World No. 1 Schwaller, Canadian legend Koe battle on B.C. ice: ‘Best spiel there is’ - Vernon Morning Star

By Jonathan Brazeau VICTORIA — Top of the world to you, Yannick Schwaller. Schwaller and his squad — fourth Benoît Schwarz, second Sven Michel and lead Pablo Lachat-Couchepin — rose to No. 1 in the world rankings last month after opening the season with back-to-back wins at the Baden Masters and Euro Super Series. It was not only Schwaller's first time reaching the top of the charts, but also the first time any Swiss men's team achieved the feat. Considering all the great Swiss men's curlers over the years, including those related to him, like his father Christof Schwaller and uncle Andi Schwaller, that's quite the accomplishment. Now if only being No. 1 came with a trophy, a medal, or even a wedge of cheese. "It doesn't change the daily life, that's for sure," Schwaller said Wednesday during the GSOC Co-op Invitational. "But still, Benoît said yesterday something like, in the last 30 years, how many No. 1s were there? Maybe 10, 12, something like that. Not many did that, so it's cool to have done that. It's kind of like a check on the bucket list, but now work goes on.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.

Omar’s legal team says the search violated safeguards designed to protect constitutional rights of members of Congress. Lawyers for Democratic United States Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have demanded the return of property seized in a federal raid of her Washington, DC home, accusing the US Department of Justice of conducting a politically motivated investigation and failing to follow judicial instructions during the search. “The political motivations behind this pre-election investigation and search are clear as day,” Omar’s lawyers wrote in a letter sent to federal prosecutors on Friday and obtained by The Associated Press news agency.