Month: July 2020

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An “air bear” helicopter flight has returned a polar bear to the Russian Arctic after he drifted more than 400 miles south on an ice floe.

Fishermen ran into the two-year-old male bear last week near Tilichiki, an isolated village in the Kamchatka region on Russia’s Pacific coast. 

Since polar bears are not usually found in Kamchatka, it is believed that the marooned bear had floated in on a piece of ice from the neighbouring Chukotka region. He was nicknamed “Umka” after the playful polar bear from a Soviet cartoon.

The ice and shores of the Chukchi Sea between Chukotka and Alaska are home to 3,000 polar bears, according to a 2018 study, the largest population of the world’s largest land predator. They also live on the Bering Sea just to the south.

But as sea ice melts further and faster due to global warming, polar bears are being seen more frequently outside their normal habitat. 

A Russian military town on the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya was "invaded" by polar bears in February.

A study published on Tuesday said the release of methane and carbon dioxide from thawing permafrost will accelerate climate change. Taken into account with the loss of heat-deflecting ice, this will increase global warming by 5 per cent and add up to £54tn in economic consequences.

Craters discovered in northern Russia in recent years are believed to mainly be caused by the explosion of methane hydrates amid rising temperatures. 

Hungry after his journey, Umka was filmed wandering through Tilichiki and a nearby village, having swum across the bay between them. Locals fed him fish and four pounds of candy.

“What a beauty!” one resident can be heard exclaiming in a video.

The disoriented bear would not have been able to make his way home across hundreds of miles of coastline, however, and scientists feared he would not survive the relatively warm weather and uncustomary food supply in Kamchatka. 

The sea ice there is generally too thin for polar bears to hunt seals on it.  

“In Kamchatka, the feed base does not suit them. So most likely such guests will die,” Siberian Times quoted wildlife official Vladimir Gordienko as saying.

The Kamchatka governor ordered the emergencies ministry to catch the creature and fly him back to Chukotka in a special operation that was almost like an Arctic version of Dumbo Drop.

But Umka initially ran away from his would-be rescuers, and then the flight had to be postponed due to poor weather. 

Once they finally departed on Monday, the sedated bear awoke in his cage mid-flight and was reportedly frightened by the loud thrumming of the motors in the Soviet-designed Mi-8 helicopter. 

Upon disembarking on Cape Navarin in Chukotka, 450 miles to the north, a specialist armed with a shotgun pulled up the door of the cage, and Umka bounded out into the snowy landscape. 

But experts expect such instances to occur more often as climate change amplifies the breakup of sea ice. 

“The ice in the Bering Sea is unstable, and bears are being carried south with the ice floes,” scientist Anatoly Kochnev told the government newspaper. “There the ice breaks up, and they swim to the nearest shore.”

Bears are not the only animals suffering. Chukotka was also where David Attenborough’s new series Out Planet filmed walruses plunging to their deaths after they had been forced onto coastal cliffs by melting sea ice.

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Protests erupted at a vocational school in east China after it emerged that a nursing course students had taken for years was a so-called “fake major” that would not allow them to work as nurses.

Students clashed with police at the Nanjing Institute of Applied Technology over the weekend in Nanjing, a city 300km west of Shanghai, when they learned that the college was not qualified to teach the programme many of them had spent three years on.

Photos and video shared online showed students tussling with police and security guards, including footage appearing to show groups of uniformed officials brutally beating lone students.

Many of the students were expecting to graduate imminently and seek internships or jobs in nursing, having paid 16,000 yuan (£1,800) a year in tuition fees. 

However, on April 22 staff told them that they would need to transfer to another school to be properly accredited, reported What’s On Weibo.

News of the “fake major”, as it was described by local media, went viral on Chinese social media. All students who joined the college from 2016 were affected, with the institution’s website this week saying that 6,000 in total were enrolled there.

The Nanjing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau said that in 2015 the school started working with another Nanjing college, but did not report the move to authorities for approval. The bureau said it was “maintaining order” at the school and “actively searching for a solution”.

