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File photo of high-speed train in France.
French police nab first-class wig gang suspects
PARIS — A suspected gang of thieves who allegedly stole items worth €300,000 (£260,000) from first-class passengers on French trains has been captured.It is thought they stole luggage from passengers after sitting beside them on high-speed trains crossing the country.One man, aged 57, is said to have posed as a woman, wearing a wig.He and two other men, 47 and 40, have confessed to carrying out the thefts over five to six years, French media say.They are believed to have stored stolen goods in a flat in the southern city of Marseille.The alleged modus operandi was to steal items during station stops after the unsuspecting owners got off the train to stretch their legs or have a smoke.Police were first alerted in April when a passenger reported the theft of a briefcase containing...
September 17, 2022

French police nab first-class wig gang suspects

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban seen in file photo.
Hungary faces EU judgment day that could hammer its economy
BUDAPEST — Hungary is facing a reckoning with Brussels over corruption concerns that could cost Budapest billions.The EU appears to be about to impose financial penalties on the government of Viktor Orban, amid alleged fraudulent behavior and rule of law violations.Though not set in stone, the move could cost Hungary billions of euros in EU funding, crippling its already faltering economy.A decision is expected on Sunday during a "college readout" by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.The conflict between Hungary, one of the bloc's largest net beneficiaries, and the EU has steadily grown since Orban's ruling Fidesz party came to power in 2010.The right-wing, nationalist political party is accused of degrading the country's democratic institutions,...
September 17, 2022

Hungary faces EU judgment day that could hammer its economy

Some graves were marked with a name, but most only had numbers.
Almost all bodies found at mass graves near Izium died violently, claim authorities
KIEV — Ukrainian authorities have started unearthing bodies they found at a mass burial site near Izium, a city in the country's northeast that was occupied by Russian forces and recently retaken by Ukraine as part of a lightning-fast counteroffensive.Regional governor Oleg Synehubov said on Friday evening that 99% of the bodies exhumed Friday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izum "showed signs of violent death".The head of the prosecutor's office in the Kharkiv region said some of the bodies found showed signs of torture. Certain corpses were found with their hands tied behind their back or with ropes around their neck, according to them.More than 1,000 Ukrainian citizens are believed to have been tortured and killed in the liberated territories in the Kharkiv region,...
September 17, 2022

Almost all bodies found at mass graves near Izium died violently, claim authorities

Two aircraft have been seized
Migrants paying up to €20,000 to be smuggled into Europe on private aircraft
BRUSSELS — Migrants have been paying up to €20,000 to be smuggled into Europe on private aircraft, say police.They were given fake diplomatic passports and put on flights in Turkey that were supposedly heading to the Caribbean.But the planes stopped over in Europe, where the migrants -- mainly Iraqi and Iranian of Kurdish origin -- would declare their real identity and claim asylum.Investigators have documented five separate landings in Italy, Germany, France, Austria and Belgium between October and December 2020, revealed Europol."In addition to migrant smuggling and forging identity documents, the organized crime group is also suspected of issuing false checks and scamming airlines in an attempt to build its own fleet," the agency said in a statement."The suspects also...
September 16, 2022

Migrants paying up to €20,000 to be smuggled into Europe on private aircraft

Queen Elizabeth's coffin.
China delegation blocked from Westminster Hall
LONDON — A Chinese government delegation has been banned from attending the lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II, the BBC learned.House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is understood to have refused a request for access to Westminster Hall over Chinese sanctions against five MPs and two peers.Queen Elizabeth will lie in state until her funeral on Monday.The Speaker's office told the BBC it did not comment on security matters.A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said they had not seen reports about the ban, which first emerged on the Politico website."As a host, the UK is certainly familiar with diplomatic protocols and proper manners of receiving guests," China's foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said.Downing Street declined to comment, with a No 10...
September 16, 2022

