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Rescue workers pull residents on a small boat after storm Herminia has unleashed downpours on Ille-et-Vilaine
Storm Herminia brings heavy rain and powerful winds to Europe
BRUSSELS — Weather warnings have been issued in parts of Spain, Portugal, France, the UK and Ireland as Storm Herminia batters countries across Europe with strong winds, heavy rain and powerful waves.The storm was named Friday by Spanish weather authorities, where hurricane-force gusts were recorded.One person in Ourense reportedly died in a road accident linked to the severe weather, while more than 13,000 people in Galicia were left without electricity on Monday, according to local reports.In France, eight departments were under orange weather warnings, while the department of Ille-et-Vilaine was under a red warning on Monday.The capital of the Ille-et-Vilaine department, Rennes, saw its worst flooding in 40 years with local authorities warning that the forecast remained...
January 28, 2025

Storm Herminia brings heavy rain and powerful winds to Europe

Survivor Niusia Horowitz-Karakulska (C), who was sent to Birkenau in 1944, was among the 56 camp survivors attending the ceremony
Survivors of Auschwitz deliver warning from history as memories die out
AUSCHWITZ — Their numbers are dwindling but the voices of the Auschwitz survivors remain powerful."We were stripped of all humanity," said Leon Weintraub, 99, the oldest of four who spoke beside the notorious Death Gate at the Birkenau extermination camp.Marking 80 years since its liberation, world leaders and European royalty rubbed shoulders on Monday with 56 survivors of Hitler's genocide of European Jews."We were victims in a moral vacuum," said Tova Friedman, who described witnessing the horrors of Nazi persecution as a five-and-a-half-year-old girl clinging to her mother's hand.She described watching from her hiding place at a labour camp "as all my little friends were rounded up and driven to their deaths, while the heartbreaking cries of their...
January 28, 2025

Survivors of Auschwitz deliver warning from history as memories die out

The entrance gate to the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz pictured on January 10
World leaders to join commemorations marking 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
WARSAW — World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.Britain’s monarch King Charles, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron are among those attending the event, which will begin in a tent erected over the former death camp’s infamous entrance gate.All of Auschwitz’s remaining survivors are invited to the commemorations and can bring one person for support.“We are fully aware of how physically demanding and emotionally taxing attending the commemoration event at the site of the former camp can be for them,” the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum said in a statement.Michael Bornstein, who survived for seven months inside Auschwitz...
January 27, 2025

World leaders to join commemorations marking 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

President Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot at a polling station in Minsk, 26 January, 2025
I don't give a damn, says Lukashenko as EU threatens further sanctions
MINSK — Brussels has threatened Belarus with a fresh raft of sanctions after President Alexander Lukashenko looked certain to win his seventh consecutive election since 1994 — a vote broadly understood to be rigged in his favor given his iron rule over the country and complete control of its institutions."Today's sham election in Belarus has been neither free nor fair," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a joint statement with Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos."The relentless and unprecedented repression of human rights, restrictions to political participation and access to independent media in Belarus, have deprived the electoral process of any legitimacy," the statement said.They urged the Belarusian government to release political prisoners,...
January 27, 2025

I don't give a damn, says Lukashenko as EU threatens further sanctions

Poland's President Andrzej Duda spoke to the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies
DAVOS — Poland's president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, "should be dismantled".This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy."I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia's aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline," he said.The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and that European...
January 27, 2025

Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies

Patrols in the Baltic Sea have been stepped up after several suspected sabotages last year (file photo)
Sweden seizes ship after suspected Baltic Sea cable sabotage
STOCKHOLM — Swedish authorities have seized a ship suspected of damaging a data cable running under the Baltic Sea to Latvia.Prosecutors said an initial investigation pointed to sabotage, and an inquiry has been launched involving Sweden's police, military, and coast guard.Earlier on Sunday, Latvia's military reported that two ships were seen in the area where the damage occurred.The apparent attack comes less than a month after Nato launched a new mission in the Baltic Sea in response to repeated attacks on underwater power and telecom cables – some of which have been blamed on Russia.Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina said her country was working closely with Sweden and Nato in response to the incident.The cable belongs to Latvia's state broadcaster, LVRTC, which said in...
January 27, 2025

Sweden seizes ship after suspected Baltic Sea cable sabotage

A still taken from video verified by the BBC as genuine at the Ryazan oil refinery
Ukraine claims drone strike on Russian oil refinery
KYIV — Ukraine reportedly hit a Russian oil refinery and targeted Moscow during an attack involving a wave of at least 100 drones, one of the largest single operations of its kind during the war.Video footage verified by the BBC shows a fireball rising over the refinery and pumping station in the Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow, which Ukrainian officials said was a target.Russia said it had shot down 121 drones that had targeted 13 regions, including Ryazan and Moscow, but reported no damage.Elsewhere, Ukrainian authorities said three people were killed and one was injured when a Russian drone hit a residential building in the Kyiv region.Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine's centre for countering disinformation, said on Telegram that an oil refinery in Ryazan had been hit, as well...
January 24, 2025

Ukraine claims drone strike on Russian oil refinery

In 2020 hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets to protest. In 2025 demonstrations are unlikely
Belarusian opposition denounces election as sham
MINSK — Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to call what's happening this weekend in Belarus an election."It's a sham," the exiled opposition leader says. "This is a military-style operation; a performance staged by the regime to hold on to power."For three decades, the country has been led by an increasingly authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko, now firmly backed by Vladimir Putin who makes use of his neighbor in his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.This Sunday, Belarusians will see Lukashenko's name on the ballot paper once again, with four other names chosen carefully to be no challenge.No independent observers are allowed.The tight controls have been put in place because last time Belarusians voted for a president, the country was swept by giant protests.In...
January 24, 2025

Belarusian opposition denounces election as sham

Underwater images captured by a Russian NGO appeared to show significant amounts of oil sitting on the ocean floor
Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait
MOSCOW — Oil has leaked into the strait from two ships which ran into trouble during bad weather on 15 December. Volgoneft-239 ran aground following the storm, while Volgoneft-212 sank. ​​Up to 5,000 tons of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analyzed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst "environmental catastrophe" of the 21st Century. "This is the first time fuel oil has been spilled in such quantities," Viktor Danilov-Danilyan — the head of science at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) — said in a 17 January interview with a Russian newspaper. Russian scientists said in December that this spill could be...
January 24, 2025

Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait

Hungarian school
Bomb threats disrupt dozens of schools across Hungary, authorities investigate
BUDAPEST — Emails containing a bomb threat were sent to multiple educational institutions in Hungary on Thursday morning, causing them to temporarily shut down out of precaution, the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) said.The threats have affected at least 268 schools nationwide, prompting an investigation by the authorities. No bombs have been found at schools searched so far in an ongoing effort to deem all schools safe.“We will not go to bed today, and the police will not go to bed either, until the police arrive at every Hungarian school where such a threat has been received and inspect the building,” said Kristóf Gál, the ORFK head of communications said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.In the letter described by the police and later made public by domestic...
January 23, 2025

Bomb threats disrupt dozens of schools across Hungary, authorities investigate

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