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Rabu, 02 Juni 2021

Bride ‘dies on her wedding day so groom ties the knot with her younger sister as victim lay dead in next r... - The Sun

A BRIDE in India died on her wedding day so her husband-to-be married her younger SISTER instead, according to reports.

The body of the woman, named Surabhi, lay in a room next door as the marriage reportedly took place moments later in Etawah city, Uttar Pradesh.

Groom Manjesh Kumar is pictured with his bride, Surbhi, before she dropped dead. Both families then agreed Manjesh should marry Surbhi's sister

The sisters are pictured together on the day before the sudden death of Surbhi, with Nisha circled

Surbhi suffered a heart attack at the ceremony after exchanging garlands with husband-to-be Manjesh Kumar as part of Hindu wedding tradition.

A doctor from the local village was called to the scene but was unable to save her.

Surbhi's brother Saurabh said: “It's hard to believe a dead body was in the other room — and a bride was being prepared in the next one.”

Speaking to news agency IANS, he said:”Both the families sat together and someone suggested that my younger sister Nisha should be married to the groom.

“The families discussed the matter and both agreed.”

The last rites of the bride were performed after the marriage.

It is thought the Surbhi's family would likely have been expecting a dowry.

Her mother, Guddi Devi, made an emotional appeal for the wedding to go ahead, it is reported.

The groom's uncle Ajab Singh said the marriage ceremony was conducted according to Hindu customs.

"Everything was happening quite nicely.

"She fainted moments before taking sath pehre (seven rounds around the fire)," Ajab stated.

The bride's uncle Mahesh Chandra said:"My daughter was happy on her marriage day. We're doomed.”

The last rites of the bride were performed after the marriage.Credit: Getty

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Bride ‘dies on her wedding day so groom ties the knot with her younger sister as victim lay dead in next r... - The Sun

A BRIDE in India died during her wedding so her husband-to-be wed her younger sister instead, according to reports.

The body of a woman named Surabhi lay in a room next door as the marriage reportedly took place in Uttar Pradesh.

The last rites of the bride were performed after the marriage.

The bride, named as Surbhi, suffered a heart attack at the ceremony in Etawah city, Uttar Pradesh, after exchanging garlands with husband-to-be Manjesh Kumar as part of Hindu wedding tradition.

A doctor from the local village was called to the scene but was unable to save her.

Surbhi's brother Saurabh said: “It's hard to believe a dead body was in the other room — and a bride was being prepared in the next one.”

Speaking to news agency IANS,he said:”Both the families sat together and someone suggested that my younger sister Nisha should be married to the groom.

“The families discussed the matter and both agreed.”

It is thought the bride's family would likely have been expecting a dowry.

The bride's mother, Guddi Devi, made an emotional appeal for the wedding to go ahead.

The groom's uncle Ajab Singh said that the marriage ceremony was being conducted according to Hindu customs.

"Everything was happening quite nicely. She fainted moments before taking sath pehre (seven rounds around the fire)," Ajab stated.

The bride's uncle Mahesh Chandra said:"My daughter was happy on her marriage day. We're doomed.”

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Covid-19: Lack of queue jumping helped vaccine drive, says Matt Hancock - BBC News

Britain's love of queuing helped the UK coronavirus vaccine rollout, the health secretary has said, as jabs were given "according to need, not ability to pay".

Matt Hancock said there had been no "special treatment, no queue-jumping" for politicians, footballers, or royalty, which helped show the system was "fair".

He also confirmed that three in four UK adults have now had their first jab.

But concerns remain over rising cases.

Reflecting on the UK's vaccine rollout at a conference in Oxford, the health secretary said it was important for the public to know people couldn't "buy their way up the queue".

"Prince William, our future king, waited in that same line for his jab a couple of weeks after me - no special treatment, no queue-jumping," he said.

Mr Hancock also announced the government was in talks with AstraZeneca to secure a future version of its jab adapted to better tackle the Beta variant first identified in South Africa.

Any altered vaccine would need to be approved by the medicines regulator, AstraZeneca said.

The health secretary admitted "a few eyebrows were raised" after he revealed the Hollywood film Contagion helped him shape the UK vaccine programme.

