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96-year-old woman accused of Nazi war crimes is caught after fleeing trial - BBC News - BBC News
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2021-09-30 21:53:17Z
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Nazi death camp secretary, 96, went on the run from court in a taxi - Metro.co.uk
A 96-year-old Nazi has tried to dodge standing trial for being accessory to the murder of more than 11,000 people by fleeing in a taxi.
Irmgard Furchner was a secretary to an SS commander in charge of Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and was due to stand trial on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder.
But just hours before proceedings were due to start today at the state court in Itzehoe, northern Germany, she fled her home in a taxi.
The alarm was raised when she missed the start of legal proceedings, causing the courts to delay the trial while they issued a warrant for her arrest.
Furchner is the first woman in decades to stand trial over crimes connected to the Third Reich.
She had previously ‘announced that she didn’t want to come’ to court, but that alone had not been enough to detain her ahead of the court case, Frederike Milhoffer a court spokesperson said.
And because of her age court officials had not expected her to ‘actively evade the trial’.
However, it didn’t take officials long to track the wanted 96-year-old down and by this afternoon she had been caught.
Prosecutors argue Furchner was part of the apparatus that helped the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp function during the Second World War.
The court said in a statement before the trial she allegedly ‘aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945 in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp commandant’s office’.
Despite being almost 100 years old, she was due to be tried in juvenile court because she was under 21 at the time of the alleged crimes.
Efraim Zuroff, head Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s office in Jerusalem, said ‘if she is healthy enough to flee, she is healthy enough to be incarcerated.’
He added that her flight ‘should also affect the punishment’.
The case against Furchner relies on German legal precedent that anyone who helped Nazi death camps and concentration camps function can be prosecuted as an accessory to the murders committed there, even without evidence of participation in a specific crime.
A defence lawyer told Der Spiegel magazine that the trial would centre on whether the 96-year-old had knowledge of the atrocities that happened at the camp.
‘My client worked in the midst of SS men who were experienced in violence – however, does that mean she shared their state of knowledge? That is not necessarily obvious,’ lawyer Wolf Molkentin said.
According to media reports, Furchner has been questioned as a witness during past Nazi trials where she said Paul Werner Hoppe, the former SS commandant of Stutthof, dictated daily letters and radio messages to her.
But she claimed she was not aware of the killings that occurred at the camp while she worked there.
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2021-09-30 19:12:00Z
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Sarkozy: Ex-French president gets jail sentence over campaign funding - BBC News
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally funding his unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign.
The 66-year-old was found guilty in a Paris court of spending tens of millions of euros more on his campaign than was permitted under the law.
He will not be jailed, however, and can serve his sentence at home with an electronic bracelet, the court ruled.
Mr Sarkozy, who denies any wrongdoing, described the ruling as an "injustice".
He said he would go "right to the end" to seek "truth and justice". His lawyer added that he would appeal the verdict.
This is Mr Sarkozy's second one-year prison term. In March, he became the first former president of France to receive a custodial sentence - for corruption and influence peddling - but remains free pending an appeal of that sentence.
In the latest trial, Mr Sarkozy was accused with 13 other defendants over their role in the so-called "Bygmalion" scandal.
Prosecutors said the former president's UMP party splurged nearly double the €22.5m (£19.4m) cap on lavish campaign rallies and events, then tried to hide the costs by hiring a PR firm called Bygmalion to invoice the party, not the campaign.
On Thursday, the court in Paris ruled that though the former president may not have known the full details of the fraud, he must have seen that limits were breached and did nothing about it.
It is the latest legal challenge for Mr Sarkozy, who served a five-year term as president from 2007.
In 2012, he lost his re-election bid to socialist François Hollande. Since then he has been targeted by several criminal investigations.
Earlier this year he was given a suspended prison sentence for trying to bribe a judge in 2014.
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2021-09-30 19:50:53Z
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Ecuador declares emergency in prisons after 116 inmates killed - Al Jazeera English
Authorities say the deadly riots at the prison in Guayaquil are the worst in the country’s history.
Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system after deadly clashes among gang members in a coastal prison killed at least 116 people and injured 80.
Officials said at least five of the dead were found to have been beheaded in the violence at Litoral penitentiary in Guayaquil on Tuesday, in what authorities say was the worst prison bloodbath ever in the country.
