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Kelsey Bateman dead: Rock of Love star, 39, dies ‘unexpectedly’
At the age of 39, Kelly Bateman passed away. The reality TV personality from the United States who became well-known on Bret Michaels’ “Rock of Love” passed away “recently.” The cause of her death has not yet been revealed, though.
According to sources, the 39-year-old “unexpectedly” passed away. Her cause of death is not known at this time, according to TMZ, an American media outlet. Kelly, age 21, made her first appearance on the final season of the television series Rock of Love with Bret Michaels. On the dating program, she and Michael competed for Michael’s heart. In the seventh episode, she was brutally eliminated from the final nine women.
25 contestants vied to become Michael’s girlfriend for the title of the television series that aired between 2007 and 2009. In episode seven, Kelsey revealed that she ended up crying while traveling up a speed bump after becoming too drunk with her co-stars Ashley Klarich and Farrah Sinclair.
She said, “You know what I ended up balling my eyes out while I was lying on a speed bump”? I’m here, and Brett has everything ready to say to me. But hey, I’m not the only girl who has sinned and laid on a speed bump, I mean. Be sincere, folks. After that, Brett later told Kelsey that he didn’t think it was ideal for her to live on the road.
He continued, “At some point, I looked over you during the concert and you were gone.” And you started talking about how you couldn’t handle this any longer while you were lying on a speed bump. I believe tonight’s need to be who you are not and how much alcohol you need to consume?
I believe you’re amazing and gorgeous, and I told you that sometimes I had to make decisions for people, and I’m going to let your tour end here. Kelly, who is a native of Salt Lake City, claimed to be emotional. She said, “Sometimes I get drunk and lay on speed bumps, you know.
“Apparently Brett just can’t handle a girl who enjoys speed bumps and getting intoxicated.” Maybe he isn’t used to it, I mean. I’m going to be single and will leave my home, but the next guy I find won’t be 44 and probably won’t be a rock star.
One user on social media said, “OMG can’t believe it.” She continued, “May she rest in peace,” in a second. While a third expressed his shock at the phrase “Oh wow! RIP,” along with a dove and praying hands emoji.
Another person prayed, “God bless those who cared for her and the pain that came with that loss.” Kelsey stepped back from the spotlight after the program was over, but reports claim she continued to communicate with her fellow co-stars and occasionally made up a conversation with them in person.
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China’s Xi urges regional leaders to oppose ‘Cold War mentality’ at summit
At a gathering of a security bloc that Beijing has hailed as an alternative to the Western-led international order, Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged regional leaders to oppose “Cold War mentality.”
As the world becomes “chaotic and intertwined,” Xi said in a speech to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit attendees on Monday.
Looking back, Xi said, “We have succeeded by cultivating the Shanghai spirit despite turbulent times.”
We must continue to follow the Shanghai spirit, keep our feet on the ground, forge ahead, and better carry out the roles of the organization as the world shifts and transforms.
The bloc should work toward the development of a “more just and equitable global governance system,” Xi said, calling for “equal and orderly multipolarization” of the world.
The Chinese leader stated that this year, Beijing would give member states 280 million yuan ($80 million) in aid, and a further 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) in loans to a SCO banking consortium.
“We must exploit the mega-scale market to improve the facilitation of trade and investment,” Xi said.
More than 20 world leaders are present at the two-day SCO summit, which kicked off on Sunday in Tianjin, China’s northern city, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which was founded in 2001, expanded to 10 permanent members and 16 dialogue and observer nations, beginning with six Eurasian nations and its founding in 2001.
Powerful earthquake rocks eastern Afghanistan, hundreds feared killed
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Eastern Afghanistan was the victim of a magnitude 6. 0 earthquake, which left at least 10 people dead and an increase in the number of fatalities expected as information leaves awe in remote mountain villages.
Local sources reported significant damage reported across several districts in the mountainous regions on Monday at around midnight local time (GMT, Sunday).
At least 20 others were reported injured, according to the sources.
Meanwhile, the Afghan Information Ministry claimed that the earthquake had caused more than 250 fatalities and 500 injuries, according to the Anadolu news agency.
According to the report, the casualties occurred in the Kunar province districts of Nur Gal, Sawki, Watpur, Manogi, and Chapa Dara.
The Nangahar province’s center, according to the US Geological Survey, was located 27 kilometers (17 miles) east of the city of Jalalabad. At only 8 kilometers (5 miles) of depth, it occurred.
A few moments later, a fourth magnitude tremor struck Nangahar’s Basawul region.
Aftershocks were felt into the morning, according to Al Jazeera’s Mohsin Momand, who was reporting from Kabul.
“Kunar province recorded the earthquake’s epicentre.” The province of Kunar has suffered a significant earthquake. Additionally, the government claims that Kabul and nearby provinces are sending in emergency teams. He said that the government is making a pledge to use all available resources to help the families that have been affected.
The earthquake’s impact was felt by Pakistan’s neighbors as well.
People in large areas of Pakistan, including those in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, were reportedly woken up late at night by the tremor, according to Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, who was reporting from Lahore.
He claimed that Afghanistan’s earthquake’s devastation was likely to be significant because it had struck at a shallow depth.
“Kunar is a mountainous and impoverished region. The mud and rock-built houses there are extremely fragile. Given that this was shallow, they would not be able to withstand this particular earthquake. Additionally, it occurred late at night, when a large number of people were residing in their homes, according to Hyder.
“The situation there is quite dire, because hundreds of people are feared dead, which is obviously the main concern,” according to one report. These villages are spread out far apart. Access is also challenging, as landslides would have been inevitable as a result of such earthquakes. Therefore, any operation that is about to begin must occur at the designated time of day. That will present the biggest challenge, he continued.
