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2023-07-08 15:10:00

A major fire broke out this Saturday on a farm in Genappe, in Walloon Brabant. The rescue zone required the intervention of several barracks. Firefighters from Nivelles, Braine-l’Alleud and Wavre deployed in the Brussels roadway.

By mid-followingnoon, the fire was brought under control but firefighters remained on site. The cause of the fire is not known, but the damage is significant. A hangar was totally devastated, another was partially destroyed. No casualties were reported.

A witness who flew over the area on board a light aircraft transmitted to us images filmed during the emergency response (see the video above).

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2023-07-08 13:18:22

A team of international experts saw that two women sentenced to decades in prison in Saudi Arabia for posts on social media are arbitrarily detained and must be released, according to a report seen by Agence France-Presse on Saturday.

Last year’s prison sentence for Salma Al-Shihab and Noura Al-Qahtani over posts on Twitter criticizing the authorities shed light on the repression in Saudi Arabia despite Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the country, trying to modernize it and show its openness.

In a report dated June 19, seen by AFP on Saturday, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a panel of independent experts linked to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, considered that Al-Shihab and Al-Qahtani were being held arbitrarily and “the appropriate compensation is their release.”

He stressed that they should be granted “an enforceable right to damages and other compensation in accordance with international law.”

The report mentioned “reliable evidence” showing that Al-Shehab was subjected to “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment” during her arrest, explaining that the violations once morest her included “threats, insults, harassment and inappropriate methods adopted during her interrogation,” such as “exploiting her depression by interrogating her in the middle of the night.” After taking her antidepressant and sleeping pills.

The Saudi authorities rejected the conclusions of the team, stressing that the judicial process once morest the two women was fair, denying that Al-Shehab was ill-treated in prison.

Saudi officials did not respond to an AFP request for comment on Saturday.

Al-Shihab, who belongs to the Shiite minority in the Kingdom, was pursuing her doctoral studies in Britain, and the authorities stopped her in January 2021 during a vacation in her country. She said that she spent 285 days in solitary confinement before being convicted in March 2022 by a court specialized in “terrorism” cases.

The evidence used once morest her included posts in support of women’s rights and retweets of a well-known Saudi women’s rights activist.

In August, she was sentenced to 34 years in prison and banned from traveling for a similar period following the expiration of her sentence.

As for Al-Qahtani, a mother of two, she was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for using Twitter to “challenge” King Salman and his son, the Crown Prince.

Al-Qahtani’s Twitter account, mentioned in the case documents, included posts critical of the government and calls for protests once morest it.

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2023-07-08 15:11:01

The Dubai Police General Command revealed the statistics of smart transactions that were completed in the first half of the year 2023 through smart police stations, which numbered 22 smart centers distributed in various regions of the Emirate of Dubai, including police stations and suburban points, which amounted to 65 thousand and 942 smart transactions, completed by customers Dubai Police without human intervention, including 16,205 transactions for the service of opening reports, and 4,967 criminal inquiries.

Major General Ali Ahmed Ghanem, Director of the General Department of Logistics Support and Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee for Smart Police Stations Projects, said that Dubai Smart Police services have become a feature and culture of Dubai society and visitors to the emirate wishing to obtain police services, which is a successful project in line with the directions and aspirations. Our wise government in providing its services to customers with ease and ease, and with the highest standards that guarantee them an innovative and comfortable experience, and translates the keenness of the Dubai Police General Command to achieve government directives by improving the quality of life of community members.

Ghanem stressed that the Dubai Police has made qualitative leaps in the field of providing police services, which is a reflection of the extent to which the Dubai Police’s objectives are in line with government directions aimed at making Dubai the smartest city in the world, by providing services that exceed the expectations and needs of customers according to the best and highest standards of service provision, and through a smart system. It continues to develop services in accordance with the latest international standards that enhance the quality of life in the emirate.

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2023-07-08 14:11:20

After two seasons at Tampa Bay, French striker Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (38) signed up with the Seattle Kraken, still in the NHL.

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare does the splits! After two seasons spent in Tampa Bay in Florida, in the south-east of the United States, the French striker joined Seattle, in the State of Washington, in the north-west of the country. At 38, the Francilien does not want to put away the skates and he has signed up for the next NHL season and a contract of 775,000 dollars (707,000 euros) with the Krakenthe franchise created in 2018 as part of the development of the largest ice hockey league in the world.

Arrived in the NHL in 2014 following playing in Rouen and then in Sweden, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare wore the Philadelphia jersey for three seasons, before joining the young team of the Las Vegas Golden Knights in 2017, for two years. He then played in Denver, with the Colorado Avalanche, from 2019 to 2021, before signing in Tampa Bay.

Four French in the NHL!

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare will bring all his experience to the Kraken, which finished seventh in the Western Conference last season before losing in the Conference semi-finals in Game 7 once morest Dallas. He has 660 regular season games to his name (60 goals, 71 assists) and 85 play-off games (5 goals, 10 assists). Last season, he played 73 regular season games with the Lightning (4 goals, 9 assists) and six in the play-offs (one goal, one assist), where the Florida franchise was eliminated in the first round by Toronto. The Frenchman, however, never had the chance to lift the Stanley Cup, losing in the final with Tampa Bay in 2022 once morest Colorado and with Las Vegas in 2018 once morest Washington.

They will therefore be, unless the situation reverses, four French in the NHL next season, since the 23-year-old striker Alexandre Texier will return to Columbus following a loan to Zurich in Switzerland, and the 18-year-old goalkeeper Antoine Keller ( who also has Swiss nationality) was drafted by Washington last week, before being joined at the Capitals by striker Pierrick Dubé (22)

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