Europe is surrounded by oceans and seas, which have shaped it climate, economy, and society. The sea has provided coastal jobs, trade, and fresh food. Unfortunately the ocean is undergoing pressure from climate change and human activities. Studies have shown that the ecosystems in the European seas are changing drastically. Agricultural fertilizers are draining into the oceans and many contain nutrients that help algae bloom. Algae takes away the oxygen levels in the oceans and seas which causes aquatic life to suffocate.
Austria's People Party is led by Sebastian Kurz. Sebastian is projected to win the country's general election. If Sebastian wins he will be the youngest national leader. Sebastian is 31 years old. He is often compared to the young leaders of Canada and France. His nickname is "Wunderwuzzi" which means someone who can walk on water.
Date: October 15, 2017 Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41627586
Rescue ship brings 606 migrants to Italy. A rescue ship docked in Sicily had collected 606 migrants of the Lybian coast. The people are from 20 countries from Africa and the Middle East. The irregular flow of migrants is much less than 2016. They will be taken in and screened very carefully to decide who can legitimately claim asylum.
Firefighters are still battling fires that happened after the hot and dry summer. The conditions got worse by Hurricane Ophelia as it approached the wester coast of Europe spreading flames . More than 50 people have been injured in Portugal, 15 are in critical condition. 2 others were hurt in Spain in a car that was burned on the side of the road. With the fire theres has been at least a dozen roads are closed. Many houses are also without water. Schools and public services are also closed.
Wildfires in Portugal and Spain have killed at least 31 people and injured at least 50 more. Of the original 145 wildfire zones, dozens are still not contained. Conditions could be even worsened by Hurricane Ophelia that is approaching Europe's western coast. The winds could spread the fires quicker.
France's gender equality minister, Marlène Schiappa, has set out plans for a new law cracking down on sexual violence and/or harassment. Her ideas include on-the-spot fines for catcalling and street harassment. In an interview, Marlène discussed what constitutes harassment, and gave an example of a man following a woman for several blocks, or "asking for your number 17 times".
In Ireland there is a hurricane that is hitting them the hurricane is called Ophelia. One women and one man died from a tree hitting there car. A third man died from a chainsaw accident trying to remove a tree. The Northern Ireland Electricity company announced that 15,000 people should be ready to be with no power on Monday night in the province. 360,000 people have lost power from this storm so far. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41627442
A 53 year old woman named Daphne Caruana Galizia has recently died. She was a famous blogger in Malta, Europe. She was killed while driving her car. She was leaving her home and the car exploded from a bomb. Her son heard the noise, instantly rushing outside. She had accused the island's government of corruption. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41637730
France's gender equality minister has set out plans for a new law cracking down on sexual violence and harassment. As well as cracking down on harassment, the new legislation will also give people who experienced sexual assault as a child more time to make a police complaint, and toughen laws on sex with minors. The scandal about Harvey Weinstein has prompted women and men around the world to share their own experiences of sexual harassment on social media. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41637723
A fifty three year old women has recently passed away. Her name was Daphne Caruana Galizia and she was famous for her blogging expertise. While driving her car, shortly after leaving home, she was killed. The murder was supposedly a car bomb attack. Sadly, one of her sons heard the sound and ran outside.
Wild fires in Portugal and Spain have killed near a dozen of people. The fire comes as they had a very dry summer. Hurricane Ophelia made the conditions of the wildfire even worse. The winds from the hurricane helped the fire spread which is not good because it is causing people to die. It was supposed to rain on Monday. Many people don't have water either because the smoke has damaged water pipes along with many other things. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41634125
A cyclone is creating major damage and making a rising death toll, this time across the pond in a region that rarely gets any storms. This disaster is known as Hurricane Ophelia. It is a tropical cyclone and is creating especially brutal months for climate and weather related disasters around the world. In the United States, the four major hurricanes, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate threatened the East Coast. While all this is happening, wildfires have reached large areas of forest and shrub land in the West. It is one of Europe’s worst fire seasons. Ophelia is known so greatly because of its location and route as the farthest eastern storm of its strength that has ever formed.
In North Portugal there are nearly 145 wildfires currently burning. This has resulted in 31 deaths and that total is currently on the rise. The wildfire started after a very hot and dry summer which is now causing many thousands of firefighters to battle the flames. The oncoming hurricane is not helping the situations due to the high winds that it is producing, but a rainfall is projected for Monday. Many people are currently missing in Spain and Portugal including many young children and babies.
