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Woman killed and swallowed whole by 16-foot python in Indonesia
A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday.
The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five metres (16 feet).
The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Her husband “found her belongings… which made him suspicious. The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly,” said Suardi.
“They agreed to cut open the python’s stomach. As soon as they did, Farida’s head was immediately visible.”
Farida was found fully clothed inside the snake.
Such incidents are considered extremely rare but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed whole by pythons.
Last year, residents in Southeast Sulawesi’s Tinanggea district killed an eight-metre python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.
In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-metre python in Southeast Sulawesi’s Muna town.
And the year before, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found eaten alive by a four-metre python at a palm oil plantation.
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EU court fines Hungary €200m for flouting asylum law
The European Union’s (EU) top court has fined Hungary €200 million over the country’s failure to comply with the union’s asylum policies.
According to the EU law, everyone fleeing persecution in their home countries has the right to ask for international protection, and cannot be evicted if there is a serious risk of death or torture.
In a statement on Thursday, the court said Hungary “deliberately” avoided applying EU policy and its failure “constitutes a serious infringement of EU law”.
The court added that the country violated EU laws by forcing asylum seekers to travel to Belgrade or Kyiv to apply for a travel permit to enter Hungary.
The court also issued a penalty of €1 million daily until Hungary changes its policy.
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, on Thursday, in a post on X, described the decision as “outrageous and unacceptable”.
“The EU Court of Justice’ decision to fine Hungary with 200M euros plus 1M euros daily for defending the borders of the European Union is outrageous and unacceptable,” the prime minister said.
“It seems that illegal migrants are more important to the Brussels bureaucrats than their own European citizens.”
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Missing plane carrying Malawi’s VP found with no survivors
The wreck of a plane carrying Saulos Chilima, Malawi’s vice-president, has been found with no survivors.
President Lazarus Chakwera made the grim announcement in a press briefing on Tuesday.
The aircraft which had the 51-year-old vice-president and nine others aboard went missing after it failed to land at the Mzuzu International Airport in Lilongwe, the capital.
Chilima was on his way to represent the government at the burial of Ralph Kasambara, former minister, who died four days ago.
Shanil Dzimbiri, former first lady, was also on the flight.
The plane, which flew in bad weather, was turned back from landing at the airport because of poor visibility.
After receiving the news of the missing plane on Monday, Chakwera cancelled a trip to the Bahamas and ordered national and local authorities to “conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft”.
“The search and rescue operation I ordered to find the missing plane that carried our vice president and nine others has been completed,” the president said while providing an update.
“The plane has been found. I am deeply saddened and sorry to inform you that it has turned out to be a terrible tragedy.”
The president said the rescue team found the aircraft completely destroyed.
Chilima had been vice-president of Malawi since 2014.
Despite coming from two different political parties, the vice-president and president teamed up to form an alliance during the 2020 elections.
The vice-president left behind a wife and two children.
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UN adds Israel to list of nations committing violations against children
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations (UN) secretary-general, says Israel’s military has been added to the global list of offenders committing violations against children.
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s envoy to the UN, was informed of the decision on Friday.
Guterres is expected to notify the UN security council of the resolution on June 14.
The development follows Isreali’s eight months bombardment of Gaza.
On May 8, the UN published data showing that 34,844 people had been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children, since the war started.
‘IT’S SHAMEFUL’
The Israeli envoy described the UN resolution as a “shameful decision”.
“I am utterly shocked and disgusted by this shameful decision of the secretary-general,” Erdan said.
“Israel’s army is the most moral army in the world so this immoral decision will only aid the terrorists and reward Hamas.”
Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, said the decision “will have consequences for Israel’s relations with the UN”.
Israel has always had a strained relationship with the UN which further deteriorated during the Israel-Hamas war.
Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the country’s defence minister, have been accused of war crimes.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Gallant, and three Hamas chiefs — Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Palestinian militant group; Mohammed Al-Masri, leader of the Al Qassem Brigades; and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political leader.
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