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A drug sniffing dog examines a container during a customs control at Antwerp port, 20 May 2022. — courtesy Valeria Mongelli / AFP
Belgium struggles to incinerate all of the cocaine it seized in yet another record year
ANTWERP — The record amount of cocaine Belgian authorities have seized in Antwerp this year has created a significant backlog in its disposal, causing security concerns as tons of it are still waiting to be incinerated.Just one raid in mid-October saw more than six tons of cocaine seized in the Belgian port, found in two shipping containers coming in from Suriname, Belgian customs revealed.What has been described as “the mountain of cocaine” by Antwerp prosecutor Franky De Keyser earlier in October has now been stored away at undisclosed locations.The pile-up was caused by several big confiscations in recent weeks, and limitations to the tonnage the incinerators can handle in one go, Federal Public Service Finance spokesperson Francis Adyns told Euronews on Monday.“The main issue...
November 21, 2022

Belgium struggles to incinerate all of the cocaine it seized in yet another record year

Before leaving Kherson Russians left mines everywhere — fields, houses, or hidden under football balls (to hurt kids). — courtesy Twitter
Four Russian ‘torture’ sites discovered in Kherson, says Ukraine
KYIV — Ukrainian prosecutors say they have discovered four Russian “torture sites” in the southern city of Kherson.The “temporary detention centers” were discovered in four buildings that the Russian forces had allegedly used during its occupation of the city.“During the capture of the city, the occupants illegally detained people and brutally tortured them,” the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said on Telegram.“Parts of rubber batons, a wooden bat, a device used by the Russians to torture civilians with electric shocks, an incandescent lamp, and bullets from the walls were recovered.”“People in cells and basements were subjected to various methods of torture, physical and psychological violence,” it added.Ukrainian forces recaptured Kherson earlier this month after...
November 21, 2022

Four Russian ‘torture’ sites discovered in Kherson, says Ukraine

Moscow has reinforced its positions in occupied Luhansk, Donetsk and eastern Zaporizhzhia. — courtesy  Euronews
Moscow tries to reinforce its positions in occupied territory
KYIV — Russian forces have begun reinforcing their positions in occupied Luhansk, Donetsk, and eastern Zaporizhzhia regions, according to the Institute for the Study of War.The UK Defense Ministry also claimed that poorly trained mobilized reservists are manning Moscow’s positions.A Ukrainian military official stated that Kyiv liberated 12 settlements in the Luhansk region since the start of its eastern counteroffensive. — Euronews
November 21, 2022

Moscow tries to reinforce its positions in occupied territory

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during the CBI annual conference at the Vox Conference Centre in Birmingham, England, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. — courtesy Jacob King/PA
‘Brexit is delivering’ says Sunak as UK PM rejects ‘any alignment with EU laws’
BIRMINGHAM —British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has flatly rejected calls from business leaders for looser immigration rules to overcome labor shortages, and closer ties with the EU to address damaging trade barriers in the aftermath of Brexit.Speaking in Birmingham at the annual conference of the main employers’ organization the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), Sunak insisted “Brexit is already delivering enormous benefits and opportunities”.Earlier, the CBI reiterated a call for more migration to address chronic shortages in the labor market.CBI Director-General Tony Danker said Britain should create a program of temporary work visas to boost economic growth.“We don’t have enough Brits to go round for the vacancies that exist, and there’s a skills mismatch in any...
November 21, 2022

‘Brexit is delivering’ says Sunak as UK PM rejects ‘any alignment with EU laws’

Rural Rebels. — courtesy Euronews
Young Swiss farmers making better soil for better food
BERN — Matthias and Sam are modern-day farmers who love to experiment.They have been working together on their agriculture project SlowGrow, in Switzerland, since 2018. Their focus is to grow healthy, tasty food while developing future-oriented cultivation methods.They follow the principles of regenerative agriculture, which goes beyond organic farming.The aim of regenerative agriculture is to rebuild the soil’s organic matter and restore degraded soil biodiversity — this also results in carbon drawdown, reducing the carbon footprint of agriculture, and improving the natural water cycle.It’s an urgent issue because healthy soil is seriously in danger.A shocking 90 percent of the Earth’s valuable topsoil is likely to be at risk by 2050, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture...
November 20, 2022