Ireland Is on lockdown after Hurricane Ophelia. Hurricane Ophelia hit Irelands west coast as a post tropical storm on Monday. Ireland had bad flooding, major winds, heavy winds. The Hurricane was a category 3. Hurricane Ophelia had strong winds up to 109 miles per hour. Three people died in Hurricane Ophelia. Over 360,000 homes and businesses were without power In the southeast region of Ireland.
Catalonia, a region of Spain, held a vote for independence. Increasing calls for independence are coming from a group of people called separatists, who want to make Catalonia into a separate country. Much of Spain's income comes from this region, and previously they mostly managed themselves. Recently however the Spanish gov. had been regulating a little more, and because of this they have been considering independence. Reportedly the vote was yes to independence, and a declaration of independence was signed. Unrest has been growing as well, as 2 top separatist leaders have been arrested by the Spanish gov. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41646142
Several people killed as storm Ophelia slams Ireland. A minister in Ireland encouraged all people to stay indoors until the storm passed. Ten thousand homes went without power. The military was asked to stand back. The storm was called a post-tropical cyclone.
More than 36 people have died after hundreds of wildfires spread across central and northern areas on Sunday and Monday. The fires were supposedly started by dry conditions and fanned by strong Atlantic winds from Hurricane Ophelia. This is said to be the largest wave of fires in there country since 2006.
After Daphne Galizia, 53, left her home Monday, she was killed in an explosion. She was famous for her blog full of accusations against politicians. Her son, Mathew, believes that her death was not an accident, that she was assassinated for her beliefs and blog posts. He points out that there is no point in killing a journalist unless they're close to proving a crucial point. The prime minister, Joseph Muscat, saw that it was an attack on the country's freedom of expression. They were promised a tough and thorough investigation. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41648940
President Donald Trump reaffirmed the United States commitment to Greece’s economic recovery at the White House on Tuesday, a meeting that allowed the country’s prime minister to brush aside rough comments he made about Trump during the 2016 campaign. Trump cited a potential $2.4 billion (£1.8bn) sale of aircraft to Greece to upgrade its F-16 fighters, which he said would generate thousands of US jobs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-meets-with-greek-prime-minister-at-the-white-house/2017/10/17/3600568a-b356-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html?utm_term=.220a45c94ac3
Irelands European union commissioner warned about the Brexit cliff edge being to close. In this warning he also accused Hard-Line Brexiteers of bullying. he compared Brexit to the formerly aggressive footballer Roy Keane. He then proceeded to accuse the British ignoring the risks posed to northern Ireland by Brexit. He states, "I fear that in the UK debate, Common sense left the building a long time ago."
A Eurofighter jet has crashed, killing its pilot, as it was returning to a military base in Spain's southeast on Thursday, the country's air force said. The aircraft had been involved in a military display in Madrid during National Day celebrations and was on the approach to the Los Llanos Air Base on the outskirts of Albacete. "As a result of the accident, which happened while maneuvering for landing, the pilot of the aircraft has passed away," the Spanish Air Face confirmed in a series of tweets from their official account.
The car bomb that killed Malta's best investigative journalist. New information believes the way the explosion happened and how forceful it was may have been caused by semtexs. Semtexs are favored by terrorist groups such as the IRA for larger attacks could have been used in this attack.
"Death Island" Britain's concentration camp in Russia. When British soldiers were sent to Russia after the Russian Revolution their main enemies were the Germans - their opponents in World War One - but they also found themselves fighting and imprisoning Bolsheviks. In the process they opened what Russians regard as the first concentration camp in their country. It was set up as far back as 1918 the people in charge were were British and French. Locals called it Death Island. With few washing facilities and no change of clothes, inmates soon became infested with lice. Typhus spread like wildfire. Overall, about 1,000 people were imprisoned here and up to 300 died - either as a result of disease, or because they were shot or tortured to death. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41271418
This week we have another London game. This week it is the Rams and Cardinals. The game will start at the normal US time 12:00 P.M. Central time. This is the Cardinals first international game since 2005. That game though was in Mexico City. Rams have played twice internationally this will be the 3rd time for them. The weather is supposed to be in the 60's and cloudy with wind.
