Lisbon funicular crash: Portugal declares day of mourning as death toll rises to 17
Portugal has declared a day of national mourning after at least 17 people were killed and 21 others injured when one of Lisbon’s famous funicular cars derailed and crashed into a building on Wednesday evening.
Those killed on the Glória funicular were all adults, according to Margarida Castro Martins, the head of the city’s civil protection agency.
She said the victims’ families would be informed before any names or nationalities were released, but confirmed that those injured in the crash included Portuguese people as well as two Germans, two Spaniards and one person each from Canada, Cape Verde, France, Italy, Morocco, South Korea and Switzerland.
Lisbon funicular crash: Portugal’s PM vows swift and thorough investigation
Luís Montenegro describes incident, in which 16 people died, as ‘one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history’Sam Jones (The Guardian)
Israeli Drones Seen Above Flotilla of 50 Humanitarian Aid Ships En Route to Gaza
Israeli Drones Seen Above Flotilla of 50 Humanitarian Aid Ships En Route to Gaza | - IMEMC News
Yasemin Acar describes the drone that hovered over the Sumud Freedom Flotilla at midnight (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) as a form of psychological warfa ...IMEMC News (- IMEMC News)
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reminder, there are no international laws or agreements banning aid from entering.
there are international laws allowing them to enter.
and any attack on the flotilla on international or Gazan waters is not only a serious war crime, but straight up high seas piracy.
It is mind blowingly insane that European countries, most of them NATO, are cool with a rogue genocidal national practicing high seas piracy in the Mediterranean.
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Not only they are cool, they are helping them
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Israeli Air Force aircraft tracked over the central Mediterranean last night
Last night several Israeli Air Force assets were tracked over the central Mediterranean. Some of them landed, while others orbited in flight.itamilradar (ItaMilRadar)
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Europe is now Ukraine's main source of military support
Europe is now Ukraine's main source of military support
According to Germany's Kiel Institute, Europeans have provided approximately $95 billion in military aid to Kyiv, compared with $75 billion from Washington. Most of the weapons, however, continue to be manufactured in the United States.Emmanuel Grynszpan (Le Monde)
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Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar gets 30 months in jail for 'offending Islam'
Moroccan feminist activist Ibtissame Lachgar gets 30 months in jail for 'offending Islam'
A court in Rabat convicted Ibtissame Lachgar, one of the leading figures of Moroccan feminism, for posting a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt that read 'Allah is lesbian.'Le Monde with AP (Le Monde)
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Insane that people are downvoting you especially considering that the post is literally about a woman being unfairly jailed due to Islam’s core values and principles.
So tired of such an oppressive religion getting babied by wayward leftists, and encouraged by alt-right fascists.
I mean, I understand why trying to meet a guy doing a bad thing and appealing to them to stop doing said thing might sound like a good action.
That said if the Pope was meeting Hitler em, wait a second...
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Ok, nervermind.
Vatican documents show secret back channel between Pope Pius XII and Hitler
A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look at these revelations.PBS News Hour (PBS News)
Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing
Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing
Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich KadgienFacundo Iglesia (The Guardian)
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Maybe the linked article changed since it was posted? That's the story I read yesterday, but the article I see posted says:
It was handed over on Wednesday to the Argentinian judiciary by the daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien, Patricia Kadgien, who has been under house arrest with her husband since Tuesday.
Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote
Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote
Police say there is no evidence of foul play, ahead of local elections in western Germany.Paul Kirby (BBC News)
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They want a market free from antitrust enforcement.
Preferably one with barriers to entry for new players.
Luckily for them that is exactly what they have. Or exactly as they have engineered I should say.
Argentina: Nazi-looted Italian painting recovered
Canada's budget will focus on austerity and investment, says PM Carney
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday that the upcoming federal budget would focus on both austerity and investments, adding that current government spending was unsustainable.
Canada has been dealing with economic uncertainty since the start of the year, so the primary focus of the budget will be to cut operational spending and trigger investments into major projects, Carney told reporters in Toronto.
