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Link to video: Genoa cargo ship crash: search for survivors
. . Up to 10 people are feared dead after a container ship smashed into
the 50-metre (170ft) port tower of Genoa, bringing it crashing down. Four
people, including a pilot and two coast guards, are confirmed drowned.
On Wednesday morning, the death toll was reported to have climbed to
seven. Another three people were missing. . Some of the victims were
pulled from the vast quantity of rubble that landed partly on the
quayside and partly in the water after the accident. The tower stood at
the entrance to the so-called Old Port near the centre of Genoa. . Mud
churned up by the falling masonry made conditions unusually difficult
for fire brigade and coast guard divers who worked through the night in
an attempt to find survivors, the rescue services said. Some of the
missing were thought to have been in the tower's lift at the moment of
impact. . During the night, the sound was heard, from deep inside
the rubble, of a mobile telephone ringing. But the ringing stopped after
a short while, before the searchers could use the call to pinpoint the
telephone. Four people were reported injured, two of them seriously. .
The port tower at Genoa before a container ship smashed into it.
Photograph: Massimo Cebrelli/AFP/Getty Images
. A security guard at the port who declined to give his name was
reported as saying he was on duty at a checkpoint when two young men
came racing past shouting: "The tower! The tower!" He added: "I went out
and the tower was no longer there. In its place, there were the bows of
a ship." According to other accounts, however, it was the stern
of the vessel – a 40,594-tonne container ship – that brought down the
tower. The ship involved in the collision was the Jolly Nero ("Black
Joker"), belonging to Ignazio Messina & C. . Stefano Messina,
the managing director, said: "We are very upset – more than that. It is
something that has never happened before. We are distraught." The
head of the port authority, Luigi Merlo, said the ship was coming out of
the port when it struck the tower. There was no obvious explanation for
the disaster, he said. "It was a perfect evening. The sea was calm.
There was no wind. Visibility was perfect." But he added: "The manoeuvre
ought not to have been carried out in that area." . One theory
voiced on Wednesday was that one of the Jolly Nero's two engines might
have jammed, making the ship impossible to control. The coast
guards operating from Genoa's imposing port tower were responsible for
the northern sector of the Tyrrhenian sea. Radar installed in the
operations room at the top of the tower could detect ships up to 40
nautical miles away. The tower hosted the offices of the coast guard and
the pilots who guided ships in and out of the port.-
Robbers impersonating police staged airport diamond heist in February
The Associated Press
Posted:
May 8, 2013 6:53 AM ET
Last Updated:
May 8, 2013 4:06 PM ET
Passengers planes are parked on the tarmac of
Zaventem's international airport near Brussels, scene of one of the
biggest heists the industry has seen. (Eric Vidal/Reuters)
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Unlike the brilliant thieves in Ocean's Eleven, it appears
that those behind the clockwork-precision, $50 million US diamond heist
at Brussels Airport may not get a Hollywood ending. After three months of virtual silence on the matter, authorities
struck this week, detaining at least 31 people in a three-nation sweep
and recovering so many diamonds from the loot Antwerp traders lost that
they are still figuring out the exact value. . Officials said that among the people held in Belgium, France and
Switzerland on Tuesday and Wednesday are some with violent criminal
pasts; the one person held in France is believed to have been one of the
robbers at the airport. The evidence seized includes large sums of
cash, precious stones and luxury cars. . "It was a total surprise for us," said Caroline De Wolf of the
Antwerp World Diamond Center, whose traders lost millions in the Feb. 18
heist. "But we were delighted when we heard." . Six to eight people were detained in Geneva, and 24 in and around
Brussels. It was unclear exactly what roles each suspect may have
played..Some 250 policemen were involved in the dawn raid in the Belgian
capital, and many of the two dozen suspects were being interrogated late
Wednesday. It could take at least another day before it's clear how
many will be placed under arrest, said Anja Bijnens, a spokeswoman for
the prosecutor's office. . Perhaps the most important discovery was in Geneva of stones that
could immediately be linked to the cache spirited away from the airport. That theft ranks among the biggest diamond heists of recent times, and many liken it to the plot of the 2001 Vegas heist movie, Ocean's Eleven, which stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, for its clinically clean execution. . "In Switzerland, we have found diamonds that we can already say are
