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A scene of Tory activists partying at a Christmas party during lockdown in 2020.
Gove says sorry over Tory lockdown party video
LONDON — Michael Gove has apologized for a video showing Tory activists at a Christmas party during lockdown in 2020, saying it is “indefensible”.The video published by the Mirror shows workers drinking and dancing at an event in London in December that year.The housing secretary told the BBC the footage was “terrible” and would leave people feeling “extremely angry”.The Metropolitan Police said they were “aware of the footage and are considering it”.Gove said two Tories at the gathering recently given honors by Boris Johnson should not be stripped of them.In the footage, one person is heard saying it is OK to film “as long as we don’t stream that we’re, like, bending the rules”.The Conservative Party said four people were disciplined over the event, although it...
June 18, 2023

Gove says sorry over Tory lockdown party video

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking in Kyiv.
Ukraine war must end, South African President Ramaphosa tells Putin
MOSCOW/ KYIV — The war in Ukraine must end, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has told Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin.Ramaphosa’s remarks came as he met Putin in St. Petersburg on Saturday as part of a peace mission with six other African countries.Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky told the delegation on Friday that he would not enter talks with Russia while they occupied Ukrainian land.Putin launched last year’s invasion and blamed Ukraine for refusing talks.At the meeting in St. Petersburg, Ramaphosa also called for both parties to return their prisoners of war, and said children removed by Russia should be returned home.Putin has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court over the forced removal of hundreds of Ukrainian children from their...
June 17, 2023

Ukraine war must end, South African President Ramaphosa tells Putin

In the town of La Laigne, many homes were left cracked with stones and tiles on the ground. — courtesy Twitter/ Thibaud Moritz
Rare earthquake damages French homes, schools and churches
PARIS — Around 170 people been relocated from the western French town of La Laigne after an earthquake on Friday evening.The quake, believed to have been between magnitude 5.2 and 5.8 was felt from Rennes in the north-west to Bordeaux in the southwest.Homes, schools and churches were damaged, with hundreds of buildings declared uninhabitable.Earthquakes above magnitude five are unusual in France, with the last affecting the country in November 2019.Two people were injured in the town of Deux-Sevres following Friday’s tremor. The Charente-Maritime region just north of Bordeaux was particularly affected.In La Laigne, the local fire service chief Didier Marcaillou warned the church had become “completely unusable” and a top government regional official said that most of the houses in...
June 17, 2023

Rare earthquake damages French homes, schools and churches

An aerial view of the parade captured the scale of the event
Royals celebrate King Charles’s first birthday parade
LONDON — King Charles III has taken part in his first Trooping the Color since becoming Monarch.Princes Louis and George and Princess Charlotte joined other royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony to watch a flypast in honor of their grandfather’s official birthday.In a surprise tribute, airplanes were used to spell out the King’s initials, CR.Thousands watched the event at Horse Guard’s Parade and the Mall in London.The royals watched an extended military flypast after the display on coronation day had to be scaled down due to bad weather.Around 70 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force took part — including aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the C-130 Hercules on its final ceremonial flight, modern Typhoon fighter jets with a red, white...
June 17, 2023

Royals celebrate King Charles’s first birthday parade

The polar bear's natural habitat is disappearing as ice caps melt due to climate change. — courtesy WMO/Deutscher Wetterdienst/Karolin Eichler
Polar scientists call for more research and observation into rapid sea ice reduction
GENEVA — Sea ice is reducing at an unprecedented rate, prompting polar scientists to call for an urgent increase in research and observation, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.The rapid changes in the Arctic and Antarctic have serious implications for these regions, and for global weather and climate.The alert follows expert meetings held earlier this month in Europe.Sea ice extent is among key climate indicators used by WMO in its State of the Global Climate reports. Others include greenhouse gases, sea level rise, and ocean heat and acidification.Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice has declined at a rate not observed since the beginning of satellite records in the 1970s, the UN agency said — a phenomenon that is concerning scientists and which is currently not well...
June 17, 2023

Polar scientists call for more research and observation into rapid sea ice reduction