President Guillermo Lasso decreed the state of emergency late on Wednesday. It gives the government powers that include deploying police and soldiers inside prisons.
Speaking at a news conference, Lasso said he could not guarantee that authorities had regained control of the prison.
He called the bloodshed “bad and sad”.
“It is regrettable that the prisons are being turned into territories for power disputes by criminal gangs,” he said, adding that he would act with “absolute firmness” to regain control of the Litoral prison and prevent the violence from spreading to other penitentiaries.
Soldiers guard the Litoral penitentiary after a prison riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador [File: Angel DeJesus/AP Photo]Images circulating on social media showed dozens of bodies in the prison’s pavilions nine and 10 and scenes that looked like battlefields. The fighting involved firearms, knives and bombs, officials said.
Earlier, regional police commander Fausto Buenano had said that bodies were being found in the prison’s pipelines.
Outside the prison morgue, the relatives of inmates wept, with some describing to reporters the cruelty with which their loved ones were killed, decapitated and dismembered.
“In the history of the country, there has not been an incident similar or close to this one,” said Ledy Zuniga, the former president of Ecuador’s National Rehabilitation Council.
Zuniga, who was also the country’s minister of justice in 2016, said she regretted that steps had not been taken to prevent another massacre following deadly prison riots last February.
Gang violence
Officials had earlier said the violence erupted from a dispute between the “Los Lobos” and “Los Choneros” prison gangs.
Colonel Mario Pazmino, the former director of Ecuador’s military intelligence, said the bloody fighting shows that “transnational organised crime has permeated the structure” of Ecuador’s prisons, adding that Mexico’s Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels operate through local gangs.
“They want to sow fear,” he told The Associated Press news agency, urging the government to temporarily cede control of the prisons to the National Police.
“The more radical and violent the way they murder,” the more they achieve their goal of control, he added.
Ecuador’s president said that care points had been set up for relatives of the inmates with food and psychological support.
He added that a $24m programme to address the country’s prisons will be accelerated, starting with investments in infrastructure and technology in the Litoral prison.
Tuesday’s violence is just the most recent incident in what has been a bloody year in the country’s prisons.
Previously, the deadliest day occurred in February, when 79 prisoners died in simultaneous riots in three prisons in the country.
In July, the president had decreed another state of emergency in the prison system following several violent episodes that resulted in more than 100 inmates being killed.
Those deaths occurred in various prisons and not in a single facility like Tuesday’s killings. At least 22 were killed in the Litoral penitentiary.
Ecuador’s prison system has 65 facilities designed for about 30,000 inmates – but the country’s actual prison population sits at 39,000 and the system faces chronic staffing shortages.
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2021-09-30 09:22:47Z
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Former concentration camp secretary arrested after attempting to flee justice - Financial Times
A 96-year-old German woman who was about to go on trial for her role as a secretary in a concentration camp during the second world war was arrested on Thursday after briefly going on the run.
Officials at the court of the north German town of Itzehoe said the woman, identified only as Irmgard F, had taken a taxi from her retirement home north of Hamburg on Thursday and fled “to an unknown destination”. A warrant was issued for her arrest and hours later she was detained.
The woman’s flight “displayed unbelievable contempt for the rule of law and the survivors” of the Holocaust, said Christoph Heubner, deputy executive president of the International Auschwitz Committee.
Prosecutors accuse Irmgard F of being an accessory to the murder of 11,412 people. She worked as a typist in the headquarters of Stutthof concentration camp — not far from the then-German city of Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland — from June 1 1943 until April 1 1945.
About 65,000 people died in the camp and its satellites, and on the death marches carried out towards the end of the war. Prisoners were hanged, tortured and gassed with Zyklon B. Many of them froze or starved or were worked to death.
Media reports said it was alleged that the camp commander, SS-Sturmbannführer Paul-Werner Hoppe, had dictated execution orders to Irmgard F, as well as rotas for the concentration camp guards and lists of prisoners to be deported by train to Auschwitz.
The proceedings against her, which have now been postponed until October 19, are likely to be Germany’s last Nazi trial. Prosecutors are still preparing charges against others accused of involvement in Nazi-era crimes, but most of them are now too old or sick to stand trial.
More than 50 journalists and spectators, 12 representatives of joint plaintiffs and other participants had gathered to attend the first day of Irmgard F’s trial in an industrial building in Itzehoe — the town’s courthouse had insufficient capacity.
