Greek transport minister resigns after deadly train crash
What do we know so far?
- A passenger train carrying 350 people and a freight train crashed in northern Greece last night, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens of others
- The first four carriages of the passenger train were derailed, and the first two caught fire and were "almost completely destroyed"
- The local stationmaster has been charged with manslaughter
- The Greek transport minister, Kostas Karamanlis, has resigned, saying in a statement: "When something so tragic happens, it is impossible to continue and pretend like it didn’t happen"
- Some survivors have described the moment the trains collided as like an earthquake
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China spends billions on pro-Russia disinformation, US special envoy says
Beijing propaganda includes messaging aligned with Moscow on Ukraine war, says James Rubin
The west has been slow to respond to China spending billions globally to spread poisonous disinformation, including messaging that is completely aligned with Russia on Ukraine, a US special envoy has claimed.
James Rubin, a coordinator for the Global Engagement Center, a US state department body set up to “expose and counter” foreign propaganda and disinformation, made the remarks during a European tour this week.
Putin sends girl who drew anti-war picture to orphanage
Girl’s father arrested for ‘discrediting’ the Russian army for an anti-war comment he wrote on social media
A 12-year-old Russian girl has been sent to an orphanage after she drew an anti-war picture at school, reports say.
Masha Moskaleva’s drawing featured both the Ukrainian and Russian flags, emblazoned with the words “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine”, and a woman shielding her child from Moscow’s missiles.
Independent rights watchdog OVD-Info said that the teenager’s art teacher reported her work to the school’s headteacher, who then alerted Russian authorities.
Local law enforcement in the town of Yefremov in the Tula region, south of Moscow, took action in April 2022, charging her father Alexei Moskalev, 53, with “discrediting” the Russian army for an anti-war comment he wrote on social media platform Odnoklassniki, OVD-Info said.
Who is Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinubu?
Bola Ahmed Tinubu has come out victorious in the Nigeria's highly disputed presidential election. Who is this veteran politician and why is he widely regarded as a kingmaker and "godfather"?
Bola Tinubu's presidential campaign slogan was "emi lo kan" in his native Yoruba — "It's my turn." On March 1, he emerged victorious in the race to lead Africa's most populous democracy.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) confirmed that the former governor of Lagos secured over 8,8 million votes and the required 25% of votes in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states and capital, a threshold to be confirmed president.
Israeli police use stun grenades, water cannon in crackdown on protests against judicial reform
Weeks of anti-government protests in Israel turned violent on Wednesday for the first time as police fired stun grenades and a water cannon at demonstrators who blocked a Tel Aviv highway. The crackdown came shortly after Israel’s hard-line national security minister urged a tough response to what he said were “anarchists.”
The violence came as thousands across the country launched a “national disruption day” against the government’s plan to overhaul Israel’s judicial system.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allies say the program is meant to reduce the influence of unelected judges. But critics, including influential business leaders and former military figures, say Netanyahu is pushing the country toward authoritarian rule and has a clear conflict of interest in targeting judges as he stands trial on corruption charges.
Near bomb-grade level uranium found in Iranian nuclear plant, says IAEA report
Uranium particles enriched to near bomb-grade levels have been found at an Iranian nuclear facility, according to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, as the US warned that Tehran’s ability to build a nuclear bomb was accelerating.
In a restricted report seen by CNN, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that uranium particles enriched to 83.7% purity – which is close to the 90% enrichment levels needed to make a nuclear bomb – had been found in Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), an underground nuclear facility located some 20 miles northeast of the city of Qom.
The report says that in January, the IAEA took environmental samples at the Fordow plant, which showed the presence of high enriched uranium particles up to 83.7% purity.
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