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Residents in the Spanish capital of Madrid were bracing for a torrential downpour Sunday. — courtesy X
Madrid residents told to stay indoors as Spanish capital braces for torrential rain
MADRID — Residents in Madrid were instructed by city authorities to stay indoors Sunday with Storm Dana set to lash the Spanish capital.The state meteorological agency, AEMET, issued a warning for Madrid, Toledo and Cadiz, where Dana is expected to bring strong rains.According to AEMET, up to 120 liters per square meter of rain could fall over Madrid in 12 hours. Valencia, on the Mediterrenean coast, has seen intense rainfall already, AEMAT said.Madrid’s mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida advised residents to stay in their houses, calling what was to come an “exceptional situation.”“Due to the exceptional and abnormal situation, in which rainfall records will be broken, I ask the people of Madrid to stay at home today,” Martinez-Almeida wrote on X, formerly Twitter.Madrid’s...
September 03, 2023

Madrid residents told to stay indoors as Spanish capital braces for torrential rain

Igor Kolomoisky at a court hearing in Kyiv on Saturday. — courtesy Sergei Chuzavkov/AFP/Getty Images
Ukrainian oligarch and Zelensky supporter Kolomoisky arrested in fraud investigation
KYIV — One of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs has been arrested in a fraud investigation, state media in the country are reporting.A Kyiv court on Saturday ordered Ihor Kolomoisky, a key supporter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, to 60 days in pre-trial detention while authorities investigate fraud charges against him, reported Ukrinform.Kolomoisky’s media and banking businesses have made him one of the richest men in Ukraine. However, the US State Department has previously accused him of using his “political influence and power for personal benefit.”The State Department sanctioned Kolomoisky in March 2021 for his alleged involvement in “corrupt acts that undermined rule of law and the Ukrainian public’s faith in their government’s...
September 03, 2023

Ukrainian oligarch and Zelensky supporter Kolomoisky arrested in fraud investigation

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is seen this file photo.
Zelensky: Counteroffensive is pushing forward
KYIV — Ukraine’s counteroffensive is “moving forward” after Kyiv made some headway in its campaign to recapture territory seized by Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.“Ukrainian forces are moving forward. Despite everything and no matter what anyone says, we are advancing, and that is the most important thing. We are on the move,” Zelenksy said on X, formerly known as Twitter.It is unclear if Zelensky is referring to a specific official or comment, but he appears to be trying to reverse the narrative that Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive has, to date, delivered poorer-than-expected results. Some media outlets carried reports citing Western officials saying Ukraine had spread its troops too thinly.After much anticipation, the counteroffensive...
September 02, 2023

Zelensky: Counteroffensive is pushing forward

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) greets Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Odimba at the Élysée Palace in Paris, June 22, 2023. — courtesy Getty Images
Macron looks on as France’s Africa policy crumbles
PARIS — Why is it so often that problems seem to get worse just when they ought to be getting better?Or in a French-African context, how come President Emmanuel Macron is surveying the tatters of French policy - coups in four Francophone states — just when he thought he had turned his back on all the wicked post-colonialism of the old days?No-one disputes that there was indeed a long period - roughly corresponding to the Cold War — when France used a certain amount of skulduggery and military muscle to further its interests in La Françafrique.But no-one can dismiss, either, the fact that for the last quarter-century the message from Paris has been that those days — officially at least — are over.Gone the automatic request for French soldiers to back up a teetering autocrat; gone...
September 02, 2023

Macron looks on as France’s Africa policy crumbles

Pro-war blogger Alexander Kots charged £440-£680 per post on his Telegram channel. — courtesy Alexander Kots/Telegram
Putin influencers profiting from war propaganda
MOSCOW — Russia’s pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC has found.Alongside a daily ration of gruesome videos of drone strikes and false claims about Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, they share ads for anything from cryptocurrency to fashion.Known in Russia as “Z-Bloggers” because of their support for a war often symbolized by the letter Z, they are often embedded with the Russian army and post footage from the front line where they call on young Russians to enlist.Since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, pro-war influencers have gained millions of followers on Telegram, the social media platform many Russians turned to after President Vladimir Putin banned Instagram,...
September 02, 2023

