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Pontiff calls on leaders to treat migrants more humanely as he concludes week-long Spanish tour in Gran Canaria
The constant flow of people embarking in small, rickety boats to migrate abroad should force a reckoning as to why we have built a world where so many “must risk death to seek life”, Pope Leo has said as he warned: “We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead.”
Thursday’s speech in the Canary Islands, on the final leg of the pontiff’s week-long tour of Spain, contained Leo’s most pointed comments to date on migration.
Continue reading...Footage shows Elliot Sudal hauling the shark from the surf before releasing it within seconds, sparking online reaction
An angler who reeled in a rare great white shark at a Nantucket beach said he posted extraordinary video of the encounter to social media as an example of how to safely catch and release one of the ocean’s greatest predators.
Elliot Sudal said he was “testing the waters” off the Massachusetts beach he regularly uses when he inadvertently snagged the shark on Sunday.
Continue reading...Vance Boelter changes plea in murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman as prosecutors agree not to pursue death penalty
The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and her husband, as well as the non-fatal shootings of a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday after prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
Vance Boelter was charged with murdering Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota house speaker, and her husband, Mark Hortman, and with shooting state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman. Boelter came to their doors in the early hours of 14 June 2025, disguised as a police officer and driving a fake squad car.
Continue reading...TERNEUZEN (ANP) - Naar aanleiding van het verkeersongeluk waarbij donderdagmiddag twee kinderen en een volwassene overleden, zegt de Zeeuwse gemeente Terneuzen "ontzettend geschrokken te zijn" en mee te leven met alle betrokkenen en hun dierbaren.
Een personenauto botste rond 12.30 uur op een groep van veertien fietsende kinderen en twee begeleiders tijdens hun schoolkamp. Dat gebeurde op de N290 bij de Zeeuwse plaats Vogelwaarde, gemeente Hulst. Volgens een woordvoerder van die gemeente bevindt de betreffende school zich in de gemeente Terneuzen.
Vier kinderen raakten zwaargewond. De andere begeleider en kinderen zijn opgevangen. "Voor hen en hun naasten wordt hulp georganiseerd", aldus de gemeente Terneuzen.