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Passengers wait at Atocha train station in Madrid on Monday.
Spanish bullet train service halted after fiber optic cable stolen
MADRID — Hundreds of rail passengers were left stranded for hours in Spain after around 600 meters of fiber optic signaling cables were stolen.The railway infrastructure company ADIF confirmed on Monday that the cables had been removed overnight in the region of Catalonia.The theft forced Spain's state-owned railway operator Renfe to suspend the bullet train service between the country's two biggest cities; Madrid and Barcelona.Passengers and holidaymakers crowded platforms before trains resumed service. An ADIF spokesperson told the Associated Press that at least 15 train departures were likely canceled.Catalonia regional police Mossos d’Esquadra said on Twitter that a 19-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of theft near Santa Oliva. — Euronews
August 08, 2022

Spanish bullet train service halted after fiber optic cable stolen

A Metropolitan police officer on patrol in London
Shock as London police admit strip-searching hundreds of children
LONDON — Several hundred children were subjected to strip searches in London over the last two years, newly released figures reveal.Data shows that 650 children aged 10 to 17 underwent the practice between 2018 and 2020.Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner for England, said she was "deeply shocked" that so many youngsters had been searched this way."In a strip search, your most intimate parts are searched," said de Souza. "For any child, that's going to be traumatic and concerning."The data also reveals ethnic disparities, added De Souza.She said 58% of children strip-searched over the two-year period were black, despite just 19% of 10-17-year-olds in the UK capital having this ethnicity.The commissioner also found that in nearly a quarter of...
August 08, 2022

Shock as London police admit strip-searching hundreds of children

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in Energodar.
Stop suicidal attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says UN chief
TOKYO — UN chief Antonio Guterres has called for the end of military operations around Europe's largest nuclear plant.Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine has been hit by a series of bombardments since last Friday, with both Russian and Ukrainian forces blaming one another for the attacks."Any attack on nuclear power plants is a suicidal thing," the UN's secretary-general told reporters in Tokyo, adding that international inspectors should be allowed to access the nuclear plant immediately."I hope that these attacks will end," said Guterres. "At the same time, I hope that the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] will be able to access the power plant."These remarks by the UN chief come as Ukraine's state energy company said on Sunday that a...
August 08, 2022

Stop suicidal attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says UN chief

Image shows bomb detonationImage source, Italian army.
Dried-up Italian river reveals unexploded WWII bomb
ROME — An unexploded World War Two bomb submerged in an Italian river has been revealed due to extreme drought.The 450kg (1,000lb) bomb was found by fishermen on the banks of the depleted River Po.Large sections of the 650km river have dried up in Italy's worst drought for 70 years.Unusually hot weather and low rainfall levels have compounded northern Italy's water shortages and heightened fears about the effects of climate change."The bomb was found by fishermen on the bank of the Po river," army official Colonel Marco Nasi told Reuters news agency.Some 3,000 nearby residents were reportedly evacuated so that bomb disposal experts could safely carry out a controlled explosion on Sunday."At first, some of the inhabitants said they would not move, but in the last...
August 08, 2022

Dried-up Italian river reveals unexploded WWII bomb

Ukrainian servicemen run for cover during an artillery duel between Ukrainian and Russian troops in the city of Lysychansk, eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, in June.
Outrage in Kyiv after Amnesty accuses it of endangering civilian life
KYIV — Ukraine has reacted furiously to an Amnesty International report that accuses it of riding roughshod with civilians in the country's fight against Russia.In a report, the humanitarian organization claimed the Ukrainian military has endangered civilians by placing bases and weapons in residential areas -- including schools and hospitals -- as it has sought to repel the Russian invasion."Ukraine’s tactics have violated international humanitarian law as they’ve turned civilian objects into military targets," said Amnesty. "The ensuing Russian strikes in populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure."Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the findings.Amnesty "transfers the responsibility from the aggressor to...
August 05, 2022

