A petrol station explosion in a small village in northwest Ireland on Saturday killed at least seven people and injured others, local police said.
Authorities confirmed a further four people died overnight after a blast destroyed the Applegreen petrol station in Creeslough, County Donegal, adding to the first three reported dead in the blast.
At least eight people were injured and are being treated at nearby hospitals, police said. An unknown number of people are still missing.
Emergency services work at the scene of an explosion at the Applegreen petrol station in the village of Creeslough in Co Donegal, Ireland, Saturday October 8, 2022. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
The explosion also damaged neighboring buildings.
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Police continue to conduct “search and rescue” operations in the area to find those who are still missing.
“The search and recovery for additional casualties continues,” said An Garda Siochana, Ireland’s national police service, in a statement.
“Gardaí and the emergency services remain at the scene of an ongoing serious incident in Creeslough, Co Donegal,” the police service added in a separate statement. “The traffic diversions remain in place this morning. Road users intending to travel into the Creeslough area are asked to consider alternative routes until they learn otherwise.”
Emergency services work at the scene of an explosion at the Applegreen petrol station in the village of Creeslough in Co Donegal, Ireland, Saturday October 8, 2022. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
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Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin described the explosion and subsequent loss of life as a “very traumatic situation” and one of the “darkest days for Donegal and the whole country”.
“The people of this island will be stunned by the same sense of shock and utter devastation as the people of Creeslough at this tragic loss of life,” he said.
“My thoughts and prayers are with the entire Creeslough community tonight following today’s devastating explosion,” Martin said.
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Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue, who represents Donegal in the Irish Parliament, said people were “shocked and stunned” by the incident.
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“People have come together and everyone is concerned about the families of those who have lost loved ones and how to support them in the days to come,” he told Irish broadcaster RTE.
The cause of the explosion is still under investigation.
BEIJING (AP) — China on Saturday criticized the recent U.S. decision to tighten export controls that would make it more difficult for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computer chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that is “isolating and backwards go” will the USA
“Out of necessity to maintain its sci-tech hegemony, the US is abusing export control measures to maliciously block and suppress Chinese companies,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning.
“It will not only damage the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies, but also affect the interests of American companies,” she said.
Mao also said US “weaponization and politicization” of science and technology, economic and trade issues will not stop China’s progress.
She spoke after the US on Friday updated export controls that included adding certain advanced, high-performance computer chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment to its list, as well as new licensing requirements for items that would be used in a supercomputer or for semiconductor development in China.
The US said the export controls were added as part of ongoing efforts to protect national security and US foreign policy interests.
US-China relations have deteriorated in recent years over technology and security issues. The US has introduced a series of measures and restrictions to prevent China from acquiring chip technology, while China has allocated billions to invest in semiconductor production.
The tensions have hit semiconductor companies in the US and around the world that either export chips or make chips in China. Semiconductor companies like Nvidia and AMD have seen their share price fall 40% over the past year.
“We understand the goal of ensuring national security and call on the US government to implement the rules in a targeted manner – and in collaboration with international partners – to level the playing field and mitigate unintended harm to US innovation,” the Semiconductor Industry Association, which represents the U.S. semiconductor industry, said in a statement.
2:52 p.m.: We have been talking to you since this morning about an explosion that occurred on the Crimean bridge. The latest report shows three dead. If you haven’t followed everything, complete the summary in this article.
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2:32 p.m .: The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has lost its last external energy source due to new shelling. Its cooling is now made possible by the operation of emergency generators, said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Although the six reactors are shut down, they continue to require power for vital nuclear safety and security functions.
2:07 p.m.: Here is a new point in the news for this Saturday:
• According to the Russian investigative committee, at least three people died in the explosion on the Crimean bridge. They are “probably the occupants of a car that was parked next to the truck that exploded.” The building, symbol of the annexation of the peninsula by Russia in 2014, is used in particular to transport Russian military equipment. Follow our life.
The French, who heat themselves with oil, are in turn entitled to help. Finance Minister Gabriel Attal has announced that you can receive a check for between 100 and 200 euros “from November 8th”.
• The tension surrounding fuels continues. The strike movement affecting several refineries and French tank farms was renewed this afternoon at TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil. Three of the six French refineries are still closed.
• In order to follow up on “the fuel supply tensions observed on national territory”, the tankers will be able to operate exceptionally this weekend. In the decree published this morning in the Official Journal, we also read that the maximum permitted driving time will be increased by one hour per day and by 4 hours per week.
1.40 p.m .: A few hours after the explosion on the Crimean bridge, a first team from the Russian investigative committee has just arrived on site. A video was posted on the committee’s Telegram channel.