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Protesting in China is illegal without government approval, and attempts to do so are usually swiftly stamped out by police and security officials, sometimes violently. Since the Nanjing protests broke out many online reports and comments about the clashes have been censored by Chinese authorities.

Since Chinese President Xi Jinping came to power in 2013, the ruling Communist Party’s intolerance to dissent and protest has intensified both on and offline.

On Tuesday morning Mr Xi made a speech referencing the May 4 1919 protests in Beijing against Western colonialism, saying: “Chinese youth in the new era must obey the party and follow the party."

The mayor of Naples has blamed the gritty television series Gomorrah, which chronicles the dark world of the Camorra mafia, for a rise in violence on the streets of the port city.

Luigi de Magistris claims that acts of violence spike every time an episode of the award-winning programme is broadcast on Italian screens.

He accused the series of glamourising drugs, violence and guns, saying that it was seducing young people into a life of crime.

“On evenings when the series is shown, acts of violence increase – it happens often,” the mayor told an Italian radio station, Radio 24.

“Symbols of evil are dangerous. I see many young people who are fascinated by them. They no longer want to choose culture, honesty and redemption, but violence, gangs, arrogance.”

Billed as “the epic inside story of the Neapolitan crime syndicate, the Camorra,” Gomorrah is broadcast on Sky Atlantic. It has been described as “Italy’s answer to Breaking Bad.”

In a Facebook post, Mr De Magistris described the characters portrayed in the series as “heroes of shit”, accusing the TV show of “corroding the brains, minds and hearts of hundreds of young people.”

The centre-Left mayor, a former magistrate, added: “Don’t make the mistake of underestimating this beguiling symbol of evil.”

His remarks followed a shooting in broad daylight on Friday in which a three-year-old girl was caught in the cross-fire.

The girl is in critical condition in hospital. She was shot by accident when a gunman fired six bullets at his intended target, a 31-year-old man with a criminal record who was sitting at a bar. The victim survived, while the gunman escaped and is being hunted by police.

The mayor’s outburst against Gomorrah, which is based on an award-winning book by Italian investigative journalist Roberto Saviano, was met with scepticism by some Neapolitans.

They blamed violence in the city on poverty, a lack of jobs and chronic neglect by the Italian State.

“There are entire quarters in the centre of the city that have been abandoned to their fate, where kids have only one possibility of finding work – to accept offers from the Camorra,” Bruno Vallefuoco, whose 24-year-old son was killed by the mafia after being mistaken for someone else, told La Stampa newspaper.

His son, Alberto, was gunned down by a Camorra gangster armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in July 1998.

Gianluca Torelli, 32, a member of a civil society group that organised a protest on Sunday against gun violence and the wounding of the little girl, said: “So many politicians have promised to intervene in the situation in the last few years – ministers, presidents of the region, prime ministers. So many words, and yet almost no action.” 

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A farmer in Nebraska saved his own life by cutting off his leg with a pocket knife as he was being sucked into a piece of machinery.

Kurt Kaser, 63, was transferring corn from one bin to another when his left foot got stuck in the equipment

As his leg was being pulled in and mangled he took his three-inch pocket knife out and sawed off the limb below the knee.

After freeing himself he crawled 200ft to the nearest telephone and was flown to a hospital.

Mr Kaser, a corn, soybean and hog farmer, said he never lost consciousness during his ordeal, which happened on April 19.

He told the Omaha World-Herald: "I didn’t know what to do. I was afraid it was going to suck me in more. I about gave up and let it do what it was going to do.

“It’s hard to describe. You want to survive and you do what you need to do to survive, I guess.”

Mr Kaser said he cut through up to an inch of muscle and nerves below his knee to free himself.

He added: "The bone stuck out down to my ankle. That’s what I was hanging onto as I was trying to get myself out."

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The farmer had become trapped in an auger, a tube that uses a rotating shaft to suck grain.

He did not have his phone and there was no one around to help.

Mr Kaser was later released from a rehabilitation centre and will have to wait for the amputated leg to fully heal before he is fitted with a prosthetic leg.

