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Overnight News Digest: Earthquake death toll could increase 8 fold according to WHO [1]

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Date: 2023-02-06

Ohio officials plan 'controlled release' of chemicals from derailed train

BBC

People living near the site of a derailed train in north-eastern Ohio have been ordered to evacuate as officials prepare a "controlled release" of toxic chemicals. Governor Mike DeWine said the release of vinyl chloride would happen at 15:30 (20:30G) on Monday. It is an effort to reduce the risk of a potentially deadly explosion. An evacuation order is in place for anyone within a one-mile (1.6km) radius of the site in East Palestine. The train, which derailed on Friday, was carrying hazardous material. The derailment sparked a large fire which is still burning. "There is a high probability of a toxic gas release," the local sheriff earlier warned

NPR

Given the hullabaloo over the Chinese surveillance balloon, you'd think something like this never happened before. But it has. At least four other times in recent years. According to U.S. officials, Chinese balloons crossed over the U.S. at least three times during the Trump administration and at least one other time earlier in the Biden administration.However, the U.S. was not aware of the Chinese incursions at the time, according to Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, the head of NORAD and the officer responsible for domestic air threats.

x U.S. officials say that efforts ordered by President Joe Biden to strengthen defenses against Chinese espionage helped identify last week’s spy balloon — and determine that similar flights were conducted at multiple points during the Trump administration. https://t.co/sdXlOcVbDV — The Associated Press (@AP) February 6, 2023

NPR

Monday's earthquake all but destroyed a 2,000-year-old castle in southeastern Turkey, according to state and local reports. Gaziantep Castle — located in the heart of the city closest to the quake's epicenter — began as an observation point during the Hittite Empire, was fortified during the Roman Empire and expanded under Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century.

Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has charged a neo-Nazi leader and his associate with plotting to attack Baltimore's power grid, a plan the FBI thwarted with the help of a confidential informant. Brandon Russell, of Orlando, Florida and Sarah Clendaniel from Maryland, were arrested last week, officials said in a briefing on Monday, and they have been charged with conspiring to damage an energy facility.

Reuters

NEW DELHI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The crisis engulfing the Adani Group intensified on Monday as hundreds of members of India's opposition parties took to the streets to press for a probe into allegations by a U.S. short-seller against the conglomerate which triggered its market rout. Shares in billionaire Gautam Adani's companies have been in free-fall since a Jan. 24 critical report by Hindenberg Research, with group cumulative market losses now topping $110 billion, sparking fears of wider financial contagion.

Al Jazeera

Beijing has confirmed that a balloon spotted flying over Latin America is Chinese, two days after the United States shot down a similar device that American officials described as a spy balloon. China has expressed fury at the US decision to shoot down the device that it insisted was an unmanned weather surveillance aircraft that had veered off course last week.

Al Jazeera

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Israeli forces have shot dead at least five Palestinian men during a raid on Jericho in the eastern occupied West Bank. The large-scale raid took place in the early hours of Monday in the Aqabet Jabr refugee camp – which has been under an Israeli siege, as described by Palestinians, for more than a week – and continued until after dawn.

Deutsche Welle

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he fears the world was headed for a "wider war" as the potential of escalation of the Ukraine war continues. "We have started 2023 staring down the barrel of a confluence of challenges unlike any in our lifetimes," Guterres told diplomats in New York. "I fear the world is not sleepwalking into a wider war. I fear it is doing so with eyes open," the UN chief said. Guterres laid out his priorities for the year in a speech to the UN General Assembly, calling upon diplomats from around the world to "wake up" and "get to work."

Deutsche Welle

"Niki …Nanas…who?," I'd initially asked when assigned this story. "Her name may not ring a bell now but I'm sure you know her! She's the one who created those colorful sculptures of big, curvy women," my editor replied. And true enough, I knew these figures that have been published in magazines and displayed in museum gift shops for decades: The voluptuous — often pregnant — female figures with plump breasts, large buttocks and small heads, painted in vivid colors, and captured in playful, joyful or simply triumphant poses. To me, they underscore one thing: That a woman's body — especially one that does not subscribe to societal, oftentimes patriarchal, standards of form and function — is a work of art. Known as the "Nanas" — French slang for "bold, young chicks" — the figures are the trademark of the late French-American-Swiss artist, sculptor and visionary, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002).

The Guardian UK

EU and UK negotiators have made a breakthrough in reducing checks on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as part of efforts to resolve the long-running dispute over the Northern Irish protocol. A senior EU official confirmed to the Guardian that an agreement on food and animal health checks was “close to being done” as part of a deal that would create red and green lanes at Northern Irish ports to differentiate between goods staying in the region and those moving south to the EU’s single market. Goods from Great Britain destined to stay in Northern Ireland would go through a green lane with lighter checks, although the precise nature of customs paperwork, and food and animal health checks remains unclear.

The Guardian US

An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home only to be found breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been taken, authorities said. It was the second time in about a month something of the sort has happened in the US, according to officials. The woman in the more recent case was at Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing Center at Long Island’s Port Jefferson at 11.15am Saturday when she was pronounced dead, the local county police said.

The Guardian UK

A health union leader has described Rishi Sunak as deluded for suggesting NHS staff should abandon their campaign to secure a bigger pay rise this year. The GMB’s national secretary, Rachel Harrison, made the remark in response to Downing Street’s insistence that it would not talk about improving the £1,400 pay award for frontline personnel for 2022/23 even though it has triggered the wave of NHS strikes. The spat blew up on Monday, the day tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff staged an unprecedented joint stoppage in the biggest strike in NHS history

The Guardian UK

Ed. note: Apparently some Torry MPs haven’t had enough Brexit.

Conservative MPs are about to make a renewed push for the UK to leave the European convention on human rights (ECHR), amid reports that Rishi Sunak is considering the move in order to allow a harsh crackdown on migration. The proposals were backed by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, during her leadership campaign over the summer. The Guardian has been told the policy is being pushed by a number of ministers, several of whom said they would like to see it form part of the Tory manifesto if it can’t be enacted before the next election.

The Guardian Australia

The number of electric vehicles on Australian roads has almost doubled over the past year, growing from 44,000 at the beginning of 2022 to more than 83,000, according to research based on sales data released in the Electric Vehicle Council’s yearly recap. That figure is expected to top 100,000 in the coming months. Of the 83,000 in circulation, 79% are battery electric vehicles while 21% are plug-in hybrids.

x Who’s read ANY of these books? pic.twitter.com/lep8rSDtP4 — Just saying (@kangaroos991) February 6, 2023

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