Hurricane Ophelia recently hits Irelands coast as a post-tropical storm on Monday. The storm brought strong winds and heavy rain and the urge to surge and flooding. On Sunday the entire country had was in danger to life and property. As of today only three people have been reported dead, due to the storm. These people were killed because trees fell on their cars, with them in it. http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/weather/ophelia-ireland-arrival/index.html
Hungarian police carried out a search at the Church of Scientology in Budapest on Wednesday. The search was linked to an investigation into suspected information and other crimes.According to local website ripost.hu, over 50 police officers surrounded the church’s Budapest headquarters. No additional information about the investigation has been released according to AP.
Beneath the city there is a town with gnomes that are no more than a foot long. They are everywhere such as window sills and doorways. These gnomes are known as Dwarves of Wroclaw. These gnomes are so spread out that they don't know how many there are in the city. Now people are coming fro mall over the world to hunt for them and to find out how many there actually are.
Sabre-toothed cats roamed Europe 200,000 years after supposedly going extinct. A recent study found that a Eurasian sabertooth and a sabertooth from North America are genetically the same or really close. When a trawler go an ancient jawbone while fishing in the North Sea off the Netherlands in 2000, it sparked up controversy. And this jawbone was about 28,000 years old the youngest one before that was about 300,000 years old. A DNA study figured out how old the bone was.
Scottish City is home to the largest amount of hydrogen fueled busses. This project has costed a total of $24.98 million dollars. This project is in use to help reduce city center emissions and to help boost air quality. They keep creating new busses, to help get rid of the old polluting cars on the streets.
Four people were arrested for trying to sell a famous portrait online. The painting was known as the portrait of Mrs. Reeves. Police found the portrait last Friday near the capital Beirut. The artwork was stolen from a neighboring country. An Art historian said that portrait could sell for around a few hundred thousand dollars.
In Heide, Germany two wild and very aggressive boars rampaged through the center of town for a couple of hours. The boars injured four people, and ripped a man's fingertip off, and others had leg injures. Also a few cars were damaged in they're rampage. Police and hunters took after them with guns and stun guns. One boar was killed and the other ran off outside city limits. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/20/mans-fingertip-torn-wild-boar-rampage-puts-german-town-siege/
Europe is surrounded by oceans and seas, which have shaped it climate, economy, and society. The sea has provided coastal jobs, trade, and fresh food. Unfortunately the ocean is undergoing pressure from climate change and human activities. Studies have shown that the ecosystems in the European seas are changing drastically. Agricultural fertilizers are draining into the oceans and many contain nutrients that help algae bloom. Algae takes away the oxygen levels in the oceans and seas which causes aquatic life to suffocate.
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Austria's People Party is led by Sebastian Kurz. Sebastian is projected to win the country's general election. If Sebastian wins he will be the youngest national leader. Sebastian is 31 years old. He is often compared to the young leaders of Canada and France. His nickname is "Wunderwuzzi" which means someone who can walk on water.
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Rescue ship brings 606 migrants to Italy. A rescue ship docked in Sicily had collected 606 migrants of the Lybian coast. The people are from 20 countries from Africa and the Middle East. The irregular flow of migrants is much less than 2016. They will be taken in and screened very carefully to decide who can legitimately claim asylum.
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Firefighters are still battling fires that happened after the hot and dry summer. The conditions got worse by Hurricane Ophelia as it approached the wester coast of Europe spreading flames . More than 50 people have been injured in Portugal, 15 are in critical condition. 2 others were hurt in Spain in a car that was burned on the side of the road. With the fire theres has been at least a dozen roads are closed. Many houses are also without water. Schools and public services are also closed.
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Wildfires in Portugal and Spain have killed at least 31 people and injured at least 50 more. Of the original 145 wildfire zones, dozens are still not contained. Conditions could be even worsened by Hurricane Ophelia that is approaching Europe's western coast. The winds could spread the fires quicker.
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France's gender equality minister, Marlène Schiappa, has set out plans for a new law cracking down on sexual violence and/or harassment. Her ideas include on-the-spot fines for catcalling and street harassment. In an interview, Marlène discussed what constitutes harassment, and gave an example of a man following a woman for several blocks, or "asking for your number 17 times".