1:33 p.m .: According to the Russian Ministry of Transport, quoted by the Tass agency, rail traffic will resume on the Crimean bridge from 8 p.m. tonight.
1:22 p.m.: Crimean Wind media broadcast images from Kerch on Telegram of the very long line of cars now being forced to go to sea to cross the strait to Russia. Prime Minister of Crimea Yuri Gotsanyuk announces the launch of a ferry service “in the next few hours”.
1:16 p.m .: As part of their investigation (link in Russian), the Russian investigators also claim to have found the first elements of the truck and its owner. This is a resident of the Krasnodar Territory. An investigation was launched in his apartment. The vehicle route is checked. Follow our life.
1:38 p.m.: It is “probably the occupants of a car that was parked next to the exploded truck,” reports the department’s Telegram channel (in Russian). Currently, the bodies of two victims, a man and a woman, have already been pulled from the water. Your identity will be verified.”
1:11 p.m.: Explosion on the Crimean Bridge madeat least three deadaccording to the committee Russian investigation.
12:57 p.m.: Shaka laka boom boom 🧨🌉 The liberation of Crimea begins. NOW https://t.co/sTVg0hnytG
12:56 p.m .: The Ukrainian ambassador in Germany welcomes the Crimean bridge explosion. “Liberation of Crimea begins. NOW,” wrote Andriy Melnyk on Twitter.
2:08 p.m .: The fire on the Crimean bridge gives the Ukrainian Post thoughts. She announces that she will issue postage stamps with the image of the burning building. On Facebook, the company boss speaks of 7 million copies. He even promises a reference to the movie Titanic.
The Ukrainian Post is not on the first try. She had already offered an anti-Russian stamp for sale at the beginning of the war.
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12:53 p.m .: According to geopolitician Cyrille Bret, the explosion of the Crimean bridge, which has become impassable, will have major consequences. It is an “obvious military target” for Ukrainian forces. “This bridge will be used to transport everything that Crimea lacks: building materials, food… Crimea is a somewhat underdeveloped area from an economic point of view. It is obviously also used to transport military equipment,” the specialist notes on franceinfo.
12:51: Here’s a new item in the news for this Saturday morning:
• Moscow has launched “a criminal investigation” into the explosion that occurred earlier this morning on the Crimean bridge. The building, symbol of the annexation of the peninsula by Russia in 2014, is used in particular to transport Russian military equipment. Follow our life.
• The vice-president of Hauts-de-France reassured: the school buses will continue to run after the reserve stocks have been opened “at the beginning of the week”. The region is particularly affected by fuel supply difficulties.
• French people “in transit through Iran are urged to leave the country as soon as possible as they risk arbitrary detention,” warns the Foreign Ministry on its website.
• Successful entry into the race for the XV France Women’s World Cup. Win 40-5 against South Africa tonight in Auckland (New Zealand).
1:02 p.m .: After the fire, the Crimean Bridge is completely out of order. Neither trains nor cars can use it. Passengers whose trains leave Crimea today are asked to postpone their journey.
Russian police are also stopping trucks heading for the bridge, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reports. Trucks are jammed in large parking lots and near gas stations.
1:00 p.m .: For Moscow there is no doubt that Kyiv is behind this fire. The head of the Crimean assembly denounces a coup “by the Ukrainian vandals”. If Ukraine is indeed the origin, it would be a snub for Russia to see that such vital infrastructure and so far from the front lines could be damaged by Ukrainian forces.
11:03 am: A new video released online shows significant damage inflicted on the Crimean bridge following reported explosions early in the morning of October 8. The illegally built bridge connects the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to mainland Russia across the Kerch Strait.
11:03 a.m .: The Ukrainian daily Kyiv Post has just published a new video of the fire on the Crimean Bridge. We see several burning railroad tanks.
10:30 am: “Let’s go!” Vladimir Putin opens the Crimean Road Bridge, May 15, 2018 https://t.co/9cHD8uDkKp
12:49 p.m.: The Crimean Bridge has become so associated with the Russian leader that some have gone so far as to call it “the Putin Bridge.” Here are some archive images of its inauguration in the presence of the Russian President in May 2018.
10:26 am: Moment of explosion on Kerch Bridge connecting #Crimea with #Russia and images of significant damage https://t.co/Vr9K0JodcT
12:48 p.m.: Crimean bridge explosion seen from inside. In this video, shared by a journalist from France 24, we clearly see two lanes crashing into the sea.
10.47 a.m .: And in the meantime we are cheering in Ukraine. “This is the beginning. Everything that was built illegally must be destroyed, everything that has been stolen must be brought back to Ukraine,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s adviser Mykhaïlo Podoliak wrote on Twitter.