"It's a budget of austerity and investment at the same time and that's possible if you have discipline," he said
Say that to people who are about to get austered, just to make Carney's banker golf buddies a little wealthier.
We Americans know where this goes, and after Obama, I'm not willing to acknowledge this bullshit notion that one side is better because it's more publicly polite.
Oh, I certainly do: Watching Democrats and Republicans vote exactly the same way. Just wait, the Democrats are about to decline to shut down Donald's government again, and then see if you can still gaslight yourself into thinking there's any real difference.
Imagine having the power to limit fascism, even temporarily, and just saying: "Nah, don't feel like it."
That's the Democratic Party.
What the fuck are you talking about? Both sides are bad but only one is actively rounding up legal immigrants and sending them to concentration camps or El Salvador. They are not the same.
There are shades of grey here that you seem unable to comprehend. One party is measurably better than the other.
Picking the less worst option over the actual worst option are both roads that lead to the same place, one is a little longer and has better scenery, but the destination you end up at is the same either way.
Picking either one means you're going the wrong direction entirely.
Losing $5 and losing $100 are both bad but I know which one I'd pick. They are not equal and insisting they are is what led us here today.
The better solution is not to lose any money at all, and in the long term that's the goal. But in the mean time I'll pick $5 every time.
'Front runner' to be North Korea's next supreme leader makes international debut in China
- Kim Jong Un's daughter seen as potential successor
- Ju Ae gains protocol experience on first overseas trip
- South Korean intelligence sees Ju Ae as likely successor
SEOUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his teenage daughter to Beijing this week in her first public outing overseas, fuelling further speculation that she may be his potential successor in the family's dynastic rule over the nuclear-armed state.
Secretive North Korea has never revealed her name or age, but South Korean intelligence officials believe she is the daughter identified as Ju Ae by former American basketball player Dennis Rodman
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What to know about Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang as Trump justifies attack
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This will never be anything other than an "alleged" drug trafficking boat. All they had to do in order to make this believable, was to capture the boat. Instead, they blew it up, along with all the evidence that would have proven their claims, and justified their presence there.
Why is it that everything the Trump administration does, is done in the sketchiest way possible? It's like they're going out of their way to prove they have no credibility.
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EU Commission approves 'milestone' Mercosur, Mexico deals
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle ageDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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I believe that's the same for every planet. And every moon. For every orbit.
Its just that the barycenter is inside the more massive object when one is much more massive than the other. Not that this makes much of a difference to anything.
LOL - After being called out for a blatantly racist comment, OP removed his link and edited the subject to blame the mods.
Doing a proper removal.
Thailand's ruling party seeks snap election to thwart rival's PM bid
- Ruling party targets house dissolution as rival gains crucial support
- Renegade party Bhumjaithai wins support of largest force in parliament
- Thailand in deadlock for days since PM's dismissal by court
- Dominant Shinawatra dynasty's struggling to win backing to rule
BANGKOK, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The leader of Thailand's Bhumjaithai Party said on Wednesday he had enough votes to become prime minister after winning over the biggest group in parliament, as the ruling party moved to block his path by petitioning the king to approve a snap election.
There has been a dramatic scramble for power in Thailand since Friday's sacking of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra by a court, with Pheu Thai, the long dominant ruling party of the billionaire Shinawatra political dynasty, clinging on desperately to avert a humiliating fall from grace.
UK Deputy PM fights to save her career after admitting underpaying tax
- Rayner admits underpaying tax on new home
- She refers herself to government's ethics adviser
- Opposition politicians call for PM to fire her
- Starmer offers her his support
LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was fighting for her political future on Wednesday after acknowledging she had underpaid property tax owed when she bought an apartment in a southern English seaside resort.