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In Ireland there is a hurricane that is hitting them the hurricane is called Ophelia. One women and one man died from a tree hitting there car. A third man died from a chainsaw accident trying to remove a tree. The Northern Ireland Electricity company announced that 15,000 people should be ready to be with no power on Monday night in the province. 360,000 people have lost power from this storm so far.
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A 53 year old woman named Daphne Caruana Galizia has recently died. She was a famous blogger in Malta, Europe. She was killed while driving her car. She was leaving her home and the car exploded from a bomb. Her son heard the noise, instantly rushing outside. She had accused the island's government of corruption.
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France's gender equality minister has set out plans for a new law cracking down on sexual violence and harassment.
ReplyDeleteAs well as cracking down on harassment, the new legislation will also give people who experienced sexual assault as a child more time to make a police complaint, and toughen laws on sex with minors.
The scandal about Harvey Weinstein has prompted women and men around the world to share their own experiences of sexual harassment on social media.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41637723
A fifty three year old women has recently passed away. Her name was Daphne Caruana Galizia and she was famous for her blogging expertise. While driving her car, shortly after leaving home, she was killed. The murder was supposedly a car bomb attack. Sadly, one of her sons heard the sound and ran outside.
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Wild fires in Portugal and Spain have killed near a dozen of people. The fire comes as they had a very dry summer. Hurricane Ophelia made the conditions of the wildfire even worse. The winds from the hurricane helped the fire spread which is not good because it is causing people to die. It was supposed to rain on Monday. Many people don't have water either because the smoke has damaged water pipes along with many other things.
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A cyclone is creating major damage and making a rising death toll, this time across the pond in a region that rarely gets any storms. This disaster is known as Hurricane Ophelia. It is a tropical cyclone and is creating especially brutal months for climate and weather related disasters around the world. In the United States, the four major hurricanes, Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate threatened the East Coast. While all this is happening, wildfires have reached large areas of forest and shrub land in the West. It is one of Europe’s worst fire seasons. Ophelia is known so greatly because of its location and route as the farthest eastern storm of its strength that has ever formed.
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In North Portugal there are nearly 145 wildfires currently burning. This has resulted in 31 deaths and that total is currently on the rise. The wildfire started after a very hot and dry summer which is now causing many thousands of firefighters to battle the flames. The oncoming hurricane is not helping the situations due to the high winds that it is producing, but a rainfall is projected for Monday. Many people are currently missing in Spain and Portugal including many young children and babies.
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Ireland Is on lockdown after Hurricane Ophelia. Hurricane Ophelia hit Irelands west coast as a post tropical storm on Monday. Ireland had bad flooding, major winds, heavy winds. The Hurricane was a category 3. Hurricane Ophelia had strong winds up to 109 miles per hour. Three people died in Hurricane Ophelia. Over 360,000 homes and businesses were without power In the southeast region of Ireland.
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Catalonia, a region of Spain, held a vote for independence. Increasing calls for independence are coming from a group of people called separatists, who want to make Catalonia into a separate country. Much of Spain's income comes from this region, and previously they mostly managed themselves. Recently however the Spanish gov. had been regulating a little more, and because of this they have been considering independence. Reportedly the vote was yes to independence, and a declaration of independence was signed. Unrest has been growing as well, as 2 top separatist leaders have been arrested by the Spanish gov.
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Several people killed as storm Ophelia slams Ireland. A minister in Ireland encouraged all people to stay indoors until the storm passed. Ten thousand homes went without power. The military was asked to stand back. The storm was called a post-tropical cyclone.
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More than 36 people have died after hundreds of wildfires spread across central and northern areas on Sunday and Monday. The fires were supposedly started by dry conditions and fanned by strong Atlantic winds from Hurricane Ophelia. This is said to be the largest wave of fires in there country since 2006.
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After Daphne Galizia, 53, left her home Monday, she was killed in an explosion. She was famous for her blog full of accusations against politicians. Her son, Mathew, believes that her death was not an accident, that she was assassinated for her beliefs and blog posts. He points out that there is no point in killing a journalist unless they're close to proving a crucial point. The prime minister, Joseph Muscat, saw that it was an attack on the country's freedom of expression. They were promised a tough and thorough investigation.
