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LIT ONS News†today, 13:13 Aletta Andre India correspondent Aletta Andre India correspondent Air conditioning at the ticket office, escalators to the Ganges, reasonably clean toilets and plenty of space. A visit to the 18th-century Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi doesn’t exactly confirm dominant stereotypes in India, such as dirt and chaos, since a major renovation. Is this a positive change? …

Weather warnings have been issued in Portugal and Spain due to a heat wave. Temperatures topped 45 degrees on Wednesday. The countries are also ravaged by forest fires, as it is also very dry. 27 forest fires raged in Portugal on Wednesday evening, the head of civil defense told local media. The fire threatens villages, especially in the Algarve, very …

APE ONS News†today, 20:20 Russia is allowed to transport goods on the EU sanctions list such as steel, coal and oil by rail to the Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad. The European Commission says in a report that the restrictions applicable to road transport do not apply to transport by train. Kaliningrad is sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania and has …

Reuters ONS News†today, 1:22 p.m. A local Texas newspaper has published new footage of the fatal shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde on May 24. These are recordings from security cameras hung around the school. Footage shows police waiting in the school for 77 minutes before deciding to confront the shooter. This information is not new, but the debate …

AFP ONS News†yesterday, 11:29 p.m.†Amended today, 00:50 Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled, international media have reported. Saturday stormed angry protesters his residence. He had been in hiding ever since. The president flew with his wife and two bodyguards to Malé, the capital of the Maldives. Sri Lanka has been unstable for some time and there are regular large …

Eight members of Britain’s Conservative Party secured enough votes on Tuesday and are now candidates to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The next step is rounds of voting among MPs until the two most popular candidates remain. The parliamentarians have received the necessary support from at least twenty other deputies and therefore continue to compete for the presidency of …

Our compatriot, whose identity has not been revealed, was lured to the Kenyan capital by the promise of an enticing purchase of fifty kilos of gold. Prospective supplier Bupe C., whose name is mainly Elena and is from Zambia, took his client to a large house in the vicinity of Lavington, a district of Nairobi where mainly the wealthier inhabitants …

Leon Gleed (29) is a truck driver and is often away from home. While on vacation recently, he suffered a “burning pain” in his buttocks. The cause soon became apparent. His girlfriend Sadie Williams bought Tesco Active Flushable Toilet Wipes in a Tesco supermarket in Rica, South Wales, and placed it near the bathroom at home. A few days and …

LIT ONS News†today, 20:16 Helene D’Haens Italy correspondent Helene D’Haens Italy correspondent “A day earlier, and I too would have been in danger.” Christian Ferrari stood near the Marmolada glacier on Saturday July 2nd. A day later, a piece broke off. Eleven people died† Ferrari is the head of the glacier committee of the association of mountaineers of northern Italy …

AFP ONS News†today, 11:56 a.m. Residents of the Faroe Islands are only allowed to kill 500 animals in the traditional dolphin hunt this year. This was decided by the Department of Fisheries after a record number of more than 1,400 animals were killed last year. Around the world there was a lot of commotion because of the big catch. The …