coming from the heist, and in Belgium large amounts of money have been
found. And the investigation is still ongoing," said Jean-Marc Meilleur,
a spokesman for the Brussels prosecutor's office. He said police had
also found luxury cars. . Meilleur was scant on detail, yielding no clues as to how police got on the trail of the suspects. In Geneva, prosecutors said in a statement that "a very large
quantity of diamonds was seized" during the sweep "coming from the
spectacular heist at Brussels airport." While Belgian authorities spoke
of six detentions in Switzerland, Geneva prosecutors put it at eight,
including a businessman and a lawyer. . The value of the diamonds recovered was still being estimated. It was
unclear how many of the other stolen diamonds are still missing. The Feb. 18 heist was stunning and brazen. The stones from the global diamond center of Antwerp had been loaded
on a plane bound for Zurich when robbers, dressed in dark police
clothing and hoods, drove through a hole they had cut in the airport
fence in two black cars with blue police lights flashing. . They drove onto the tarmac, approached the plane, brandished machine
guns, offloaded the diamonds, then left in an operation that barely took
five minutes. Later that night, investigators found the charred remains
of a van most likely used in the heist. . Despite this week's developments, De Wolf of the Antwerp World
Diamond Center said that a full resolution could still be some time off. . `'When they were stolen, the diamonds were all in different parcels.
Maybe now they have all been mixed up," De Wolf said. "You need quite a
bit of expertise to check them all — size, color, purity. It doesn't
happen in one-two-three."
Red
and white vapor clouds filled the skies over the Marshall Islands as
part of NASA’s Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX). The red cloud was
formed by the release of lithium vapor and the white tracer clouds were
formed by the release of trimethyl aluminum (TMA). These clouds allowed
scientists on the ground from various locations in the Marshall Islands
to observe the neutral winds in the ionosphere.
The EVEX was
successfully conducted during the early morning hours on May 7 from Roi
Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands. A NASA Terrier-Oriole sounding
rocket was launched at 3:39 a.m. EDT and was followed by a launch of
Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket 90 seconds later. Preliminary
indications are that both rockets released their vapor clouds of lithium
or trimethyl aluminum, which were observed from various locations in
the area, and all science instruments on the rockets worked as planned.
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press, By ERIC TUCKER and RANDY HERSCHAFT, Associated Press
Updated 1:25 am, Tuesday, May 7, 2013
This photo provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, shows
Aleksander Belev, center, facing camera, the Bulgarian Commissioner for
Jewish Questions, overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews from
Bulgarian occupied Skopje, Yugoslavia, in March 1943.
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German soldiers
can be seen at left. A request by the Bulgarian Embassy to name a
Washington street intersection after a favorite native son, a man
credited with helping save the country’s Jewish population from
deportation, has gotten tangled up in a broader debate about whether
Bulgaria is accurately accounting for the actions of its leaders during
the Holocaust.
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A tense exchange between the embassy and the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum has played out behind the scenes as the D.C.
Council prepares to consider honoring Dimitar Peshev this month. The
debate underscores not only the complexities of Holocaust history but
also the difficulty countries can face reconciling the heroic deeds of
an individual during World War II with the record of a nation as a
whole.
Photo: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Via Central Zionist Archive
WASHINGTON
(AP) — A request to name a Washington, D.C., intersection after a
Bulgarian politician credited with helping save the country's Jewish
population during World War II has hit an unexpected bump. . The request by the Bulgarian Embassy tapped into a broader debate about how accurately the country is accounting for its past. . The
embassy wants to honor Dimitar Peshev, a former vice president of
Parliament who helped prevent the deportation of tens of thousands of
Bulgarian Jews. . The D.C. Council asked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
to review the embassy's letter. The museum says neither the letter nor a
recent declaration from the Bulgarian government tells the
complete story. . The
debate underscores the challenge of reconciling the heroic deeds of an
individual during World War II with the record of his nation.
