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  • Brazilian tourist who fell off Indonesian volcano found dead

    06/24/2025 10:58:19 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    BBC ^ | 06/24/2025 | Flora Drury & Rachel Hagan
    A Brazilian tourist who fell while hiking near the crater of an active volcano in Indonesia has been found dead, her family and rescuers said. Juliana Marins survived the initial fall from a cliff during an early morning group hike along a steep trail on Mount Rinjani, with rescuers reporting hearing her screams for help on Saturday. ... She was hiking up Indonesia's second-tallest volcano with five friends and a guide on Saturday at about 06:30 local time (23:30 GMT Friday), when authorities said she fell from "a cliff that surrounds the trail next to the volcano's crater". One group...
  • Bodies of five skiers found near Switzerland resort

    05/25/2025 9:08:28 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    BBC ^ | 05/25/2025 | Rachel Hagan
    The bodies of five skiers have been found by rescuers near Switzerland's luxury Zermatt resort. They were recovered a day after emergency services were alerted by a group of climbers ascending the Rimpfischhorn - a 4,199-metre peak in the Valais Alps - to several pairs of skis left unattended near the summit. Aerial and ground searches led to the discovery of the bodies below the summit on the Adler Glacier, Valais local police said in a statement on Sunday. The victims were found at varying altitudes on avalanche debris in high altitude areas near the Swiss-Italian border. Three bodies were...
  • Vladimir Putin guzzles champagne as he blames Ukraine for Russian's military strikes

    12/08/2022 2:53:33 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    Mirror UK ^ | 12/8/2022 | Rachel Hagan
    Vladimir Putin guzzled champagne as he blamed Ukraine for Russia's military strikes while admitting the Kremlin has struck key civilian infrastructure. "There's a lot of noise about our strikes on the energy infrastructure of a neighbouring country. Yes, we do that. But who started it?" the Russian president said at an awards ceremony. Russian President Vladimir Putin put on a grotesquely grand dinner for senior Kremlin members to award Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia on the eve of Heroes of the Fatherland Day in Moscow. -snip- Also in attendance was Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Head of Chechnya, Ramzan...