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Two crew members have died on a Holland America cruise ship during an “incident” in the ship’s engineering space, the cruise line has said.The pair died on Friday while the Nieuw Amsterdam liner was at the small island of Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas, Holland America added in a statement. Officials have been notified and the cause is being investigated.Other crew members have been offered counselling.Holland America said it was “deeply saddened” by the deaths, adding: “Our thoughts and prayers are with our team members’ families at this difficult time. “The safety, security and welfare of all guests and…

03/23/2024March 23, 2024Blame game: Kyiv denies involvement in Moscow terrorist attackUkrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has insisted that Kyiv had nothing to do with the deadly terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall on Friday night. “Let’s be straight about this: Ukraine had absolutely nothing to do with these events,” Podolyak said in a video message posted on Telegram. “We have a full-scale, all-out war with the regular Russian army and with the Russian Federation as a country. Everything will be decided on the battlefield.” The Islamic State affiliate ISIS-K has officially claimed responsibility for the attack which left at…

Russia and Transnistria have lost their instruments of blackmail, Moldovan Energy Minister Victor Parlicov told DW, and his country has grown stronger and more resilient for it. Source link

Two men arrested over an explosion at a service station in County Donegal which killed 10 people have been released without charge.The blast on the afternoon of 7 October in the village of Creeslough, in northwestern Ireland, caused the death of four men, three women and three children, with ages ranging from five to 59.Police said two men, both in their 50s, were arrested on Friday morning for alleged offences contrary to the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997.A Gardai spokesperson said today: “The two males arrested yesterday have been released without charge.”The investigation led by Gardai in Donegal…

Thirty-five suspected Somali pirates arrived in Mumbai aboard the Indian Navy destroyer INS Kolkata on Saturday.  They were apprehended in a daring high-seas Indian naval operation last week that recaptured a hijacked ship and freed its hostages. “INS Kolkata, with the 35 apprehended pirates returned to Mumbai on 23 March,” a navy statement said. In a video released by news agency ANI, the men can be seen standing at the dock by the ship surrounded by navy commandos. Navy spokesperson Vivek Madhwal said this is the first time in more than a decade pirates would be brought to Indian shores to…

The United States Senate approved a $1.2 trillion (€1.1 trillion) budget bill to fund the government for the fiscal year, narrowly avoiding a shutdown. The bill was passed in a 74-24 vote early on Saturday after a midnight deadline. It will now go to President Joe Biden to sign into law. The package funds key departments including Defense, Homeland Security, Treasury, and State through September 30. ‘Our persistence has been worth it’ The bill was passed in the nick of time as three-quarters of the government were at the verge of running out of cash at midnight. This comes aftertemporary funding…

When it comes, the gang violence is lethal and nobody in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince knows when or where it will flare up next.Thousands have been forced to leave their homes and those capable of leaving the city do so on buses and in cars, heading north away from the fighting. But tens of thousands simply can’t get away.They’re now living rough or in buildings that they have taken over.A huge argument erupts outside the locked gates of Haiti’s communications ministry building. Hundreds of families have moved in, and a group of their male family members strictly control who can and…

Skip next section EU leaders respond to Kremlin’s ‘state of war’ comment03/22/2024March 22, 2024EU leaders respond to Kremlin’s ‘state of war’ commentEU leaders have hit back after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated Friday that Russia is in “a state of war.”  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia’s comments show that it betrayed its own population after denying that it was at war for the past two years. Meanwhile, European Council President Charles Michel said Russia’s statement shows the need for the EU to strengthen its own defense industries. “We must be lucid and we must tell to our…

Russia and China vetoed a United States-backed draft resolution at the UN Security Council calling for a cease-fire in Gaza as part of a hostage deal. The proposed resolution called for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to the Palestinian enclave. Moscow accused Washington of a “hypocritical spectacle” that does not pressure Israel. Algeria also voted against the resolution, with Guyana abstaining and the remaining 11 countries of the 15-member Security Council voting in favor. Russia not interested in assisting diplomatically, US says The United States…

Concerns have emerged over how some members of Nigeria’s “Community Watch Corps” groups operate. The vigilante groups were introduced to complement the efforts of conventional security agencies to fight criminals, known locally as bandits, who raid and loot villages, kill residents and burn houses to the ground. But many Nigerians now accuse the the vigilante security groups of extrajudicial killings and torture while interrogating the suspected bandits. Tit-for-tat killings According to some residents in the states where the groups operate — including Nigeria’s northern states of Katsina, Zamfara and Sokoto — the groups are getting out of hand. Nigeria’s impoverished Zamfara state first introduced a…