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The death toll from a landslide in Kenya’s Rift Valley has risen to 26 as flash floods disrupted rescue operations. Officials say 25 people are still missing after roads were washed away in the Chesongoch area. Heavy rains continue to batter western Kenya, displacing thousands. The government has deployed military aircraft to deliver supplies and exam papers to cut-off schools and promised to cover medical bills for over 30 injured residents and resettle those who lost their homes.
It was undergoing restoration as part of the Caput Mundi–Next Generation EU project, funded by the EU’s post-Covid economic reconstruction program. The prefect of Rome, Lamberto Giannini, said one person remained trapped inside. The second collapse “had rendered the operation very long and complex,” he said. “We hope for a good result but it’s not simple.” The accident came days after the government approved legislation to improve safety in the workplace, after a series of fatal accidents. The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli rushed to the scene Monday. Luke, who didn’t want to give…
A section of Rome’s 13th-century Torre dei Conti, located near the Roman Forum, collapsed on Monday during renovation work, seriously injuring at least one worker, Italian media reported. Firefighters rescued three workers while another remained trapped inside as more debris fell during the operation. Hundreds of tourists witnessed the scene as emergency crews rushed to secure the site. The historic tower, built by Pope Innocent III and long prone to structural damage since a 1349 earthquake, drew visits from Mayor Roberto Gualtieri and Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli.
Published on 03/11/2025 – 15:54 GMT+1 When astronomers first spotted 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025 using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, it was immediately clear that this was no ordinary space rock. As only the third confirmed interstellar object ever recorded – after ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019 – 3I/ATLAS sparked attention for its icy core enveloped by a coma, the luminous halo of gas and dust. Its speed and trajectory show that it’s not gravitationally bound to the Sun – meaning it must have originated in another star system and wandered into ours by chance. While…
For decades, email has been the backbone of workplace communication. It’s universal, simple, and familiar. But in the modern business landscape — where teams are distributed, projects are fast-paced, and real-time decisions are essential — email has become more of a bottleneck than a bridge. Small businesses, in particular, feel this pain acutely. With lean teams and limited time, it’s easy for inboxes to become cluttered and conversations to get lost in endless threads. The result is delayed responses, missed updates, and mounting frustration. Enter the next stage of digital collaboration: intranet software. Modern intranets are not the static, top-down…
“But sometimes you also have to take a step forward when the situation calls for it. That’s what I did today,” Klaver added, according to a local media report. Timmermans, a former European commissioner, quit Brussels politics in 2023 to return to the Dutch political scene and take the reins of the newly formed alliance between the GreenLeft and Labor parties. Klaver, who is 39, previously led the GreenLeft party and was Timmermans’ second-in-command over the past two years. The centrist liberal D66 party is in pole position to form a new Dutch coalition after its narrow victory in the…
Published on 03/11/2025 – 15:26 GMT+1 UK police charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder on Monday over a mass stabbing attack on a train that wounded 11 people and said he also tried to kill someone at a London transit station earlier the same day. British Transport Police said Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one of actual bodily harm and one of possession of a bladed article over the attack on Saturday. Police said he is also charged with attempted murder over an earlier incident at Pontoon Dock light rail station in London just…
By AP with Doloresz Katanich Published on 03/11/2025 – 15:29 GMT+1 France’s consumer watchdog has reported fast-fashion firm Shein to the authorities for selling childlike sex dolls. The news comes in the wake of Shein’s announcement last month that it intends to open its first physical store in central Paris. The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) has referred the case to public prosecutors, and Economy Minister Roland Lescure said on Monday he would seek to ban Shein from the French market if similar incidents were to occur again. “This is provided for by law,” he said.…
“I call on the environment ministers who will gather tomorrow … to back true European competitiveness: socially responsible and environmentally consistent.” On Tuesday, the 27 environment ministers gather in Brussels to hammer out a deal on the bloc’s new climate target for 2040, but on the eve of their meeting there is no certainty that they can reach an agreement. The Commission wants the bloc to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent below 1990 levels until 2040. To get enough governments onboard, the EU executive suggested outsourcing up to 3 percentage points of this target — allowing the bloc…
Published on 03/11/2025 – 14:38 GMT+1 A Dutch court opened a trial on Monday of an Eritrean man accused of involvement in a brutal migrant smuggling network. Prosecutors say Tewelde Goitom, also known as Amanuel Walid, ran an operation to bring East African migrants to Europe under horrific conditions, demanding huge sums of money from their relatives to free them from camps in Libya. He was extradited to the Netherlands from Ethiopia in 2022 where he was convicted of similar crimes but claims in this case he is the victim of mistaken identity. “I am still the one I said…