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Sorry, Spot: the city forbids to walk his dog during the day

A city in southwestern China banned dog walking during the day and banned them from parks, shopping malls, sports facilities and other public spaces.

The ordinance issued October 29 by the city of Wenshan, Yunnan Province, has been described as more restrictive in a country where the possession of a dog has long been subject to strict regulations.

Under the founder Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China, the possession of domestic animals was considered as a bourgeois affectation, but it has revived in recent decades, the Chinese being richer but having smaller ones families.

However, many cities still have rules on dog size, and the capital, Beijing, prohibits big dogs in the city center. Dog parks are rare and dogs must almost always be kept on a leash.

However, Wenshan's ban seems to go far beyond that by saying that dogs can only be outside before 7am and after 10pm.

It also states that dog leashes can not exceed 1 meter (3 feet) and that dogs can only be walked by adults.

Despite the newfound popularity of watch dogs, many Chinese remain wary of wild or wild dogs. Rabies transmitted by unvaccinated dogs is also at the origin of a significant number of the approximately 2,000 deaths due to the disease that the World Health Organization counts each year in China.

Those responsible for the vote under surveillance because of the high turnout

For nearly two years, federal and state authorities have been working to strengthen the country's electoral infrastructure against cyber-attacks by Russians or other people seeking to disrupt the electoral process.

It turns out that a lot of problems are closer to home.

The early vote that preceded Tuesday's midterm elections revealed a wide variety of problems with voting and registration systems across the country – machines that changed voters' selection to registration forms thrown in at home. the result of writing errors.

Election officials and advocacy groups fear that voters' confidence in the results will be weakened if these problems become more prevalent on polling day, as millions of Americans go to the polls to decide of decisive races for the Congress and the governor.

There is already concern that last-minute court rulings regarding voter identification requirements, the processing of postal ballots and other problems in a few states are likely to sow the seeds of confusion among voters and election officials.

"We expect polling station members to be overwhelmed, as are voters and provisional ballots," said Sara Henderson, head of the Common Cause in Georgia, where advocacy groups have expressed many concerns about electoral security and electoral security. voter access.

The problems arise in a context of growing interest, with enrollments and early voting participation well ahead of those generally observed in a mid-term election.

The election marks the first national vote since Russia has targeted state election systems in the 2016 presidential race. Federal, state and local authorities are employing in to strengthen the security of the myriad electoral systems of the country. They strengthened their cybersecurity protections and improved their communications and information sharing.

The US Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal agencies have opened a command center to help local and regional election offices deal with major issues that may arise.

"We want them to be as informed as possible," said Matt Masterson, senior advisor for cyber security at the Department of Homeland Security.

So far, there is no indication that Russia or another foreign player has attempted to launch cyberattacks against voting systems in any state, according to federal authorities.

However, early voting and voter registration have been problematic in many states. Problems include faulty machines in Texas and North Carolina, inaccurate mailings in Missouri and Montana, and voter registration problems in Georgia and Tennessee.

In other states, including Kansas, polling stations on polling day have been closed or regrouped, raising fears that voters will be deprived of their rights if they can not find a way to go there and vote.

Electoral integrity issues have erupted in recent days in Georgia, where the governor's race is one of the most watched elections in the country.

A mayor of Utah killed in Afghanistan urged Americans to vote

The body of a Utah mayor and member of the National Army Guard killed in Afghanistan was brought back to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Military officials said the 39-year-old mayor of North Ogden, Brent Taylor, was shot dead Saturday by an Afghan commando he was training, who was later killed by Afghan forces. His wife, parents and older children received the body.

Major Taylor was waiting to return to Mayor Taylor's position in January. His death leaves behind his wife, Jennie, and their seven children.

His remains come back as Americans prepare to vote on polling day. Taylor himself has urged Americans to exercise "their precious vote" in his latest Facebook post, which links democracy abroad and at home.

A man killed during a third shark attack in Australia

A man died after a shark attack in the Whitsunday Islands, in northeastern Australia, a little over a month after two people were seriously injured in separate incidents in the same region.

The three attacks took place in Cid Harbor, a picturesque bay surrounded by beaches in a popular tourist area of ​​the North Queensland coast.

The most recent attack occurred on Monday, when a 33-year-old Victoria man was fatally wounded.

The man was on a sailing vacation with 10 friends and the group was taking turns paddling on the water, Queensland police said. When the man jumped off the board, he was attacked by a shark.

Steve O 'Connell, Whitsundays patrol inspector, told reporters that the man had lost a lot of blood and had suffered a cardiac arrest.

Friends and rescue teams on the scene tried to resuscitate the man until he was flown to the nearby Mackay base hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries.

Police said on Tuesday that she had not publicly identified the man because she was still working to contact her close relatives.

The Whitsunday Water Police, as well as the Boating and Fishing Patrol and Queensland Marine Safety Patrols, are conducting patrols to warn people not to swim in the waters near the incident.

Ben McCauley, one of the members of the RACQ CQ rescue team who helped to transport the man to the hospital, called the scene "horrible", according to Seven News, a member of CNN.

"It was one of the most difficult for everyone involved, the scene is like what you would imagine being a shark attack, a lot of blood, a lot of confusion," he said.

This is the third serious incident involving sharks in the port of Cid in less than two months.

On September 20, a 12-year-old girl was left in serious condition by a shark who bit her in the leg.

Less than a day earlier, Justine Barwick, a 46-year-old Tasmanian tourist, was seriously injured in the upper left thigh. The shark bite left it bleeding profusely and necessitating emergency surgery.

Fox's Hannity speaks on stage at the Trump Campaign Rally

Sean Hannity spoke of President Donald Trump's latest election rally on Monday, after Fox News Channel and its most popular personality insisted all day that he did not do it.

Hannity appeared on the podium in a Missouri arena after being called to the stage by Trump. Jeanine Pirro, another Fox News host, also appeared on stage with the president.

"By the way, all those people at the back are false news," Hannity told the audience.

It was an extraordinary scene after the news network worked on Monday to establish a distance between Hannity and the campaign. Trump's campaign featured Hannity as a "special guest" at the rally, but Fox said it was not. Hannity himself tweeted: "To be clear, I will not go on stage with the president, I cover the last rally for the show."

But Trump called him on stage after stating, "They are very special, they have done an amazing job for us, they have been with us since the beginning."

Hannity hugged the president when he arrived on the scene and, after picking up Trump's traditional epithets on the media, recited economic statistics.

A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately return a message asking for comments.

"Fox News lied all day about its direct collaboration with the Trump campaign, which means the network has no control over Sean Hannity," said Angelo Carusone, chairman of the liberal media watch group Media Matters for America. Advertiser boycott of Hannity in the past. "It's a problem – it's dangerous for democracy and a threat to a free press."

Hannity has already been reprimanded by Fox. In 2016, he was part of a political video of Trump, which he claimed that she was not aware of in advance, and that Fox told Hannity of not do it. When Fox learned in 2010 that the Tea Party had announced that Hannity would participate in one of its fundraising rallies, he stated that he had not approved the agreement and was ordered him to return to New York.

Monday's protest was not broadcast on Fox News Channel, but aired on C-SPAN.