China delegation blocked from Westminster Hall

A mass burial found in the forest outside Izyum.
Hundreds of graves found in liberated Ukraine city, say officials
KYIV — Ukraine says hundreds of graves have been found outside Izyum, days after it was re-taken from Russia.Wooden crosses, most of them marked with numbers, were discovered in a forest outside the city by advancing Ukrainian forces.Authorities said they would start exhuming some of the graves on Friday.It is not yet clear what happened to the victims, but early accounts suggest some may have died from shelling and a lack of access to healthcare.Speaking on Friday, the head of Ukraine's national police service said most of the bodies belonged to civilians.Ihor Klymenko told a news conference that although soldiers were also believed to be buried there, none had been found so far.Authorities in Ukraine had previously told the BBC more than 400 bodies were thought to be buried at the...
September 16, 2022

Hundreds of graves found in liberated Ukraine city, say officials

The stabbing took place on London's Great Windmill Street
Two officers taken to hospital after being stabbed in central London
LONDON — A female police officer has been left with a potentially life-changing injury in a central London attack which also saw her colleague stabbed in the neck.The stabbing near Leicester Square at 06:00 BST is not related to the Queen's death or terror-related, police say.London Mayor Sadiq Khan branded the incident as "utterly appalling" at a "momentous time for our country".A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assaulting an emergency worker.The female officer was stabbed in the arm before her colleague ran after the "frenzied" suspect after which a tussle ensued, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said.The male officer was "very seriously injured" after being stabbed three times in the neck and...
September 16, 2022

Two officers taken to hospital after being stabbed in central London

Footage released by fire brigades showed rescuers on rafts trying to evacuate people in the seaside town of Senigallia.
At least eight dead as flash floods hit central Italy
MILAN — Heavy rains and floods hit the central Italian region of Marche from the late hours of Thursday, killing at least eight people, while three others were still missing, Italian media reported on Friday, according to Reuters.Local authorities said they did not expect such a sudden "water bomb", as around 400 millimeters of rain fell within two to three hours, inundating the streets of several towns in the Ancona and Pesaro-Urbino provinces on the Adriatic coast.Authorities said rescuers continued to search for four people missing."It was like an earthquake," Ludovico Caverni, the mayor of the town of Serra Sant'Abbondio, told RAI state radio.Footage released by fire brigades showed rescuers on rafts trying to evacuate people in the seaside town of Senigallia,...
September 16, 2022

At least eight dead as flash floods hit central Italy

An ambulance moves on a street near a military hospital in Yerevan, Armenia, following night border clashes on September 13.
Armenia reports ceasefire after new border clashes with Azerbaijan
YEREVAN — A senior Armenian official said late on Wednesday that a truce had been agreed with Azerbaijan after two days of violence linked to a decades-old dispute between the ex-Soviet states over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, Reuters reported.There was no word from Azerbaijan about a truce to halt the deadliest exchanges between the countries since 2020, CNN said citing the Reuters report.Russia is the pre-eminent diplomatic force in the region and maintains 2,000 peacekeepers there. Moscow brokered the deal that ended the 2020 fighting -- dubbed the second Karabakh war -- in which hundreds died.Russian news agencies quoted Armen Grigoryan, secretary of Armenia's Security Council, as telling Armenian television: "Thanks to the involvement of the international community,...
September 15, 2022

Armenia reports ceasefire after new border clashes with Azerbaijan

Citing international indexes, MEPs said Hungary can no longer be considered a full democracy.
Hungary is an 'electoral autocracy,' MEPs declare in new report
STRASBOURG — Hungary is no longer a fully functioning democracy, members of the European Parliament declared on Thursday in a non-binding but highly symbolic report.Instead, the country should be considered a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy" in which elections are regularly held but without respecting basic democratic norms."There is increasing consensus among experts that Hungary is no longer a democracy," the lawmakers said, citing a series of international indexes that have in recent years downgraded Hungary's status.In their resolution, MEPs point the finger directly at Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has been in power since 2010, and condemn his government's "deliberate and systematic efforts" to undermine the EU's core...
September 15, 2022

Hungary is an 'electoral autocracy,' MEPs declare in new report

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