The news magazine Der Spiegel reported that the accused, who was aged 18 to 19 when she worked at Stutthof, wrote to the presiding judge Dominik Gross saying she did not want to take part in the trial because of her age and state of health. She also said she did not understand why she should be held to account now, more than 70 years after the war.
However, as the accused, she is required by German law to be continuously present at her trial. An assessment of her capacity to stand trial found that she would be able to attend for one to two hours of proceedings per day.
In her letter to the judge, quoted by Spiegel, Irmgard F denied that correspondence regarding the gassing of prisoners passed through her hands. “I neither saw such orders, nor did Hoppe dictate such letters to me,” she wrote.
She said staff were aware that prisoners were executed, but the killings “did not happen so often that one might have the impression that people were being executed in the camp on a daily basis”.
The proceedings against Irmgard F only became possible after a trailblazing trial in 2011 against John Demjanjuk, a former camp guard, who was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 28,000 people in the Sobibor extermination camp during the war.
The verdict of the Munich court said anyone who participated in “the machinery of extermination” was complicit and should face justice.
The judgment led to a number of prosecutions of former guards, as well as of Oskar Gröning, who had worked as an accountant in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In July last year, Bruno Dey, a 94-year-old who had served as a guard at Stutthof during the war, was given a two-year conditional sentence after he was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 5,230 people.
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2021-09-30 13:30:44Z
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Nicolas Sarkozy: Former French president sentenced to a year of house arrest after illegally financing re-election bid - Sky News
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a year of house arrest after illegally financing his campaign for re-election in 2012.
A court in Paris said Sarkozy will be made to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet.
The 66-year-old, France's president from 2007 to 2012, has vigorously denied wrongdoing and will appeal against the decision, his lawyer said.
Sarkozy was not present in court for the verdict.
He is accused of having spent almost twice the maximum legal amount of €22.5million (£19.4million) on the re-election bid that he lost to Socialist Francois Hollande.
The court stated that Sarkozy "knew" the legal limit was at stake and "voluntarily" failed to supervise additional expenses.
Prosecutors had requested a six-month prison term, as well as a six-month suspended sentence and a fine of €3,750 (£3,238).
Thursday's verdict comes after Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption and influence-peddling in another case on 1 March. He was sentenced to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence in that case but is free pending appeal.
In the campaign financing case, prosecutors concluded that Sarkozy knew weeks before the 2012 election that his expenses - which are strictly limited under French law - were getting close to the legal maximum.
They accused him of ignoring two notes from his accountants warning about the money issue.
Prosecutors argued that Sarkozy was "the only person responsible for his campaign financing" and that he chose to exceed the limit by organising several rallies, some of them very large.
During his hearing, Sarkozy told the court that the extra money did not go into his campaign, but instead helped make other people richer.
He denied any "fraudulent intent". He also said he did not handle the day-to-day organisation because he had a team to do that and therefore could not be blamed for the amount of spending.
Thirteen other people, in addition to the former president, went on trial, including members of his conservative Republicans party, accountants and heads of the communication group in charge of organising the rallies, Bygmalion.
They face charges including forgery, breach of trust, fraud and complicity in illegal campaign financing.
Some have acknowledged wrongdoing and detailed the system of false invoices that aimed to cover up the overspending.
Prosecutors have requested mostly suspended prison sentences, and up to one year in prison for Bygmalion's co-founder.
Sarkozy retired from active politics in 2017, but is still playing a role behind the scenes.
French media have reported that he is involved in the process of choosing a conservative candidate ahead of the country's presidential election next year.
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2021-09-30 12:18:25Z
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Death toll from Ecuador prison riot jumps to 116 - Daily Mail
Death toll from Ecuador's worst ever prison massacre jumps to 116 as police reveal drug gangs fought using guns and GRENADES with at least six people beheaded
- At least 116 people have died and 80 have been injured in Ecuador's worst-ever prison riot, president says
- Fighting broke out between rival drugs gangs on Tuesday morning and was still ongoing Wednesday night
- Gangsters fought with grenades, guns and knives and death toll may rise further, president announced
- He blamed Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel - two of the country's most-notorious - for infiltrating local drugs gangs and sparking the violence
At least 116 people have died in Ecuador's worst-ever prison riot as rival drug gangs fought for two days using guns, grenades and knives, the country's president has revealed.
