Author: Tobi Oluwaseun Adesanya
Europe’s largest nuclear reactor, Finland’s Olkiluoto 3 which entered into service in April, has been offline since Sunday evening because of a technical problem, operator TVO said. “The electricity production of OL3 was interrupted on Sunday evening November 19 due to a fault detected in the turbine island,” TVO wrote on social media platform X. “The cause is currently being investigated,” it said, adding that it did not know when production would resume. The next-generation European pressurised water reactor (EPR), built by the French-led Areva-Siemens consortium, produces around 14 percent of Finland’s electricity. It was put into regular service in…
Many claimed mobsters were being condemned on Monday by an Italian court, the finish of a memorable, almost three-year preliminary against Calabria’s famous ‘Ndrangheta mafia. Examiners have requested blameworthy decisions against 322 denounced mafia individuals and their middle class associates, in what could stamp the main catastrophe for date against one of the world’s most remarkable coordinated criminal organizations. The ‘Ndrangheta has moved past its foundations in the poor southern Italian locale of Calabria to practice close imposing business model on the European cocaine exchange, with a presence in excess of 40 nations around the world. The condemning will cover…
France’s Senate is this week to discuss a draft regulation that would permit individuals indicted under enemy of gay regulations before 1982 to get monetary remuneration. Large number of individuals were condemned under two French regulations in force somewhere in the range of 1942 and 1982, one deciding the time of assent for same-sex relations and the other characterizing such relations as a disturbing element in demonstrations of “public shock”. The backer of the bill to be bantered on Wednesday, Congressperson Hussein Bourgi of the Communist coalition, said he maintained that the French government should perceive the state’s part in…
The leader of the German Protestant Church, Annette Kurschus, on Monday stepped down from her post after being accused of covering up suspected sexual assault by a colleague. Kurschus denied any knowledge of the abuse but said she was resigning “to prevent damage to my church”. The 60-year-old theologian has been caught in a storm of media reports that she was informed about allegations against her former colleague in the church district of Siegen but did nothing about it. The man is now being investigated by police. Kurschus said she had known the suspect’s family for a long time and…
Colombian genius Shakira will pay a great many euros in fines as a feature of a settlement declared Monday with Spanish examiners to settle her expense misrepresentation case and stay away from preliminary. Under the arrangement, declared toward the beginning of what might have been the preliminary of the 46-year-old vocalist, Shakira consented to get a three-year suspended sentence and to pay 7.3 million euros ($7.98 million) in fines. Examiners had blamed the whiz for cheating the Spanish condition of 14.5 million euros ($15.7 million) on pay procured somewhere in the range of 2012 and 2014, charges Shakira had denied,…
Kelechi Iheanacho’s 67th minute goal saved the Super Eagles’ blushes on Sunday as they continued on a bumpy ride in the 2026 World Cup Qualification Competition. The goal drew the Nigerian side level for a 1-1 ending against Zimbabwe in their Group C Match Day 2 fixture at Butare in Rwanda. Walter Musona had given the game’s hosts a 26th minute lead from a free-kick from about 30 metres out. The goal again underlined the need for the Nigerian team’s technical crew to have a re-think about their goalkeeping department. It was a kick goalkeeper Francis Uzoho should have been…
Donald Trump takes his presidential campaign down to the border with Mexico on Sunday, as he seeks to double down on the hardline immigration policies that were a hallmark of his first White House term. In recent weeks, the former president has ramped up his campaign rhetoric to extreme levels, warning that undocumented migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and denouncing his political opponents as “vermin.” Trump plans to visit the Texas-Mexico border Sunday with Governor Greg Abbott, a like-minded advocate of tough immigration measures. The Texas legislature recently passed a bill that would make entry into the…
Nollywood entertainer, Angela Okorie has uncovered that she unloaded her alienated spouse, Chukwuma Orizu in light of the fact that she “dropped out of adoration.” The mother of one said she became burnt out on marriage in view of tension from her better half’s relatives who were continually requesting that she quit diversion. Okorie talked in a new web recording interview facilitated by her partner, Iyabo Ojo. She said, “I will not encourage anyone to be in a marriage when you’re not in adoration with the man. I believe that is the explanation a ton of ladies cheat. In this…
France, where over 1,500 anti-Semitic acts and comments have been recorded since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, has slapped an 18-month jail term on a pensioner for anti-Jewish graffiti. The 62-year-old man was found guilty Friday by a Strasbourg court of inciting racial hatred in the eastern city near the German border. Strasbourg has one of France’s biggest Jewish communities. “It’s an exemplary decision … (to punish) hate messages,” said lawyer Raphael Nisand, who represented the city’s tram company whose property was defaced. The man was also fined 1,500 euros (about $1,100). The graffiti, which also appeared elsewhere in…
Almost 400 US-bound travelers, the majority of them ladies, have gotten through sexual viciousness this year as they crossed a famous wilderness stretch among Panama and Colombia, as per Specialists Without Lines (MSF).The circumstance confronting transients in the Darien Hole is “progressively savage and dehumanizing”, the global clinical guide association said, adding that the pace of sex assaults had deteriorated lately. Among January and October, 397 individuals who got care from MSF — 97% of them ladies — have been casualties of sexual savagery in the wilderness. MSF said “the figures, which were at that point disturbing in earlier months,…