Putin influencers profiting from war propaganda

Wednesday's attack on Pskov left several aircraft damaged
Drone attack on Pskov airbase was from inside Russia, says Kyiv
KYIV — The drone attack on an airbase in the Russian city of Pskov on Tuesday was launched from inside Russia, Ukraine's military intelligence chief has said.Kyrylo Budanov said two Ilyushin cargo planes were destroyed and two damaged. Russia says four were damaged.Budanov did not say whether the attack was carried out by Ukrainian or Russian operatives.Ukraine's drone attacks on Russia occur almost daily. It had already admitted the Pskov attack.But Budanov's comments appear to end speculation that it was caused by a long-range weapon.On Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Ukrainian-made weapon had hit a target at a distance of 700km. Pskov is nearly 700km (434 miles) from the Ukrainian border."We are working from the territory of Russia," Budanov...
September 01, 2023

Drone attack on Pskov airbase was from inside Russia, says Kyiv

The Nobel prizes are presented at ceremonies on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, in Stockholm and Oslo.
Russia and Iran invited back to Nobel Prize banquet
STOCKHOLM — Russia and Belarus have been invited back to Stockholm's Nobel Prize banquet after being left out last year because of the Ukraine war, the Nobel Foundation says.Iran has also been invited back to the event in Sweden's capital after not being allowed to attend last year.The foundation said it sought to include even those who did not share the values of the Nobel Prize.One Swedish MEP called this year's invites "extremely inappropriate".The leader of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party, Jimmie Akesson, was also invited for the first time this year but said he was too busy to attend.Five of the six Nobel Prize ceremonies take place in Stockholm each year, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo.Last year, the Nobel Foundation said...
September 01, 2023

Russia and Iran invited back to Nobel Prize banquet

A Ukrainian serviceman walks near a destroyed Ukrainian tank near Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region, on August 25, 2023.
Ukrainian forces advance towards ‘first line’ of Russian defenses in Zaporizhzhia
KYIV — Ukrainian forces said they had penetrated the “first line” of Russian strongholds in the Zaporizhzhia region, in a sign that Kyiv is edging closer to Moscow’s sprawling network of fortified trenches along the southern front.The Ukrainian military claimed on Thursday that its units had advanced towards two villages to the south and east of Robotyne, a village in Zaporizhzhia that Kyiv secured last week amid a grueling counteroffensive that is yielding incremental gains.“In the Novodanylivka-Novoprokopivka direction, they have been successful, are consolidating their positions, inflicting artillery fire on the identified enemy targets, and conducting counter-battery operations,” the military’s general staff said on Thursday.Testimonies reviewed by CNN shed light on the...
September 01, 2023

Ukrainian forces advance towards ‘first line’ of Russian defenses in Zaporizhzhia

Amanita, or death cap, mushrooms are native to France - and deadly poisonous
Mushroom poisonings are up in France — and it’s all due to the weather
PARIS — Experts are warning that apps that claim to identify different mushroom species can get it wrong, so don't rely on technology to tell the edible from the poisonous.More than 250 cases of mushroom poisoning have been recorded in France since the beginning of August.That’s already twice the figure compared to the same period in 2022.Rainy weather in several regions is said to be behind the increase, with the picking period brought forward as a result of the inclement climate.The Health Security Agency (ANSES), responsible for reporting figures recorded by poison control centers, has encouraged “vigilance” among the French public.ANSES explains that the rise in poisoning is down to several reasons.In a statement, they warned that it was easy to fall foul of the edible...
September 01, 2023

Mushroom poisonings are up in France — and it’s all due to the weather

A photo purportedly showing a Ukrainian soldier near a destroyed tank near Ukraine’s southern village of Robotyne. — courtesy Reuters
Ukraine gains on southern front could open way to Crimea, says Kyiv
KYIV — Recent gains by Ukrainian troops on the southern front could open the way for pushing the Russians back to the annexed Crimean peninsula, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.He said this became possible after Kyiv liberated the “strategically important” village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region.Russia’s military says its forces are still holding on to the village. Ukraine seeks to cut the land corridor to Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014.By doing so, Kyiv would split in two the land Russia occupies in southern Ukraine, making Moscow’s supply lines more complicated.The latest claims by both Ukraine and Russia have not been independently verified.Speaking at a recent meeting of French ambassadors in Paris, Kuleba said: “Having entrenched on its [Robotyne’s]...
August 30, 2023

Ukraine gains on southern front could open way to Crimea, says Kyiv

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