Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Six In The Morning Tuesday 4 February 2025

 

At least six people injured in Swedish school campus shooting, one critically

Summary

No children among those hospitalised, authorities say

More now from the Orebro regional authority, which says no children are among those who are currently at the Orebro University Hospital following the shooting.

The authority had previously said that the number of people hospitalised there had gone up to six.



Spain men’s coach says he was unaware of efforts to downplay Rubiales kiss

Luis de la Fuente appears at trial of ex-federation chief Luis Rubiales who kissed Jenni Hermoso after she had just helped Spain win 2023 World Cup

The coach of Spain’s men’s football team, Luis de la Fuente, has told the forced kiss trial of ex-federation chief Luis Rubiales that he initially knew nothing of the scandal’s scale or efforts to silence it.

Rubiales provoked worldwide outrage for the kiss on Jenni Hermoso after she helped Spain beat England in the 2023 World Cup final in Australia.

The scandal forced Rubiales to resign in disgrace that year and has made Hermoso an icon of the fight against macho culture and sexism in sport.


West Bank: 2 Israeli soldiers killed in checkpoint shooting

Two Israeli soldiers have been killed and several others injured in a shooting at the Tayasir checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.

Two Israeli soldiers have been killed and several others injured in a shooting at the Tayasir checkpoint in the occupied West Bank,Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.

The IDF said that its troops killed a gunman who opened fire at a military post next to the Tayasir checkpoint.

At least eight soldiers were injured in the attack, two of them seriously, Israeli media say. 

The militant group Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group praised the attack, but neither claimed responsibility for it.

M23 rebels declare unilateral ceasefire in DR Congo’s war-torn east

The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 announced a unilateral humanitarian "ceasefire" from Tuesday in the DR Congo's (DRC) perennially explosive east, following calls for a safe corridor for aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

The M23 rebels said the ceasefire would start Tuesday. The announcement on Monday came shortly after the UN health agency said at least 900 people were killed in last week’s fighting in the DRC's eastern city of Goma between the rebels and Congolese forces.

Fighting has stopped in the city of more than a million, which M23 forces claimed to have captured last week, but clashes have spread to the neighbouring province of South Kivu, raising fears of an M23 advance to its capital Bukavu. 

This snowy Japanese town represents love. But overtourism is turning the sweetness sour





Tranquil and blanketed in pristine white snow, the Japanese city of Otaru serves as the backdrop of a popular 1995 romance blockbuster that continues to bring starry-eyed travelers to the region every winter.

But this sleepy city tucked away on the west coast of the island of Hokkaido has become the latest flashpoint in Japan’s ongoing battle against overtourism.

Local authorities recently deployed security guards to remind tourists to refrain from unruly behaviors, including trespassing onto private premises and obstructing road traffic.


Shipowners have made £4.8bn selling tankers to Russian ‘shadow fleet’

Vessels used to evade sanctions on oil exports and help fund war against Ukraine, investigation reveals

 Europe correspondent
Tue 4 Feb 2025 12.55 GMT

European and US shipowners have sold at least 230 ageing tankers into the “shadow fleet” used by Russia to evade western sanctions on its oil exports and help fund its war against Ukraine, an international investigation reveals.

The shipowners have made more than $6bn (£4.8bn) since Russia’s 2022 invasion by selling the vessels to buyers in countries such as India, Hong Kong, Vietnam or Seychelles that are not participating in the economic sanctions against Moscow, the investigation found.

It said Greek owners had sold the largest number of tankers, offloading 127 vessels, with UK companies selling 22 and German and Norwegian owners 11 and eight. Most would otherwise have been sold for scrap at a fraction of the price, it said.





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