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There are some odd bits of news tonight, and we begin with this from MSN:
Around 9,000 birds set off from Peterborough on their way to the North East on Saturday, in what normally would have been a three hour race - but more than half are yet to arrive.
“We’ve seen one of the very worst ever racing days in our history,” Pigeon fancier Richard Sayers told The Sun.
From CNN:
Prague, Czech Republic (CNN)At least three people have been killed and dozens injured after a rare tornado along with tennis ball-sized hailstones hit several villages in South Moravia, in the southeast of the Czech Republic, according to regional emergency services spokeswoman Michaela Bothova.
A local hospital in the town of Hodonin treated 83 injured people. Forty-five were admitted to hospital, six of whom were in serious condition, the hospital's director Antonin Tesarik said.
From CNN:
(CNN)A TV journalist alleged that he and his colleagues had not been paid by their network employers -- live on air.
Kalimina Kabinda interrupted his news broadcast on Zambia's KBN TV on June 19 to say, "away from the news, ladies and gentlemen, we are human beings. We have to get paid."
From Ars Technica:
Young adult male lost an arm and a leg before dying of shock and blood loss.
JENNIFER OUELLETTE
Marine biologists have spent decades counteracting the popular misconception that sharks are aggressive predators that target humans, an idea that became particularly prevalent in the wake of the blockbuster Jaws franchise. But fatal attacks nonetheless do happen—and they happened even in prehistoric times. While examining the skeletal remains of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery in Japan dating back some 3,000 years, University of Oxford archaeologists found distinctive evidence that one such skeleton had been the victim of a fatal shark attack. They described their findings in a new paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. It's the oldest known victim of a shark attack yet—like a prehistoric cold-case film.
From Reuters:
PRAYAGRAJ, India, June 25 (Reuters) - More corpses are washing up on the banks of the Ganges in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, as rains swell the river and expose bodies buried in shallow graves during the peak of the country's latest wave of coronavirus infections.
Videos and pictures in May of bodies drifting down the river, which Hindus consider holy, shocked the nation and underlined the ferocity of the world's biggest surge in infections.
Not so odd, this from NBC news:
"Washington and London are denying reality... they are trying to provoke conflict," said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
By Reuters
From The Guardian:
PM responds to discovery of graves at Indigenous schools
Trudeau stops short of ordering national investigation
Justin Trudeau has said that Canadians are “horrified and ashamed” by their government’s longtime policy of forcing Indigenous children to attend boarding schools where nearly 1,000 unmarked graves have now been discovered – but stopped short of launching a national investigation.
An estimated 751 unmarked graves were recently discovered on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian residential school in Saskatchewan which operated from 1899 to 1997. Last month, 215 remains were reported at a similar school in British Columbia.
From the Wasahington Post:
TORONTO — For the second time in less than a month, a First Nation in Canada reported grim news: Ground-penetrating radar had uncovered evidence of hundreds of unmarked graves near a former residential school for Indigenous children.
The two discoveries in British Columbia and Saskatchewan have left the country reeling. Many Canadians are renewing pleas to take down monuments to the leaders responsible for the school system and calling for more accountability and action from the federal government and the Catholic Church.
From Deutsche Welle:
A total of 3 people were killed in a knife attack in the city of Würzburg in Bavaria, around 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) east of Frankfurt, police said on Friday. A number of others were injured. Lower Franconia Police announced that they had detained a suspected attacker. "There is no indication of a second suspect. There is no danger to the population," the police tweeted.
From Reuters:
BOGOTA, June 25 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Colombia's President Ivan Duque and others was struck by multiple bullets in an attack on Friday, he said in a video message.
The incident took place while the president's helicopter was flying through Colombia's Catatumbo region toward the city of Cucuta, capital of the country's Norte de Santander province, Duque said.
From the BBC:
By Lucy Williamson
In an open space near Châtelet in central Paris, lanky young men - their knees and elbows folded around BMX bikes - dodge skateboarders out practising their moves.
For some of them, France's regional elections this month are their first ever opportunity to vote. But when polls opened for the first round of voting last Sunday, almost 90% of the country's youngest voters failed to show up.
From the BBC:
The prime minister continues to stand by Matt Hancock, but where will the affair fallout leave the health secretary and how will the public respond?
From the BBC:
A Belarusian dissident who was taken off a Ryanair jet that was forced to land in Minsk has been transferred to house arrest, the authorities have confirmed.
Roman Protasevich was taken into custody on suspicion of inciting unrest after his dramatic capture on 23 May.
From Vox:
Tigray is facing the world’s worst hunger crisis. It didn’t have to be this way.
Ethiopia’s Tigray region is facing a deepening hunger emergency, with about 350,000 people threatened by famine. It is the most severe starvation crisis in the world right now, and it is almost entirely manmade.
The region, located in the north of the country, has been engulfed in conflict since November, when a political dispute between Ethiopia’s central government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the political party that represents the Tigray region, erupted into open warfare. The Ethiopian National Defense Force has since partnered with troops from neighboring Eritrea and other militias within Ethiopia, specifically Amhara forces, in the battle against the Tigrayan defense forces.
From the Jerusalem Post:
The parade featured party trucks and DJs, ending at a huge party featuring performances by leading artists at Charles Clore Park.
Over 100,000 people celebrated at the first Tel Aviv Pride parade in two years on Friday, as Israel Police thwarted a number of attempted LGBTQ+-phobic attacks against the parade.
From Reuters:
Respect LGBT rights or leave the European Union, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told Hungary's premier as EU leaders confronted Viktor Orban over a law that bans schools from using materials seen as promoting homosexuality.
From the NYTimes:
The central business district and eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, will be locked down for at least a week after another daily surge in coronavirus cases linked to the Delta variant.
Officials in New South Wales, which includes Sydney and is Australia’s most populous state, announced an additional 22 cases on Friday, bringing the total number of cases to 65, the city’s largest outbreak in six months. They warned that many more cases were likely to emerge in the coming days because of a cluster centered on a hair salon that some 900 clients visited while several employees were infectious.
From NPR:
An increase of coronavirus infections around the world is forcing some governments to reimplement lockdown measures to control the spread of the virus.
From Australia to Israel and around Europe, health officials announced new restrictions ahead of the weekend as they report clusters of outbreaks and try to mitigate further transmissions. These decisions come as the more transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus becomes the dominant strain in several countries.
And to end on a happier note, this is from CNN:
Rome (CNN) — Some things never change in Rome, they say. Now, however, the Colosseum has proved that theory wrong, by opening its subterranean levels to the public.
It is not only the first time in 2,000 years that the area -- described as the "heart" of the building -- has been open; since the underground levels, or "hypogea," were where gladiators and animals waited before going into combat, this is the first time in the monument's history that the public has ever been allowed in.