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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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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.

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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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Europe is at its peak temperatures in these days. People across Europe including tourist are in search of ways to get rid of the extreme heat waves. The temperature continued to rise on Tuesday.

A highest temperature of 45 Degree Celsius is expected in France on Friday. France had its highest temperature record in August 2003, at 44.1 Celsius. According to meteorologists, this enormous increase in temperature is caused due to the hot air from the Sahara.

Jonny Day from European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) said, “In terms of the time of year and spatial pattern of warmth, the ongoing event in Europe is quite similar to the 2015 European heatwave, which most severely affected southern and central Europe, and which set the all-time temperature records for Germany and Switzerland”.

53 countries had been given Orange alert by National weather agency Meteo-France. This is the second highest alert. The education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer announced that the temperature will remain increasing and hence the exams are postponed from Thursday and Friday.

The authorities had also arranged some “cool places”, that includes air conditioned public places and parks, for the people to relax in this hottest climate. Water is supplied to homeless people by some Paris based charities.

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In an award ceremony at Singapore, the Mirazur restaurant of France was awarded as the world’s No:1 restaurant. It is for the first time that Mirazur’s chef Mauro Colagreco and his dining room is achieving the first place. Previously the restaurant was having the third position.

The competition was organised by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. The restaurant’s ‘salt-crusted beetroot with caviar cream’, is one among the world famous dishes, in which the vegetables are taken from its own garden. The restaurant is run by an Argentine chef.

Argentine chef Mauro Colagreco

The methodology of the awards, which started since 2002 has been questioned by some critics. The list of awards had been prepared on the basis of more than 1,000 culinary experts’s decisions.

Spain’s three restaurants had the top 10 positions. Restaurants of Denmark and Peru had two top 10 entries each.

William Reed Business Media, that published the World’s best 50 restaurants said that “Mirazur provided “the ultimate restaurant experience”.

They added that they are highly impressed by the “unrivalled views of the French Riviera, three levels of cascading vegetable gardens churning out the sweetest produce and a team of outrageously talented cooks and front-of-house staff”.

Reuters reports that Argentine chef Mauro Colagreco said that he felt like he “was in the sky”.

Check out the list of the top 10 restaurants:

  1. Mirazur, Menton – France
  2. Noma, Copenhagen -Denmark
  3. Asador Etxebarri, Axpe -Spain
  4. Gaggan, Bangkok -Thailand
  5. Geranium, Copenhagen -Denmark
  6. Central, Lima -Peru
  7. Mugaritz, San Sebastián -Spain
  8. Arpège, Paris -France
  9. Disfrutar, Barcelona -Spain
  10. Maido, Lima -Peru

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AKP of Turkey has lost its control over Istanbul, after the retake of the Mayoral elections.

Ekrem Imamoglu, the candidate of the major opposition party has a leading vote of 775,000, after the counting of almost all the ballots. This is a huge increased margin on compared to the the earlier election.

After the AKP of Turkey alleged irregularities, the victory in March was declined. Ex-PM Binali Yildirim, AKP candidate has conceded. The winner has been congratulated by President Recep Tayyip.

In his Twitter, he said, “I congratulate Ekrem Imamoglu who has won the election based on preliminary results”.

To his supporters, Imamoglu said, “In this city today, you have fixed democracy. Thank you Istanbul.” “We will build democracy in this city, we will build justice. In this beautiful city, I promise, we will build the future”, he added.

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In the annual gay pride parade event, thousands, including Western diplomats have marched through the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The Gay Pride parade is marked as the largest ever gay pride that the country has seen.

A large police contingent and National Guard members were deployed by the government, for protection. The parade was also marked as the most peaceful gay pride parade in the country’s history till now. Despite a few small disputes, there occurred only nine arrests in the parade.

The participants in the parade dressed in colorful clothing, waved rainbow flags and held up banners reading “Diversity is beautiful” and “Human rights = happy country.”

Director of the NGO KyivPride, Ruslana Panukhnyk told the Agence France-Presse news agency, “We go out to show that there are a lot of us and we have a lot of support”.

This was the first march after the election of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Zelenskiy’s office, on Monday, urged the police to preserve the safety of protesters and pointed out that the country’s constitution guarantees equality and freedom.

Judith Gough, the British Ambassador to Ukraine wrote on his Twitter, “Thank you to the police and other law enforcement agencies for protecting today’s Pride event”.

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‘Wolf Pack’ . 5 men are sentenced to prison for 15 years, by the Supreme Court of Spain, for raping an 18-year-old woman.

The attack on the teenage woman that shocked Spain was earlier explained as a sexual abuse alone. But, the court finds that it was a case of rape.

Five men known as ‘Wolf Pack’ has been convicted for the rape. They were originally given nine years in jail when they were cleared of rape. But as a result of the appeal that was given to the Supreme court by the prosecutors, the judges increased their sentences to 15 years.

The incident happened in 2016, during the countries famous bulls festival in Pamplona. The men, known as La Manada,” or “Wolf Pack” (in a WhatsApp text chain) dragged the teen to the lobby of an apartment building. The convicts are José Ángel Prenda Martínez, Ángel Boza, Antonio Manuel Guerrero Escudero, Alfonso Jesús Cabezuelo Entrena and Jesús Escudero Domínguez.

She was raped by these men and some among them had filmed it. The victim’s phone was also stolen. The men had sent the video to their WhatsApp group. This video was the key point to the question that whether the victim was sexually abused or rapped.

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After similar happenings of violent clashes in the country, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has temporarily banned Russian airlines from flying to Georgia.

The decree that is due to be implemented from 8th of July has been signed by Putin on Friday. About 240 people had been hurt a day earlier in protests that were ignited by the appearance of a Russian MP in Georgia’s parliament.

After a war over the region of South Ossetia, which happened before 11 years, the problems between the two countries are on its higher side.

All tours to neighbouring Georgia will also be suspended as Moscow also decides to back up this decision of PM.

A gathering of MPs from Orthodox Christian nations had been addressed by Sergei Gavrilov, the Russian MP who sparked the fury on Thursday. But protesters rushed to the parliament in the capital, Tbilisi, and police had to use used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them.

Irakli Kobakhidze, the speaker of Georgia’s parliament has given his resignation following these issues.

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After the announcement of its Cryptocurrency Libra, Facebook is being accused of stealing the logo from online bank – Current. The Fintech CEO claims that Facebook has ‘ripped off’ his bank start-up’s logo for Libra.

According to CEO Stuart Sopp, Facebook has used the same San Francisco-based design firm for its cryptocurrency. The logos are almost looking similar at the first view.

Sopp told media, “This is a funny way to try and create trust in a new global financial system – by ripping off another fintech firm”. The same San Francisco-based design firm named ‘Character’ had previously created the logo of Current in 2016.

“Facebook has all the money and resources in the world. If they truly wanted to make banking more inclusive and fair, they should’ve come up with their own ideas and branding, like we have”, said Sopp in an interview with cnbc.

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