UNITED STATES
Ginsburg hospitalized
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized after experiencing chills and fever, the court said on Saturday. The court’s public information office in a statement said Ginsburg was admitted on Friday night to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She was initially evaluated at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for further evaluation and treatment of any possible infection. With intravenous antibiotics and fluids, her symptoms abated and she expected to be released from the hospital as early as yesterday morning, the statement said. Earlier this month Ginsburg, 86, suffered what the court described as a stomach bug.
FRANCE
Autographed ‘Tintin’ sold
A print from a classic Tintin comic book signed by US astronaut Buzz Aldrin fetched 33,800 euros (US$37,250), triple the auction house’s estimate, at a Paris sale on Saturday. The image from Explorers on the Moon, a 1950s adventure where the Belgian reporter becomes the first human on the moon, features an inscription from Aldrin: “First moonwalkers after Tintin.” Aldrin was the second man to walk on the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
ITALY
Migrants rescued at sea
Coast guards on Saturday said they had rescued 143 migrants off the island of Lampedusa, although about 20 others were apparently missing, according to the survivors. “The crews of four patrols rescued 143 people who had fallen into the sea” from a 10m boat, the coast guard said in a statement. Two men, an Eritrean and a Libyan, said they had been unable to locate their wives following the rescue. A search for those missing continued on Saturday evening with two planes from Frontex — the border and coast guard agency for the EU’s Schengen area — and the Italian navy flying over the area. Police were also searching the Lampedusa coast to see if any of the migrants had managed to swim ashore. Those rescued were taken to Lampedusa, where they were allowed to disembark.
FRANCE
Heavy rains hit Cote d’Azur
Two people were missing and hundreds of homes flooded on Saturday as heavy rains hit the Cote d’Azur, disrupting air and rail transport and leading to hundreds of evacuations. One of the missing was a 77-year-old man. Near Muy, in the Car area, a woman was also missing after a lifeboat capsized with three crew members and three other people aboard. While five of them reached safety, she could not be found. Two other people were rushed to hospital as storms hit the area overnight. The two districts affected,
BRAZIL
Government ready for unrest
President Jair Bolsonaro said that his government is prepared for any unrest, as he expressed his concern about the wave of protests across South America. However, he said that he did not expect trouble in the country. “We always have to be prepared so that we are not surprised by events,” he told reporters at a military ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. “There is no reason whatsoever, as we understand, for this movement to come here.” So far there have been no major demonstrations in the country, although the recent release from jail of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva might energize the opposition.
Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died. She was 96. The Anne Frank Trust UK, of which Schloss was honorary president, said she died on Saturday in London, where she lived. Britain’s King Charles III said he was “privileged and proud” to have known Schloss, who cofounded the charitable trust to help young people challenge prejudice. “The horrors that she endured as a young woman are impossible to comprehend and yet she devoted the rest of her life to overcoming hatred and prejudice, promoting kindness, courage, understanding
‘DISRESPECTFUL’: Katie Miller, the wife of Trump’s most influential adviser, drew ire by posting an image of Greenland in the colors of the US flag, captioning it ‘SOON’ US President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his claim that Greenland should become part of the US, despite calls by the Danish prime minister to stop “threatening” the territory. Washington’s military intervention in Venezuela has reignited fears for Greenland, which Trump has repeatedly said he wants to annex, given its strategic location in the arctic. While aboard Air Force One en route to Washington, Trump reiterated the goal. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it,” he said in response to a reporter’s question. “We’ll worry about Greenland in
Tens of thousands of Filipino Catholics yesterday twirled white cloths and chanted “Viva, viva,” as a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ was paraded through the streets of Manila in the nation’s biggest annual religious event. The day-long procession began before dawn, with barefoot volunteers pulling the heavy carriage through narrow streets where the devout waited in hopes of touching the icon, believed to hold miraculous powers. Thousands of police were deployed to manage crowds that officials believe could number in the millions by the time the statue reaches its home in central Manila’s Quiapo church around midnight. More than 800 people had sought
PERILOUS JOURNEY: Over just a matter of days last month, about 1,600 Afghans who were at risk of perishing due to the cold weather were rescued in the mountains Habibullah set off from his home in western Afghanistan determined to find work in Iran, only for the 15-year-old to freeze to death while walking across the mountainous frontier. “He was forced to go, to bring food for the family,” his mother, Mah Jan, said at her mud home in Ghunjan village. “We have no food to eat, we have no clothes to wear. The house in which I live has no electricity, no water. I have no proper window, nothing to burn for heating,” she added, clutching a photograph of her son. Habibullah was one of at least 18 migrants who died
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