Putin Trump held second undisclosed g ,20 conversation

Putin, Trump held second undisclosed g ,20 conversation

The private conversation took place during a dinner for g ,20 leaders in Germany this month, says White House official
Trump's interactions with Putin were scrutinised closely due to allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favour [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters],US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously undisclosed conversation during a dinner for g ,20 leaders at a summit earlier this month in Germany, a White House official said on Tuesday.The two leaders held a formal two-hour bilateral meeting on July 7 in which Trump later said Putin denied allegations that he directed efforts to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election.Trump's interactions with the Russian leader were scrutinised closely because of those allegations, which have dominated his first six months in the White House, and Trump's comments as a presidential candidate praising the former KGB spy.Trump and Putin first met at the g ,20 during a gathering of other leaders, which was shown in a video. They later held the bilateral meeting, which was attended briefly by a pool of reporters

Justine Damond,s fiance heartbroken over police shooting.






The heartbroken American fiancé of an Australian shot dead by a US police officer has said they have received almost no information from officials.Don Damond said his wife-to-be, Justine Damond, was gunned down after calling police to report a possible sexual assault in their quiet neighbourhood.He said they were "desperate" to find out how Saturday's shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, happened.The officers' body cameras were not turned on at the time.The shooting happened in a relatively affluent area, where violent crime is rare.
Mr Damond told a news conference outside his home on Monday evening: "Our hearts are broken and we are utterly devastated by the loss of Justine.As you know it was Justine who called 911 on Saturday evening, reporting what she believed was an active sexual assault occurring nearby.Sadly her family and I have been provided with almost no additional information from law enforcement regarding what happened after police arrived.Mr Damond continued: "Our lives are forever changed as a result of knowing her. She was so kind and so darn funny.Forty-year-old Ms Damond was living in Minneapolis with her fiancé, whose surname she had already adopted.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, citing three sources with knowledge of the incident, reported that Ms Damond was dressed in her pyjamas and approached the driver's side door to talk to the officer at the wheel after police arrived.
The officer in the passenger seat, identified by local media as Mohamed Noor, drew his gun and shot Ms Damond through the driver's window, the newspaper reported.
Mr Noor's lawyer, Tom Plunkett, confirmed on Monday that his client had fired his weapon, killing Ms Damond.Ms Damond,s stepson, Zach, railed against police in a Facebook video.
America sucks, he said. These cops need to get trained differently. I need to move out of here.
The Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said an investigation is under way and authorities are looking into whether there is any video of the incident.
Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau called Damond's death "tragic" in a statement on Monday.
I've asked for the investigation to be expedited to provide transparency and to answer as many questions as quickly as we can, she said.The two officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave.Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said she was "heartsick and deeply disturbed.She told a news conference: "I share the same questions other people have about why we don't have body camera footage of it, and I hope to get answers to that in the days coming
Ms Damond, nee Justine Ruszczyk, taught meditation classes at the Lake Harriet Spiritual Community in Minneapolis.
She studied to be a veterinarian before relocating to the US, where she is believed to have been for at least the last three years.According to her website, she is a "qualified yoga instructor, a personal health and life coach and meditation teacher About 200 neighbours, family members and residents gathered for a vigil on Sunday night where she died.

Slovenia May Turn to EU Over Croatia Border Dispute


Slovenia May Turn to EU Over Croatia Border Dispute

Slovenia's Prime Minister Miro Cerar signs a document during the EU leaders meeting on the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, in Rome, Italy in this file photo dated March 25, 2017. REUTERS/Remo Casilli REUTERS
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia said on Wednesday it may turn to the European Commission for help in implementing an international ruling on its border with Croatia.The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled last month that Slovenia should have "uninterrupted access" to the international waters in the Adriatic Sea.We are likely to turn to the European Commission for advice, cooperation, but only if we (Slovenia and Croatia) fail to find a common path to a solution," Prime Minister Miro Cerar told a news conference after a meeting with Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic.The issue goes back to 1991 when Slovenia and Croatia both declared independence from the former Yugoslavia but differed over their land and sea borders.The court's ruling is final and binding but Plenkovic said Croatia does not consider it valid since the country withdrew from the arbitration process in 2015 after a leaked tape showed Slovenian judge on the panel improperly exchanging confidential information with the Ljubljana government.Plenkovic said Croatia was ready to hold bilateral talks to reach a bilateral agreement on the border line between the two countries.According to the court the two countries have six months to implement the ruling. It is not clear what action the European Commission, which had said it expected the ruling to be implemented, could take to facilitate the process.