"When I watched that film, a penny did drop for me... that the power of the vaccine would be so great that we would have to think very hard about who to protect and in what order," he said.

Famous faces endorsing the vaccines, including the Queen and England's deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, also helped encourage take-up, Mr Hancock said.

He added that while he was aware "this isn't a vaccine world cup", confidence in Covid vaccines has been "sky high" in the UK: "We continue to top the list of places where people are willing to take, or have taken, a Covid vaccine - around nine in 10 of us."

Analysis box by Robert Cuffe, Head of statistics

Unfortunately, even with three quarters of adults having received at least one dose, there's still a way to go.

The first dose of the vaccine gives reduced protection against what will soon be the main type of coronavirus in the UK.

That's the variant first identified in India - now known as either B.1.617.2 or Delta.

There may be a small proportion of elderly and vulnerable people who are not vaccinated or who don't get full protection.

But this is a large country and that's still a large number of elderly or vulnerable people.

If this new strain of the virus truly is as infectious as some estimates suggest, it will find those people and we could see large numbers going into hospital.

Every person fully vaccinated makes it harder for the virus to spread and find them.

But we don't know exactly how infectious it is. That's the key job of the next few weeks - finding out whether the virus we'll be facing in the summer could cause a big third wave or, hopefully, just a ripple.

Meanwhile, speculation continues over whether the government will ease all remaining restrictions in England on 21 June.

Asked whether mask wearing and work-from-home guidance may continue past that point, Mr Hancock said there was nothing in the data to suggest the UK was "definitively off track".

A graphic showing cases over time, rising slowly most recently

The decision on whether to ease the rules fully will depend on how successfully Covid vaccines sever the link between cases and deaths, Mr Hancock said.

Earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: "I'm sorry that's frustrating for people, I know that people want a clear answer about the way ahead for 21 June but at the moment we have just got to wait a little bit longer."

The number of new cases reported daily continues to rise, with 4,330 infections reported on Wednesday. Another 12 deaths within 28 days of a positive test have also been reported.

The proportion of deaths involving coronavirus in England and Wales is at its lowest level for more than eight months, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

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2021-06-02 16:50:06Z
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Sri Lanka faces environmental disaster as chemical-laden cargo ship sinks - Sky News

A fire-stricken cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals has sunk off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster.

Singapore registered MV X-Press Pearl was anchored and waiting to enter the port in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, when a fire broke out on 20 May.

The ship was carrying 1,486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid and other chemicals and cosmetics.

Authorities have been tackling the blaze for over two weeks and were towing the ship into deep water when it began sinking early on Wednesday, a day after the blaze was extinguished.

A salvage crew tried to tow it to deeper water away from the coast, but the attempt was abandoned after several hours.

X-Press Feeders, operators of the container ship, said salvage experts were able to board the vessel and attach a tow line, but "efforts to move the ship to deeper waters have failed".

"The ship's aft portion is now touching bottom at a depth of 21 metres (70 feet)," while the forward area remains afloat with smoke coming out of two cargo holds, the company said in a statement.

The fire and subsequent submergence of the ship would cause severe pollution, navy spokesperson Indika de Silva said.

The navy is preparing to deal with an oil spill after the ship sank, Silva added.

The government banned fishing along an 80km (50 miles) stretch of coastline, affecting 5,600 fishing boats, while hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to clean beaches.

"The ship has dealt a death blow to our lives," said Joshua Anthony, head of a region fishing union.

"We can't go into the sea which means we can't make a living."

The navy believes the fire was caused by the chemicals being transported on the vessel.

Most of the ship's cargo was destroyed in the fire, polluting surrounding waters and a long stretch of the island country's beaches.

Plastic pellets from the ship have also washed up on the coastline.

The ship had left the port of Hazira, India on 15 May and was on its way to Singapore via Colombo.

Sri Lankan police are probing the fire and a court in Colombo on Tuesday imposed a travel ban on the captain, the engineer and the assistant engineer from leaving the country.

The government has said it will take legal action against the owners of the ship to claim compensation.

The vessel's 25-member crew, including nationals from the Philippines, China, India and Russian, were evacuated last week after an explosion.