He said: "I was in a hurry and didn’t pay attention. Farmers, we’re all guilty of it but we don’t stop and think. We get in too big a hurry.

"Everybody says ‘You seem so upbeat about it’. I know I will be walking again fairly normally. Other people can’t, won’t ever."

The Eiffel Tower could soon loom over an enormous new garden at the heart of the city under proposals from the mayor of Paris.

Anne Hidalgo has announced plans to transform the passage linking Trocadero Square to the Eiffel Tower into a pedestrianised "green corridor" by 2024.

The project, expected to cost around  €70m (£60m), follows Ms Hidalgo’s pledge to crack down on pollution in the City of Lights and free its streets from gas-guzzling cars.

"Rethinking this site was the obvious thing to do and it’s the right time," Ms Hidalgo told French media on Wednesday. 

"The Eiffel Tower is the symbol of Paris but also of France. We had to think about what this place would become in 5, 10 or 15 years.

"Paris has to keep the international leadership on the environmental issue. In a very dense city, you also need large breathing spaces." 

The corridor was designed by Kathryn Gustafson, an American landscape architect at British firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman,  who is also the co-creator of the Princess Diana fountain in London. The project will be completed just before France hosts the Olympic Games later the same year. 

"We’re creating the largest garden in Paris, with much more biodiversity, much more ecology,” she said in a statement on Wednesday.

The project has two stages, with a second green corridor connecting the opposite side of the Eiffel tower to the Ecole Militaire district due to be finished by 2030.

The Eiffel Tower is not the only landmark French authorities are rushing to transform before the Olympics.

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has vowed to fully repair the Notre-Dame cathedral in time for the games, after its roof and spire were destroyed in a fire. 

The fire led to a fierce debate in France as to whether the restoration should be an exact copy of the cathedral’s former glory or incorporate modern themes. 

Among the more eccentric, early proposals was turning Notre-Dame’s roof into a giant swimming pool.

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John Bolton, the US national security advisor, has publicly accused Iranian forces armed with naval mines of carrying out an attack on oil tankers earlier this month. 

Speaking in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Mr Bolton said Iran “almost certainly” used mines in the sabotage attack which damaged two oil tankers and two smaller ships at the Emirati port of Fujairah.  

“There is no doubt in anybody’s mind in Washington who is responsible for this and I think it’s important that the leadership in Iran know that we know,” he said. 

But Mr Bolton also adopted a softer tone than in the past, saying the US was not planning military action in response to the Fujairah attack. 

However, he warned and Iran its proxy groups that “that these kind of activities risk a very strong response from the Americans.”

Mr Bolton also said Iran had unsuccessfully tried to carry out an attack at the Saudi port of Yanbu but gave no further details. 

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Iran denied responsibility and said Mr Bolton’s accusations were “ridiculous”.  

Western officials have long suspected that Iran was behind the May 12 sabotage attack in the UAE, which damaged a Saudi and a Norwegian oil tanker, but Mr Bolton’s comments about naval mines are the first time a possible method has been revealed. 

The UAE is continuing to lead an international investigation into the sabotage and has not formally accused any state of responsibility. 

Meanwhile, Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, said the “road is not closed” for negotiations between the US and Iran if Washington agrees to lift crippling sanctions and return to the negotiating table. 

Mr Trump pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear agreement last year and imposed sanctions designed to completely choke off Iran’s oil exports. The president has repeatedly expressed his hope that Iran would stop supporting militant groups across the Middle East and enter negotiations with the US. “I’m sure that Iran will want to talk soon,” he said last week.

The US has been building up its forces in the Middle East since early May, when Mr Bolton announced that an American aircraft carrier and bomber squadron was being sent to the region in response to Iranian threats.

While Mr Bolton has taken a consistently hard line on both Iran and North Korea, Donald Trump has publicly distanced himself from his aide’s hawkish approach. 

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Thailand’s junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha was elected late Wednesday as the kingdom’s first civilian prime minister since the 2014 coup he led, in a vote by a parliament stacked with appointed allies of the conservative, arch-royalist army.