UAE official warns Israel West Bank settlement plans cross 'red line'
- Annexation in West Bank would undermine spirit of normalisation accords with Israel, UAE envoy tells Reuters
- UAE's criticism touches on Israeli plans to build settlement dividing West Bank
- Far-right Israeli minister says maps being drafted for annexing territory in West Bank
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates warned Israel on Wednesday that annexation in the occupied West Bank would constitute a "red line" for Abu Dhabi that would severely undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalised UAE-Israeli relations.
The comments by the UAE, the most prominent of the three Arab states that signed the accords with Israel when President Donald Trump was first in office, amounted to Abu Dhabi's sharpest criticism of Israel since the Gaza war erupted in 2023, when Hamas launched its cross-border raid from the enclave.
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Russia says it captures 'about half' of Ukrainian city Kupiansk, Kyiv denies report
MOSCOW, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that its troops had captured "about half" of the city of Kupiansk in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, but Ukraine's military denied any such advance.
Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield reports from either side.
Kupiansk has been the focus of months of increased Russian military activity and heavy fighting. Russian troops captured the city in the early weeks of their February 2022 invasion and Ukrainian forces took it back later that same year.
Much of the city has been destroyed as Moscow tries to seize it back as part of a slow advance westward along parts of the 1,000-km (620-mile) long frontline.
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President Javier Milei gets judge to ban publication of audio recordings of his sister inside presidential palace
Milei gets judge to ban publication of audio recordings of his sister inside presidential palace
Argentine government denounces illegal espionage operation carried out by ‘individuals linked to Russian intelligence services’ ahead of crucial midterm electionFederico Rivas Molina (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers
Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers
Those who have asylum claims rejected and do not leave within 14 days will face prison terms of two to five yearsHelena Smith (The Guardian)
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Sask. RCMP raid 'Queen of Canada' cult compound, arrest 17 adults
Officers seized 4 replica firearms, no charges laid as of Wednesday afternoon
Saskatchewan RCMP arrested 17 adults, including cult leader Romana Didulo, in the village of Richmound on Wednesday after a firearms investigation.
At a news conference on Wednesday afternoon in Regina, Insp. Ashley St. Germaine said RCMP executed a search warrant at a privately owned decommissioned school in Richmound at around 4:30 a.m CST.
Didulo and her followers have been living for two years in the village of approximately 118 people, located 365 kilometres west of Regina, near the Alberta border.
Germaine said RCMP got a report on Aug. 25 of one of the building's occupants possessing a firearm. That led to the investigation that culminated in the raid.
"A team of skilled and experienced senior officers was established to oversee this large and complex operation," she said.
More than 30 police vehicles from multiple jurisdictions, including two tactical vehicles, were at the scene, Germaine said.
A livestream video, posted by Didulo to her followers on Telegram at 5:51 a.m. CST on Wednesday, captured the moment when two officers wearing tactical gear burst into a room where Didulo was standing.
"Leave the phone down. You're under arrest," one officer says in the video.
Didulo surrenders to officers and the camera is pointed at the floor for a few minutes. Voices off camera then remark that the phone is livestreaming before the video ends.
My buddies father in law was the mayor of that town when this shit all started. I wonder if he still is.
He told me they got family members of his wife to turn against them in town meetings, like HARD, like never talk to your brothers again bad.
They're fruits, but I'm betting "replica firearms" means "black powder". Yes, they can certainly be deadly, but my god, if you're never used black power, it's a monster pain in the ass. I can get a total of 3 or 4 shots off, reloading each time of course, and the barrel is too filthy to shove the next ball in.
BP guns are such a joke, even felonious Americans can own them, and most states allow them to be shipped straight to your porch. I have never heard of a crime being committed with one. LOL, it's like California banning modern .50cal guns. Has anyone in the history of ever used a .50BMG to crime?! OK, except Israel.
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At least 15 dead after Lisbon's historic funicular derails
At least 15 people have been killed and 18 others injured after a carriage on Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular derailed and crashed, emergency services said.
Portugal's emergency medical service authority said that five of those injured were in a serious condition. The remaining thirteen, including a child, sustained minor injuries.