Six of those killed at Litoral prison, on the outskirts of the port city of Guayaquil, were beheaded while another 80 were injured in clashes which began Tuesday morning and continued overnight Wednesday.
Police are still battling to regain full control over the penitentiary, President Guillermo Lasso said at a press conference at 7pm Wednesday, with some 400 officers in full riot gear deployed into the jail.
Lasso warned that the death toll could keep rising as police retake more of the jail's wings - known as 'pavilions' - while declaring a 60-day state of emergency across the country's entire prison system.
A visibly-emotional Lasso described the riot as 'bad and sad' and blamed the violence on notorious Mexican drugs cartels which he said had infiltrated local outfits. Police commander Fausto Buenaño had said that bodies were being found in the prison´s pipelines.
The fighting is thought to have taken place between Ecuadorian outfit Los Choneros, who are allied to El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel, and the rival Los Tiguerones and Los Lobos gangs, who are allied to the Sinaloa's rivals the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
At least 116 people have been killed and 80 injured in Ecuador's worst-ever prison riot after rival drugs gangs fought for two days over control of Litoral prison, in the city of Guayaquil (pictured, inmates on the roof on Wednesday afternoon)
Police and soldiers were still battling to regain control of the penitentiary overnight Wednesday, the country's president admitted, as he warned the death toll could rise further as officers push deeper into the jail
A 60-day state of emergency has been declared throughout Ecuador's prison system, allowing the government to deploy the military into jails to restore order (pictured, police officers outside the jail on Wednesday night)
Distraught relatives gathered outside the jail overnight, desperate for news of loved-ones locked up inside - as horror stories emerged of people being beheaded within the prison walls
Gangsters fought with guns, grenades and knives during the bloody prison battle, Ecuador's president said, while the local police chief said that bodies had been found in the pipe system
Riot police stand guard outside the prison on Tuesday evening
A shirtless inmate is seen standing on the roof during the riot at Litoral Penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Tuesday
The riot is thought to have been sparked by a birthday party that was thrown for the leader of the Los Choneros gang on September 24. During the party, gang members had boasted that they controlled the jail and taunted their rivals, according to local news site Primacias.
Unwilling to take the provocation laying down, members of the Tiguerones and Lobos gangs planned a revenge attack that they launched on Tuesday morning by crawling through a hole separating the jail wings in which they were housed and into wings holding Choneros members.
Once inside, they began throwing grenades and beheading rival gang members, before the Choneros struck back with gunfire.
Some of the worst violence was concentrated around Pavilions 9 and 10 of the prison, with dozens of bodies found littering the blood-soaked floors.
Outside the prison morgue, the relatives of inmates wept, with some describing to reporters the cruelty with which their loved ones were killed, decapitated and dismembered.
'In the history of the country, there has not been an incident similar or close to this one,' said Ledy Zúñiga, the former president of Ecuador's National Rehabilitation Council.
Zúñiga, who was also the country's minister of justice in 2016, said she regretted that steps had not been taken to prevent another massacre following deadly prison riots last February.
Earlier, officials said the violence erupted from a dispute between the 'Los Lobos' and 'Los Choneros' prison gangs.
Col. Mario Pazmiño, the former director of Ecuador's military intelligence, said the bloody fighting shows that 'transnational organized crime has permeated the structure' of Ecuador's prisons, adding that Mexico's Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels operate through local gangs.
Police officers inside the prison after the riot. It took them more than five hours to gain control of the building with help from the army
A policeman searches the cells at the prison where riots broke out in Guayaquil
Police officers search the cells after the riot
Riot police inside the prison after the chaos was brought under control
A riot policeman clambers over a barbed wire fence outside the prison. It took police and the military more than five hours to regain control of Litoral Penitentiary
'They want to sow fear,' he told The Associated Press on Wednesday, urging the government to temporarily cede control of the prisons to the National Police.
'The more radical and violent the way they murder,' the more they achieve their goal of control, he added.
Ecuador's president said that care points had been set up for relatives of the inmates with food and psychological support. He added that a $24 million program to address the country's prisons will be accelerated, starting with investments in infrastructure and technology in the Litoral prison.
