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Two German boys, aged nine and twelve, have been seriously injured after a landslide on the coast of northwestern Jutland, reports several Danish media.
The boys were reportedly building a cave when large amounts of sand collapsed and buried them.
The condition of the boys’ injuries is currently unclear, but according to the emergency services, the situation was “urgent” when they were flown to hospital. The boys’ families were also flown to the hospital.
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A building in Dagenham, in east London, caught fire overnight on Sunday, reports say Sky News.
Over 200 firefighters have rushed to the scene. Several people, including children, had to evacuate and two people were taken to hospital.
“The fire is causing heavy smoke and we urge residents in the area to close windows and doors,” station commander Alan Bendell told the news agency.
There must be residences and business activities in the building, which is known to have “several fire risks” according to the emergency services.
The building is undergoing a facade renovation on the fifth and sixth floors, where the fire broke out. But it is still unclear what caused it.
A 35-year-old man has died after an accident between an electric scooter and a car in Uddevalla, reports Bohuslänningen.
The accident happened a week ago, on the night of Sunday, August 18. Now the police announce that the man, who received serious injuries after the accident, has died. His next of kin have been notified.
The police are investigating the incident.
– As it looks now initially, and it may change, it is the electric scooter that has broken. But then there are aspects with the light signals at the scene of the accident that we have to take into account, says Jenny Johansson at the police traffic unit in Vänersborg to the newspaper.
A week has passed since the luxury liner Bayesian capsized off the coast of Sicily. Of the 22 people on board, seven died, including tech billionaire Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hanna.
Now reporting Reuters that Captain James Cutfield is being investigated for murder.
Already on Saturday, the Italian prosecutor’s office announced that it had opened an investigation.
During a press conference, it was explained that, for natural reasons, they will investigate how the crew handled the situation that arose.
During Monday morning, Russia carried out several robot attacks against Ukrainian cities, it reports, among others Kyiv Independent.
Aircraft alarms sounded across the country just before six o’clock on Monday morning. Among others, Kiev, Odessa and Kharkiv are among those affected.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko signs Telegram that there is currently a power outage in the capital.
The Ukrainian Air Force initially reported that 11 Russian bombers and kamikaze drones were moving in over the country. A little later it was reported that six more Russian bombers were in the air.
On the night of Monday, the police raided an apartment in Gothenburg after two underage girls were locked in the home earlier on Sunday evening.
– We receive information and that these girls are in an apartment with a man and that they are not allowed to leave, says police spokesperson Jens Andersson.
Initially, it was unclear where the residence was located, but the police managed to locate it through information gathering.
– Once on site, we were able to arrest the man, who is in his 35s, says Jens Andersson.
He is now suspected of illegal detention and attempted rape.
The site has been cordoned off for technical investigation.
An earthquake has occurred off the southern coast of Portugal.
According to the US Geological Survey, it had a magnitude of 5.4.
Just before 05:00 on Monday, the emergency services were called to an industrial premises in the Frölunda district of Gothenburg.
– There has been a fire on the outside of the building, but it seems to be quite calm on the site now, says Johan Eklund, alarm and line operator.
There are no reports of anyone being injured.
– We are now checking that the fire has not spread to other parts of the building, says Johan Eklund.
It is still unclear what caused the fire.
The presidential election in November can go either way, but the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has received over half a billion dollars since Joe Biden renounced re-election and endorsed her. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP/TT
In a month after Joe Biden declined re-election, the Democrats’ new presidential candidate Kamala Harris has received 540 million dollars, approximately 5.5 billion kroner.
During the party’s four-day convention alone, $82 million rolled in in gifts, according to the campaign.
According to a review previously done by the Financial Times, Republican candidate Donald Trump had $151 million in cash at the end of July, and Harris $220 million. Biden resigned on July 21.
One person has died and two people are missing after an ice cave collapsed in Iceland, Icelandic Ruv reports. Another person is seriously injured.
About 25 people were visiting the cave, which is a popular tourist destination, when the slide occurred. Most of the people were outside the opening at the time of the accident, but a small number of them were said to have been trapped by the collapse.
During the day, the emergency services were able to evacuate two seriously injured people. Two more people are still believed to be in the cave.
One of the seriously injured died during the night, according to the Icelandic newspaper Visir.
The weekend’s meetings yielded no results, but talks on a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the Hamas hostages will continue at a lower level, according to a US government source.
The next step is to investigate possibilities to untie the most difficult knots.
This weekend’s Cairo meetings were held with the US, Egypt and Qatar as mediators between Israel and Hamas. CIA chief William Burns and David Barnea of Israel’s Mossad attended while Hamas was indirectly kept informed.
Conservationists in South Africa plan to aerial bomb the remote Marion Island in the Indian Ocean with tonnes of poisoned pellets.
The aim is to kill hordes of mice that eat albatrosses and other seabirds alive.
Pictures show bloody birds, some with flesh torn from their heads.
– The mice just climb up on them and slowly start eating until the birds die off, says conservationist Mark Anderson at Birdlife South Africa.
According to him, the birds do not know how to get rid of the mice.
$29 million has been raised to try to solve the problem. With the help of helicopters, 600 tons of pellets, prepared with rodent poison, will be spread on the island. Every single mouse must be gone, the nature conservationists believe.
Previous attempts with cats on the island have failed.
A security adviser for the Reuters news agency has been killed in a Russian attack on a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
The news agency itself announces it in one statement.
Two Reuters journalists were also injured in the attack, one of them seriously.
“We are urgently seeking more information about the attack, including by talking to the authorities in Kramatorsk, and we are supporting our colleagues and their families,” writes Reuters.
The man was a British citizen and was one of six people in the Reuters team in Ukraine, the BBC reports.
The body of a British man in his 40s was found in the crowds after 19 hours of searching, writes TT and refers to the Ukrainian National Police.
Correction: An earlier version stated that a journalist had been killed.
Hamas says it fired rockets at Tel Aviv in Israel in response to “Israeli massacres of civilians”. reports Sky News.
Aircraft alarms have been heard outside Tel Aviv, the Israeli military reports.
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko. Archive image. Photo: Mikhail Metzel/AP/TT
Belarus is gathering large amounts of soldiers and military equipment at the border with Ukraine under the pretext of a military exercise, Ukraine’s foreign ministry says.
The information about the military buildup in the Homel region comes from Ukrainian intelligence services.
“We warn Belarus not to make the tragic mistake for its country under pressure from Moscow, and call on its armed forces to cease unfriendly actions,” adds the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
Ukraine calls on Belarus to withdraw its forces from the border, beyond the firing range of Belarusian weapons systems.
According to Ukraine, the presence of Wagner soldiers has been noted.
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