Several people were earlier said to have been trapped at the scene. They have all since been freed, authorities said.
Spain's Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez said he was "appalled by the terrible accident". Lisbon's mayor, Carlos Moedas, said the capital was "in mourning", adding it was a "tragic moment for the city".
Emergency services said foreigners were among those killed were, although nationalities could not be confirmed.
It is unclear how many people were on board at the time of the cable railway crash, which occurred near the Avenida da Liberdade around 18:05 on Wednesday evening.
Footage shared widely on social media showed the bright yellow carriage overturned and almost entirely destroyed. People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as what appears to be smoke filled the air.
One witness told Portuguese newspaper Observador the vehicle was "out of control, without brakes".
Lisbon crash one of our biggest tragedies, Portuguese PM says
A day of mourning has been declared after the 140-year-old Glória funicular derailed, killing at least 16.Alison Roberts (BBC News)
Judging by the location it crashed and somebody interviewed saying that "they were afraid it would hit the vehicle below", it careened down for quite a distance since it crashed near the bottom.
Mind you, that specific funicular doesn't actual travel that much of a distance (maybe 400m if I remember correctly - it's been a long time since I had a reason to go to that part of Lisbon).
Also because it's not that long a distance, it's actually faster to just walk it up or down for most people than wait for it, plus this was the one coming down (as deduced from there being one below), so it's quite likely that most people in it were tourists.
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons - Inkstick
Campaigners are targeting the hearts, minds and multibillion-dollar investment fund of the Utah-based faith.Taylor Barnes (Inkstick Media)
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Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration
Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration
The Trump administration in April froze grants to Harvard University over concerns about antisemitism on the Ivy League campus and other concerns.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Domenica 7 settembre 2025, dalle ore 19, nuvole permettendo, presso il Podere Casanteria (via Canova 16, Faenza, tra Cosina e Pieve Corleto) in collaborazione con l'Associazione ACSÈ, osserveremo l'Eclissi Totale di Luna e le meraviglie del cielo di settembre, ad occhio nudo e con i binocoli e i telescopi del Gruppo Astrofili Faenza.
Ingresso libero e gratuito, prenotazione gradita ma non necessaria.
L'eclissi inizierà globalmente alle 17:28 con l'ingresso della Luna nella penombra della Terra, e alle 18:27 ci sarà l'ingresso in ombra, ma queste fasi non saranno visibili da Faenza, in quanto la Luna sarà ancora sotto l'orizzonte.
La fase di totalità (con la Luna completamente immersa nell'ombra della Terra) inizia alle 19:31, e in Italia la Luna sorgerà intorno a quell'ora.
In particolare, nella zona di Faenza, la Luna sorge intorno alle 19:34.
Bisogna considerare che il Sole a Faenza tramonta alle 19:37, per cui potrebbe non essere facile individuare il disco eclissato della Luna (rosso scuro e poco luminoso) tra le ultime luci del giorno. Prevediamo quindi che vedremo "comparire" in cielo la Luna eclissata mano a mano che si fa buio e il cielo diventa più scuro.
Alle 20:11 avremo il massimo dell'eclissi, alle 20:52 terminerà la totalità, e alle 21:56 la Luna uscirà completamente dall'ombra, ma sarà ancora in penombra fino alle 22:55.
Nonostante il caldo diurno, le temperature di notte possono ridursi notevolmente, specialmente in aperta campagna. Per passare una serata piacevole, si consiglia di portare qualcosa per coprirsi in caso di freddo.
