Monday, September 22, 2014
Ohio service matches employers, veterans
COLUMBUS
State officials say a new online service is available to help match employers with Ohio veterans looking for jobs.
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services recently announced the launch of the Veterans Business Support Center on the OhioMeansJobs website.
The online support center helps employers find veteran candidates for jobs, screen resumes and learn about hiring incentive programs and veteran demographics in their area. Employment specialists who are veterans themselves will provide assistance to employers.
Thousands march against fighting
MOSCOW
Tens of thousands of people marched through central Moscow on Sunday to demonstrate against the fighting in Ukraine and Russia’s alleged complicity in the conflict.
An Associated Press reporter estimated the crowd at 20,000, although the city police department put the number at 5,000.
The fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine has killed more than 3,000 people.
Vote totals secret in Afghanistan
KABUL
Ending months of vote- related tension, Afghanistan’s election commission named a new president Sunday only hours after the leading candidates signed a power-sharing deal that names one of them as the country’s new chief executive.
The commission named Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as the winner and next president and noted that his one-time rival, Abdullah Abdullah, will fill the newly created position of chief executive, a post akin to prime minister. But it pointedly did not release final vote totals amid concerns that doing so could inflame tensions.
The deal brings to a close an election season that began in April, when millions of Afghans first went to the polls despite threats from Taliban militants.
Pope to Muslims: Condemn extremism
TIRANA, Albania
Pope Francis called Sunday for Muslims and all religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremists who “pervert” religion to justify violence, as he visited Albania and held up the Balkan nation as a model for interfaith harmony for the rest of the world.
“To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman,” Francis told representatives of Albania’s Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic communities during a half-day visit to Tirana in which he recalled the brutal persecution people of all faiths suffered under communism.
NASA’S Maven arrives at Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
NASA is back at Mars.
The Maven spacecraft arrived at the red planet late Sunday after a 442 million-mile journey that began nearly a year ago.
NASA confirmed that the robotic explorer slipped into Martian orbit as planned.
Now the real work begins for the $671 million mission.
Flight controllers will spend the next six weeks adjusting Maven’s altitude and checking its science instruments. Then Maven will start probing the Martian upper atmosphere. The spacecraft will conduct its observations from orbit; it’s not meant to land.
Scientists believe the Martian atmosphere has clues as to how Earth’s neighbor went from being warm and wet billions of years ago to cold and dry. That early, moist world may have harbored microbial life.
Associated Press