Cargo ship carrying 4000 luxury cars sinks into Atlantic

Mar 2 2022

After it caught fire and was damaged beyond repair and saving, a cargo ship carrying up to nearly 4,000 luxury cars has sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.

The Felicity Ace was on its way to a port in Rhode Island from Germany on Wednesday on February 16th. However, it was forced to send out distress signals after a fire lit up one of its cargo decks.

The 22 crew members were evacuated, thankfully resulting in no one being injured. However, the millions of dollars worth of cars were not retrieved due to the flames. Porches, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and other vehicles have been submerged to the depths.

Efforts to tow the ship were futile, revealed the Felicity Ace Incident Information Centre. Initial reports from the local salvage team state that the vessel had sunk at around 9am local time on March 1st.

Any salvage crafts will remain around the area to monitor the situation, with further information being provided as it becomes available. It is unclear what started the blaze, but some suspect that lithium-ion batteries in EVs aboard the ship caught fire.

A total of 3,965 Volkswagen Group Vehicles were being carried on board. Around a quarter of them were allegedly Porches, along with around 189 Bentleys and an unknown numbers of Audis and Volkswagens. The vehicles are valued at closer to $500 million overall.

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Cassola files complaint over lack of air time for non-major party candidates

Mar 2 2022

Independent candidate Arnold Cassola filed a complaint with the Chairperson of the Broadcasting Authority, arguing that non-major party candidates are not getting airtime on ONE and NET television.

Cassola said that it is the Broadcasting Authority’s duty to ensure that there is access to all candidates on these stations during an election campaign. ‘The BA cannot abdicate from this responsibility’ stated Cassola, urging the authority to invite him and other candidates to debates with the PN and PL candidates as soon as possible.

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Protest items outside Russian Embassy repositioned for safety

Mar 2 2022

Police have stated that protest symbols left outside the Russian Embassy in Kappara following a peaceful Friday protest were ‘repositioned in the same area for safety reasons.’

A man who filmed the police said they were ‘tearing down’ the symbols soon after the protest ended on Friday evening. In the footage, the man was heard telling police that people put them there for a reason. ‘Why would you do this’ he asked.

A spokesperson for the police has since insisted that none of the items were cleared, instead being repositioned in the same area for safety reasons.

In a letter addressed to the Russian ambassador Andrey Lopukhov, the protesters said that they know ‘that this aggression is the result of the intentions and actions of cruel and ambitious leaders and not of a whole people that has nothing to do with this violence.’

‘Despite what their leaders have done, we feel no hatred whatsoever towards any Russian, including those who, like you, have made their home temporarily or permanently among us’ they stated.

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Kharkiv, Ukraine: 21 dead and military hospital shelled overnight

Mar 2 2022

As the invasion of Ukraine by Russia continues, it was revealed that on the evening of 1st of March, fighting erupted in Kharkiv as Putin’s forces attacked a military hospital.

According to local reports, an airborne assault was launched on the hospital overnight, with heavy fighting still heard in the area after dawn.

At least 21 people have been killed and another 112 wounded in the shelling of Ukraine’s second biggest city. Just yesterday, rockets and missiles hit the open house, concert hall and government offices in the city’s Freedom Square as well.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described it as terror against Ukraine. ‘There were no military targets in the square – nor are they in those residential districts of Kharkiv which come under rocket artillery fire.’

The city’s governor, Oleh Synyehubov, revealed that the Russian enemy also suffered significant losses. It is unclear whether there’s been any civilian casualties as a result of Russian paratroopers launching the airborne assault.

The situation has been placed back under Ukrainian control, region police chief revealed. However, another missile strike in the city of Zhytomyr killed two people as it hit residential areas despite being believed to have been aimed at an airbase.

The UN estimated that at least 136 civilians have been killed and 400 injured as a result of the conflict. The death toll could be much higher, with figures released by the Ukrainian government stating that as many as 352 civilians may have been killed.

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