Thai cave rescue: military drains cave in hope boys can walk out before monsoon
Hundreds of industrial pumps clearing water along 4km path so football team can leave without having to use scuba gear
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Thai rescuers say 12 boys trapped deep inside a cave complex may be able to walk out – provided their path can be drained before monsoon showers predicted for the weekend.
A military operation in the Tham Luang Nan Nong cave complex is employing hundreds of industrial pumps to drain the water along the 2.5 miles (4km) path from the entrance to the area where the children and their football coach have been sheltering for 12 days.
Poonsak Woongsatngiem, a rescue official with Thailand’s interior ministry told the Guardian the water had been reduced by 40% in past days, clearing 1.5km stretch of dark, jagged and muddy cave channels that the boys would need to traverse.Amesbury incident latest: Fears for public safety as critically ill couple confirmed to have ingested Russian spy poison novichok
Around 100 counterterror detectives drafted in and areas of Wiltshire towns cordoned off as couple fight for lives after ingesting novichok, same nerve agent used on Yulia and Sergei Skripal
A couple poisoned by the nerve agent novichok may have been exposed to residue from the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, according to defence and security sources.
Police confirmed the pair had been left critically ill in hospital by the toxin used in the attempted assassination of the former MI6 spy and his daughter. Initial investigations found the couple – who live in Amesbury, nine miles from the site of the Salisbury attack – had no link to the Skripals.
However on Friday – the day before they collapsed – Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley had been near roads sealed off during the investigation in March, sparking concern over decontamination of the area.
Australian Valley Eyewear firm shoots ad at Jasenovac death camp
Australian company Valley Eyewear has prompted outrage by publishing a sunglasses ad shot at Croatian World War II death camp Jasenovac. The firm told DW the photos were "taken completely out of context."
Australian-based Valley Eyewear firm was forced to apologize on Tuesday over its advertising video made on the site of Jasenovac concentration camp. The internet ad caused a storm of criticism online after being posted on the company's social media accounts several days ago. Users have also called for a boycott of the company's products.
The black and white video, which has since been removed, shows a male and a female model wearing Valley Eyewear sunglasses inside a bleak concrete room and walking around concrete structures, before cutting to a wide shot of the two walking away from Jasenovac's Flower Memorial.
DNA testing being done on separated migrant children and parents, official says
Updated 0827 GMT (1627 HKT) July 5, 2018
DNA testing is being conducted as part of the process to reunite children who were separated from their parents at the border, a federal official with knowledge of the reunifications told CNN.
"The safety and security is paramount and that it is not uncommon for children to be trafficked or smuggled by those claiming to be parents. To our knowledge this is a cheek swab and is being done to expedite parental verification and ensuring reunification with verified parents due to child welfare concerns," the official said.
The source could not discuss how long the practice has been taking place, if the testing requires consent and if the DNA is stored in a database.
IT IS A testament to the Washington establishment’s rhetorical dexterity that it labeled Guantánamo Bay home of the world’s most dangerous terrorists. U.S. leaders meant, of course, to refer to the hundreds of non-Americans detained at the base over the past 16 years. But a closer look at the history of Guantánamo tells a different story — one in which the United States, beginning 120 years ago this June, used the enclave in southeastern Cuba to launch decades upon decades of terroristic overseas conquest.
Cuba was the intended target of many such terror plots. Long before Donald Rumsfeld homed in on the country to imprison “enemy combatants” in the aftermath of 9/11, then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy sought to visit “the terrors of the earth” on Cuba as part of Operation Mongoose, a covert CIA effort to overthrow leader Fidel Castro. Mongoose envisioned acts of sabotage, including U.S.-created food shortages, potentially induced via biological weapons.
For the U.S., a frustrating history of recovering human remains in North Korea
The white marble headstone in Arlington National Cemetery memorializes Victor I. Gallerani, sergeant in the U.S. Army in Korea, recipient of a Purple Heart.
But no one is in the grave below.
The dates on the headstone are at least partly correct. Gallerani was indeed born on Jan. 10, 1931. Whether he died on Nov. 28, 1950, is a mystery his family has wanted to solve for decades. No trace of him ever came home.
Gallerani’s family is one of thousands hoping the U.S. government will soon recover and identify the remains of their loved ones from North Korea, after wondering for decades what exactly happened on the long-ago battlefields of the Korean War.
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