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The captain of a boat which in 2019 caught fire and sank off the coast of California killing 34 people was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday. A US judge sentenced 70-year-old Jerry Nehl Boylan to 48 months in federal prison after a jury found the captain guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of a ship officer – an offence commonly called "seaman's manslaughter" - in November. The offence could have carried a sentence of up to 10 years. The defence had hoped for a suspended sentence. "The defendant's cowardice and repeated failures caused the horrific deaths of 34 people," sa...
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A partially mummified hand has been found on the grounds of a facility used by Germany's civil defence agency in western Germany, prosecutors confirmed on Thursday. The partially decomposed human body part was first discovered on March 16. According to a spokeswoman for the local public prosecutor's office, cadaver dogs helped search the site in the town of Gelnhausen, but failed to find any additional human remains. The hand was autopsied and forensic examinations are ongoing. The spokeswoman said it remains unclear whether the hand belonged to a man or woman. "We assume that the owner of the...
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The robotaxi company Cruise has resumed manual driving on public roads six months after halting all its journeys in response to an accident involving a pedestrian in San Francisco. The company, a subsidiary of US car giant General Motors, said in a blog post on Tuesday that it would resume "manual driving to create maps and gather road information in select cities, starting in Phoenix," in the US state of Arizona. "This work is done using human-driven vehicles without autonomous systems engaged, and is a critical step for validating our self-driving systems as we work towards returning to our ...
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Air and sea traffic in the area around the Korsør naval base in Denmark has been reopened following a malfunctioning weapons system on a Royal Danish Navy ship, the Danish Ministry of Defence said on Friday. The missile launcher on board the frigate Niels Juel was activated and unable to be switched off, which led to officials shutting down air and sea traffic near the base. But specialists checked whether it was an activation of the launcher or an electronic error message and there is no longer any danger of the frigate firing a projectile, the ministry said. Due to the incident, there was a ...
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A forest worker in Slovakia has suffered several broken bones after an encounter with a brown bear on a remote trail. The incident took place in a densely overgrown forest in the municipality of Kvacany, far away from inhabited areas, a spokeswoman for the state nature conservation organisation SOPSR told the news agency TASR on Thursday. "The bear ran at the forest worker on a narrow forest path in steep terrain, and knocked him down" the spokeswoman said. The 35-year-old then fell down the slope and suffered broken ribs and bruises. The Social Democrat parliamentary president Peter Pellegrin...
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A malfunctioning weapons system on a Danish navy ship forced the closure of a portion of the country's air and sea traffic on Thursday. The missile launcher on board the frigate Niels Juel was activated and cannot currently be switched off, the Danish Defence Ministry said. The vessel is stationed at the Korsør naval base. The technical failure occurred during a mandatory test on the system, the ministry said. Specialists are on their way to solve the problem. Until the problem is fixed, there is a risk that a missile could be mistakenly fired and fly up to several kilometres from the frigate....
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. An RTL spokeswoman said the network continued broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin temporarily took over direction. Presenter Roberta...
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews were dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bomb. An RTL spokeswoman said the network would continue broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin would temporarily take over direction. Presen...
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A 56-year-old German man who tried to fake his own death in a staged boating accident on the Baltic Sea has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted of 14 counts of attempted insurance fraud. The man's wife, meanwhile, was sentenced to two years' probation on Wednesday for her role in the scheme. The couple allegedly faked the man's death in a boating accident in the Bay of Kiel in October 2019 in a bid to collect about €4 million ($4.4 million) in life and accident insurance payouts. After staging the man's supposed death, the couple hid out for months, first in...
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A 56-year-old German man who tried to fake his own death in a staged boating accident on the Baltic Sea has been sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted of 14 counts of attempted insurance fraud. The man's wife, meanwhile, was sentenced to two years' probation on Wednesday for her role in the scheme. The couple allegedly faked the man's death in a boating accident in the Bay of Kiel in October 2019 in a bid to collect about €4 million ($4.4 million) in life and accident insurance payouts. After staging the man's supposed death, the couple hid out for months, first in...
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