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Another crocodile, this one is native to Cambodia. Archive image. Photo: Heng Sinith/AP/TT
Cassius entered the history books as the world’s largest crocodile in captivity with 5.48 meters between nose and tail. But estimated to be more than 110 years old, the crocodile has now died, according to the zoo in Australia, which has been the crocodile’s home since the late 80s.
– He was more than just a crocodile. He was like a member of our family and brought joy and companionship to his best friend George for over 37 years, writes Marineland Melanesia on Facebook.
George Craig and his wife Shirley Craig bought Cassius back in 1971 and he was in the couple’s possessions until the move to Marineland Melanesia.
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A Finnair plane unloads at Vantaa Airport in Helsinki. Archive image. Photo: Emmi Korhonen/Lehtikuva via AP
An employee at Vantaa Airport in Helsinki has died in an accident when a Finnair plane was to be moved.
The accident occurred when the plane was to be moved to the hangar for service, according to Finnair. An investigation into the accident is ongoing.
The police were alerted at five o’clock on Saturday morning about a person who was trapped at Vantaa airport. Several units from the rescue service and the police were called to the scene. At the moment, the police do not suspect any crime, writes Iltalehti.
A roof blown down after Typhoon Kong-rey’s passage in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday. Photo: Chiang Ying-ying/AP/TT
Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan are being urged to evacuate due to the risk of flooding and mudslides in the wake of a tropical storm.
Warm and humid air is causing heavy rains after Typhoon Kong-rey, which has now been downgraded to a tropical depression, according to the Meteorological Institute. For the city of Matsuyama, an alert of the highest level has been issued, and about 190,000 residents are asked to immediately take shelter.
The risk of mudslides and flooding applies in western Japan on Saturday and in eastern Japan on Sunday. Train services between Tokyo and the Fukuoka region in the south have been suspended.
Kong-rey moved in over Taiwan on Thursday. At least two fatalities have been reported.
At 01:30 on Saturday night, the police were alerted to an assault in Vingåker municipality.
According to the police’s website, it is a 25-year-old who has been abused.
At a party nearby, a person under the age of 18 was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault.
The 25-year-old was awake and talking but had to be taken by ambulance to hospital for a check-up.
Family and friends at the coffin of Mauricio Solis, a journalist with a local radio station, who was shot dead in western Mexico on Tuesday. Photo: Armando Solis/AP/TT
The number of journalists killed in the line of duty in 2022-2023 increased compared to the previous two years, according to a report by the UN agency Unesco.
The development is alarming, according to the report. 162 journalists were killed during the period, an increase of 38 percent.
“In 2022 and 2023, one journalist was killed every four days, simply because they were doing their job,” Unesco chief Audrey Azoulay said in a statement.
They call on countries to do more to ensure that “crimes never go unpunished”.
Almost all cases where journalists are killed in the line of duty remain unsolved. Of the cases noted by Unesco in 2006, 85 percent still lack a solution.
On Friday evening, Israel attacked Jabalia, which is a refugee camp for Palestinians in Gaza, writes Al Jazeera.
At least 84 have been killed, but over 170 people are believed to have lived in the buildings that were attacked.
Many are believed to still remain under the demolished buildings.
Peanut in a hat. Photo: Mark Longo/AP
Internet phenomenon “Peanut the Squirrel” was seized by government authorities on Wednesday, and later euthanized to be tested for rabies, writes New York Times.
The decision abruptly ended Mark Longo’s, 34, fight to keep his pet.
On Instagram, Longo writes: “For the past seven years, Peanut has been my best friend. He has been the center of my world and many of yours for so long. I don’t know how to deal with this emotionally.”
Read more here.
There is a fire in a villa in Rättvik, the police write on their website.
According to calls to SOS Alarm, there is a fire with open flames in a villa.
Ambulance, emergency services and police are on their way to the scene.
The villa is said to be on fire. But according to initial information, no one should be left in the residence.
There is a fire in a closed hotel on Åbyplan in Klippan.
– There is heavy smoke development and the rescue service is currently smoke diving, says police spokesperson Evelina Olsson.
Police and emergency services are on site. It is currently unclear if anyone is injured.
During Friday, Spanish authorities confirmed that 202 deaths have been registered after the flood disaster in Spain.
But there is still no official figure on how many are missing, reports say El Mundo.
The authorities are working with a list of more than 2,500 emergency calls about missing persons, but the number is expected to drop as mobile coverage returns so that relatives manage to get in touch with each other.
During the night, a traffic accident occurred on Södertäljevägen near Hornstull in Stockholm.
– It is a police car that has collided with a taxi, says police spokesperson Ola Österling.
One person has been taken to hospital.
The police have drawn up a report about negligence in traffic, whether it refers to the driver of the taxi or the police car is unclear.
– I will not go into that, says Ola Österling.
The police have arrested a man in his 20s suspected of attempted murder in Södermalm during the night of Saturday. The alarm came in at 23.40.
– Some type of conflict has arisen in an apartment, where a man has been stabbed, possibly beaten, says police spokesperson Ola Österling.
The man is said to have run from the scene after the incident, and a police chase has then been launched. After ten minutes, the man was arrested and had then stabbed another person.
– One person has been taken to hospital, says Ola Österling.
The police do not want to go into whether the suspected perpetrator knows the plaintiff or not.
The police have confiscated knives after the incident.
Donald Trump has lost an estimated $2.4 billion as the stock price of his social media company falls, reports CNN.
Over the past five weeks, the stock price of Trump Media & Technology Group, like Truth Social, has soared. According to analysts, it was all an absurd boom fueled by expectations that Trump would win the presidential election, and it had nothing to do with how the company is actually performing.
But after the recovery, the share price is now said to have started to fall again.
A man has been sentenced to daily fines after he had 1,000 rodents, a dog and a turtle in his apartment in Östermalm, reports P4 Stockholm.
It was the county administration that found the animals after neighbors raised the alarm about a strong stench from the apartment and that hamsters were kept in buckets on the balcony.
The animals inside the apartment must have been kept in far too small cages with too little access to food and water. The man is now being sentenced for violating the Animal Welfare Act.
Rescue workers work in the Beirut suburb of al-Dahiya, which was hit by an Israeli attack early Friday. Photo: Hassan Ammar/AP/TT
The death toll rises after Friday’s extensive Israeli bombings in Lebanon.
At least 52 people were killed and 72 injured in the area around Balbeek in northeastern Lebanon, according to local authorities.
Overnight on Friday, Israel also carried out at least ten attacks on the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, causing massive destruction, state news agency NNA reports. Dozens of buildings were razed to the ground and several fires are said to have broken out.
According to Israel’s military, arms factories and command centers belonging to Hezbollah were attacked in the strike, which was preceded by an Israeli evacuation order. The suburb of al-Dahiya is widely regarded as one of the strongest strongholds of the Iran-backed Shia militia.
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