Queen Latifah invites baby son Rebel to a Harlem Globetrotters game with partner Eboni Nichols in NYC

• The 52-year-old rapper-actress kept it casual in a white hoodie and matching sweatpants while touring the exhibit at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn
• The New Jersey native was accompanied by her partner Eboni Nichols, 44, and their four-year-old son Rebel
• Latifah made the first public tribute to her partner Eboni and their son Rebel during her acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 BET Awards

By Paul Chavez for

Published: 07:03 GMT, 20 February 2023 | Updated: 08:21 GMT, 20 February 2023

Queen Latifah dazzled in an all-white outfit Sunday as she and her family watched the Harlem Globetrotters in New York City.

The 52-year-old rapper-actress kept it casual in a white hoodie and matching sweatpants while touring the exhibit at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

She completed her look with light blue New Balance sneakers and accessories with large hoop earrings and black sunglasses.

The New Jersey native was accompanied by her partner Eboni Nichols, 44, and their four-year-old son Rebel.

Rebel accessorised in an all denim outfit for fun.

Family fun: Queen Latifah dazzled in an all-white outfit on Sunday as she and her family watched the Harlem Globetrotters in New York City

The family sat front row at the basketball fair with the Harlem Globetrotters.

Latifah made the first public tribute to her partner Eboni and their son Rebel during her acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 BET Awards.

She concluded her speech with a “Happy Pride” message before saying, “Eboni my dear; Rebel my love” while putting her hand on her heart.

Eboni, a former Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader and choreographer, and Latifah met on Dancing With The Stars in 2009 and began a romantic relationship in 2013.

Latifah, real name Dana Elaine Owens, released her debut album All Hail The Queen in 1989 at the age of 19.

She was the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.

Latifah has played the title character on The Equalizer since the series premiered in February 2021 on CBS.

She portrays Robyn McCall, aka The Equalizer, who serves as a street worker for justice after being a CIA agent.

The series was renewed for its third and fourth seasons last May.

Casual style: The 52-year-old rapper and actress kept it casual in a white hoodie and matching sweatpants while touring the exhibit at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn

Young son: The New Jersey was accompanied by her partner Eboni Nichols, 44, and their four-year-old son Rebel

Front row: The family sat front row to the basketball fair with the Harlem Globetrotters

The third season premiered on CBS last October.

In addition to starring, Latifah is also an executive producer on the series.

The Globetrotters were formed in Chicago in 1926.

The team combines athletics, theater and comedy in their style of play.

The Globetrotters’ signature song is the whistled version of Sweet Georgia Brown.

Royal hug: A member of the Globetrotters hugged Queen Latifah during a break in the action

Good times: The rapper and actress shared smiles while posing with the player

A German intelligence agent accused of leaking state secrets to Russia has been tasked with finding out the location of HIMARS rocket launchers in Ukraine, German news website Der Spiegel recently reported.

Carsten Linke, a senior German intelligence agent, was hired by the Russian FSB spy service last fall to provide precise information on the location of the HIMARS and Iris-T missile systems that the US and Germany had supplied to Ukraine.

According to reports, German authorities have doubts that Mr Linke was able to send the information to Moscow.

But the alleged spy managed to elicit information about top-secret communications technology from the German foreign intelligence agency BND. In return, the Russian FSB most likely paid the suspected German spy in cash.

According to the German report, investigators discovered an envelope with a six-figure euro amount in a locker that belonged to him.

The 52-year-old Senior Agent Linke was arrested by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) shortly before Christmas. Since the public prosecutor’s office named him as a source for leaking top secret information to Moscow, he is currently being investigated on suspicion of high treason.

A second suspect, Arthur Eller, was arrested in January and charged with involvement in treason for allegedly helping Carsten L. pass the information to Russia. Eller was not an employee of the German secret service.

The situation in Ukraine has increased fears of Russian cyber attacks and attempts to sabotage vital infrastructure in Germany.

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Efforts in Europe to dismantle the Russian spy network

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, US and European intelligence agencies have attempted to destabilize Russian spy networks. The German investigation came after roll-ups of suspected Russian agents in the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Poland and Slovenia.

Russian spy services have suffered more damage over the past year than at any time since the end of the Cold War, according to US and European security officials who fear the country still has significant capabilities.

Russia’s ability to conduct influence operations in Europe, to maintain contact with whistleblowers, or to provide the Kremlin with information on important matters, such as the extent to which Western leaders are willing to further increase arms sales to Ukraine, seems through the campaign to have been hampered size.

