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WARSAW, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Romania’s National Committee for Emergency Situations approved new measures to boost the water level of the River Danube and ensure cooling of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the government press office said on Saturday. The plant remains shut due to historically low Danube levels and the country has declared a ​state of emergency ‌throughout August stemming from a decline in electricity ​production. • Emergency dredging […]

LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Several people have died after a collision near Middlesbrough in northeast England between a police car and a passenger car, the local police force said on Saturday. Cleveland Police said the incident took place at around 3.39 a.m. (0239 GMT) on a main road near the South Bank area to the east of Middlesbrough. “Sadly, the collision has resulted in multiple fatalities,” a police spokesperson […]

(SRN NEWS) – The United States has imposed fifty-percent tariffs on roughly twenty billion dollars’ worth of Canadian products, after last-minute negotiations between Washington and Ottawa failed to produce a deal. The tariffs took effect early Saturday and cover a range of Canadian goods, from hockey sticks to medical supplies, including tongue depressors. The affected products represent about five percent of Canada’s annual exports to the United States. President Donald […]

One of China’s best-known comedians is under investigation and several of his shows have been canceled after he changed the lyrics of a revolutionary song during a performance. Guo Degang, the country’s most prominent performer of traditional xiangsheng, a form of Chinese comedic dialogue, is under investigation by local authorities in the city of Wuhan in central China, local media reported. Guo’s show on Friday in the northwestern city of […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star Andy Pages fractured his left hand after being hit by a pitch against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. The center fielder was struck on the back of his hand by a pitch from Bubba Chandler in the third inning and took first base. He advanced to third before the inning ended. Pages was replaced by Kiké Hernández to start the fifth. […]

ELSENBORN, Belgium (AP) — The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II that threaten crews responding to the flames. Some of the weapons have exploded in the intense heat. Blasts have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, where a bomb-disposal team was dispatched to check a forest […]

Tommy Edman delivered a game-ending RBI single in the 10th inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers returned home Friday to earn a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Max Muncy hit a home run and Mookie Betts added a two-run single as the Dodgers increased their winning streak to four games after a 7-13 stretch that dated back to their last four-game win streak. Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up two runs […]

SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) – A South Korean container ship sets sail on Saturday for Europe via the Arctic in the nation’s first commercial voyage on the route to test its viability, with the hope of turning the southeastern port of Busan into a global maritime hub. The PanStar Acro will sail north, hugging eastern Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, cross the Bering Sea, and take the Northern Sea Route, stopping in […]

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) – It’s been called the Robot Olympics. But unlike the human Olympics, Team China is collecting almost all the medals. Over the past decade, robotic competitions in China have provided a window into the advances of a now-surging sector – and the importance of its success as a strategic industry singled out by President Xi Jinping. Once a curiosity organized by academic teams and hobbyists, China’s […]