Venice was in the grip of 'apocalyptic destruction' today after the second-highest tide in the city's history flooded its historic basilica, brought misery to tourists and left many of its squares and alleyways deep underwater. St Mark's Square was submerged by more than three feet of water - so deep that one man even swam across it - while the adjacent St Mark's Basilica was flooded for just the sixth time in 1,200 years. Venice officials said the tide peaked at 6.14ft at 10.50pm, just short of the record 6.4ft set in 1966. One person, a man in his 70s, was electrocuted when water entered his home on the barrier island of Pellestrina. Another fatality was also reported elsewhere in the city. Today there was fury among shopkeepers over delays to a barrier protection system which could have prevented the disaster, a project which has been set back by rising costs and corruption scandals. 💦
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(WARNING 21+) Police shot dead a man with a machete, China. 🔫👮🏻♂️ #shooting
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Since this morning, terrorists in Gaza fired dozens of rockets at cities in southern & central Israel, sending over a million Israelis to bomb shelters, Israel Foreign Ministry reports. 💥
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Israeli airstrikes Tuesday killed a prominent senior commander of Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip, potentially threatening a major escalation of Israel’s of cross-border violence with Iran-backed Palestinians, USA Today reports. Bahaa Abu el-Atta and his wife died overnight following an airstrike on a house in Shajaiyah, in Gaza City, Israel's prime minister's office said. Israel's Defense Forces, said Abu el-Atta was the militant group's top commander in Gaza and had orchestrated several recent attacks against Israel. Islamic Jihad vowed revenge. 💥
Hong Kong protesters use bows and FLAMING ARROWS in clashes with police as spiralling violence in city centre enters third day. Protesters armed with bows and arrows launched their fiery projectiles on the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus this morning and set fire to a metro train nearby. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes which continued overnight and have prompted dozens of students to flee to mainland China. In Hong Kong's financial centre, protesters stepped up their 'blossom everywhere' campaign of road blocks and vandalism by shutting down roads and rail links for the third day running. Yesterday police said Hong Kong was on the 'brink of total breakdown' after a violent week in which a protester has been shot, a pregnant woman pepper-sprayed in the face. 🔥 #HK
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What was predicted to be the last sea ice to lose its perennial ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, is now melting twice as fast as any ice in the area. Researchers have released a video showing the oldest and thickest solid layer of frozen ocean water has loss 95 percent of its mass over the past 35 years –which experts say is a 'dramatic indicator' of climate change. The area is now dominated by thinner and more mobile ice that is more susceptible to melting, which has 'led to stresses on the entire spectrum of ice‐dependent organisms from ice algae to polar bears'. Climate models have predicted that Arctic summers will soon be ice-free and it could happen as early as 2030. 🌎 #science
French police have closed beaches in southwest France as packages of cocaine and other drugs continue to wash up daily along the Atlantic coast, with nearly 900 kilograms discovered since mid-October, ABC reports. Officials said the cocaine was extremely pure at some 83 per cent, warning people who find the packages not to touch them. A package of cocaine washed up on the beach. That has not stopped some from trying to get their hands on the drugs, with a street value in the millions of euros, prompting police to close beaches and start carrying out patrols. On Monday, a 17-year-old was caught with 5kg of cocaine at Lacanau, a closed-off surfing beach near the southwestern city of Bordeaux — he had come from Toulouse, a three-hour drive away.❄️
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A couple of Good Samaritans in Brazil made sure a handbag thief did not escape and beat him down two weeks ago, images from a street surveillance camera showed.