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2021-06-02 15:00:00Z
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Disaster feared as fire-hit cargo ship sinks off Sri Lanka coast - Al Jazeera English

Ship carrying tonnes of chemicals is sinking, government and navy say, in one of the island nation’s worst-ever marine disasters.

A cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals is sinking off Sri Lanka’s west coast, the country’s government and navy said, in one of Sri Lanka’s worst-ever marine disasters.

Salvage experts were attempting to tow the fire-stricken container ship that had been loaded with chemicals into the deep sea as the vessel started to sink off Sri Lanka’s main port, officials said on Wednesday.

The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, was carrying 1,486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, along with other chemicals and cosmetics that were loaded at the port of Hazira, India, on May 15.

The ship was anchored off the island’s west coast when a fire erupted on May 20, when the ship was anchored about 9.5 nautical miles (18 km) northwest of Colombo and waiting to enter the port.

Authorities have been battling the blaze since then, as flaming containers laden with chemicals have fallen from the ship’s deck, the navy said last month.

Water submerged the MV X-Press Pearl’s quarterdeck on Wednesday, a day after firefighters extinguished the blaze burning for 12 days.

Situation Update: Latest videos of the "X-PRESS PEARL" vessel. Footage was captured by the SLAF Bell 212 a short while ago (02 June 2021).#MVXPressPearl pic.twitter.com/4GznxCTuXy

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Sri Lankan navy spokesman Captain Indika de Silva told Al Jazeera the rear part of the ship has sunk and that they have stopped its towing.

“The ship is resting in the bottom of the seabed now. There is no more towing. We have stopped trying to tow it out of the Sri Lankan waters,” he said.

“Now our concern is about any oil spill. We are closely monitoring this and so far we have not detected any spill. It will be devastating if that happens, but we are taking all precautions.”

The navy believes the blaze was caused by the chemicals being transported on the Singapore-flagged vessel.

Sri Lankan police are probing the fire and a court in Colombo on Tuesday imposed a travel ban on the captain, the engineer and the assistant engineer from leaving the country.

The vessel’s 25-member crew was evacuated last week after an explosion. They include Philippine, Chinese, Indian and Russian nationals.

The blaze destroyed most of the ship’s cargo and polluted surrounding waters and a long stretch of the island nation’s famed beaches.

Tonnes of plastic pellets have swamped the island’s coastline and rich fishing grounds, creating one of the biggest environmental crises in decades, experts say.

Sri Lanka’s Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) chairman Dharshani Lahandapura called it a “man-made disaster”.

“This is an unfortunate incident for Sri Lanka. It has negatively impacted the country in many ways. What we are doing right now is minimising the negative impact,” he told Al Jazeera.

Lahandapura said most chemicals on the were “highly reactive” and emitted through fumes and gases. “Some even dissolved in sea water,” he said. “There were no signs of an oil spill.”

Meanwhile, the government has banned fishing along an 80km (50 miles) stretch of the coastline, affecting 5,600 fishing boats, while hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to clean the beach.

Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez on Tuesday said the “beaches themselves are a sorry sight to behold”.

“Walking along some of these beaches in this vast stretch that has been affected, all you see is a blanket of white and black – they are the microplastic pellets mixed with a whole load of burnt, charred remains and debris material for dozens of kilometres as far as the eye can see,” she said.

Aanya Wipulasena contributed to this report from Colombo, Sri Lanka

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2021-06-02 09:31:01Z
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Californian teenager fights off bear attacking her dogs in garden - Sky News

A Californian teenager fought off a bear that was in her garden and attacking her dogs.

Home security footage captured the American black bear and its two cubs walking on a wall outside 17-year-old Hailey Morinico's home in Bradbury and her dogs running at them and barking.

The bear cubs retreated while their mother swiped at the pets and then picked up a small dog, before Ms Morinico ran at it and pushed it off the wall.

Speaking to NBC News, Ms Morinico said: "I was like 'Oh my god, there's a bear and it is taking my dog. It is lifting her up and off the ground'.

"The dog that the bear grabbed, she's the baby. I have to protect the baby."

