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19 Sep

EU warns deadly flooding and wildfires show climate breakdown is fast becoming the norm

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BRUSSELS -- BRUSSELS (AP) — Devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken, the European Union's head office said Wednesday.“Make no mistake. This tragedy is not an anomaly. This is fast becoming the norm for our shared future,” said EU Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarcic. The worst flooding in years moved Tuesday across a broad swath of Central Europe, taking lives and destroying homes. At the other end of the 27-nation EU, raging fires through northern Portugal have killed…
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19 Sep

At least 1000 people evacuated as flooding hits northern Italy

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ROME -- About a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight, local media reported Thursday. Rivers flooded in three of the region's provinces — Ravenna, Bologna and Faenza — as local mayors asked people to stay on upper floors or leave their houses.At least 800 residents in the Ravenna area and almost 200 in Bologna province spent the night in shelters, schools and sports centers as local rivers overflowed.Trains were suspended and schools closed across the affected areas, and residents have been advised to avoid…
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19 Sep

Vietnamese real estate tycoon, already sentenced to death for fraud, faces trial on new charges

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HANOI, Vietnam -- The second trial for Vietnamese real estate typcoon Truong My Lan — who was sentenced to death for financial fraud in April — started on Thursday, state media reported.The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was convicted for orchestrating Vietnam's biggest ever financial fraud case, amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP and for illegally controlling a major bank allowing loans that resulted in losses of $27 billion, state media said.Her arrest and conviction was one of the highest profile cases in an anti-corruption drive that has intensified…
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19 Sep

Global vaccine alliance GAVI to buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine

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DAKAR, Senegal -- The global vaccine alliance Gavi will buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine to battle outbreaks of the disease in African countries, the organization said on Wednesday. The vaccine doses — manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic — will be available this year, Gavi said, without giving any specific dates.Gavi said the full costs, including the transportation, delivery and administration of the doses, amounting to $50 million, would be covered by the group's First Response Fund, a new financial mechanism created in June 2024.Since the beginning of the year, there have been over 25,000 confirmed mpox cases…
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19 Sep

Unidentified gunmen kill high-ranking migration official in one of Haiti’s biggest cities

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A high-ranking official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration was killed Wednesday in the north coastal city of Cap-Haitien.Kerwin Augustin, a regional representative who oversaw Haiti’s northern region, was shot near his house and died at a hospital, according to a reporter from Radio Caraïbes who was at the scene.The radio reported that Augustin was shot by unidentified people aboard a motorcycle. It wasn’t immediately clear why he was killed.No one has been arrested.High-profile killings are unusual in Cap-Haitien, which is relatively safe compared with the capital, Port-au-Prince, which is largely controlled by gangs. https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_news_default_2000x2000_update_16x9_992.jpg #Unidentified #gunmen…
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19 Sep

Teachers in Belarus are targeted for links with ‘extremist’ group, says rights group

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TALLINN, Estonia -- Dozens of teachers in Belarus have been detained or interrogated by authorities as part of the country's wide-ranging crackdown on dissent, a respected local human rights organization said Wednesday. Pavel Sapelka, a spokesman for the Viasna rights group told The Associated Press that moves against teachers began in September and that all those detained or questioned have taken part in an online teacher-education project that the KGB, Belarus' main security agency, declared to be an extremist group in August. The project, named Adukavanka, gave guidance on technological innovations in education and offered suggested lesson plans. Hundreds of…
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18 Sep

Multiple explosions heard in Beirut during funeral for Hezbollah members and child killed by exploding pagers

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Multiple explosions heard in Beirut during funeral for Hezbollah members and child killed by exploding pagers https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_news_default_2000x2000_update_16x9_992.jpg #Multiple #explosions #heard #Beirut #funeral #Hezbollah #members #child #killed #exploding #pagers
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18 Sep

Faces of transgender people adorn an artwork in London’s Trafalgar Square

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LONDON -- An artwork featuring the plaster face casts of hundreds of transgender people went on display Wednesday in London’s Trafalgar Square, where their features will be worn away by London’s wind and rain over the next 18 months.Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ “Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant)” is a 3.3-metric-ton (3.6-US-ton) cube covered in face masks of 726 trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people. It's the latest artwork placed atop the “ Fourth Plinth, ” a large stone pedestal in the central London square.Margolles, who trained as a forensic pathologist and once worked in a…
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18 Sep

Hungary refuses to pay fines for breaking EU asylum rules. Brussels is taking the money anyway.

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BRUSSELS -- The European Union on Wednesday began the process of clawing back hundreds of millions of euros in funds meant to go Hungary after its ant-migrant government refused to pay a huge fine for breaking the bloc’s asylum rules.In June, the EU’s top court ordered Hungary to pay 200 million euros ($223 million) for persistently depriving migrants of their right to apply for asylum. The court imposed an additional fine of 1 million euros for every day it failed to comply.The European Court of Justice described Hungary’s actions as “an unprecedented and extremely serious infringement of EU law.” Hungarian…
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