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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100.
James Earl Carter Jr., who served as the 39th U.S. president from 1977 to 1981 passed away peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia on Sunday afternoon, local time surrounded by his family, according to the Carter Center.
He had reportedly been receiving hospice care at his home for health issues, including melanoma that spread to his brain and liver.
At age 100, Carter was the longest-lived former president in U.S. history.
Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden paid tribute to Carter, describing him as “a man of principle, faith, and humility,” while President-elect Donald Trump said “we all owe him a debt of gratitude.”
Jimmy Carter, a Georgia-born peanut farmer, won the presidency in 1976 with the promise of transparency amid the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War.
He was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
The country of Georgia has sworn in the ruling Georgian Dream party’s Mikheil Kavelashvili as its new president.
The outgoing President Salome Zourabichvili, however, has called foul play on the election saying that she was the “only legitimate president.”
Mikheil Kavelashvili was inaugurated as president on Sunday amid political turbulence in Georgia after the ruling party suspended its application to the European Union, which led to major anti-government protests.
Kavelashvili, a former footballer who played for Manchester City, is a conservative critic of the West, known for his right-wing views and speeches against LGBTQ people.
The pro-EU outgoing President Zourabichvili said that Georgian Dream party’s victory in the October parliamentary election, which led to Kavelashvili’s presidency, was marked by fraud saying that while she will leave the presidential palace, she refuses to step down.
The European Union’s common charger law came into force on Saturday, obliging manufacturers to adopt USB-C chargers as the standard on most re-chargeable electronic devices sold across the 27-nation bloc.
This means companies like Apple, which use different charging connector designs, will have to change the ports and cables on their products to USB-C.
The law, which is the first of its kind in the world, was passed by an overwhelming majority in the European Parliament in October 2022.
The EU’s decision to standardize all chargers for electronic devices is expected to cut costs for consumers and waste from obsolete chargers.
While the enforcement began on Saturday, the EU said makers of laptops will have until early 2026 to follow suit.
In the United States, Mega Millions lottery has said a winning ticket, estimated to be worth some 1.22 billion dollars was sold in California.
The winning numbers for the Mega Millions lottery were announced on Friday, while the winning ticket matching the numbers 3, 7, 37, 49, 55 and the gold Mega Ball 6, was found to have been sold at a convenience store in Cottonwood, California.
The identity of the winner of the fifth largest total pot in the history of the Mega Millions lottery is still unknown.
The highest-ever Mega Millions jackpot ticket –worth some 1.6 billion dollars –was sold in Florida last year.
Kim Siyoung, Arirang News.
Source : Arirang TV, https://www.arirang.com/news/view?id=279452
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