Residents of New Zealand capital advised not to enter the water, collect seafood or walk their dogs on local beaches after wastewater plant failure

A sewage leak in New Zealand’s capital Wellington has been described by local authorities as an “environmental disaster,” with repairs to the city’s wastewater treatment plant expected to take months.

Residents of Wellington have been advised not to enter the water, collect seafood or even walk their dogs on local beaches.

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The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams.

Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU bodies like the Parliament.

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WASHINGTON (ANP/AFP) - Het Amerikaanse leger zei donderdag twee vermeende drugssmokkelaars te hebben gedood bij een aanval op een boot in de oostelijke Stille Oceaan. Daarmee loopt het dodental van de Amerikaanse operaties tegen vermeende drugstransporten op zee op tot minstens 128.

Volgens het Amerikaanse Southern Command voer het vaartuig langs bekende smokkelroutes en was het betrokken bij drugshandel. Bij de aanval raakten geen Amerikaanse militairen gewond, meldde het leger via X.

De regering van president Donald Trump begon begin september met het aanvallen van boten die volgens Washington worden ingezet door zogenoemde 'narco-terroristen', vooral vanuit Venezuela. De Verenigde Staten spreken daarbij van een feitelijke oorlog tegen internationale drugsnetwerken.

Amerikaanse autoriteiten hebben tot nu toe geen overtuigend bewijs gepresenteerd dat de getroffen schepen daadwerkelijk bij drugshandel betrokken waren. Dat heeft geleid tot felle discussies over de rechtmatigheid van de aanvallen.

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