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A series of human errors caused a New Zealand navy ship to plough into a reef off the coast of Samoa, where it caught fire and sank, according to the preliminary findings of a military Court of Inquiry into the disaster released on Friday. The ship’s crew did not realise autopilot was engaged, believed something else had gone wrong with the ship, and did not check the HMNZS Manawanui was under manual control as it maintained course towards land, a summary of the inquiry’s first report published on Friday said. The full report has not been made public. All…

A series of human errors caused a New Zealand navy ship to plough into a reef off the coast of Samoa, where it caught fire and sank, according to the preliminary findings of a military Court of Inquiry into the disaster released on Friday.The ship’s crew did not realise autopilot was engaged, believed something else had gone wrong with the ship, and did not check the HMNZS Manawanui was under manual control as it maintained course towards land, a summary of the inquiry’s first report published on Friday said. The full report has not been made public.All 75 people on…

French authorities arrested 26 people and seized €11 million as they smashed a migrant trafficking ring suspected of bringing several thousand people from South Asia into France, border police told AFP on Thursday, November 28. Charging between €15,000 and €26,000 per person, the traffickers are suspected of having smuggled several thousand people from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal into France since September 2021, the force said. Authorities estimate the network generated several million euros in illegal profits, which were laundered through construction companies, gold trafficking and informal transfers of money back to South Asia. The arrests took place between March…

The feminist lawyer, and Joséphine Baker’s grand-niece, was impressed by the women in her family who transcended their conditions and misfortunes to move forward. Lawyer Anne Bouillon: ‘In defending women, I discovered a continent of suffering’

The Government delegate, Pialar Barnabé, on the left, along with Carlos Mazón, the Minister of Emergencies and the Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama, the Vice President Susana Camarero, and the Vice President Francisco José Gan Pampols, at a Cecopi meeting this week.The political fight between the PP and the PSOE at the expense of the management of the dana, which has caused 222 deaths in the province of Valencia, is being fought on all fronts. Perhaps the most unexpected was the one that was revealed this Thursday in the control session of the Valencian Cortes: that of the clothing used. The…

Valle Fernández, who was Secretary of Circles and Extension of Podemos Andalucía, points out in her story to Raquel Martínez as one of the perpetrators. Read The complaint of a former Podemos leader against the favorite to be leader in Andalusia: "There was institutional and organizational violence"

Pleasant Russia policy, nuclear phase-out, migration: Maybrit Illner doesn’t spare former Chancellor Angela Merkel from any sensitive topic in the ZDF interview. Merkel appears unimpressed and unreasonable. Their message is: Everything was actually done right. It turns out that the former Chancellor is now light years away from her party.Do you have to listen to her again? Read another interview with her, watch another talk show with former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)? Hasn’t everything been said? Is it. Nevertheless: The interview on Thursday evening with Maybrit Illner on ZDF was entertaining, enjoyable – and irritating at the same time. Because…

Wedding, baby, happy ending: “Notting Hill” ended the way romantic comedies end. Director Richard Curtis planned a less sugary sequel. But Julia Roberts waved her off. And they lived happily ever after: that’s how most romantic comedies end. “Notting Hill” from 1999 was no exception. In the end, the glamorous Hollywood star (played by Julia Roberts ) and the somewhat clumsy bookseller ( Hugh Grant ) were a couple. Wedding bells, baby joy – the big table setting. If it were up to director Richard Curtis, there would have been a sequel to the romcom classic by now. The filmmaker told IndieWire  that he had…

Creatures can converse and share their stories by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones at Museum of Zoology. If the pickled bodies, partial skeletons and stuffed carcasses that fill museums seem a little, well, quiet, fear not. It is the latest coup for artificial intelligence, dead animals are to receive a new lease of life to share their stories ( I know what you’re thinking, how can it ever be verified) – and even their experiences of the afterlife. Perhaps it will serve more as a novelty project for the owners. Dead animals can talk after death in Cambridge…

Consumer confidence in the economy dips following Budget Consumer confidence in the health of the economy dipped in November, a new survey shows, as the Budget failed to allay households’ economic fears. The British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) sentiment monitor showed that consumers’ confidence in the economy fell back to -19 in November, down two points from October. The reading confirms that households’ optimism in the economy remained relatively depressed throughout the autumn, having improved significantly earlier in the year. In July, following Labour’s election, the reading briefly strayed into positive territory. https://www.cityam.com/consumer-confidence-in-the-economy-dips-following-budget/