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Britain punishes protesters who pour tomato soup on ‘sunflowers’

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

ATLANTA, USA (CNN) — Two fossil fuel protesters, who were photographed throwing tomato soup at Van Gogh’s famous “Sunflower” painting at a London gallery Friday, have been charged with two charges once morest them, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement on Saturday. Criminal charges of vandalism.

A police statement said two people had been convicted over the London National Gallery incident, while a third person had been convicted of a separate attack on the iconic New Scotland Yard in front of London Police Headquarters.

“Three people will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on Saturday 15 October, having been convicted of criminal offenses relating to tort in central London the previous day,” the police said in a statement.

Police indicated that the three convicts were part of the “Stop the Oil” campaign, which expresses an alliance of groups calling to prevent the British government from granting new licenses to extract, develop and produce shale oil.

Friday’s incident, which targeted a Van Gogh painting, comes as the latest in a series of protests targeting famous artworks to draw attention to the role of fossil fuels in climate change.

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Champions League: Barcelona tied with Inter.. Liverpool rained Rangers nets

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Spanish club Barcelona failed to achieve victory over its Italian counterpart, Inter Milan, as the positive draw 3/3 overshadowed the confrontation that brought them together at the “Spotify Camp Nou” stadium, on Wednesday evening, in the fourth round competitions. UEFA Champions League 2023/2022.

The goals of the “Catalan team” came through Ousmane Dembele and Robert Lewandowski (dual), while Nicolo Parilla, Lautaro Martinez and Ruben Gossens scored for Inter, making the chances of the “Blaugrana” much less likely to qualify for the second round.

In the same round, the English club Liverpool rained once morest Rangers by seven for one goal, of which the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah scored 3 “hat-trick” goals.

Bayern Munich defeated its Czech counterpart, Viktoria Plzen, by four goals to two, to officially qualify for the “Bavarian” to the quarter-finals.

Tottenham Hotspur beat Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany, 2/3, and Marseille, France, beat Sporting Lisbon, 2-0, while Bayer Leverkusen defeated Porto by three clean goals.

The Italian club Napoli reached the round of 16, following beating Ajax by four goals to two, while Atletico Madrid stumbled in a goalless draw with Club Brugge.

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Britain: We are preparing for the worst on electricity

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

October 9, 2022 17:24

Nadim al-Zahawi, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said the British government was preparing for the possibility of a power outage, but it was a “very unlikely scenario”.
“The right thing is that we plan for every scenario,” Zahawi was quoted by Britain’s PA Media as saying, before ruling out a £14m campaign to guide citizens on how to conserve energy.
The National Electricity Grid System, which is responsible for Britain’s power grid, has said that individuals and businesses may face scheduled outages for three hours to ensure the grid does not collapse.
But she described this as an “unlikely” scenario, which will happen if power plants cannot get enough gas to run.
Britain experienced planned blackouts in the 1970s due to miners’ strikes and the oil crisis.
Major outages also occurred during storms, including in 1987, when 1.5 million people experienced darkness.
“We have the second largest LNG processing infrastructure in Europe,” Al-Zahawi said in an interview with Scani News, today.
“Half of our gas we produce here, we want to increase that – this year we have increased production by 26 percent. We have links with our neighbors.”

Source: agencies