If true, the repercussions could add to the number of repercussions that Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer in East Germany, failed to foresee when he gave the order to invade Ukraine.

The German case has heightened concerns about unresolved security issues in Europe by showing that even during the post-Ukraine crackdown, Moscow continued to regularly receive sensitive documents from one of Europe’s top intelligence agencies, Germany’s BND.

Berlin has downplayed the impact in talks with allied services, but security sources claimed the suspected mole had access to extremely sensitive information.

Germany only found out about the infiltration through a service of Western allies, whose names the BND authorities did not want to give. After Linke found out through a joint action in September that Russian secret services had procured sensitive BND material, he became the target of a mole hunt.

Reports suggest that the seriousness of the breach prompted the governments of the United States, Britain and other nations to scale back intelligence exchanges with Berlin.

According to sources in German media, Linke and Eller first met at a social event in 2021.

The possibility that Linke may have been driven by radical political beliefs is raised by reports the pair were introduced by a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Ground-based air defense system IRIS-T SLM

While the German case revolved around a European suspected of betraying his homeland for the Kremlin, some cases involved Russian citizens attempting to smuggle themselves into the West.

In June 2022, Dutch authorities claimed they stopped a Russian spy from breaking into the International Criminal Court by disguising him as a Brazilian intern.

According to officials and court documents, he was Sergey Cherkasov, a Russian military officer who had been deployed abroad by Russia’s main military intelligence agency, the GRU spy agency, more than a decade earlier.

Cherkasov was turned away by the Netherlands and is currently in prison in Brazil after being convicted of forgery. Although Russia denies he was a spy, it has asked Brazil to extradite him because he is a wanted drug criminal.

Hrianykivka under grapeshot

Ukraine’s General Staff claims its forces repelled “Russian attacks in areas of the village of Hrianykivka” east of Khatkiv, while Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed responsibility for its capture on Saturday. According to Kiev, the Russians continue to bombard the area heavily with their artillery.

Flashing in Turkey

While Joe Biden is in Poland, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara today.

gain time

“Russia doesn’t need to score on the Ukrainian stage, it needs to freeze the situation because time is ticking against us, against Ukraine, against Europe, even against the United States, which is being hijacked by its main target, China,” he estimates. via France Inter, Dominique de Villepin.

Whatever happens, Moscow will announce a victory at Bakhmout, London claims

“It is likely that Russia will claim Bakhmout was captured to align with the anniversary, regardless of the reality on the ground,” Britain’s MoD said in its daily update. As a result, “Russian forces are likely to come under increasing political pressure as the anniversary of the invasion approaches.”

Locally, London continued, the losses were high. “The elite 155th and 40th Marine Brigades suffered very heavy casualties at Vuhledar and are likely to be ineffective in combat,” the ministry said.

Villepin: “There are pitfalls along the way”

“We have our eyes on the battlefield in Europe and tend to forget what is happening in the rest of the world and what will weigh heavily on this conflict,” said France Inter Dominique de Villepin. “There is of course the war between Russia and Ukraine, but there is also the part between the United States and China, the risk of conflict between autocracies and democracies, there are pitfalls along the way,” the former prime minister said.

As for the expression “war against the West”, “it is the ideological trap that is being set for us and that could lure many countries of the South” to Russia, “we must take into account this allergy to Western imperialism” and “get in the minds of others,” he said a little later.

The short life of Elina

Elina was 6 years old, she lived in Avdiivka, in the basement of the building, with her grandparents. She died of cardiac arrest in early January. No doubt his heart gave out under too much stress. That’s what the chief doctor of the hospital and the police chief of Avdiivka told our special envoys Christel Brigaudeau and Philippe de Poulpiquet. The history of this story can be read in this article.

The Ukrainians would run out of ammunition

It is one of their opponents who says: “The Ukrainian army lacks ammunition and we actually destroyed a large amount of artillery, in particular M777 howitzers and American MLRS,” Yan Gagin told TASS. , Council of the Donetsk Autonomous Republic . “The enemy had to move most of the artillery precisely to Artyomovsk and Ugledar, which are the two hottest fronts at the moment,” he adds.

Artyomovsk is not in an area controlled by Kiev and is an important transport hub for supplying Ukrainian troops in the Donbass. Larger clashes to retake the city are underway.