Gen Prayut swept aside his sole challenger, the charismatic 40-year-old billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit who led the anti-military bloc, garnering 500 votes to his rival’s 244.

Victory for the retired general was all but guaranteed by the support of the handpicked 250-member senate and the late swing of key secondary parties into an army-affiliated coalition after frantic behind-the-scenes talks.

The senate, which was appointed by the junta, includes scores of military officers and loyalists – many identifiable as they read out Gen Prayut’s name by their short serviceman’s haircuts.

His election completes a journey for the 65-year-old Gen Prayut from gruff army chief who toppled the last civilian government to prime minister, with claims to legitimacy after an unexpectedly strong showing from his army-linked party in a March general election.

Yet Thailand remains bitterly divided after 13 years defined by coups, violent street protests and short-lived civilian governments.

At their root is a rivalry between an arch-royalist conservative establishment and pro-democracy parties supported by many in the lower and middle class as well as young people wearied by the rule of hectoring generals.

Critics say Gen Prayut represents a narrow elite and lacks the vision to govern as a civilian leader, having failed as junta leader to reboot Thailand’s economy, bridge its chasmic inequality or heal the ulcerous political divisions.

After the count, a defiant Mr Thanathorn vowed to "work harder" to build Thailand’s pro-democracy front.

"Dictators cannot resist the wind of change forever," he told reporters.

With his withering critiques of the military and its conservative politics, Gen Thanathorn is seen as a serious long-term threat to the establishment.

But he is besieged by court cases that could see him banned from politics and even jailed. He could not even enter the parliament building on Wednesday because of the legal suits against him.

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Vladimir Putin has claimed that there is no evidence that Russia shot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people. 

“We absolutely aren’t satisfied with what was presented as evidence of Russia’s guilt. There’s no evidence there,” Mr Putin told reporters after a television appearance on Thursday. 

On Wednesday, the Dutch-led international investigation brought murder charges against three Russians and one Ukrainian who were fighting on the side of Moscow-backed separatists when a missile brought down the plane in July 2014.

“We have our own version, we presented it. Unfortunately, no one wants to listen to us,” Mr Putin said.

After initially putting forward a raft of alternative theories, Moscow has admitted a Russian-made Buk missile downed the plane, but claims that it was fired from territory controlled by Ukrainian government forces. 

The investigation has said a Russian military missile launcher shot down MH17 and is searching for the soldiers involved. On Wednesday it played intercepted phone calls in which the men charged asked Russian officials for anti-aircraft weapons and then discussed receiving a missile.

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But MH17 was not mentioned once during Mr Putin’s annual call-in show, which lasted for more than four hours. The event is a chance for Russians to have their problems solved in a single stroke, although the questions are carefully screened.

During the show, Mr Putin said Iran was compliant with the nuclear deal and warned against US threats of military intervention after two tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman.

“It would be catastrophe for the region because it would lead to a spike in violence and in the number of refugees,” he said. 

He also said he was ready to meet again with president Donald Trump but said it wouldn’t be easy “since part of the American establishment is speculating on Russian-American relations”. 

More than 2 million questions were submitted, hundreds of thousands fewer than last year, suggesting Russians may be tiring of the carefully choreographed show despite a state pollster’s finding that three-fourths of the population would follow the show. 

Although questions are selected by state television producers, those submitted in real time through an app were occasionally shown at the bottom of the screen, leading to a few awkward moments.

“Only one question: When will you leave?” one read, referring to Mr Putin’s 19 years in power. The ticker of real-time questions was later turned off.

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Despite his long tenure, the president said later in the programme that he was not bored with being president.

As always, Mr Putin’s 17th annual call-in show focused mostly on domestic issues. The first question came from a firefighter in the Kaliningrad region who asked how he could be expected to live on £125 a month. 

The president responded that such a salary was lower than the minimum wage and should not have occurred. 

State television correspondents then began speaking with patients and workers in three hospitals in far-flung parts of the country.

Mr Putin commented briefly on rubbish removal problems around the country, saying regions were adapting their own solutions, but failed to address a plan to ship Moscow rubbish to the Arctic Arkhangelsk region that has sparked months of protests there. 

