Italy bridge collapse: 35 dead as minister calls for resignations
Transport minister says senior management of Genoa bridge operator ‘must step down’
Italy’s transport minister has called on senior managers at the company that operated the collapsed Genoa motorway bridge to resign, as the death toll rose to at least 35.
Rescuers searched overnight for survivors through tons of concrete and steel under the shattered structure of the Morandi Bridge. “We’re not giving up hope, we’ve already saved a dozen people from under the rubble,” a fire official, Emanuele Giffi, told AFP. “We’re going to work round the clock until the last victim is secured.”
It is not yet clear what caused the bridge to collapse, which came as maintenance work was being done on the bridge and as the Liguria region experienced torrential rainfall.
Inside the UAE’s war on al-Qaeda in Yemen
One Week in Yemen: The Emirati military says it is winning the battle against al-Qaeda in Yemen but some question their methodsBel Trew Aden and Mukalla,Yemen
The Emirati soldiers in Yemen’s port city of Aden were starting to get jumpy. We had only spent 15 minutes in Dar Saad, one of the city’s worst hit districts from the ongoing war, when they thought security had been compromised. This section of the neighbourhood is deeply impoverished and divided. It is also where the Shia Houthi rebel group first entered the city back in March 2015 when they swept control of the country and ousted the recognised Yemeni government, prompting the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen.
“We have to go back a different way, groups may have laid land mines or IEDS along the road we originally took while we’ve been here,” said one of the officers quietly. The 15-vehicle armoured convoy swiftly rolled away.
Turkey court rejects new appeal to free detained US pastor: report
A Turkish court on Wednesday rejected a new appeal to free US pastor Andrew Brunson, whose detention has sparked a major row between Turkey and the United States, local media reported.
The court in the western city of Izmir ruled that Brunson, who faces 35 years in jail over terror and espionage charges, will remain under house arrest, the state television TRT reported.
Brunson's jail term had been converted to house detention for health reasons.
His detention has soured relations with Washington, with US President Donald Trump doubling aluminium and steel tariffs for Turkey in punitive actions against Ankara's refusal to release Brunson.
More questions than answers in murders of Russian journalists in Africa
Updated 0233 GMT (1033 HKT) August 15, 2018
The murders of three Russian journalists investigating the work of private military contractors in the Central African Republic are still shrouded in mystery.
But the exiled Russian billionaire who was funding their work says evidence gathered so far indicates they were not the victims of a random attack but a well-planned ambush.
The three journalists -- Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal -- were shot dead last month on a remote road in the north of the CAR. They'd gone to the country to investigate the presence of Russian military contractors linked to Wagner, a company close to the Kremlin that is also active in Syria and Sudan.
“HOTHOUSE EARTH” CO-AUTHOR: THE PROBLEM IS NEOLIBERAL ECONOMICS
BY SHIFTING TO a “wartime footing” to drive a rapid shift toward renewable energy and electrification, humanity can still avoid the apocalyptic future laid out in the much-discussed “hothouse earth” paper, a lead author of the paper told The Intercept. One of the biggest barriers to averting catastrophe, he said, has more to do with economics than science.
When journal papers about climate change make headlines, the news usually isn’t good. Last week was no exception, when the so-called hothouse earth paper, in which a team of interdisciplinary Earth systems scientists warned that the problem of climate change may be even worse than we thought, made its news cycle orbit. (The actual title of the paper, a commentary published in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, is “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.”)
New Mexico compound judge receives death threats
A New Mexico judge has received death threats after granting bail to five adults arrested at a desert compound.
Judge Sarah Backus said the prosecution had not convinced her the defendants were a threat to the community.
Police had arrested the two men and three women at a remote compound raided in the search for a missing three-year-old boy, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj.
Officers found 11 starving children and the buried remains of a toddler in a case that has shocked the country.
Judge Backus granted the five bail after a hearing on Monday, ordering that all five must wear ankle monitors and have weekly contact with their lawyers.
The boy's father, Siraj Wahhaj, was one of the five arrested.
But her decision has caused a storm of protest.
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