On the Eastern Front

In his daily address last night, President Zelenskyy admitted that “the situation in Donbass is very difficult”. “We are fighting. We are crushing the invader and inflicting extremely tangible losses on Russia,” he said.

And to add: “I keep repeating: the more Russia loses there, in the Donbass – Bakhmout, Vuhledar, Maryinka, Kreminna, the sooner we can end this war with the victory of Ukraine.”

The Donbass, core of the conflict

The mining basin of eastern Ukraine has been the subject of a latent war between Ukraine and Moscow-backed separatists since 2014 and the annexation of Crimea.

On February 21, 2022, President Putin announced that Moscow recognizes the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively), the two regions that make up Donbass. Three days later, he claimed that he had responded to a request for help from those two republics to launch the invasion of Ukraine, which Russia called a “military special operation in Ukraine.”

Last September, during controversial consultations, the peoples of the DPR and LPR decided to join the Russian Federation. These referendums, organized in a few days under disputed conditions, were not recognized by the international community, nor were those held in the Kherson and Zaporijia regions.

Tomorrow Vladimir Putin was supposed to deliver a great speech in which he invoked the integration of the four regions into Russia.

Foreign mercenaries: Moscow charges

The head of the Russian investigative committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in an interview with TASS, accused “the Ukrainian side (the use) of all possible methods to disguise the identity of foreign mercenaries,” who come to the fight in their assessments. According to him, several bodies were found “with severed heads and hands”, they were identified as Polish mercenaries thanks to the records on their smartphones.

Besides, these mercenaries were handsomely paid. According to Bastrykin, “we established their order of recruitment, training and participation in combat operations in the amount of bonus payments from 30,000 to 100,000 hryvnia” (from 770 to 2550 euros), he claims.

Defend Bakhmout, but not at all costs

Ukraine will maintain the defense of the city of Bakhmout, taking into account the price paid in human lives. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, President Zelenskyy claims that the city, which had a population of 70,000 before the war, “like many others in the Donbass, was devastated by the Russians”. “It is important for us to defend them, but not at any cost and not so that everyone dies,” he adds.

Macron assures Zelenskyy that he will support his peace plan

President Emmanuel Macron had a phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday. Macron “reaffirmed his commitment to the 10-point peace plan proposed by President Zelenskyy and assured him that he would support this initiative at international level in the forthcoming diplomatic events,” according to the Elysée. They also referred to “the reminder (on Friday at the annual Munich Security Conference) to European and NATO partners of the need to increase and accelerate military support to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”

Macron “is wasting his time,” according to Zelenskyy

The sentence is clear. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that Emmanuel Macron is “wasting his time” by wanting to keep the dialogue with Vladimir Putin open.

“It will be a useless dialogue, in reality Macron is wasting his time,” assures the Ukrainian president. I have come to the conclusion that we are unable to change the Russian attitude. If they have decided to isolate themselves in the dream of rebuilding the former Soviet empire, there is nothing to be done about it, it is up to them to cooperate with the international community on the basis of mutual respect or not. »

In Sweden, At Uppsala University there are those who i peace negotiations and who teaches how to create a peaceful and lasting coexistence. The Center for Peace and Conflict Research was founded by Peter Wallenstein in 1972. A few days before the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, Direct stop with the bet “Peace Builder”aired on Monday February 20 at 9:20 p.m. on Rai3, returns to the conflict that is rocking Europe and to those who, despite everything, are working to build peace.

Wallenteen is not just a theorist. He has experience as a third party in conflicts such as those surrounding Papua New Guinea (Bougainville), Israel-Palestine, Nagorno-Karabakh and Cyprus. At Uppsala University, a lot of data and information about conflicts is collected in the Uppsala Conflict Data Program: a database that collects Information on conflicts from 1946 to today. It is an important tool that is consulted by many international bodiesincluding the UN. Ucdp allows us today special assessments, for example the fact that most of the conflicts of the last 15-20 years have been “internationalized” wars involving third countries that added fuel to the fire to prolong conflicts and destabilize countries. With Eric Melander Heads of the Center for Nuclear Disarmament, we talked about the impact that the war in Ukraine is having on the fight against armaments, undoing years of policy in support of nuclear non-proliferation.

PresaDiretta cameras have also arrived Sierra Leonea country that was able to end a bloody civil war.

BUILDERS OF PEACE is a story by Riccardo Iacona, Luigi Mastropaolo, Roberta Pallotta, Elena Stramentinoli, Fabio Colazzo, Matteo Delbò, Massimiliano Torchia.

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