[NYPOST] A 37-year-old Queens woman initially thought to have did away with himself, died after her boyfriend — who accused her of cheating — viciously beat her and then appeared to have pushed her out of her sixth floor-window, according to prosecutors and neighbors.
Danielle Marrano and 34-year-old beau Shmuel Levine were arguing inside her apartment on Ocean Promenade in Rockaway Park around 2:30 p.m. October 26 when things turned violent mostly peaceful, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office.
Levine allegedly put Marrano in a chokehold, prosecutors said. Her mangled body was found on the ground several floors below her window, cops said.
She suffered at least four skull fractures that contributed to her death — at least two of which were inconsistent with injuries sustained during a fall, according to prosecutors.
The city medical examiner’s office determined that Marrano’s injuries were caused by "unnatural blunt force trauma," and the death was ruled a homicide, according to police.
Levine told authorities that he and Marrano "got into an argument about her cheating on me," according to a criminal complaint."
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[NYPOST] A 79-year-old downtown Brooklyn man died more than a month after he was beaten in a brutal, caught-on-camera attack just steps from his apartment building, cops said. Angel Diaz was on Hoyt Street near Schermerhorn Street just before 9 p.m. Sept. 13 when the unidentified man approached, according to the video released by police late Tuesday.
The septuagenarian appeared to swing his cane before the assailant socked him in the side of the head, knocking him to the ground, the clip shows.
While he was on the ground, the attacker continued pummeling him in the face, before taking off, according to the video.
The victim was taken to Methodist Hospital, where he was initially listed in stable, pH balanced condition.
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[NYPOST] A 31-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in Harlem — one of seven victims of gun violence across the city Tuesday and Wednesday, according to police.
The victim, who was hit at Malcolm X Boulevard and West 112th Street around 9:20 a.m., was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known.
The victim, who police sources said had a lengthy criminal record, was not immediately identified pending family notification.
Earlier in the morning, a 34-year-old man walked into NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the right arm.
He would not tell authorities where the incident occurred, police sources said.
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[NYPOST] The Philadelphia Inquirer said it will lay off 528 people when it shuts down the printing plant where the paper and the Philadelphia Daily News have been printed since 1992.The grisly headcount, filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor in recent days, is slightly higher than 500 layoffs that were expected when publisher Lisa Hughes made the surprise announcement to staff on Oct. 9 that the Inquirer was closing the Schuylkill printing plant and outsourcing to a Gannett-owned plant in New Jersey.
The Inquirer said it is negotiating with a buyer for the site, but declined to disclose details. Separately, the Inquirer said it was also laying off a handful of journalists. John Doyle, president of Teamsters local 628 which represents over 300 of the workers said he was "blindsided" by the announcement last month.
The Philly papers are the latest in big city dailies to outsource printing in a bid to cut costs. News Corp said in September it is closing the Bronx plant that prints the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s and shifting its printing to a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... -owned facility in College Point, Queens.
The latter facility is already printing the Times, some local editions of USA Today, as well as Newsday, which outsourced its printing there in 2018.
A WARN notice filed with the New York State Department of Labor on Oct. 20 said 381 workers from the Bronx plant will be laid off commencing Jan. 31, 2021.
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Looks like an OPEC member or two has a cash flow or just a cash problem.
[gCaptain] OPEC’s effort to shore up world oil markets during the pandemic is facing a new threat — from the group’s own rising production.
In the past few months, the resurgent coronavirus has increasingly frustrated the cartel’s attempt to defend crude prices through cutting its output. Oil futures have sunk below $40 a barrel in London to their lowest since May.
But a fresh challenge is emerging from within the organization’s own ranks, just weeks before Saudi Arabia and other oil heavyweights meet to to draw up plans for the year ahead.
OPEC production increased significantly last month, according to a Bloomberg survey. Libya, a member exempt from the pact to restrain production, is reviving exports as its political turmoil eases. Meanwhile, Iraq and Nigeria are once again reneging on pledges to rein in their shipments.
Output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries jumped by 470,000 barrels a day in October to 24.74 million a day, according to the survey. It’s based on ship-tracking data, information from officials and estimates from consultants including Rystad Energy AS, JBC Energy GmbH, Petro-Logistics SA and Rapidan Energy Group.
OPEC and its partners announced unprecedented supply cutbacks in the spring as lockdowns and the economic fallout from the virus sent fuel demand crashing. The alliance, spearheaded by the Saudis and Russia, is currently keeping about 7.7 million barrels of daily output — roughly 8% of world supply — offline to stave off a glut.
The coalition is due to meet on Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, amid growing expectations that it will keep these restraints in place in the first quarter of 2021, rather than ease them as originally planned. In Russia, oil companies met with Energy Minister Alexander Novak on Monday to discuss the possibility of delaying the tapering by three months, according to people familiar with the matter.
Libya Oil Export Boost
The latest supply data show the producers’ difficulties are only growing.
Libya has surprised traders by resuming exports, after military commander Khalifa Haftar — who has battled the central government for dominance of the country — agreed to let shipments restart from the ports he controls.
Having pumped just 150,000 barrels a day in September, Libya ramped up to an average of 450,000 last month, the survey showed. Production is currently running at 800,000 a day, and top oil official Mustafa Sanalla is aiming for 1.3 million at the start of next year.
OPEC’s leaders are typically sympathetic when the crisis-torn North African nation revives production. But for the other members who increased last month, patience has worn thin.
Iraq and Nigeria, who had promised to make additional cutbacks to compensate for overproducing, flouted those commitments last month.
Baghdad boosted supply by 160,000 barrels a day to 3.87 million a day, and Abuja by 120,000 to 1.61 million. While the United Arab Emirates trimmed by 100,000 barrels, that wasn’t enough to fulfill its own obligation to compensate.
Speaking at the most recent OPEC+ monitoring meeting last month, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman once again urged fellow members to respect their output pledges.
With compliance among some key producers deteriorating, their next gathering could see some tense exchanges. That could be an understatement.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A 37-year-old Queens woman initially thought to have 
[NYPOST] A 31-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in Harlem — one of seven victims of gun violence across the city Tuesday and Wednesday, according to police.
[NYPOST] The Philadelphia Inquirer said it will lay off 528 people when it shuts down the printing plant where the paper and the Philadelphia Daily News have been printed since 1992.The grisly headcount, filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor in recent days, is slightly higher than 500 layoffs that were expected when publisher Lisa Hughes made the surprise announcement to staff on Oct. 9 that the Inquirer was closing the Schuylkill printing plant and outsourcing to a Gannett-owned plant in New Jersey.
