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Russian fire-hit submersible was nuclear-powered : Confirmed Putin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that the deep-water submersible that caught fire on Monday was nuclear-powered. The accident had killed 14 crew.

It was during a conversation with Russia’s defense chief Sergei Shoigu that Putin’s comment came. The defense chief confirmed that the incident was caused by a fire in a battery compartment. According to Shoigu, the reactor is “completely isolated now” and “in full working order”.

In the fire caused in the submersible in the Barents Sea, 14 senior officers died of smoke inhalation. The Kremlin did not released information about the blaze initially, calling it a state secret. The confirmation came 3 days after the incident happened.

Only a limited power reserves had been equipped with the submersible, which was quite smaller than the submarine. At the time of fire, the submersible was carrying out research in Russian territorial waters. It is now at the naval base in Severomorsk on the Barents Sea.

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Tzatziki – The Greek cucumber salad

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Lets try some tasty and healthy Greek salad. Tzatziki – The Greek cucumber salad!

Ingredients:

  • ¼ cup full fat Greek (strained) yogurt
  • 1-2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
  • 1 minced garlic clove
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
  • 3 medium cucumbers

Preparation:

Mix well all the ingredients except the cucumbers in a large bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour. Slice the cucumbers very nicely and mix with the yogurt dressing, until all cucumbers are coated with the dressing. Garnish chopped fresh herbs and serve.

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Amsterdam’s Red Light District may face an end of the ‘Window displays’

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Amsterdam’s Red Light District is quite famous where prostitutes offers their “services”, from behind a window. These ‘Window displays’ may come to an end soon, as Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema has announced options to radically revamp this Red light district, including closing down brothels in the city centre.

Halsema has been trying to implement new rules in the city’s sex trade in two decades. This includes the banning of sex workers called ‘window workers’, standing in window-fronted rooms.

Halsema said that these new modifications in rules are as a part of protecting sex workers from gawping tourists and to combat a rise in human trafficking.

The prostitution will not be banned completely, she said. To the medias, she said, “I think a lot of the women who work there feel humiliated, laughed at and that’s one of the reasons we are thinking about changing”. The prostitution was legalised by Dutch government in 2000.

Four major modifications will be considered to be implemented. This includes: shutting down of the city centre brothels and shifting them to another place, reducing the number of brothels, ending of window displays and and stepping up the window workers’ licensing.

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Volcano eruption at Stromboli : One person killed

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A volcano eruption had happened at Stromboli, the Italian island, killing one person. The victim was said to be a male hiker of age 35 from Sicily. A falling stone was hit with the victim, which leads to his death.

Several other people were injured at the incident. Report said that many people are missing in the volcano eruption.

Those who witnessed the incident said that a huge plume of smoke filled the skies above the island on Wednesday, sending molten rock spilling from the mountain.

Around 30 tourist tried to save themselves from the strains of lava blazes, by jumping into the sea.

This was one among the most active volcano and had been regularly in a state of eruption since 1932.

Calogero Foti, an emergency worker told the medias that, “Unfortunately one man is dead, there are a few injured, but none seriously”.

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Ursula von der Leyen of Germany – The first women to be nominated to lead EU

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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s defense minister and fellow conservative party member, Ursula von der Leyen has been nominated by the EU leaders for the block’s top jobs.

It is for the first time that a women is being nominated for the EU Commission Chief. Leyen’s name has been suggested after the main front-runners were rejected.

The name of Christine Lagarde, the IMF chef will be proposed by the counsel for leading the European Central Bank (ECB). It is for the first time that a women’s name is proposed for leading the ECB.

Charles Michel will be nominated as the president of the European Council. Josep Borrell Fontelles of Spain will be taking the role of foreign policy chief.

The EU leaders were assigned to select 5 people for the top job’s. The fifth job role – president of the European Parliament is to be chosen on Wednesday.

Mr Tusk said, “We have agreed the whole package before the first session of the European Parliament”. The nominations were “the fruit of a deep Franco-German entente”, said Emmanuel Macron, the French President.

