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Hundreds of people including 59 minors found packed into overcrowded fishing boats in bad weather off the coast of Calabria. The 573 refugees and migrants were found overnight on board “two overloaded fishing boats and left at the mercy of waves with unfavourable weather conditions that were expected to worsen significantly”, the coastguard service said in a statement on Tuesday.
Source: aljazeera.com
Cultural hits from Netflix show "Squid Game" to Oscar-winner "Parasite" have raised South Korean inequality to global prominence, and one presidential hopeful claims his working-class credentials make him the best man to fix a broken system. Former child factory worker Lee Jae-myung, a school dropout maimed in an industrial accident as a teen, is the ruling Democratic Party's maverick candidate in the March 9 election.
Source: france24.com
The 81-year-old Brazil legend was admitted for a session on his tumour on February 13 and has been kept in due to the urinary infection. He has been left weakened after receiving an endoscopy last Wednesday - a procedure used in medicine to look inside the body. Pele has three tumours which are requiring medical attention - located in his intestine, liver and lung.
Source: thesun.co.uk
About 60 people have died after an explosion at a makeshift gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso, local officials say. The blast happened in a market at the gold-mining site when dynamite stored there caught fire, witnesses said. Images from the scene show a huge crater, destroyed homes and bodies lying on the ground.
Source: bbc.com
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that he was suspending the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with Russia in response to Moscow's recognition of two breakaway regions in Ukraine. Scholz said he had ordered a halt to the review process by the German regulator for the pipeline, seen by Western partners and Kyiv as a crucial bargaining chip in the increasingly fraught standoff with Russia.
Source: france24.com
Iran has returned 820,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines donated by Poland because they were manufactured in the United States. State TV on Monday quoted Mohammad Hashemi, a health ministry official, as saying that Poland donated about a million doses of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine to Iran.
Source: aljazeera.com
It's been three years in the making, but the world's largest cruise ship is finally ready to welcome passengers. Measuring a staggering 1,188 feet, Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas was delivered last month and is due to begin its maiden voyage from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to the Caribbean on March 4. The 18-deck cruise ship was built at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, and has capacity for 6,988 guests and 2,300 crew members.
Source: cnn.com
Indian teenage chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won praise Tuesday for a stunning victory over world number one Magnus Carlsen in an online championship. Praggnanandhaa, who in 2016 became the youngest international master in history at age 10, beat Carlsen late on Monday at the Airthings Masters rapid chess tournament.
Source: france24.com
Coronel will be sent to Forth Worth, Texas for the remainder of her sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering. The beauty queen was sentenced back in November to three years in prison and agreed to forfeit nearly $1.5million. During her sentencing, she asked the judge for forgiveness, adding that she didn’t want her daughters to grow up without either of their parents. Her three-year sentence was a year less than what the prosecution had asked Judge Contreras.
Source: thesun.co.uk
The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, says the official tasked with overseeing the military’s transformation. Latifullah Hakimi, head of the Taliban’s Ranks Clearance Commission, also told a news conference on Monday that they had repaired half the 81 helicopters and planes supposedly rendered unserviceable by the United States-led forces during last year’s chaotic withdrawal.
Source: aljazeera.com
Paul Farmer, an American physician and medical anthropologist renowned for his innovative work in providing health care to poorer countries, died Monday at age 62, his Partners in Health group said. The Boston-based organization said he "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda." It did not specify a cause.
Source: france24.com
People in Argentina are hopeful light rains that began over the weekend will help firefighters curb blazing wildfires that have ravaged farms, pastures and wildlife in the country’s north in recent weeks. Eight separate fires in Argentina’s Corrientes province have devastated almost 800,000 hectares (1.98 million acres), according to officials.
Source: aljazeera.com
All Covid restrictions will end in England on Thursday and free mass testing will stop from 1 April. The prime minister told MPs the legal duty to isolate for those who tested positive would be dropped as he unveiled his "living with Covid" plan.
Source: bbc.com
U.S. President Joe Biden had asked French President Emmanuel Macron to make the offer of a summit between Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin to Putin, said an official from the French Presidency. "We're slowly changing the course of things. We're creating a diplomatic perspective the Kremlin accepts," said the French presidential adviser. The Kremlin said Putin and Biden could set up a call or meeting any time but there were no concrete plans yet for a summit.
Source: reuters.com
A pair of conjoined twins wore dark glasses so they could not see who the other voted for as they cast ballots for the first time in northern India. Sohan and Mohan Singh, 19, are joined at the hip and share several organs as well as legs. They live in a charitable home after being abandoned at birth. Wearing colourful checked shirts and matching black turbans, the brothers cast their votes on Sunday in state elections in Punjab.
Source: france24.com
Kazakhstan has detained a former defence minister after prosecutors launched a probe against him for failing to fulfil his duties during last month’s violent unrest that killed 225 people, according to a statement by the prosecutor general’s office. Murat Bektanov, who was sacked by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev last month, faces four to eight years in prison if convicted.
Source: aljazeera.com
Search and clean-up efforts continue in the Brazilian city of Petrópolis, five days after flash floods and mudslides that have killed at least 171 people. The victims include at least 27 children and teenagers, while more than 120 are still missing, officials say.
Source: bbc.com
A gemstone, billed as one of the largest gem-quality opals ever found, was sold for $143,750 at auction in Alaska on Sunday. The opal, dubbed the “Americus Australis,” weighs more than 11,800 carats, according to the auction house Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals. It also has a long history. The opal is larger than a brick and is broken into two pieces, which was a practice used decades ago to prove gem quality.
Source: apnews.com
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