reddy's gritty century on Saturday that kept the visitors fighting in the game after Australia posted 474 batting first. Australia would now look to build on their 105-run first innings lead. ( Live Scorecard ) Here are the Live Score and Updates of India vs Australia 4th Test Day 4 - December 29 2024 06:19 (IST) IND vs AUS 4th Test Day 4, Live: India eye 2nd breakthrough After the dismissal of Sam Konstas for 8, the duo of Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne has somewhere stabilised Australia's innings. They are slowly taking singles and keeping the scoreboard moving for the hosts. At this moment, India need to scalp a wicket, in order to stop this partnership from becoming a headache for the visitors. AUS 37/1 (15 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 06:03 (IST) IND vs AUS, 4th Test, Day 4 Live: 6 runs from the the first two balls of Siraj. After bowling a maiden in his last over, Siraj seems to be bowling too much on the pads, giving Marnus Labuschagne easy opportunities to find runs. 8 runs from the over in total. AUS 32/1 (13 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:52 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4 Live: Siraj Replaces Bumrah A rather strange move by Rohit Sharma to replace Jasprit Bumrah with Mohammed Siraj even as Usman Khawaja was finding it difficult to face the marquee India pacer. Rohit also giving Siraj a clear instruction to pitch it up as the ball is moving quite a bit. Will Siraj rediscover form? AUS 23/1 (11 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:43 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4 Live: Usman Khawaja Bamboozled Jasprit Bumrah has been giving a torrid time to Usman Khawaja in the middle, beating him on 60-70 percent times. But, that edge of the bat still seems to be evading Bumrah's deliveries. Exciting battle unfolding. AUS 23/1 (9 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:39 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test Live: The Konstas Dismissal Here's a look at the manner in which Jasprit Bumrah dismisses Sam Konstas... MIDDLE STUMP! Jasprit Bumrah gets Sam Konstas with a pearler. #AUSvIND | #DeliveredWithSpeed | @NBN_Australia pic.twitter.com/A1BzrcHJB8 — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 29, 2024 facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:31 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4 Live: Bumrah Ripper Shatters Konstas' Stumps WICKET!!!!! A simply unplayable delivery from Jasprit Bumrah shatters Sam Konstas' stumps. A brilliant in-swinger from the Indian pace icon as the Australian rookie had to depart early this time. An epic celebration follows! AUS 20/1 (6.3 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:27 (IST) IND vs AUS 4th Test, Day 4: Konstas Begins Fireworks While Bumrah hasn't bowled to Konstas much since morning, the Aussie youngster unleashed a brilliant hook shot to hit a boundary off Akash Deep. So far, a comfortable start for the Australian duo of Konstas and Khawaja. AUS 20/0 (6 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:17 (IST) IND vs AUS, 4th Test, Day 4 Live: Konstas Escapes Early Dismissal Akash Deep seemed to have got Konstas caught in the slips but the ball fell just a little before Yashasvi Jaiswal would've liked. Australia riding their luck early on Day 4. Aus 11/0 (4 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:11 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4: Khawaja Dropped By Jaiswal Jasprit Bumrah seemed to have trapped Usman Khawaja but Yashasvi Jaiswal couldn't manage to grab onto the catch that came to him at leg-gully. Early opportunity for India gone begging! AUS 8/0 (3 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 05:07 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4: Bumrah-Akash Eye First Breakthrough Jasprit Bumrah and Akash Deep begun India's attack with the ball in the second innings after Australia took a 105-run lead. Jasprit Bumrah vs Sam Konstas Round 2 is likely to be the focal point of the game while Akash has been preferred as the second strike-bowler to begin with, over Mohammed Siraj. Aus 7/0 (2 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 04:51 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4 Live: Nitish Kumar Reddy OUT After the third umpire drama, wicket for Australia in the form of Nitish Kumar Reddy. The India star went for the maximum at the long off boundary but only found a fielder. His innings comes to an end at a score of 114 while India also gets bowled out for 369. facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 04:47 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test Live: Drama At MCG As Australia Protest 3rd Umpire's Decision Mohammed Siraj seemed to have edged the ball into the hands of a slip fielder but the unsure on-field umpire decided to review the matter and involve the third umpire. Since no conclusive evidence was available, the third umpire gave the decision in the favour of Siraj. Incredible visuals in the middle as Australia skipper Cummins asks for review. India 369/9 (119 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 04:39 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4 Live: Nitish Dealing In Boundaries Nitish Kumar Reddy has shown early today that he isn't there just to hang on. As Nathan Lyon comes into the attack, Reddy looks to play a few shots, take calculated risks in the bid to keep the scoreboard ticking. India 367/9 (118 overs) facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 04:32 (IST) IND vs AUS 4th Test Day 4 Live: We Are Underway At MCG! Pat Cummins takes the ball a the start of Day 4, with India's Nitish Kumar Reddy on strike. India need to press the restart button and look to reduce Australia's lead as much as possible. facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 04:18 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test Live: Weather Update On Day 4 We had a few weather interrupts on Day 3 but the forecast today is much better than yesterday. The chances of rain at the MCG remain negligible, both on Day 4 and Day 5. We might be in for a Test match classic for the last couple of days. facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 04:11 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test Live: Match To Start At 4:30 AM IST After rain resulted into early stumps on Day 3, we are set to see the match resume at 4:30 AM IST (10:00 AM local time) today. Nitish Kumar Reddy is likely to try and keep the strike with him, as much as possible. But, Mohammed Siraj would also need to curb his attacking instincts. Interesting times ahead. facebook twitter Copy Link December 29 2024 04:01 (IST) India vs Australia 4th Test, Day 4 Live: Can Reddy-Siraj Hang On? Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Day 4 of the 4th Test between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Nitish Reddy's hundred has helped India reduce deficit but he would need Mohammed Siraj's help in the morning session today again. The match ended about half-an-hour early on Day 3 due to rain. 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