SYDNEY — An international law enforcement operation against organized crime focused on the activities of the Comanchero bike gang in South Australia, police have revealed. Operation Ironside resulted in a record number of arrests in South Australia in a single day for serious and organized offending. The operation was lead by the Australian Federal Police who released a statement detailing the ordeal. The encrypted communications — which allegedly included plots to kill, mass drug trafficking and gun distribution — were decrypted from a platform covertly run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. More than 4,000 members from the Australian Federal Police…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — A blast of cold from the Antarctic is set to hit several states this week, bringing wintry and dangerous conditions. In New South Wales, the Bureau of Meteorology is warning of heavy rains and snow down to 900 meters, while in Victoria, forecasters are warning of destructive winds and rainfall of up to 250 millimeters. New South Wales bureau forecaster Hugh McDowell said the “cold air outbreak” would mean difficult weather conditions. “It’s coming up from Antarctica, it is changing on the way, but it is quite unusual for it to be this cold,” he said. New South…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia’s Melbourne Central Business District (CBD) construction site is a key remaining focus for contact tracers as they hunt down virus cases linked to the current Victorian outbreak. Authorities have confirmed the virus spread from a cleaner who had tested positive to another worker at the ProBuild site at 100 Queen Street around the start of June. There are 492 close contacts linked to the site, with more than 400 returning negative tests as of June 7 night. The department of health is again reminding people who have been to several Central Business District (CBD) exposure sites at…
Jogging in the early morning of May 17 on the Mesila (Train Track) Park path in the South Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, Andrea Krogmann suddenly heard neighing. And then she saw a white Arabian horse trotting up the street with a rope dangling from its halter. It was heading in the direction of the industrial center at Talpiot. “I was expecting to see an Arab youth riding it, but then I saw it had no rider,” Krogmann said. “I decided to turn around because a horse on the street is something very dangerous, and I wanted to try…
PORTO ALEGRE, Brasil — En medio de la pandemia de coronavirus, China ha acelerado sus inversiones, ubicándose como uno de los países que más beneficios ha obtenido en medio de la crisis sanitaria por la que pasa el mundo, principalmente en países de América del Sur. En Bogotá, Colombia, más de 7 millones de habitantes esperan ansiosos la construcción de la línea del Metro, un megaproyecto prometido por el gobierno hace casi dos décadas y que nunca se concretó debido a la falta de recursos financieros y problemas políticos. La Dra. Anne Oduber Peñaloza es economista de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,…
KOLKATA, India — Dead turtles, birds, fishes, and a dolphin have washed up on the shores of Sri Lankan capital Colombo days after Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl laden with dangerous cargo sank off-coast after a fire. The ship, which started from Qatar in the U.A.E., was on its way to Singapore. It was anchored off the port city of Negombo, about 9.5 nautical miles (11 miles) northwest of the capital Colombo, when it caught first caught fire on May 21. Smoke was detected a day earlier. “The ship was carrying chemicals under dangerous cargo category,” Captain Indika de Silva, a spokesperson for Sri…
NEW DELHI — The Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is constructing a new parliament complex at the heart of the country’s capital in New Delhi. The move will wipe off the building’s colonial legacy. While the government claims the building will represent a “New India”, numerous scholars, retired judges, and civil servants have criticized the government for prioritizing such an endeavor instead of controlling the Covid-19 chaos. The voices became louder during the past two months as the government allowed construction work when the daily Covid-19 cases were crossing the 400,000-mark, and there was an acute shortage of hospital…
The HMS Queen Elizabeth cruised side by side with the FS Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean Sea during “cat and mouse” war games testing their ability to respond to enemy attacks. The Royal Navy said in a statement that the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the F-35 fighter jets onboard spent several days in the western Mediterranean training with the FS Charles de Gaulle in Exercise Gallic Strike on June 4. The Royal Navy said that the first phase of Exercise Gallic Strike tested the ability of the two aircraft carriers to protect and defend against threats. The FS Charles…
This ancient sandstone monument dating back to around 600 B.C. was discovered by an Egyptian farmer while he was clearing land to plant crops. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement that the ancient sandstone stela from the 26th Dynasty of Egypt (664 B.C.–525 B.C.) had been found by a farmer in the Ismailia Governorate of Egypt on June 3. ‘Stela’ is a Latin word used for a stone slab typically shaped like a gravestone which on the surface has either text or ornamentation, and was created to pass on a message. The farmer who found…
“Star Trek” had its replicator. Now Israel has Robot Chef, a stand-alone unit that creates food items on the spot, to the diner’s specifications. It won’t be as quick as when Jean-Luc Picard famously commands his food unit to brew up “Tea, Earl Grey, hot,” but six minutes isn’t that long to wait for a custom-designed burger made right at your table. Oh, and did we mention that the burgers are vegan, gluten-free and with no antibiotics, preservatives or GMO ingredients? SavorEat is the company with this galactic vision for food preparation. The Rehovot-based startup has a partnership with the…