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Greece seeks answers over deadliest train tragedy

A station master on duty during Greece's deadliest train accident is to testify Thursday in the central city of Larissa over the disaster that claimed dozens of lives, plunging the country into mourning.. Protests were held in Wednesday evening at the Thessaloniki train station, the city of Larissa and outside the Athens offices of the railway's Italian-owned operating company, Hellenic Train, where protesters threw rocks at the building and at police.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 3 mins read

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New moai statue found in Easter Island volcano crater laguna

A new Moai, one of Easter Island's iconic statues, was found in the bed of a dry laguna in a volcano crater, the Indigenous community that administers the site on the Chilean island has said.. The statue was found on February 21 by a team of scientific volunteers from three Chilean universities collaborating on a project to restore the marshland in the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 2 mins read

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Kandinsky masterpiece sells for record $45 million

Wassily Kandinsky's masterpiece "Murnau Mit Kirche II", recently recovered by the descendants of its owner, a German Jew killed by the Nazis, sold for $45 million on Wednesday, a record for the artist according to auctioneers Sotheby's.. "Murnau Mit Kirche II" was identified only a decade ago in a museum in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, where it had been since 1951. 

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 1 mins read

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UN head says high seas treaty must be 'ambitious'

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged countries Wednesday to agree a "robust and ambitious" treaty to protect the high seas, as time starts to run out for negotiators. . The high seas begin at the border of countries' exclusive economic zones, which extend up to 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from coastlines.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 2 mins read

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Belgium PM tells Iranian leader to free aid worker

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Wednesday urged Iran's president to "immediately" set free an aid worker held by Tehran in a case denounced as hostage diplomacy.. His backers and rights groups say he is being held as part of Iran's "hostage diplomacy" to try to get Belgium to release an Iranian diplomat incarcerated for terrorism.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 1 mins read

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Survivors of Italy's migrant shipwreck weep over their dead

Survivors of a shipwreck off southern Italy wept over their dead Wednesday, as relatives of some of the 67 people who drowned arrived from other countries to claim their loved ones.. "When I turned on the light of the telephone they were dead on the ground, there were children, above all children," the 50-year-old told AFP. He and others were pulling them out of the water, while desperate survivors of the shipwreck tried to find their relatives.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 3 mins read

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Italian firm gears up to restart works on Total's Mozambique gas project

An Italian firm contracted by French energy giant TotalEnergies said on Wednesday it was gearing up to resume work on a Mozambique gas project that was halted for security reasons in 2021 as soon as in July.. But sporadic and low-level jihadists attacks continue in part of the province Presenting Saipem's 2022 results during an online call on Tuesday, CEO Alessandro Puliti said the Italian firm expected to "progressively" resume work for TotalEnergies. 

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 1 mins read

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Burkina scraps 1961 military aid pact with France

Burkina Faso has scrapped a 1961 agreement on military assistance with France, a move that comes only weeks after it told the French ambassador and troops supporting its anti-jihadist campaign to quit the country.. The Burkinabe foreign ministry advised the French government that the country was "renouncing the technical military assistance agreement reached in Paris on April 24 1961", according to the correspondence, dated Tuesday.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 1 mins read

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Ukrainians down Moscow's attack drones with Red Army guns

Colonel Smak and his team of Ukrainian volunteers have managed to destroy three attack drones Russia launched on Kyiv, shooting them down with ancient Red Army machine guns.. I personally shot at them with a machine gun," says Smak, a grey-bearded 49-year-old.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 3 mins read

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'Like a warzone': Greek train tragedy survivors recount chaos scenes

When the passenger train from Athens slammed head-on into a freight train from Thessaloniki late on Tuesday night, 22-year-old Angelos was in the penultimate carriage.. The passenger train, carrying over 350 people, had been travelling from the capital Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki.

Wed, Mar 1, 2023 2 mins read