Nördlingen bronze sword (from BLfD website. — courtesy Archäologie Büro Dr. Woidich
Dazzling ancient bronze sword found in Germany
BERLIN — German archaeologists are thrilled to have dug up a Bronze Age sword more than 3,000 years old which is extraordinarily well preserved.The bronze sword with an octagonal hilt was found in a grave in the southern town of Nördlingen. It is thought to be from the late 14th Century BC.Its condition is so good "it almost still shines", Bavaria's State Office for Monument Protection (BLfD) says.The grave contains the bones of a man, woman and boy, and other bronze items.The archaeologists are not sure whether the three were related, and the rarity of the find raises questions about the sword's origin.The BLfD said manufacturing such a sword was complicated, as the hilt was cast on to the blade. The Nördlingen sword does not appear to have been used in anger, but it...
June 17, 2023

Dazzling ancient bronze sword found in Germany

Vladimir Putin and Cyril Ramaphosa
Missiles fired at Kyiv as African leaders arrive in Ukraine to promote peace plan
KYIV — Russia fired missiles on Kyiv this morning, according to Ukrainian authorities, just as a delegation of African leaders arrived to promote a peace plan.Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed that at least one explosion had been heard in the capital. According to the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kouleba, "The Russian missiles are a message to Africa: Russia wants more war, not peace."South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and several other senior African political figures arrived in Ukraine on Friday morning to promote a plan that would provide a roadmap to Russian-Ukrainian peace negotiations.Ramaphosa's trip, which was announced by the South African presidency on Twitter, marks the first time he has visited the country since the Russian invasion.He is part of...
June 16, 2023

Missiles fired at Kyiv as African leaders arrive in Ukraine to promote peace plan

Pope Francis left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday morning, nine days after having surgery for abdominal hernia and scarring
Pope Francis discharged from Rome hospital nine days after abdominal surgery
ROME — Pope Francis left Rome’s Gemelli hospital Friday morning, nine days after having surgery for abdominal hernia and scarring.The 86-year-old Pontiff had resumed work from the hospital after his three-hour surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall was completed without complications. It was the third time in two years that he was hospitalized.A cloud of bodyguards, journalists and devotees surrounded him on his short walk to the vehicle that was to take him to the Vatican.Three months ago, in March, he was hospitalized after suffering from acute pneumonia. In the same hospital, he underwent colon surgery in 2021 and was discharged 10 days later, although his convalescence was much longer. — Euronews
June 16, 2023

Pope Francis discharged from Rome hospital nine days after abdominal surgery

The overnight rockfall just missed the village, coming to a halt close to the local school
Massive Swiss rockfall stops short of the evacuated village of Brienz
BERN — Millions of cubic metres of rock have thundered on to a tiny Swiss village, with huge boulders blocking roads — some landing within inches of houses.The entire village of Brienz, population 70, was evacuated in mid-May, when geologists warned a massive rockfall was imminent.The rockface immediately above the village, nicknamed "the island", had been unstable for decades.But this spring, the rock slippage began to accelerate.Many Brienzers had expected they would leave their homes temporarily, but were unhappy the evacuation order had come so suddenly. Days before the order came, they had been told to expect to move sometime in late summer.Instead, they were summoned to an emergency village meeting on 9 May and told they had 48 hours to leave.In the weeks since, some...
June 16, 2023

Massive Swiss rockfall stops short of the evacuated village of Brienz

This picture of the fishing boat in the hours before it sank was released by the coast guard on Thursday
Greek officials deny coastguard rope led to migrant tragedy
ATHENS — Greek officials have denied a series of reports that suggest a migrant boat capsized 50 miles off the south coast because a rope was attached by coastguards.So far 78 people are confirmed dead but hundreds more are feared missing, including as many as 100 children.The coastguard said initially it had kept a "discreet distance".But a government spokesman now says a rope was used when the coastguard approached the fishing boat.Ilias Siakantaris told Greek TV that a few hours before the boat went down the coastguard had "used a rope to steady themselves, to approach, to see if they wanted any help".But he stressed: "There was no mooring rope," suggesting that there was no attempt to tow the boat or tether to it for any length of time."They refused...
June 16, 2023

Greek officials deny coastguard rope led to migrant tragedy

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