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US tariffs targets Scotch whisky

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The US will be targeting Scotch whisky for imposing tariffs on imported goods. US has raised a threat to impose tariffs on EU imports worth up to $4bn (£3.2bn). The list of goods to which the tariffs are to be imposed are extended by US.

According to USTR (US Trade Representatives), EU goods including Scotch whisky, Olives, Italian cheese and a variety of metals are feared to be added to the category of extended tariffs.

This was “in response to harm caused by EU aircraft subsidies”, said the US Trade Representatives.

Tariffs had been announce for over $11bn of EU goods on April. The current decisions are the after effects of a 15 year old disputes between EU and US at the World Trade Organization.

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The new EU rule insists electric cars to emit voice

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An EU rule that came into effect on Monday insists all the electric cars to emit voice as the silent feature tends to create more chances for accidents.

This leads the new electric vehicles to feature a noise-emitting device. The rule makers are concerned that the low-emission cars and vans are too quiet that they are not audible to the pedestrians and creates accidents.

As per the rule, all the four wheeler electrical vehicles must be installed with a traditional engine-like device. Avas (a car’s acoustic vehicle alert system) should produce sound during reversing or travelling below 12mph (19km/h).

With out this acoustic system installed, no four-wheeled electric vehicle will be approved for road use from 1st of July 2019.

The European Parliament had been facing pressures from unions like European Blind Union since 2013, for making this rule into action. All the private and commercial vehicles will be coming under this new rule.

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Sea-Watch captain arrested at Lampedusa port

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Carola Rackete (31), the captain of a migrant rescue ship has been arrested at the Italian port of Lampedusa. She was arrested after a two-week stand-off with police at sea.

Her vessel named Sea-Watch 3 was carrying dozens of African migrants rescued off the coast of Libya. The vessel, which was banned by the Italian authorities had entered the port late on Friday night.

The media footage and videos showed a very large security presence at the port and police escorting Rackete off the vessel.

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s far-right interior minister is taking a tough line against migrant rescue ships. According to Italian state broadcaster RAI, Rackete was arrested for “resisting a war ship” that would not allow her access to the port.

On Friday, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in the the G20 summit in Japan that several EU countries had agreed to take in the 40 remaining migrants on board the ship.

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Genoa bridge towers demolished in controlled explosion

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The remains of the giant Morandi bridge in the Italian city of Genoa has been demolished in a dramatic controlled explosion. The structure had collapsed almost an year ago and 43 people had been killed.

The bridge has been blown up by the demolition experts. Thousands of people, residing near the bridge has been evacuated before performing the explosion, for safety.

Two large towers consisting of about 4,500 tonnes of concrete and steel had been demolished. The dramatic demolition happened just after 9:30 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. ET). Reports said that a new structure is being planned to be built there.

As this process of demolition produces an enormous dusty atmosphere, water tanks had been placed around the towers for controlling dust. The legs of the bridges were connected with explosives. The explosion occurred within just a few seconds.

The Interior Minister of Italy and Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini reported their presence at the time of explosion. A huge crowd were present who viewed the explosion from a safe distance.

A replacement bridge designed by Renzo Piano has been in construction since 25th June 2019, and is planned to be opened in the 1st half of 2020.

Watch the video here !!

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More than 50 ‘hidden lakes’ discovered under Greenland Ice Sheet

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Scientist have found out about 56 hidden lakes’ discovered under Greenland Ice Sheet. Only 4 lakes had been discovered earlier.

These lakes have been mapped by researchers with the help of aerial imaging tools, lending a deeper understanding to how the world’s icescape may change in the face of climate change.

Reports says that Antarctica has about 470 lakes beneath its ice but this latest UK/US study proves that the northern polar region also has its share. Lake Vostok, the largest down south is 250km long.

The biggest sub-glacial lake in Greenland is only 6km long. These are the bodies of water that form beneath ice masses.

The Greenland Ice Sheet has an area approximately seven times the size of the UK.

Jade Bowling, the lead author from Lancaster University said in a statement, “This study has for the first time allowed us to start to build up a picture of where lakes form under the Greenland Ice Sheet”.

“This is important for determining their influence on the wider subglacial hydrological system and ice-flow dynamics, and improving our understanding of the ice sheet’s basal thermal state”, he added.

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