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A luxurious cruise ship has been freed after it ran aground in northwestern Greenland.The Ocean Explorer - which has 206 passengers on board - bought caught in mud and silt on Monday in Alpefjord, a nationwide park 870 miles (1,400km) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk, the Danish navy's Joint Arctic Command (JAC) mentioned. After three failed makes an attempt to free the ship, it was "successfully" pulled free by a fishing vessel, Tarajoq, at excessive tide.SunStone Ships, the vessel's proprietor, mentioned the ship might be taken to a port to evaluate any injury, whereas the passengers might be flown house."There have not been any injuries to any person onboard, no pollution of the environment and no breach of the hull," SunStone mentioned in a press release. ...

HELSINKI — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have banned automobiles with Russian license plates from getting into their territory, a joint transfer consistent with a latest interpretation of the European Union’s sanctions in opposition to Moscow over its conflict on Ukraine. ...

Nigeria has skilled a nationwide energy outage after the nation's electrical grid collapsed.One of the West African nation's electrical energy distribution firms - Enugu Electricity Distribution Company - confirmed a "total system collapse", that has precipitated blackout's throughout all of Nigeria's 36 states and the capital metropolis, Abuja. Some cities, together with Osogbo have had energy restored, however it isn't clear when all the nation may have electrical energy.The grid has collapsed a number of occasions. Twitter This content material is offered by Twitter, which can be utilizing cookies and different applied sciences. To present you this content material, we'd like your permission to make us...

President Biden has tapped a veteran of the Obama administration Cabinet and main Democratic Party donor to assist promote the rebuilding of the Ukrainian economic system, creating a brand new submit to coordinate the reconstruction effort whilst Ukraine battles to battle off a Russian invading power that also occupies a fifth of the nation. ...

Libya is a rustic in anguish.Her persons are struggling a contemporary sort of horror after years of civil warfare, preventing, corruption, greed and folks smuggling. Now floods have devastated the port metropolis of Derna and the communities and villagers round.And what's a lot worse is that the pure catastrophe attributable to Storm Daniel, which has been sweeping throughout European counties, has been compounded by a man-made disaster.Those within the worst-affected city of Derna are calling it a catastrophe of "biblical proportions". Civilians within the city have been utilizing their naked fingers to attempt to dig for survivors... as an alternative they're discovering simply the stays of victims.The airport at Benghazi has been bustling with individuals making an attemp...

SEOUL, South Korea — In what seems like a win-win-win, the pending U.S.-Iran prisoner swap deal is being lubricated by the discharge of some $6 billion in Iranian {dollars} that had been frozen in banks right here. ...

The gamers in Spain's girls's soccer league have known as off a strike after reaching a deal to extend their minimal wage.Last weekend's first spherical of fixtures weren't performed because of the industrial motion. Last season, the minimal wage for the ladies's league till now was €16,000 (£13,700) in comparison with €182,000 (£156,000) for the boys's league.The new deal will improve the minimal wage for the ladies's league to €21,000 (£18,000) this season, with that sum rising to €23,500 (£20,000) by 2025. It might go even increased relying on income. A press release from The Futbol Profesional Femenino (FPF) stated: "The commitment and repeated efforts of the clubs during the negotiation process have made a fundamental contribution to achieving the muc...

The United States on Thursday is sanctioning greater than 150 companies and folks from Russia to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Georgia to attempt to crack down on evasion and deny the Kremlin entry to expertise, cash and monetary channels that gasoline President Vladimir Putin’s struggle in Ukraine. ...

Michael O'Leary has shrugged off issues for his private security after local weather change protesters threw cream pies in his face, and says that the airline trade is being unfairly blamed for local weather change.The Ryanair CEO was accosted by two girls exterior the European Commission in Brussels final Thursday as he was making ready handy in a petition. "Stop the pollution of your planes," they informed Mr O'Leary earlier than putting him with two cream pies. Image: Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary after getting pied in Brussels Speaking to Sky News earlier than the Ryanair AGM in Dublin, the colorful chief government joked about protecting a watch out for flying pies, however denied the incident had made hi...

PARIS (AP) — France is sending army forces to distribute water on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, which is dealing with an unprecedented water disaster prompted by the island cluster’s most extreme drought in many years. ...