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President Donald Trump reaffirmed the United States commitment to Greece’s economic recovery at the White House on Tuesday, a meeting that allowed the country’s prime minister to brush aside rough comments he made about Trump during the 2016 campaign. Trump cited a potential $2.4 billion (£1.8bn) sale of aircraft to Greece to upgrade its F-16 fighters, which he said would generate thousands of US jobs.
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Irelands European union commissioner warned about the Brexit cliff edge being to close. In this warning he also accused Hard-Line Brexiteers of bullying. he compared Brexit to the formerly aggressive footballer Roy Keane. He then proceeded to accuse the British ignoring the risks posed to northern Ireland by Brexit. He states, "I fear that in the UK debate, Common sense left the building a long time ago."
ReplyDeleteA Eurofighter jet has crashed, killing its pilot, as it was returning to a military base in Spain's southeast on Thursday, the country's air force said. The aircraft had been involved in a military display in Madrid during National Day celebrations and was on the approach to the Los Llanos Air Base on the outskirts of Albacete. "As a result of the accident, which happened while maneuvering for landing, the pilot of the aircraft has passed away," the Spanish Air Face confirmed in a series of tweets from their official account.
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The car bomb that killed Malta's best investigative journalist. New information believes the way the explosion happened and how forceful it was may have been caused by semtexs. Semtexs are favored by terrorist groups such as the IRA for larger attacks could have been used in this attack.
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"Death Island" Britain's concentration camp in Russia. When British soldiers were sent to Russia after the Russian Revolution their main enemies were the Germans - their opponents in World War One - but they also found themselves fighting and imprisoning Bolsheviks. In the process they opened what Russians regard as the first concentration camp in their country. It was set up as far back as 1918 the people in charge were were British and French. Locals called it Death Island. With few washing facilities and no change of clothes, inmates soon became infested with lice. Typhus spread like wildfire. Overall, about 1,000 people were imprisoned here and up to 300 died - either as a result of disease, or because they were shot or tortured to death.
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This week we have another London game. This week it is the Rams and Cardinals. The game will start at the normal US time 12:00 P.M. Central time. This is the Cardinals first international game since 2005. That game though was in Mexico City.
ReplyDeleteRams have played twice internationally this will be the 3rd time for them. The weather is supposed to be in the 60's and cloudy with wind.
Hurricane Ophelia recently hits Irelands coast as a post-tropical storm on Monday. The storm brought strong winds and heavy rain and the urge to surge and flooding. On Sunday the entire country had was in danger to life and property. As of today only three people have been reported dead, due to the storm. These people were killed because trees fell on their cars, with them in it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/weather/ophelia-ireland-arrival/index.html
Hungarian police carried out a search at the Church of Scientology in Budapest on Wednesday. The search was linked to an investigation into suspected information and other crimes.According to local website ripost.hu, over 50 police officers surrounded the church’s Budapest headquarters. No additional information about the investigation has been released according to AP.
ReplyDeleteBeneath the city there is a town with gnomes that are no more than a foot long. They are everywhere such as window sills and doorways. These gnomes are known as Dwarves of Wroclaw. These gnomes are so spread out that they don't know how many there are in the city. Now people are coming fro mall over the world to hunt for them and to find out how many there actually are.
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Sabre-toothed cats roamed Europe 200,000 years after supposedly going extinct. A recent study found that a Eurasian sabertooth and a sabertooth from North America are genetically the same or really close. When a trawler go an ancient jawbone while fishing in the North Sea off the Netherlands in 2000, it sparked up controversy. And this jawbone was about 28,000 years old the youngest one before that was about 300,000 years old. A DNA study figured out how old the bone was.
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Scottish City is home to the largest amount of hydrogen fueled busses. This project has costed a total of $24.98 million dollars. This project is in use to help reduce city center emissions and to help boost air quality. They keep creating new busses, to help get rid of the old polluting cars on the streets.
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Four people were arrested for trying to sell a famous portrait online. The painting was known as the portrait of Mrs. Reeves. Police found the portrait last Friday near the capital Beirut. The artwork was stolen from a neighboring country. An Art historian said that portrait could sell for around a few hundred thousand dollars.
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In Heide, Germany two wild and very aggressive boars rampaged through the center of town for a couple of hours. The boars injured four people, and ripped a man's fingertip off, and others had leg injures. Also a few cars were damaged in they're rampage. Police and hunters took after them with guns and stun guns. One boar was killed and the other ran off outside city limits.
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