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guy who is not authorised to make foreign policy decisions travels overseas on public's dime to.... make foreign policy decisions??? So couple of obvious themes:
- guy likes to travel with comfort on public dime
- it's a private bribe session
- he'll be asking US to kick some money his way to take over the "uncooperative" government
French police kill man suspected of stabbing five people in Marseille
French police kill man suspected of stabbing five people in Marseille
According to the prosecutor's office, the suspect was a Tunisian national with legal status who had just been evicted from his hotel.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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French winemaker jailed for multimillion-euro fake champagne scam
French winemaker jailed for multimillion-euro fake champagne scam
Didier Chopin, 56, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of bottles of fake champagne he made with French and Spanish wines, to which he added aromas and gas to make them sparkling.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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Could have been but it's actually more than that:
he produced fake champagne on purpose, using wines from Spain, carbonated it and added flavour packs. He then marketed it as champagne and even attempted to export it. Once caught, he fled to Morocco to start a new business.
Real Champagne actually follow a lot of rules besides the protected origin, it's a blend of wines but it's not supposed to be carbonated, and flavor balance is to be made only with specific liqueurs.
Spain produces a lot of high quality wine, but also a lot of lower quality wine, used for mixing to make cheap "table" wine. Much of that is exported, often in cartons.
Many French winemakers have been importing that type of wine for decades to mix to increase volume in lower quality wines.
Donald Trump says Israel has lost its 'total control' over US Congress
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35636163
the full interview transcript is here (archive)::: spoiler the part of it about israel
REESE: A different war, Israel, a March Pew Poll, found that 53% of surveyed U.S. adults had an unfavorable view of Israel, that’s down – or that is up from 42% in 2022. Among young Republicans under 50, 50% have an unfavorable view of Israel. That’s up from 35% in 2022. There’s a growing group within the MAGA, America First coalition, Republicans, especially younger Republicans, who are skeptical of our support for Israel. Are you aware of this group? Are you worried about it?TRUMP: Yeah I’m aware of it. So, Israel is amazing, because, you know, I have good support from Israel. I have. Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks with Iran, wiping that thing out. We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before. You know, we got back and CNN was trying to say ‘well, maybe it wasn’t complete,’ and it turned out totally complete, beyond complete. But when, if you go back 20 years. I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any company or corporation or state that I’ve ever seen. Israel was the strongest. Today, it doesn’t have that strong a lobby. It’s amazing.
There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad, if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly. But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they’ve really, they’ve changed it. You’re too young to know this, but if you go back 15 years, probably that’s when it started, right. Israel, you would understand this very much, Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t, you know, I’m a little surprised to see that. And people, they forgot about October 7th. You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day, because I’ve seen the pictures.
REESE: I was just over in Israel, and we went right up to the war where you could hear the bombs dropping in Gaza. And we went to the places from October 7th. Scary. Being in it. I understand —
TRUMP: It was a really bad one, right?
REESE: Yeah.
TRUMP: And you know, you have people that deny it ever happened, they’re deniers. You have people that deny the Holocaust ever happened. So, they’re gonna have to get that war over with. But it is hurting Israel. There’s no question about it. They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations, you know, and it is hurting them. But Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there has ever been, and now it’s, it’s been hurt, especially in Congress.
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The Daily Caller's White House correspondent Reagan Reese interviewed President Donald Trump for an hour in the Oval Office. This is the full transcript.Reagan Reese (The Daily Caller)
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(Some) People are up in arms about Russian meddling in the west, but Israel has been doing it since the 40's and no one batted an eyelash.
The fact that some (many?) Jewish lawmakers and military are allowed to have dual Israeli/US citizenship is baffling to me.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •This saddens me greatly. I was in Lisbon about a year ago and rode one of these.
If you don’t know what a funicular is, it’s a very short-range tram that’s specifically designed to take you up or down a certain hill. Lisbon has a lot of steep hills and even cliffs. There is at least one vertical pedestrian elevator that takes you up from one street to another.
Because each hill is different, each funicular is a little different. The incline differs so the shape of the tram car body differs, and the track may curve up the hill or not. They go for different lengths and have different sizes. So each is special and they end up being quite charming and emblematic of the city. If you know the celebrated cable cars of San Francisco, it’s not far off.
Really terrible to hear this news. And as far as I can tell, I rode the very one that crashed with my brother and 8yo son while I was there. My heart goes out to the city and to the families of the victims.