Hundreds of activists in Shiyes, the town where a tip is being built for waste from the capital, had recorded a video appeal to Mr Putin and expected to be given a chance to go on air with him. 

But authorities at the last minute moved the place of the live filming from Shiyes to a town 40 kilometres away in a possible attempt to reduce the number of activists taking part. In the end the Shiyes project was not mentioned at all.

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A controversial tip outside Moscow was closed after Mr Putin criticised it during his 2017 call-in show. 

Another omission was the fate of US investor Michael Calvey, who was arrested after tangling with a businessman linked to top Russian officials.

The US ambassador boycotted the St Petersburg economic forum over the case, which has further spooked foreign investors. In a positive sign, Mr Calvey was released on house arrest earlier this month.

Among the guests in the studio for the call-in show were famous actors and football players as well as Olympic gold medallist figure skater Alina Zagitova.

Amanda Knox has appealed for tens of thousands of dollars to help fund her impending wedding – but she is already married, it has been revealed.

Knox, who was convicted then acquitted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in Italy, recently launched a crowdfunding website in which she and her fiancé appealed for donations.

She and her boyfriend, Christopher Robinson, said the wedding, to be held in February, would have an “inter-galactic” theme and invited people to donate up to $2,000 each.

Guests are even invited to pay for the catering – $75 for dinner, $50 for dessert and $50 for an open bar.

“Let’s face it, we don’t need any more stuff. So please, no gifts and no pressure. But if you feel so inclined, we welcome putting on the best party ever for our family and friends,” the couple wrote on a specially set-up website.

“Instead of a traditional registry, we’re accepting donations towards the cost of the wedding.”

People who donate will receive a “signed, limited edition” of a joint book of love poems which the couple have called The Cardio Tesseract.

They said they had spent all their wedding funds on a trip to Italy in June, when Knox spoke about the murder and her initial conviction at a conference on miscarriages of justice in the city of Modena.

But it has now emerged that the couple are already married, having tied the knot in secret in December.

Records from King County, Washington State, show that they made a marriage application on Nov 21 last year, and were officially married on December 7.

Knox and her fiancé put out a statement on Thursday in response to criticism that they had misled friends, family and supporters.

They admitted that they were already married.

“We filed paperwork to be legally married in December of last year to simplify our taxes and insurance,” the wrote.

They said the event in February would be a celebration of the wedding “with our loved ones”.

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Knox also admitted that she had received significant financial help to attend the event in Modena by an NGO called the Italy Innocence Project.

But she said she had still spent $10,000 on security measures, travel expenses for her mother and flights.

“The trip was a financial setback for us and we were forced to use funds we’d been saving for our wedding.”

The space-age theme of the wedding promises, according to Knox and her boyfriend, “Vikings drinking pan-galactic gargle blasters, mutants schmoozing with Grecian queens and cyborgs.”

The couple promise their guests “outrageous costumes, crazier puzzles, mind-bending sets and extravagant alien food.”

Ms Kercher, from Surrey, was 21 when she was found dead with her throat cut in the cottage she shared with Knox and two Italian women in Perugia, a hill-town in Umbria that is popular with foreign students.

A local drifter named Rudy Guede was tried, convicted and sentenced to 16 years in jail for the murder, with DNA evidence linking him to the sexual assault and killing of Ms Kercher.

But suspicion also fell on Knox and her then boyfriend, Italian student Raffaele Sollecito – prosecutors said they had acted with Guede, knifing Ms Kercher to death after a sex game turned violent.

They were convicted and sentenced to 26 years in prison.

The convictions were overturned in 2011 and Knox immediately returned to the US.

In her absence, the acquittals were thrown out by an Italian appeals court, before being upheld by the supreme court in Rome in 2015, when Knox and Sollecito were definitively cleared of the crimes.

Knox broke down in tears on stage in Modena when she recounted the murder and her subsequent imprisonment.

“The truth is that Raffaele and I did not kill Meredith,” she told the audience. “I had zero motivation to kill my friend.” She said she had been cast as a “dirty, psychopathic, man-eating whore.”