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• Ukrainians flee to EU and Russia, leave to dodge draft for impending war, find relief from economic distress
• Ukraine facing potential labor 'catastrophe' as millions of citizens flee country
• Survey reveals nearly two-thirds of working population want to flee from Ukraine
• Ukrainian soldiers flee to Russia: Refuse to fight against their own citizens

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• Justin Trudeau says Canada will not bow to China's 'coercive diplomacy'
• Cyberattacks take down Canadian medical software provider, China's Wuhan earthquake monitoring service
• 'Not appropriate': China's President Xi reprimands Canada's PM Trudeau ON CAMERA for leaking G20 discussion
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Just in case anyone missed it...

The Israeli plan is to push the 1 million people in the top half of the open air prison that is Gaza into the bottom half, along with the 1 million already there.

The idea is that this will make living conditions there unbearable for Gazans, so they will be forced to leave the territory of Gaza entirely. Thus completing the "ethnic cleansing" of Gaza.

It's very likely however that this move will cause violence to flare in the West Bank, at least the Israelis hope so, at which point the West Bank will also be "ethnically cleansed" of Palestinians.

For it's part, the US is hoping that all of this will provoke Iran and its allies in the region to respond militarily, at which point the US hopes to "take Iran out", which will likely unleash an unprecedented global crisis on many fronts.

The point of this convoluted mad-cap scheme is for the US to prevent the quickening moves towards a multi-polar world, led by Chin and Russia and their allies (which includes Iran).

The US figures that rather than wait for such a multi-polar world to emerge naturally and with the unseating of the US as global hegemon, they prefer to start a war in the Middle East and upset the whole applecart, so to speak.

It's akin to playing a game of chess with someone, and when they are two moves from checkmate, they upturn the table and say "see, you didn't ACTUALLY win!". It's not going to end well. For anyone.

He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Mike Sauschuck, commissioner of the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a news conference Friday night.

Sauchuck said the body was located at about 7:45 p.m. local time near the Androscoggin River in Lisbon, a town about 8 miles southwest of Lewiston. The suspect's vehicle, a white Subaru Outback, had earlier been found abandoned by a boat launch on the river.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills told reporters that she called President Biden to inform him of the suspect's death.
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Hundreds of state and local police and federal agents had been involved in the manhunt since the shootings Wednesday night.

For several hours Thursday night, heavily armed police had surrounded a house in Bowdoin, a small town where the suspect was from, about 35 minutes from Lewiston, but they completed their search there without finding him.

On Friday, police announced divers were conducting underwater searches near the location where his vehicle was found abandoned.

Authorities had recovered a weapon from the suspect's abandoned vehicle, law enforcement sources told CBS News' Pat Milton and Robert Legare earlier Friday. The firearm was legally purchased, a law enforcement source confirmed. It wasn't clear if the recovered weapon was used in the shooting.

CBS News had also learned that investigators had located the suspect's cellphone and were trying to crack it and pore over his online activity, including text messages and emails, hoping to find clues as to his motive in the shootings.

The deadly rampage began a little before 7 p.m. Wednesday night when police received a 911 call about a shooting at Sparetime Recreation, a bowling alley in Lewiston. Police later said six men and one woman there died of apparent gunshot wounds.

Just over 10 minutes later, at 7:08 p.m., police were called to the scene of another shooting a few miles away, at Schemengees Bar and Grille. Eight people there were killed, police said. Three other people died at area hospitals.

Police said the gunman fled in the aftermath of the shootings and they warned that he "should be considered armed and dangerous."

The suspect, a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, had recently reported experiencing mental health issues, including hearing voices, and threatened to shoot up a military base in Saco, a law enforcement bulletin seen by CBS News said. In July, he started "behaving erratically," a New York Army National Guard spokesperson told CBS News, and he was committed to a mental health facility for two weeks.

Several communities in the area spent the days since the shooting under shelter-in-place warnings, with schools canceled and residents urged to stay indoors. The shelter-in-place orders were lifted earlier Friday.
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Investigators were looking into whether the suspect may have been targeting a specific individual, who is believed to be a current or former girlfriend, two U.S. officials and a former high-ranking official told CBS News. It wasn't clear if she was at either of the two locations that were attacked.

The victims of the mass shooting ranged in age from 14 to 76, the medical examiner said. They included a bar manager who tried to stop the gunman; a bowling instructor who was teaching kids; a beloved father; a 14-year-old and his dad; and several people taking part in a cornhole tournament for deaf athletes.

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The states say Meta has embraced a business model designed to maximize the amount of time teen users spend on its apps through "harmful and psychologically manipulative product features," despite making public assurances that they are safe.

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They cite research showing that Meta-owned social apps are "associated with depression, anxiety, insomnia, interference with education and daily life, and many other negative outcomes."

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The states are seeking unspecified financial damages, as well as "injunctive relief" blocking Meta from engaging in the harmful business practices outlined in the suit.