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The world's longest rail tunnel has closed for repairs after a freight practice derailed - and it's not anticipated to open for months.The Gotthard railway tunnel in Switzerland can be shut till the tip of 2023, for much longer than was initially anticipated. The 16 automobiles that derailed final Thursday precipitated appreciable injury to the tracks and are nonetheless caught contained in the tunnel.Nobody was harmed within the incident and footage of the scene present wine bottles strewn on the road, amongst different objects.Passengers will now need to take the scenic route as an alternative - including an hour onto home journeys, with two hours of delays for worldwide travellers. The 35-mile (57km) tunnel, which opened in June 2016, cuts by the Alps and offers a high-spe...

WARSAW, Poland — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken despatched a message Wednesday marking the anniversary in Poland of the 1943 Bialystok ghetto rebellion, saying it was an act of bravery that reaffirmed the dignity of Jews in the course of the Holocaust. ...

Thousands of persons are being urged to depart a significant metropolis in Canada's Northwest Territories as an enormous wildfire approaches.Air evacuations for essentially the most weak are starting on Thursday, and officers say there's a "safe window" for everybody else to depart Yellowknife by street. The capital has a inhabitants of 20,000 folks - and with out rain, forecasts counsel the wildfire may attain the town's outskirts by the weekend. Canada is enduring a file variety of wildfires, with over 1,000 lively blazes burning throughout greater than 8,000 miles of the nation.As of late final night time, a kind of fires is burning inside 11 miles (17km) of Yellowknife. Authorities have warned that at the moment it...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The loss of life toll from this week’s highly effective explosion within the Dominican Republic rose to 27 on Wednesday as firefighters continued efforts to extinguish the persistent fireplace set off by the blast, the nationwide emergency director mentioned. ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Atlantic City‘s casinos, the three New Jersey horse tracks that take sports bets, and their on-line companions gained over half a billion {dollars} from gamblers in July, up 5.3% from a 12 months earlier, figures launched Wednesday present. ...

More than 60 individuals are feared useless after a ship carrying principally Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde within the Atlantic Ocean.The boat is believed to have departed Senegal with greater than 100 migrants on board in early July. It was discovered with 38 survivors and several other useless on board close to the Atlantic island, authorities and migrant advocates have mentioned.Senegal's Foreign Affairs Ministry mentioned the boat was found on Tuesday by the coast guard in Cape Verde, about 385 miles off the coast of West Africa.It just isn't instantly clear when the incident occurred, nor the complete extent of the casualties. The Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders mentioned the vessel was a big fishing boat, referred to as a piro...

MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua’s authorities has confiscated a prestigious Jesuit-run college alleging it was a “center of terrorism,” the faculty mentioned Wednesday in saying the newest in a sequence of actions by authorities in opposition to the Catholic Church and opposition figures. ...

For the primary time in girls's footballing historical past England are via to the World Cup last.After beating co-hosts Australia 3-1 on Wednesday, they may play Spain within the last this weekend. La Roja have been the primary workforce to safe their place within the final two - however how a lot of a risk are they to the Lionesses?Here Sky News appears at every little thing it is advisable know.Route to the ultimate Spain have been the clear favourites to win their group - having been drawn with Costa Rica, Zambia and Japan.They started their Group C marketing campaign with stable 3-0 and 5-0 wins towards Costa Rica and Zambia respectively. More on Women's World Cup 2023 But their straight run of wins got here cr...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — An ex-police officer thought of by many to be Haiti’s strongest gang chief stated Wednesday he would welcome the deployment of a global armed drive to the Caribbean nation however vowed to battle if it commited any abuses. ...

A mom has been discovered responsible of homicide after smothering her three daughters to dying in New Zealand.Lauren Dickason, 42, beforehand admitted to killing her two-year-old twin daughters Maya and Karla, and their six-year-old sister Liane at their residence within the city of Timaru within the South Island almost two years in the past. The certified medical skilled denied homicide, arguing she was mentally disturbed and did not know what she was doing on the time.Dickason tried to kill her kids utilizing zip ties earlier than she suffocated them with pillows.She then positioned them of their beds below the covers and tried to kill herself. During a four-week trial, prosecutors pointed to worrying messages and on-line search historical past made by Dickason that includ...