The former director of Ecuador's prison bureau, Fausto Cobo, said that inside penitentiaries authorities face a 'threat with power equal to or greater than the state itself.'
He said that while security forces must enter prisons with shields and unarmed, they are met by inmates with high-caliber weapons.
In July, the president decreed another state of emergency in Ecuador´s prison system following several violent episodes that resulted in more than 100 inmates being killed.
Those deaths occurred in various prisons and not in a single facility like Tuesday's massacre.
Previously, the bloodiest day occurred in February, when 79 prisoners died in simultaneous riots in three prisons in the country.
In July, 22 more prisoners lost their lives in the Litoral penitentiary, while in September a penitentiary center was attacked by drones leaving no fatalities.
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2021-09-30 07:00:29Z
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Kim Jong Un calls to restore cross-border hotlines between North and South Korea - Sky News
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un is looking to restore communication hotlines with Seoul to promote peace.
However, he condemned offers of talks from the US as "cunning ways" to hide its hostility against Pyongyang.
His statement is an apparent effort to drive a wedge between Seoul and Washington as he wants South Korea to help him win relief from crippling US-led economic sanctions and other concessions.
During a speech at his country's parliament on Wednesday, Mr Kim said the restoration of cross-border hotlines - which have been largely dormant for more than a year - would realise the Korean people's wishes for a peace between the two Koreas, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Mr Kim still accused South Korea of being "bent on begging external support and cooperation while clamouring for international cooperation in servitude to the US", rather than committing to resolving the matters independently between the Koreas.
South Korea's Unification Ministry responded that it will prepare for the restoration of the hotlines that it said is needed to discuss and resolve many pending issues.
It said the "stable operation" of the channels is expected because their restoration was directly instructed by Kim Jong Un.
Earlier this month Pyongyang offered conditional talks with Seoul alongside its first missile firings in six months and stepped up criticism of the United States.
On the US, Mr Kim Jong Un dismissed repeated Washington's offers to resume talks without preconditions, calling them an attempt to hide America's "hostile policy" and "military threats" that he said remain unchanged.
The Biden administration "is touting 'diplomatic engagement' and 'dialogue without preconditions' but it is no more than a petty trick for deceiving the international community and hiding its hostile acts and an extension of the hostile policy pursued by the successive US administrations", he said.
He added: "The US remains utterly unchanged in posing military threats and pursuing hostile policy toward (North Korea) but employs more cunning ways and methods in doing so."
The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency closed meeting on Thursday at the request of the US, UK and France on North Korea's recent tests.
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2021-09-30 04:39:13Z
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Ecuador: At least 116 killed and 80 injured in 'worst prison massacre' in country's history - Sky News
At least 116 people have been killed and 80 injured during a battle between gangs in a jail in what has been described as the worst prison massacre in Ecuador's history.
President Guillermo Lasso decreed a state of emergency in the country's prison system, allowing the government to deploy the police and soldiers to jails.
Authorities said Tuesday's violence at the Litoral penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil was caused by gangs linked to international drug cartels fighting for control of the site.
They added it was the worst violence ever seen in Ecuador's prison system, with at least five of those dead found to have been beheaded.
Mr Lasso said that what was happening in the Guayaquil prison was "bad and sad" and he could not guarantee that authorities had regained control.
"It is regrettable that the prisons are being turned into territories for power disputes by criminal gangs," he said.
He added that he would act with "absolute firmness" to regain control of the Litoral prison and prevent the violence from spreading.
Images circulating on social media showed dozens of bodies in the prison's Pavilions 9 and 10 and scenes that looked like battlefields.
The fighting was with firearms, knives and bombs, officials said.
Earlier this year a series of prison riots led to the deaths of at least 79 inmates, including 37 in Guayaquil, 34 in the southern city of Cuenca, and eight in the central city of Latacunga.
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2021-09-30 06:09:16Z
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La Palma volcano: Acid-flecked plumes of steam rise as lava reaches the sea - Sky News
The suspense surrounding the final destination of the lava from La Palma's erupting volcano has been building for days.
People on the islands have been waiting nervously to see when it would reach the sea.
Moving extremely slowly, streams of it have been threatening to pour into the Atlantic Ocean for days.
Finally, at 11pm on Tuesday, they did. Cascading over a cliff face, it looked like a giant molten waterfall.
But the spectacle of this event should not overshadow the fear surrounding it.