Young Swiss farmers making better soil for better food

Freezing temperatures are putting additional pressure on Ukranian energy networks, grid operator Ukrenergo said.
Electricity concerns as Russia’s attacks plunge millions into darkness in Ukraine
KYIV/MOSCOW — Russia’s sustained attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have interrupted supplies to as much as 40% of the country’s population at the onset of winter.Freezing temperatures are putting additional pressure on energy networks, grid operator Ukrenergo said.“You always need to prepare for the worst. We understand that the enemy wants to destroy our power system in general, to cause long outages,” Ukrenergo’s chief executive Volodymyr Kudrytskyi told Ukrainian state television.“We need to prepare for possible long outages, but at the moment we are introducing schedules that are planned and will do everything to ensure that the outages are not very long.”The capital of Kyiv is already facing a “huge deficit in electricity,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko told...
November 20, 2022

Electricity concerns as Russia’s attacks plunge millions into darkness in Ukraine

Turkish jet takes off. — courtesy Turkish Defense Ministry
Operation Claw-Sword targets Kurdish militant bases
ANKARA — Turkey has launched air-raids on Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria, a week after a bombing in Istanbul which it blames on Kurdish militants.The raids — dubbed Operation Claw-Sword — struck Kurdish bases which were being used to launch attacks on Turkey, the Defense Ministry said.A Syrian-Kurdish spokesperson said two villages populated with internally displaced people were hit.The banned Kurdish PKK group denies carrying out the Istanbul attack.As the air-raids began, the Turkish Defense Ministry tweeted that the “hour of reckoning” had arrived, alongside a picture of a fighter plane taking off and footage of an explosion.“Terrorists’ shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels, and warehouses were successfully destroyed,” said Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi...
November 20, 2022

Operation Claw-Sword targets Kurdish militant bases

A doctor reviews a sample at a microbiology laboratory in a teaching hospital in Nigeria. — courtesy WHO/Etinosa Yvonne
WHO unveils new strategy to tackle antimalarial drug resistance in Africa
GENEVA — A new strategy has been launched to address the urgent problem of antimalarial drug resistance in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday.Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden, with around 96 percent of all cases and deaths in 2020.As a result of drug resistance, medicines to treat the life-threatening disease become ineffective.Malaria is caused by parasites that are transmitted to humans through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.In recent years, there have been reports from the continent of emerging parasite resistance to artemisinin, the core compound of the best available medicines to treat malaria, said WHO.Furthermore, worrying signs indicate parasites in some areas may be...
November 20, 2022

WHO unveils new strategy to tackle antimalarial drug resistance in Africa

British Premier Rishi Sunak and Ukriane President Volodymyr Zelensky are saluted in Kyiv, Ukraine. — courtesy Ukrainian President’s Office
Sunak visits Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50 million in aid
LONDON — British Premier Rishi Sunak has pledged £50 million in defense aid to Ukraine as he met President Volodymyr Zelensky in his first visit to Kyiv since becoming prime minister.Sunak said it was “deeply humbling” to be in Kyiv and that the UK would continue to stand by Ukraine.“Since the first days of the war, Ukraine and the UK have been the strongest of allies,” Zelensky said following the meeting. The aid package is intended to counter Russian aerial attacks.The £50 million defense aid comprises 125 anti-aircraft guns and technology to counter deadly Iranian-supplied drones, including dozens of radars and anti-drone electronic warfare capability.Sunak also announced the UK will increase the training offer to Ukraine’s armed forces, sending expert army medics and...
November 19, 2022

Sunak visits Zelensky in Kyiv as he pledges £50 million in aid

The gas leak in the Baltic Sea from Nord Stream photographed from the Coast Guard’s aircraft on Sept. 2, 2022
Nord Stream explosions caused by ‘gross sabotage’, says Swedish prosecutor
STOCKHOLM — The explosions that caused significant damage to the Nord Stream pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm in late September were the result of “gross sabotage,” Swedish prosecutors confirmed.“Analyses that have now been carried out show traces of explosives on several of the foreign objects that were found,” public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, who is in charge of the ongoing preliminary investigation into the explosions, said in a statement Friday.There are no indications of who is to blame for the incident at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.“The preliminary investigation is very complex and extensive. The continued preliminary investigation must show whether anyone can be served with suspicion of a crime,” the statement said.Swedish investigators...
November 19, 2022

Nord Stream explosions caused by ‘gross sabotage’, says Swedish prosecutor

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