Also discovered was this video montage put together by Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of State for Defence. On one side the destroyed bridge, on the other Marylin Monroe singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Report that Vladimir Putin celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday.
09:51: Video of Crimean bridge damage. https://t.co/roEjIKH19B https://t.co/DwsS5O625g
9:50 a.m.: This video taken from the bridge clearly shows that one of the two lanes is completely destroyed. Traffic is obviously disrupted.
12.45 p.m .: Russia did not move. Moscow says it has launched “a criminal investigation” into the blast that severely damaged the vital bridge linking Crimea and Russia this morning. The fire was caused by a car bomb, says the Russian Anti-Terrorism Committee. Follow our life.
9:13 a.m.: According to Russian mass media, “the tank with fuel is on fire.” #Crimea #CrimeanBridge https://t.co/krJMi8vthB
12:41 p.m.: This 19-kilometer bridge spans the Kerch Peninsula. It was erected at great expense on the orders of Vladimir Putin as a symbol of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The Ukrainian daily Kyiv Post broadcast a video showing the fire.
09:08: The Crimean Bridge, symbol of Russia’s annexation in 2014, was partially destroyed after an explosion.
12:45 p.m.: Here is a first point in the news for this Saturday morning:
• A fire broke out on the bridge between Crimea and Russia. The origin of the fire is a car bomb, the Russian Anti-Terrorism Committee has confirmed. Traffic on the bridge is currently closed.
• French people “in transit through Iran are urged to leave the country as soon as possible as they risk arbitrary detention,” warns the Foreign Ministry on its website.
• Successful entry into the race for the XV France Women’s World Cup. Win 40-5 against South Africa tonight in Auckland (New Zealand).
• In view of the supply difficulties of the past few days, Emmanuel Macron calls on oil companies and unions to “responsible”.
(ANSA) – MOSCOW, OCT 08 – Russia has pledged to respect the declaration by the five nuclear powers that nuclear war is unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said, according to reports by Tass.
Lavrov further claimed that the West uses lies and manipulation to portray Russia as a source of nuclear threats and stressed the defensive nature of Moscow’s nuclear deterrence policy. (HAND).
Erika Buenfil is one of the most popular telenovela actresses in the world of show business in Mexico and even those who haven’t seen her show surely know her. She has emerged as a versatile actress who has found love on more than one occasion on the soap operas.
Whether as the protagonist or the villain of the story, she almost always had her sights set on a heartthrob who eventually fell for her charms. However, he would have snatched a role from an actress who was painting from that time.
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The theme of the role arose because Gralia was the protagonist of “Amor en custodia”, one of TV Azteca’s hit telenovelas, and years later Buenfil played the exact same role when Televisa released “Amores Verdaderos”, both soap operas being inspired by the same one Argentine soap opera.
Gralia from there had one of the worst experiences when she fell into a coma after suffering a stroke. She got out of that situation in the end, but now Televisa would miss her after getting tired of always playing the same role with them.
A video that circulated on social media sparked a debate in Spain about violence against women. It shows how dozens of young people shout sexist abuse and threaten their peers in the building across the street from the windows of a multi-story student residence in Madrid.
The scenes were “despicable,” University Minister Joan Subirats said on Friday. With the exception of the right-wing populist Vox, all the major parties immediately condemned the action in the strongest possible terms. The Public Ministry of Madrid announced investigations into a possible “hate crime”.
Meanwhile, the fact that some students at the affected and renowned Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) played down the importance of the scandal also caused great consternation. “They had no bad intentions,” said one young woman, for example, from the television channel RTVE. It is a “tradition”, a “rite” of the university, explained others. Worse still, she has tried numerous politicians, spokespersons for women’s associations and media commentators.
“This shows how deeply rooted rape culture is in our society,” lamented Yolanda Besteiro, president of the Federation of Progressive Women (Federación Mujeres Progresistas). “We are bullied, insulted, denigrated.” Violence against women is “normalized and trivialized”. An RTVE commentator said, “And these are our elites of the future.”
The UCM has since announced that the first students identified have been expelled from the university. There will be more disciplinary measures and consequences, he said.
As the daily La Vanguardia reports, this is not the first time that university students have made sexist comments.
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Spain only tightened its sex crimes law in August. The new law criminalizes “intimidating” compliments and the distribution of sex videos, among other things. With its initiative, the left-wing government has reacted to several sensational cases of gang rape in which the perpetrators have escaped with light sentences in recent years. Equal Opportunities Minister Irene Montero said at the time that “rape culture” and “sexual terror” would come to an end.
In the late 1980s I visited an exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Not the impressive permanent collection of dinosaurs, always full of gaping children under the Tyrannosaurus rex, but a small exhibition about what we can learn from examining remains.