Christopher Nolan says he did not know how famous Harry Styles was before Dunkirk (world war 2)



Soldiers from Britain, Belgium, Canada and France fight against the German Army on the beaches of Dunkirk during the early stages of world war 2.
 Nolan discussed his decision to select Harry Styles of One Direction fame for a part in Dunkirk with Entertainment Tonight Sunday. Though he says he was "new" to Styles, the singer's personality increased Nolan's confidence in Styles' acting ability. What I was seeing was a very charismatic guy, but who clearly had a truthfulness and subtlety in his ability to perform as a film actor," Nolan said.
He also mentioned that his decision to cast Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight came as a surprise as well.I have to trust my instincts, and Harry was perfect for this part," Nolan said. "I think he pulled it off with incredible grace and reality.

UA Scientist's Research May Lead to Treatment for Hot Flashes




Dr. Naomi Rance's basic scientific findings on estrogen may end up offering relief to millions of women I thought to myself, 'I've been studying the wrong thing,'" says Rance, also a UA professor of pathology and neurology. "I've been studying how estrogen influences reproduction. I should try to figure out hot flashes.And that's what she did. As it turns out, her basic scientific research on estrogen's involvement with hot flashes may lead to a promising treatment for them.Hot flashes can range from mild to severe and occur a few times a week to several times an hour. They can even affect sleeping habits.Rance originally became interested in menopause during her neuropathology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.I started off with a very straightforward project, she explains. "I was going to examine the hypothalamus in women's brains before and after the menopause. I found that a group of neurons got bigger in the brains of postmenopausal women, and that was what was shocking at the time. Usually, with aging, things don't get bigger, they get smaller.Rance knew from previous research that the enlarged neurons were in the hypothalamic area known as the arcuate nucleus, named for its arc shape. The tiny area contains a microscopic collection of neurons, which contain the neuropeptide, neurokinin B, and control reproduction.Rance later discovered that those same neurons also influence how estrogen alters body temperature.That was really a sign that the reproductive axis is integrated with thermoregulation," she says. "The two systems are intimately integrated.So much so that Rance was able to show through laboratory experiments on rodents that stimulation of the receptor for neurokinin B, called neurokinin 3, causes changes in body temperature similar to a hot flash, and that destruction of neurokinin B neurons alters thermoregulation.These experiments led to a hypothesis that hot flashes occur when estrogen levels are diminished, causing increased release of neurokinin B into the brain areas that control body temperature. Theoretically, an antagonist could block this biological reaction by binding to the neurokinin 3 receptor and preventing the actions of neurokinin b.As it happened, Dr. Waljit Dhillo, an endocrinologist and professor at Imperial College, London, was in the audience along with a few of his colleagues.Dhillo said that he and his colleagues heard the talk, and they realized that neurokinin 3 antagonists could be used as a treatment for hot flashes," Rance says. "He took the idea to the clinical arena very fast. The first thing he did was infuse women with neurokinin B, and found that it caused hot flashes.Recently, Dr. Julia Prague, along with Dhillo and colleagues, tested the neurokinin 3 receptor antagonist (MLE4901) in a phase 2, randomized, double-blind clinical trial with 68 women. They found that the drug.significantly reduced the total weekly number of hot flashes by 73 percent and was well tolerated.If successful, the drug could be used as an alternative to estrogen, a development especially important to women with estrogen-dependent breast cancer