Giorno: 7 Giugno 2023

Italy’s government sees no need for direct investment in Stellantis as carmaker thrives

Italy’s government has no need to directly invest in Stellantis as the carmaker is doing well, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti suggested on Monday, echoing similar comments made last week by the group’s chairman. Asked by reporters whether Rome should take a stake in Stellantis to have more say in its management, Giorgetti said the company’s […]

Young girl, 11, sexually assaulted on amusement park ride by man, 57: police

Police in the United Kingdom say a man sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl on an amusement park ride. The Essex Police said the incident happened on June 1 when the man, 57, allegedly sexually assaulted the girl while on a ride at the Adventure Island amusement park in Southend-on-Sea, England. Officials say the incident happened […]

Former Italian PM investigated in Colombian armament corruption case

Police on Tuesday searched the offices and homes of a former Italian premier and several leading business executives in an investigation of alleged corruption involving the sale of military planes, ships and submarines to Colombia, Italian state television reported. Massimo D’Alema, a leftist politician who served as Italian premier from 1998 to 2000, is among […]

SA water quality has deteriorated and could pose a health risk – DWS

Read More Gauteng residents collecting water from a tanker. File photo South Africa’s drinking water quality has deteriorated, as has the condition of sampled water treatment works, the department of water and sanitation (DWS) said on Tuesday, when releasing its Green, Blue and No Drop Watch Reports.  The department issued non-compliance notices to 90 municipalities […]

Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges

Read More Health ministers are to recruit a new volunteer army for social care to ferry medical equipment and drugs to people’s homes in a bid to free up congested hospital wards. Volunteers will also be sent to, though not into, people’s homes to tackle loneliness and carry out shopping and other errands. Under the […]

An explosion, then another human and ecological catastrophe began in Ukraine

Read More In the early hours of Tuesday morning all was calm at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. It was a mild night. Nothing appeared to stir other than a few howling dogs. Earlier that day Russian troops had fired several dozen shells across the Dnipro River. They landed on towns and villages on the […]

As flood waters rise around them, Kherson residents cast blame for destroyed dam on ‘inhumane’ Moscow

Read More On what should have been a Kherson street corner, Larysa Musian, a hydrologist, sits and watches the flood waters rising. The Dnipro River used to be 300-400 metres away, but after the dam at Nova Kakhovka was breached at 2.50am on Tuesday, it has burst into the city, flooding the first two or […]

Russia floundering in ‘mud of lies’ over Kakhovka dam destruction, Ukraine tells UN

Read More Russia’s UN envoy was accused of floundering in a “mud of lies” after he claimed at an emergency session of the security council that Ukraine destroyed Kakhovka dam in a “war crime”. Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Ukraine envoy to the UN, said it was typical of Russia to blame the victim for its own […]

Russia-Ukraine war live updates: thousands evacuated as UN says scale of dam disaster will only be clear in coming days – latest news

Read More From 2h ago UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told the UN security council that “the sheer magnitude of the catastrophe will only become fully realised in the coming days.” “But it’s already clear that it will have grave and far-reaching consequences for thousands of people in southern Ukraine on both sides of the […]

2 Dead, 5 Wounded in Virginia High School Graduation Shooting

Two people were shot dead and five others wounded after a gunman opened fire in a park in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday as high school graduates and their families emerged from a theater where commencement exercises had just concluded, police said.