The lava is more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the thermal shock that is created when it hits cool sea water is dangerous, releasing plumes of steam that contain hydrochloric acid.
There was real concern that people might breathe it in or get gas in their eyes.
Residents within two miles of the coast were told to stay indoors and use damp cloths to cover any gaps around windows and doors.
But after all the islanders have been through these last few days, one thing has been on their side - the direction of the wind. The steam from lava in the sea has been blowing away from the shore.
I spoke to people in Tazacorte, one of the areas affected. They were going about life as normal, drinking beer outside cafes in the town square and attending mass.
"Truthfully, what hurts us most is the issue of the falling ash rather than the gases," said Anjara Cruz on her way to the supermarket.
"We've been in suspense for 10 days, but the truth is that it was good that the lava went into the sea - we're a little calmer now waiting for the volcano to finish," said another resident named Jordan.
Jordan was on his way to a celebration at the town hall in honour of the patron saint of La Palma, San Miguel.
He was wearing a suit and tie and a gold medallion embossed with the town's coat of arms. It was odd to see him so smartly dressed and seemingly undistracted by the events happening just down the shore.
But it isn't surprising that people in Tazacorte are carrying on as normal. The volcano has been erupting for 10 days and experts are no closer to predicting when it will stop. Those who haven't been evacuated or lost their homes have no other choice than to continue their lives as before.
If the wind changes direction and the toxic gas heads their way then they probably won't need the government to order them to stay home.
The smell of the hydrochloric acid is something they are all on guard for. They are hoping that the sooner the volcano goes quiet, the sooner the lava flows will stop, and then they'll really be free of the threat currently coming from the ocean.
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Life on La Palma continues as lava hits sea - Sky News
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2021-09-29 21:56:31Z
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Toxic gas fears as lava from La Palma volcano reaches ocean - BBC News - BBC News
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2021-09-29 17:00:37Z
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RAW VIDEO: Lava from La Palma volcano enters Atlantic Ocean - Sky News
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2021-09-29 15:41:22Z
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Fumio Kishida wins race to become Japan's next prime minister - BBC News - BBC News
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2021-09-29 14:06:58Z
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North Korea says it fired new 'hypersonic missile' - BBC News
North Korea has claimed that it successfully tested a new hypersonic missile called Hwasong-8 on Tuesday.
State media said the new missile was one of the "five most important" new weapons systems laid out in its five-year military development plan.
They called the missile a "strategic weapon", which usually means it has nuclear capabilities.
Tuesday's launch is another indication of Pyongyang's growing weapons technology amid strict sanctions.
"The development of this weapons system...[has increased] the nation's capabilities for self-defence in every way," North Korean state news outlet KCNA said.
Tuesday's launch also saw North Korea introduce missile fuel ampoule for the first time - described by North Korea analyst Ankit Panda as a "significant milestone".
This is a technology that allows missiles to be pre-fuelled and then sent to the field in canisters. This means it could potentially stay launch-ready for years.
The latest launch also marked the country's third missile test this month. It has already revealed a new type of cruise missile, as a well as a new train-launched ballistic missile system.
Yesterday's launch came as its North Korean envoy Kim Song defended the country's right to develop weapons at the annual UN General Assembly in New York.
Mr Kim said the country was "building up our national defence in order to defend ourselves and reliably safeguard the security and peace of the country".
What is a hypersonic missile?
Hypersonic missiles are much faster and more agile than normal ones, making them much harder for missile defence systems to intercept.
North Korea joins a small pool of countries, including the United States, Russia, China and India, in attempting to develop the weapons. In July Russia announced that it had successfully launched a hypersonic missile which reached a speed of 8659.88km/h (5381mph) from a frigate in the White Sea.
KCNA said the test launch confirmed the "navigational control and stability of the missile".
Mr Panda, a Stanton Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said it was difficult at this point to assess the "precise capabilities" of the missile, but added that it could "presumably present a very different challenge for missile defence from traditional ballistic missiles".
This addition of the missile fuel ampoule means the weapon would be ready to be fired straight away. If it doesn't need to be fuelled out in the field, it means the launch time is much quicker. The quicker launch time also means it's more difficult for other countries to make a pre-emptive strike.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had at an earlier meeting in January declared that scientists had "finished research" into developing hypersonic gliding warheads. Tuesday's test was the first for this new system.