Meanwhile, experts claim that the affected area is located in a region that is prone to large earthquakes.
At the confluence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, where the Indian plate is moving northward and sliding past some of Eurasia, said Chris Elders, an emeritus professor at Curtin University’s School of Earth at Planetary Sciences in Western Australia.
He claimed that it is a “quite a high population density and a very mountainous” area, which also frequently causes landslides.
He continued, “The hillsides will also shake and become unstable, and that’s what causes the landslide,” adding that “not only the buildings will shake and become unstable, but also the hills will also shake and become unstable.”
At least 2,400 people were killed by an earthquake in western Afghanistan in October 2023, according to the Afghan government.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un inspects new missile production line
According to state media, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a brand-new missile manufacturing process and production line.
His visit to the missile production line on Sunday came ahead of a s planned trip to Beijing to observe a military parade alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile development programs were developed in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, and they are subject to severe international sanctions.
In response to Russia’s and China’s growing economic, military, and political support, experts and international officials claim that the sanctions have lost much of their impact.
According to Kim, the modernized production process will help boost the combat readiness of major missiles, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday.
To support Moscow in its conflict with Ukraine, North Korea has sent soldiers, artillery, and missiles to Russia.
The US’s cooperation with Japan and South Korea was also criticized by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which recently issued a trilateral joint statement warning of cybersecurity threats from Pyongyang.
The ministry “strongly denounces and rejects” the United States, Japan, and South Korea for using cyberspace as a “theatre of geopolitical confrontation and hostile propaganda,” according to a spokesperson in a statement released by KCNA.
The spokesperson added, using the initials of North Korea’s official name, “The more the US continues to perpetuate its anachronistic and malicious hostile acts against the DPRK through the intensified collaboration with its satellite countries, the more distrust and hostility will build up.”
Clashes in Australia’s Melbourne as thousands rally against immigration
According to local media, police in the Australian city of Melbourne have used pepper spray and baton rounds in response to “violent clashes” between anti-immigration protesters and counter-demonstrators.
As thousands of people gathered in major Australian cities, including Sydney, Perth, Canberra, and Brisbane, to demand an end to what they termed “mass immigration,” the violence on Sunday occurred.
The rallies, which took place under the “March for Australia” banner, were “organized by Nazis,” according to Minister of Multicultural Affairs Anne Aly, who denounced the actions.
According to the SBS Network, about 5, 000 protesters, some of whom were draped in the Australian flag, and counterprotesters showed up in Melbourne, citing the police.
The police deployed the riot squad, which used pepper spray and baton rounds to keep the two groups apart, after violent clashes “multiple times,” according to the network.
According to SBS, at least six people were detained in the city on assault-related charges.
The violence in Melbourne was also covered by the Australian Associated Press.
The organization behind “March for Australia” claimed on its website and social media that “mass migration has torn at the bonds that held our communities together” and that its rallies aimed to “demand an end to mass immigration, something the majority politicians never have the courage to do: demand it.”
Critics expressed concern over the rise of right-wing extremism in Australia, where one in two people is either born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas.
Let’s not talk about this in a coy manner. They weren’t opposing immigration from “white Western nations,” according to Aly, the minister of multicultural affairs.
Aly told ABC News, “I would say to those who marched and who argued that they had those legitimate concerns that they were organized by Nazis. The purpose of them was to oppose immigration.”
The Nazi allegations were not made public by “March for Australia.”
According to The Age newspaper, Thomas Sewell, a well-known Australian neo-Nazi, was one of the speakers at the rally in Melbourne. He was one of a group of black men who later attacked a camp for indigenous protests in Melbourne, known as Camp Sovereignty, according to the ABC.
Four people were hurt, including a woman who was taken to a hospital, according to Camp , Sovereignty’s organizers, according to a statement released. Police did not make any arrests until after the men had left, according to the organizers.
Police in Sydney estimated that between 5, 000 and 8, 000 people would attend the anti-immigration demonstration, while the Refugee Action Coalition, a community activist group, held a counter-rally.
Glenn Allchin, a protester for the March for Australia, stated to the Reuters news agency that he wanted an “slowdown” in immigration.
Allchin said, “It’s about our country bursting at the seams and our government inducting more and more people,”. Our children are battling to find homes, hospitals, and the lack of roads in our country.
Meanwhile, counterprotesters in Sydney displayed signs indicating that immigrants make up the majority of Australia’s population despite the presence of Indigenous people. A representative for the Refugee Action Coalition said in a statement that “our event shows the depth of disgust and anger about the far right agenda of March For Australia.”
A party spokesperson said that Pauline Hanson, the leader of a far-right Australian senator, and Bob Katter, the leader of a small populist party, attended a “March for Australia” rally in Queensland while a few hundred people were protesting in Canberra. The veteran lawmaker had threatened to speak at a press conference about Katter’s involvement with a “March for Australia” event in the days leading up to the rally when it was being discussed.
Katter had yelled at the reporter, “Don’t say that, because that irritates me, and I punch blokes in the face for saying that,” according to SBS.
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the deputy leader of the Australian Greens and antiracist spokesperson, said in a statement that “these rallies must be called out for what they are: racist fear mongering and hate.”
Faruqi also criticized the Labor government, claiming that it “must stop its racist dog-whistling against immigrants and refugees and stop bashing pro-Palestine protesters and instead concentrate on the urgent implementation of the National Anti-Racism Framework.”
Far-right organizations are becoming more organized and visible in Australia, according to previous warnings from Australia’s spy agency.
In Australia this year, following a string of anti-Semitic attacks on synagogues, buildings, and cars since Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023, laws governing the Nazi salute and the display or sale of symbols associated with terror groups were passed.