内容摘要：A number of countries are speeding up efforts to license and build a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors to meet a surging demand for electricity and supply it carbon-free. Last year,

A number of countries are speeding up efforts to license and build a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors to meet a surging demand for electricity and supply it carbon-free. Last year,

AP correspondent Julie Walker reports a crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in an New York apartment for weeks.The 28-year-old victim arrived in New York City from Italy in early May, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation and did so on condition of anonymity.

It’s not clear how or if the two knew each other, but the district attorney’s office said in an email that prosecutor Michael Mattson told a judge Saturday that the victim, whose name has not been released, was abducted on May 6.Mattson said others were involved in the scheme to empty the victim’s Bitcoin wallet. That includes a person referred to in court records as an “unapprehended male.”The victim said he was bound by the wrists and tortured for weeks inside the apartment. His captors, according to prosecutors, drugged him, used electric wires to shock him, hit him in the head with a firearm and, at one point, carried him to the top of a flight of stairs where they dangled him over a ledge and threatened to kill him if he didn’t share his Bitcoin password.

Believing that he was about to be shot, the victim was able to escape Friday after agreeing to give up his password, which was stored on his laptop in another room. When the suspect turned his back, Mattson said, the victim ran out of the apartment.The victim was taken to a hospital and treated for injuries that Mattson said were consistent with his descriptions of being bound and assaulted.

A search of the town house turned up a trove of evidence, Mattson said, including cocaine, a saw, chicken wire, body armor and night vision goggles, ammunition and polaroid photos of the victim with a gun pointed to his head.

Woeltz was ordered Saturday to surrender his passport. Prosecutors said he has the means to flee, including a private jet and a helicopter. He is due back in Manhattan criminal court next week.CHARLOTTE, N.C (AP) — Patrick Agyemang scored two goals in a span of five minutes and Pep Biel scored the game winner and Charlotte FC beat the Columbus Crew 3-2 on Saturday night

Mohamed Farsi’s lob from the right side to the middle of the box was perfectly set and played by Ibrahim Aliyu whose header found the back of the net at 15 minutes to give the Crew a 1-0 lead.The lead was short lived when at 19 minutes, out of a corner from Biel, Agyemang registered his own header into the net. At 24 minutes, Agyemang made it a one-goal lead taking a ball on the run past his defender and beat keeper Nicholas Hagen to the bottom right corner.

Agyemang now has scored four goals in his last three games.Columbus tied it at 2-2 at the 65th minute when Malte Amundsen scored with a left footed shot from the center the box to the lower left.