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1…………> Breaking: London Hotel Fire 

 

A fire has broken out at Mandarin Oriental Hotel at William Street in Knightsbridge, with the huge area has been cordoned off by the police and vehicle traffic between Sloane Street and Hyde Park Corner has been stopped in both directions. 

 

Dozens of firefighters rushed to tackle a blaze that broke out at a hotel building near central Hyde Park in London Wednesday afternoon. 

“Around 100 firefighters are tackling a large fire at a hotel of 12 floors in Knightsbridge,” London Fire Brigade said shortly after the fire started. 

A later tweet from the brigade said: “We have now got 20 fire engines and around 120 firefighters (at the scene).” 

Almost a year ago, a huge fire in Grenfell Tower Block in West London killed 71 people. 

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/uk-huge-fire-breaks-out-in-london-hotel/1167587

2…………> “Miracle Girl”: Guatemala

Video of police officers carrying a baby girl who was buried under ash and debris after Guatemala volcano Fuego erupted has kindled a small sign of hope, as the death toll rises and authorities warn the Fuego volcano is showing signs of greater activity and fears spread that anyone still stuck in the buried houses was dead and would remain entombed there. 


The death toll from the weekend’s devastating eruption climbed to 75 with nearly 200 people remained missing, as “The Volcan de Fuego”, one of several active volcanos in Guatemala had the most severe lava and gas explosion in four decades.
A spokesman for Guatemala’s disaster agency, CONRED, said once it reached 72 hours after the eruption, there would be little chance of finding anyone alive.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/guatemala-warns-of-greater-activity-after-volcano-explodes-again/9841116

3…………> Defending Melania: President Trump

In a pair of tweets on Wednesday, Mr. Trump railed against ongoing media speculation about Mrs. Trump’s whereabouts.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery, they reported everything from near death, to a facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!

6:48 AM – Jun 6, 2018

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

…Four reporters spotted Melania in the White House last week walking merrily along to a meeting. They never reported the sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever. Fake News is really bad!

6:54 AM – Jun 6, 2018

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He later said “four reporters” had spotted Mrs. Trump at the White House last week “walking merrily along to a meeting”, but they did not report the “sighting because it would hurt the sick narrative that she was living in a different part of the world, was really ill, or whatever”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44378200

4…………> Trump, Comrade Un Meeting: Sentosa Island

 

The White House confirmed that President Trump and the top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Comrade Un will meet at the Capella Hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, after a short delay last week.“The venue for the Singapore summit between @POTUS and Leader Kim Jong Un will be the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island,” White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders tweeted. 

“We thank our great Singaporean hosts for their hospitality,” she added. 

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said that his planned meeting with Kim will “hopefully be the start of something big.” 

The White House said Monday that the meeting is tentatively scheduled for 9:00 a.m. (0100 GMT) on June 12 in Singapore. 

After recent twists and turns, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week met with Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the DPRK’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, in New York. 

On Friday, Trump too talked with Kim Yong Chol who delivered a personal letter from Kim Jong Un in a meeting that lasted almost two hours. 

Subsequently, Trump said he would meet with the top DPRK leader on June 12 in Singapore as originally scheduled. 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/06/c_137232821.htm 

5…………> Our Trashy World: Plastic Pollution

Once scenic coastlines filled with bottles, animals choking on bits of plastic, people picking through the material on vast rubbish dumps: Our convoluted, convenience-based affair with plastic is taking a huge environmental toll because it is lightweight, durable and cheap. The world produced 8.3 billion metric tons of the material since mass production began in the 1950s, and since it is not biodegraded, much of what we’ve made now lives in landfills in many town’s outskirts. Rubbish pickers there hunt for recyclable plastics to earn a living. 

http://www.dw.com/en/the-ugly-face-of-plastic-pollution/g-44097060 

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1…………> The Scent Of Eros & Aphrodite: Greece
 

For the first time, an ancient scent takes its place among the treasure of antiquities next to sculptures of Eros and Aphrodite at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, after chemists used oil formulas referenced in the works of Dioskourides and Theophrastos and later studies focusing on the ancient technique of aromatic oil production.

 

“We started the infusion of the wild olive oil, we mixed it with nutsedges. Then we flavored the formed oil with rose petals and colorized it with the root of alkanna,” Korres explained.

 

According to Korres, the final scent is absolutely original, and it takes one back to something primitive and fresh which is the rose, with two more scents, are being unveiled and take their place in the museum in the coming months, the coriander, and the sage.

 

 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/03/c_137227669_2.htm
2…………> Volcanic Erruption: Guatemala
Ejército Guatemala@Ejercito_GT

 

 Cuerpo de Ingeniros del Ejército realiza trabajos de remoción de ceniza volcánica en el Aeropuerto Internacional “La Aurora”.#365DíasAlServicioDeMiPatria

3:51 PM – Jun 3, 2018

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Seven people have been killed and nearly 300 injured after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted, officials say.

The volcano, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of the capital Guatemala City, has been spewing black smoke and ash into the sky.

Flows of lava have reportedly struck at least one village, causing deaths and injuries.

People have been evacuated from several areas and the capital’s La Aurora airport has closed.

President Jimmy Morales said a national emergency response was under way.

The head of the National Disaster Prevention Authority Sergio Cabañas told a local radio station that a river of lava had changed course towards a small town.

“People have been injured, burned and killed. Evacuations and searches are underway,” he said, quoted by Reuters.

A total of about a million people have been affected by the eruption, the Guatemalan government says.

Officials have advised citizens to wear masks due to falling ash, which has been raining down in four of Guatemala’s administrative regions.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44350974
3…………> PLA Air Force: Deliberate, Experienced & Obedient
The “Shenwei” unit of PLA long-distance aviation in the words of veteran pilot Wang Aiping, and his co-pilot Wei Xing, gives us a window of the degree of precision and hard work pilots and support crews go in piloting H-6K nuclear-capable bombers that have been observed landing on the “artificial” islands of the deeply contested South Chiba sea.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/04/c_137228600.htm
4…………> Money Laundering: “Down Under”
CBA Newsroom

✔@CBAnewsroom

 

 CBA CEO, Matt Comyn on AUSTRAC settlement: “Our agreement today is a clear acknowledgment of our failures and is an important step towards moving the bank forward. On behalf of Commonwealth Bank, I apologize to the community for letting them down.”

4:28 PM – Jun 3, 2018

The settlement of $530 million dollars came after court-ordered mediation between the country’s biggest bank and the country’s financial intelligence agency, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), for “serious and systemic non-compliance” with anti-money laundering and terror financing rules following Deutche Bank and a long list of US and EU banks that have used the very loose Central Banks monetary policy to procure tens of thousands of suspicious transactions and failed to adequately report them to authorities, allowing criminals and terror financiers to launder millions of dollars through CBA accounts.

 

 

http://www.dw.com/en/australias-commonwealth-bank-to-pay-450-million-money-laundering-fine/a-44062899
5…………> Murder Capital: Mexico City
Mexico City has recorded its most violent first four-month period of any year of the past two decades with 382 intentional homicides between January 1 and the end of April.

The figure is 14% higher than the 335 recorded in the same period last year and 24% higher than the murder rate registered in the first four months of 1998 when there were 309 homicides.

There have not been more than 300 murders in Mexico City in the January-April period of any other year in the past 20.

 

 

 

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/violence-surges-in-mexico-city-worst-in-20-years/
 

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