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Olive oil is now the most stolen product in supermarkets in Spanish regions covering about half the country, according to new figures.It comes as prices surge after a scorching drought in the south last year hit the olive harvest. Organised criminal gangs are stealing the oil, dubbed ‘liquid gold’, to then resell it, according to Ruben Navarro, the head of the Tu Super supermarket chain, which operates 30 stores in Spain’s Andalucia region.”Olive oil has become an ideal product for them to steal,” he said.It is the second most stolen item in all of Spain’s supermarkets, just behind spirits. Iberico…

German local councils on Saturday called for the government to refurbish out of use bunkers. The comments were made by André Berghegger, the head of the Association of Towns and Municipalities, to the Funke media conglomerate. They come as Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its third year and a day after Defense Minister Boris Pistorius visited civil protection facilities in Finland. What is the association demanding? Berghegger said that the level of threat had changed and that this was shown by “Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.” He demanded Germany build more bunkers, saying that only 600 out of the 2,000 public shelters…

Mohammed looks at me, his eyes wet from tears, and shakes his head gently. Grief is like a weight around him, which he meets with forced smiles and choked-back tears.”Every day, I think of dying a hundred times,” he says. Next to him is his wife, Nour, heavily pregnant and sobbing into her hands. She is due to give birth in just a couple of weeks, but now mourns her daughter just as she awaits the arrival of a son.It is less than a week since Rula drowned in a French canal, and the devastation is still desperately etched on…

On February 24, 2022, almost all the traffic on the M07, the main highway connecting Kyiv with western Ukraine, was heading in one direction: westwards. Thousands of people, most of them women and children, were fleeing the Russian invasion. Only a few were going the opposite way; one of them was Steve M., a German firefighter from the town of Borna in Saxony, near Leipzig. Steve M. set out for Kyiv just a few hours after the bombs had begun to fall: 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) separated him from his Ukrainian wife and her son. They had only been married a…

Since 2021, five political prisoners have died in Belarusian prisons. Rights activists say the cause of death is inhumane treatment that saw people denied immediate, high-quality medical care: Three of them were already battling serious health issues before their incarceration. Under Belarusian laws, authorities should heed the health conditions of detainees. According to data from country’s judiciary, back in 2010, 10% of complainants seeking release from prison were successful. By 2021, that proportion had fallen to 1.3%. Belarus opposition calls election a ‘farce’To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Today,…

Gaza’s population, displaced and devastated by Israel’s continuing offensive against the narrow strip, is on the brink of famine.International efforts to get aid in have faced challenges, so much so that President Joe Biden announced on Thursday night that the US would build a temporary port on Gaza’s coast.Follow latest: Aid ship ‘heading to Gaza today’ The president insisted there would be “no US boots on the ground” but there has been little detail so far on how the ambitious project will work.Sky News spoke to some experts to try and answer some of the key questions about the proposed…

Lying on the hard desert ground, a lion is reduced to a pile of fur and bones – drained of all the strength and power we associate with the ferocious predator. So emaciated, he is barely even recognisable.He gently squirms as a towel is placed over his eyes by a rescue worker. There is no bite or fight left in him. Captive animals are rarely spared from the horrors of conflict – even victimising the beasts we traditionally fear and respect.Warning: This article includes images of animals some may find distressing. Staff at Sudan’s first and only animal shelter fled…

Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock welcomed her British counterpart David Cameron in Berlin on Thursday to discuss the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war. The “Strategic Dialogue” was established to discuss cooperation on foreign and security policy between the two countries. The meeting however comes at an awkward time for Berlin; days after Russian media published an intercepted online call between senior German military officials about Ukraine. During the call, the officials discussed alleged British operations on the ground in Ukraine. Russian leak to overshadow discussions  During the second UK-Germany “Strategic Dialogue,” the top priority was to discuss further military assistance for Ukraine and ways to increase…

A US court on Friday found former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez guilty of colluding with drug cartels and facilitating the smuggling of hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. After a trial that lasted two weeks, the 12-member jury declared a unanimous verdict convicting Hernandez. What are the charges against Hernandez? Hernandez was found guilty in each of the three charges against him, that include: plotting to import cocaine, illegal use and carrying of machine guns, and possessing machine guns as part of a “cocaine-importation conspiracy.” He could face sentences of up to life imprisonment, according to US prosecutors…

With centuries of history, ancient archaeological sites, Islamic art and untouched landscapes, Afghanistan is attracting tourists – despite the Taliban regime and the UK government’s “do not travel” warnings.In the 1960s and 1970s, the country formed part of the overland “hippy trail” route across Asia and welcomed hundreds of thousands of Western tourists. But as its complicated modern history unfolded, the steady stream of travellers stopped. The UK Foreign Office currently advises against all travel to Afghanistan, highlighting its “volatile” security situation and an “ongoing and high threat of terrorist attacks”. But some adventurous tourists aren’t letting this stop them.Joan…