The teenager said she sprained her finger in the incident but escaped from serious harm.

Black bears are common in Bradbury, a city that borders the Angels National Forest and San Gabriel Mountains.

According to Rebecca Barboza, a wildlife biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the bear was an adult, weighing in at an estimated 150 pounds (68kg).

Ms Barboza said the animals are common in urban areas near their natural habitats and "use it as their home range".

She added that from the video it appears the dogs provoked the encounter and no action will be taken against the bear.

"The bear was protecting her cubs, she was reacting to protect her cubs and the dogs of course were reacting to protect their territory," Ms Barboza told NBC News.

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2021-06-02 09:45:25Z
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EU army's secret weapon! Joe Biden urged to wade in and approve bloc's military - Daily Express

Macron criticised over push for EU army by Italian MEP

The US President was told by the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank with close ties to his administration, that it was time America allowed the EU to become a global military power. In a push for French President Emmanuel Macron's dream of a united EU army, the think tank published a report urging President Biden to encourage the EU to develop hard-power military capabilities.

For the past few decades, US presidents have been staunchly opposed to EU defence integration under the facade of preventing duplication of NATO.

But writing in the report, Max Bergmann, James Lamond and Siena Cicarelli said it was time for the US to ensure Europe no longer depends on American defence powers.

They wrote: “Europe’s dependence on the United States for its security means that the U.S. possesses a de facto veto on the direction of European defence.

“Since the 1990s, the United States has typically used its effective veto power to block the defence ambitions of the European Union.

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Joe Biden has been urged to facilitate the creation of an EU Army (Image: GETTY)

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Emmanuel Macron has longed pushed for an EU Army (Image: GETTY)

“This has frequently resulted in an absurd situation where Washington loudly insists Europe do more on defence but then strongly objects when Europe’s political union — the European Union — tries to answer the call."

They added: “This policy approach has been a grand strategic error — one that has weakened NATO militarily, strained the transatlantic alliance, and contributed to the relative decline in Europe’s global clout.”

The call is sure to attract some criticism from NATO commanders who have longed believed EU countries lack the ability to defend themselves.

The authors of the reports said: “Today, much of Europe’s military hardware is in a shocking state of disrepair.

“European forces aren’t ready to fight with the equipment they have, and the equipment they have isn’t good enough.”

But they claimed the US was also to blame for such a state of the EU's military forces.

They said: “This is a European failure.

“But Washington has played a critical, if underappreciated, role in precipitating this failure.”

They added: “For more than two decades, both Republican and Democratic administrations have vigorously pressed European capitals to bolster their national forces in support of NATO.

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“But this focus on national defence spending levels, embodied by the 2014 commitment by NATO members to spend two percent of their GDP on defence, simply hasn’t worked. European defence today remains anaemic, despite noticeable increases in spending.”

Retired General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s former supreme allied commander for Europe, said he was opposed to an EU army that could be seen as a duplication of NATO.

He said: “If these nations that are also in NATO want to spend on their defense, I see that as a good thing, because anything that will benefit the EU will also benefit NATO.

“But there is a huge caveat and that is something that we have been saying for a long time, everyone from the secretary-general to everyone else: We should not be investing in duplicative capabilities.

“There are far too many readiness needs, capability needs and capacity needs that should be met first.

“What we don’t need to do is invest money in redundant duplicative capabilities.”

Mr Bergmann, the lead author of the report, said US politicians and commanders should be open to adopting a new approach.

He said: “We need to get out of the mindset that the EU will be a complication for us.

“There is a sort of kneejerk negativity about the EU’s potential involvement, instead of viewing it in a potentially positive way.

“The waste and duplication is in the current system, where everyone is having to have their own full spectrum militaries. That’s probably not the best use of militaries for the EU or NATO.

“Too often the opposition to EU defence is very theoretical and not based on the practicalities of the EU getting involved in defence in a realistic way.

“It would be one thing if you could make the case that NATO as currently structured is totally working and European defence is taken care of, but it’s not.

"Just pushing and yelling at member states to spend more on defence … that’s just not a recipe for a strong Europe or a successful transatlantic alliance.”

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2021-06-02 07:59:24Z
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