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Underwater images captured by a Russian NGO appeared to show significant amounts of oil sitting on the ocean floor
Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait
MOSCOW — Oil has leaked into the strait from two ships which ran into trouble during bad weather on 15 December. Volgoneft-239 ran aground following the storm, while Volgoneft-212 sank. ​​Up to 5,000 tons of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analyzed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst "environmental catastrophe" of the 21st Century. "This is the first time fuel oil has been spilled in such quantities," Viktor Danilov-Danilyan — the head of science at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) — said in a 17 January interview with a Russian newspaper. Russian scientists said in December that this spill could be...
January 24, 2025

Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait

A firefighters spray water as he monitor flames caused by the Hughes Fire along a roadside in Castaic, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025
Firefighters make progress on Hughes fire as more fires erupt in Southern California
LOS ANGELES — The Hughes fire erupted late Wednesday morning and charred through more than 40 square kilometers of trees and brush near the Lake Castaic area in less than a day.The fire is located about 60 km away from the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where the devastating Palisades fire has destroyed more than 14,000 structures and continues to burn for a third week.Crews made significant progress on Thursday in containing the fire. They say the Hughes fire is now about one-third contained.But as they made progress, two new fires were reported in the San Diego area in Southern California. Evacuations were ordered but were later lifted after a brush fire erupted late on Thursday in the Wealthy La Jolla neighbourhood, near the University of California, San Diego School of...
January 24, 2025

Firefighters make progress on Hughes fire as more fires erupt in Southern California

Vandals damaged the statue's hand and face and covered it in red paint
Captain Cook statue vandalized ahead of Australia Day
SYDNEY — Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of the Australia Day weekend.It is the second time in 12 months that the statue in Sydney has been vandalized.Australia Day is a national holiday that is held each year on 26 January -- the anniversary of Britain's First Fleet landing at Sydney Cove in 1788. Many Indigenous Australians say the date causes them pain.The local council in Randwick - the suburb where the statue is located - described the vandalism as "a disservice to the community and a disservice to reconciliation".Councillor Carolyn Martin told Sydney radio station 2GB that the vandals had knocked off one hand and parts of the face and nose.The statue -- which was first unveiled in...
January 24, 2025

Captain Cook statue vandalized ahead of Australia Day

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by President Donald Trump, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (R), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), at the announcement of an investment in AI infrastructure
Trump shrugs off Elon Musk’s criticism of AI announcement
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off an ugly back-and-forth between tech CEOs Elon Musk and Sam Altman that pitted one of Trump’s most visible lieutenants against a key participant in a massive $500 billion AI project Trump announced Tuesday.Musk had undercut Trump’s Tuesday Oval Office AI announcement, casting doubt on his X social media platform that any of the participating companies had the money to fund it. But Trump Thursday told reporters at the White House that Musk’s commentary was just a case of bad blood, because he “hates one of the people in the deal” – not an indictment of the viability of the deal he had announced.“No, he hates one of the people,” Trump said, in an apparent reference to Altman. “I’ve spoken to Elon, but—spoken...
January 24, 2025

Trump shrugs off Elon Musk’s criticism of AI announcement

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown speaks up after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, Jan 23, 2025
Trump says he will appeal federal judge's decision to temporarily block birthright order
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional”. The decision came during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.US District Judge John Coughenour repeatedly interrupted a Justice Department lawyer during arguments to ask how he could consider the order constitutional. When the attorney, Brett Shumate, said he’d like a chance to explain it in a full briefing, Coughenour told him the hearing was his chance.The temporary restraining order sought by Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington was the first to get a hearing before a judge and applies nationally.The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and a number...
January 24, 2025

Trump says he will appeal federal judge's decision to temporarily block birthright order

President John F Kennedy was killed while driving through Dallas in 1963
Trump orders plan for release of JFK and MLK assassination documents
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history -- the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr."A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. "And everything will be revealed."The order directs top administration officials to present a plan to declassify the documents within 15 days.President John F Kennedy was killed in Dallas in 1963. His brother Robert F Kennedy was assassinated while running for president in California 1968, just two months after King, America's most famous civil rights leader, was murdered in Memphis,...
January 24, 2025

Trump orders plan for release of JFK and MLK assassination documents

Many Afghan refugees now feel hopeless after Trump's immigration orders (file photo)
Afghan refugees feel 'betrayed' by Trump order blocking move to US
ISLAMABAD — "It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. He worries he can't help his sister and her husband escape too, because of President Donald Trump's executive order suspending a resettlement program.The order cancels all flights and suspends applications for Afghan refugees, without any exemption for families of active servicemembers.Trump argues the decision addresses "record levels of migration" that threaten "the availability of resources for Americans".But Abdullah and several other Afghan refugees have told the BBC they feel...
January 24, 2025

Afghan refugees feel 'betrayed' by Trump order blocking move to US

Donald Trump signs executive orders on Monday after being sworn in as president for a second term
US government workers told to report DEI efforts or face 'consequences'
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration emailed thousands of federal employees on Wednesday, ordering them to report any efforts to "disguise" diversity initiatives in their agencies or face "adverse consequences".The request came after President Donald Trump banned diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs throughout the government.Emails seen by the BBC directed workers to "report all facts and circumstances" to a new government email address within 10 days.Some employees interpreted it as a demand to sell out their colleagues to the White House."We're really freaked out and overwhelmed," said one employee at the Department Health and Human Services (HHS).The Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal workforce,...
January 24, 2025

US government workers told to report DEI efforts or face 'consequences'

Hungarian school
Bomb threats disrupt dozens of schools across Hungary, authorities investigate
BUDAPEST — Emails containing a bomb threat were sent to multiple educational institutions in Hungary on Thursday morning, causing them to temporarily shut down out of precaution, the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) said.The threats have affected at least 268 schools nationwide, prompting an investigation by the authorities. No bombs have been found at schools searched so far in an ongoing effort to deem all schools safe.“We will not go to bed today, and the police will not go to bed either, until the police arrive at every Hungarian school where such a threat has been received and inspect the building,” said Kristóf Gál, the ORFK head of communications said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.In the letter described by the police and later made public by domestic...
January 23, 2025

Bomb threats disrupt dozens of schools across Hungary, authorities investigate

A Palestinian woman walks past Israeli army vehicles during a military raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday
West Bank mayor warns of ‘man-made disaster,’ as Israel says it took ‘lessons’ from Gaza war
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister has announced a series of raids that he says are targeting “terrorism” in the occupied West Bank, as Palestinian officials warned of a “man-made disaster.”Israel’s military is using lessons from its offensive in Gaza in its new West Bank operation to ensure “terrorism does not return,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday.Katz said operation “Iron Wall” in the Jenin refugee camp would be a shift in the military’s security approach in the occupied West Bank.“A powerful operation to eliminate terrorists and terror infrastructure in the camp, ensuring that terrorism does not return to the camp after the operation is over – the first lesson from the method of repeated raids in Gaza,” he said.On Tuesday, Israeli Prime...
January 23, 2025

West Bank mayor warns of ‘man-made disaster,’ as Israel says it took ‘lessons’ from Gaza war

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