Outrage in Kyiv after Amnesty accuses it of endangering civilian life

Brittney Griner (right) pleaded guilty to drug charges - but denied deliberately breaking the law.
Russian court sends US basketball star Brittney Griner to jail
MOSCOW — A Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges.Griner, 31, admitted possessing cannabis oil but told the court she made an "honest mistake".But the court convicted her of smuggling and possessing narcotics, and gave her close to the maximum sentence recommended by prosecutors.Griner is a double Olympic gold medallist and is considered one of the best players in the world.She was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. She had come to Russia to play club basketball during the US off-season.Soon after, Russia invaded Ukraine and her case has become subject to high profile diplomacy between the US and Russia.US President Joe Biden called...
August 04, 2022

Russian court sends US basketball star Brittney Griner to jail

A large fire broke out in Berlin's popular Grunewald forest following an explosion in a police munitions storage site on Thursday.
Explosions at munitions site trigger fire at Berlin's Grunewald forest
BERLIN — Several explosions at an ammunition dump caused a large fire in one of Berlin's largest city forests on Thursday morning.Around 100 firefighters were on site to control the blaze in the Grunewald forest in the west of the city, German news agency DPA reported.The fire has so far affected some 15,000 square meters of the forest, the city firefighting unit said, while a one-kilometre perimeter has been set up as the situation remains high-risk.The fire was spreading quickly, and massive explosions could be heard from the site where old ammunition from World War II, fireworks and explosive ordnance are stored, and controlled explosions are carried out."The situation is dangerous," Thomas Kirstein from the Berlin fire department told reporters. He called on residents...
August 04, 2022

Explosions at munitions site trigger fire at Berlin's Grunewald forest

This image of a Russian serviceman guarding the plant was taken in May.
IAEA says Ukraine nuclear plant out of control
VIENNA — A huge nuclear power plant occupied by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine is "completely out of control", the head of the UN's nuclear agency says.Rafael Grossi was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying the Zaporizhzhia plant needed an inspection and repairs."You have a catalog of things that should never be happening in any nuclear facility," he said.Europe's biggest nuclear plant is dangerously close to fighting.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia earlier this week of using the plant, which it overran in March, as a military base to launch attacks on Ukrainian forces.Ukrainian officials have said Russians station troops and store military hardware on the grounds of the power station on the Dnipro river in the south...
August 04, 2022

IAEA says Ukraine nuclear plant out of control

The first shipment of over 26,000 tons of Ukrainian food under a Black Sea export deal has been cleared to proceed towards its final destination in Lebanon.
Black Sea grain shipment success raises hopes more will follow
NEW YORK — The first shipment of over 26,000 tons of Ukrainian food under a Black Sea export deal has been cleared to proceed toward its final destination in Lebanon.The first, eagerly-awaited commercial shipment of grain to leave the Ukrainian port of Odesa since Russia’s invasion more than five months ago, was cleared to proceed to Lebanon on Wednesday, after a scheduled inspection stopover in Istanbul.In line with the UN-partnered Black Sea Grain Initiative that was facilitated by the Secretary-General on 22 July, the crew of the merchant vessel Razoni and its 26,000-ton cargo of Ukrainian corn underwent checks lasting three hours.The Sierra Leone-flagged ship arrived in Istanbul’s waters on Tuesday evening, after sailing from Ukraine’s main Black Sea port of Odesa on...
August 04, 2022

Black Sea grain shipment success raises hopes more will follow

The man was airlifted to hospital after being rescued.
French sailor survives 16 hours in capsized boat in Atlantic
LISBON — A 62-year-old French man survived for 16 hours at sea by using an air bubble inside his boat after it capsized.The 12-meter vessel, which had set sail from Portugal's capital Lisbon, sent out a distress signal late on Monday evening from the Atlantic Ocean.Spanish coastguards found the upturned boat, but the sea was too rough to rescue him — so the sailor had to wait until morning.The man's survival was "verging on the impossible", said coastguard divers.His boat sent a distress signal at 20:23 local time on Monday, 14 miles (22.5 km) from the Sisargas Islands, near Spain's north-west Galicia region.A rescue ship carrying five divers as well as three helicopters set off to find and rescue the man, who has not yet been named.A diver was winched onto the...
August 04, 2022

French sailor survives 16 hours in capsized boat in Atlantic

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