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2023.04.20 Thu posted at 16:30 JST

（ＣＮＮ） Environmental activists stormed an international snooker championship in Britain, spraying powder paint and disrupting the game.

The competition was held at the Crucible Theater in Sheffield, England. During the match on the 17th, a 52-year-old man wearing a T-shirt from the environmental protection group Just Stop Oil (JSO), which advocates stopping the use of fossil fuels, climbed to his knees and dropped an orange in a bag. I threw out all the colored powder paint. The man was then detained by security and led out of the venue.

Footage from the scene also shows a 25-year-old female member who tried to interfere with the match, which was progressing on another platform, but was stopped by the referee and taken away.

It only happened for a few seconds, but it took time to clean up. The powdered table had to be replaced and the match was postponed to the 18th. The game on the other table resumed following a delay of regarding 40 minutes.

The JSO has released the names of two of its members and said its aim was to encourage British sports to join the movement once morest fossil fuels.

Local police said on Monday that the man and woman had been arrested on suspicion of vandalism.

Last year, members of the JSO caused a ruckus by pouring soup over Van Gogh’s masterpiece “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery in London.

Also, at the “Grand National” horse race held on the outskirts of Liverpool in the northwest of England on the 15th, an animal welfare organization broke through security and invaded the course, delaying the start and regarding 100 people being arrested.

The sanctions package, which is still being drafted, aims to target leaders in the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, which have plunged Khartoum into a state of fighting.

US officials, according to the newspaper, fear that the new sanctions packages will be weak and late.

In this context, a US State Department spokesperson said: “In general, we do not announce in advance possible sanctions, we study all options available to us, and we seek to work with our partners to ensure a coordinated and appropriate response wherever possible.”

The newspaper notes that the United States is being criticized by Sudanese activists and human rights organizations for not imposing sanctions on the Sudanese military leadership on the grounds of casualties among demonstrators in 2019 and the dissolution of the civilian government in 2021.

Latest developments in Sudan

• A new truce came into effect in Sudan on Wednesday night and is set to last for 24 hours.
• At the beginning of the truce, a cautious calm prevailed in the capital, Khartoum.
• However, the clashes were renewed at a later time, sporadically, in the vicinity of the Sudanese army command in the capital and other areas.