The exhibition has been arranged according to the age of the remains. It started with what we can discover by examining a fresh corpse. It explained the work of coroners and coroners. In the next room I learned what one can discover about corpses in the decay; in the other room how it is possible to study mummified bodies, frozen mammoths and ancient corpses kept in swamps. And so the exhibition went on: in each room the corpses got older until we got to the skeletons and finally the fossilized skeletons.
Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2022, who studied how to extract DNA from mummies (Reproduction/EFE) Photo: EFE / EFE
The older the corpse, the harder it was to figure out what it was doing before it died. If we find a suicide note in the pocket of a corpse trapped in a river, you can imagine what was going through his mind before dying. But it’s virtually impossible to detect the thoughts in the brain of a Neanderthal skull.
As the exhibition progressed, I sadly became convinced that the mysteries of our distant ancestors were lost and we had to be content with what little information was gleaned directly from the bones. A skull shattered by a blow says something about the violence of death but little about the reasons for the aggression.
In the last room, in a corner, a display showed how some scientists were extracting DNA from prehistoric bones. They used a dental drill to drill a tooth and were able to extract DNA from the pulp. Or extracting DNA from mummies. They found it was sufficiently conserved to be sequenced.
I realized that this could completely change archeology and paleontology. I returned to my lab and searched the library for the works of these scientists who extracted DNA from prehistoric bones. That day I read Svante Pääbo’s first work, his doctoral thesis, in which he showed that it was possible to extract DNA from mummies. This week, Pääbo received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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I watched as Pääbo’s early work was discredited because of the possibility that the tiny amounts of DNA he was able to extract were new material that would have contaminated the samples during the procedure. And this has actually been proven in several cases.
But over the next few years, Pääbo managed to perfect the extraction methods and show that the DNA was indeed ancient. With this technological feat, bones are no longer simple macroscopic objects, becoming boxes that hold copies of that creature’s genome. And that revolutionized paleontology. We now have access to the genomes of creatures that died out millions of years ago.
In recent decades, Pääbo has used this technology to study the genomes of hundreds of extinct creatures, but his most important work was sequencing the genome of Neanderthals. They are that other species, our close cousin, with whom we shared the planet until about 30,000 years ago. By comparing our genome to that of Neanderthals, Pääbo’s group discovered that we now have Neanderthal genes. This proved that our ancestors had sex with these cousins. A skeleton of an individual who was the daughter of a human and a Neanderthal was recently discovered.
Who would have thought decades ago that a young graduate student interested in mummies and drilling teeth to extract DNA could discover the sexual behavior of people who died tens of thousands of years ago? Pääbo could have given up trying to extract DNA from mummies and bones when he was crucified by the scientific community, who didn’t believe in the reliability of his methods but insisted, got there and completely changed our knowledge of our ancestors. It definitely deserves the Nobel Prize.
Enjoying the moment, Antonella Fiordelisi isn’t afraid to say she’s “happy”. But a doubt grips her. Gegia’s words echo in her head: the comedienne doesn’t believe in the sincerity of Edoardo’s feelings and has spoken to Antonella about it. Donamaria is the protagonist of a love triangle created with Alberto De Pisis. Well, to Attilio Romita, Fiordelisi admits: “I’ve been betrayed several times, I don’t trust anyone…”.
Curled up on the sofa and wrapped in a blanket, Antonella opens her heart and explains why she’s suspicious of the boy, even though she’s taken some steps forward and expressed her interest in the influencer in recent days. “My attraction is not only physical, on the contrary, aesthetically, Edoardo does not even fall into my cannon as an ideal man. But my intelligence, sympathy and playful character have charmed me. Although he appears superficial, he has a fascinating spirit and I want him get to know each other better.”
However, the final episode confirmed Antonella’s suspicions about Alberto, who was secretly in love with Edoardo. A triangle has formed, but the influencer knows that Alberto has no hope with the young conductor. Although Edoardo is very open, he is not interested in men. She laughs and jokes with him, but his attitude is only friendly. If Alberto noticed something different about him, it’s because the two boys had a very close relationship in the house. Antonella is disappointed, she has noticed that Alberto doesn’t like being in her company and when she sees them exchanging outpourings, she distances herself from the group.
Nevertheless, Antonella Fiiordelisi puts on the brakes: “I like it, but I don’t trust it that much, I don’t want to rush through the stages and speed up my acquaintance. She’s still staring at him, he seems sincere, but I want to understand better what his intentions are.” Attilio reassures her: “I think he let you take him a bit, he pays special attention to you, besides, he’s always the one who takes the initiative.” New couple on the way?
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Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2022, who studied how to extract DNA from mummies (Reproduction/EFE) Photo: EFE / EFE
