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This article was originally published in Italian The 32-year-old caver suffered various injuries after falling while exploring an uncharted area of the Bueno Fonteno cave near Bergamo on Saturday. An injured explorer trapped underground in a cave in northern Italy for four days was carried to safety on Wednesday. Ottavia Piana, 32, had fell while attempting to map an unexplored branch of the Bueno Fonteno cave in the province of Bergamo. Piana suffered multiple fractures, including to her face, ribs and knee, when she fell 5 meters (13 feet) while exploring an uncharted part of the cave on Saturday, doctors said.Removal…
A recent study joins a growing body of evidence that climate influences seismic activity. Three days ago, a violent magnitude 7.3 quake struck just offshore from the Pacific nation of Vanuatu’s most populous island. Damage was concentrated in the capital Port Vila’s downtown area, and the official figure of 10 confirmed deaths and more than 200 people injured is likely to rise, officials warned.Perched on the Pacific Ring of Fire – a belt of tectonic plates and volcanoes – Vanuatu is regularly jolted by earthquakes, though none in living memory as large as Tuesday’s disaster.New research suggests that climate change…
In her old life, she led the investigation into lockdown-busting parties in Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street at the height of the Covid pandemic. But Gray became a lightning rod for internal criticism in the wake of Labour’s victory, with colleagues blaming her for a myriad of issues including communications failures, the slow appointment of ministers and low pay for special advisers. She quit the job in October and was replaced by Morgan McSweeney, a close political aide of Starmer seen as helping propel him to power. A promised job of envoy to the nations and regions was…
Russian gas has pitted Slovakia’s Robert Fico against Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with the European Commission caught in between. Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, has escalated his long-running dispute with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, over his decision to completely halt the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory after the end of 2024. Slovakia, a landlocked country, remains highly dependent on Russian gas, which it gets from Gazprom, the state-owned monopoly, through a pipeline throughout Ukraine.”If anyone is going to prevent the transit of gas to the territory of the Slovak Republic, if anyone is going to…
The bill’s delay follows defiance of existing hijab rules by Iranian women inspired by mass protests sparked by the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini. Iran has paused the implementation of a new, stricter law requiring women to wear the hijab, an official said, with many observers believing that the bill could have sparked mass protests similar to those that erupted after the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini.The controversial law, approved by Iran’s parliament in September 2023, will not be sent to the government this week as planned, according to Shahram Dabiri, vice president in charge of parliamentary affairs. The development…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday expressed his gratitude to Gisèle Pelicot for the courage she showed during a mass rape trial that horrified France.“Thank you, Gisèle Pelicot. For all of us, because your dignity and courage have moved and inspired France and the world,” said Macron, who described Pelicot as a trailblazer.Gisèle Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, was drugged by her now ex-husband for years so he could recruit men online to rape her while she was unconscious while he filmed the sexual assaults. Pelicot became a feminist icon after she asked to make her trial public, facing her abusers in…
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One week after he was appointed, the new prime minister is still trying to convince French parties to support the coalition government he is trying to form. So far, apart from French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc, Bayrou might be able to count on the support of the right-wing Les Républicains, who are inclined to support him under certain conditions. But he still falls short of a majority to rule the country or, at least, to pass a long-overdue budget for 2025. He needs some tacit support from either Marine Le Pen’s far-right party or part of the pan-left alliance…
The tech giant says it “strongly disputes” the allegations after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium against subsidiaries of Apple, accusing the tech giant of using conflict minerals.Lawyers representing the Congolese government allege that Apple uses minerals pillaged from the DRC and laundered through global supply chains, making it complicit in crimes committed by armed groups that control some of the mines in the country’s east.The complaints were prepared by a team of international lawyers on behalf of…
AfD leaders were pleased by Musk’s endorsement. “Yes! You are perfectly right!” Alice Weidel, the AfD’s chancellor candidate, posted on X shortly after Musk’s missive. Weidel then plugged a recent interview she gave on, as she put it, how “socialist [Angela] Merkel ruined our country” and how “the Soviet European Union” was destroying Germany. The AfD is polling in second place ahead of Germany’s early election, set for Feb. 23, potentially setting it up to become the largest opposition party in the next parliament. Musk, who is closely allied to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, has longed expressed sympathy for the AfD — but,…