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BONDO VILLAGE, BREGAGLIA, Switzerland (Reuters) — Rescue crews continued to search on Thursday (August 24) for eight people including Germans, Austrians and Swiss who have been missing for more than a day after a landslide struck a remote Swiss mountain valley near the Italian border. Authorities evacuated around 100 people from the village of Bondo and airlifted hikers from nearby huts in the eastern canton of Grisons after rocks and mud hit the area on […]
by Charlotte Van Ouwerkerk and Sophie Mignon Agence France-Presse ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) – Dutch police Thursday released a van driver arrested over a suspected terror attack plot on a Rotterdam concert venue but stepped up inquiries based on a “concrete” tip-off from Spain. “The man was freed earlier this evening and is no longer a suspect in the investigation,” Rotterdam police said in a statement. It remained unclear whether the tip-off by Spanish officials to […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Eight people, including German, Austrian and Swiss citizens, are missing following a landslide that forced the evacuation of several small villages in southeastern Switzerland on Wednesday, police said Thursday. “In the region of Val Bondasca, eight people who were there at the time of the landslide have not been found,” the Graubunden cantonal police said in a statement.
OURENSE, Spain (Reuters) — Firefighters on Tuesday (August 22) battled to control a forest fire in northern Spain which forced the closure of a highway. The fire raged in Monterrei close to the town of Verin in the region of Galicia, near the Portuguese border. The fire is still active and has so far burnt 20 hectares and forced electricity to be cut for an hour in Verin and the villages nearby. Nearby Portugal has […]
by Sophie Mignon and Charlotte van Ouwerkerk ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch police are investigating possible terror links after arresting a Spaniard driving a van containing gas canisters close to a rock concert which was abruptly cancelled over fears of an attack. The man “was arrested and taken to the police station,” Rotterdam police said in a Tweet, following a tip-off from Spanish authorities. The arrest came little under a week after twin car-bomb attacks […]
by Laurence BENHAMOU with Nina LAMPARSKI in Vienna Agence France-Presse SALZBURG, Austria – The EU is a “real step” closer to overhauling a controversial rule on detached workers, after talks with leaders from eastern and central Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday. The so-called Posted Workers Directive allows firms to send temporary workers from low-wage countries to other member states without paying local social charges. The regulation has come under fire from rich nations like […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) –The headless torso of a woman found floating in Danish waters is that of a Swedish journalist who authorities believe died aboard an inventor’s homemade submarine, police said Wednesday. “The DNA of the torso matches that of Kim Wall,” Danish police announced on Twitter, saying more details would be given at a news conference at 9am (0700 GMT). The female torso, with the head and limbs deliberately cut off, was found on Monday […]
by Ella Ide Agence France Presse CASAMICCIOLA TERME, Italy (AFP) — Eleven-year old Ciro, the last child to be pulled from the rubble on the Italian island of Ischia Tuesday, saved his little brother’s life when the deadly earthquake struck, rescuers workers said. Firefighters had to dig with their bare hands to reach the youngster, who had been buried along with his seven-year old brother Mattias and seven-month old half-brother Pasquale. “It was Ciro […]
by Michaela Cancella-Kieffer and Hui Min Neo MADRID, Spain (AFP) — An alleged member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge Tuesday that he and other suspects had planned a bigger attack, a judicial source said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, was the first of four surviving suspects to be questioned in Madrid’s National Court, which deals with terror-related cases, over the attacks in Barcelona and a seaside […]
by Rebecca Libermann HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — The main suspect in last week’s stabbing attack in Finland admitted Tuesday to killing two people and injuring eight others but denied any intent to murder, his lawyer said. The Turku district court placed Abderrahman Mechkah, an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen, in formal custody after he made his statement to the court via video link from hospital, where he is being treated for a police gunshot wound to the […]
ISCHIA, Italy (Reuters) — Rescue workers sawed and moved rubble with bare hands on Tuesday (August 22) as they raced to save people caught under collapsed buildings on the island of Ischia. At least two people are believed killed and many injured after the estimated 4.3 magnitude quake hit on Monday evening (August 21). The director of the island’s hospital told media that two people were killed and about 40 injured. The Civil Protection Department […]
ISCHIA, Italy (Reuters) — Fire crews rescued a baby boy from rubble after an earthquake struck the tourist-packed Italian island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, on Monday night. A picture released by the Fire Brigade shows the baby in the arms of a fireman in the early hours of Tuesday morning (August 22). The Brigade’s Twitter account described the rescue in the town of Casamicciola as a ‘miracle’. The quake of magnitude 4.0 […]