"The push to develop a hypersonic glider isn't all too surprising given that Kim Jong Un had indicated this back in January," said Mr Panda.
"This is, however, a reminder that Mr Kim's missile ambitions are far from having run their course."
However, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said they believed this hypersonic missile was still at an early stage of development and it will take a considerable period of time before it can be deployed in combat. They added that both South Korea and the US are currently capable of detecting and intercepting this missile.
What do we know about North Korea's weapons program?
North Korea's recent tests - this was the third one fired this month alone - indicate that it is ramping up its weapons program.
The US has been calling for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, and Pyongyang's relationship with President Joe Biden's administration has so far been fraught with tension.
Japan and North Korea also have enduring tensions rooted in Japan's 35-year colonisation of Korea (1910-1945), Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear and missile programmes, and the North's past abduction of Japanese citizens.
Despite this, Pyongyang seems determined to prove it will continue to develop new weapons systems, saying they are needed for its own self-defence.
It has also repeatedly accused South Korea of double standards over military activities.
South Korea recently tested its first submarine-launched ballistic missile, which it said was needed as deterrence against North Korea's "provocations".
Last month the UN atomic agency said North Korea appeared to have restarted a reactor which could produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, calling it a "deeply troubling" development.
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2021-09-29 08:21:36Z
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2021-09-29 08:29:13Z
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Japan’s ruling party appoints continuity candidate as next leader - Financial Times
Fumio Kishida will be the next prime minister of Japan after winning a leadership battle in which the ruling Liberal Democratic party staked its future on stability instead of gambling on a new generation of leaders.
The victory in a tightly contested race on Wednesday marks a stunning comeback for the 64-year-old former foreign minister whose political fortunes were crushed following his defeat to Yoshihide Suga in last year’s LDP leadership tussle.
But Kishida’s win is a blow for a younger generation of party members, who had hoped that the leadership contest would herald a generational change and a break from the opaque factional politics that have defined Japanese politics for decades.
The vote on Wednesday dragged into the second round after none of the four contenders managed to clinch a majority in the first round.
Kishida won 256 votes of the 762 ballots cast by MPs and rank-and-file party members, while Taro Kono, the vaccines minister, garnered 255 votes. The early result was a disappointment for Kono, the candidate with the strongest support from the public and the younger generation. He came third in terms of votes from MPs alone.
In the second round, in which MPs dominate the vote, Kishida comfortably beat Kono by clinching 60 per cent of the ballots as senior LDP parliamentarians from powerful factions flocked to his side to ensure continuity and predictability in policy.
With little public support on his side, however, Kishida’s victory was unlikely to ease investor fears that Japan was returning to a chaotic period of rotating premierships following nearly eight years of stability under Shinzo Abe.
Japanese stocks, which jumped to a 30-year high in the days that followed Suga’s resignation, dropped heavily on Wednesday after it became clear that Kishida would be the next prime minister.
Kishida, who is expected to be appointed prime minister on Monday, will not have much time to settle in before a general election that must be held by the end of November.
During his campaign, Kishida promised to shift away from the neoliberal approach of deregulation taken by his predecessors and promised a more equitable distribution of wealth.
But analysts said he was unlikely to veer significantly from the Abenomics programme of aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus in the near-term as the country dealt with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
In early September, Suga abruptly announced he would not seek re-election in the LDP leadership race after his popularity plummeted because of his handling of Covid-19. He served only one year in office.
Since then, vaccination rates have risen and new Covid cases have declined, prompting the government to announce a lifting of a state of emergency across all areas of Japan for the first time since April.
On the foreign policy front, Kishida is expected to continue Japan’s close security alliance with the US while increasing its defence capability and spending to counter a more assertive China.
Traders said that, while the focus of domestic investors would now shift to issues such as the reopening of the economy and stimulus measures, foreign investors who own roughly a third of the Japanese market and represent 60 per cent of daily volumes, had probably favoured the more internationalist Kono.
“The market doesn’t like the result — foreigners do love an English speaker,” said CLSA strategist Nicholas Smith, referring to Kono.
Both the Topix and Nikkei benchmarks had been trading lower during Wednesday, but dived in the final 30 minutes of trading to close 2.1 per cent and 2.2 per cent lower respectively.
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2021-09-29 06:37:42Z
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