Crimea bridge partly reopens after huge explosion - Russia
Light traffic has resumed on Russia's only bridge to Crimea, hours after a huge blast brought down sections of the roadway.
The blast on Europe's longest bridge - a symbol of Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 - killed three people, investigators say.
The victims were in a nearby car when a lorry blew up, Russian officials claim.
The railway part of the bridge - where oil tankers caught fire - has also apparently reopened.
At least 2 killed in Iran as security forces intensify crackdown over protests
Iran’s security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez in fresh protests on Saturday afternoon, as weeks of nationwide demonstrations gathered momentum.
In Sanandaj, security forces shot and killed a driver in his car, while in one of the schools in Saqqez, two teachers were injured, according to the Iranian human rights group Hengaw.
Another protester was shot in the abdomen by IRGC security forces and died, Hengaw said.
“Students in the schools in Sanandaj and Saqqez started the protests. Then government forces started an attack on one of the schools in Saqqez,” Azhin Sheikhi, from Hengaw told CNN on Saturday.
Female students chant ‘get lost’ at Iranian president on campus
Ebrahim Raisi urged staff and students to be alert to ‘evil goals’ of protests over death in custody of Mahsa Amini
Reuters in Dubai
Female students in Tehran have chanted “get lost”, according to activists, as the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody.
As nationwide demonstrations that have rocked Iran entered a fourth week, Raisi addressed professors and students at Alzahra University in Tehran, reciting a poem that equated “rioters” to flies.
“They imagine they can achieve their evil goals in universities,” state TV reported him saying. “Unbeknownst to them, our students and professors are alert and will not allow the enemy to realise their evil goals.”
Donegal explosion: Ten people killed in petrol station blast as death toll rises
‘Search and recovery for further fatalities continues,’ police say
Ten people - including two teenagers and a young girl - have been confirmed dead after an explosion at a petrol station in Ireland.
Four men and three women were also among those killed, according to police.
The Irish premier said the nation was in mourning after a blast ripped through a service station and nearby buildings in County Donegal on Friday.
On Saturday, police said the death toll had risen from three to seven overnight and officials said they expected the number to increase as the search operation continued.
New Zealand: Over 200 whales die in mass stranding
More than 200 whales have died in a remote island off the eastern coast of New Zealand. Rescue teams were unable to refloat the whales because of the active threat of great white sharks in the region.
More than 200 pilot whales have died after being stranded on the shores of New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands, the New Zealand's Department of Conservation said on Saturday.
Conservation officers said in a statement that they could not actively refloat whales stuck on the island because of "the risk of shark attack to both humans and the whales themselves."
The Chatham Islands are about 785 kilometers (488 miles) east of New Zealand.
Mass strandings are reasonably common on the islands, though marine biologists are puzzled by the phenomenon and are not sure what causes it.
Hong Kong: five teenagers sentenced in first security case involving minors
Group, some as young as 15 at time of alleged offence, detained for up to three years for ‘inciting others to subvert state power’
Reuters in Hong Kong
Five teenagers with a Hong Kong group advocating independence from Chinese rule have been ordered by a judge to serve up to three years in detention at a correctional facility, for urging an “armed revolution” in a national security case.
The five, some of whom were aged between 15 and 18 at the time of the alleged offence, had pleaded guilty to “inciting others to subvert state power” through a group called Returning Valiant.
Sentences for two more, aged 21 and 26, will be delivered at a later date.
Justice Kwok Wai-kin said the defendants had advocated a “bloody revolution” to overthrow the Chinese state at street booths and on Instagram and Facebook, after Hong Kong’s adoption of a sweeping, China-imposed national security law.
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